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© 2006 haebea.org.uk
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Welcome to our website.
The Herts and Essex Border Ecumenical Area is the
coming together of the Lea Valley North Methodist Circuit and the
West Essex United Area. It came into being on September 1st 2006.
On this site you will find details of the churches that are part
of the Haebea family. The site is yet incomplete but will be
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In obedience to the call of Christ, we, who have
increasingly shared our Christian life in a variety of
ways over recent years, now feel a need to show our love
for God and one another by a more formal commitment to
grow together in doing His will. |
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We confess our Faith in One God, |
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The Father, Creator, |
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The Son,
Jesus the Christ, our Lord and Saviour, |
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The Holy Spirit. |
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We rejoice in the riches of the traditions we have
inherited and seek to share them more fully with one
another in the unity, which is the will and gift of God. |
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We seek a deepening of our communion with Christ and
with one another and repent of all that is sinful in our
past histories and present attitudes. |
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We covenant to seek visible and organic unity, even
though in our pilgrimage together we cannot foresee the
form it will eventually take. |
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We therefore make the following Mission Statement as our
commitment to God and each other. |
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This Ecumenical Area is called by God to encourage and
inspire its churches and denominations to work together,
support one another in love, fellowship and leadership
through a Christ-centred life, and so enable the
churches to use their spiritual, financial and material
resources to further the Christian witness in their
communities and the wider world. |
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