Your Royal Blood

Rend Collective’s song ‘Your Royal Blood’ reminds us of the victory which Jesus, the King of Kings, won for us at Calvary: ‘Your blood will never lose its power. Your blood will never lose. Your victory will stand forever Your blood will never...

Royal Quiz

As part of our family service on ‘Royal Rulers’, we had a quiz all about royalty. Three teams had to answer 50 questions about ‘royal links.’ The Crown Jewels had to be identified: ‘Royal’ animals had to be named (King Charles...

Royal Rulers

Despite being the 2nd Sunday of the month, tonight was our family service, looking at the theme of ‘Royal Rulers’. This Sunday is the celebration of Epiphany, traditionally associated with the arrival of the Magi. It is not certain if these were...

Hand in Hand With God

At our first service of the year at Cherry Tree Court, Garry spoke about walking into the unknown hand in hand with God. Weather forecasters try to give us an idea of what the weather will be like – 10 days ago, the BBC weather service said it would be bright...

Igor’s Woes

Many of you may be wondering about Igor, the church mascot. As an iguana (albeit of the plastic variety), Igor does not enjoy winter, preferring the sunshine and warmth of summer (in this he strongly resembles Garry, whose antipathy to frost and ice is largely founded...

The Hurdles of Life

When I was at school, I had a loathing of athletics. The summer term was always a nightmare for me: heavy-eyed from hay fever, I would have to tackle each of the main athletics’ events and discover I had an aptitude for none of them. Sprinting and long-distance...