Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
by Elizabeth Crewes You may be wondering what Open the Book is all about, it is part of the out-reach work of the Bible Society. It is made up of volunteers known as story tellers, who visit primary schools, bringing the Bible to life in an interesting and fun way. The teams are made up […]
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 Member – […]
Read on...by Jay Launius, Maud Church of Christ, Maud, TX I’m left-handed and throughout my life it has been a source of both inconvenience and at times downright difficult. For instance, when I started school as a kid the desk we sat at were right-handed, totally opened on the left side. When I tried to write […]
Read on...Despite two months having passed since the previous Deacons’ Meeting, there was very little on the agenda when we convened again early in September. There is a reason why we take a break from meetings during the traditional holiday month of August. And this being one of those months when the deadline for the newsletter […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball If you have a very good memory, you may remember me writing this in the October 2021 newsletter: ‘INDEPENDENT CHURCH 1848’ is carved into the stonework on either side of the main door of our church building (note my small c) but our Church (capital C) was ‘born’ at the […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball As I type this, our Harvest Supper is scheduled for tomorrow evening but, by the time you read this, it will have taken place and will, I trust, have been enjoyed – although it’s unlikely that there’ll be as many of us as in this photograph. It’s one of the […]
Read on...We’ve had a relatively ‘quiet’ holiday month, without much happening apart from our services of worship, which some (not quite all) of us have very much appreciated; but from September we’ll be getting back to normal in most ways. We’ve solved ‘the pigeon problem’, without draining the Church’s finances, thanks to an extraordinarily generous donation […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball . You have not seen Him, yet you love Him;and trusting in Him now without seeing Him,you are transported with a joy too great for words,while you reap the harvest of your faith,that is, salvation for your souls. 1 Pet i 8,9 NEB At a first reading, that phrase ‘harvest […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball Before writing my newsletter article each month, I routinely check what I wrote that month on the previous three years – trying to avoid, of course, repeating myself too often, which is a particular danger around the time of ‘annual’ events like harvest or advent. Last year I wrote… …to […]
Read on...Those of us who had been fretting over declining attendances were feeling positively reassured when enough members turned out for the July Church Meeting to make a quorum not just under the new rules, but under the old rules too – and this despite the fact that there were still some regular faces missing. It […]
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