Jesus calms the storm
Our guest speaker Chris Kimmance, Senior Pastor of Ashford Vineyard unpacks the miracle of Jesus calming the storm and tells us how we can be storm calmers of problems that affect our own lives.

Our guest speaker Chris Kimmance, Senior Pastor of Ashford Vineyard unpacks the miracle of Jesus calming the storm and tells us how we can be storm calmers of problems that affect our own lives.
Street Pastors from Whitstable and Herne Bay tell us about their exciting and much needed contributions to the communities on a Friday night empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Fantastic to celebrate with Annabelle, Anna, KC, Claire and Andy today. Before the baptisms, Simon explains how it started in the Bible and the reason we baptise people. Following that are their life changing stories.
At our Easter family communion service Simon explains the Easter story with the help of several short videos.
Simon unpacks the topic of invitation, we are to invite everyone to an encounter with Jesus. We encourage people to “come and see” and discover the truth of the Gospel. Due to a technical problem the first couple of minutes of the message were not recorded.
Jesus told us we would bring salt and light to our communities. The Message puts it this way, “You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavours of this earth. You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colours in the world…”
Chris talks about sharing the good news of Jesus with others as well as being generous with our money and possessions.
In part three of the coastlands series, Simon explains how Jesus embodied for us what it was to be a servant and how we should therefor serve others in the community.
Simon continues our current ‘Coastlands’ series and talks about how the church is called to ‘scatter’ and be sewn throughout society and be attractional to the needs of the community.
Keely kicks off our new Coastlands sermon series by unpacking how we are called to be a people revealing God to the communities around us.
Simon and Keely focus on five of the many ministry’s going on at the moment with the help of the group leaders to explain the exciting developments. It was also an opportunity to meet and interview our great new Assistant Pastor Jacob.
Sam talks about the dangers the persecuted church face around the world and the hope God gives us to face these.
The best place for our hope is in God who calls us to generously reflect his nature.
Keely explains how God wants our hearts to be so big that they can contain everything that God has given us but then overflows into our workplaces and our towns.
Simon starts the new ‘Overflow’ series by explaining what it means to live a joyful life of generousity. Before that Keely explains the transition taking place of Mark and Rachel taking on the heading up of worship at Riverside and Darlene standing down from the roll.
Chris unpacks the statement ‘God is love and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them’. The song that was played and referred to near the end was ‘All you need is love’ by the Beatles.
Simon unpacks the story of Jesus’ healing of the sick women from Mark ch5 v24-29.
Before Simon’s talk explaining God’s love through the parable of the prodigal son, we hear one of the many testimony’s this morning of how God had met with us in a personal way in the last week.
Simon introduces the series by exploring the truth that God's character is love...
At this evening Christmas Eve eve service Simon explains the significance of the three gifts the Magi brought the baby Jesus.
Simon’s short talk during our evening Carol Service explaining the hundreds of messages we get on our phones and ignore but will open the message of good news that God sends us?
Julian Barnard shares an advent message on betrothal. He considers Joseph's reaction and response to Mary’s life changing news. God meets us through our brokenness and gives hope for the future.
This week our guest speakers Nigel & Jo Hemming from Winchester Vineyard Church start the advent season by explaining how God uses ordinary people like Mary to do extraordinarily things to enable his purpose.
Simon explains why thanksgiving is an essential part of our lives as Christians as we orientate our life in a continuing way towards him.
Chris explains the different types praise offered to God in the Psalms.
Joel explains why there are more songs of Lament than there are of praise in the Psalms and that Lament isn’t just about complaining it’s a structured way of telling God how we feel.
Chris explains why trust is mentioned so many times in the Psalms and how by trusting in God in our daily lives is so important.
Simon kicks off the new series where we will be looking at how the Psalms help us deepen our connection with God in prayer. They help us grow in expressing every range of human emotion and situation.
Simon explains how we should live life as if Jesus is in charge. Before that Pauline tells us about her feelings of peace and happiness through her amazing encounter with the Holy Spirit at a prayer meeting in Herne Bay last week.
Firstly, Baiba from Friends International talks about their work among students in the Canterbury area and Julian unpacks the power of the Holy Spirit in the life of Jesus.