Stage work

As part of the ongoing refurbishment of the building, we are looking at replacing the stage curtains (which were installed when the church was opened in 1960!) with a concertina partition which can separate this part of the building from the community hall. In...

September dates

The holiday period will soon be over and midweek meetings will be resuming in September. On alternate Thursdays, prayer meetings will be held on 4th and 18th September, starting at 7:30 p.m. The format for these will be slightly different, in that we will be involved...

Brokennness

Mark’s sermon this morning touched on the idea that we do not have to be adequate or worthy to be chosen and used by God. 1 Cor 1:26-31 reminds us that God chooses the most unlikely people ‘so that no one may boast before him’ and so that we...

Somewhere over the rainbow

Judy Garland sang ‘Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.’ Mark took this theme as he continued his study on Joseph this morning, speaking from Genesis 42:1-24. Genesis 42 begins with the time...

Corrosion

Corrosion is the gradual destruction of materials (usually metals) by chemical reaction with the environment and the most common example of this is rusting. Rusting (more formally the oxidation of metals such as iron) takes place when the metal reacts with the oxygen...