Abertay University Christian Union

A chance to meet other new students and some returning students who might be able to answer some of your last minute questions!

Date: Friday 5th September 2008

Time: 7-10pm

Place: Strathearn School, Belfast

4-5 weeks starting mid June - separate male/female teams. Cost is £1400, but with fund raising it will come!God may want YOU to go! No formal experience required but a heart to serve God important. All training provided.

An amazing opportunity to experience a culture vastly different from the West and one that holds many similarities to biblical times; meet incredibly hospitable and humble people that will rock your media-injected view of ‘Terrorist’ Pakistan.

Contact Peter Mansfield for more info.
Tele: 07859 013179
Email: petemansf@hotmail.com

Coffee Exchange is a modern Christian café in the centre of Dundee set up to be an oasis of peace in a busy city. The friendly staff will make you feel welcome and more than just another customer. The aim of the business is to give all profits to charity. As we want to maximize the potential for profit we are happy to have volunteers help us. A good way for you to help a Christian charity. We are also keen that the premises be used in the evenings and thus the cafe is available for evening hire. The main charity we support is Capstone Projects, a local Christian Trust.

For further details of projects and further information please see our website at www.coffeeexchange.org.uk

Coffee Exchange
20A Exchange Street
Dundee
DD1 3DL
Tele: 01382 509586
Map Location (Click Here)

The Passion is a bold event drama, retelling the last week in the life of Jesus Christ and written by Emmy Award winner Frank Deasy (Prime Suspect 7). The Passion will be shown throughout Holy Week on BBC ONE, drawing to a dramatic climax on Easter Sunday. Joseph Mawle (Jesus), James Nesbitt (Pontius Pilate), Paul Nicholls (Judas), Ben Daniels (Caiaphas), Penelope Wilton (Mary), Denis Lawson (Annas) and David Oyelowo (Joseph of Arimathea) lead the cast in this unique and compelling dramatisation.

Jesus shares his Last Supper with the disciples, and teaches them their last and most important lesson. Whilst Judas slips away to fetch the Temple guards, Jesus leads the disciples to the Garden of Gethsemane and tries to prepare himself for what is to come. The next few hours will bring him face to face with Caiaphas, with Pilate and with his own destiny.

Episode 1: Sunday 16 March, at 20:00 on BBC ONE
Episode 2: Monday 17 March, at 20:30 on BBC ONE
Episode 3: Friday 21 March, at 21:00 on BBC ONE
Episode 4: Sunday 23 March, at 19:30, on BBC ONE

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/thepassion

The Passion is a bold event drama, retelling the last week in the life of Jesus Christ and written by Emmy Award winner Frank Deasy (Prime Suspect 7). The Passion will be shown throughout Holy Week on BBC ONE, drawing to a dramatic climax on Easter Sunday. Joseph Mawle (Jesus), James Nesbitt (Pontius Pilate), Paul Nicholls (Judas), Ben Daniels (Caiaphas), Penelope Wilton (Mary), Denis Lawson (Annas) and David Oyelowo (Joseph of Arimathea) lead the cast in this unique and compelling dramatisation.

Jesus shares his Last Supper with the disciples, and teaches them their last and most important lesson. Whilst Judas slips away to fetch the Temple guards, Jesus leads the disciples to the Garden of Gethsemane and tries to prepare himself for what is to come. The next few hours will bring him face to face with Caiaphas, with Pilate and with his own destiny.

Episode 1: Sunday 16 March, at 20:00 on BBC ONE
Episode 2: Monday 17 March, at 20:30 on BBC ONE
Episode 3: Friday 21 March, at 21:00 on BBC ONE
Episode 4: Sunday 23 March, at 19:30 on BBC ONE

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/thepassion

Resurrection Day is the City of Dundee’s Easter Celebration and will be the largest gathering to celebrate the Easter message in Scotland in 2008! Resurrection Day is being held in the Caird Hall at 7.30pm on Easter Sunday 23rd March 2008. Main speaker for the event will be GEORGE VERWER. For your personal Invite from George (Click Here)

George Verwer is the Founder and former International Director of Operation Mobilisation(OM), which is a ministry of evangelism, discipleship training and church planting. George led OM for over 40 years before stepping down in August 2003. George has a burning concern for vital, propagating and revolutionary Christianity in his own life and in those he meets.

