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Vicar's Letter for May 2008

A New Logo
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Tony our vicar

 

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Our new logo
New Logo - New Vision

As you can see we now have a new logo for the church. We hope that this will remind us of a number of things each time we see it.

Firstly and most importantly that the Cross is at the centre of the logo and the Cross is to be at the centre of our lives and our church. Our church has the ‘Mission Statement',

‘To be disciples of Christ to make disciples for Christ'.

This is an excellent focus for our lives and for our church, and is impossible without Christ and the Cross being at the centre of our lives. He must come first in all that we do. We may have disagreements, or hurts from time to time, but with Christ at the centre, His love will continue to bind us together and lead us forward. We must always uphold the Cross of Christ in all that the church does, whether our preaching, or our building. He must be central.

Secondly it is a united logo, each letter of CCP is combined with the others and we need to realise that we are united together in a common vision and purpose to share the good news of Jesus and to bring men, women, and boys and girls into a real knowledge of Jesus as their personal Saviour and Friend. We pray that CCP will grow in unity, love and grace as we work together for the extension of God's Kingdom.

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Thirdly, we have introduced the new logo to run alongside the new ‘5-year plan' which was agreed by the PCC and brought to the APCM last month. We pray that the logo will remind us that there are things which God has called us to and we need to move into His future for us. These include every area of church life, from cell groups to Church House and the Daughter Church. We hope and pray that every organisation within the church will adopt the logo as part of their publicity and ‘corporate image'. We would like this logo to be seen on everything we do, so that even without the name ‘Christi Church Pennington, people will begin to associate it with us, though we don't think it will ever be as well known as the Nike  tick ( ü). If you are involved in church activities and would like to use the logo, then please  talk to Alan Philips about using the logo in your work and download the graphics from the web site.

Fourthly and finally that it is ‘to pass away'. We have adopted this for 5 years, and maybe a little longer if all goes well, but  it reminds us that we must not get so attached to natural things, whether a logo, an organisation or even a building, because in God's time each will pass away, some sooner, and others later. HE alone is constant; the older I get the more I realise this, everything is passing, but God remains the same, as the psalmist says, ‘a thousand years in Thy sight are like yesterday when it passes by' and again, ‘You remain the same and your years will not come to an end'. (Psalm 102:27) Let the logo remind us that the only constancy we have is Christ alone ‘faith, hope, love remain, but the greatest of these is love'. (1 Cor. 13:13)

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