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Over the next month, football will dominate our lives. For supporters of Wales, England and Scotland this will be an exciting and fearful time. After a year of lockdowns and restrictions, football returns to dominate our TV and much of the pub talk across the three nations. Euro 2020 is a year late but, perhaps because of the d […]

It is now some time since I visited Ghent in Belgium. I miss getting away very much. Over the past fifteen months, I have missed so much; we all have. I find myself moaning about the restrictions, about wearing a mask, about keeping my distance. I live on my own so the only person I have to contradict me is me; my complaints be […]

When I first went to college, as I have often said, I knew very little about the Old Testament. We were given short introductions to all the books which was both daunting and exciting. There was a lot of ‘introduction’: how on earth was I expected to get all this information into my head, I kept asking myself. Well, forty years later […]

We were delighted and so proud that our daughter Lucie Goddard has been selected to represent North Wales in a 10 k roadside run in June. Wishing her lots of luck. Preparing not only for the big race in June but also their forthcoming wedding on August 26th

Julia Goddard

Lucie pictured with fiancé Sean

Last month we celebrated Pentecost, the birth of the church, so I thought it would be interesting to reflect on Pentecost, 33 years ago when the 2 churches of Christ Church URC, Chapel Road and St. Paul’s URC, Shaw’s Corner joined together to form Redhill URC at Shaw’s Corner at the inaugural Service on 22nd May 1988 under the Mini […]