Welcome to our church website!
Through what you see and read here, we hope that you will want to come and meet us in person, not least because there’s such a temptation in writing for a website to make everything look great, to show off a little, if you like, in the hope that you will want to come and find us for real. Yet “for real” is a much deeper exercise too.
For real, we are a group of people of mixed ages and mixed outlooks gathered together around our faith in Jesus Christ; we love our church and all it seeks to be and to stand for; we get on well with each other and often have a great time together; we are interested in others locally, nationally and internationally, and seek to do what we can in outreach and service.
But for real, we are also a people who know that life is not always good, and faith is not always easy. Amongst us there is pain and grief, and as ‘your hurt is in my heart’ we seek to pray for and to care for one another; we have experienced brokenness and disappointment, yet we seek to receive God’s grace and to know God’s peace as we journey forwards.
Another church in a promotional video says something that we also believe and seek to live out – “at our church it is OK to be not OK” ... now that’s for real! And if that appeals to you, come and find us for real yourself.
Monthly Message from Andrew
January/February 2012 -
Dear Friends
Each time I come to write the first contribution for our church magazine (and website) in a new year I have an obvious opportunity to reflect on the new church text adopted for that year. And this year need be no exception, I think, as we take up (part of) Hebrews 12, 1.....read more
December 2011 -
Dear Friends
It’s not even 2012 yet -
November 2011 -
Dear Friends
During the first two weeks of November in recent years there has been time for little else beyond the Christmas Shoebox Project, and 2011 will be no different, I’m sure. Assemblies have taken place in around ten local schools.....read more
October 2011 -
Dear Friends
The BBC programme Who Do You Think You Are?, currently on air in its eighth series, each week offers its featured personality, and indeed the viewing public at home, a new glimpse into the lines of their ancestry.....read more
September 2011 -
Dear Friends
Anniversaries of significance abound this month, but my own thoughts are drawn to two, each of which will be acknowledged in our Sunday worship together during September.....read more
July / August 2011 -
Dear Friends
The name Lochearnhead means different things to various people, but to many people involved in Scouting within Hertfordshire, it means just one thing – Expedition.....read more
June 2011 -
Dear Friends
We are hardly the first or the only ones reaching this significant milestone this summer, and we surely won’t be the last, and yet it doesn’t diminish the significance for us at home. In these next few weeks, Julie and I take our leave, as parents at any rate, of the world of primary education....read more
May 2011 -
Dear Friends
In March Julie and I fulfilled a long-
April 2011 -
Dear Friends
It was on a Friday, Friday 11 March, that the news began to break of the massive earthquake in Japan, and the whole world has watched with stunned amazement the devastation that has been experienced....read more
March 2011 -
Dear Friends
As the days of spring lengthen, our hearts are lifted and we rejoice in the promise of warmth after winter. But the lengthening days of spring also give us the season of Lent....read more
February 2011 -
Dear Friends
As we have already marked together in Sunday worship and church meeting, the year 2011 offers the significant opportunity to celebrate 400 years of the King James Bible.... read more
