Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
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 […]
Read on...by. Rev. Antony W. Ball …they were afraid as they entered the cloud, and from it came a voice‘This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to Him.’ Lk ix 34b,35 NEB “Listen to Him.” You can’t get a much simpler instruction than that. Peter, James and John were witnessing an extraordinary event – the transfiguration1. […]
Read on...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 Jeff Asher The history of the church at Troas is sketchy. Very little is known except what we read in Acts 20:7-12. Evidently Paul established this congregation near the end of his third preaching journey (2 Cor. 2:12). At some point they had an evangelist who worked with them by the name of Carpus […]
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