There will be congregational singing, multimedia presentations and music and worship led by VISION

ALL ARE WELCOME! This event is FREE (a freewill offering will be taken at the end).

The Passion is a bold event drama, retelling the last week in the life of Jesus Christ and written by Emmy Award winner Frank Deasy (Prime Suspect 7). The Passion will be shown throughout Holy Week on BBC ONE, drawing to a dramatic climax on Easter Sunday. Joseph Mawle (Jesus), James Nesbitt (Pontius Pilate), Paul Nicholls (Judas), Ben Daniels (Caiaphas), Penelope Wilton (Mary), Denis Lawson (Annas) and David Oyelowo (Joseph of Arimathea) lead the cast in this unique and compelling dramatisation.

Caiaphas is growing increasingly anxious that Jesus’s preaching will provoke unrest and bring in the Romans, and when Jesus appears to threaten the Temple it’s the final straw. As Jesus tries to explain his destiny to the disciples, Caiaphas calls a council and presents it with a stark choice. With Passover approaching, a fateful decision is taken, and Judas finds himself placed in an impossible position.

Episode 1: Sunday 16 March, at 20:00 on BBC ONE
Episode 2: Monday 17 March, at 20:30 on BBC ONE
Episode 3: Friday 21 March, at 21:00 on BBC ONE
Episode 4: Sunday 23 March, at 19:30 on BBC ONE

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/thepassion

The Passion is a bold event drama, retelling the last week in the life of Jesus Christ and written by Emmy Award winner Frank Deasy (Prime Suspect 7). The Passion will be shown throughout Holy Week on BBC ONE, drawing to a dramatic climax on Easter Sunday. Joseph Mawle (Jesus), James Nesbitt (Pontius Pilate), Paul Nicholls (Judas), Ben Daniels (Caiaphas), Penelope Wilton (Mary), Denis Lawson (Annas) and David Oyelowo (Joseph of Arimathea) lead the cast in this unique and compelling dramatisation.

Visually arresting and rich in colour, the story is rooted in the chaotic world in which it took place - the city of Jerusalem during Passover week. Set in the political and religious context of the time, it combines both narrative tension and thematic power to convey the events that took place that week.

The Passion places the audience at the heart of the action by telling the story from three points of view - the religious authorities, the Romans and Jesus. For the first time, all the key players are intimately characterised, with Jesus (Joseph Mawle) at the centre. The drama begins with Jesus’ prophetic entrance through the East Gate, following him to his crucifixion and its startling aftermath.

Jane Tranter, Controller BBC Fiction, says: “The Passion is an example of BBC Drama’s commitment to deliver ambitious and distinctive projects. It is a privilege to be making such a major piece of drama from the brilliant Frank Deasy, directed by Michael Offer (The State Within) with an amazing cast.”

Award-winning producer Nigel Stafford-Clark (Bleak House) says: “The Passion is a gripping, multi-stranded dramatisation of not just the most familiar but arguably the greatest story ever told. Both truthful and simple - it gives it back to the audience in a way that will feel as fresh, contemporary and surprising as if it were happening for the first time.”

Episode 1: Sunday 16 March, at 20:00 on BBC ONE
Episode 2: Monday 17 March, at 20:30 on BBC ONE
Episode 3: Friday 21 March, at 21:00 on BBC ONE
Episode 4: Sunday 23 March, at 19:30 on BBC ONE

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/thepassion/about/

In my first (extended) contribution to this slot on the CU web site, I would like to introduce myself a bit. I’m a second year student at the University of Abertay Dundee, studying BSc Natural Resources Management. I was the President of the Christian Union at Abertay during the 06/ 07 academic year and currently attend The Steeple Church in the city centre.

I have become firmly established in my faith over the last few years and I think it is fair to say that Abertay CU and the wider UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship) movement has been tremendously instrumental in this process. In addition, my strong enthusiasm for the work of sharing the Gospel has been cultivated and emboldened by the mission minded ethos of the the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF).

In my next entry I hope to tell you something of how that enthusiasm for sharing the Gospel has led me into an exciting new avenue.

Robbie