Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
by Phil Andrews The first issue of The Congregational, the bi-monthly A5 community newsletter produced by the Friends of Isleworth Congregational Church, has been distributed to 1,000 dwellings around the locality. My special thanks go out to Bridget and Rayne, who assisted with their delivery. There isn’t a great deal of information that can be […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews A Special Meeting held on July 14th involving Church Members, members of the congregation and guests took the bold step of venturing to imagine the unimaginable – the possible discontinuation of our poorly-attended Sunday evening service and its replacement with new activities which might better reach out to the wider community and […]
Read on...We ought to see how each of us may best arouse others to love and active goodness, not staying away from our meetings, as some do, but rather encouraging one another… Heb x 24, 25, NEB Sadly, no Church Meeting could be held last Wednesday (26th June) as only five of us gathered and the […]
Read on...We reached a quorum – incrementally – at May’s Church Meeting, which was for the best as we concluded what had been a somewhat benign gathering of the few with a hearty discussion about the future of our Sunday evening service. It is no secret that said service has been poorly attended for many years, […]
Read on...by Sally Moody Church Meeting on Wednesday started off as normal…We then went on to discuss a fairly controversial suggestion… that we cease holding evening services…. How do you feel about that? Do you think we should stop having our Sunday evening services? or should we continue to be the only local church that does […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball That image of Christ as the head of the body, the Church, is one to which St. Paul returns over and over again in his letters – it was clearly one of his favourites. In his first letter to the Corinthian Church he comments that “There are varieties of gifts […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews This well-known adage, often erroneously attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, was actually coined in an 1831 speech by Thomas Babington Macaulay, the famed British historian and Whig politician. When the Whigs (the forerunners of the Liberal Party) took office under the leadership of the Earl Grey, Britain was a fractious and turbulent place. […]
Read on...Well Spring has well and truly sprung with all the lovely flowers and blossom on the trees. Apologies for any for whom this brings on hay fever and sneezes. We have also had the variable weather of April, which hopefully will improve and be warmer too. Our meeting on the 6th of April to discuss […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews I was fearing the worst when our much-heralded Brainstorming Meeting on April 6th was about to commence. It had been called to discuss the future and indeed the very survival of our Church, and yet it appeared only five people had felt motivated to attend. And yet, probably no more than fifteen […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball My family very rarely went to Church. We were brought up to respect the Church in some kind of vague, all-embracing way, but we were not a Church-going family. In particular, the great festivals of Christianity ‘left me cold’, as it were. I knew Christmas was about Jesus being born […]
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