DNA Dream Team

Some photos from Sunday, Nov 26th.....

Entrance to St Mary's Church & a church building filled with the dream team!











Autumn leaves and the gravestones surround the church

Charity, Joel and Matt singing praises to God.

Celebrating B'days!


This weeks theme was God's Dream Team. The question was for us to ask is, how as the DNA family do we become God's dream team.

Faith! Private or Public?

Read Sunday sermon (Nov 19, 2006) :

The year of the Lord's favour

November 19th at the Arts Centre

The empty St Mary's Church was filled with DNA folk at 10.30a.m... Coffee and buns...Matt and Joel and the colourful young people worshiped God in various ways.
(note Matt lending a shoulder to his younger brother Joel!)

This Sunday DNA will meet in the Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street at 10.30am.
For those concerned about cleanness, we have asked for cleaning to be done and we have also bought a new, clean, transportable carpet for children to play on. However, to ensure a clean floor, we'd welcome helpers to arrive from 9.00 am to mop if necessary! Please email back if you intend to help.

>>> Colchester Arts Centre (double click to enlarge the map)

For those sad about leaving St Martin's, don't worry! Sacred Space continues at St Martin's at 7pm with hot water bottles available, and hot chocolate to close!

Later on we hope to plant a Sunday afternoon worship event there.

We'll certainly be at St Martin's on Christmas Eve for Carols, Candles and Coats.

Men and Curry go well!

Photos from the DNA Mens Curry Night held on Friday, 10th November.







It was a good time to meet each other, crack a joke and feast on some spicy curry.

There was also an opportunity to hear about the PP Project and a Nundi project update.

Singing Psalms...

Each candle represents a prayer for someone

Singing from the Psalms was the theme for the Sunday service

Charity singing a beautiful song ' I lay my life upon you' which she wrote couple of weeks ago in her garden.

Christine sharing all the good news from her visit to the U.S

(Photos from the DNA Sunday service, 5th November 2006)

Mens' Curry Night!

Fancy a Curry?

DNA is holding a curry night on Friday the 10th November at 52 Wellesley Road Colchester (Dave Beales house) from 7.00pm

All welcome (as long as you’re a man!!)


It will be a great time for us men to all catch up over some good food.

Donation of £3.50 will be appreciated or whatever you can afford.

For further details call Jon Mulvey on 01206 241481

Fun and activity...Sunday October 29th

Next Light Saver Sunday

Samuel's Light Saver Invitation to all.
Come and in us at DNA next Sunday 10.30 a.m at St. Martins.

The theme is Superheroes and Princesses. A chance for the children to come dressed as their favourite superhero or princess.

• Music from Identity Band
• Welcome and community game
• Story of Superhero Mordecai and Esther the Queen
• Craft activity: make a gift and learn a positive reply to "Trick or Treat" visitors
• Prayer time on the Parachute

We will also be inviting some response about whether to continue to use St Martin's now that winter is approaching.


In Brightlingsea, Blue Moon Cafe will be a Light Party at St James' Hall at 4.00pm. Designed with all the family in mind, Blue Moon will include...

• Hot dogs and doughnuts
• Bouncy castle
• Chilled music
• Creative activities focussing on the Light of Christ
• The Parable of the Pumpkin

'Sacred Space' will take place at 7pm at St Martin's to include contemplation and communion with opportunity for healing prayer

Enjoy your lie-in, if you can!! And be sure to "rug up" warmly for St Martin's!!

The Africa Evening

The Africa evening it takes place at Rosemary cottage in Chappel on November the 2nd at 7.30 we will provide a two course African meal with a glass of wine thrown in ( not literally ) for £3.50.
I shall do a small talk about a heart for Africa and there will be a chance for people to purchase African items made in the townships such as Jewellery and Cards. If anybody can really not Afford the £3.50 they are still welcome.

Contact: Penny Pancaldi
Email: info@aheartforafrica.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 1787 223041
Web: http://www.aheartforafrica.com/index.htm

Spiritual Discipline: REST

Photos from Sunday 22nd October...

Communion Table: A place of rest because of the cross

Caroline showing us how to take life easy and find rest

Coffee and Cake at DNA helps to relax

Pray for Tim to have good rest and get better soon!

Reuben after Mc Church

DNA Family from many nations

American friends...

