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14/02/2016

Connie Fisher meets residents from what has been dubbed Britain's kindest village to discover what motivates their generosity.

Connie Fisher meets residents from what has been dubbed Britain's kindest village to discover what motivates their generosity.

Hymns and music this week

Give Me Oil In My Lamp performed by Nathan Jess and the Congregation of Green Pastures Church, Ballymena.

There's A Wideness In God's Mercy performed by the Congregation of St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich.

Blessed Assurance performed by Beechcroft Choir and the Congregation of New Testament Assembly, Tooting.

Forty Days And Forty Nights performed by the Congregation of Bradford Cathedral.

Who Can Compare With God performed by Graeme Duffin.

We Cannot Measure How You Heal performed by the Congregation of Dunblane Cathedral.

One Way performed by Mikey Powell and the congregation of New Community Church, Southampton.

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  • A.Sevison

    Give Me Oil In My Lamp

    Choir: Nathan Jess and the congregaion of Green Pastures Church. Featured Artist: David Lawrence. Featured Artist: Tim Napier. Featured Artist: David Hamilton. Featured Artist: Gwyneth Reid. Featured Artist: Peter Comfort. Featured Artist: Craig Skene. Music Arranger: Nathan Jess. Lyricist: A. Sevison.

    Composer: A.Sevison

  • Maurice Bevan

    ThereÂ’s A Wideness In GodÂ’s Mercy

    Choir: Congregation of St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich. Conductor: Noel Tredinnick. Featured Artist: William Baldry. Featured Artist: Paul Beniston. Featured Artist: Robin Totterdell. Featured Artist: Nigel Hiscock. Featured Artist: Jon Stokes. Featured Artist: Mark Probert. Featured Artist: Christopher Borrett. Featured Artist: St Mary-le-Tower Choir. Music Arranger: Robert Ramskill. Lyricist: F W Faber (1814-63) altd..

    Tune: Coverdale Composer: Maurice Bevan

  • Scottish Folk Melody

    We Cannot Measure How You Heal

    Choir: Congregation of Dunblane Cathedral. Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright. Featured Artist: Matthew Beetchsen. Music Arranger: John L. Bell. Lyricist: John L. Bell and Graham Maule.

    Tune: Ye banks and Braes Composer: Scottish Folk Melody

  • G.H. Smyttan & Francis Pott

    Forty Days And Forty Nights

    Choir: Congregation of Bradford Cathedral. Conductor: Gordon Stewart. Featured Artist: Alex Woodrow. Featured Artist: Bradford Cathedral Choir. Music Arranger: Paul Leddington Wright.

    Composer: G.H. Smyttan & Francis Pott

  • Paul Robertson

    Who can compare with God

    Choir: Graeme Duffin. Conductor: Paul Robertson. Featured Artist: Graeme Duffin. Music Arranger: Paul Robertson. Lyricist: Paul Robertson.

    Tune: Graeme Duffin Composer: Paul Robertson

  • Frances J Crosby

    Blessed Assurance

    Choir: Beechcroft Choir. Conductor: Ken Burton. Featured Artist: Beechcroft Choir and the congregation of New Testament Assembly, Tooting. Featured Artist: Neil Watson. Featured Artist: Joshua Adgomar. Featured Artist: Floyd Millen. Featured Artist: Stefan Brown. Featured Artist: Adam Kerr. Featured Artist: Paul Johnson. Featured Artist: Melicia Walker. Featured Artist: Jacqueline Ewers. Featured Artist: Paulette Brown. Featured Artist: Veronica Brown. Featured Artist: Marcia McPherson. Lyricist: Frances J Crosby.

    Composer: Frances J Crosby

  • Mikey Powell (Worship Leader) and the congregation of New Community Church

    One Way (feat. Russell Boniface, Sarah Amer, Amy Ward, Chelange Joseph (CJ) Edwards, Ben Reid, Andrew Worsfold, Stephen Evans & Mickey Oldfield)

    Music Arranger: Michael Powell.

    Composer: Joel Houston, Jonathon Douglass

Stories

40 Acts

Connie Fisher meets residents from Congresbury in Somerset, which has been called Britain’s kindest village to discover how faith motivates their generosity.Ìý

To mark the 800th anniversary of their historic church, villagers carried out 800 acts of random kindness, including everything from helping fellow residents with their shopping to painting sheds and public benches.

Connie speaks to Rev. Matthew Thomson, who devised the idea, and villagers to explore what part faith plays in driving this campaign of kindness.

Connie also joins a group of teenagers as they wash a neighbour’s car to learn about the rewards they get from carrying out kind acts and she joins a group of young schoolchildren as they bake a cake as a special surprise for some elderly villagers.

Stop The Traffick

ÌýIt’s estimated that more than twenty thousand people are trafficked into the UK every year by criminals who bind them to a life that they have not chosen and cannot escape from.

Ade Adepitan meets two victims who are trying to rebuild their lives after harrowing experiences with human traffickers.ÌýThe two women explain how their faith has helped them survive their ordeal.

ÌýThey are now being supported by the Salvation Army which operates a network of Safe Houses for victims of trafficking and which provides support and advice for victims or anyone who needs assistance. They run a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week confidential helpline on 0300 3038151

The women are now getting work experience with Rachel Salway, who runs a business making jewellery and selling ethically-produced products.

Graeme Duffin

Graeme Duffin is the talented guitarist in Scottish 90s chart-toppers Wet, Wet, Wet.

He is known for the beautiful guitar harmonies on songs like Love Is All Around but what is less well known is that he has battled to conquer a stammer since the age of seven.

At one time Graeme struggled to say his own name, but now he has his stammer under control. Graeme reveals how teaching on the McGuire Programme gives him the opportunity to extend his Christian faith into helping fellow stammerers tackle the debilitating condition.ÌýÌý

Hymns

  • ÌýGive Me Oil In My Lamp performed by Nathan Jess and the Congregation of Green Pastures Church, Ballymena.
  • There’s A Wideness In God’s Mercy performed by the Congregation of St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich.
  • Blessed Assurance performed by Beechcroft Choir and the Congregation of New Testament Assembly, Tooting.
  • Forty Days And Forty Nights performed by the Congregation of Bradford Cathedral.
  • ÌýWho Can Compare With God performed by Graeme Duffin.
  • ÌýWe Cannot Measure How You Heal performed by the Congregation of Dunblane Cathedral.
  • ÌýOne Way performed by Mikey Powell and the congregation of New Community Church, Southampton.

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Credits

Presenter Connie Fisher
Presenter Ade Adepitan
Series Producer Matthew Napier
Executive Producer Dave Stanford

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