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POIROT SOLVES THE MYSTERY OF LIFE Actor David Suchet has solved many mysteries playing the part of the quick-thinking Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, created by author Agatha Christie. But when he was in Norwich recently he revealed how he had solved life's greatest mystery of all.ACTRESS FINDS ANSWERS EastEnders actress Melanie Clark-Pullen has been helped to find her own answers to some of life's big questions by a Christian Alpha course she attended recently.
A STARRY CHRISTMAS Find out what actress Kathy Staff, alias Nora Batty from Last of the Summer Wine and top international golfer Berhard Langer think is the real meaning of Christmas.
THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD Steve Mawston takes a new look at the real Christmas story by asking you to put yourself in God's shoes for a moment.
NURSE SET FREE FROM PRISON NIGHTMARE A holiday in Israel ended up as a nightmare in an Egyptian prison cell for Norwich nurse Gerry Bowdren earlier this year. While on holiday, Gerry, 33, decided to go for a walk in the desert and accidentally crossed the border with Egypt. He was promptly arrested on suspicion of spying. Discover how the word of God set him free.
FAITH HELPED BATTLE AGAINST CANCER Four years ago the record-breaking entertainer Roy Castle put on one of his last ever performances at the Theatre Royal in Norwich before he died of lung cancer. Earlier this year his widow Fiona Castle told an audience at Meadow Way Chapel in Norwich how God had helped her and her family through the experience.
LIGHT OF THE WORLD The Christian churches are to spend £7 million to provide every household in the country with a candle and poem for Millennium Eve. Revellers will be asked to stop the music and put down their drinks at two minutes to midnight before lighting the candles and reading the short spiritual resolution.
FINAL CURTAIN CALL After 23 years service, Theatre Royal chaplain and vicar of Norwich's St Peter Mancroft church, Canon David Sharpe, has taken his final bow.
NORWICH CHURCH HELPS ORPHANS The plight of children in a freezing Romanian orphanage so touched a group of men from Surrey Chapel in Norwich that they loaded up a van with a complete central heating system and drove hundreds of miles to install it.
WORKING WITH STREET CHILDREN Mulbarton rector's daughter Ellen Stubenbord spent three months recently working with orphaned street children in Guatemala. She writes of her experiences with the Christian charity Toybox.
COUPLE SPREAD HEALTH WORD Norwich GP Nick Henwood and his family have given up a comfortable life in Norfolk to spend five years developing a community health care programme in a village in the mountains of Nepal.
PROSTITUTE RESCUED FROM STREETS Young, fresh-faced and with a purpose in life, the future looks bright for Charlie. She has a home of her own and marriage is on the horizon. But until last year, Charlie knew only shame and hurt, trapped in a desperate cycle of drugs and prostitution, that was until she met the Magdalene Group where she received the love and acceptance she craved.
FOOD AID FOR BULGARIA Churches in Norwich have led an initiative to get desperately needed supplies of food to the starving people of Bulgaria this winter. Over 500 boxes have been filled with essential food items, packaged up and sent by road to the former East European country where an estimated 300,000 people died of starvation last year.
FIELDING QUESTIONS OF FAITH South African international cricketer Jonty Rhodes is often called the world's best fielder. After he scored a century for his national side at Lords cricket ground in a test match against England this summer, he was asked, "Who has been your biggest influence?" His answer was surprising for some: "Jesus is my role model," he said. "I get my strength from my Christian faith and it helps me to do my best when playing."
TACKLE FESTIVE STRESS Help for families and individuals from St Faiths Trust.
TO FIND OUT MORE Christmas is a time for presents, tinsel and turkey. But is that all there is to it, or is there something more? Why should people still be celebrating the birth of a baby who was born 2000 years ago in the Middle East? Who is Jesus, why do so many people get excited about him and why did he have to die? If you would like the answers to some of these questions without any strings attached then send a SAE (at least 5" x 8") to receive a free booklet by Nicky Gumbel entitled Why Christmas? Write to The Editor, Good News for Norwich, 48 St Giles Street, Norwich, NR2 1LP.
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