HIV has moved on, so why do we still live with stigma? It’s not retro, it’s just wrong. Join us this Sunday from 7pm to learn more. #HIVNotRetro #WorldAIDSDay https://www.worldaidsday.org/campaign/hiv-not-retro
re-lite: World Aids Day 2016
November 2016
Dear friends I find that autumn is one of the most beautiful seasons. The colours that come from the leaves as they turn from green to orange and red and eventually to all shades of brown is quite a wonder to watch. The green seemed to cling on for much longer this year, and then […]
St Andrew’s Church Fair 2016
Hope you can join us for our Church Fair on Saturday 19th November 2016 from 10am – 2pm. Plenty of stalls to tempt you, including our popular Tombola for which Barclays Bank match all money raised. Refreshments will be available.
October 2016
Dear friends Instead of a ‘letter’ this month, I want to offer you a postcard. As a child, holidays included the sending of what always seemed like dozens of postcards as a message from a sun-drenched – or just rain-drenched – holiday destination. Holiday postcards usually give a picture of interest on one side – […]
September 2016
When I was on a regular pattern of the academic year (which has been the case for more years of my life than not!), the mid-point of August would be the point at which it was time to start preparing for the new year ahead. It was time to restock the pencil case with necessary […]
July-August 2016
This month’s ‘musing from the manse’ is in reality written while on a train. June has been a month of many journeys with time spent away firstly on holiday and subsequently on a Summer School with other URC Ministers and then a training course in Hertfordshire. As I look out of the window with the […]
June 2016
Dear friends, Congratulations! We’ve made it through the various liturgical seasons of the first half of the Christian year, and we’ve now hit the six-month period known as Ordinary Time. The excitement of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter and Pentecost have passed as we reflected and celebrated, and then reflected and celebrated again. The ‘ordinary’ […]
May 2016
We’re well into the period of Easter now. The eggs and bunnies seem to have been long past (although I spotted one supermarket still trying to clear their shelves of Easter chocolate nearly a month later) and the shock of the early morning service seems, for the time at least, to have been forgotten. The […]
April 2016
Happy Easter! The time of waiting through Lent has passed, and we have been able to join together in celebrating the day of resurrection. Alleluia! The end of Lent means that all those things given up for Lent can become part of life again. One friend excitedly contacted me on the Monday after Easter to […]
Kyle Richardson appointed Director of Music and Organist
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Kyle Richardson as Musical Director and Organist at St. Andrew’s, starting on 25th September 2016. Kyle was born in Blyth, Northumberland and music has formed a large part of his life from a very early age. Beginning with guitar and piano when he was 7, he then moved […]