by admin | Feb 25, 2025 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
Dear One and All,The bags are packed, the house made tidy and we are set to travel abroad. Travel, according to Thenadier in Les Miserables ‘ is a curse’. I am not sure I agree, but if our bags go missing, if our passports are lost or the flight is delayed then I...
by admin | Jan 1, 2025 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
Dear One and All,We are now ‘In the deep mid-winter’ and all the noise ‘from the men of strife’ is now over and there is just a chance of ‘a silent night’ which is ‘joy to the world’. The celebration of Christmas is now put behind us and the season of Epiphany is upon...
by admin | Dec 1, 2024 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
Dear One and All,“Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, star and angels gave the sign.”– Christina Rossetti. Dear One and All,As I write this letter to you the season of Advent is almost upon us. Advent marks what is...
by admin | Oct 29, 2024 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
Dear One and All,And so, we enter the season of Remembrance. It is time to pause and take stock. Some families will have very deep scars; there will be memories of loved ones, photographs on mantlepieces, stories told and tears shed. The generation from the Great War...
by admin | Oct 29, 2024 | Charity of the Year, Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
Since our last report the total raised has risen to4,358.52. We continue to raise money for this cause until the end of the year. A safe haven, a good anchorage July 2024 saw the opening of the refurbished Felixstowe Seafarers Centre now under the management of QVSR....
by admin | Oct 29, 2024 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, Ministers News, News
Dear One and All,Every so often I like to pick up a poetry book. You may see me with a copy of John Donne’s poetry or Wilfred Owen or I might start having a read of a Shakespeare play. I try to convince myself I am going to learn the text and spout Shakespeare or some...
