Let’s Start At The Very Beginning

by | Oct 24, 2019 | What's Happening

Julie Andrews, in the film ‘The Sound of Music’, endeavours to teach children the musical alphabet (do-re-mi), likening this to homophones with their meanings (‘doe, a deer, a female deer; ray, a drop of golden sun.’) She starts this famous song with the words ‘let’s...

Really Useful People

by | Oct 23, 2019 | What's Happening

Thomas the Tank Engine is described as a ‘really useful engine’ and this term of praise is seen to be one of the highest possible in the children’s series by Rev. W. Awdry. Most of us agree that usefulness is a valuable character trait, but struggle...

Willingness

by | Oct 23, 2019 | What's Happening

A leper came to Jesus once – quite against the law which required him to live as an outcast to avoid spreading infection – and asked for cleansing. In his request, he said, ‘if you are willing.’ (Mark 1:40) It was a big risk he took, but he was...

A Meeting To Discuss The Future

by | Oct 20, 2019 | What's Happening

J-P spoke tonight from Lamentations 3:1-22. Lamentations (the ‘complaining song’ in Afrikaans) is not a happy book: written at the time of Israel’s exile, it deals with many questions which are still very relevant to us today. Such questions include...