Jesus asked them, ‘Who do you think I am?’ Simon Peter answered, ‘The Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God.’ (Matt 16: 15-16) In one of the weekend papers there is always a celebrity interview where the same questions are asked each week e.g. favourite music, play, book etc. One question is who… Read More »
I wonder if you or someone you know has been impacted by the recent quarantine regulations on return from holiday? How are you feeling? Or how are you feeling about the impact of the recent total and subsequent partial lockdown? Have you/do you feel angry at all? And is it OK to feel like this?… Read More »
‘So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.’ Exodus 1:20. A lecturer (Bob) at college shared a testimony with us from when he was involved in a Christian charity in South America. He got a call from a very distraught man, who lived with his family in… Read More »
During the summer months of July and August our general weekly pattern will be: Monday – Retreat Space for Individuals. … Read More »
Dear All,How the year 2020 has changed!The perfect vision we hoped to have for our programme has been placed into the much more capable hands of God.This is a renewed outlook for the remainder of the year, September to December, please note that this may also be prone to change as we journey on, but… Read More »
I am surprised to think that the school summer holidays begin now. I know for teachers, parents and pupils the anguish they have recently experienced probably makes the holidays seem ludicrous for a variety of reasons. Ludicrously late in coming for teachers and ludicrously unmanageable for working parents and ludicrously isolating and prolonged for pupils… Read More »
Our welcome to Bishop Rose Hudson Wilkin as our new Patron and the licensing for Ray Horton as Lay Assistant Chaplain took place assisted by Archdeacon Jo Kelly Moore, our Core Team and Trustees and a few special guests. We were blessed by worship, sunshine and gazebos, music, flowers, fruit punch, strawberries and ice-cream in… Read More »
‘Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop – a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. Whoever has ears, let them hear.’ Matt 13: 8-9.Gardening has never been more popular. Those of us fortunate enough to have our own garden, large or small, have found ourselves with plenty of… Read More »
In 1 Peter 4:10 we read, “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.” God has given gifts to each of us from His great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God’s generosity can flow through us. How does… Read More »
In many ways I have found myself to be ‘all over the place’ in recent weeks: sometimes grateful and rejoicing, sometimes deeply saddened and lamenting, sometimes questioning, sometimes enjoying the slower pace and sometimes angry or fed up with the whole affair and so on…. As a flawed human being I am not capable of… Read More »