Dave spoke this morning from Luke 24:49 as we celebrated (in advance, since he is away next weekend!) Pentecost, the birthday of the church! Jesus had spoken extensively to His disciples about the Holy Spirit (John 14-16) and after the Resurrection told them to wait...

Not surprisingly since June is a month of celebration, our thoughts in prayer are turned towards growth and outreach and in particular we need to pray for the refurbishment plans. We are looking at writing a funding application for the refurbishment of the community...

Headline news - either in the newspaper or on the TV news - tends to be depressing. The main items of news often involve political problems, international disasters (either natural or man-made), national crises, weather crises or some other disaster that is rarely...