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September 2021 Circuit Plan

Due to the current situation this may be subject to change so please do check back and also check with Churches individual Facebook pages and websites for updates. Key: LA=Local Arrangement, Z=Zoom, S=Sacrament (Holy Communion) You can download a PDF copy of the plan by clicking here

God is our “crafter”

Psalm 51 v 10.Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me God can bring good out of our failures, and even out of our sins. J. Stuart Holden tells of an old Scottish mansion close to where he had his summer house. The walls of one room were covered…

The Lady with a Lamp

The Lady with a Lamp   dvd   Studiocanal, 1951 99 minutes  £10 Is there anyone who, on hearing the words ‘the lady with a lamp’, would fail to think of Florence Nightingale ? The phrase explicitly referring to Florence Nightingale was immortalised by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem Santa Filomena…

Hope

When I was a child, for several years, we spent our family summer holidays at Hope Cove in South Devon. Recently we have returned on several occasions and old loves and fascinations for a delightful village and coastline have been reawakened. The signpost to the Hope Cove car parking arrangements is a wonderful summary of…

Follow my leader…..

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) 4.  Follow my leader….. The last day of our cycle…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 29th August 2021

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time                          Year B                         29th August 2021 Lectionary Readings: Deuteronomy 4 v1-2, 6-9;        Psalm 15;        James 1 v17-27;       Mark 7 v1-8, 14-15, 21-23. Listen and Obey! “God will bless you in everything you do, if you listen and obey and don’t just hear and forget.” (James 1 v25b). The theme of…

Jesus is the light…

Psalm 112 v 4.Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous A missionary in Peru went to visit a group of believers one evening. She knew that the house where they were meeting was located on a cliff and that the path would be treacherous. She took…

Upcycling

The village of Hebden in North Yorkshire sits about mid way between Burnsall and Grassington in upper wharfedale. Pedestrians travelling from the western side of the river would cross the perilous River Wharfe by mans of stepping stones as the only two river crossings were at Burnsall down stream and at Grassinton up stream.  A…