Church life without a centre

Well this is the week when we move out of our Church Centre. We have been there for five years and it has been a great place to have. Central to Wallington, just about enough room for meetings such as staff and PCC, visible, accessible, easy-ish parking.

All aboard Noah’s Ark….

Our readings in staff prayers on Monday and Tuesday were about Noah and his ark (for any clergy readers, yes we do use the lectionary for staff prayers!).

Backwards and forwards……

Happy new year to everyone. It’s always good to review a past year and look forward to a new one. 2011 was generally a “good year” for me and mine. The economy may have been tanking, the world was in turmoil but there have been some really positive things last year.

David Cameron and The failure of Christian vision

Two stories grabbed my attention this week. The first was an article in the Economist magazine entitled “God in austerity Britain”. The other was the talk by David Cameron to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.

Light party photos – better late than never….

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Our Light Party is an alternative that we hold to Halloween each year. This year’s was another great success with over 100 children coming to it with a mixture of worship, drama, games and of course, food!

Springfield Church in Fresh Expressions…

I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago over the telephone by Fresh Expressions about what we get up to at Springfield. They have now published the interview on their website.

Ministering in Babylon….

Those nice people over at Fresh Expressions have just published a post that they commissioned me to write…..

Embedding Values – Creating Community

This is part of a series about what it would look like to embed the small group values (what we call cell groups) that Springfield believe in within our groups. How would we know that we were living them out?

Autumn SALT Magazine now online…

… well parts of it are!

Pop over to our website dedicated with articles from our latest SALT magazine.

Articles include ones on Soul Survivor, New Wine, Holiday Club, our first wedding and baptism at our new congregation as well as others.

Religious Studies and social tensions

I was struck by some of the latest information coming out of exams recently. I said on a previous post that I was ambivalent about School assemblies. But this is different. I don’t know if you know that the number of students taking GCSE Religious Studies has risen by a significant amount in recent years.