The Christadelphians or Brothers and Sisters in Christ are a community of lovers of God, who follow the teachings of the Nazarene Master Teacher Jeshua, better known as Jesus Christ, the Messiah.

As followers of the Jewish man from Nazareth, we are aware that Jesus him being a Jew, worshipped the God of Israel, and asked to do his followers to do so too. That God of Abraham is a Singular Eternal Spirit Being, no man can see. Jesus did not come to earth to undo the Law of God or the Torah. He came to explain it and to show the Way to God. Therefore, we take the words of Jesus seriously as an indication of how to continue our life on the path laid in front of us by this rabbi, and keep to the Law of God, God and His son their teachings and wishes, instead of keeping to human doctrines.

Jesus preached love for all creatures of God, and that is why we find it necessary not only to show and share that love for the whole of creation (earth, plants, animals and human beings), but also to come up for the weaker ones and to help and defend those in need.

In case you are looking for making your life easier or want to know more about the present and the future and our position in the whole picture or Plan of God, then you are right at our address.

Even when you are not sure about the existence of God, you are welcome to join us at our meetings and Bible Classes. We also provide printed material which you are welcome to read and to question us about. Any time of the day someone shall be willing to help you with your questions or solving your problems.

At our ecclesiae we have meetings for studying and worshipping but also moments of gathering and sharing good time and food. Also, at those events you are very welcome.

In Wintertime, we also provide shelter for the night, in certain towns, for the homeless people. Waifs and strays are also welcome at our food supplies.

But our main occupation in the ecclesia is the provision to glorify God and praise Him with a merger in prayer and Bible reading in the unity of spirit.

For those gatherings, where they may take place (Leuven, Leefdaal-Bertem, Tervuren, Brussels, Nivelles-Nijvel, Mons or Newbury), we invite you to join us and to feel the spirit of our brotherhood.
In Belgium, we are financially very limited and do have no building of our own. We have to rent spaces and  also use private houses, making house-church. For that reason it is not possible to offer set days and hours for our meetings. In Newbury, it is different. There our brethren and sisters have their own hall and offer services on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with regular events on different days as well. Never be afraid to contact them or us to have further contact or to know about their and/our activities.

For the Carelinks (like the Antwerp Ecclesia) and Old Paths Christadelphians you shall have to contact them. We as Free Christadelphians are not bounded to any person or organisation and could be considered being part of the more progressive branch of Christadelphianism, having liberated ourselves from all boundaries of this world, only to be bounded to the sent one from God, the son of God, Jeshua, Jesus Christ.

One of us might have a strength in one area and another might be strong in another. We believe that when we can join hands to make ourselves stronger. We are convinced that when we come together in union, we all benefit and are made into the image of Christ.

We believe that all can help each other to grow in the Body of Christ, becoming more like Christ, pure and set apart. Coming together we give each other the opportunity to learn more about the Word of God, by sharing and discussing that set apart or holy Word. Together we can help each individual around us, to become part of a bigger unit, able to be compassionate, gentle, and to have a great capacity for mercy and forgiveness.

When coming to our ecclesia you should not be afraid that people would look at you as a strange intruder, because nobody would. Nobody shall go to point to the faults of yourself or others. Instead, you may find we try to use the strengths the Lord has given us to build up the body of Christ. We all have faults, and we all have gifts, and they are meant to work together. We all go for the same primary goal, to grow in the spirit according to God His Wishes, and to form a strong unit in the Body of Christ. By the influence of our fellowships you and we can have our character transformed.

At our ecclesia or church, we are people who want to share the hope in a better world. To reach that goal we know we have to start by ourselves and our own surroundings. We hope to inspire each other in our community of believers in Only One True God, but also to encourage those outside our community, to work at a relationship with Jesus, because when we seek him and not this world, he will teach us, and we will grow in all good things. A lot of this process is done through our brethren and sisters, who are here also for you!

 

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Please find also to read:

Lovers of God, seekers and lovers of truth

Words in the world

Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture

Who are the Christadelphians

Who are Brothers in Christ and why do they call themselves Christadelphian?

Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews

Brothers and sisters in Christ for you

History of the Christadelphians

John Thomas

Forming a Christian bond

About the Belgian Free Christadelphians

Those who call the Christadelphians a cult

What Christadelphians teach

Differences between Christadelphians and other churches in Christianity

Handbook to the Christadelphian Statement of Faith

Living as a believer in Christ

Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them

My faith

Becoming brothers and sisters in Christ

Christadelphians children of God

Gathering or meeting of believers

What and why Christadelphian Ecclesia‘

The Ecclesia

The ecclesia or Christadelphian church

The Ecclesia in the churchsystem

Intentions of an Ecclesia

Reasons to come together

Congregate, to gather, to meet

Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships

What makes a consecrated Christian

Small churches of the few Christadelphians

Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other

A participation in the body of Christ

Looking for Christadelphian in your neighbourhood

C4U (Christ For You – Christadelphians For You)

Guide to Christadelphian Ecclesias

Adresses of Brothers in Christ Worldwide

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A marvellous Summer ending

We do hope you enjoyed a lovely holiday or that you still may come to enjoy a great period of rest and tranquillity without worries.

