A Prayer for the New Year: Come Holy God, who has been with us this past year, who has laughed with us, and cried with us, who has cradled us in goodness and love. Bless us with a joy to continue to seek you. Come Holy God, As we stand on the cusp of new […]
Our Minister Ruth will be updating her blog, ‘A Saint in the Making’, regularly throughout Lent. You can follow her daily reflections by clicking this link: ‘A Saint in the Making’
A Reflective Service of Hope and Healing for the Holiday Season For those suffering from recent loss though death, divorce, separation, unemployment, depression Thursday 18 December, 7.30 pm Cries of “Merry Christmas!” and non-stop carolling contrast with the feelings of many people at this time of the year. For those suffering from the recent or […]
The Fleet and Crookham Churches Together in Schools team (FACCTS) have requested our prayers for the students in Calthorpe Park, Court Moor, and other local schools during this time of examinations. In addition, there are some particular activities for which they would welcome prayers: ‘It’s Your Move‘: During the rest of this term the FACCTS […]
Two years into the First World War, the Allied leaders hoped that a battle against the Germans based around the River Somme would be decisive – ‘the big push’. For the previous week the German lines had been heavily bombarded. The Allied soldiers were told that there would be so little opposition that many would […]
Fruit and vegetables from many countries around the world are found in our shops each day. Bananas first appeared in British shops in the year 1633. Today, out of every £1 we pay for some bananas, only 11p goes to those who have grown and picked them in faraway countries. The other 89p goes to […]
February 4th 1906 was the birth date of the German theologian and Pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He became a minister in the Lutheran Church, and was outspoken about what was wrong when the Nazis first came to power. He spent two years as a minister in a church in London, but chose to return to Germany […]
In our first service of the New Year we were invited to join in the Methodist Covenant Prayer: I am no longer my own, but yours. Your will, not mine, be done in all things, Wherever you may place me, in all that I do and in all that I may endure: when there is […]
For Christian who are Catholic or Protestant, Christmas Day itself is the focus for prayer and celebration at Christmas time. Christians of the Orthodox Church (such as in Russia and Greece) have a quiet celebration on Christmas Day, but have the Epiphany (6 January) as their main day of prayer and celebration at Christmas time. […]
The persecution of Christians has been severe in Communist countries. Karl Marx was the inspiration behind Communism. The daughter of Karl Marx explained to a friend that she had never been brought up in any religion, and had never been religious in any way. She said that she had just come across a prayer “which […]
