Funeral information

For those of you who knew Vernon, a service of thanksgiving for his life – all one hundred years of it! – will be held at Goldthorpe Pentecostal Community Church on Tuesday 11th January at 12 noon, followed by interment at Great Houghton cemetery at 1...

Hope & communication

You could view this post in one of two ways. I was ill on Sunday, laid out by a sickness bug that seems to have been fairly prevalent in the area, so the fact that I am reporting on meetings I did not attend could be said to be pretty remarkable. Or you could view the...

New Year’s Day Party

Happy New Year!As usual, we celebrated the advent of the New Year by having a party, complete with food, fun and games.Getting ready:A home-made cake:Certificate to prove the cake was home-made!More food:Playing games! This one is ‘Musical chairs’ with a...

Christmas for the whole world

I have had the privilege of spending a few days in Brussels between Christmas and the New Year, city of chocolate and lace. But in the midst of that, in the famous Grand Place, there was a reminder that Christ came for the whole world and His arrival is celebrated...

The first and the last

At the end of every year, there is always a sense of looking back, of reviewing, of reflecting and then, with the dawn of a new year, a sense of looking forward and anticipating.If we want to put this in technical terms, what we are doing here is called...

Really human, really God

The final sermon of 2010 at GPCC was preached by Dave from John 1:1-14 (for those of you with good memories, I’m fairly certain that the first sermon of 2010 was also preached by Dave, but more of that anon!), looking back at Christmas and lingering over what...