What’s Happening
Summer Fun 3
The third of our 'Summer Fun' activities held at Thurnscoe Plaza today was attended by 98 people (43 adults and 55 children, with 10 adult helpers.) We had a great time doing crafts and activities and using the fabulous skate park and are grateful to all volunteers,...
Summer Fun 2
The second of our 'Churches Together' Summer Fun events, funded by Great Childhoods Ambition, took place at Carrfield Park in Bolton upon Dearne today. Attended by 98 people (50 adults and 48 children with 12 helpers), we had a great time playing in the park, eating...
God’s Church
Rend Collective's song 'Build Your Kingdom Here' makes the astonishing claim, 'We are Your church. We are the hope on earth.' How can this possibly be true? Today we looked at our identity as the church. The church is not a building or a denomination; it is not an...
Talking Point
Gay Marriage (2)
The Biblical view of marriage is given in Gen 2:18-25 and is reinforced by Jesus (Matt 19:3-4, Mk 10:2-9). Marriage is between a man and a woman. There are obvious problems with the notion of homosexual marriage, the first being that homosexual practice is not...
Gay Marriage (1)
Garry continued his 'Talking Point' series tonight, looking at the subject of gay marriage. Homosexuality is a 'hot potato' in Christian circules and it is important to stress that we are all sinners saved by grace and that God loves everyone. Jn 3:16-18 emphasises...
Talking Point – Islam
Garry's latest 'Talking Point' sermon looked at the subject of Islam. Headlines appear almost daily in the newspapers informing us of terrorist atrocities committed by radical Muslims, and it is undoubtedly true that violent jihad is a constant of Islamic history, the...
How We Got Here
Fabulous, filling food!
Man doesn't live on bread alone, and neither did we on Saturday! After the Open Day finished, church members and friends who had worked so hard with us on this faith journey had a meal together. In our area, this kind of meal is often known as a 'faith tea', meaning...
Names
Names in the Bible generally have far more significance than in our Western society. Abram ('exalted father') became Abraham ('father of many'). Jacob ('he grasps the heel', figuratively 'he deceives') became Israel ('he struggles with God'). Jesus was thus named...
The Photo Gallery
At the start of the planning for the Open Day, it was decided to use the corridor space to host a photo gallery to show people how the work progressed. We spent one evening looking through hundreds of photos to try to narrow them down to the 46 we could have. In the...