I hope you’re enjoying the summer months, or what we’ve had of them anyway. At the coffee morning recently, someone told me the reason we’ve had bad weather is because there have been so many sporting events and now they’re almost finished, we’re bound to have good weather.
This summer, the time has come to take my Rangers to Switzerland for ten days—it feels like a million years ago we were doing a fundraising coffee morning for this trip and helped lead the service at Histon. Please do pray for me and Fiona from CSMC as we embark on this adventure, and I look forward to sharing all the stories with you on our return. Paul and I also have ten days at the end of August where we will have some time together: this will be the first time we’ve had since March so we are both looking forward to some precious time with each other.
August is generally a quiet month in the life of the church, and so I encourage you to use this time to rest in the presence of God and spend some with God in God’s gorgeous creation, because come September, we have a million things to look forward to.
Our toilet redevelopment at Histon will shortly commence and as a consequence we will be having a scaled down Harvest Festival. However, we will be having a joint harvest supper at Castle Street on Saturday 21 September. It will be a bring and share like last year, and will most likely feature a few fun games as well. Neither church will be having extravagant displays this year, but will be focusing on goods for the food bank and making a display within the service itself.
If you’d like to make a commitment to supporting the food bank over the summer, please do add one of the following to your weekly shops and bring in your food bank bounty at the Harvest festival:
- soap
- oil
- stock cubes
- sugar
- passata
We had an incredible Old Testament Day with Professor Judith and we were so blessed to share her wisdom and knowledge last month. She has kindly agreed to do another study morning, focusing on the New Testament, to help support anyone who is doing Bible in a Year—but if you have a thirst for knowledge and want to know a bit more about the New Testament, do come along. All are welcome on Saturday 23 November.
Thanks to everyone who came to the open manse last month: it was great to have some time together and fellowship, and I wish you every blessing this ‘restful’ ‘sabbath’ August.
Rev Jenny
