by Julie Turner | Jan 18, 2020 | What's Happening
We had an activity where teams had to cross a crocodile-infested swamp using only 3 stepping stones. Most of one team fell in the swamp and were presumably eaten… The activity showed us many things about effective communication, including: the value of...
by Julie Turner | Jan 18, 2020 | What's Happening
We had another Team Building Day today, with Sarah Davey helping us to explore communication and vision. There are many different ‘models’ for churches. Some could be compared to Lego models which come with a full set of instructions which have to be...
by Julie Turner | Jan 17, 2020 | What's Happening
The Dearne Community Arts’ Festival aims to champion creativity and celebrate community, and this week it managed to do both with the unveiling of the community mosaic in its new permanent home at Goldthorpe Library. The mosaic, started last summer at our church...
by Julie Turner | Jan 14, 2020 | What's Happening
Fiction has a series of bags and pockets that seem to contain magical depths. From Lily Bobtail’s ‘just in case’ pocket (from which string and other objects emerge to save Peter Rabbit from peril)… … to Mary Poppins’ magic bag (from...
by Julie Turner | Jan 13, 2020 | What's Happening
In addition to our usual weekly clubs (youth club for 5-11 year olds on Monday evening and Parent & Toddler group on Friday morning), we have a busy week ahead. The ‘Frontlines’ Bible study group is meeting on Tuesday evening and so our other midweek...
by Julie Turner | Jan 12, 2020 | What's Happening
Dave spoke tonight from Acts 8:26-39, the passage dealing with Philip’s evangelism of an Ethiopian eunuch, one of the first non-Jewish people to accept Christ as Saviour. Philip was involved in evangelism in Samaria following the martyrdom of Stephen, but an...
