Welcome To St Andrew's Church, Newlands, Cape Town

Our Lent Course this year is ‘Surprised by Hope’- Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection and the Mission of the Church. This course is based on a book by Bishop Tom Wright. Tom Wright has produced a six session DVD course of 20 minutes each together with discussion questions. The course will begin on Wednesday 16th March at 7.30pm in the church.

Tom Wright is the former bishop of Durham. He has recently been appointed as Professor of New Testament Studies at St Andrew’s University in Scotland. He is an outstanding Anglican theologian and author of many books. ‘Surprised by Hope’ is one of his best.

Please sign up for the Lent Course at the back of the church.

Regards
Mike

Discover the Amazing Depths of God's Extravagant Love

In six captivating sessions, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller opens your eyes to the powerful message of Jesus' best-known - and least understood - parable: The Parable of the Prodigal Son.

Esther, like Ezra and Nehemiah, lived during the period when the Persians dominated all of western Asia and Egypt and imposed a high degree of organisation on their vast empire.   Cyrus, their great empire-builder, had permitted exiled Jews to  return to Jerusalem from Babylon in 539 BC (Ezr 1:1-4)  and from then on exiles did go back to rebuild, first their homes, then the temple and later, under Nehemiah, the walls of Jerusalem.   They were a minority, however, and large numbers of Jews remained, scattered throughout the area we now know as Iran and Iraq.