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175th Anniversary Harvest Service

After a break of a few months we resume our 175th Anniversary celebrations with our annual celebration of the Harvest festival. Lorraine and Chris lead our service as we not only reflect on God’s provision of food for the year but also remember the witness that our church has been to the wider village over the last 175 years.

I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. (John 4:35-36, NIV)

Pete and Nick lead our sung worship this week.

Starting With God: Born Again

Throughout the New Testament it is stated that we should be born again in Christ. Continuing our Starting with God series, Chris speaks on how this is not a literal re-birth but a spiritual one. Putting to death our old sinful selves and instead living our lives moulded and guided by Jesus.

Susan leads the rest of the service whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.

Living Water

Following on from our amazing Anniversary Community Day yesterday Ant leads our all age service for May by taking us back to the Sunday Schools of his youth. There’s even a sword drill or two! But there is also a serious point: by looking back into our own church history we can see God’s stream of living water giving nourishment and we can have no doubt that he will continue to do so through us for many years to come.

Pete and Nick lead our sung worship this week.

That You May Believe (Easter 2026)

Christ is risen!

For our celebration of the resurrection this year we look at the differing responses to experiencing the risen Jesus, specifically the four people mentioned in John chapter 20. Chris examines looks at the meaning of the resurrection for Mary, the Disciples in the upper room, Thomas and John himself before expanding it and thinking about what it means to us too.

Ant leads the rest of the service whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.

All Age Service: The Woman at the Well

This week was our first all age service of 2026, with Ant looking at the story of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well. We all know that water is essential to life and that we simply cannot live without it. But what about God’s Spirit? Pete and Nick lead our sung worship this…

Bearing Fruit That Lasts (Harvest 2025)

For our Harvest service this year (a bit later than usual!) Chris speaks about Jesus’ teaching on the vine, branches and fruit and how we should be focussing on bearing fruit that lasts. We also hear from Tearfund where our Harvest offering will be donated and also the launch of this year’s Operation Christmas Child.

Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.

No Greater Love: Easter 2025

For our Easter service for 2025 we’re trying something a little different, as we had no Good Friday service we are combining both the events of the last supper, crucifixion and resurrection all in one. In the service Chris speaks about the impact that the resurrection has through Jesus’ words to his disciples in John 15. We see how the resurrection means love, revelation and victory.

Andy leads the rest of the service as we hold communion with one another and think about that great sacrifice on the cross. Lynne and Dave lead our sung worship.

The Wedding at Cana

This week we were visited by incumbent Baptist Union president, Steve Finamore. Steve speaks on Jesus’ first recorded miracle in the book of John, the turning of water into wine at the wedding in Cana. In that passage Jesus takes something unremarkable and changes it so that the jars are overflowing with the finest of wine. If he can do that to a few jars of water then surely he can transform us!

Chris leads the rest of the service (no, he’s not getting a week off!) whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.

Harvest 2024

This week we held our Harvest service for 2024. Andrew Dalwood speaks about Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well and how God uses the most unlikely people to bring in his harvest.

Ant leads the rest of the service showing off his suprisingly in-depth knowledge of UK crop yields over the last year and Pete leads our sung worship.