Have you ever wondered how the videos are played, or how the violin is just as loud as the drums, or how you can listen back to sermons or livestreams of the service? The answer is simple: The Audio Visuals (AV) team! I might be biased, but I think it’s one of the best teams […]

At a recent planning day, the English Conversation Café team mapped out some of the countries that guests who attend the evenings come from. Take a look. What do you notice? In short, you’ll see that God has brought a mission field to our doorstep. Regularly around the tables on Monday nights are guests from […]

January is an excellent time to go away as a Church. Not much is going on, there’s not much to do, and the weather’s horrible, which means a lot of sitting inside. And this does something to starve the soul, making it lean and hungry and vulnerable. Walking through the Surrey countryside was gentle and […]

“Teach us to pray…” That’s what the disciples asked Jesus in Luke 11. I think I often read this verse as ‘teach us how to pray’ but in fact it just says ‘teach us to pray’. Perhaps it’s an insignificant distinction as Jesus does them teach them how to pray in the words of the Lord’s Prayer, but it […]

A month or so ago we had a Globe Talks: Friendship morning giving us the chance to spend a few hours together as a Church family to think through a Biblical understanding of friendship and some really practical applications of what that looks like.  I write these reflections as someone who cares deeply about friendships. […]