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With Society ‘open for business’ again, we must not forget our older people

By Alex Drew / 16/09/2020 /

  As a national UK lockdown eases, some people are returning to work and many church buildings are either open again, or making tentative plans to reopen; and even those…

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Intergenerational Living: A Story of Encouragement

By Ruth Preston / 07/09/2020 /

  For hundreds of years, families have taken care of their ageing loved ones, with most families housing children, parents, and grandparents all under one roof. Today, we are seeing…

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God Works Spirit to Spirit

By Ruth Preston / 31/08/2020 /

  We recently had the privilege of speaking with Mavis, a wonderful woman of Christ who is humbly obedient to the call of the Lord, and one of our Church…

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5 Keys to Finding Purpose and Meaning in Lockdown 

By Ruth Preston / 19/08/2020 /

  Finding purpose and meaning is, as the Bible presents it: God’s life giving plan for each one of his children. But during this time of isolation and shielding it’s…

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3 Hidden Treasures of Lockdown

By Ruth Preston / 13/08/2020 /

  The Israelites, we read, wandered the wilderness for 40 years. With the benefit of scriptural hindsight, we can see the working hand of God on their situation, and the…

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The hidden ‘coping’: have we forgotten someone?

By Ruth Preston / 08/08/2020 /

Stoicism has sometimes been associated with a British ‘stiff upper lip’: enduring without unnecessary emotion. Getting on with it. The word comes from the ancient Stoics, who looked for inner…

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One in 5 of us will live to 100. Let’s live it well!

By Ruth Preston / 03/08/2020 /

Even before the most recent dire warnings about population decline, Ian Knox in his excellent book Finishing Well writes this: ‘There are vast numbers of statistics to show that a…

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Mobile Matinee

By Ruth Preston / 21/07/2020 /

“How are you doing Moira?”   “Awful, this is like a horror story.”   “Are there any comparisons to your memories of growing up in World War 2?”   “No…

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Two-thirds of UK churches identify loneliness and isolation as a top issue to tackle post lock-down

By Ruth Preston / 16/07/2020 /

The Allchurches Trust undertook research with over 600 churches in June, which reveals that churches in the UK are gearing up to tackle a huge surge of loneliness in their…

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