by Julie Turner | Aug 28, 2016 | What's Happening
Matt Redman once said, ‘Worship is the ultimate reality check.’ (see here) So often, we view worship as escapism or something that’s a required but rather boring part of a Sunday service. We may even feel, as C. S. Lewis once did, that the repeated...
by Julie Turner | Aug 26, 2016 | What's Happening
I’m the kind of person who likes to plan ahead (rather obsessively so, I’m afraid…!), but even I found it rather strange to be making tomato and apple chutney for the Christmas Market on a rather hot day in August! What is perhaps even more...
by Julie Turner | Aug 26, 2016 | What's Happening
Sadly, the summer holidays are drawing to a close and the new term will be starting shortly. Before then, we are having a cleaning day at church (tidying the stage area and cleaning the toys, ready for the re-start of the Monday Night Youth Club on 5th September and...
by Julie Turner | Aug 23, 2016 | What's Happening
Forgive me for hating statistics. I know they are useful at times, but as someone who struggles with numbers and who faces a week of staring at these numbers representing the sum total of people’s work over at least two years (GCSE results come out on Thursday),...
by Julie Turner | Aug 22, 2016 | What's Happening
1 Cor 12 and Romans 12 remind us that the body of Christ is made up of different members, each individual forming an important part of the whole. People come, as they say, in all shapes and sizes. So do parsnips! This was Stephen’s first attempt at growing...
