Ministries

Who are we?

The Group official became The Luton G.E.M.S (Gods Energy Moving Souls) in 2018. The Luton G.E.M.S are made up from a collection of young people from NTCG Luton. We are a collection of Worshipers aged 6-35, who came together with the aspiration to glorify God with our Gift and love for dance. Where ever we go to minister our goal is to cultivating the Presence of God thought the leading of His Holy Spirit. 

Prior to become The Luton G.E.M.S the group was called the Worship Warriors. 

Original members:  Taylor, Jahnaya, Ymani, Madison, Charlotte, Leah, Nevaeh Jahstiny, Grace, Nyla, Kayla.

Current member count: Amara, Yanique, Taylor, Courtney, Jahnaya, Ymani, Madison, Jahstiny, Xemyah, Chloe, Grace, Ava, Daniel. 

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Guest Services 

Each person that comes to our church is our guest. Each man, woman, boy, and girl whether a member or not is given the guest experience and is treated with respect and dignity (Hebrews 13:2, Ephesians 2:10)

Guest services is another term for hospitality. Hospitality can be defined as “the quality or disposition of receiving and treating guests and strangers in a warm, friendly, generous way.”

I lead a team of volunteers that work with me to make our guests feel welcome from the door to their seats, throughout the service and treated with respect and dignity. 

I work side by side with the Pastor to ensure our work aligns with the church's vision and values. 

Additionally, Lascelles Williams and I are long standing members of the national usher team that support all national NTCG conventions and Conferences. God bless.

Guest Services Co-ordinator

Beverly Campbell

 

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Pastoral Care Team

   

35 I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me a drink; I was a stranger and you received me in your homes, 36 naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you took care of me, in prison and you visited me.’… 40 The King will reply, ‘I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!’ Matthew 25:35-36, 40 GNT

 

Background

As our church grew it was clear we needed a pastoral care ministry team to support our senior pastor to meet the growing needs of the church community. The Pastoral Care Team emerged under God’s guiding hand. The idea of a pastoral care ministry (PCM) was birthed in 2015, in 2016 further training and studies were pursued and gained. Discussions about having a PCM team started in March 2017, we started with 4 members. On Sunday 9 December 2018, the Luton NTCG PCM Team was officially launched. We currently have 6 members in the team. We developed our mission and vision which supports the main mission and vision of NTCG Luton. We are also members of the Association of Christian Counsellors Pastoral Care UK – 

about pastoral care uk | Association of Christian Counsellors

 

Our Mission

To be a Christian resource for individuals and families in our local church and community in Luton which enables the missional purpose, potential and practice of pastoral care to be developed and practiced.

 

Our Vision

As disciples of Jesus, to see God’s love, expressed in quality relationships and through pastoral care, supporting, healing and restoring individual lives, families and our community.

 

What We Do

Pre-COVID 19 Corona Virus pandemic this is the service we offered the NTCG Luton church family.

 

• Keep in touch (KIT) (by phone/email/post/social media)

• Prayer over the phone 

• Hospital visits

• Nursing home visits

• Home visits

• Lord supper at home

• 1-2-1 pastoral care basic counselling/including signposting

• Debt advice

• Prayer meeting in the home 

• Transportation for medical appointments

• Pick up drug prescriptions

• Arrange annual workshops for church workers, members and friends of NTCG Luton.

• Arrange flowers for the bereaved, discharged following an hospital admission, and for new born babies.

How we deliver ministry has had to change during the pandemic. We have conducted “specific needs” family zoom prayer meetings, as we were no longer permitted to go into the home. We made regular calls to our seniors and sick brethren. We also connected to other services such as Secret Angels and the local Fire and Rescue Service, these services delivered food during the first lock down. During the second and third lockdown we conducted a service needs audit, organised zoom socials for our 65 years and over called “We are together again…Young at Heart”. It was noted that this age group were less likely to attend church during the pandemic. The February event we conducted the Lord supper, it was well received by all those who participated.

See below for an example of one of our posters and zoom social.

Looking forward

In 2021 and beyond, we will continue to walk according to the word in Matthew 25:35-36, 40, Galatians 6:5 and Romans 15:2-3. On a practical level, we intend to: - 

• serve as listed above.

• continue professional development of the PCM Team.

• recruit new members to the PCM Team family. 

• arrange Zoom socials for the 65 years and above “We are together again…Young at Heart” on a regular basis. 

