Musing on lent this Sunday in the park, we’ re grateful to Grace for the following… Fast from discontent, feast on gratitude. Fast from worry, feast on God’s providence. Fast from complaining, feast on appreciation. Fast from unrelenting pressure, feast…
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Tonight in the pub,  Wendy led us through thought provoking stuff on the coming of Christ. For some of us, our  answer to the question, “Why did Jesus come to earth?’  defaults to the centrality of the sacrifice and atonement…
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Well we knew the day would come… torrential rain in the park! Nevertheless, with no-one to blame for the lack of church heating, we pressed on – and had a GOOD time.  Steve began with words from Hebrews 12, reminding…
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We begin a new 6 week series of study, discussion and contemplation on Advent. Tonight, 28th October, we meet at the pub to kick off the series. Steve has prepared the following questions ( and essay titles!) -  so  take…
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P. wrote this for our time together in the park on the 18th “Like our personal bibles, breaking bread and wine is also multi-faceted . It will have a different resonance for each of us here today. A different resonance…
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Something I read from “The God you Already Know” by Henry Morgan and Roy Gregory  will be the prompt  for our time together in the park this Sunday morning. Some food for thought before we get together: The authors say ”…
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We met for the first time in Matlock Park in the bandstand. We took the theme of  new beginnings- see below for a taste of the things we did, said and prayed. we put together a  celtic cross formed from twigs…
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On Wednesday evening, we met together to share a meal. Great to have our companion-on-the-journey Ian Adams visiting us. We talked about the stories that had shaped our lives.

  Theme:  New beginnings                                                      6/9       Meal                                                                            9/9       Pub      Inspiration from Greenbelt                               16/9     Home –  Songhursts’ new house blessing                     20/9     Sunday gathering                                                        23/9     Pub      Vision and values                                            30/9     Meal with Ian Adams leading                                     4/10     Sunday gathering                                                         7/10     Pub                                                                              14/10   Home…
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