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

Lest We Forget - Remembrance Sunday 2008

We look forward to welcoming you to our Service of Remembrance in Cómpeta on Sunday 9th November at 5.30pm.

The Last Post & Rouse will be sounded live by a former Member of HM Forces who now lives in Cómpeta

Friendship Recipe Book published

You will be pleased to know that the long awaited Friendship Recipe Book has now been published & is available for purchase.

Priced at a give-away 8 euros, you can get your copy (or perhaps even copies) from Jean Roberts by emailing her on jean.mike@telefonica.net.

This book will make an ideal Christmas present & should be on everybodies list of 'must-haves' for 2009.

Sales of the book will support Chaplaincy funds.

So - don't delay, email today and order your copy.

Songs of Praise - Programme 1

So the day arrived, and we all settled back in our chairs to watch the first of two programmes recorded earlier in the year for Songs of Praise.

We all joined in lustily with the hymns and did some people spotting. And who made the centre stage - yes Paul Gath!! and not once but twice!

Paul will now be accepting invites for personal appearances, supermarket openings & after dinner speeches on - How I was on Songs of Praise from Fuengirola! He will also be signing copies of the service sheet next Sunday, which might make a nice Birthday or Christmas present for that person in your life who has got everything else!!

And then to finish off the day - Spain won 4-2 on penalties!