Please don’t forget that offerings of food for The Filling Station should be delivered to church on Thursday, June 24th at 4:30pm.

New restrictions will be strictly enforced in Uganda to curb the spread of a second wave of Covid-19 following a sharp rise in cases, President Museveni confirmed in a televised address last Sunday. “All schools will be closed for 42… Read more

The children of St Francis sent us a gift of £702 for our school at Bwaziba a few weeks ago. And they have not finished yet! Year 6 are going to run a traditional summer fair. This year it must… Read more

Most churches in Britain are inspected ‘quinquennially’, that is to say every five years. The Church of England introduced quinquennial inspections as a statutory requirement in 1955 through The Inspection of Churches Measure. We often groan inwardly at the thought… Read more

Your new PCC will meet next week to discuss the Grand Reopening – in whatever form that takes. We will also be thinking about provision for our children and youth work in the days ahead. Our children’s leaders are meeting… Read more

Churchwarden Our previous Annual Meeting was actually six months ago. It had been delayed because of the coronavirus. We hoped it would be the last one under Covid restrictions. Sadly—not quite yet! We began by electing our churchwardens. Unfortunately, for… Read more

James, our treasurer, had some remarkable news. The picture James gave us was of three points on a graph. Best outcome: the green dot—worst outcome: the red dot … and yellow somewhere in the middle. We almost achieved the best… Read more

If Boris gives us the green light, we are ready to turn on the ignition. We have a programme set up to carry us through September 11th. By then we should have a clearer idea of where we are. If… Read more

Oliver Home has done an outstanding job as Diocesan Secretary. That is the C of E’s way of describing the top job done by a lay person at Hillside House. It is a post of huge responsibility. Oliver will be… Read more

We elected four people to the PCC this year. Tom was appointed for a single year. We are delighted to welcome back Tony. We also saw Charmain and Ali coming on PCC for the first time. We thank Alan and… Read more

Behind the scenes of our online services are Mike and Paul, Andy and now Jenny. From the camera work to the text on screen they make it all happen for us every week. All we have to do is to… Read more

A few weeks ago, I told the story of a young Christian man doing his National Service back in the fifties. It had been told to me by a GP who led a Christian group when I was at school…. Read more