Reflections on Holiday Club  

For four days, from the 30th of August to the 2nd of September, Christ Church ran our Razzamatazz Robots holiday club! It was the first time we'd been able to run our 'annual' holiday club in three years due to covid, and therefore it was also my first holiday club as Children and Families worker...

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Results, worth and the love of God  

September Magazine During the last weeks the direction of many lives have changed. Our minds may reflect on the sporting achievements of the Commonwealth Games, the European athletics, or some other sporting events in the calendar – for there have been so many during the summer! But for many the outcome of exams has been...

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Taking the Long View

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”....

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What are you worth?

Hospital Notes 36 As a Volunteer at UHNM I receive a parking permit for the staff car parks at both Royal Stoke and County Hospitals and last month I had to go into the ‘Volunteer Coordinators Office’ to collect my new pass. While there I was struck by a poster on the wall which read…...

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