Chrissy, David & Lacey

Chrissy with Dave & Janie

Please pray for Chrissy as she is currently looking for further financial support to enable her to come to England to work for DNA next year in January and in May.

What a wonderful summer @ DNA...

Autumn is finally setting in, but we have some wonderful memories from summer. Remember the heat of July? Remember those great wedding celebrations? Pool parties? Here's a few shots of DNA summer 2006....

Photos by the amazing Hannah Carr

Ladies Wind Down Time!

Sundays @ 10:30am (New Starting Time)

Sunday October 8th

DNA Church@ 10.30am

Please note the new time for this Sunday!! We have had requests to start and finish earlier so that people can get children home in time for some lunch.
Families, please bring children to St Martin's for 10.30 this Sunday. Michelle, Sandy and team will then walk up to "McChurch" a little later.

The minibus will arrive at the university at 10am at the North Tower Car park.
The transport and set-up team will need to get the PA gear into St Martin's for 9am.
Hospitality team will need to start set-up at 9.45am.

Harvest Sunday...Lot's of Food!

Sunday, September 24th

Harvest Festival
This Sunday we will bring and share lunch together.

DNA will provide paper plates and plastic knives and forks. Please bring some food to share, if you are able.

We've also being invited to donate foods and toiletries to Beacon House which serves the homeless people of Colchester. When you do your weekly shopping could you buy an extra item or two to add to our gift?

After lunch we will have an informal meeting to discuss the details of DNA's Vision and Sunday activities.

During the worship there will be presentations about various Mission Unit Teams.
Three weeks ago we read the story of the blind man who was touched by Jesus twice.
First time he saw men like trees walking second time his vision was perfect.
We want to sharpen our vision in order to do Jesus's mission well!

Praising God in the Town

St. Martin's at 10:35a.m
10:45a.m transformed by DNA
Our Special Children
Although the surroundings look dark...

...the smiles light up the place

(Photos from DNA Sunday service at St. Martin's Church (West Stockwell street) ~ September 17th 2006)

DNA @ St Martins Church

Just to let you know what's happening at DNA in St Martins Church over the next few weeks:-

Wednesdays from 10am till 11am
Prayer Time for DNA, Colchester and beyond

Sundays from 10.30am till 1pm
Our usual Sunday Morning Worship event

Sunday evenings 7pm till 8pm
Sacred Space (a quiet time of listening to God) (not suitable for young children)

These events are open to all if you are free at any time please call in we would love to see you.

DNA Networks, August 2006

Some changes over the next few weeks and months…

Change of VenueFrom the first Sunday in August we will be meeting in St Martin’s, West Stockwell St. We were there for Christmas carols, and we have booked the venue for the three months up until the clocks go back in late October. Park where you can! Whether we stay at St Martin’s depends on heating issues! There is also the possibility of having access to Maldon Road chapel for a few months from November.

Changes to Financial freedom Up until now, DNA Networks had loans to pay from 2001 and 2002 when income did not meet expenditure. These loans will be entirely paid off by the end of July. Hooray! So the trustees have agreed that we can forward funds to others we have sent out to start up church plants. The initial plan is to send £300 a month as a church to the Coreas for the Thailand project and £200 a month to John Jiang for the Shanghai work. What do you think?

People ChangesThe autumn is usually a time of grief in DNA when we send away people we have grown to love and appreciate. We expect that 2006 will be no different. The GAP year is finishing for Rosie, Joe and Dave, who all expect to go off for further study in different places. Others will be leaving after finishing their studies in Colchester. So we’ll be sad again!!

However, our grief is softened because we know that we are sending out people for God’s purposes all over the place- this summer we’ve been able to welcome back several from overseas and nationwide; it’s great to see them!

From Lauingen With Love comes Sandy Vorwerk to spend a year with us as ministry intern. Sandy is 24 and speaks excellent English; she has great enthusiasm for connecting people to God and she loves children. She will arrive in September. Please welcome her warmly and get to know her as you can.

Changed Priorities Ahead...
With the changes to people and venues will also come the need for all of us who have been around for a couple of years or more to participate in teams to grow forward and extend our mission locally More about this later. We have never had greater opportunities!! Jesus said, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field.” Matthew 9, 37-38