How have you occupied yourself in the long dark days of winter lockdown? Over the last year we have done a few jigsaw puzzles, mostly 1,000 piece puzzles. However, the hardest puzzle we did had a mere 500 pieces. Even putting the edge pieces together was difficult, so many pieces seemed to fit in more...
PENTE is Greek for the number 50. So what is Pentecost? Leviticus 23:15-21, describes a ‘Feast of Weeks’ or the ‘Counting of the Omer’ starting after the Passover, on the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and lasting 50 days, or seven weeks, ending with Shavuot - the second of three major Jewish...
The following messages were received in response to Easter greetings card sent by email to all our Mission Partners: Stephen and Tabita Thanks so much for sending us this lovely message and thinking of us. We do appreciate all the TLC that Christ Church Stone lavishes on us down the years. It was especially good...
May's Magazine is here to view in full. O how we’ve longed for the month of May! The pandemic lockdown restrictions have weighed heavily on us. The third lockdown has been harder to endure and perhaps aggravated by finding it more difficult to get out during poorer weather. There is no substitute for being with...
For many years a small, dark, close grained, wooden off cut had been kept in my workshop. It was too small to be of much use, so it just lay in the bottom of the “scrap box”. Then during a quiet period in “lockdown”, I decided to make some hand held crosses. The “useless” piece...
