{"id":28069,"date":"2025-06-15T15:53:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=28069"},"modified":"2025-06-15T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:10:03","slug":"alpha-stay-curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=28069","title":{"rendered":"Alpha: Stay curious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Alpha at The Bell Inn, Ducklington<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nStay Curious<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Are you interested in the Alpha experience?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These Alpha sessions encourage participants to explore the big questions of life and faith in a friendly, open, and informal environment. Everyone is welcome, and no question is too simple or too complex\u2013 all is open for discussion.&nbsp;&nbsp;At this stage we would like to find out how many people are interested in participating at these weekly sessions commencing in September. Please contact your Alpha team if you would like to explore more.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em><strong>Your Alpha team<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:llm3@ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roy Tarbox<\/a> Faith Truran<br \/>\nMeg Roberts <a href=\"mailto:wardens@ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Dines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You can also apply to join via the iKnow App &#8211; click on the 3 horizontal bars<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>section on the bottom right hand side of the screen.&nbsp; Select the Home Groups tab.&nbsp; Select the Alpha 2025 group.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>An ex<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>ample of the Alpha course<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n19:00 Soup and a Roll<br \/>\n19:30 Start of Session<br \/>\nEach Session:<br \/>\nSession 1 &#8211; Is there more to life than this?<br \/>\nSession 2 &#8211; Who is Jesus?<br \/>\nSession 3 &#8211; Why did Jesus die?<br \/>\nSession 4 &#8211; How can I have faith?<br \/>\nSession 5 &#8211; Why and how do I pray?<br \/>\nSession 6 &#8211; Why and how should we read the bible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpha at The Bell Inn, Ducklington Stay Curious Are you interested in the Alpha experience? These Alpha sessions encourage participants to explore the big questions of life and faith in a friendly, open, and informal environment. Everyone is welcome, and no question is too simple or too complex\u2013 all is open for discussion.&nbsp;&nbsp;At this stage&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,20,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-events","category-news","category-requests","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28075,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28069\/revisions\/28075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}