“Your habits will determine your future”
Believe that quote? What about this: This a crunch term for us as a church family discerning together our future. We’re facing big challenges and huge opportunities. To navigate that we need to remind ourselves who we are and why we’re here – what do we want most? We want to see communities thriving with Jesus at the heart. We do that by creating space for Jesus in our daily lives, together, and for other people. That’s because we genuinely believe that Jesus brings life wherever he goes at an individual level and at a… Read More
Shaping our future….together
If you see yourself as part of Church at Barking Riverside, or you simply care about this church community – then this is for you. 2024 is a key year for us. One that is going to shape our future post-2025. And this term is a key one for how we are going to discern and decide together what shape that future may take. Want to know more? Listen up to the message sharing why 2024 is key, how we’ll approach it together, and our heart and belief as we do. My prayer is that this can… Read More
Happy New Year!
2024 is looking like a year of change. But more important than our plans is our posture – are we ready to take the hand of God and walk gladly into the unknown?
It’s Adveeeeent!
Today is the first of December, which means the first day of Advent! Waking up this morning there was frost everywhere, on my way to an appointment it snowed every so slightly and it definitely feels like the festive season is here! Logging into socials (usually the first thing I do each day, so bad I know!) and my feeds were filled with Elf On The Shelf, extravagant ways to mark the first day of the month with chocolate and toddler boxes, homes decorated to the nth degree…. It’s very easy to… Read More
It Takes A Village…
It is insane how far my family and I have come in the last few years. Three and a half years ago, pre-pandemic, we had just moved into our beautiful new house, ready to start our next chapter as a married couple with one on the way. Then Covid-19 hit, we went into lockdown and I lost my job. We had no ties to Barking (it was the only place within Zone 4 we could afford a bigger home) and living on 1 of the 2 roads that were then open and… Read More
What Does Your Jesus Time Look Like?
A few weeks ago I wrote about being a bit deflated post summer having lost touch with my habits, but roll on a couple of months and I’m in a totally different headspace. How? Rather than focusing on all the things I haven’t done, I looked at the small little things I can go day to day for my Jesus time. Netflix & Chill Technically an unconventional way to spend time with Jesus, but I started with The Chosen. A show that I had added to my list forever ago, but it… Read More
Prayer For Peace
The last couple of weeks have been quite difficult hearing the news coming from Israel and Palestine, and the knock on effects elsewhere in the world, we are really praying for peace. Being faced by these horrific events, Archbishop Justin Welby puts into words what is so hard to express and turns us to prayer. Prayer for peace. Prayer for justice. Prayer that the price of evil actions is not paid by the innocent. Prayer for ask those who are suffering. Prayer that the causes of such suffering can finally cease. Come… Read More
It Is OK To Have Questions – Let’s Start From The Beginning
Last week we started our Creation To Christ series that will take us to the end of the year and I what I wanted to make clear is that it is OK to have questions. As we start a new year and start some new things, including another Disciple Making course, we are starting from the beginning to help local Christians create a good foundation in their faith. I have slowly been going through the Bible myself, and I say slowly because it feels like every other line that I read raises… Read More
Difficult Situations
In last week’s blog I was quite candid about how hectic life has been over the summer and how unprepared I am to run head first into the rest of the year. I think a part of this has been down to feeling out of sync with what God had put on my heart for 2023. Part of it being down to being a little bit too focused on work and less on the Lord and who He has surrounded me with or why I have been placed in certain areas/organisations/groups. On… Read More
A Hard Reset
I don’t know about anyone else but I feel like this year has kicked my butt a little bit and I’m in need of a hard reset. Yes the pandemic and the lockdowns were hard, no disputing that, but for me personally, juggling two jobs, a toddler and general life has taken quite a lot to get used to. Plus getting back to socialising; getting back on the bandwagon of going out and making sure to keep in touch with people, not just digitally but also in real life. Come the summer… Read More
