Sunday 27 October was widely celebrated as “Bible Sunday.” At St Paul‘s, everyone was encouraged to bring a Bible with them, especially ones that had a particular significance. Our Reader (lay Minister) Colin Chettle, who was leading the service, asked people what lay behind…
Every year, the diocese of Leicester helps to resource local churches, such as St Paul‘s, by putting on a “Bishops Lay Congress.” This took place today. The belief underlying the Congress was that while “Church” was often unpopular, people were still drawn to the…
Mark Batchelor (alias Marathon Man) has completed the marathon mentioned in the blog on 4 October. He reports: “It went well, despite the rain! I ran all 26.2 miles in 3 hours and 39 minutes. The provisional results placed me 138th which, being my…
This month, the Christian organisation that we are supporting and focusing on is the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF). At the end of World War II, God Amazingly put this same thought simultaneously into the minds of Christian airmen in the UK, USA, Australia, and…
Today we held our Harvest Celebrations at St Paul’s.As well as singing the traditional harvest hymns of ‘Come ye thankful people come’ and ‘We plough the fields and scatter’ we also sang ‘Cauliflowers fluffy’. Many of our young people know this song from Harvest…
On Thursday 10th October the members and friends of Coffeepot came together to give thanks for the harvest. We sang and prayed and then sat down to a three- course lunch. After soup sandwiches and sweet we met with Wendy Martin from Send a…
Mark Batchelor, a member of St Paul’s writes…. On the 13th October at 9.15am I will be starting out on all 26.2 miles of the Leicester Marathon. This represents for me a great personal challenge and the culmination of months of training. Although I…
Dear Friends,New Service Programme during hese next few months we continue with our sermon series which focuses on our Frontline, the places where we spend most of our time outside of church. We are thinking about how we can bring a positive Christian presence…
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has spoken out about the killing of 83 worshippers at All Saints Church, Peshawar, Pakistan. Despite earlier silence (see blog. 25 September) his comments were picked up by the news broadcasters. He called those killed, Martyrs, as they…
Saint Pauls uses 10 % of what we are given to support charitable causes in the UK and abroad. We have decided, each month, to publicise and to concentrate our prayers on, a different cause. The organisation we are featuring this month is Tear…
