Looking Back; Looking Forward.

Give thanks with us in church at Rehoboth every Sunday—God has been good & faithful thru 2025.
Pray with us daily and in our times of gathered prayer as we start 2026. Every member of the Rehoboth Community is needed, every prayer vital, every sermon preached helpful to spiritual growth.

Please pray for our preachers this month, both when ministering at Rehoboth or serving the Lord helping smaller churches. Pray Holy Spirit working in our hearts.

Praying & caring for the Community:
Brighton Road, Kennedy Road, South Grove, Gorings Mead

Preaching out this month:
4th D Ansell – Copthorne am
11th DA – Rudgwick am; S Piggott – Smallfield am
18th DA – Smallfield am; C Furus – Funchal (Madeira) via Zoom am; 25th SP – Rudgwick am

Situation vacant:
After David Ansell’s ‘retirement’ from looking after the Chapel garden, is there anyone who would like to take this on? Mowing the grass once a fortnight, tidying
the borders; clearing leaves in the Autumn. Also controlling ivy on fences & weeding up the side of the Chapel. Please contact the Diaconate .

The 2025 Rehoboth Awayday – Dalesdown 14th June If you weren’t there, you missed a great day of fellowship and helpful thoughts, instructions from the Word, and discussion together! We’re thankful to David Skull joining us from Grace Church Brighton to lead our thoughts.

Session 1 on The Church’s Great Commission was, as Stuart says, about the Good News for failed disciples & a great commission for all disciples.

Three headings:

1 Task – Go & make disciples

2 Helps – the Power of Jesus (all authority); the Presence of Jesus

3 Steps – Go; Baptize (important to baptize in the name of the triune God); Teach

Session 2 touched on Lessons from the Great Commission Noting Jesus’ discernment as seen in Matt 9: 35 – 38, the need for prayer for the spread of the Gospel in our area – prayer walking, for instance; for compassion for the lost people of Horsham, and the determination to go & proclaim.

Session 3 brought us more lessons from Jesus Particularly from Mark ch 1, where the writer jumps straight in with ‘The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah …’ Jesus receives the affirmation of His Father, then straight into the spiritual battle with Satan; we, like the disciples when they were called, soon meet the attempts of the devil to discourage and defeat us, but we have the Lord with us who has called us to follow Him.

I was struck with the thought that in verses 29-34, the whole town came to the door of Peter’s house where his mother in law had been made well, to hear from Jesus and to seek healing. May our witness from Rehoboth be such that people will want to come to find the Saviour.

Truly a blessed day spending those hours together with the Lord.

The weekend continued on the Sunday as David helped us consider the soul winning church in Jerusalem in our Sunday morning service,

Then, following a bumper BBQ, in a short service in the garden, we had the thought of how we can be a soul winning church. Yes, we Rehobothians!

Steve

A time of much joy and thankfulness to God. The wedding of Nigel and Elspeth 10th May 2025 We wish them the rich blessing of the Lord and pray His loving hand upon them and their families in the days & years to come.

Praying and caring for the Community this month: Bedford Road & Arthur Road

Preaching in June:

1st D Ansell – Knaphill am
8th Smallfield am; S Piggott Copthorne am
15th DA – Tunbridge Wells am
22nd DA -Wivelsfield am; S Beadle -Redhill am; SP -Rudgwick am

Church Awayday
Make sure you’ve signed up for our Church Awayday at Dalesdown on 14th June A time for refreshment, gentle teaching, sunny fellowship (in God’s goodness) And please prayerfully consider our Gift Day on 15th – see across »

A mixture of sadness, relief, thankfulness & joy
On Sunday 23rd February the Lord took our dear sister, May Piggott home to be with Him. Over 97 + years He had watched over her and blessed her marriage to David, who He took home on St David’s Day 6 years ago. Although May was living in Rosedale Home for the
last few years of her life, and, because of her increasing sight and hearing difficulties, felt that she was of little use, in fact the Lord was using her faithful witness to the staff and other residents as she often spoke about the Lord Jesus & His redeeming love – a far from useless life!
As we pray for Rachel & Andrew, Sarah & Chris and the family at this time of sad parting, there is for them a certain sense of relief, and for all of us thankfulness for May’s friendship & testimony, and certainly the joy of knowing that she is now with her Lord in His very presence. Hallelujah!

