Love My Neighbour

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…

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…

Hidden treasures of ‘lockdown’.

By Alex Drew | 24/08/2020

    “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures: He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He…

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…

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…

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…

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…

What does Summer look like for Seniors?

By Ruth Preston | 27/07/2020

  ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. And the…

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…

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…