We’ve lost Jonah! Has anyone seen him? Such was the plea from Seaton Road as we checked our Godly Play resources for a presentation. Oh well, we’ll have to improvise. So, with a small wooden boat from a holiday in Norway, a plastic whale (with big mouth) from the children’s haul of animals, a shoe…
October 24 Preaching Plan
Full details can be found here, starts 14th October.
7pm – Friday November 22nd.
Details of date and time can be found here.
While many churches are blessed with talented musicians, there are a lot of smaller churches where a sole musician “does his or her best” especially when trying to cope with a vast array of modern hymns and songs. By contrast, our family was on holiday and visited a church for the Sunday morning service. As…
I must start this TFTD with an apology. I was recently attending a meeting that involved Methodists from outside the Ipswich Circuit on Zoom. A gentleman asked me how Bill the dog was – which surprised me somewhat as I had never met the guy before. It transpired that he had read the TFTD form…
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 6th October 2024. Lectionary Readings: Genesis 2 v18-24; Psalm 8; Hebrews 1 v1-4, 2 v5-12; Mark 10 v2-16. Bonds of love. Jesus said, “I promise you that you cannot get into God’s kingdom unless you accept it the way a child does.” (Mark 10 v15). Babies and…
Do you remember the days when certain colour combinations were outlawed by the guardians of dress sense? Men never wore pink. Black was never worn with brown. And there was a little rhyme that told us ‘Blue and Green should never be seen except with something in between’. An alternative ended with ‘… except when…
I recently saw this saying and I really like it. “A person’s most beautiful asset is not a head full of knowledge, but a heart full of love, an ear ready to listen and a hand willing to help others.” Each little part has a simple but worthwhile message. You don’t have to be very…