Responses to HOME STUDY VIDEO COURSE

The participants of our Home Study Video Course generally express satisfaction with the course. Here are some typical letters of appreciation:

• "How to Make Sense of God is a really present-day approach to Christianity. I had been completely turned off religion. But seeing the videos and reading the book has changed my mind.
  My parents were Christian scientists and stage artists. I worked on a chorus line up, got a job in a circus and performed as a magician and entertainer. I married an ex Seventh Day Adventist and had a daughter. After retiring from the stage, I got a job as a needlework teacher and designer.
  When I saw the video for the first time, I didn't know what to make of it. But I studied the course book, and it helped me a lot. The Incarnation had always been my intellectual problem. No longer so."

  Designer, London

• "I am married and have two children, a boy aged ten and a girl aged seven. I became a Christian about six years ago after a Billy Graham Mission. I attend the Anglican service on Sundays, but neither of my children enjoys going into the church building. The one says he is bored, the other that it frightens her.
  I was attracted to the course because I know the reality of "searching" for God. I feel stimulated to pray, meditate, think and bring the love of God into my family and my place of work. I took this course to learn more about God, and apply the learning to my life.
  I thoroughly enjoyed doing the course. It has really deepened my wobbly faith. I know I am going to refer back to the book often."

  Teacher, Wales

• "My mother was a Catholic, my father an atheist. I was the fourth child of a family of five. My father died when I was six years old and it was at that time that my mother had us all baptised. After my father's death we knew considerable poverty - but we all survived.
  At the age of nineteen, I joined the Army and fought in North Africa and Italy. It was a turning point and made me think deeply about life.
  I appreciated the course very much. It really helped me make sense of God. I will not let the rest of my life drift by."

  Retired, Essex

• "How to Make Sense of God has been an answer to my prayer. I am particularly grateful for these insights: God fills us from within. Love is the clearest manifestation of God's presence. Build on your own experience of God. I am part of a wider reality...... Thank you!"

  Parish group leader, Sussex

• "The course has helped me but also my family. My husband is not a Catholic and has difficulty in believing there is life after death. One of my daughters is a single parent. Another daughter has doubts about the resurrection of Christ. My son feels our Catholic religion is narrow-minded. I am now better able to explain things to them."

  Social Worker, Buckinghamshire

• "After a period of rebellion I'm practicing again. The video is fascinating. The book makes complex questions simple!"

  Teacher, Birmingham

• "As a child I was given a narrow, guilt-ridden concept of the Church and I gave up my faith. I've since come back and doing the course has given me a wonderful sense of the freedom of God!"

  Journalist, Manchester

This course has much to offer. The course book is an intelligible and straightforward outline of the arguments for belief in God, God as the key to happiness. The video film "Journey to the Centre of Love" presents a beautiful, exciting and moving story. But the most important ingredient is our life itself.

• YOU, the participant, bring your own experience of life, your thoughts, your search and your hopes.
• WE, the Housetop team and the Poor Clares, bring our support, our prayer, our own journeys, and our willingness to listen and to share.

Do join us in our journey to God who is the Centre of Love!

At the moment we are only able to offer this course on a normal basis for residents in the UK. We request £ 30 as total fee, unless you are not able to pay for whatever valid reason.

If you reside in the UK and want to enrol in the course, send us your name and address with your first instalment of £10 (or the total fee of £30) by regular post to:

Poor Clare Colettine Community,
Upper Aston Hall Lane,
Hawarden,
CLWYD CH5 3EN.
Tel.: 01244 - 535 732

Please, make cheques out to "Housetop".

You may also register by e-mail here.

If you live in another country and would like to join the course, let us know by e-mail here. We will see whether we can make special provisions.

. . .