Hi folks, we hope that you have a great Christmas… We aren’t meeting this Sunday night with it being Christmas Eve and people will want to do their own thing. Our next gathering will be on the 7th January… We hope you have a blessed time, and be sure to look after those you love and care for and keep …
Advent week 3: Pointing to the light (John 1:6-8, 19-28)
Hi folks… I hope you are doing ok… This week we have Beer and Carols… It would be great to see you at Platform 2 on Tynemouth station if you are able to join us! We are though carrying on our advent themes, and this week, Caleb has written the blog although we wont be discussing it, you would be …
PREPARING FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY: CHANGING YOUR MIND
Hi folks, i hope you are doing ok! This week i want to remind you about two things… See the images for more details – I’m looking for you festive 30 songs of the year… and also next week we have Beer and Carols at Platform Two, i hope that you can join us! This week we will meet at …
Advent Week One – Letting Stuff Go – Mark 13:24-37 Hi folks, as we enter advent I have asked some folks to write a blog for each week, based on a passage, and a theme that the Methodist Church have put together called ‘Out of the Ordinary’. This weeks blog is written for us by Ben, to see the reading …
Celebrate : Wor Yem : Day 28
Luke 2:16-20 Who doesn’t like to celebrate? To let your hair down, to party with friends and families or just complete strangers and have a good time. Because life is good or you got that new job or its Friday and why not. Celebrating is a good thing to do. When the shepherds found the baby they had been told …
Expect : Wor Yem : Day 27
Matthew 24:36-44 What do you expect out of life? What do you expect out of your spiritual journey? I was pondering on the first gig I went to post pandemic, I went to see Ferocious Dog, I was full of expectation of what it would be like, how I would feel, we stood at the back that night, just a …
Hearth : Wor Yem : Day 26
Genesis 18:6 We don’t speak of a hearth very often now. It is an old word used for a fireplace or the place in a house where the fire was and the family would cook on it and receive the warmth from it. It was the gathering place on cold winters nights where they would sit and eat and talk …
Welcome : Wor Yem : Day 25
Grab a coffee/ tea/ or other comforting beverage. A question to begin: When do you feel welcome? What elicits that warm, relaxed, weight removing felling? When do you feel you can be truly you? Picture the place, the people, the circumstances. …and sit with them for a little while. I can think of two places where I always feel welcome …
Safe : Wor Yem : Day 24
Psalm 91:1-4 We talk a lot in society and in the church these days about being safe, safer spaces, safer recruitment, safeguarding. Being safe is something that we all crave, and while many of us might say that we are safe I wonder what being safe means for you? Maybe that is a physical sense, or it could be about …
Flee : Wor Yem : Day 23
Matthew 2:13-18 There is a lot said about immigration in this country. Words like invasion are tossed around as if millions of people are pouring on to our shores on a daily basis and that there is no land for them to live upon, no food to feed them with and that all our systems are falling to pieces because …