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 […]
A good question! You probably recognise this as part of a campaign to try to make people more aware of how much it costs when we don’t turn up to doctors or hospital appointments. I was recently in a meeting where Petra (P.A. to Hennie) was quoting Pastor Agu. Pastor Agu is the pastor of […]
April blog After 23 years I still see myself as a ‘new’ Christian and probably always will. I’m asked what my favourite Bible verses are. I struggle as I can’t remember them with all their references but I do enjoy the daily discipline of reading some verses and some application of them. I was not […]
March Blog from Hennie as she prepares to go on 3 month sabbatical This verse above was shared by 3 people when the PCC/Leadership/Staff team met to pray on the morning of Saturday 20th January specifically for the church’s financial situation, for the sale of Capeland Close, the Faith Building Project, and the bid for […]
