1. family and parenting
2. children

Children & Youth @ 3C Community Church
Epic Sundays
Every Sunday during the morning service
at church
(0-11yr olds) Lots of fun Contact: Jan Herbert
Refresh
Sunday Youth Group
3C community church
Contact: Saul White
Epic Supertroopers Friday 6pm-7.30pm at the 3C building
(ages 5-9, Reception to Yr 5)
Contact: Christine Sawyer
Epic Supertroopers normally meet
during term-time only.
For further details please contact the leaders.
Newsletter - March 2015
Welcome, we’re glad to see you.
Keeping our children safe: get a banksman!
To avoid accidents, please follow this advice: if you are reversing in our
car park, make sure you have someone outside the car to guide you. If
you’re arriving on your own, this means you will need to stop the car, find
somebody and ask them to act as your ‘banksman’ – a construction
industry term for someone on the ground who guides vehicles. Thank you.
Marriage matters
Next month sees the start of a new Marriage Course at 3C. Based on the tried-and-tested
course developed by Holy Trinity Brompton (the Alpha course founders), our seven-week
course will be led by our senior elder, Noel. The evenings are designed for any married
couple wishing to build a strong and lasting relationship. Each couple’s privacy is
respected as there is no group discussion and no requirement to disclose anything about
their relationship to anyone else. The evening is based around a meal, so there is no need
to eat before you come!
When and where: 7.00pm, every Tuesday from 7th April – 19th May at the 3C building.
Serving us this month on coffee duty on the following Sunday
morning services are:
Bryce & Judy’s Group
Steve & Karen’s Group
Paul & Jan’s Group
Steve & Karen’s Group
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Catalyst - Latest
After an extensive period of consideration and consultation,
3C’s eldership team believe the time is now right for our church
to begin the process of integrating fully into the Catalyst
network of churches over the next couple of months.
If you're in any of the above groups, please speak to
your community group leaders in advance about how you can help.
www.facebook.com/pages/3C-Community-Church/260854170342
Visitors are of course welcome to stay with their children for a while to help
them settle. Epic Sundays take place in the hall adjoining the chapel.
Parents can meet up with their children again at the end of the adults' meeting
(except on Sundays when there is Holy Communion towards the end of the
adults' meeting; on those days, we make an announcement asking parents to
go and fetch their children and bring them back into the chapel).
Feeling lost? Look out for somebody wearing a Welcome Team badge
- they’ll be happy to help.
Sunday 1st March
Sunday 8th March
Sunday 15th March
Sunday 5th April
3C Community Church
Church Road
Upper Cam, Dursley
GLOS GL11 5PG
Tel: 01453 546 775 (office)
www.3Ccommunitychurch.org
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Epic Sundays, our special meeting for children aged 0-11, usually takes
place during all our Sunday morning 3C adults' meetings. The children meet
with the adults initially in the chapel and then leave with their Epic Sundays
children's workers part-way through the service.
There is also a varied programme of activities throughout the week
for adults, young people and children.
Hospitality crew: Coffee duty
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Welcome to 3C Community Church. We hope you enjoy being with us today
and want to come again.
Hot drinks are served both before and after the meeting.
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Catalyst Festival
details inside
If you are a visitor here today, please make sure you pick up
a Welcome Pack from a member of the Welcome Team
Scan with your
smart phone
‘Come with us and we will do you good!’ - Num 10 : 29
Dates for your Diary - Special Events
Sunday service at 10.30am each week unless otherwise stated
March
1st
Guest speaker: Matt Partridge
10.30am
3C building
8th
Guest speaker: Rev. Dave Cave
10.30am
3C building
18th
A 3C day of Prayer & Fasting,
7.45pm
3C building
22nd
Short Morning gather + 3C AGM
10.30am
3C building
29th
Community Group Sunday
April
also
(no main service at 3C today)
3rd
5th
Good Friday (details on special Easter flyer)
Easter Sunday celebration (details on special Easter flyer)
22nd
A 3C day of Prayer & Fasting,
26th
Community Group Sunday
May
also
7.45pm
3C building
(no main service at 3C today)
3rd
Special Family Service
10.30am
3C building
10th
Tearfund Sunday
10.30am
3C building
20th
A 3C day of Prayer & Fasting,
7.45pm
3C building
23-26th
Catalyst Festival at Stoneleigh
24th
Community Group Sunday
also
Catalyst - Update
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Catalyst is a network of around 70-80 churches in the UK, plus many more
overseas, ‘working together to make disciples in the nations of the world’.
It is part of Newfrontiers, a long-established international family of churches
committed to building the Church according to New Testament principles.
3C will be able to draw on the experience, resources, inspiration and wisdom
available within Catalyst, as well as benefiting from training and from the
network’s wide experience of evangelism and church-planting.
See www.catalystnetwork.org for more details.
It’s also not too late to sign up for the Catalyst Festival and join the
3C group who are already going. It’s a great opportunity to meet,
worship and learn with thousands of other Christians in the Catalyst
network, and there are great activities for children and young
people too. The festival runs over the Spring Bank Holiday from
Saturday 23rd to Tuesday 26th May at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry. Full details
and booking: www.catalystnetwork.org/festival or pick up a copy of the festival
booklet from the 3C Info Table.
Matt’s back!
3C welcomes back Matt Partridge, senior leader in the Catalyst
network of churches, on Sunday 1st March. His visit follows 3C’s
successful autumn away-day together at Emmanuel Church
Oxford, where Matt is Lead Elder.
Good Friday 2015, 3rd April
Good Friday at 3C will begin this year with prayer and communion from
8.45am – 9.30am. Those who wish will then be able to join the Cam & Dursley
Walk of Witness, which is expected to pass the 3C building at around 9.45.
Details of the rest of 3C’s Easter programme are available on our Easter flyer.
(no main service at 3C today)
3C AGM 4U: Sunday 22nd March
3C’s annual review meeting takes place on Sunday 22nd March. It’s
an opportunity for us to review the past year and look at plans and
budgets for the rest of 2015 together.
This year’s meeting will begin immediately after a shorter-than-normal morning
service. (Children will have their own Epic activities during the AGM).
If you’re a 3C regular, this is a must! Please make a note of the date and
do your best to be there.
3C Women
3C Women’s March meeting is on Monday 9th, starting at 7.45pm.
All women are welcome. It’s an opportunity to exercise your
giftings, so why not seek God for pictures or words of
encouragements, prophecies etc.
Welcoming Dave Cave
Rev. Dave Cave, who speaks at 3C on Sunday 8th March, is a well-known
speaker and author with decades of experience of evangelism and
church-planting.
Dave, a Baptist minister, has led churches in Bradford, Wales and Georgia
USA – but mostly in Liverpool. He’s now back in his beloved Anfield – just a
stone’s throw from Liverpool FC, which he supports – where he and his wife
Tina work as chaplains at Liverpool Lighthouse Centre (aka Temple of Praise). Dave was
one of the founders of Jesus in The City, the Evangelical Alliance theology unit (ACUTE)
and the Evangelical Coalition on Drugs. He and Tina have been married for 43 years,
and have two grown-up sons.
An Epic meeting!
Everyone on the Epic Sunday and Supertroopers rotas is invited
to a team meeting on Thursday 12th March, 7.30pm, at the
3C building. Please be there.