Officially a church!

Yes, we are now officially a church! Oh. You thought we already were?Well, I guess that’s the thorny question of ‘when is church not a church?’ Or, more officially, when is a church building recognised as a church building?Because, let’s face...

Prizes

One of the traditions of the church is to have silly prizes for the quizzes we do at the family services. Here are people enjoying their prizes.And just to keep up the spirit of silliness (!), we had a bit of a change-around at the front before the...

Hands revealed

Did you guess the identity of the hands?After the games and quizzes about hands, Garry preached on ‘the hand of God’- which is powerful and protective. God upholds us with His righteous right hand (Is 41:10) and our times are in His hands (Ps 31:15), so we...

Hands

On Sunday, we had our ‘family service’, usually held on the first Sunday of the month. The format of this meeting is even more relaxed than usual and we usually have a series of games and quizzes as well as worship and the Word.The theme this month was...

Drawing near to God

“Come near to God and he will come near to you.” (James 4:8)Life is full of distractions and busyness, all of which conspire to stop us coming near to God. It’s so much easier to fill our days with activity than it is to take the time out to stop and...

Child-like faith

‘At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children,...