Pastors Letter (Page 16)

Dear Friends, I don’t know about you, but it feels to me like lots is going on around our church community at the moment. Thinking about it, we’re in a period where we’re between senior pastors, which is big. We’ve all been affected in different ways by the COVID chaos of the past couple of months (I counted and we had over 20 who were away with…

Dear Friends, We’ve got a bunch of things happening at church this week. Firstly, as part of ‘launch month’ we’ll be sending off three of our families who are helping to ‘launch’ a new church at Tonsley in the coming weeks. Trinity Church Tonsley is a plant that Trinity Church Colonel Light Gardens has been working towards for a couple…

Dear Friends, As we get into February we’ve got a bunch of new things, ministries starting up, and changes happening around our church. To mark some of this we’re calling February our ‘Launch Month’. Each week in February at church we’ll be marking some of these changes and particularly praying about things as the ministry year gets underway.…

Dear Friends, This week I’m delighted to be able to let you know that we have appointed Jane Finlayson to a new position at Trinity Church Brighton. As most of you will know, Jane has been serving with us for a couple of years in a volunteer capacity while studying at Bible College. We’ve now appointed her to a paid role, titled Ministry Support Worker, for 10…

Hi Everyone, This week I’ve been reading a book called “Being the Bad Guys” by Stephen McAlpine. (Some might remember that Cameron promoted this book at Digging Deeper last year.) I particularly found the fifth chapter of the book helpful. It points out a “gospel” that’s becoming increasingly popular in our society. A gospel that says…

Hi Everyone, I’m really looking forward to our next three weeks of church. We have Paul Harrington joining us to speak on the topic “Our Work: God’s Plan”. I reckon ‘work’ is a great topic for us to be thinking about at the moment. Work (And by work I mean work in a broad sense – we work in paid employment, as we study, as we care…

Hi Everyone, I hope you’ve had a great week so far. It was great to see so many amazing gifts at our ‘gift swap day’ on Sunday. I hope lots of you have been able to give out your gifts and that for some it’s led to great opportunities for good conversation. There’s a handful of gifts still leftover, so if you missed out you’ll get…

Hi Everyone, Salt and pepper. Chicken and chips. Shoes and socks. Christmas and presents. Gift-giving and Christmas go hand and hand nowadays. Can you imagine a Christmas without presents? Maybe you’re not faced with a gift-giving onslaught, but for me, there can be work present games, the kids’ school Kris Kringle, Kris Kringle on one side of the family, Kris Kringle on…