NEWS

We are hoping to continue Lumen and Insight, host new groups, hold fun events, and much more! But to do this, we need people! 

Thanks to your generosity, we have delivered Easter Food Bags to local families. The bags contained cupboard goods, fresh food and of course some chocolate Easter eggs.

In church, you may routinely hear words such as ‘sin’, ‘salvation’, and ‘grace’ but how often are these words used in wider society?

This coming July, Church Council will be meeting to vote on a proposed re-ordering of the Church nave and transepts. Ahead of this meeting, the trustees would like to hear from you.

Thank you to everyone who acted, read, stewarded, provided refreshments for, sung, played music, operated technology, looked after kids and youth or simply attended our many Easter events and services over the last couple of weeks.

As we approach the services and traditions of Easter, let’s remember that it is all in service of a promise.

This Palm Sunday, we are excited to present a dramatic presentation of the events of Good Friday.

We will be joined by Sienna Sexton from the Joint Public Issues Team within the Connexion who will be leading us on a session entitled “How do we respond to a world at War?” There will be a talk, time to discuss/reflect and, of course, pudding!!!

In a world that is often busy, distracted and striving, it can be easy to miss that Jesus invites us to come to him and rest.

World Day of Prayer is an international, inter-church organisation led by women which enables us to hear the thoughts of those women from all parts of the world: their hopes, concerns, and prayers.

Church member Ben Harper created this beautiful cross to share with a new small group meeting on Monday mornings.

Since October we have been running Soup-er Thursdays in Wesleys. On these days our opening hours have been extended to 2pm and light lunches have been on offer.

I’m very interested in railways; travelling on them, watching programmes about them and even modelling them. So, why not start a friendship group around it?

It’s tempting to regard the teachings of Jesus as old fashioned; irrelevant to the world that we now live in. This is a travesty.

Amongst the Christmas cards I have received, a couple stood out. On one front cover was the word ‘Joy’ and on the other it said ‘Joy to the world’.   

For many at High Street, the sight of the illuminated star shining in the stained-glass East Window during Carol and Communion services is a mark of the season.