Encounter God In a recent trip to the library, one of my daughters chose a bunch of craft books to bring home instead of stories for a bit of a change. We sat down to read the other night before bed and she pulled one of these craft books out of her bag. We were […]
The Joy is in the Journey Dear St Mark’s and Friends, I recently read a news article on the secret of happiness. *Spoiler alert* the author’s conclusion was that there is no secret to happiness. I have to say, that although I wasn’t necessarily expecting to agree with whatever he came up with (as for […]
Ancient to Modern Recently, I’ve been intrigued to watching a few videos about AI-reconstruction of historical figures from paintings and sculptors. Before you know it, you have a real-life person on the screen in front of you! I was amazed – take a look yourself. Suddenly someone who I have only read about becomes […]
The season of Advent started yesterday, as did the first day of winter. As many of you will know I struggle with the winter months, and I am always sad that Advent is kidnapped by Christmas. I can understand why people are keen to put up their Christmas trees and sparkly lights inside and out, […]
Over the last 12 years working at St Mark’s Church, we have seen God change lives. People who have followed God for ten, twenty, thirty years plus, or families who in that moment it’s the first time they have encountered God’s amazing love, and their journey with God has just begun. I started working […]
Why is Worship Central? As a worship team, we spent most of our practice time last year going through the Worship Central course led by Tim Hughes & Al Gordon. Over 7 months we listened to their teachings, learnt from them and listened to how God was speaking to us through it. The first session […]
I am really happy to be at St Mark’s as a part time curate. Many of you already know me. I was ordained Deacon at the end of June this summer. I am officially a part-time self-supporting assistant curate. The picture above is of my stole, red is for Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came. […]
Some of you will have heard me preach at the 9 am and Café Church on Jesus’ invitation in Mark Ch. 6. V. 30-34 to ‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while’. I talked about the need to rest in order to serve, and finished by quoting Matthew 11. […]
I first heard The Prayer of St Patrick with the Light Project – a place to learn and study theology and community evangelism. We would read this prayer together as a reminder of the promise that Jesus is with us. He has already gone ahead of us guiding us, He has stayed where we have […]
Dear St Mark’s, I’d like to start my blog this month by saying a huge thank you to all of you. Whether you have joined our growing team, financially contribute to our work, pray for us, or any number of other ways that you support the young people and other work we carry out at […]
