Dear friends, Many greetings, and God’s peace be with you. Welcome to our worship this morning. We remain in the Easter Season, celebrating the risen life of our Lord Jesus, and God’s triumph over the powers of darkness and death. Next weekend (18/19th May)  is your opportunity to enjoy both the beauty of God’s Creation, and also the skill and creativity of…

Dear friends, A warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping with us this Sunday. May the joy of the risen Christ be with you all. Firstly please make a note in your diary to visit the Checkendon Church Flower Festival – on the weekend of 18/19th May. There is a special celebration service on the Sunday morning too. Entry is…

Dear friends A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping this morning across the Langtree Team ministry area. May the joy and peace of the risen Christ be yours. Our thoughts and prayers this week remain with the Christian community of Sri Lanka, after last Sunday’s hideous and obscene attacks on churches and hotels. Christians are caught in the…

Christ is Risen ! Dear friends, A very happy Easter to you all. Welcome to our worship this morning, from all of us across the Langtree Team Ministry area. A special welcome to visiting family members, friends, and those with us for the first time. May the love of God be with you. Our churches have been holding their “annual parish church…

Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this Palm Sunday service, where we remember Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, acclaimed by the crowds as their King, upsetting the Temple authorities, and aggravating the Roman overlords. The stage is set for a confrontation – how does it end? I wonder if you can answer that question? Not many people in our society today…

Dear friends, May God’s peace and grace through Jesus Christ be with you all. Welcome to our worship this Mothering Sunday. Let us bless the Lord for the love and care that we have been shown throughout our lives, and especially that nurturing generous love from our mothers, whether living or departed. We gather to honour and celebrate all that they mean…

Dear friends, A warm welcome to our service on this, the third Sunday of Lent. Do make the most of the opportunity to share and learn at our Team wide Lent groups, as advertised inside. I wonder if you are able to remember the third commandment? Or how about the sixth? Or the ninth? Why not test yourself before looking at the…

Dear friends, A very warm welcome to our worship this morning from all of us across the Langtree Team Churches. May the hope and faith of the pilgrim Christ be with us today. Lent Study groups continue around the Team – do see inside. It is a great chance to meet together midweek to share and learn together. It is also the…

Dear friends, Peace and grace be with you all through our Lord Jesus Christ. It is the “Sunday next before Lent”, or Quinquagesima in the old money. Lent begins this coming Wednesday, and you are all warmly invited to our Ash Wednesday Team service, to be held at St Peter and St Paul, Checkendon, at 7.30pm. Lent courses begin next week around…