Category: Online Worship

Our Interim Moderator Karen Hendry’s opening reflection for this week is recorded and available to view below.

Karen says “The sun is shining today and there’s no hailstones falling from the sky, unlike yesterday. Our weather just now seems so odd, doesn’t it? It makes me look out and wonder at the sight.

We join the disciples wondering also this morning as they look on the resurrected Jesus. Did they wonder at the sight of him? Did it seem so odd as it does to us, like having hailstones and sun on a spring day?

We, along with those first disciples come to realise that Easter isn’t a one-off event that happened one day and is gone the next but is a way of being present to the signs of wonder in the world around us and taking notice and smiling at the sight to behold.

May your day be full of Easter surprise.I hope that the sun has brightened your world in more ways than one.”

As always, if you would like to join in the service, which includes breaking out into rooms for coffee/tea and chat afterwards, please contact Karen who sends out the link on a weekly basis. All are welcome.

Our Interim Moderator Karen Hendry’s opening reflection for this week is recorded and available to view below.

Karen says “I hope that the sun has brightened your world in more ways than one. 

Spring is here and creation is once again responding. There is constancy to be found there.

The human race may be struggling with the scale of challenges we have known before, yet the birds of the field and garden (and the squirrels too – I have an abundance of them lining up on the fence every morning waiting to be fed) are showing us that life continues in all its abundance and calls out to us to open our eyes and take it all in.

I hope the sight of the recent sun and the beauty of the natural world renewing itself again around us brings healing to you.”

As always, if you would like to join in the service, which includes breaking out into rooms for coffee/tea and chat afterwards, please contact Karen who sends out the link on a weekly basis. All are welcome.

Our Interim Moderator Karen Hendry’s opening reflection for this week is recorded and available to view below.

Karen says “I know that some of you have had celebrations this past week, while some have had less joyous times.  Some are recovering at home from hospital, some are still there hoping to get home soon.  Some have begun a new phase of their life.  Some are grieving the loss of family and friends.

Among us it is clear that the fullness of life is being revealed.   You are Christ’s Body on Earth, be assured of that.  And together with him you are walking towards Easter.

I wish you well for the coming week.”

As always, if you would like to join in the service, which includes breaking out into rooms for coffee/tea and chat afterwards, please contact Karen who sends out the link on a weekly basis. All are welcome.

Our Interim Moderator Karen Hendry’s opening reflection for this week is recorded and available to view below.

Karen says “Even across the constraints of Zoom gathering together still holds a special quality for us as members each of the Body of Christ.

We know that to be true each time we sense the nearness, even in these virtual occasions, of one another united through the common purpose of honouring God’s love and naming the signs of God’s presence around us.

I hope that you draw comfort from one another and the life you share in together.

Easter is coming, be sure of that.“

As always, if you would like to join in the service, which includes breaking out into rooms for coffee/tea and chat afterwards, please contact Karen who sends out the link on a weekly basis. All are welcome.

Our Interim Moderator Karen Hendry’s opening reflection for this week is recorded and available to view below.

Karen says “The Lenten path is not an easy one and has many twists and turns of doubt and fear that beckon us to take a wrong turn off the road. 

In Jesus’ call to compassionate and empathic living we learn to carry not just our own but one another’s burdens too, taking it in turn to offer a helping hand when we are strong and trusting ourselves into such a living into the Body of Christ.

May you have a good week that is blessed by such an awareness of the companionship of love.”

As always, if you would like to join in the service, which includes breaking out into rooms for coffee/tea and chat afterwards, please contact Karen who sends out the link on a weekly basis. All are welcome.

Our Interim Moderator Karen Hendry’s opening reflection for this week is recorded and available to view below.

Karen says “I hope that you are continuing to bear up under these difficult circumstances.  On this first Sunday of Lent the readings for today, of the rainbow promise and Jesus’ journey in the wilderness, seem for me at least to have echoes with our present times.

As Jesus found sustenance in God’s Word in a wilderness place, I hope that you have found something that sustains you through these months that have turned into almost a year now since the beginning of lockdown way back in March 2020. 

May whatever it is that so encourages you be as a blessing that points you towards the enduring love and presence of God through all circumstance.”

As always, if you would like to join in the service, which includes breaking out into rooms for coffee/tea and chat afterwards, please contact Karen who sends out the link on a weekly basis. All are welcome.