Dementia Friendly Session

For anyone with any experience of dementia, there is the knowledge that this is a terrible disease which effectively leads to bereavement even before the person actually dies. So often, those looking after people with dementia feel isolated and cut off from society;...

Songs for life

Casting Crowns is an award-winning Christian band and youth ministry team whose music has inspired and encouraged me greatly over the past ten years. Their authenticity and ability to marry biblical values and stories with contemporary issues are both examples and...

The Strength of Stillness

Yan Hadley spoke last night on the ‘strength of stillness in a stressed society’, looking at Psalm 46. God urges us to ‘be still and know that I am God’ (rather as He told Moses before the parting of the Red Sea to ‘stand still and see...

Judah’s Blessings

Mark continued his series on Joseph this morning, looking again at the blessings Jacob gave to his sons before his death. Gen 49:8-12 looks at Jacob’s prophecy to Judah, and unlike the chastening words he pronounced to Reuben, Simeon and Levi, the words he spoke...

Arts festival

If you’re interested in any aspects of the arts – baking, cake decorating, painting, collage, knitting, crocheting, sculpture, drama, music, video, photography or anything else not listed – you might be interested in this Arts festival at Hope House...