To play a part in protecting biodiversity, if you have a garden you could leave a small patch of lawn uncut. This encourages wild flowers to grow which will attract pollinating insects. This in turn helps to feed insect eating…
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Prayer is an essential and ongoing part of our church life and it is a joy to be a church family who pray together in many different ways. Paul says in Philippians “do not be anxious about anything, but in…
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Last weekend Paul and I were playing a board game in our back garden. Suddenly our peace was shattered as one of our cats jumped from a low roof above our dining room onto the parasol we were sitting under. …
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Like everything else Southampton Street Pastors have had to adapt to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The traditional Friday and Saturday city centre night-time patrols have been replaced by smaller evening patrols primarily to distribute cooked meals to the homeless who…
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I have been reflecting a bit this week on what God might be teaching us through the current crisis. Not that God sent coronavirus to teach us a lesson, I don’t mean that, but no matter what circumstance we find…
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Soon our Government will be undertaking its next three week review and we eagerly await their announcements as to whether the state of our nation meets some or any of the criteria which might bring about a change to our…
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Because nearly all wet wipes have plastic or polyester in them, even so called flushable ones, do not dispose of them down the toilet as they block sewers. When they eventually break down, they put plastic into the sea. Ideally…
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At our last church meeting, we agreed that we would support 3 specific overseas missions. One of which was PCF (Purple Community Fund that supports families in the Philippines) and Jane Walker who runs the mission has contacted us at…
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We continue to live in unprecedented times but it is good that although our doors are shut, we can still be church. We are being church by the ways in which we are connecting with one another and we are…
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Did you know that last year Southampton City Mission fed 12,191 people, provided clothes for 1,677 people and last academic year their schools team visited 15,460 pupils? Southampton City Mission Schools have been broadcasting ’Thoughts at Three’ assemblies…
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