September 2023 by Samantha Vowles
Such an amazing church welcomed me with open arms around 2 and a half years ago and really do include me as part of the family. Really relaxed and friendly atmosphere everyone talks to everyone, amazing presence of God at every meeting and service, very loving caring pastor and wife/ associate pastor with an incredible worship team, really diverse group of people from lots of areas some travelling quite a way to attend every week. Always have a cup of tea or coffee with some biscuits after the service every week so we get to fellowship with eachother, new members get appointed someone to go through a nurture course with them which happens after the service in the office area which has lovely and comfy leather chairs and a sofa to relax on while talking through it. Our associate pastor is also the principle of livingway academy the local bible college in tonypandy, located at the top end of tonypandy in a building called the ark opposite the library and just down the road from home bargains, amazing place with true biblical teaching again so so friendly with people from all over the place attending and some attending by correspondence from far away countries! Very interesting topics I promise you will be gripped from the moment you sit down! There are 3 one year courses that can be attended the first year being 2 days a week with an optional free morning course on the 3rd day and the second and third years being one day a week with an optional morning course on a second day with a very reduced fee, graduating with a diploma at the end of each academic year in each of them, and there are also 2 six month long courses done every year on a Thursday morning 10-12.30 on various topics also graduating with diplomas at the end of the academic year. Search livingway academy tonypandy for more information, prices or just to talk through what it entails, you definitely won't be disappointed! Everyone welcome regardless of age or circumstances they will try their absolute best to cater for everyone, students that currently attend vary from age 30s to 70s and from various churches, the vision of the college is to equip each person that attends with the knowledge and tools they need to live according to God's will and to bring glory to God as well as give us the tools we need to be able to fight the spiritual fight that goes on and more than anything to give each person a better deeper understanding of God's word so that we can have an even closer relationship with him. You will learn so so much and will be in even bigger awe with how truly incredible our God is! Anyone struggling with who they are or what their purpose in this life is come along to this church and find out who your creator is and how much he truly loves you! Come and get to know who God is, how he will love and protect you as his child, how he will provide for your needs, how even when you didn't know him he loved you so deeply that he couldn't bear the thought of not having a relationship with you, or the thought of you not being with him in heaven so sent his only son to earth to take on every sin you have ever or will ever commit and to take the punishment for it, to take on the shame and guilt of it, to die for it and defeat it. Jesus did that for every single one of us! His resurrection means that we can be reconciled to God and have a relationship with him no matter what we did in our past, once we turn to him and acknowledge that we know he made us and everything else, we believe in Jesus and what he did for us and that he died and was resurrected and we ask God to guide our lives because we can't do it on our own without him we are accepted as a son or daughter of his and we are cleared of all the things of the past and made a new creation in Christ. The Holy spirit comes and lives inside of us to help guide us through the things of life and to be the way we can communicate with God, even when we can't put into words what we feel or what we need the Holy spirit inside of us communicates it all to God. Your life can be totall
