Posts from 2024
Advent & Christmas 2024
Christmas Giving 2024 This year, as always, we will be collecting food and toiletries for the Epsom and Ewell Food Bank. Our collection day is set for December 8th, allowing time for these essential items to be distributed before Christmas. In addition to food donations, we’ll be gathering financial contributions to support Tearfund’s Christmas appeal. More details on this appeal will be shared in an upcoming December service. Let’s come together to make this Christmas season a little brighter for…
November 2024 Message from Rev. Gavin Carpenter
Dear Friends Throughout November and December winter fully sets in, it gets cold and dark. Nevertheless, these months are peppered with so much to look forward to, from fireworks to Christmas. When I was a child and Christmas was on the horizon, I’d scour the heavy Littlewoods catalogue, matching product to price, finding that realistically priced present. I can’t imagine any child doing that now, instead you might find your ‘virtual’ amazon trolly full of your child’s (or partner’s) stuff,…
September 2024 Message from Rev. Gavin Carpenter
Dear Friends It’s September, which means some of us will feel busy until the 27th December! September marks the beginning of a new academic year. For some it will bring a fresh start, bustle and hard work, this is to be celebrated. For the Christian, this sense of new ventures should be celebrated but we must be careful to retain our devotional life. I enjoy the brief story of Martha and Mary welcoming Jesus to their house in Luke 10:38-42,…
Religion or Relationship – a meditation
Whilst awake early in the morning one night, our Lord was inspiring me to meditate upon the Two R’s in our Christian walk. It helped me to see some things the way He does. Praise His Name. I pray that this simple Truth may help others the way it helped me. Choosing one or the other can have quite a different impact on our lives. Religion or Relationship What do we choose to follow? Religion, which guides you under striving…
Summer 2024 Message from Rev. Gavin Carpenter
Dear Friends I hope that you are well and enjoying the long (and sometimes warm) summer days. I was reading the book of Revelation recently and pondering the early verses in chapter five. It’s intense, heavenly throne rooms, scrolls and seven seals, powerful stuff. Yet what caught my attention was the picture of Christ in those verses. The Apostle John wrote Revelation whilst suffering exile to the Greek isle of Patmos; in his isolation he saw heaven opened. Seeing heaven,…