Cómpeta Carol Service 2009

Cómpeta Congregation BBQ

On Friday 13th November, the Cómpeta Congregation held a BBQ at the Fabrica de la Luz, Canillas de Albaids and 24 members of the Chaplaincy enjoyed a time of food & fellowship, under sunny Spanish skies.

The slideshow below captures the occasion, and serves of a reminder of - "a good time had by all"

The Warden's at work!!

"So if you say that bit, I could do that bit, but if you prefer to do the other bit, then I will do another bit!!"

The Wardens busily preparing for the Evening Service next Sunday.

New email address

Please note that following some changes being made to Chaplaincy email addresses, our new email address is -

competa@stgeorgemalaga.org

Can you please change your records/address book etc. and we look forward to hearing from you on the new address.

Now we are on FACEBOOK!

After some time in developing the page we are now launching our FACEBOOK page on the internet.

Use the Link on the right hand side of this page to get to the latest 21st century development in the life of our congregation.

If you experience any problems then send a quick email: competacongregation@stgeorgemalaga.org and we will do our best to sort you out.

Also we would love to have some feedback on the weblog & our other developments, as well as any suggestions you might have.

Bishop David follows us on TWITTER

Following the launch of our church TWITTER page, we have already got our first "follower", and no less a person than Bishop David himself.

Bishop David whose TWITTER address is - eurobishop - has added the Cómpeta Congregation to his list of people to follow, and will now be able to keep up to date with everything that we are doing.

Also we have now added the Church of England TWITTER page to our page so that all their information will be available to us just as soon as they add anything.

Have you registered yet to get the Cómpeta Congregation TWITTER page - go to www.twitter.com.

And finally - just to wet your appetite - we will be launching our FACEBOOK page very soon - just a few more tests to do.

We are on TWITTER!!

Yes we are moving into the 21st century here in Cómpeta and have created a TWITTER page.

What you are asking yourself is a TWITTER page? Well have a look at the short video below & hopefully all will become clear.

Some of you may already have your own TWITTER page and if so please make sure that you link to us asap.

This is another way of keeping in touch with what we are doing in Cómpeta.

Keep a look out for other social media developments that we will be introducing on our weblog in the coming weeks & months.

So sit back - click on the video below - and learn all about the world of TWITTER & Cómpeta Congregation

Congregational Annual Meeting 2009

On Sunday 5th April the Annual Congregational Meeting was held in the vestry after the Evening Service.

Whilst not the most well attended meeting that we have ever had, it gave everybody there a chance to hear about the last year in the life of the Cómpeta congregation, and to look forward to the next year with renewed spirit.

Following the formal reports from the Chaplain, the Wardens, Secretary & Treasurer, the elections were held for the Officers for the next year.

The meeting elected Chris Gath & Adrian Wilkinson as Congregational Wardens, Jean Roberts as Congregational Secretary & Mike Roberts as Congregational Treasurer.

In addition, May Wilkinson, Anne & Ian Parry & Alison Naisby agreed to to serve on the Congregational Committee for the next year.

In a general discussion following the elections, several ideas were suggested to increase congregation size and to make the congregational and our activity in general more visible.

The Congregational Committee will consider and act upon these in the coming weeks & months, biginning at their first meeting of the new congregational year on June 3rd.

Why go to church?

If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!

Why Go To Church?

A Church-goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.

"I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."

This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this.. They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"

When you are DOWN to nothing... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!

All right, now that you're done reading, why not share it with somebody, I think everyone should read this!

"When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, "Jesus, could you get that for me?"

Mothering Sunday 2009

We would love to see you at our Mothering Sunday Holy Communion Service