2021 Dearne Community Arts’ Festival (2)

In the main hall, we had many local businesses and residents displaying their artwork, selling crafts and showing us their skills! We also got to watch juggling and circus skills, listen to singers from the Angel Voices Performing Arts Academy and watch dancers from...

2021 Dearne Community Arts’ Festival

There was something very special about the 2021 Dearne Community Arts’ Festival. Perhaps because last year’s festival had to be online only, we have learned to appreciate even more the value of gathering together and sharing ideas, seeing the talent that...

Spiritual Eyes

Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians was for the eyes of their hearts to be enlightened (Eph 1:18). We need to see with spiritual eyes in order to grasp spiritual truth – ‘so that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his...

The Tip of the Iceberg

The Dearne Community Arts’ Festival, held annually in Goldthorpe to champion creativity and celebrate community (and happening today, 25 September, between 11 a.m and 4 p.m.), is effectively the tip of an iceberg in the Dearne Valley area. An iceberg is a piece...

Setting The Scene for Amos

Tonight we began looking at the book of Amos, written just before Isaiah’s ministry began. Some prophets (e.g. Ezekiel) were priests; others were of noble lineage (e.g. Daniel), but Amos was a shepherd, an ‘ordinary’ person called by God to speak out...

Again!

The prefix ‘re’ means ‘back’ or ‘again’ and is found in many English words (e.g. ‘return’, meaning to turn back, or ‘rearrange’, meaning to arrange again.) It’s a reminder that things don’t have...