What are your first memories of your childhood? Did you feel safe; have fun; feel loved? For many children today, they can’t answer yes to all three – let alone just one. With 4.1 million children living in poverty, the risk of sexual abuse and mental difficulties highlight the importance of charities – such as the Children’s Society.
How did you revise for your exams at school, college or university? Some find making notes on catalogue cards an aide, noting down key points of revision onto these cards as a cue.
Notices for Sunday 23rd June, with details of our upcoming services and events through St Mark’s. Are you join us as we help Pennington Community Events with their summer spectacular – on the common, 30th June?
With Peter Greenhalgh on piano and Frances Attwood on violin, performed to close our Evensong service on Trinity Sunday.
Why should we settle for recreating ourselves with one more possession, hope, ambition? All the time, Jesus is dying to give us a new life – one we can’t create for ourselves. Can we not instead find Jesus in the darkness of our lives – and in the night time wake anew to a new life with Christ?
Prayers given on our Family Communion service on Trinity Sunday.
Did you ever have an expanding suitcase? Where the clothes could go higher and higher, the lid come over and the racheting down would fit more and more into the case. God’s love for us and our understanding of this through the Holy Spirit is like that: as more and more understanding comes through the Spirit. Jesus last words and actions comforted the disciples in a way that only the Holy Spirit might help them understand: the love that God the Father has for Jesus is the love that Jesus has for each of us – and the Spirit helps us to realise and recognise that power in our lives.
To the tune of ‘Frere Jaques’, sing with children the following – why not try as a round, splitting into two or more parts?
Notices for Sunday 16th June, with details of our upcoming services and events, as well as how you can help both St Mark’s and Pennington as a whole at the summer village event!
The man they had been following had been crucified. This must have felt like the end – but then Jesus came back to them: but the rollercoaster wasn’t over as Jesus left again, ascended. How would you feel at this point: lonely, confused, upset, sad – or perhaps exhausted! But then the Holy Spirit came – can we be identified as Christians by a bubbling, infectious glow of the Spirit in us as was with the disciples then?
