by Julie Turner | Nov 9, 2019 | What's Happening
Today (9th November) is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall was built in Berlin in 1961 to mark the division of Germany into the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, under Communist rule) and The Federal Republic of Germany (West...
by Julie Turner | Nov 9, 2019 | What's Happening
We are heading towards the season of Advent and preparing for Christmas, and as I ponder these times, I look at Advent calendars. These are big business these days. In our society, it seems that anticipation isn’t enough: the calendar where you simply open a...
by Julie Turner | Nov 9, 2019 | What's Happening
On Thursday, our area faced one month’s rainfall in one day and there was widespread flooding. All my family was in the affected areas of Sheffield and for many hours I was uncertain what was happening to them. Because they were travelling, it wasn’t...
by Julie Turner | Nov 7, 2019 | What's Happening
Here are some dates for the diary: Wednesday 20th November is our next ‘Churches Together’ prayer meeting at 11 a.m. at Furlong Road Methodist Church. Later on that day, at 1 p.m. at the Salvation Army, we will be preparing the Goody Bags for the Christmas...
by Julie Turner | Nov 3, 2019 | What's Happening
Tonight’s ‘Little Big Church’ looked at the idea of kings and queens. Some of the children dressed up and became queens for the evening: They were involved in knighting loyal subjects (Sir Stephen of Keys and Sir Gary of Percussion), who then had to...
by Julie Turner | Nov 3, 2019 | What's Happening
Dave spoke this morning from Mark 1:40-45, an encounter between a leper and Jesus. Leprosy was one of the most devastating diseases recorded in the Bible, killing through destroying the nervous system so that limbs were lost, blindness occurred and destruction came,...