Sometimes a seemingly innocent telephone call can set a massive challenge for you. One such call landed in my lap on the last Saturday in August, the challenge was that we are taking responsibility for a further four Churches which we are inheriting from a neighbouring Circuit and the plan was to hold a special…
SEPTEMBER UPDATE. Dear Friends, I hope this update finds you well. A hugh thank you to all who supported my recent Sponsored Run and the Market Stall in theManse garden. The total raised to date is £1,545 pounds, thank you so much for yourgenerosity. This money is a tremendous help to the churches. Included in…
Daniel was the youngest of three children and the shortest at six feet one inch. He came from a baker’s family and, leaving school at 15, joined the family firm selling bread and cakes. He had an inexhaustible love of painting which would eventually lead him into serious trouble. He’d stop and paint or sketch…
Haunted by Christ : modern writers and the struggle for faith by Richard Harries. SPCK, 2019£9.99 228 pages ISBN 978 0 281 079 346 also available as an ebook The former Bishop of Oxford has written here about 20 modern writers, mostly British, in 15chapters. The approach, in particular, is to examine what part Christian…
A good friend is a special gift, given to us along the chequered path of life to help us and lift our spirits in times of trouble, and to share happy experiences that become part of a shared history. I have such a friend in Angela, who I met in my first week at university in…
The September edition is now available to read here – It features Capel-St-Mary on the cover and a 2 page article on the Ipswich Circuit
The latest issue of Grapevine Magazine – the magazine for the East Anglia district of the Methodist Church has just been released. You can download it by clicking the image below :
The honeybee has one of the most highly developed social structures in the animal kingdom.At the heart of the hive, which may house as many as 80,000 bees, is the queen. Without her the colony has no future. But the 80,000 don’t just sit around watching their queen. Each bee has a specialized duty to…
The latest issue of the connexion magazine is out now with the theme of HOPE You can read it by clicking on the image below .
Wendy Jobson has sent in this anonymous poem to share with you all today… A smile costs nothing, but gives much.It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give.It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.None is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it…