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

Well, since you're here already, the simplest and quickest way is to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and send us an email to the Office, at Nether Springs in Northumberland. Ellen will direct your message to the right person with her usual air of unflappable efficiency.

If you're emailing to find information about what is happening in North America concerning the NC, please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - and if you are, then you will want to read this information about the Northumbria Community in the USA and Canada.

If you want to call us, dial 01670 787645. The office is generally open from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. But since there is always far too much for one person to do, it's possible that even between these times you might be answered by a machine. Sorry. But if you leave a message, we promise to get back to you.

And just in case you're feeling nostalgic and want to write to us, you can even do that too:

Northumbria Community

‘Nether Springs', Croft Cottage

Acton Home Farm

Felton

Northumberland NE65 9NU

doorwayclose If you want to make a booking at Nether Springs, or enquire about available spaces, then This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . You can check what's on, and when, by checking this page.

If you'd like to know how to give a gift or a regular donation to the Community, then This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . And we'll be very thankful. Or you can give via our online donation page. You can also download our standing order form, or our Gift Aid Declaration form.

If you want to make any comments or suggestions about our site, then send them This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . And keep it constructive, please...

Newsflash

On Sunday the 13th of February 2011 the words of the day 13 meditation were read aloud for the first time in our new 'Nether Springs' at Acton Home Farm. How apt and moving they were as we sat and prayed after this long journey home. This was the first day that the Community had been able to gather at our new Mother House, and the story of Achsah and Othniel was a clear reminder of God's faithfulness and provision for us as a Community after the turmoil of leaving Hetton Hall.

Day 13 Meditation - Achsah and Othniel

And so it was that Achsah kept urging Othniel her husband

to ask from her father a field.

She lighted from off her ass, and Caleb said to her,

'What is it that you want?'

And she said to him, 'Give me a blessing,

for you have given me this dark, desert land;

now give me also springs of water.'

And her father gave her the upper and the nether springs.

Judges1:14-15

One of the things that many people have commented on is how well the familiar and the new have blended together, Acton Home Farm feels like home. But it's more than this, it also feels like a place of renewed purpose for us where the 'monastic' and the 'missional' sit closer together, as we begin to explore afresh the five monastic disciplines that underpinned our life at Hetton Hall: Worship, Work, Study, Solitude and Community. The physical move to Acton Home Farm is now complete, but the transition into this new chapter of our Community's life is still continuing as we build on the foundations of old, and seek God for his purposes for us in this wonderful place.

At the rebuIlding of the Abbey on Iona, George Macleod prayed a prayer that voices our prayers:

It is not just the interior of the walls, it is our own inner beings you have renewed. We are your temple not made by hands. We are your body. If every wall should crumble, and every church decay, we are your habitation. Nearer are you than breathing, closer than hands and feet. Ours are the eyes with which you, in the mystery, look out in compassion on the world. So we bless you for this place, for your directing of us, your redeeming of us, and your indwelling. Take us 'outside the camp', Lord, outside holiness, out to where soldiers gamble, and thieves curse, and nations clash at the cross-roads of the world... So shall this building be justified.

The sounds of saws and hammers are giving way to the sounds of chapel bell, prayers and laughter. Come and join with us as we seek God and build a new home together.