Praying & caring for the Community - Park Terrace East; Livingstone Road; Turpitts Court

Preaching out this month:
2nd D Ansell – Copthorne am, Slinfold pm;
9th S Piggott – Smallfield am; 16th DA – Smallfield am; S Beadle – Redhill am;
23rd SP – Redhill am;
30th DA – Wivelsfield am, SB – Slinfold pm.

Is that the book table we have in the Carfax around Christmas time?

Well, no, but we’re planning one for Saturday 7th December and if you would like to join us for a while, it would be great to see you. Would you pray about what the Lord wants you to do this Christmas? We think of Mary riding a donkey to Bethlehem, though the Bible doesn’t mention a donkey there. But there was the time when Jesus wanted a donkey, and the message his disciples had to take to its owner was The Lord has need of him.” Luke 19:34 Surely the Lord has need of me – of you?
Shall we be His little donkey? Please pray about it.

A few reflections from some Rehoboth ladies: “From Here to Eternity”

Sandra: “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven” Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 To best describe the deep and profound teaching we had the privilege to receive from Karen Soole are the following headings for each session. They give us clues and a snapshot of the content and purpose of her ministry to us.

Passing Through Living in Two realities Ecclesiastes the antidote to anxiety The phrase “the seasons of life” came through very clearly and certainly spoke to my heart and life! What we do now matters. Rejoice in the good things we have. Not worrying about things out of our control! Learning to accept our limitations. Our Creator God is in control – Christ on the cross answers everything and changes everything!

There is so much more I could add, but suffice it to say there are 8 Rehoboth women today who were blessed, who demonstrated loving compassions to each other and laughed with the joy of knowing that our Saviour is our Shepherd and we should keep listening to Him!! God is in control!

Katie: I went away with the hope and prayer for rest and for spiritual feeding. This was answered and more… The talks by Karen Soole on Ecclesiastes were uplifting and refreshing.The singing enthused me to persevere in my own faith, the food as always was tasty and plentiful, and lastly.. the laughter was a tonic … particularly when line dancing. I also bought enough books to last me until next time.

Elspeth: Another great weekend of fellowship, teaching and many laughs along the way! It is so enjoyable to have a few days away in a beautiful setting with like-minded women who are praising and seeking the Lord. This year we were looking at Ecclesiastes and being reminded that this world and all in it is temporary and fleeting – we must keep our eyes fixed on what is important, Heaven with the Lord, forever! After the evening session on Friday, we were able to sit and relax and play some games together, and on Saturday afternoon, a few of us decided to learn how to Line Dance… “left grapevine, right grapevine, brush, brush, stomp, stomp, stomp” – feel free to ask us for a demonstration sometime There were 8 ladies attending from Rehoboth this year (including me) and I think I can say that we all enjoyed the weekend immensely – we are all already looking forward to 2026! If you have not come before, please do join us in 2026, you will not regret it.

Rachel: Superb friendship, fellowship and food, Fantastic singing, speaker and scenery, And not forgetting the line dancing!

Hazel: Highlights for me – Fantastic teaching from Karen Soole on the book of Ecclesiastes. Uplifting worship sessions of song and scripture. Fellowship of spending time with other women. Opportunity to live out some of the “times” of Ecclesiastes 3, including times of laughter and times of line-dancing to the music of Marilyn Baker.

Gill: The GBWA conference at High Leigh was an amazing experience. I was blessed to have been part of a group of eight ladies who were determined to enjoy every aspect of the weekend, fellowship, fun, great bible studies and prayer, praise and worship, line dancing, crafts and silly games. A weekend full of God’s love.

Back in our May Connect, information was shared about the ‘Tamar’ Christian charity that Grace Baptist Women’s Association is supporting. During the weekend conference, the Tamar team shared more about the work that seeks to reach, help and restore women in need, who are alone, who are hurting and in fear, abused women, rejected and demeaned women, in the Westminster area of London. Some Tamar Prayer requests:

• Give thanks for God’s grace for Tamar’s 11 years.
• Praise God for those who have met Jesus.
• For ‘L’, a trafficked victim we have recently met. Pray we can build a relationship and support her learning English

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