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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 […]
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 […]
Read on...by Elizabeth Crewes The weather was dry and bright, a good omen, the Lord blessed the venture; as the days either side were very mixed with cloud and rain. Chairs were placed in the grounds of St. John’s with social distance respected, the sound system was plugged in and a run through of the hymns […]
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