Dear Friends, How can it be November already? I felt a bit guilty the other day as I remembered how I longed for cooler days when we were going through a series of mini heatwaves in the Summer. I longed for a day when I would feel a bit chilly and I could put on a...

Dear Friends, When I think of ‘New Beginnings’, my mind often goes to one of our hymns ‘One more step along the world I go’ and particularly the chorus, ‘And it’s from the old I travel to the new; keep me travelling along with you.’ These words are so appropriate in...

There are many places around the world where people, especially Christians, travel in pilgrimage. Something about the history and spirituality of certain places can spur us on to take our own journeys, for example, to visit Bethlehem, Nazareth or the Holy Land. These...

Dear friends Isn’t it just lovely to be made welcome? As an Elder of this church and a volunteer for the Tree of Hope (the Fairtrade shop) I am very aware of how welcoming a church needs to be. One of the passages from scripture that upholds my understanding of this...