Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
by Phil Andrews A little while ago, when “preaching” to a small congregation at the Church (I prefer the term “speaking” in consideration of my relative lack of theological grounding) I gave a 500-word address between hymns on the subject of “Why Do Some Christians Fear Change?”. It is hard to say whether or not […]
Read on...Our November Church Meeting – assuming it is quorate – will be the ‘annual’ meeting at which our Church Members receive the reports from our Church officers and elect our deacons and others who serve our Church in various ways, so all Church Members really should make every effort to be with us in the […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball Immediately before what should have been our Church Meeting last Wednesday evening (aborted because inquorate), I confessed that I didn’t know how to pray for Jerusalem – and I still don’t, even after Mr. Daniel Bark’s excellent presentation during our morning service last Sunday, which put the present conflict into […]
Read on...by Elizabeth Crewes You may be wondering what Open the Book is all about, it is part of the out-reach work of the Bible Society. It is made up of volunteers known as story tellers, who visit primary schools, bringing the Bible to life in an interesting and fun way. The teams are made up […]
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 Member – […]
Read on...by Jay Launius, Maud Church of Christ, Maud, TX I’m left-handed and throughout my life it has been a source of both inconvenience and at times downright difficult. For instance, when I started school as a kid the desk we sat at were right-handed, totally opened on the left side. When I tried to write […]
Read on...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 […]
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