Peace from a shoebox

‘Peace from a shoebox’ (article published in ‘Reform’ April 2017 issue) How a food parcel led to the development of a global partnership between five churches What happens when, in 1946, you send a marmalade pudding, tins of sardines and corned beef, dried egg powder and half a pound of tea in a shoebox to […]

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Visitor from the Czech Republic

From 11th to 16th March we are very pleased to welcome to Purley Šimon Janča, from the Church of the Czech Brethren in Orlova, close to Ostrava. He visited Purley as a four-year old with his parents Štĕpán and Lýdie (Janča), whom a good many people will remember from our centenary year in 1995, when […]

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