In many denominations the Church’s Year is divided into two halves. The first half from Advent to Pentecost takes us step by step through the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus culminating in His Ascension and the outpouring of The Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The second half, starting on Trinity Sunday, is a wider approach...
I expect you all know the phrases... “Every cloud has a silver lining” and... “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” and some years ago ‘Tear Fund’ had the theme for Harvest that “One man’s rubbish is another man’s harvest”. Well these are about seeing things from a changed perspective. Now during most of my...
Thank you to everyone who signed the sheet that accompanied our Christmas greetings card, sent by email, to our Mission Partners. This is what it meant to some of them when they received your signatures and Christmas card greetings this year: Jonathan and Robinah Beesigomwe: “Many times the Christmas Cards with those signatures and prayers...
A very warm welcome to this, our 13th year of the Christ Church, Stone,Community Advent Calendar. We are excited and ready to see all thewonderful Advent Window displays this year and look forward to meetingeveryone who is able to join in with this year’s event.This year the displays will be up for the whole of...
Looking back can trap us in nostalgia. Lionel Bart’s, musical comedy “Fing’s ain’t what they used to be” humorously summed up the attitude in the nineteen sixties. In stark contrast we share in the sadness of the exiled writer of Psalm 137 “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion”....