Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
by Phil Andrews Those of us who attend services at Isleworth Congregational regularly tend to take the format pretty much for granted. But what might the passer-by, who routinely walks past our Church building on a Sunday morning or evening, think is going on behind our austere, imposing portals? Or for that matter what would […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews A visitor to our Church building some months ago tried to explain to us a concept which his own Church had had some success in pursuing. The word he used to describe it was “circles”. The idea was a relatively simple one. We on the inside of the Church are few and […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews Our January Church Meeting attracted the grand total of four people. Three of them were deacons. Even if my tentative suggestion that we reduce the quorum at Church Meetings from eight to six had been put to a vote and carried, we would still have been inquorate in January. February’s showing was […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews It’s an unusual habit of mine to spend time at my laptop screen listening to polemics issued by people with whom I find myself in profound disagreement. Unusual, because it would surely make more sense to be ingesting material that is sympathetic, but then one learns very little from existing in an […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews Although Church services and events were once again being conducted in the “here and now”, as opposed to from our bedrooms or living rooms via a laptop, there was still some caution in the air, as well as a nasty virus, as the 2021 Annual Church Meeting approached the business of setting […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews These immortal words appeared on the front cover of a recent Church newsletter. They were unqualified, not conspicuously pertaining to any article or inclusion therein. Thus I assumed the slogan to be a space filler, something inserted to occupy a large, empty void which might otherwise have left the reader with the […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews Our parents told us it was so, and how we laughed. How they longed for the days when they and all their many siblings shared one pair of shoes and went to school on alternate Tuesdays, walking home over seemingly endless miles of mountainous terrain to a block of lard and a […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews . What should we make of folks who evangelise on street corners, or knock on doors bringing the Gospel to complete strangers taken unawares as they prepare to eat their evening meal, or settle down to watch the football? Well, one thing that is for certain is that we should not be […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews I became a member of Isleworth Congregational Church towards the end of the previous millennium, having reconnected with the Church following a chance encounter with the then Secretary Pat Burch in the spring of 1998. I say “reconnected”, because I had previously been involved with Isleworth Congregational as a teenager back in […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews It’s a shame that the relatively impressive turnout for our Easter Sunday morning services would appear to have triggered an outbreak of worship-fatigue just at the wrong moment, leaving our pews all but deserted by the time the evening had come around. Those who agree with me that Antony’s sermons typically range […]
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