by admin | Mar 1, 2026 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
He bids us build each other up; And, gathered into one, to our high calling’s glorious hope we hand in hand go on.’As we proceed through Lent and after a winter that has thoroughly drenched us, we are in real need of being ‘built up’ as Charles Wesley puts it. For so...
by admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
Greetings One and all,‘There are several attitudes towards Christmas.., the social, the torpid, the patently commercial, the rowdy (the pubs being open to midnight And the childish, which is not that of a child…Let him continue in a spirit of wonder’ (The Cultivation...
by admin | Dec 1, 2025 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
Greetings One and all, ‘Today I will look for one small sign that God is present in my daily life. I will give thanks for his presence. If he is absent, I will resolve to find out why.’ (Henri J.M. Nouwen; Advent and Christmas, p.1)Advent typically is a time for...
by admin | Nov 1, 2025 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
Dear One and All,Fred Pratt Green’s hymn (691 StF) ‘What shall our greeting be’ starts verse two by asking ‘What is our mission here?’ On Sunday 2nd November, 2025, following the morning service, everyone is invited to attend a special church meeting, to get to grips...
by admin | Sep 1, 2025 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
Dear One and All, Happy new Connexional year! O God our help in ages past, our hope for years to come; be thou our guide while life shall last and our eternal home.( Isaac Watts:132 Singing the Faith) And so a new Connexional year begins. The season of Harvest...
by admin | Jul 1, 2025 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
Dear One and All, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” –William Shakespeare As I write this letter for the...
