Who we are!
We are an independent church of around 80 adults plus children planted a decade ago. We have several interesting features, including our emphasis on Christ-likeness as a journey, our membership with the Association of Therapeutic Communities, and our being the home of ‘the Rapha Journey’.
Where we are!
We are based in Deal, a sleepy coastal town six miles North of Dover in East Kent, UK. We are two hours drive from London, and you can visit us via the M2 or M20 motorways. For people wanting to know our exact location for Sunday worship our postcode is CT14 6HE and you can find exact web directions
here
Where we meet!
On a Sunday morning we meet at the Landmark Centre (see photo), a former Congregational Church now restored and run by the local community. We meet for a fellowship meeting at 09.00am, and for our main Sunday morning worship service at 10.30am. Please note that we do not have a Sunday morning service on the last Sunday of every month. We cancel our usual service in favour of a range of fellowship and community activities
The kind of church we are!
We are a community church that is Christ-centred, Bible based and Evangelical in tradition. See our
Statement of Faith. Our desire is to see Christ lived and honoured in our lives, and uplifted in our town, county and country. Around 25% of our members are new Christians, and another 25% are former Christians being restored to the Lord.
Some of our features
We have several interesting features. Within our faith community we also run a
therapeutic community for people with compulsive disorder, personality disorder and other types of emotional illness. But through our Rapha workshops, books and our CDs we teach a range of tools able to help both Christians and the un-churched let go of their toxic pasts, and move closer to Jesus. For more information on these workshops, books and CDs go to
www.lifegivingtrust.org
The Rapha Journey
Through our ministry we teach people the need to do a journey. None of us are either born Christ-like, become Christ-like at conversion, or are Christ-like merely by attending Christian meetings. We all have to positively change, and as a community we teach others how we have been taught by the Lord and one another to do this
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Peter Holmes, one of the founding members of CCD and part of its leadership, describes what we mean by using the phrase
‘Therapeutic or Salugenic discipleship’:
‘I am describing ideas and methods that can assist us becoming Christ-like. I believe that part of this maturing toward Christ is to live as though our toxic pasts never occurred. I am not speaking here of living in denial, or repressing our pain, but instead no longer carrying it all ….I see this process as part of our becoming who God created us to be, rather than our being the person we have become. In this sense, my definition of ‘therapeutic’ is unlike in psychology where it often means merely learning to manage our pasts in a repressive way, or cognitively seeking to rewrite our history. Instead, it is in Christ, to enjoy freedom from their pasts. .’
Dr Peter Holmes
one of the founding members
of CCD and part of its leadership
Who are we affiliated to?
We are proud to be a member of the Evangelical Alliance and CCD is a full member of the Association of Therapeutic Communities (ATC), a network of over two hundred communities in the UK and overseas.
CCD is also a member of the ‘Community of Communities' project. This is a quality network co-operative research project between the ATC and the Royal College of Psychiatrists Research Unit (CRU).
Several members of our community make up a team visiting other TC’s doing peer reviews. Also Peter Holmes, Rebecca Mitchell and Susan Williams are Lead Reviewers for the Community of Communities annual review programme.
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Created on 02/04/2003 10:24 AM by admin
Updated on 10/17/2011 11:57 AM by malcolmhart
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