Good evening! Just back from PCC... normally fairly snore-creating, but tonight on the whole was really good.
Without wishing to blow my own trumpet, the centre of the meeting was the pizza and wine (thanks Gill and Beryl and Karen respectively) and the bible study on 1 Corinthians 12:12-end about the body of Christ. Went really well and helped tease out some important issues... Hopefully we will use the material again in DCCs and also at the joint away day with King's Langley in September.
On another note - a facebook friend of mine has been to a garden party at Buckingham Palace today. Beautiful weather and cucumber sandwiches... as she said quintessentially British...
I'm off to St Mary's on Sunday. Gospel is wheat and the weeds. A hard Gospel, but one that needs attending to.
Tomorrow is reasonable quiet but I need to spend the afternoon dealing with preparing for the Governors meeting tomorrow night. In the morning I am meeting with one of my Readers to discuss breathing some new life into the Wednesday eucharist...
Anyway, that's me... glass of wine and then bed.
Bon voyage!
Hey folks!
Happy Monday! Hope that you all had a good weekend. I had the pleasure of preaching at Adeyfield Free Church on Sunday morning. I thoroughly enjoyed my time and I feel like I am amongst friends when I go there now.
The holiday club is on the horizom running from JUne 28th from 10 am at AFC. Full details and info is available from Sharon Boyall at AFC or emailing her at boyall@sky.com. I am really looking forward to this venture as it brings our 2 communities together and I love holiday clubs - they are manic but so much fun!!!
Just to remind you all that the open meeting for families with children aged 7+ who are interested in allowing their baptised children the option to prepare to receive Holy Communion before Confirmation should come to the Open meeting at St Benedicts on SUnday 20th at 3.00pm to get some more information.
Feeling tired tonight again. Should get to bed some time soon... Off to a local school tomorrow to lead assembly which will be fun - will tell the story of 'Little Rabbit Foo Foo' as a way to lead into talking about respect and the Greatest Commandment.
PCC meeting in the evening - should be good. Using a bible study which I have written based on 1 Co 12... I am looking forward to it believe it or not!
Well, there's the end of the update!
Nighty night!
Happy Monday! Hope that you all had a good weekend. I had the pleasure of preaching at Adeyfield Free Church on Sunday morning. I thoroughly enjoyed my time and I feel like I am amongst friends when I go there now.
The holiday club is on the horizom running from JUne 28th from 10 am at AFC. Full details and info is available from Sharon Boyall at AFC or emailing her at boyall@sky.com. I am really looking forward to this venture as it brings our 2 communities together and I love holiday clubs - they are manic but so much fun!!!
Just to remind you all that the open meeting for families with children aged 7+ who are interested in allowing their baptised children the option to prepare to receive Holy Communion before Confirmation should come to the Open meeting at St Benedicts on SUnday 20th at 3.00pm to get some more information.
Feeling tired tonight again. Should get to bed some time soon... Off to a local school tomorrow to lead assembly which will be fun - will tell the story of 'Little Rabbit Foo Foo' as a way to lead into talking about respect and the Greatest Commandment.
PCC meeting in the evening - should be good. Using a bible study which I have written based on 1 Co 12... I am looking forward to it believe it or not!
Well, there's the end of the update!
Nighty night!
Hi folks... the blog is back! I am sorry that's been a while! Since Easter, something amazing has been happening in Holy Trinity! God is doing a new thing amongst us - and I want to continue to share with you some of that great stuff!
Last night we had a really really good DCC meeting. At the heart of the meeting was an update on our priorities. This follows on from 10am services in March and June and we have discerned 7 key areas that we feel God feels we should be prioritising as achurch. These are
Worship
Community
Study/house groups
Pastoral support
Children and young people
Publicity
Welcome
Last night the DCC saw how these, and the people who have shown some interest in one of these key areas, can drive forward ideas and ministry in these key areas. It also links into a skills audit that we are doing as a church too.
All of this work is drawing in many people into ministry in and through God's church, meaning that instead of there being a few people doing lots of jobs, we end up with lots of people doing ideally one job each.
This is a biblical vision of what it means to be a christian disciple - God calls us each by name through our baptisms, and equips us for mission and service. When the disciples are sent out by Jesus, they are to a specific task, for a specific period of time. Sometimes with a specific message.
It's also true for St. Paul. He didn't wander aimlessly across central Asia, but had a clear vision of where and where he was to go - targeted and specific.
This initiative also gives us as a church the opportunity to move away from being 'spiritual children' - being fed by the ministry team or the DCC or the Deanery or the Diocese and relying on others for spiritual wellbeing and nurture, and moves us to being a church, mature in our faith, and like the adults we are, taking some responsability for the life of faith oursleves.
All very exciting!
On another note, there is a really fantastic series of events and opportunities being planned for 26-28 September 2008 in Leverstock Green. An opportunity to build friendships, have fun, learn and deepen our faith together. Put the dates in the diary so as not to miss out!!!
House groups aim to begin again in September/Ocotber with 2 studies for the Autumn - one on money and one on worship - both of which look fantastic. Look out for the sign up sheets!
Also on 28th September we are inviting people back to church for a special service for all the family. This is a great opportunity to come back and join the family of the church again. It is also a great chance to invite people personally too. Please do pray for this really important service using the following prayer:
Welcoming God, thank you for today.
Thank you for making us and loving us.
Thank you for inviting us to know you.
Please bless Back to Church Sunday and bless everyone in
our church.
Help us all to know you better.
We pray in the name of Jesus.
Amen
Great to be back in the blogsphere!
Simon
Last night we had a really really good DCC meeting. At the heart of the meeting was an update on our priorities. This follows on from 10am services in March and June and we have discerned 7 key areas that we feel God feels we should be prioritising as achurch. These are
Worship
Community
Study/house groups
Pastoral support
Children and young people
Publicity
Welcome
Last night the DCC saw how these, and the people who have shown some interest in one of these key areas, can drive forward ideas and ministry in these key areas. It also links into a skills audit that we are doing as a church too.
All of this work is drawing in many people into ministry in and through God's church, meaning that instead of there being a few people doing lots of jobs, we end up with lots of people doing ideally one job each.
This is a biblical vision of what it means to be a christian disciple - God calls us each by name through our baptisms, and equips us for mission and service. When the disciples are sent out by Jesus, they are to a specific task, for a specific period of time. Sometimes with a specific message.
It's also true for St. Paul. He didn't wander aimlessly across central Asia, but had a clear vision of where and where he was to go - targeted and specific.
This initiative also gives us as a church the opportunity to move away from being 'spiritual children' - being fed by the ministry team or the DCC or the Deanery or the Diocese and relying on others for spiritual wellbeing and nurture, and moves us to being a church, mature in our faith, and like the adults we are, taking some responsability for the life of faith oursleves.
All very exciting!
On another note, there is a really fantastic series of events and opportunities being planned for 26-28 September 2008 in Leverstock Green. An opportunity to build friendships, have fun, learn and deepen our faith together. Put the dates in the diary so as not to miss out!!!
House groups aim to begin again in September/Ocotber with 2 studies for the Autumn - one on money and one on worship - both of which look fantastic. Look out for the sign up sheets!
Also on 28th September we are inviting people back to church for a special service for all the family. This is a great opportunity to come back and join the family of the church again. It is also a great chance to invite people personally too. Please do pray for this really important service using the following prayer:
Welcoming God, thank you for today.
Thank you for making us and loving us.
Thank you for inviting us to know you.
Please bless Back to Church Sunday and bless everyone in
our church.
Help us all to know you better.
We pray in the name of Jesus.
Amen
Great to be back in the blogsphere!
Simon
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