Family occasions

A church is a family and therefore there are all kinds of family occasions in its life to celebrate. Last night we had two contrasting occasions. One of our families is moving to another place this coming week. That is both a sad occasion (they will no longer be with...

Rebuilding the walls

Partly inspired by Isaiah 58:12 (which is rapidly becoming a ‘theme verse’ for the church in 2013!), Dave spoke about Nehemiah this morning and his commitment to rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah definitely could have been called a...

Visual aids

When we started the prayer walks in January, I wanted a visual reminder of all that we had seen to act as an aid to prayer. Some of the resulting photographs have now been enlarged on canvas prints and have been hung in the main hall to help us to continue to pray for...

The value of the arts

William Henry Davies’s poem often speaks into my life when I am frantically running around trying to fit a thousand jobs into a day:”What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long...

The Island of Iguanas

Saint Lucia is a Caribbean island situated between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago. When it’s cold and dank in England in February (‘February’s ice and sleet freeze the toes right off your feet’,...