Dear Friends Harvest is upon us! I can’t believe Harvest was today in church! A time of reaping the benefits of hard labour! For me I have just started a small group for young Mums to help them deepen their faith.  Two of these Mums have just finished Alpha and all three are leaders of the future.  Alpha was just brilliant but loads of hard work for a small team from both churches, supported by a wider team of people providing delicious food.  But now seeing the results makes all the hard work worthwhile. Ignite Did you know that churches…
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Dear Friends, September feels like the start of the New Year! For those of us who have children or, like me, work with children a lot, September feels like the start of a new year! For me, personally, after returning from four week’s sick leave and two week’s holiday, it feels like I have been away far too long and it’s time to do some planning for the new year.  Not just for Christmas, but we have also been asked to start thinking about having a mission in September next year to celebrate the 100th anniversary of our diocese. What…
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Dear Friends Things have been hotting up! What is it about heat and British people?  We all seem to either love it, or flake out and retire to darkened rooms! However, the spiritual temperature has also been rising in both our churches as we met for the final time last Tuesday for Alpha and prayed for people to receive the Holy Spirit. Alpha A group of twenty people from both churches have been eating together, watching films together and discussing in three groups: ‘Who is Jesus?’, ‘Why did Jesus die?’ ‘How can I have faith?’ ‘Why and how do I…
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Dear All   I thought I would share with you the review that I shared with the whole church before the APCM in May.   Revelation 21:1-6 A new heaven and a new earth Today’s talk is a review of the year, as part of our annual meeting which will take place after the service. I want to start that review by sharing a meditation that I shared with St Paul’s when talking about our outreach to new families and children. Hopeful Meditation – a new take on church You are both in your thirties with two children from BH…
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