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 | Eco Church, Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
Celebrating Christmas Many of the ways in which we celebrate Christmas cause additional carbon emissions, so can we be environmentally andsocially responsible without sounding too like Scrooge? Here are some ideas, mainly from A Rocha and Green Christian. Food In...
by admin | Dec 1, 2024 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
A General Church Meeting was held on Sunday 3 November after morning worship The meeting received a draft of the Annual Report which will be submitted to the Charity Commission next year. It was noted that a number of people would be stepping down from key roles at...
by admin | Dec 1, 2024 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
The first Church Council meeting of the new Connexional year, and the first chaired by our minister, the Revd Dr Simon Leigh, was held on Wednesday 18 September at 7.30 p.m. The Treasurer reported that the balance at the end of last year was slightly higher than in...
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 | Dec 1, 2024 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
The Brownies recently celebrated their 40th birthday (Brownies overall has been around for 110 years, but this Unit has been in existence for 40 years – initially in St Davids before moving to The Mint) The Brownies learnt some facts about 1984, played a game...
by admin | Dec 1, 2024 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles
On 14th November we had a joyful reunion lunch with the Afghan friends we made here at the Mint three years ago. Now that they are living in scattered homes in Devon it has been harder to keep in touch. We exchanged many memories of when they came to the Mint once a...
by admin | Oct 29, 2024 | Eco Church, Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
UK Energy Generation Many of you will have seen that on 30th September this year the UK’s last coal-fired power station stopped producing electricity, 142 years after the first coal-fired power station came online. This move away from coal has been gradual, with...
by admin | Oct 29, 2024 | Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
for families with children of primary school age and youngerWe started with a torrent for our first session of Exeter Forest Church – the heavens opened just before we started and the skies didn’t clear until we finished packing up! However, despite the rain we were...
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...
