Author: John Pilkington
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Bread!
Chris and Sue made a loaf using home ground flour from the Living Lightly event! They say it tasted as good as it looks. Perfect! Thank you for telling us about it Chris and I am glad you enjoyed the bread.
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Harvest Festival 2024
The church looked stunning for our Harvest Festival on Sunday. Everybody voted a massive thank you to Dianne Elliott and her team for their hard work and imagination. Thank you, Dianne! Thank you also Chris and Sue for organising and delivering the gifts for FSW (Diocesan Family Support Work).
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Living Lightly
Living Lightly – some thoughts It’s been wonderful to hear so many positive comments about our Living Lightly day which got me wondering why it was a success. Here are some themes that emerged for me: Community – a wonderful flow of people came to the event, people from our church community, families from St…
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Cut the Supply Chain
Here is the poster for my Living Lightly Demo featuring wheat milled for flour and demonstration of pan-roasted green coffee beans. I chose the strap line “Cut the Supply Chain” to emphasize why we would wish to mill our own flour or roast our own coffee as part of our drive to reduce our environmental…
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Scarecrow Success!
At the March session of Funday Monday at St Augustine’s Church the children had a great time making a scarecrow to enter into the Flower Show at the Millennium Village Centre. Every year Scaynes Hill Cricket Club sponsors this class and the winners receive the Scaynes Hill Cricket Club Trophy. Could we possibly win the…
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Care for Veterans
During Lent we have been learning more about the charities we support as a church. Last Thursday, Beverley treated us to an inspiring account of the work of Care for Veterans, including insights into her time as Chaplain. Thank you, Beverley.
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Oaklands House Group 2024-01-4: Judaic view of Adam
The Oaklands House Group meets on alternate Thursday evenings; we usually talk about the sermon from the previous Sunday. At our first meeting in 2024, however, we chose a different topic. Following something raised in an earlier meeting, Steve had researched about the Jewish understanding of Adam, the Judaic approach to judgement, and what Christians…