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Welcome to the home of the Northumbria Community online

We hope you'll enjoy your visit, and find what you're looking for.

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hetton1 Welcome to our all-new website, filled with news and information about the Northumbria Community.  We're adding new stuff all the time, and if you're 'just looking' then you're welcome to come in and browse around.  If you're looking for something in particular, then we hope you'll find it here!  You can receive notifications each time pages are updated, by using the 'rss feed'.  You can click the rss link at the bottom of any page, whenever it's present, to receive notifications of changes to that page.   The rss icon is the orange square with the white dot and two squiggles in it.

You may want to make use of the icons above the Search box in the top header, which can adjust the font size up or down for you, depending on your screen resolution (and how good your eyes are!)

If you arrived at Hetton Hall, the Mother House of the Northumbria Community, the first thing we'd probably do is put the kettle on, and have a blether... so what's the online equivalent of that?  Just come on in and make yourself at home, and you'll find the answers to some of your questions about the Northumbria Community... eventually... probably..

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Contact Us

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ellen_smHere's some information about the different ways you can get in touch with the Northumbria Community:

 

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Covenanted Together

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‘Covenanted together within the love of Christ we share a common heart for Northumbria and a commitment to wander for the love of Christ wherever the Father leads.’

 covenantAs we enter 2010 with its promise of huge transition and change at so many levels, we do well to ponder one of our foundational principles as a Community, namely, ‘Building the new on foundations of old’. Whenever we focus on re-evaluation and change we need to do so within the foundational stability of what God has said and is still saying to us about who we are and what we are about as a Community. A good example of this is exploring what it means to be covenanted together.

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Sing to the Well

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donondomandrummersOur good friends and Community Companions Martin and Bekah Neil have been intimately involved in a project to record the Wagogo people in Africa, in order to provide wells in their villages. Trust me, you need to buy this CD and DVD set. It may well change your life, and it will certainly change theirs... You can order it from Cloisters,
 

Reflecting on our Rule: Week 9

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We embrace the vulnerability
of being TEACHABLE
expressed in an exposure to SCRIPTURE
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Community Gathering in Holland 27/28 March

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Roy Searle and others from Northumbria will be leading a retreat in Amsterdam, Holland, arranged by our good friend Floor Vogelaar - who has made available a web page in Dutch and English, giving more information about the event.  Click here to visit Floor's page, if you're interested in knowing more about this opportunity.
 

Message in a portal...

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overseersOn the new site we've created blogging-spaces for both Roy Searle and Pete Askew.  Pete can't wait to get in to the 'moving the Mother House' project, so it seems likely that most of his posts might focus on that process, at least in the immediate future.  Roy does a lot of travelling out and about in the Community, and so he's always full of stories and reflection.  And he likes to write!  So we should find these pages fill up nicely...  Remember that the newest items will always appear at the top of the page.

Trevor Miller isn't one for blogging really, but he's got loads of great material to share in the 'Sharing Wisdom' section of the Resources Area.

 

2010 is set to be a momentous year

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As we enter this new year, we're entering a momentous and significant period in the Community's history.  In just a few months we will be leaving Hetton Hall - and that brings with it sadness and apprehension, as well as feverish excitement, anticipation and thankfulness to God for His provision for us in this unsettling process.  Watch this space for unfolding news of the move, and the process of preparing our new home.
 

New programme for 2010

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Details of the new 2010 Programme of events at Nether Springs are available in the What's On at Nether Springs pages.
 

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Details of the new 2010 Programme of events at Nether Springs are available in the What's On at Nether Springs pages.