This Sunday at St Kea - Wisdom for Living

This Sunday, we start a new series at St Kea. We are turning to the Old Testament book of Proverbs, which we will look at for the next few weeks. This week we look at the opening chapter; we will start by thinking about Wisdom's Nature. We are going to see both how attractive and how essential Godly wisdom is.

Proverbs is one of three main wisdom books in the Old Testament and understanding how it relates to the other two can be helpful. This video by The Bible Project gives a great introduction.

There will be refreshments before and after the service and our Sunday groups and livestream continue.

Commiting to pray for the Truro area

It was a great encouragement to meet with Christians from a wide range of local churches on Monday evening and to pray for the city and the surrounding area. It was also wonderful to see people from across our Trinity churches there.

For those who couldn’t make it, there is still plenty of time to join in. If you click the image above, you can download the prayer and Bible Reading guide. This is also available on the Gospel Partnership page on our website.

Tearfund Big Quiz Night - 28th January

A reminder of the date for Tearfund’s Big Quiz Night on Saturday 28 January at Kea Church at 7pm. Please sign up below, whether or not you have a team in mind.

CAP Update!

Salvation Just wanted to share with you the lovely encouragement from the end of last year. After our Christmas event, one our guests came back to Lanterns the following week and invited Jesus into his life and has continued to attend over the last couple of weeks, please pray for him as he does the Alpha Course and takes his first steps.
Debt Free This week we are celebrating one of our clients becoming debt free in January. She has stuck with CAP although life has been challenging. When asking her how she feels she said
"Free at last, the pressure is off and it feels good."

Answered Prayers Some of our clients have been living in desperate housing situations, but praise God we are pleased to share that 2 families and one individual have now been housed. God has given them beauty for ashes.

Thank you for standing with us - Praise God!

We give thanks for enabling St John’s

The heart of our mission is at St Kea is seeing God transform lives. We do this through our direct ministries and also by working in partnership with others. For many years, we have been partnering with local churches in ministries like Truro Foodbank and in international ministries such as Tearfund and Compassion.

For many years, some of us have wondered if there might be a way to form a partnership with St John’s Church in Truro and see the ministry there grow. Conversations were had in the days of Charlie Peer (our previous vicar) and more recently under Marc Baker (our current church leader). 

More recently, an opportunity arose for us to make a joint appointment between St Kea and St John’s to a new ministry role. This new minister was to have responsibility for turning around the ministry of the church at St John’s and seeing growth in the congregation, especially amongst children and families. They would also have the role of leading that congregation in serving their local community. The new minister was to be a member of the Staff Team at St Kea and would also give 2/5th of their time to wider gospel ministry across our new Trinity Benefice, including at St Kea. 

To pump-prime this new minister post, our PCC decided to fund 2/5ths of the appointment (equal to the proportion of the minister’s time given to wider work in our benefice) for the first three years. The goal is that by the end of the three year period we will have grown the ministry at St John’s to be self-funded into the future. The PCC felt this would be a great benefit to the Kingdom, make a lasting difference and it would be a way in which we could be generous to another church.

We were so delighted when, through competitive interview, our previous curate Will Harwood was appointed to this role. In October, Will and his wife Naomi (with their young family) started at St John’s. We are so very excited about the things that have already happened and all that God has in store for the Kingdom over the next few years. It is a real privilege to be able to partner together in this work. It involves sacrificial generosity by us at St Kea and we believe God will honour our generous giving in growing. Thank you to every one of our church members who has made this possible. The people at St John’s are so very grateful.

New Administrator

In order to spend more time with her family Sue Sharp has decided to step down from her role as Church Administrator.

If you are interested in this position (or know someone who might be) you can find out more information and apply by clicking on the image above.

Bringing evangelicals together

In 35 other dioceses there are fellowships of evangelicals where the aim is to provide mutual encouragement and a place for dialogue. Although there may have been a Truro Diocesan Evangelical Fellowship (TDEF) in the past, this had lapsed. In September 2021 a small group met to relaunch this and planned for an annual public meeting to take place. This is planned for 25th February and is for all church members who might be interested to attend. There will be an informal time of fellowship, pudding, sung worship, prayer, the appointment of the TDEF committee and a keynote address from the Rev'd John Dunnett. It looks like it will be an encouraging evening of fellowship and it would be great to have good representation from St Kea.

Weekly Prayer Points

This week’s prayer points:

1. Please pray for our work together as churches across the whole of Truro. Give thanks for our partnership with many other gospel believing churches in our city. Pray that we will be blessed as we work together, supporting each other so that the Gospel can be heard.

2. Give thanks for our church family at Christ Church and praye for Marc and his family as he our leads that congregation. Especially pray for his wife Sheryl who has been unwell recently.

3. Please pray for the work of Tearfund. Pray for the Quiz being held at St Kea on the 28th January, that it will be well attended, fun and will help inform about the work of Tearfund.