Best friends Katie Green and Sophie Roberts wrote this poem and read it in church on Mothering Sunday. This is a poem to all the mums to say thanks for all you have done: You help us out through the bumps in the road; you help us carry the heaviest load. You dry my tears […]
Our Prayer Box
Our Prayer Box is situated in the church foyer, and is for the use of all visitors to the church. If you would like us to pray for you, for someone you know, or for a situation that worries you, you are invited to put your request in the box. Church Prayer Meetings are held […]
Winter Ending
I woke to hear the soft sound of the rain, Oddly insistent in my drowsy ear. It quickened, and I saw a storm of hail Plummeting down, to whiten path and lawn. Above me swept the trailing skirts of cloud, Flying before the swift hounds of the wind. Below my window, clumps of snowdrops bloomed, […]
Awake, awake to love and work!
On a recent Sunday morning our Minister said “Our closing hymn is number 608, “Awake, awake to love and work! The lark is in the sky…” At this point I glanced idly down to the author and read G A Studdert-Kennedy (1883-1929). At once I was transported back to the story of a young priest […]
Seeds of Time
This morning in the fitful early light Beyond the near, familiar scene I saw, Beyond the cherries, pines and copper beech, Beyond the pitch of roofs, a further tree, Distant, unmarked before, which now emerged, Shining against grey cloud, ethereal, Its thinning leaves light green and touched with gold. Its fragile beauty, knocking at my […]
Reform Magazine Announces URC News Digest
REFORM magazine is marking the New Year with the launch of ‘Digest’ – four dedicated pages of news from the United Reformed Church. The Digest will be a self-contained newsletter-style section within the magazine, concentrating exclusively on denominational and local church stories. REFORM editor Kay Parris said: “The Digest will give us the opportunity to […]
Star In the East
Magi in their mystery, Studying the skies, First received the message That a king should rise. Many duties claimed them, Cares of peace and war; Far and faint the promise Offered by a star. Yet the wise men followed, Taking various ways, Trusting in the portent Many nights and days. So the star led onward […]
Ice and Fire – Winter 2009
Ice and Fire – Winter 2009 The week before Christmas it came – the year’s first snow And a biting chill which ruled the day and the night. Surely the sun was banished and stripped of power In the annual fight which is waged between fire and ice. Yet the sun broke through when at […]
Hallelujah!
On 13 November 2010, these unsuspecting shoppers got a big surprise while enjoying their lunch…
Catching the Light
Sheila Durbin, one of our Church members and a regular contributor to this website, has just had her first book of poetry published. The volume is entitled ‘Catching the Light’, and Sheila says that her chief sources of inspiration are the natural world and her Christian faith. “Recently, one of my main themes has been […]