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Author: Bernice Hopper

About Bernice Hopper

Bernice is a valuable part of Jubilee and an experienced blogger. She loves social media and has successfully experimented over the years with all kinds of creative ways of using her skills in connecting people across the world through art, textiles and the Bible!

What’s in a name?

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What’s in a name? Do you know what your name means? How do you feel about your name? Do you use the name you were given at birth? I didn’t particularly like my name as I was growing up. Apart from some of my relatives being incapable of pronouncing it correctly, I was led to […]

Autumn Ministry School part 6

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Autumn Ministry School part 6 Tom, our Worship and Youth Pastor, tells us about the thinking behind the Autumn ministry school he is leading on worship. Worship School Worship is never defined in the Bible. The attributes of worship are described but a definition is never given. Worship is often assumed to be singing or […]

Autumn Ministry School part 5

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Autumn Ministry School part 5 Becky writes about using Pete Greig’s book, Dirty Glory, as the basis for the prayer school. Prayer School “The bible teaches that prayer is the most transformational force in the lives of individuals, churches and even nations. Whenever and wherever God’s people truly rediscover their purpose, their peculiarity and their […]

Autumn Ministry School part 3

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Autumn Ministry School part 3 This week Beccy Clay writes about the thinking behind the ministry school that she and Simon are running. She has included an overview of its content. Creation, The Climate Crisis & Our Response Climate change has become one of the greatest, if not the greatest challenge facing the world today, […]

Autumn Ministry School part 1

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Autumn Ministry School part 1 During the next few months we are going to be running a Ministry School at Jubilee. There are 7 themes within the School. Each one lasts 6 weeks and will be presented twice so that everyone has the opportunity to do two of the themes between now and Christmas. On […]

Dealing with Change

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Dealing with Change Previously we looked at several questions around ‘What will normal look like post lockdown?’ I hope you have had time to think about what things you might want to leave behind from your pre-pandemic life. Rob wrote about the questions many people are asking about God’s plans for their lives: Questions about […]

What will normal look like post lockdown?

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What will normal look like post lockdown? After over a year of uncertainty and being disconnected from friends and family, we are approaching a time which is being described as normal. We will be back to normal! Do you have a picture of what normal should be? The normal we lived in 2019? The busyness. […]

Are We An Ageist Society?

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Are We An Ageist Society? This week’s blog post has been written by Alison Davey. A personal reflection More recently, I have found myself getting more aware of my own sensitivities to the subject. Perhaps it is because I myself am getting older and am learning to embrace what my own ‘mid-life’ years look like. […]