In case anyone is interested, and in the Brighton area next weekend etc....

*A Gospel celebration*

Sunday 13^th June 6:30pm @ CCK (Church of Christ the King)

Kate Simmonds + band

Featuring Mark Edwards, Ben Castle and a Gospel choir

Guest speaker: Terry Virgo

Admission is FREE

Church of Christ the King,

Clarendon centre,

New England Street

Brighton

Tel: 01273 747687

Leave a comment below if you need directions/want to know more… (Or just ask Amy around college!)

[Sorry its been quite a while for this update...I know i have been quite lazy with this but its been absolutley crazy in the college.]

Thought for the Week:

Well I guess sometimes its hard to know if God is really there at all. Do you ever wonder to yourself, 'how can I prove that God exists?'

How do we know God loves us? Bad stuff is always happening to us or our friends or families wherever we go... when someone we know dies, it hurts and I often find myself questioning whether God cares at all. Sometimes, you might find that even though you have put your trust in God, nothing seems to be happening. Then when something bad happens, you immediately think well 'so long God and thanks for all the fish!' You ask why, even after trusting him and trying to lead the 'chrisitan life', he only seems to repay you with emptiness or the 'bad thing'. Well I've got some news for you. God still cares. Even though we stamp our feet and complain like spoilt children about not having everything go perfectly for us, God still cares for us. in some ways i would say, everything happens for a reason, because i definitly can see that there is a plan of somekind going on, even when we are completely unaware of it. Looking back over the last few weeks or even years of my life, I can see how various things have happened, and why they have happened. It is more often in retrospect how i can see how God has been working in my life. At the time I get angry and shout at him and complain, but to look back and see that what he guided me to do was not only right but the best thing for me, is humbling and proves that go not only exists but he does indeed care.

What is going on:

Alpha course friday lunchtime 1:35pm For anyone and everyone who wants to learn more about christianity. Definitly worth a visit!

Cell group not on this friday as we break up at 5:10. Unless you really want to? let me know if you think otherwise. Oh and BY THE WAY, its getting moved next term to after school on wednesday afternoons at 4pm ish. and if its nice it will be outside. YAY!

TGIF is at 8:25 in the dance studio this friday...

CU Lunchtimes are still happening at 1:10 on Wednesday, although we just had the last one of term today.

This is an extract from Wingedindigo on live journal... it thought it was quite interesting. The Passion of the Christ is certainly going to be a highly contraversial film and I wonder what people will make of it. I havent seen it yet, but I think I will despite all the publicity surrounding it. What do you all think?

02:16 pm - John 15:18-21
*From my Blogging buddy Danny da Vinci:

I just read an article about some knuckleheads who recently splashed a bucket of lamb's blood on Mel Gibson while he was in NYC, cursed at him, and called him an anti-Semite.

Jim Caviezel, the actor who portrays Jesus in the movie "The Passion of the Christ," has recently gotten death threats and bodily threats to harm both him and his family.

This just gets me really, really ticked off with all this stupidity and hatred out there.

Some people in NYC were boycotting the movie and dressing up in concentration camp uniforms out in the street in front of movie theaters saying that the movie was anti-semitic and would prompt another holocaust here in the U.S. or around the world.

There was another protest done by some african-americans who demonstrated out on the street b/c they believe that Jesus was black. There were also Animal Rights activists outside movie theaters comparing the suffering of animals with the suffering of Christ.

Give me a break.........

The world's funny. They praise Mel Gibson if he makes another violent Lethal Weapon or Mad Max movie, but when he reveals that he's a "religious" person and has made a "risky" and personal, honest movie/expression of his faith about the most contraversial figure ever in history - Jesus Christ - he gets lambasted by the same people who praised him for decades before.

Some people in Hollywood have already black-listed him and turned their backs on him. Some top executives at Dreamworks have been openly critical of Mel Gibson and said they would never associate or work with him.

In Gibson's movie, there's a scene where Jesus is carrying the cross and sees all the people around him hurling curses, screams, and insults at him; then he gets a flashback to where the very same people were hailing and praising him as their king and savior during Palm Sunday as they laid their palm leaves down for him while he entered Jerusalem on a colt.

Human nature at its 'finest'.

In a recent interview with Gibson, the interviewer asked how he has handled all the criticism and negative reaction and personal attacks hurled at him by people right and left of him. Gibson responded that it hurts, but he has to obey God and needs to forgive them. He considers all the tests and trials that he's going thru to be character building to be more Christ-like.

As we've seen, being a follower of Christ doesn't mean the world's automatically going to praise you and embrace you; rather it means that the world will hate you and you'll have to suffer for your faith, conviction, and love for Christ."

Cell Group returns next week, usual time and place of 5:30 onwards in the Old Music School Classroom next to the Oasis.

(Ask if unsure where I mean. And get excited... we are having more Diet Coke and Cookies guys!  Wooo!)

Well last week we were kind of discussing the hardship of contending with peer pressure when it comes to drinking, drugs and sex, not only as teenagers, but as chrisitan teenagers. The discussion then flowed into topics like why it can be so hard to be a chrisitian at B-college especially. We wee not discussing this for ourt own benefit however, and we are not asking for pity. but for those on the edge of maybe turning to christ it can be quite offputting I guess. So next week we may try and talk about ways we can make CU and cell etc more accessible. I suggested that we should do a prayer walk sometime, even though none of us have ever done one before!! That might be one possibilty.

One of the big issues with Brighton College is that we are in perhaps the most cosmopolitan areas of the UK - everything is very liberal, we have the highest population of homosexuals in Britain, and the atmosphere suggests that people living here have it all. But its rather deceptive. Underneath the 'verneer' of security and hapiness lies a lot of problems. Christians are made to look and feel 'uncool' by their peers instead of supporting them in their beleifs. The whole image of christianity has become dull and boring and dead, when we know it isnt! I mean we worship the LIVING GOD after all!

If you are reading this and you are a christian, please pray for a change within the school... we have come so far in the last year, but therer is so much more to be done. Please pray that God will guide us through the rest of the year and that he will strengthen Christians within the Collge to not be ashamed of their faith and that they might show others by words and deeds what being a Christian and following Christ is all about! And please also pray for a softness of the hearts of the pupils and staff in the college, so that they might accept Jesus as their saviour. Thanks a lot, it counts for a great deal, because we know by faith that your prayers will be answered!

So that was pretty much all that I was going to update the site with. (I will try and keep it up to date throughout the week, with main features at the weekend.)

Well, God Bless, and hopefully see you next week at ACTS!

Welcome to Brighton College's cell group website!

This is where you can find out what we have been up to, future events and prayer requests. As you can tell we are still in the process of building this site, but we will soon be up and running!

Feel free to leave prayer requests as comments.

Enjoy!