Church Anniversary

I just wanted to let you know how well the Church Anniversary service went at Shirley yesterday morning. It was a great team effort with many contributions from right across the church community. The band were in fine form, the choir in fine voice and the young people did a really great drama on prayer. It was good to hear Mike and Rebecca share their thoughts on what the church means to them. Rev'd John Ashplant gave us quite a bit to think about on how we age ourselves 17years of age which was when the church was built, 273 years of age which was when Methodism began or 2000 years of age when christianity began. Whichever way we look at it we were encouraged to continue in our call to be the body of Christ and to remain young enough to be able to answer the call to serve in the here and now.