Welcome to 2026! Some of you will be glad to see the end of 2025. Some will miss last year. Across church it was a mixed bag of celebration and grieving. But what are your hopes for 2026. Have you made any resolutions? This year holds some exciting things for Barbie and I personally. We shall be grandparents again. Barbie has a special birthday (not allowed to say). There are three missions trips planned for this year as I accept invitations to minister. Spain: Ellie and Kit and some of the youth will join me. Bulgaria: a few of the YA will join me. Zambia: Jess and others will join me. We have some excellent series and teaching planned for you this year. Also some amazing guest speakers lined up: February, Brian Greenaway from Moaz; April, Patrick Regan; May, John McDonough from Paraguay; June, Jordan and Nitasha Christian from Japan; September, Billy Fenning; October, Our church weekend away with Mark and Cathy Madavan But be...
Christmas Theme: The Light Has Come. Title: The Light Has Come for All Generations. [This reading is recored and will be played as a a part of our Christmas Advent devotions, Given]. Luke 2: 22-38: When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”), 24 and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.” 25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. 26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah. 27 Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the ...