Most of Bring me Sunshine comes from my journal, thoughts and reflections from June 2021 while in lockdown, now I don’t know about how it was for you, but for me, well apart from the heartache of not being able to cuddle my daughter and my grandsons, I was enjoying the solitude. Let me set …
Worship and Spontaneous Spoken Word by Dave Mcleay, Live at our Evening Service. “Rest in HimIt’s been a busy season,a hectic Christmas;We get to abide in Him.“ “You abide…” We’ve just been flung from the busyness of the christmas period into the uncertainty of new covid restrictions and a looming lockdown. The phrase “out of …
We are so proud of everyone who was baptised recently at Black Pill beach with us! Congrats everybody!
If I look back into the memories of childhood, of a 2 roomed, country, village school playground, I can still clearly see the girls playing the ‘skipping rope game’, so popular in the early 1950’s…. their dexterous movements, as they jump in and and out, individually and together… So skillful! What I also remember very …
I’ve lived in a lot of places. I was born in Australia, lived in China, Scotland; now in Wales. I’ve called a lot of places home but growing up I oftened struggled with ‘belonging’; not just in a typical-dorky-lost-teen kinda way but in a more practical sense. I felt like I didn’t have a very …
If you know me, and especially if you’ve worked with me, you may know that I work best under pressure. Today I am facing a week that is peppered with deadlines and I am starting to feel the steady thrum of the building pressure to perform, to deliver. I know some people who fold under …
Faith without deeds won’t get you sunflowers Last year I was the happy recipient of a lone sunflower plant, courtesy of our resident gardener: Dave McLeay. It was duly planted, centre stage, in front of my bay window, and lovingly nurtured, supported with a tripod of canes (we have very strong winds!) until one morning …
It was so fantastic – and so emotional – to see Andy Murray back at Wimbledon this week after a couple of painful years recovering from operations on his hips and back. Early in his career, I remember watching an interview where he said that he was happy with his progress but that he needed …
Yesterday I ran our first training day for people learning how to use our sound system. I walked people through everything I could think of from how to turn everything on to ‘mixing’ the band. Mixing is where the sound engineer decides how loud everything should be, tweaks the sound of each voice and instrument …
Last Tuesday night, during our livestream, there was such an incredible sense of God’s presence… and everything broke. It was a great success. A couple issues with batteries, cables and technical glitches resulted in us stripping back our setup to one camera on a tripod and a feed without lyrics. But, a media team with …
