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Musings from the Manse – September
Church has always been a movement not a static institution and in the words of William Temple; ‘The church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.’ Which is added to by C.S.Lewis who said ‘The Church exists for nothing else but
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Musings from the Manse – August
We will be meeting as churches in the first week of August to consider how we start to reopen our buildings and we need to pray that we hear clearly from God as to what he is saying to us. It’s very easy to look at other churches and see
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Coronavirus Update No.3
We held gatherings of the two churches on Monday and Wednesday evenings last week( wk.beg.3rd Aug.) to consider how we will go about reopening our buildings. Both churches felt that with the Covid-19 situation changing rapidly at present and still many saying they would not feel able to come into
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Musings from the Manse – July
I guess that some of our responses are shaped by our personal experience of what we have been through during this period and how it has affected us, but certainly for all of us it has been a time to think about what is important to us and reassess what
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Musings from the Manse – June
But where has the church been in this time in all these feelings, well for some the church has been deployed as there is so much more we are doing together now in an average week than we did before, we are sharing fellowship together by internet and telephone in
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Would You Like Prayer?
If you wish you need only put your initial or the other person’s initial, God will know who you are asking prayer for. Also, you do not have to put a reason for the prayer, if you do not wish to, God will know your needs. An example might
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Musings from the Manse – May
How different those familiar words felt this Easter, indeed much of the familiar things in life have changed over the past few weeks and yet, however uncomfortable and difficult these times are, we look to God in the resurrection of Christ as we hear again ‘I am with you always,
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Holiday Club 2020 – Seaside Rock – CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
CORONAVIRUS An Update on ‘Seaside Rock’ – Holiday Club 2020 After discussions within the church, it is with a heavy heart that we have decided NOT to go ahead with Holiday Club 2020 this year. It was a hard decision for us to make but was made for the safety
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Musings from the Manse – April
I have found a real passion for God amongst us and an openness in the safety of the groups to share honest thoughts and views, however, I still hear about the difficulty people feel about sharing their faith outside church. It is interesting that as I look at my own
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Cancelled due to the Corona virus – Easter Club at Gracious St. Methodist Church
The Easter Club held at Gracious St. Methodist church is open to all children whether they attend a church or not. There will be games, teaching and lots of fun. Please contact June Graham on 7759619780 or on ctikeasterclub@gmail.com in order to book your child a place or to volunteer
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Dinner with Gladiator ‘Ace’ – Warren Furman on 7th March
After the meal our Minister ‘interviewed’ Warren about his life both past and present. He revealed how he had idolised body builders such as Stallone and so forth and started to work out in gyms etc. Eventually he gained a place on the Gladiators programme and became a household name.
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World Day of Prayer held at KURC – 6th March
There were about forty people who attended at our church in the afternoon for approximately an hour’s service, followed by refreshments. It was a lovely service and we Thank those who participated and set up the church with fabrics and colours of Zimbabwe.
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Cancelled due to the Corona virus – Melody Cafe – On 29th March – led by Revd. AlanCrump
All are welcome, whether you come to our church or not, please feel free to join us.
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Musings from the Manse – March
This prompted a response from the first church ‘God loves all his creations, including Dogs’. So the second church put up on its notice board ‘Dogs don’t have souls, this is not open to debate.’ Well the debate of these two church’s theology continued for all to see through their
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Musings from the Manse – February
The Prince of course insists he will only marry if he finds someone to love, which is no doubt the view we would take. So if we agree that the foundation for marriage is love then what about other meaningful relationships is it not the same albeit a different kind
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Posada Service – 24th December
This year they have been visiting organisations, charities, places of work and schools etc. The visits go on till Christmas Eve when they return at last again to out church and we celebrate with the ” Posada Service”. (4.00pm till 4.45pm). All are most welcome to attend. It will be
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Our Gift Service
The picture shows just some of the gifts for the Women’s Refuge and another group of gifts was for the Homeless.
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Musings from the Manse – December
At the beginning of my sabbatical where I was looking at Church Growth, I spoke with John Proctor the URC General Secretary and he suggested that we need to first ask churches if they want to grow. At first this seemed to me an obvious question to which surely the
