Facebook. You Tube. Zoom. I’ve not used any of these before Lockdown. Now it seems that I can’t do without them. Being 60, I can claim technophobia, and do when I press a wrong button and cut myself off ! I have found other buttons useful especially the mute button. It has kept me from…
The Children of Israel were out, free at last from the lash and harsh treatment of their captors.Free to leave, which is exactly what they did, walking on dry ground, heading towards ‘a land ofmilk and honey’…. but. There’s always a but, isn’t there? Moving from where we are, closer to where we want to…
Bible reading Luke 13: 6 – 9 Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look…
Everywhere you turn today you see advertising. Billboards shout and T-shirts tout their messages. Radio spots, TV commercials and newspaper ads make urgent pitches. Of course, we know that the goods and services being advertised carry a price tag. We have to pay for what is being offered. No one expects to get something for nothing.…
Dear Siblings in Christ, Today’s service is available online. Scripture is Matthew 16:13-20. This is the fourth in the five-week series living outside the box. We try to box God in, but God is always breaking out of the box and shattering our understandings of life in God’s kingdom. Today we will ponder Jesus’ question,…
Matti Ensio Nykanen is considered by many to be the greatest male ski jumper of all time, winning five Winter Olympic medals, nine World Championship medals and twenty-two Finnish Championship medals, most notably he won three gold medals in the 1988 Winter Olympics, yet my guess is that only a few of you will know…
I have just finished reading a compelling and eye-opening book by Joanna Cannon, author of ‘The trouble with Goats and Sheep’ and ‘Three things about Elsie’ –( also fantastic reads), entitled ‘Breaking and Mending’, which is a junior doctor’s stories of compassion and burnout. I hope she won’t mind me borrowing her title for a…
Chantry Methodist and Woodbridge Methodist Churches have new websites.
Dear Friends I hope this letter finds you well. Hopefully we are all now moving forward as we slowly emerge from a time of lockdown. At present in the Felixstowe Mission Area we have on offer three acts of Worship per week. On Sundays, 11 am – 12 noon @ Trinity. Followed in the afternoon…
I was driving home from Hadleigh and came across a combine harvester coming towards me. It was obvious I would not be able to pass, and there was a van behind me. I therefore had to edge forward. Unfortunately I ended up with a wheel in a ditch, unable to get out. The combine passed,…