Missionary Prayer
For some while now we have been planning a particualr focus on mission and outreach in th eperiod before Easter next year. As partners in this we have invited some students from Ridley Hall in Cambridge to join us.It has taken a while to get a sense of what we should be doing around our missionary focus, but this is now beginning to take shape and some interesting ideas are forming.We began by inviting Adrian Chatfield, from the Simeon Centre at Ridley to join us for our parish weekend at Hothorpe Hall in Leicestershire. We had a w

Christ the King
The Feast of Christ the King always takes me back to my Prep school chapel, Prestfelde in Shrewsbury. The chaplain was an inspiring man call Graham Atkins, Father A we called him. He had been a prisoner of war in the far east and had TB which caused the loss of half a lung. That did not stop him from smoking his pipe almost non stop!Fr A was also quite an artist and had painted a large icon which hung above the altar in the school chapel (being a Woodard School, the chapel had an important part in the life of the school) The icon showed Christ the King or Christus Rex and has remained firmly etche

Thank you Jane
My friend Jane asked the other day what had happened to my blog. No, don't worry I'm not going to trot out the old lame excuses of "I've been too busy..." truth is I didn't have anything to say.Well maybe I still haven't but I'm going to give it a go.Bye the way, I have been pretty busy ...The Street Pastors initiative in Rugby is coming on nicely with the signing of the Licence Agreement with the Ascension Trust, who administer it. We have been overwhelmed by the response from the Community Safety Partnership who really want us to do this and have stumped up the starting money and now all we need to do is fin

Article from the RA Magazine
The Rugby Advertiser publishes an occasional magazine and this month they featured my answers to their regular questions....What is your favourite place in Rugby?Hillmorton Locks. For a long time we have taken canal holidays and often passed through Hillmorton. Little did I think that one day we would live nearby and own our own boat. Keep an eye out for Ellie’s Marbles.What is your favourite book?The Bible. It has something to say about every conceivable part of human life and contains God’s message of love for the world.If you could change one thing about R