by Julie Turner | Feb 16, 2017 | What's Happening
Why do we sing? Singing seems to be a fundamental human response to different circumstances, something that is ‘wired into’ us by God. It doesn’t matter whether we are a nightingale or a crow; we tend to enjoy singing aloud, even if it’s only in the shower for our own...
by Julie Turner | Feb 16, 2017 | What's Happening
This week’s Bible study looked at the fact that the Psalms are not only poems (designed to be read aloud and which use a variety of poetic features such as parallelism, metaphor and acrostics to engage our memories and our emotions) but also songs. The Psalms contain...
by Julie Turner | Feb 16, 2017 | What's Happening
Further work was done on fitting the fire alarm yesterday, mainly in the community room: The alarm was tested in the worship room and was very loud, with flashing lights! It’s a day off today as Slimming World are in the building, so normal service is resumed on...
by Julie Turner | Feb 15, 2017 | What's Happening
In addition to all the alarming business going on at church this week (servicing the burglar alarm and fitting a new fire alarm), other things are going on behind the scenes. Plans for the Dearne Community Arts’ Festival are moving with a swiftness I’ve...
by Julie Turner | Feb 14, 2017 | What's Happening
Don’t be alarmed! – nothing bad happened today, but we had Day 2 of the fire alarm fitting and the burglar alarm was serviced as well at church! Burglar alarm servicing, with Steve from Kent Alarms: And in the world of fire alarms… Yesterday was all...
by Julie Turner | Feb 13, 2017 | What's Happening
This week, we are having a fire alarm fitted. S & G Electrical arrived early this morning: They perused the building, deciding which was the best way to proceed: Then they set to work, installing new emergency lighting in the children’s room and stage area:...
