by Julie Turner | Apr 1, 2017 | What's Happening
Tonight I had the privilege of seeing the Watoto Children’s Choir on their ‘Signs and Wonders’ tour, performing at Grimethorpe Pentecostal Church. The choir is part of Watoto Church in Uganda which seeks to help the vulnerable and orphaned and is a...
by Julie Turner | Apr 1, 2017 | What's Happening
Today in England, it’s April Fools’ Day. It’s a day for practical jokes and foolish pranks. Some newspapers, magazines, and other published media report fake stories, which are usually explained the next day or below the news section in small letters. Other countries...
by Julie Turner | Mar 31, 2017 | What's Happening
Whilst we must often consciously and deliberately choose to forget the wrongs done to us, we must also consciously and deliberately choose to remember all God has done for us. Eugene Peterson says, ‘forgetfulness atrophies the muscles of faith and leaves them flabby...
by Julie Turner | Mar 30, 2017 | What's Happening
Some of us have little choice but to embrace forgetfulness as we get older and our memory brain cells just don’t seem to function the way they used to! This isn’t the kind of forgetfulness I mean, however… By embracing forgetfulness, what I mean is a willingness to...
by Julie Turner | Mar 29, 2017 | What's Happening
I’ve recently had to take medication to avoid cholera when I go to India, and it struck me as I struggled to drink the sweet-tasting liquid that we tend to add flavours to drinks to make them more palatable. Those flavours are inevitably sweet, because we don’t like...
by Julie Turner | Mar 29, 2017 | What's Happening
As part of the upgrade to the building involving fire safety, further yellow lines have been added to the car park, clearly marking where it is not legal to park: We would ask that all who use the church car park respect this so as to allow clear exits from both fire...
