{"id":4302,"date":"2025-01-18T20:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T20:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:50:00","slug":"alpha-course-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/index.php\/alpha-course-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alpha<\/strong><strong> is running at Clincarthill Church<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Explore life, faith &amp; meaning through a series of talks and discussions<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesdays 5th February to 9th April 2025<br \/>\n6.30pm to 8.30pm<\/p>\n<p>Alpha is a course which explores and questions the basics of the Christian faith. It&#8217;s not too late to join us.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s for anyone who is curious and has questions about life or faith.\u00a0 It\u2019s an open and friendly course and you are free to engage in as little or as much as you want.<\/p>\n<p>Each week starts with food, followed by a short video clip and a time for discussion.\u00a0 There is no pressure and absolutely no charge.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to register your place please contact us at:<strong> <em>office@clincarthill.org.uk<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Alpha-is-coming-to-Clincarthill-Church-poster2.pdf\">Alpha is coming to Clincarthill Church &#8211; poster2<\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4304\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/index.php\/alpha-course-2\/alpha-poster-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Alpha-Poster-2.jpg?fit=594%2C841&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"594,841\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Alpha Poster 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Alpha-Poster-2.jpg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Alpha-Poster-2.jpg?fit=594%2C841&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4304\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Alpha-Poster-2.jpg?resize=594%2C841\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Alpha-Poster-2.jpg?w=594&amp;ssl=1 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Alpha-Poster-2.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpha is running at Clincarthill Church Explore life, faith &amp; meaning through a series of talks and discussions Wednesdays 5th February to 9th April 2025 6.30pm to 8.30pm Alpha is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Alpha-logo-3a.jpg?fit=437%2C437&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8z2vw-17o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2575,"url":"https:\/\/www.clincarthill.org.uk\/index.php\/alpha-is-coming\/","url_meta":{"origin":4302,"position":0},"title":"Alpha is coming","author":"admin","date":"16 January 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Thursdays 6th February to 2nd April 2020 6.30pm to 8.30pm Alpha is a course which explores and questions the basics of the Christian faith. 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