On December 18th at 7pm we joined with approx 17,000 other carol singers across the UK as we sang 5 prescribed carols to claim our place in the Guinness Book of Records for the most carol singers across multiple venues. Thanks to our independent adjudicators Councillor Phyl Griffiths and PCSO Louise Jenkins and to the 68 who joined together to sing accompanied by Colonel Malcolm Snell on the piano.

We live our lives with seemingly increasing demands upon our time and energies.

We are called to be good citizens volunteering our time and joining the ‘Big Society’. We are called to be great parents, bringing up children that will become good citizens. We are called to be honest workers contributing to our society etc etc etc.

How do we meet these sometimes conflicting demands. How do we achieve ‘Balance’ in our lives.

The Bible has something to say about it.

Why not join us at 11.00am for a couple of weeks as we explore this topic.
Risca Salvation Army, 66a Commercial Street, Risca.

From August 14th we will be exploring such questions, perhaps your question, in our morning family worship at 11am.

If you really exist why on earth don’t you prove it?

Is the Christian God and the Islamic Allah the same God?

Good people go to Heaven.  Right?

Why should I trust what the Bible says?

Why not join us!  And if you would like to submit a question then please do so via our contacts page.

Music for a summer’s evening will be presented by Oakdale Silver Band and Treharris Salvation Army Singing Group.

Donation tickets are £5.00  (under 16s can come free)

For tickets contact us via the contact form on this website.

What does it take to make life work?

The world is full of people saying this, that or the other, yet where is true WISDOM to be found?

We invite you to join us for 6 Sunday mornings at 11.00am to discover the WISDOM that Makes Life Work.

From Sunday June 26^th through to Sunday July 31^st we will be exploring how we become WISE.

We look forward to seeing you on one or more occassions, 11am Sunday morning.

As from June 19th our Sunday morning worship will commence at 11.00am.

This will conclude around 12.10pm when Coffee will be served.

The children will leave at 11.30am to go to their activities which will conclude at 12.30pm.

We would really like you to be able to join us, as a family, on Sunday mornings and we realise that a 10.00am start was a little early.  Everyone deserves a lie in after-all; so we are changing to 11.00am.

We also know that the last thing you want in Church is to be worrying about what your children are doing, so half-way through the meeting they will be leaving for their own fun activities, and just after 12.00, whilst they are finishing off what they are doing, you will be able to enjoy a cup of coffee or tea.

Its not just the time thats changing though.  We want you to know that the Bible and its message is relevant to 21st century life so we will be working hard to make sure we answer your questions and address your needs.  Our worship is relaxed and informal.  We blend songs both ancient and modern and use visual impact whenever that will help.  I’m sure you would enjoy it, so come and check us out.

Prior to the morning worship the hall will be open at 10.00am for those who wish to start their day with prayer and meditation.

View the sermon in a new window: The Cross of Christ, Jeff Manion Ada Bible Church, Michigan USA

The clocks this year at least, have already gone forward and the days are already longer but Easter of course isn’t a fixed day in the diary. At least not in terms of a specific date, it isn’t. The Moon and where it happens to be at a particular time of the year govern the location of this particular festival in the calendar.Its timing proves problematic for some. Particularly those who would like to fix it to a set date to make the most of the business opportunities a long weekend offers them. But for those of us who celebrate the real meaning of Easter it helps us remember that there some things that are beyond our control. That there are some things we can’t fix or pin down for our own convenience.

The first Easter followed the celebration of the Passover, the Jewish Festival that remembered the time when God intervened and set his people free from slavery in Egypt. It was the reason why so many people were rammed into Jerusalem. It was a chance to relive that moment and boost the national identity, when yet again the people were under occupation from a foreign army. It was a chance for a national time-out and a morale boost and of course a bit of a knees-up.

Despite the fact that the Roman authorities were skeptical and probably more than a bit worried about this national celebration and holy-day, they ran with it, even sponsored some of it’s highlights, such as the custom of freeing a prisoner. It was a gesture of goodwill from the occupying power towards the locals and their strange customs and practices.

It was in the middle of this first century equivalent of our bank holiday that God chose to fulfill for all people and for all time the promise implicit in the Passover. The truth is we will never appreciate the full significance of Easter unless we see it in the context of the escape from captivity and into freedom, more importantly from captivity into a freedom that comes at a price.

This Easter why not re-read the story of the Passover in Exodus 12 and at the same time read again the account of Holy Week in the gospels?