Christmas Greetings from our Partnership Churches
Christmas Greetings from Ostrava (Translation of card message above ………………) 3rd Sunday in Advent 2020 We wish you a Christmas full of joy and blessings, and all the best for the New Year. Your friends from Ostrava. Christmas Greetings from Speyer Christmas Greeting from Dessau (Translation of card message above ………………) ‘This is the wonder […]
Russell’s Monthly Newsletter – December 2020
Dear Friends, I am tempted to misquote Mr Spock in Star Trek: “It’s Christmas, Jim, but not as we know it!” Most of this year has been unpredictable and abnormal. The next few weeks are going to be no different. Families are facing awkward conversations about who is going to be in whose ‘Christmas 3-household […]
Protected: Christmas Greetings and Messages for 2020
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Russell’s Monthly Newsletter – November 2020. A season of Remembrance.
Dear Friends, In November the church moves into a season of remembrance: All Saint’s Day is swiftly followed by Remembrance Sunday. During a recent online meeting I was stirred into an early taste of remembrance when I found myself in the company of a couple of people I had the pleasure of spending time with […]
Remembrance Sunday
Russell’s Monthly Newsletter – September 2020. A new academic year …..
Dear Friends, As a new academic year begins, under extraordinary conditions, I imagine teachers, not unlike church ministers, feel as though they are having to negotiatetheir way through regulations and guidelines with the skill of a tightrope walker. Never having a head for heights, I have always been puzzled why anyone wouldwant to place themselves […]
Harvest 2020 – We are still a part of a Wonderful World
Russell’s Monthly Newsletter – July 2020
Dear Friends, Like all of us, I have read much over recent weeks about the current crisis: the causes of it, the handling of it, particularly by governments around the world, and where God is in the midst of tears, isolation and fear. One of the most useful reflections was offered by Tom Wright (former […]
Worship Update
Update …….. We remain closed for private and public worship and other activities whilst the necessary risk assessments and work to make the premises Covid-19 compliant are completed.