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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 […]

This weekend Christians celebrate the birth of the church. Just after Jesus had died, the disciples would meet together to share their grief and prepare for the future. They believed Jesus was among them in a new way and that God’s Spirit would guide and support their efforts in taking the Good News of Jesus Christ to the ends of the w […]

“Return to normal”, people are saying. But what is normal and what have we learnt in lockdown and in the past fifteen months? We may have learnt that we don’t like being alone – isolated; but perhaps for some that has been quite attractive. We have learnt to ‘stick to the rules’ even as many have thwarted those rules – an i […]

Of course, I don’t remember anything about my birth. But the stories passed on from siblings and parents tell me that I was born one Friday afternoon, just after lunch, in the same bed my mother and father slept in most of their lives. My father was at work: one of my then four siblings ran to tell him I had arrived. The midwife who ha […]