A View from Outside – Vicar’s comment Feb 2016
A View from Outside “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13: 34-35. We arrived at St Christopher’s in the summer having spent the past 18 […]
Vicar’s Comment – January 2015
“You killed the love of my life but you don’t get my hatred” wrote the husband of one of those murdered by terrorists in Paris. “I don’t know who you are but I will not grant you the gift of my hatred because responding to (your) hatred with anger and hatred is to fall victim […]
Vicar’s Comment – December 2015
A man called Stephen Covey once said, ‘the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing’! So, what for me, have been the main things in my time at St Christopher’s or at least what have I hoped they’d be? (And I know, he means you should only have one main thing…let’s […]
Vicar’s Comment – November 2015
As I write this, National Adoption Week is about to happen. You might be forgiven for thinking that we must be extremely fussy as it’s taking so long to be matched with the right children! Because there are still about 15,000 ‘looked after children’ waiting in care of various forms, but many of them are […]
Vicar’s Comment – October 2015
I read a story in the paper this morning about a French couple living in Calais who, much to the disgust of some of their neighbours, took in a young Syrian man who had kept calling at their house as he had no food or drink.First they made him sandwiches, but then they invited him […]
Vicar’s Comment – Sep 2015
“Everything changes but God changes not” is a hymn I remember singing at Junior School. We seem to be heaping change on change at the moment at St Christopher’s and some of us find that easier than others. As we say a sad but grateful farewell to Paul & Sue, Megan & Chris, Colin & […]
Vicar’s Comment – July 2015
What choices and dilemmas have you been facing lately? Or perhaps you’ve had to assess both your qualities and flaws for something like an application form? Our series of 5 summer Bible studies will look at all these things and more by making connections between the life and time of Richard III, our lives today […]
Vicar’s Comment – June 2015
One of the standard questions often asked at interviews for vicars is ‘What is the Gospel?’ and ‘What is the church for?’ How would you answer them? Would you know that the vision of our diocese for the last 10 years has been ‘Shaped by God’? I hope so, as our bright diocesan magazine shares […]
Mission for June 2012
Crosslinks What do Crosslinks Mission Partners do? A huge variety of placements – but always with the aim of taking God’s Word to God’s World through front-line evangelism and the training of trainers. Crosslinks has people teaching in churches and theological colleges, doing student work, English teaching in Bible colleges, working with returnees (those who […]