Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
by Ron Hutchcraft If you’d seen the front lawn of our office, you wouldn’t have been able to tell that there had been a change inside. The only evidence of that was that there was an uncustomary pile of shattered sheetrock in this big lump in the yard. The changes were on the second floor […]
Read on...by Donald A.G. Burling Have you ever seen a picture of an old man with a flowing beard, holding a scythe and an hour glass? This image of “Father Time” used to be quite common, particularly around the New Year. It is in fact derived from representations of the Roman god Saturn, the father god […]
Read on...Two contributions this month – as our diaconate has substantially changed. Firstly, from our ‘retiring’ deacons… In many ways this page is going to be a thank you and a welcome. Firstly a thank you to Jemima for representing our church at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Clock Tower on the 14th November. Last […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews As we began to draw the curtains on the extraordinary year that was 2020 we continued to yo-yo between restrictions which prevented us from attending church and restrictions which allowed us to do so but with sundry caveats applied. The Annual Church Meeting which takes place each and every November didn’t take […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball Before I retired from teaching, I used occasionally to come across boys who assumed that ‘Jesus’ was his Christian name and ‘Christ’ his surname – those were the days, of course, when ‘Christian name’ was still synonymous with ‘forename’, as it was taken for granted that ‘everybody’ was Christian. “Those […]
Read on...I hope you all remembered to put your clocks back last night and enjoyed an extra hour in bed? At the very end of September we celebrated the gift of God’s bounty with our harvest service, we gave tinned goods to the local food bank and a cheque to The Disaster Emergency Committee to help […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball …to all who did receive Him, to those who have yielded Him their allegiance, He gave the right to become children of God… Jn i 12 (NEB) Last Wednesday evening, our Church Meeting asked me to write an article for our newsletter on what it means to be a Church […]
Read on...by Donald A.G. Burling “I am the Lord thy God . . . Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” So begin the Ten Commandments given through Moses to the people of Israel just escaped from slavery in Egypt. Yet within a few weeks of receiving this command they were resorting to the kind […]
Read on...The end of September… soon to be the beginning of October. Back end my dad used to call it. Autumn, the end of the year approaching with cooler weather. This has been a busy week and weekend. We held our church meeting on Wednesday in the hall which was quorate … so thank you to […]
Read on...by Donald A.G. Burling I recently listened to a reading of Luke chapter 2, and it occurred to me that this must be the best known chapter in the Bible. Millions of people have heard, at church or at school, the story of the Roman census, the journey to Bethlehem, the lack of room in […]
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