Category: Monthly Letters
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Let us work and pray for a better world
In this monthly letter to the church, Rev Ruth Jackson encourages readers to work and pray for a better World where all life is valued and all are treated equally, with respect and love.
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Back to school
Dear friends, Do you have good memories of school? It used to be said that they were “the best years of your life”, although I know that for some people they weren’t always such happy times. I enjoyed school, but was happy to leave when the time came. There were new experiences to enjoy, new…
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The Significance of Ascension Day
Hi All This month we celebrate Ascension Day. It is one of the lesser celebrated parts of the Christian calendar. Whilst at theological college we used to process from college, through a local wood to a hill top, there to remember the Ascension of Christ. Whilst serving as a school governor in Wigan, we had…
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The Feast of the Unexpected
This reflection by Rev. Carolyn Lawrance was originally published in the April, 2014 Monthly Letter Dear Friends, Easter is “the feast of the unexpected”. John Pritchard, an Anglican bishop, has written that “Christ arrives from death without warning and without permission. He disturbs every attempt to make God predictable and religion safe”. The religious leaders…
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How deep are your roots?
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and…
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Hope has a name
“Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts forms one body, so it is with Christ.” 1 Corinthians 12:12 Dear Friends, Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ; our Lord and Saviour. Welcome to February 2025. Many of us have started 2025, with some New Year’s resolutions, plans, projects,…
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On the move
Bridging 2024 and 2025 with God’s mercy on a journey of Hope and Faith as we celebrate the birth of “our guiding Light: The Light of the World”. [1] Dear Friends, Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ; our Lord and Saviour. Entering the period of Christmas and the New Year, is definitely the most…
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