• prepare to minister to the community outside the church walls in a greater way by working with the local government and other care organisations and groups.

 

 

 

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Ambassadors

The Ambassadors team will be a conduit for developing leadership skills and qualities amongst our membership, particularly our emerging leaders. It also forms part of my strategy to grow the church by devolving some appropriate duties and responsibilities.

With this in mind, I present to you S.E.E.K.S. I believe that S.E.E.K.S will provide a guiding principle for the Church but in particular the ‘Ambassadors’ strategy/planning team

S.E.E.K.S (Spiritual, Economic, Education, Kingdom, Social)

At NTCG Luton, we desire that you are equipped to fulfil your destiny.

Spiritual – Teaching is the foundation on which this church is built (Word-based, Holy Spirit led) We believe that the scriptures found in the Holy Bible are God-breathed with authority to instruct believers and bring them to spiritual maturity.

Economic – Creating economic strength through the support and establishment of Christian based businesses and networks. Developing economic stability through job creation, investment learning, entrepreneurship, wealth independence and legacy building. (grow together)

Education – Encouraging our children to excel in their education and to have a ‘no limits’ attitude and approach to what they can attain and achieve. Encouraging our adults to pursue continuing personal development in every area of life. (grow together)

Kingdom – As the ‘called out ones’, representing the Kingdom of God in our civic engagement and contributions. (where people matter)

Social – Impacting and serving the community beyond our four walls. We are to positively impact the world around us. (where people matter)

We desire that people from all walks of life, backgrounds and ethnicities come to know the God of the Bible personally. We desire that people discover their specific purpose and make a positive difference in the world.

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A.S.K Prayer Team

Ask | Seek | Knock – Matthew 7 v 7

The biblical ideal is for prayer to be foundational, not peripheral to everything done in and through the church body (see Acts 1:14; 2:42; 4:31; 13:1-3).

A Great Commission Prayer Ministry will help us create a comprehensive church prayer plan that is:

• Bible-based — Built on biblical prayer principles. Each believer must be careful to participate and teach only biblical prayer and activities.

• Sensitive — To meet diverse cultural, social, and spiritual needs.

• Comprehensive — It includes the personal, corporate, and kingdom components of prayer. Prayer begins to permeate the entire life and ministry of each believer, the church, and the community.

• Evangelistic —  focuses our members on prayer that relates to Christ’s redemptive work throughout the world. Our relationship with Christ overflows in compassionate, intentional witness. Believers learn to pray for and share Jesus with every unbeliever in their sphere of influence.

The A.S.K prayer team was launched on the same day as the Pastoral Care Team, Sunday 9^th December 2018 and is led by

 

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Youth & Discipleship Ministry

We are moving into a time when we need to engage our children, teenagers, and young adults before the world does. In the society we live in, we must question how many opportunities are available for this generation? Can we rely on the educational system to enhance their faith?

It is up to us to take the initiative to create and cultivate an environment for change, progression, and development in all areas of life. How can the skills and experiences we the ‘ADULTS’ have, be shared or passes down?

WE are responsible for the change WE want to see.

This programme was formulated to Educate, Equip and Encourage God's people through His Word. In Love, in Truth and Mercy.

Here at NTCG Luton, we are ‘Word-based, Holy Spirit led; where people matter and grow together.’ As a Youth Department, we do what we can to embody our mission statement. How will we do this?

Equip- We will provide young people with the resources for their continued progression in Christ. We also aim to prepare our young people to know why they believe what they believe, which will help them to confidently defend and share their faith.

‘Dearly loved friend, I was fully intending to write to you about our amazing salvation we all participate in but felt the need instead to challenge you to vigorously defend and contend for the beliefs that we cherish. For God, through the apostles, has once for all entrusted these truths to his holy believers.’ Jude 1:3 TPT

Encourage- We will give our young people moral and Word-based support, that they may have confident hope to retain upright and Godly living in this present age. ‘ And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God.’ Titus 2:12 NLT

‘Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.’

1 Thessalonians 5:11 NIV

Educate- We will teach our young people how to rightly divide the Word of truth, for then they will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

‘Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.’ 2 Timothy 2:15 NIV

‘If you do, you will know what it means to fear the LORD and you will succeed in learning about God.’ Proverbs 2:5 GNB

Youth & Discipleship Director

Amara Nelson