On 4th July 1997 (American Independence Day), an American spacecraft called ‘Pathfinder’ landed on the planet Mars. The unmanned spacecraft was designed to bounce on landing. The craft later released a moving vehicle the size of a skateboard. It analysed the soil and atmosphere, and then automatically transmitted the results back to earth by radio […]
Prayer for June and July
One of England’s greatest authors, Charles Dickens, died on 9th June in 1870. He had started school at the age of nine, but had to leave when his father was imprisoned for debt. Charles Dickens was then aged twelve, and he had to get a job to support himself. He found work in a shoe […]
Prayer of the Month – April
Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. He is now acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest scientists. Yet, when he applied to attend a college in Munich, he was turned down because they said that he ‘showed no promise’. He then worked in different jobs to get the money he needed to follow […]
Praying Hands
“Christ has no hands, no feet on earth, but yours…” Those well-known words of St Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) were recalled for us by the Revd Jill Thornton, who led our worship on the first Sunday in October. Developing the theme of hands, Jill described how a bride traditionally leaves the wedding service on the […]
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 […]
Labyrinth
Our Bible Study and Prayer Evening on Thursday 17th June 2010 focussed on the Prayer Labyrinth. This was my first experience of a Prayer Labyrinth, and I sincerely hope not my last. Never have I experienced an evening of prayer like it. There were twenty stations marked out for us to follow in the church […]
The Purpose of Prayer
Our May Bible Study continued to focus on Prayer and its meaning. Led by our Minister, we started by considering our responses to three passages from Luke’s Gospel: 1. Luke 4, 1-13 The complete silence of the wilderness encourages self-examination, ie working out who we are and what God wants us to do with our […]
When Jesus Prayed
On Thursday 18 March our study group met to consider the topic of individual prayer. We looked at three of the occasions on which Luke says that Jesus prayed: after his baptism, before choosing his disciples, and in the Garden of Gethsemane. We considered the questions: why did Jesus pray? and what difference did it […]
Why Pray?
This year the Vision4Life programme is focussing on Prayer, and at our Bible Study in February a group of us came together to consider the nature and practice of prayer. The way we pray probably says something about the kind of God in whom we believe. We started by listing some things that made us […]
Prayer
Our candle tree symbolises the importance of prayer within our church life. Members of our congregation, both younger and older, light candles of prayer each week.