Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
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 […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews It has been many years now since Isleworth Congregational Church first launched its website, but the recent improved version provides us with a whole range of opportunities to reach out into the wider community, as well as to interact with one another at our own leisure, outside of organised Church activities. Just […]
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 Phil Andrews One of the many advantages that a real “live” church meeting has over an assembly held via Zoom is that it enables real debate to take place without the inevitable acoustic issues which arise when more than one person tries to contribute at the same time. Anyone who has tried to actively […]
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