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A Note From the Vicar.

Sep 4, 2020RevBettinsonUncategorized

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.

Aug 28, 2020RevBettinsonNote From The Vicar

I have stared at the blank page of this message for a long time, trying to find something to say. The blankness put me in mind of a tale my training incumbent, Rev’d Adrian Copping once said. He spoke of a sermon where a priest placed a large blackboard in front of the congregation. When […]

A Note from the Vicar

Aug 14, 2020RevBettinsonUncategorized

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 Message From the Vicar.

Aug 7, 2020RevBettinsonNote From The Vicar

The weather is having a good go at being summer. Of course, on this warm day I’ve spent most of it running around doing lots of little errands that I’ve been putting off. My car hasn’t really gone very far since the beginning of lock-down, so all the little things that I normally keep in […]

A Note From The Vicar

Jul 31, 2020RevBettinsonUncategorized

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

Jul 24, 2020RevBettinsonUncategorized

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

Jul 17, 2020RevBettinsonUncategorized

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 […]

A note from the vicar.

Jun 26, 2020RevBettinsonUncategorized

You may have heard that the Government is easing lock-down restrictions. part of that means we can open the churches for private prayer. However, this is going to take some time to organise, much of that time will be looking for volunteers to steward, and to help with the cleaning, The guidelines suggest that these […]

A note from the vicar

Jun 19, 2020RevBettinsonUncategorized

It has been an interesting two weeks. As many of you know, last week I took a small break from work (it’s always important that we take holidays). The plan was to use the time to do a lot of those things that have been building up. My holiday started with my birthday, which was […]

Offa Mission Area Newsletter (1st of June)

Jun 1, 2020RevBettinsonUncategorized

From your Mission Area Leader…… Welcome to the first edition of the Offa Mission Area newsletter. We hope that this will be a place to discover what is happening in our Mission Area, and a forum for discussion about the ways in which we can move forward together once we are able to worship in […]