SAFEGUARDING POLICY

The Churches Child Protection Advisory Service, which Richmond Park Church is a member of, has Ten Standards that all of its members must adhere to:

Standard 1 - Organisations should adopt a formal, working safeguarding policy.
Standard 2 - Organisations must develop safeguarding awareness and provide training.
Standard 3 - Organisations should adopt a formal recruitment policy for both paid and voluntary workers.
Standard 4 - Workers, paid and voluntary, should be appropriately managed, supervised and supported.
Standard 5 - Organisations must ensure they adopt safe working practice.

richmondparkchurch.org.uk an evangelical pentecostal church in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, UK

January greeting

I personally must have read verse 12 hundreds of times over the years but even as I type I have been once again struck by those words “take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.”
Have you got it? You and I have been “taken hold of” by Jesus Christ!! Amazing truth for the “born again” believer…. Wow and double Wow!!

One personal reflection about “pressing on”. Way back in my youth when running in Cross Country races and I might add, occasionally since, when running to catch the bus!!! I developed stitch and quite often wanted to stop and give up but discovered that the best course of action was, in the words of a 70’s pop song, to “keep on running” and thus press on towards the winning post or bus stop!

So, if during 2012 you or I are tempted to give up, let’s make sure we “press on” in the clear understanding that the Lord is with us.

Have a good year………

Dave

richmondparkchurch.org.uk an evangelical pentecostal church in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, UK

New Year's Message from Dave

The first month of a new year always presents an opportunity to take stock and to seek to align ourselves to the purposes of God both individually and corporately, so consequently as we search our hearts there are doubtless a number of things that the Holy Spirit prompts us with……the major question is, and always will be,
are we open to allowing the Lord to lead and direct us in the year ahead?

My prayer would be, that the answer to that question is a resounding “Yes!!” and the Bible text that comes to mind is Philippians 3 verse 12 “ Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.” ( I suggest you continue reading verses 13 and 14 as well.)

richmondparkchurch.org.uk an evangelical pentecostal church in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, UK