The Our church intern, Priyanka Ferreira, has been working hard to make the sermons from our services widely available. She is videoing each sermon, editing it, and uploading it to YouTube. There is already a small selection available. To see one of them, select…
Most churches have a vestry which is a collecting place for junk. Saint Paul’s vestry is probably worse than most. But recently some members have been working hard to tidy it up. Under the disused posters, cardboard boxes and ancient service sheets, they came…
In his Christmas message, the Bishop of Leicester, Tim Stevens, mentioned the impact on their family of the progression of their daughter Rachel’s breast cancer. Bishop Tim has just announced that, sadly, Rachel lost that battle last night and died peacefully at home. I…
Happy New Year! Welcome to the start of 2015 The gospels contain the good news of Jesus Christ, of his life, his ministry, his death and his resurrection. Paul writes in Romans ‘I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power…
A very Happy New Year from us all at St Paul’s. New Year’s messages have come from leaders all round the world, but perhaps the one that interests us is the one from Justin Welby our Archbishop of Canterbury. That can be seen at…
An excited congregation assembled in Saint Paul’s at 10.0 a.m. on Christmas morning for our Family Communion Service. Presents were displayed as we considered the greatest gift at Christmas – Jesus Christ himself. In a competition to see who had awoken the earliest, it…
As the midnight hour approached on Christmas Eve, we met for the first Communion of Christmas. During the first half of the service, we considered what was important that we were waiting for at Christmas and what would be left after Christmas was over…
The excitement is rising! The church was full of small children and families for the Christingle service this afternoon. On their way into church, children were offered outfits for an impromptu crib scene – Angels, shepherds, Kings, a donkey, and of course, Mary and…
Last Sunday morning the service basically followed our usual “Service of the Word” that we alternate with our Communion Services. But there was a treat coming at the end. “Supertroopers” our Sunday School for those of primary school age, rejoined us, and introduced us…
On Sunday we held our Carols by Candlelight service and welcomed 130 people to St Paul’s. Handheld candles flickered in darkness. Together, we sang many of the old favourites, while the choir sang some of those less well-known. There was even one in French,…
