A great time was had by local families gathering round Dyke Christmas tree, and decorating it through the service, this Sunday. We learnt about ‘gifts’ at Christmas, and one gift in particular who never leaves us or lets us down (Hebrews 13!) Thank you all…
Hi Readers. Last month’s blog was about ‘change’. Our church interior has been refurbished and this change has been very well received. We were visited last week by our new Regional Minister, Mark Clay, who was very impressed. We thanked East Mids. Baptist Assn for donating £5000 towards this. Can I take this opportunity… Read More »
Usual times & ages. Still 50p!
Hi Readers. I type this from a very interesting conference being run by our previous Minister, David Hughes. He helps lead a national organisation called Rural Ministries, helping smaller village churches to healthily grow. And growing means changing. This is all about the thorny subject of ‘change.’ I like the phrase “Change is constant;… Read More »
Hi Readers. For the next 4 Monday evenings I am attending the EMBA ‘Equipped for Change’ course. This is because ‘change is constant; it is the rate of change that changes.’ We heard on the course, “If it isn’t changing it is dead.” So as a growing church we are changing. But we need… Read More »
http://www.ucb.co.uk/word-for-today-40851.html This is taken from UCB’s ‘Word for Today’ this week One of the first things Jesus did after His resurrection was to go looking for the disciples who’d failed Him so badly. ‘On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of… Read More »