Encountering God on the Journey

DELVING DEEPER: Encountering God on the Journey
with Sheila Jacobs
Wednesday 19th November 2025, 10.30am - 3.00pm
This day is for men and women

Led by Sheila Jacobs: A time of considering the ways God meets with us on our life journey. Whether we’re tired, exhausted, having messed up or just wondering where God is or if he cares, we can have a God encounter when we least expect it. Looking at Elijah’s experience in 1 Kings 19, the woman at the well in John 4, the meeting on the Emmaus Road and Peter’s restoration in John 21.

Join us as Sheila helps us listen to and discern what God may be saying and doing in our lives, and how we might recognise and encounter him on the journey.

Sheila Jacobs is a writer, editor and award-winning author. She has written twenty books to date, including A Little Book of Rest (Malcolm Down, 2022). Her latest title is Nun’s Drift (Malcom Down, 2024). Also a retreat leader, she has been in church leadership and a day chaplain at the Diocesan House of Retreat, Pleshey. She has just completed a course in spiritual direction/companionship.

The cost of £26.00 per person includes tea/coffee from 10.00am and a 2 course lunch.

To book a place ring 01277 367124 or email mpitt@nctuk.org

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Reflections on Holy Week and Easter

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Monday 31st March 2025"
With Adam Atkinson, Bishop of Bradwell

Adam will use poetry, prayers and scripture meditations to help us focus on the death and resurrection of Christ in John’s Gospel, chapters 18 and 19. He wrote sonnets and prayers for the book ‘Who Do You Say I Am?’ and, with material from the book, will explore discipleship in today’s world, touching on contemporary themes in relation to being a follower of Jesus. There will be time to reflect and meditate on scripture examined through these media.

Adam became Bishop of Bradwell, in the Diocese of Chelmsford, in 2023. His Episcopal Area covers the Southern half of Essex. Adam had previously been Archdeacon of Charing Cross, a Director of Mission Development and a Parish Priest in Bethnal Green, East London. He is married to Heather, who is a Vicar of four churches in and around the Essex town of Maldon.

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Tea/coffee from 10.00am for a 10.30am start to 3.00pm including lunch.
£26.00 per person. If you can also make a donation towards our running costs, please add that to the event fee above or use the button below for donation only. Thank you.

To book a place ring 01277 367124 or email mpitt@nctuk.org

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Delving Deeper into Friendship with God

With Amy Boucher Pye

THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE!

THURSDAY 27TH APRIL 2023 - for men and women

Join Amy as she helps us delve into the three gospel stories about Jesus and his dear friends Mary, Martha and Lazarus. Amy says "My prayer is that not only will your picture of them expand but, more importantly, your own friendship with Jesus will take root even more deeply".
We’ll see how friendship with Jesus changes us as we explore action and contemplation, grieving and hope, and serving and loving. We’ll also have time to encounter God through prayer.

We invite you to come and be encouraged and strengthened in your own relationship with God!

Amy is a regular contributor to Living Light, our daily Bible Insights. She is a writer, speaker and spiritual director. She’s the author of six books, including 7 Ways to Pray and the soon-to-be published Transforming Love: How Friendship with Jesus Changes Us. She lives in north London with her family.

TO BOOK please call 01277 367124 or email mpitt@nctuk.org