During the St Mary’s Evening on 12th February, we heard from our mission partner, Angy King. Angy spoke to us through video on a very cold February evening from the 3G pitch at the SCL Stadium in Reading where she serves as chaplain to Reading FC women’s teams. She is one of three chaplains at … Read more …
In November we held a short seminar on Addiction with a visiting speaker Andrew Collins. Andrew, a practising psychiatrist for many years in Ireland, now works as the Director for Counselling Ministry at Biblical Counselling UK (BCUK). Andrew sought to give us an understanding of how Scripture speaks into this problem that so many of … Read more …
World Focus Sunday is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about our mission partners, their work and support them in prayer. The church hall was filled with a buzz of excited conversations as St Mary’s mission links and some mission partners in person spoke to us in table groups as we tucked into a ploughman’s … Read more …
A member of our St Mary’s church family has written the following account of the humanitarian catastrophe in his homeland Iran so that we can be informed and prayerful for our brothers and sisters in Christ and all the people of that country. Please be aware that it is a distressing account to read. We … Read more …
Adam Curtis began by stating that many texts in the Bible make their purpose explicit; he used the example of the gospel of John where the writer states the purpose, “that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God” (John 20:31). In James, the purpose is not explicit; our big question … Read more …
This Sunday, 8th February a selection of recommended books will be available for sale after each of the services. Our Lent devotional will also be on sale: The Risen King by CH Spurgeon. Dream Small by Seth Lewis You are here for a purpose. You were carefully crafted with a perfect plan in mind. … Read more …
A few weeks ago, I used Chat GPT for the first time to help me think through a personal matter to do with an ongoing relational issue. I use AI a bit in my professional life, but I’ve never tried it before for personal and faith-related issues. In fact, I was apprehensive in doing so, … Read more …
#1 Say the Lord’s Prayer Jesus wants us to pray, and so he has taught us how to do it. Read Matthew 6:9-13 to see it for yourself… ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily … Read more …
Tim and Rachel Green have been married for forty years. For nearly all that time they have served in Muslim contexts in Pakistan, Jordan, the UK and Malaysia. Over that period, the Muslim background church has grown rapidly worldwide. What a thrill! With growth comes challenges. How will ex-Muslims grow as strong disciples of Christ? … Read more …
Monday 15th December saw a friendly football tournament between a St Mary’s football team and two teams of asylum seekers connected with iCaf and English classes at St Mary’s. Jack Bradshaw had some nice kit tops which we wore whilst the other teams were in orange or yellow bibs. We (St Mary’s) won our first … Read more …