As a Christian community we are increasingly aware that life is all about connection – our connection with God and with others.  There is so much about connection in the bible… so much in the story… perhaps you could say that it’s a all about connection – with God, with each other, with the world around us… In it we read stories of connection and stories of disconnection, we read stories of how God wanted to reconnect us to himself, and how we repeatedly disconnect ourselves from him and other, and we read stories of Jesus who was so connected with his Father and yet allowed himself to become disconnected so that he could reconnect us to God.
This is what …

The empty tomb gets you thinking.  Dead people stay dead. That’s what the word means… Dead.  Dead is unambiguous… Dead is dead.  And so the empty tomb gets you thinking… It gets me thinking.  As for me I believe that Jesus is no longer dead. I believe that he is alive. I believe that the empty tomb tells us a crazy but simple truth… that Jesus rose from the dead. I believe it… And it shapes every part of my life.
For a start it shapes the way I see God. It demonstrates to me that he is more powerful than death – that other counterfeit power that takes us all one day and stakes a claim to be the power above all powers.  It tells …

Just wanted to plug the gatherings on Thursday and Friday to you : )
Thursday night from 7.30pm we will be gathering right at the front of the church to remember the last supper and the events that followed. The service will be quite reflective and somber in mood as we listen to readings about Jesus breaking bread, talking about betrayal, washing feet, praying in the garden, being arrested and being dragged to court… Big events simply retold and a chance for us to ponder them together with music and stillness…
On Friday morning join together for a further time of reconnection with the power of cross. Arrive at 10am for some quiet prayer and then at 10.15 I …

Hi everyone…
I mentioned briefly on Sunday a few ideas for helping us to engage with the amazing story of this week and thought I might put some of them on the website as I wasn’t the most articulate at that point…
Like many of us (most of us?) I need help to dig deep into the Easter story and making it personal to me, alive… Getting together with others who want to explore the themes with me or to chat about them always helps and that is why we are having a few specific meetings this week looking at the story together. On Thursday night we are looking at the last supper and the events just after that… on …

Easter is a great time for gathering together and spending time thinking through the most important story of them all – praying, kneeling, crying, laughing, rejoicing… it’s all here…
Join us if you can.
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God is working all the time… although we can’t always see it or recognise it.  But sometimes God’s actions in our lives feel so real that we can’t help but talk about them.
As we journey together as a church family we want to encourage each other with stories of what we see God doing in our lives.  Simple stories, simply told. Real. Authentic.
To help us in all this we are going to make sure that each week we hear from each other when we meet.  So come ready to share your stories.  Get used to looking out for the workings of God and listen out for what the Spirit is saying to us as a family being shaped into the …

We’d love to welcome you at our Christmas services.
Here are the dates and times:
Carols by Candlelight
Sunday 20th December 6.30pm
A lovely service of carols and readings following the story
Mulled wine and mince pies
Beer and Carols
Tuesday 22nd December 7pm @ White Horse pub
A fun time of singing around the piano
For all the family
Midnight Mass
Christmas Eve 11pm
A beautiful way to welcome in the new day
Christmas Morning Celebration
Christmas day 10.15am
Bring along the whole family for a fun filled celebration

This Sunday we are going to be focussing our prayers and attention on healing. We carry with us the seeds of faith and bring our concerns and requests to our God of love. Breaking bread together we are mindful that Jesus is there amongst us and that we join our prayers with his. Come ready to pray, to receive and to believe.
10.15am at the main church building.
Next Sunday we are holding a baptism service as Dan, Louise and Toby come forward as a family to announce their faith and trust in Jesus. Pray for them as they get ready for this significant day in their lives.

I am excited about what is happening on Sundays over the next few weeks through to the end of November and wanted to let everyone know about it.
This Sunday is normal (if there is ever a normal Sunday here!), and I am going to be looking a the Sower in the last of our ‘Level Teaching’ series…
The week after (25th October) we are going to have a healing service where the focus will be on us praying for each other and blessing one another in Jesus’ name.
On the 1st November Louise and Toby are going to be baptised with Dan reaffirming his vows… Always a great time – if there is anyone else who wants to be baptised let …

New Service Times
Since January we have been trying out a whole new way of organising our services on Sunday mornings.  We are really excited about these new changes. if you want to find out more about all this, then click here.
From now on (except for the first Sunday of the month) the gatherings will begin with 45mins of worship (readings, prayers, songs, stillness, visuals, meditations, breaking bread etc) followed by a ‘Doughnut Break’ for about 30mins, followed by a time of learning together (the ‘talky bit’). (see podcasts)
On the first Sunday of every month we have what we have called ‘Sunday Live!’ (I think after a Saturday morning TV show some years back).  Regardless of the name, we will increasingly …