Who would not love the Summertime, having more time for oneself, not having to go to work, not having to face the daily traffic jams, etc. Having more time to be connected with the beauties our divine Creator provided for us.

This year we did have a Summer like a Summer has to be, though it might have been a little bit to dry, but in any case we looked at lovely temperatures and dry periods which made many of us had less pain.

The summer months in the northern hemisphere have produced some remarkable weather. The UK has experienced a prolonged heatwave, including its hottest June day ever and (perhaps surprisingly for the rather damp UK) water companies have been imposing restrictions on usage. The heatwave in the UK however is nothing compared to the extremely high temperatures experienced in Southern Portugal and Spain, where the continental record of 48 degrees centigrade (set in Athens in 1977) was almost broken.

After a Spring which was very abnormally warm in the centre of the country (Uccle weather station), and normal for the rainfall total, the precipitation frequency and the duration of sunshine, the Belgians could be happy to see more sunshine in 2018.

In Belgium the warm temperatures, a few times going over the 30°С (86°F), could be appreciated and gave the tourism industry on the Belgian coast a boost. At the coast and in the Kempen (Campine) they definitely welcomed such a climate having many more day tourists. By the end of July the Tourism Provincial office of Westtoer pointed the last figures to reach 3.5 million tourists having been to the Belgian coast last month. The hotels have been up to 90-95% of their full capacity. But other hosting infrastructures, such as camping or motels have also benefited from the high summer temperatures.

Waarden/Values

juli 2018 July

Normalen 1981-2010* Normaly

Gemiddelde Temperaturen – average temperature
average maximum temperature
average minimum temperature
minimum of the month
maximum of the month

22.0°C
27.4°C
16.2°C
12.5°C
35.4°C

18.4°C
23.0°C
14.0°C
9.3°C
30.7°C

days > 20°
Summerdays
heat days

30 d.
26 d.
4 d.

22.6 d.
9.7 d.
1.8 d.

Precipitation: quantities
precipitation days
storm days (in the country)

 

49.7 mm
5 d.
16 d.

 

73.5 mm
14.3 d.
13.2 d.

 

Relative humidity
average vapor pressure

54 %
13.6 hpa

74.0 %
15.5 hpa

Air pressure

1016.0 hPa

1016.3 hPa

Wind

2.9 m/s

2.9 m/s

Sunshine duration

298.2 u.

200.7 u.

In the north they always can be happy to have lots of sunshine in the Summer, but this year it was exceptionally dry and warm. For the Danes several records have been broken. According to the Danish Meteorological Institute, May 2018 had the highest average temperature ever recorded for the month, beating the old record by 1.2 °C (2.2 °F) (recording began in 1879), the highest number of sunny hours recorded in the month (recording began in 1920), the highest temperature recorded in Copenhagen in the month (recording began in 1879), and it was the driest May in a decade.
In the South of Europe the yearly wildfires brought lots of misery to many families. According to the European Drought Observatory most of the areas affected by drought are across northern and central Europe. {“The record breaking heatwave that is gripping northern Europe”. Euronews. 19 July 2018.}

For many Australian families there was not much to go up in fire, because all the grass was gone. The west and the north of Austria have been hit so hard by the drought because certain areas in these regions have experienced up to 85% less rainfall than the 10 year average. Insurance companies estimate the damage as high as 210 million euro.

Elsewhere, Japan’s unusually high temperatures have resulted in over 100 heat-related deaths, wildfires rage ceaselessly in drought-ridden areas such as Greece and California, and the entire state of New South Wales is officially in drought.

We can not ignore the global warming.It is really getting time people become more aware of their impact on climate by their continual defiling of mother nature.

Whether or not these weather patterns are to be viewed as a sign connected with latter-day events is difficult to say, but there is no doubt they are yet another problem facing mankind which he finds extremely difficult to address.

In any case every Christian should try to respect nature and to have a small ecological footprint. Each of us should take his own responsibility.

This year we also shall spend some time to look at the enormous waste of plastic and in our Mons ecclesia we decided for certain coffee machines to use machine washable refills instead of the throwaway capsules. In Leefdaal we use already for years the recycled-paper filters. For the meeting place in Leuven we have a bigger problem, because our host of our most used meeting place, having stopped giving the service, the place now being changed to Burger King and Starbucks, which mean we have to look for a new meeting place.

Soon the new academic and church-year starts again. Because of loosing our meeting place in Leuven at the service station Heverlee-Leuven, it can take some time before we shall know where we are going to have our Sunday afternoon service in that region. For the Sunday morning service we are pleased we still can count on brother Steve his place and afterwards some nice restaurants to have our lunch together.

For a Saturday morning service we have our hopes at our office, brother Marcus providing his living-room in Leefdaal.

For the meetings at the service station in Nivelles we do not see any problem and do hope we shall be able to count on that place for some long time.

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