Thought for the day on 2 wheels!(This series of Thoughts for the Day were inspired whilst taking a week’s break in Eastbourne with my friend Rev Rach Ward, a Minister in the Leeds South and West Circuit, previously a Local Preacher in the Ipswich Circuit) 3. The only way is…… Our 3rd trip out on…
This week, Bite Size Church brings us a 10 minute service based around John 3:16 For God so loved the world.
Genesis 16 v 13. She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me Hagar, Sarah’s handmaid, was being treated unkindly by Sarah, so she fled into the wilderness. As Hagar stood beside a spring in that desolate and…
Landseer Road held 2 summer family Fun Days – plenty of pictures of happy smiling faces in the Church grounds 🙂
The Olympics in Tokyo may have ended, but Elmsett Messy Church held thier own “Messy Olympics”
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary time Year B 22nd August 2021 Lectionary readings: Joshua 24 v1-2a, 14-18; Psalm 34 v15-22; Ephesians 6 v10-20; John 6 v56-69. Eternal Life and Salvation In the reading from John’s gospel, Simon Peter says “Lord, there is no one else that we can go to! Your words give eternal life.…
We were fortunate to have tickets to an open-air performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream staged in Framlingham Castle this week. Doors opened at 6pm for a 7.30 performance to allow time to picnic. I looked at the set for Shakespeare’s well-known play, performed over so many years in all sorts of places. I contemplated…
Way back in 1975 when I first started working, I was employed by a textiles wholesaler working in their haberdashery department. I was the only lad at sixteen working in a department with six ladies all old enough to be my mother, or maybe even my grandmother. They were quite an entertaining little gang and…
Of the many remarkable stories to come out of the Second World War, one of the most ingenious improvisations in a situation of extreme danger and difficulty must surely be the story of the tanker Ohio, recounted in detail by Sir Max Hastings in his book ‘Operation Pedestal’. The island of Malta was isolated and…
Isaiah 40 v 31. but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint. Astronaut Michael Collins described the problem of trying to link two orbiting space vehicles. When two airplanes’ rendezvous for an in-flight…