Decorating work

In our continuing desire to improve the facilities we are able to offer local people, we have recently begun work on decorating the children’s room. We began to clear the room of furniture and put down cardboard to cover the flooring: The first job was to make...

Fit for purpose

Goods ‘fit for purpose’ are ‘well suited for their designated role or purpose.’  The chillies we have been lovingly tending since October last year have provided us with endless amusement and spiritual enlightenment, but if the proof of the...

Good intentions

There is a proverb which says ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions.’ It perhaps echoes Jesus’s words about the narrow and wide roads in Matt 7:13-14: ‘Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that...

Embrace the everyday

I am currently reading Eugene Peterson’s study on Jeremiah ‘Run With The Horses’ and in that book came across a sentiment that perfectly summarises my series on ‘Everyday Church’ (to be continued this Sunday evening!) The sentiment is...

New tables

As part of our continuing wish to improve the facilities at church, we have just purchased some new tables for use by groups and at the coffee morning. Here they are, nestled together with our larger tables! Now comes the far more onerous task of deciding which...