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Trinity Sunday Art

June 4th, 2010 No Comments

The mysterious maths of God, that God is Three and God is One, is what we celebrate and ruminate on each year on Trinity Sunday, the week after Pentecost.
Knowing that our Creator God made us in the image of the Three-in-One, on Trinity Sunday this year we asked God to speak to us through human [...]

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EC10: Bring It On!

May 29th, 2010 1 Comment

From Matt C:
About a month ago, Michael, Jacob, Nathaniel and me took the long trip down to Manfeild Park in Feilding for EC10. We had to fill in time in the 2 + hours car voyage so we played heaps of boring games. (e.g. Car Cricket which I won by miles, Llama Llama and the [...]

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Service of the Shadows

April 1st, 2010 No Comments

Tonight we extinguished seven candles, one by one, as we read through Matthew’s account of what happened 2000 years ago.  You could do the same at home, perhaps on Friday or Saturday evenings, so here are the readings, the shadows, and the artwork we reflected on tonight.
Matthew 26:36-46: The Shadow of Agony. The first candle is extinguished.

Praying [...]

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Unplug and Plug In

February 12th, 2010 No Comments

This Sunday, all will be revealed.  Come along!

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Christmas Day Hilarity

January 2nd, 2010 3 Comments

Heavens to Murgatroyd, Christmas Day was fun!
I forgot to say, unfortunately, that the mad, mad nativity play we enjoyed was of course adapted from Nicholas Allan’s masterpiece of a picture book, Jesus’ Christmas Party, which we read last Advent (without the French accent we were treated to on Friday!).
Thank you to all the good-humoured ‘volunteers’ [...]

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Shades of Advent

November 25th, 2009 No Comments

Can’t remember what colour to wear each week at West? Me neither, so I wrote it down…

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