Last Sunday we started our time together with a treasure hunt. We remembered what had been said when we were playing hide and seek, that God seeks us out and finds us. Remembering the parables of the lost sheep, the…
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Steve and I went to Oxford for the Day 50 event on Saturday. It was  a day of celebrating the integration of CMS and SAMS as well as  CMS as an acknowledged community. And there was plenty to celebrate, with…
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What a wonderful evening we had last night, with Brigid leading us after a brief time around the table with cheese and wine (taking some final footage for our video which CMS has requested).  Brigid led us inan extremely challenging, thought-provoking and…
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A few of us got out to enjoy sunny, if cold, weather. Just loved the views and the company up on Stanton Moor. Great to have Natasha back and to meet Kevin this weekend and really good to get to know Colin and…
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Wednesday night at the Crown on the eve of the General Election Grayden led a discussion on how we should decide where to put our X. We looked at three Old Testament prophets, Amos, Micah and Isaiah in order to see…
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Barbara and Grayden led a May Day Celebration at the Bandstand. Barbara had been reading The Heavenly Party by Michele Guinness. She asked the question – what has happened to the Hebraic celebratory spirit that Jesus would have experienced throughout…
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Excited to have our laminated posters up on four sides of the bandstand for the benefit of passers-by who wonder who we are! We may be church without… a building… but we aren’t without gargoyles!

Very excited about getting business cards printed and laminated posters to put onto the sides of the bandstand on a Sunday morning. It carries the caption: Church without… We reckon we are church without PCC… walls… heating… What might you…
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Steve picked up on the theme of last Sunday and got us thinking more about story. Story-making is hard wired in human beings; it’s the way we make sense of life itself; we provide narratives to explain the world around…
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