There is room in music to be honest with my God and let down the guard that I’ve constructed to hide my heart from all the pain in this world. And there is room for God to come to meet me and talk to me as if there were no one else around...

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Obviously music in a church context is used to glorify God, to worship Our Heavenly Father. But what better medium to use when communicating with the Creator of All Things? The music is different every time. So is my expression. I feel grateful and positive, strong and defiant, weak and helpless, sad and remorseful.

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Even it might remind you of a tragic event in your life, a moment that shaped you irrevocably and although it brings back all those dark feelings and tears there is somehow a peace and a healing in the process. This doesn’t sound very religious does it? God gave man the gift of music for a specific purpose I’m sure.

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Maybe it was playing the first time you fell in love, the first time you saw Eve in all her glorious beauty (or Adam riding to the rescue in his shining armour). Maybe it captures the nostalgia of your youth when you were invincible, eternally young and carefree.

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Music has a very unique significance throughout the world in that it permeates every single nation and culture. I’ve yet to find a society where music does not exist in some form or other. It clearly has the power to draw communities together but also has a transcendental quality that reaches outside of the normal and the mundane. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about just think about ‘that special song’.

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Worship Through Music

My name is Richie and I often lead the music side of things for RPC. I am lucky because my job is to play the guitar and sing loudly both of which I really enjoy doing. I am privileged to work with the keyboard talents of Aerin, way beyond her years in ability, Mike on vocals and brass who has a natural gift for harmony and the soaring melodies of Marilyn and Sarah on vocals.

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Church Member Profile: Jan.
Age: 57.
Job : Administrator.
Hobbies & Interests : Reading; walking; travel; dancing and music. Roles in church: Joint Care Group leader with husband Geof; British Sign Language Interpreter (level 2) for deaf members of church; member of Sacred Dance Group.
Current favourite TV programme: Christian World News; Countryfile.

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Church Member Profile: Andrew.
Age: 52.
Job: Mechanical Sub Assembly
Hobbies & Interests : Football; bicycle; reading.
Roles in church: I worship God and hear the word of God with sign language.
Current favourite TV programme: Match of the Day; comedy.

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Read, or watch the signing video of, deaf people describing their experiences of different aspects of their faith, church or Christian training: Testimonies from Christian Signs.co.uk website.

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Here are Andrew and Jan using sign language to sing praise songs during Morning Worship!

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Jan and Sarah are our interpreters, and Andrew and Stuart are our two deaf members.

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Richmond Park Church is pleased to have two BSL (British Sign Language for the deaf) level 2 signers in our church, who interpret for our deaf members during Sunday Morning Worship and also at Geof & Jan's (Boscombe East) Care Group.

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Sign Language: We have two BSL (British Sign Language for the deaf) signers in our church who interpret for our deaf members during Sunday Morning Worship and at Geof & Jan's (Boscombe East) Care Group on Tuesday evenings.

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Disability Access: The Richmond Park Church building is accessible by wheelchair, including the back rooms where prayer meetings and Young People's Fellowship are held, but there are no disabled toilet facilities other than a support rail in one of the usual size cubicles in both the gents and ladies toilets. As the Sunday evening Prayer Meeting is usually accessed by the side door (up a few steps) we would need to know in advance if wheelchair access is needed, or else you could telephone from a mobile phone when you arrive, so that the front door can be opened for you.

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Membership: We don't have a formal membership system that you need to sign up to. We call someone a "church member" if they regularly attend on Sundays, join a Care Group, and share their gifts and talents with the church by getting involved with other groups and activities.

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