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Summer Holidays!
Summer Holidays! For parents this is often met with mixed feelings. On good days you love it but on bad days…it can be a challenge. Not having the rush of the school run and packed lunches to make is a relief and the calendar is less squeezed, with weekly activities...
Next week, from 1st-7th July, is ‘Create Week’ in the UK, celebrating creativity and its importance to wellbeing. Here at NISCU, we love being creative in all sorts of ways and love helping other people find their creative side too! At the beginning of this half term...
Loneliness Awareness Week 9-15 June
Right at the start of human existence, when God was creating Adam, we read in Genesis 2:18, “The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Being made in the image of God, who exists as a Trinity of Father, Son and...
Summer Fun!
Schools may have stopped for summer but opportunities for children and young people to be hearing about and meeting with Jesus certainly haven't! There are so many wonderful things going on and, over the summer holidays, we are going to be hearing from a variety of...
Comparison
This week, in a small year 7 youth group, we (Abi) were looking at the question ‘What happens when I compare myself with others?’ We thought about the disciples who argued over who was the greatest and Peter who asked Jesus what would be happening to John at the end...
Volunteer’s Week
This week, from Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th June is Volunteer’s Week! This means we get to say a great big THANK YOU to all of our volunteers in NISCU. We are so grateful to all those who regularly and faithfully go into schools, advise and direct our staff and generally...
School’s out for Summer
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. Friday afternoon marked my...
Father’s Day
Psalm 68:5 Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. It’s a human instinct to try to replace what we’ve lost, or never had. I recently purchased a new mobile phone (well actually it was a pre-owned, refurbished device that’s about...
Creme Egg Quests
'Walk with me and work with me - watch how I do it…..Keep company with me’ 1 Peter 3:15 ‘Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.’ The Creme Egg Quest is a...