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- The people of HTB have the same pastoral needs as people anywhere. Of course, there are special issues. It is hard to raise a young family in a strange environment if your spouse is traveling all week. Families posted to Brussels cannot draw on traditional family support. Supporting aging relatives back home can be stressful.
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THE WORK OF HOLY TRINITY
HTB currently has 4 services on Sunday: a traditional Holy Communion at 9.00, a main Eucharist at 10.30, a service at 14.00 with a strongly African style and informal worship at 19.00. |
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Helen Walley, as pastoral coordinator, ensures that pastoral needs are met and followed up. A prayer and listening ministry, partly but not only at main services, follow-up to clergy visits, support groups and professional counseling have been developed to help us carry each other’s burdens. |
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Isaac Mensah arrived as a refugee from Ghana and quickly started working among Africans around Holy Trinity. In 2001, after training at St Johns Nottingham, he was ordained for this ministry. His special responsibility is for the English and French speaking afternoon congregation of about 120. Coming mainly but not only from Africa, they give this service a distinctive style. |
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- The biggest challenge to HTB is to evangelise. The Christian churches only scrape the surface of Brussels. Yet on a typical Sunday, at least 6 new “family units” walk through the doors of HTB and attend worship. Of these, 2 stay and become regular worshippers. 1 may find a place of regular worship somewhere else and another may be just passing through from San Francisco, Nairobi or Burnley. The others we may never see again. Evangelism means making a place where those two families stay and find their Christian experience growing.
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- We set a high value on a Biblical teaching and preaching ministry. Mobile people in a sea of change need Christian values, standards and principle to guide their lives. Our ambition is to help them find that.
- Like many other churches, we do not find the recipe for worship easy. We want to provide an environment that helps people worship God. Finding the combination of modernity that does not deny tradition, of proven riches and the experimental, of daily language in all its quality and traditional church usage, is a never ending challenge. We are lucky to have a wide array of talents on which to build.
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