Morning Prayer

Over the next couple of Sundays, the Vicar is away. As there will not be possible to use the projector during this time, please remember to bring your morning prayer booklets with you to Church. If you haven’t found yours, please consider printing yourself a new one.

Sunday 24th of Jan MA Zoom Service

Hello Everyone, The MA zoom service will be streamed live on our twitch channel (http://www.twitch.tv/hafodfamily). If you would like to join us in the future, please do get in touch, the details on how to connect can be found on our facebook page. The service sheet can be downloaded from here: During the service, we […]

A Note From the Vicar – On Hold

I’ve had a small issue with an account, and having tried the online help, it was finally time to go the telephone. I expected a longer-than-usual delay, because with COVID a lot of places are operating at reduced capacity for the safety of their workers. The music was simple, not too irritating, but after an […]

A Note From the Vicar.

Last night I lost 2 hours playing a game called Minecraft. It is, perhaps, one of the most successful games of the last 10 years, not because of it’s complexity, but because of it’s simplicity. Minecraft is a game of blocks. Earth blocks, wood blocks, stone blocks. You can combine these blocks in different ways to make new kinds of blocks, or to build things. There’s no achievement for building new things, and the game itself goes on, effectively, forever. You build things entirely for your own amusement.

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A Note from the Vicar

In September, the Offa Mission Area will be going through it’s Mission Area Review, or, as the Diocese has branded it “Planning for Mission and Growth”. It is designed to help us, as a Mission Area, put together our Mission Area Action plan. This action plan is there to help us thing about the future, […]

A Note From The Vicar

Mathew 14.13-21 – The Feeding of the five thousand On Sunday, we hear one of the stories of Jesus showing care. In the story of Mathew, we see that that care began with Jesus. Jesus took himself off to a deserted place. Just a little bit before this, we hear that John the Baptist, Jesus’ […]

A note from the Vicar

This week, we began the complicated process of planning to open our churches. Risk assessments for St. Thomas’ have been gone through, and will be submitted later today. St. David’s has been prepared for opening for private prayer, and plans are well underway to ensure that that happens as soon as possible. However, this is […]

A message from the Vicar

As many of you know, I fractured my elbow on my birthday. One of the most frustrating things has been the healing. It’s odd to go through the physio therapy, knowing that it’s going to hurt – and likely continue to hurt after it’s been done. In this case the pain is necessary. It is […]