Dear Friends, The other morning, whilst eating my breakfast, I was watching the morning news on the BBC. The two presenters were interviewing an actor, who was advertising the latest edition of a book called ‘Dear Me’. In the book, celebrities had been invited to write a letter to their 16 yr old selves […]
November December Newsletter
GOD’S CARE How brief is our span of life compared with the time since you created the universe. How tiny we are compared with the enormity of your universe. …yet during every minute and every second of our lives you are present, within and around us. You give your whole and undivided attention to each […]
Lectionary Readings for November & December 2011
November All Saints (November 1) Isaiah 51: 1 – 6; Psalm 131; Hebrews 11: 32 – 12: 2; St Matthew 5: 1 – 126th Joshua 24: 1 – 3a, 14 – 25; Psalm 78: 1 – 7 or Amos 5: 18 – 24; Psalm 70; 1 Thessalonians 4: 13 – 18; St Matthew 25: 1 – […]
Musings from the Manse
Dear Friends, August is usually a quiet month – not many meetings – schools out for the summer, folks away on holiday. So when I received an email from Mohammed Ali Amla, asking me to circulate an upcoming event called ‘Experiencing Ramadan’, I was both intrigued and inspired. Ali had recently organised a series […]
Lectionary readings for September & October 2011
Lectionary Readings September & October 2011 September 4th Exodus 12: 1 – 14; Psalm 149 or Ezekiel 33: 7 – 11; Psalm 119: 33 – 40; Romans 13: 8 – 14; St Matthew 18: 15 – 20 11th Exodus 14: 19 – 31; Psalm 114 or Exodus 15: 1b – 11, 20 – 21 […]
September /October 2011 newsletter
TALKING REFORM – STILL TIME HELP? In the July-August Newsletter we included an appeal for volunteers help the teams that produce recordings of the URC Reform magazine each month for blind and partially-sighted people. The recordings are made at Galloway’s Society for the Blind, Penwortham, on the second Monday of each month starting at 12 […]
What's On September & October 2011
September Fri 2nd 7:00pm Hymn Practice Sat 3rd CTFB Pilgrimage to Stonyhurst & Skipton Sun 4th 10:30am Morning Worship Mr Mac Dunsmore Wed 7th 7:30pm Elders Thu 8th 7:30pm Church Fellowship Fri 9th 7:00pm Hymn Practice Sun 11th 10:30am6:30pm Holy CommunionEvening Worship Rev Helen Higgin-BothamRev Peter Sheasby Mon 12th 7:30pm Craft Group Fri 16th 7:00pm […]
Musings from the Manse
Dear Friends, I am writing this after spending four days up at the URC’s ‘Home in the Lakes’, the Windermere Centre. Being June, it’s been Minister’s Summer School – which is not, as some have commented, a ‘jolly’, but rather an intensive time of discernment and learning for URC Ministers and CRCW’s (Church Related Community […]
July / August Newsletter
KING JAMES BIBLE Most readers will, by now, be fully aware that 2011 is the 400th Anniversary of the first authorised translation of the Bible into English. I suspect that most of the family Bibles we still have will be copies of this edition – the King James Bible. King James 1 of England […]
Musings from the Manse
Dear Friends, Anyone who has email communication will surely receive some that just make you stop and think. I received one such email a couple of days ago which had a link to a YouTube film clip – and if you are able perhaps you’d like to watch it too. http://www/youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU In case you can’t, […]