Team Building Day (2)

by | Jan 18, 2020 | What's Happening

We had an activity where teams had to cross a crocodile-infested swamp using only 3 stepping stones. Most of one team fell in the swamp and were presumably eaten… The activity showed us many things about effective communication, including: the value of...

Team Building Day

by | Jan 18, 2020 | What's Happening

We had another Team Building Day today, with Sarah Davey helping us to explore communication and vision. There are many different ‘models’ for churches. Some could be compared to Lego models which come with a full set of instructions which have to be...

Celebrating Community

by | Jan 17, 2020 | What's Happening

The Dearne Community Arts’ Festival aims to champion creativity and celebrate community, and this week it managed to do both with the unveiling of the community mosaic in its new permanent home at Goldthorpe Library. The mosaic, started last summer at our church...

Laying Down The Baggage

by | Jan 14, 2020 | What's Happening

Fiction has a series of bags and pockets that seem to contain magical depths. From Lily Bobtail’s ‘just in case’ pocket (from which string and other objects emerge to save Peter Rabbit from peril)… … to Mary Poppins’ magic bag (from...