Congratulations to Carol Ratcliffe who has just been given an award for 50 year’s membership of the Institute of Biomedical Science. She was presented with a medal (no less!) at a special award ceremony in Liverpool. Carol worked for many years in forensic science. Congratulations also to Sophie who…
Our All Age service this week was all about forgiveness: God forgiving us and the need for us, therefore, to forgive others. In our three activites we learned about God writing off our ‘debts’ or sins – we experienced ‘demands’ being torn up and put in the bin, and we received back the little we…
It was a lovely early morning stroll in Knuzden’s Arran Trail Local Nature Reserve. Here are some photos of what we saw……
Our Messy Sermon Group (Trendy All Age Sunday School) has been raising funds to twin our three church toilets – the £180 raised will be used to build three new village loos in Africa. You can read more about it here: https://www.toilettwinning.org/ The idea arose from learning about ‘the water of life’ – Jesus’ encounter with…
Today our Gospel reading was Peter’s Confession of Faith – weread it in The Message translation as this is more accessible for children. Jackson read it for us – he’s a brilliant reader and didn’t stumble at all over some quite difficult words! You can read it here https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+16:13-20 …
Apologies to anyone who has been trying to get in touch over the past couple of weeks but has had problems getting through on the church phone (01254 698321). We’ve been having a problem with our phone; this has now been fixed. The church is always open on Wednesdays from 6-7 p.m. – this is…
Paul and Seamus were married today. We all give them heartfelt congratulations! They’re a lovely couple who have both been through an awful lot. Today, as they were married, everything seemed to come into focus. And deswite Paula saying ‘I Seamus’ it all went really well. Well done to you both – Mr and Mrs…
We’ve continued to have a great time at holiday club – we’ve now moved on to Rolad Dahl animals – Fantastic Mr Fox and Esio Trot amnogst others. As well as this we’ve played loads of fun games and eaten large quantities of food. For the church members who plan and run holiday club this…
This evening we pray with the people of Barcelona and all tourists who were caught up in the attack. Please light candles in your homes this evening (don’t forget to blow them out before you go to bed!) and pray for the epace of the world. Candles focus our minds on God’s light which has…
This week, and part of next, we’re running our Holiday Club. As well as having a lot of fun our participating children receive breakfast, lunch and a snack at 11. THis time we have 45 children participating. On Monday we did some mindfulness, painted some stones and made some ‘thankyou flowers’. Yesterday and today the…