Sunday 1 – HCC Sunday Service Current Series
Sunday 2 – Messy Church and Deeper Meaning Evening Meeting
Sunday 3 – HCC Sunday Service Current Series
Sunday 4 – Betel Service Everyone Welcome
Sunday 5 – (when applicable) Celebration Service Worship, meal together and baptisms
To stay updated on the next week’s event, or to watch our services live visit our Facebook Page.
Wreaths and foliage provided, but bring your own decorations (ribbons, baubles etc.)
When? – Tuesday 7th December, 1:30pm – 6:00pm
Tickets – £6 from Elaine Strike or Eden.
Join us for a heartwarming Christmas afternoon tea with live entertainment from the talented Vickers family, and a speaker! Friends are very welcome, but do keep in mind we have limited tickets available.
When? – Sunday 5th December, 4pm
Tickets – £8 from Susanna, HCC Office, Eden or community grocery. Limited availability.
Please contact Susanna Dawson with any dietary requirements at 07779762956 or at susanna2909@gmail.com
Dear Church,
Being able to meet back in the Church building this year has been an amazing blessing, and we are extraordinarily grateful for the opportunities that have opened to allow us to do so.
We feel it is now time to lift the restrictions we previously put in place for COVID and allow people to make their own choices.
We are trying to consider every decision carefully and feel it is important to progress as the world around us changes to bring our community closer together.
Thank you for your understanding.
On the 2nd Sunday of every month, starting from 10th October.
10:30am to 12:30pm
Songs, crafts and a simple lunch for all the family!!
Click here for more info
Our current Sunday series is “Journey Through the Old Testament”. We touched on some of this at the beginning of the year before our Easter and Acts series, and now we’re launching back in with many more God-stories. You can join us online or in person every Sunday at 10.30am (GMT).
To attend in person, please book if possible and read the guidelines here.
To watch live online, visit our Facebook page (you don’t need a Facebook account to watch).
Sun 23rd May – Joshua: Jericho (with Neil Strike)
Sun 30th May – Joshua: Choose Whom You Serve (with Brian Steemson)
Sun 6th June – Judges: Gideon (with Jen Rumsey)
Sun 13th June – Judges: Samson (with Dale Dawson)
Sun 20th June – Story of Ruth (with Joe Beswick)
Sun 27th June – Hannah and Samuel (with Susanna Dawson)
Sun 4th July – Saul – Half-Hearted (with Pauline Woodhouse)
Sun 11th July – David – Whole-Hearted (with Neil Strike)
Sun 18th July – David and Goliath
Sun 25th July – David Honours Saul
It’s that time again – join your fellow north east churches for the Taking Ground Celebration Service!
On Sunday 11th April at 11am, join us for a live stream on the Taking Ground Facebook page or the Taking Ground YouTube channel. There will not be a live video on the Hexham Community Church page that morning.
For more details, please visit the event page here.
Taking Ground is part of Salt and Light Ministries UK, a network of church families together on mission.
As well as Hexham Community Church they have churches in Birtley, Durham, Sunderland, Stockton, Middlesbrough, Darlington, Easingwold, and York.
You can read more about Taking Ground on their website here.
Sunday 7th March marks the beginning of our next HCC Live Sunday series, looking at Jesus’ life and ministry up to Easter, his death and resurrection on Easter weekend, and then the events that followed as recorded in the books of Acts. You can join us LIVE every Sunday at 10.30am (GMT) on our Facebook page (you don’t need a Facebook account to watch).
Sun 7th Mar – Sit and Ponder (Jesus in the temple, Luke 2:41–52)
Sun 14th Mar – Water to Wine (John 2:1–12)
Sun 21st Mar – Extravagant Worship (anointing Jesus’ feet, John 12:1–11)
Sun 28th Mar – One of the Crowd? (Palm Sunday)
Sun 4th Apr – Easter Sunday with communion
Sun 11th Apr – NO LIVE SERVICE WITH HCC – we will instead be on the Taking Ground Facebook page for the regional Celebration Service at 11am
Sun 18th Apr – Acts chapter 1
Sun 25th Apr – Acts 2:1–13
Sun 2nd May – Acts 2:14–21
Sun 9th May – Acts 2:42–27
Martin Dunkley, leader of Taking Ground, would like to share an update regarding our Daniel Challenge year out programme.
“Having taken the decision to pause Daniel Challenge due to the impact of the Coronavirus, we have used this time to undertake a comprehensive review into how God wants us, as Taking Ground and our individual churches, to invest in training and equipping our young people and future leaders.
“As part of the review into Daniel Challenge we have undertaken substantial research into Christian gap years and gap years more generally. We have considered the impact and success of Daniel Challenge and the strengths and weaknesses of it in its current form. Most importantly, however, we have been asking God what he wants our training for young people and future leaders to look like.
“While we were undertaking the review, we really felt that God had exciting plans for training and developing young adults and our future leaders, but there was a sense in all these discussions that this was shifting away from Daniel Challenge and that Daniel Challenge was coming to a natural end.
“Over the Christmas period the government also announced that following Brexit the UK would no longer be supporting the Erasmus Programme. The Erasmus Programme provided a significant level of funding towards Daniel Challenge as well as a significant proportion of the students. The government pulling out of the Erasmus Programme felt like it was the final confirmation that the door was closing on Daniel Challenge.
“I am therefore writing to let you all know that Daniel Challenge will not be restarting in September and we intend to close down the programme.
“Whilst we are saddened at having to make this decision, it is important to note that we take this decision in real faith that God has exciting plans for us and how we can develop and train our young people and future leaders. This may be done in our individual churches, as Taking Ground or a mixture of both, however there is a sense of faith and expectation that God will guide and direct us into the pathway he wants us to take, in a way that aligns with our individual church ministries and the vision and values of Taking Ground.
“On behalf of the Taking Ground leadership team I would like to thank you for your love, care, investment and support in Daniel Challenge. As I reflect back on Daniel Challenge over the years and I see the impact it has had on so many young people, I thank God for all that he has done through it.
“If you would like to discuss this with me personally please get in touch. God Bless, Martin.”
We look forward to the future of training in Taking Ground, and hope you will pray for us as we explore this.
