Newark West Community Group ‘multiplied’ into two Community Groups in the summer of 2009 as numbers had risen to around 24 folk in all. Newark West now has around 10-12 folk meeting on a weekly basis with room to grow in number in the future. We meet at two separate venues (each one fortnightly) on a Tuesday evening from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm beginning with tea/coffee and biscuits! The venues are listed weekly in the Riverside Church newsletter.

We share a vision to equip ourselves for God’s service and are seeking to grow in spiritual maturity and knowledge of God by Bible Study and group discussion on various subjects.

We take Communion regularly together and have times of worship, prayer, and prayer ministry. We recognise we need to be a ‘whole’ people; a thankful people; a free people. We enjoy inviting guest speakers and also have the occasional quiz! Oh, and we laugh a lot!!

Being able to share our needs within our group is vital as we can then support one another in prayer. We keep a prayer book where we note our prayer needs and answers to prayer of which we have had several. All prayer requests are confidential within the Group. As we build on relationships we hope to reach out into the Community and share the gospel

We have regular Social times together - always plenty of food available on these occasions!! - with breaks from meeting together usually during half-term and during the summer and Christmas holidays.

Hazel Lindson