Generous Giving

Mark preached on the subject of giving yesterday morning, taking his text from Luke 21:1-4:”As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he...

New windows

When we first started work on ‘St Mark’s’ in February, there were lots of things we wanted to do with the building which needed more finance than we had available. We spent from February until June getting the building ready for services and have...

Angels

What do the following pictures have in common?The answer is that all these images featured in Tony’s quiz at the family service and had to do with angels, the theme for the evening. (The first is the ‘Angel of the North’ sculpture, the second...

God hears us

Stephen spoke from Psalm 5:1-3 on Sunday morning. He started with some statistics about the world’s population: 6,885,814,406 apparently and every three hours another 28,500 people are added to that total, so it is, of course, already out of date! Yet despite...

More wedding photos

Here are some more wedding photos:The speeches:In Dave’s speech, he spoke about some of the ‘four letter words’ of marriage, namely ‘work’, ‘dust’, ‘iron’ and ‘cook’!Tidying away and making...

Wedding blessings

Wedding blessings are great opportunities to share in a couple’s joy, to meet with family and friends, to learn more of how to live in God’s love. Dave, combining the job of best man and preacher with his usual aplomb, spoke from Colossians 3:12-17 about...