On Sunday one of our congregation, Ruth Smith, preached for the first time. Ruth reminded us all of the uniqueness and importance of our own stories. 1 Peter 3.15 says ‘Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the…
Bradgate Park is one of the natural gems of Leicestershire. Like many other people, I visited it recently with my family. With children running, playing ball games, building dams, scooting and cycling, and adults just watching the many deer, walking or relaxing in the…
The camping out for Royal fanatics is at an end. Cancellation of leave for newshounds and paparazzi is no longer necessary. Kate and William’s baby boy has arrived. We wish the young Prince and his parents well. In the words of the Bible, may…
Dr Keith Waddell, with colleagues,wearing his kanzu on a previous occasion. Yesterday, we welcomed as our preacher, Dr Keith Waddell. Keith, who is one of our members and owns a house close to the church. But he spends most of his year working as an…
As we continued in the series which looked at the Gifts of the Spirit, in our All Age service last Sunday we reached “Spiritual Gifts in Relationship.” These are the “Fruit of the Spirit” which are mentioned in Galatians 5:22: love, joy, peace, forbearance,…
The wedding season is upon us now and I look forward to the joy and privilege of taking a marriage service. Watch this link to see a flash mob dance within a recent wedding service taken by someone I trained alongside.
The banner outside the church at present reads: “enough food for everyone, IF we act and pray.” The action of one family in the church, the Batchelors, was to go to London support the IF Campaign Rally on 9 June in Westminster Central Hall,…
On Sunday it was Father’s Day. At St Paul’s we took the opportunity to mark this day by praying for all the men, especially the Dad’s in our congregation.The news in the past week reported the ‘desert’ of fathers in children’s lives today. Statistics…
On Saturday 8th June we hosted our second Garden Party in the Vicarage garden. For those of us not able to travel to London and join in the IF rally we used this opportunity to raise some funds for the IF campaign.Home made cakes…
The campaign “IF” is a campaign run by a coalition of relief and development agencies, some of which are Christian. The belief is that the cause of malnutrition and starvation in the world is not a lack of food – in fact there are…
