Something cheery this way comes Dear friends, As we emerge from lockdown to….lockdown… it can be galling to think that we might have to do this all the way to Easter. However, looking back, we’ve come a long way, and looking forward there are some things we can each do to live and grow throughout this winter. A marathon is run just…
Keep this email safe, or print it out (just this once), Dear friends An Advent Journey Advent begins this coming Sunday – 29th November, and I invite you to join me online every day at 8.30pm from Monday 30th November until Christmas Eve, for a devotional ten minutes. We’ll be making the journey to Bethlehem and meeting some of the Bible characters…
Advent Hope Dear friends The liturgical season of preparation and waiting for Christmas begins on Sunday 29th November. This year it does feel like Advent has been extended backwards into November, as we enter week 3 of the second lockdown. We know that Christmas 2020 will be different. But it will be none the less real. Christ did come, did teach, was…
It is almost week two! Dear friends, Thank you to all of you who came along to the zoom remembrance services offered across the Team on Sunday. I have had a lot of positive feedback for my service, for which many thanks indeed. In case you have not had a chance to make a donation to the Royal British Legion, you can…
We can do this Dear friends, On Thursday we will be entering another national lockdown, ostensibly for four weeks, but this very much depends upon how quickly Covid hospitalizations can be brought under control, and the measure of transmission of the virus reduced again. Our Churches have had once more to suspend live worship services, but I have been expecting this for…
Home working is hard ….with a demanding “special advisor”. Dear friends, Thank you for your ongoing support for your local church as together we attempt to navigate these strange uncharted waters. Everything remains rather constrained; the shape of “work” has changed for almost everybody, even for those of us who worked from home “in the olden days”. However our pets, at least,…
Autumn Gold Dear friends, As I write this the morning sun is slanting low and catching a larch tree by the gate almost at ninety degrees. This particular tree is normally unnoticed; it is a bit scrappy and I have to pull the ivy away from the base every year. But this morning the tree is vibrant, the leaves almost entirely yellow,…
Please take care Dear friends, The next few weeks are the time to be especially careful if you are out and about. The virus case map shows the “blue” areas where cases have been recorded creeping ever closer to our part of the world, so it is safe to assume that if one travels anywhere at all – even just to Henley,…
Give thanks Dear friends, As the mornings draw in, it is difficult to remain unmoved by the all pervading sense of global threat. We can learn a lot from how the Jewish people have endured far worse over the course of their history; their nation has survived three attempts at total annihilation – from the Babylonians, the Romans, and the Nazis respectively.…
Welcome to James, Debbie and Bex Dear friends, It is wonderful to be able to welcome Rev James and Mrs Debbie Leach, together with their daughter Bex to the Langtree Team Ministry…..today ! James is being licensed at 7.30pm this evening by Bishop Colin in a short zoom service. The numbers are 838 9467 5412 and 770221 . Please do join us…