by Julie Turner | Feb 11, 2013 | What's Happening
How do you know, as a parent, if your local school is good or not? Do you go by what the OFSTED report (issued approximately every three years) says? Do you judge by league tables? How do you know if your child is doing well at school? Do you know what National...
by Julie Turner | Feb 11, 2013 | What's Happening
So far in our musings on prayer for our local schools we have looked at praying for teachers (including head teachers and governors) and for Christian organisations working in schools. I thought it important also to look at praying for the children and young people in...
by Julie Turner | Feb 11, 2013 | What's Happening
Yan Hadley spoke last night on how to guarantee that God is glorified in our lives, basing his sermon on John 15:8. Often, we forget that God is able to bring good things out of little; we can be like Nathanael who asked ‘Can anything good come out of...
by Julie Turner | Feb 11, 2013 | What's Happening
A church is a family and therefore there are all kinds of family occasions in its life to celebrate. Last night we had two contrasting occasions. One of our families is moving to another place this coming week. That is both a sad occasion (they will no longer be with...
by Julie Turner | Feb 10, 2013 | What's Happening
Partly inspired by Isaiah 58:12 (which is rapidly becoming a ‘theme verse’ for the church in 2013!), Dave spoke about Nehemiah this morning and his commitment to rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah definitely could have been called a...
by Julie Turner | Feb 10, 2013 | What's Happening
When we started the prayer walks in January, I wanted a visual reminder of all that we had seen to act as an aid to prayer. Some of the resulting photographs have now been enlarged on canvas prints and have been hung in the main hall to help us to continue to pray for...
