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Welcome to St. Andrew's Church, Taunton, UK
We hope that
you will enjoy looking around our website, and will come back often, as
the site is updated every week. Our aim is to capture the spirit
of St. Andrew's Church online - our faith, our worship, our people, and
our community.
Our church is
first of all a spiritual centre, a place where people can find God, be
nourished in their spiritual journey, and grow in their life of faith.
If you could come along to one of our services your presence would be a
joy to us and to God.
If you have any
questions or suggestions please do contact us using the 'Get in Touch' button.
You will find all of our contact details there, including access to a
location map. We also love to know a little more about our web guests,
and would really appreciate it if you could take a moment to sign our
Visitors' Book.
Again,
welcome and thanks for visiting our site.
New on our website this
week:
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Hot Topics -
Archbishop's interview
about the
Good Childhood enquiry |
Colour
Supplement -
"Look at
the Child" -
Katharine
Smith's sermon preached at St. Andrew's Church on 24 September |
Colour
Supplement -
What
children bring
to the
table
by Gordon
Atkinson |
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Colour Supplement -
Childhood's end -
by Nick Spencer
of LICC |
Colour Supplement -
Seeing things -
by
Mary Hinkle Shore |
Church News -
An invitation to
'Encountering Advent '
with Alan Cook
of St. Andrew's Church |
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News from St. Andrew's
The Jailbreak Experience
by Alison Perry
of St. Andrew's Church |
See previous weeks' editions of our
Colour Supplement |
See previous weeks'
editions of our
Homepage |
Look at the Child
Just occasionally when
preparing the website a theme seems to appear naturally, and this is one
of those weeks. The theme seems to have grown out of the
Archbishop of Canterbury's interviews on the Good Childhood Enquiry, and
you will find a number of excellent pieces about children and childhood
on the site this week.
Because I'm keen that you
spend your valuable web browsing time reading these pieces rather than
my ramblings, I will simply encourage you to click on the links above to
enjoy a number of different perspectives of what it is to be a child in
the 21st century.
Probably the line that
stays with me most is from Katharine's sermon for 24 September entitled
"Look at the Child". Katharine writes "we don’t have to understand in
order to be held and loved by God in a way that
enables us to hold and love others with the same
unconditional and generous love God shows to us."
We don't have to
understand, we just need to hold onto God's assurance that we are
understood.
With blessings from all of
us at St. Andrew's Taunton.
Adrian
Webmaster
NOTE: I am the webmaster of
St. Andrew's Church, not clergy or a reader. I write as 'a man in
a pew' and so you should not assume that I necessarily know what I'm
talking about, or that what I say reflects the views of other people in
our church.
To read previous weeks' FWIWs please click here.
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