28th July 2025 Today’s visit was to busy Fort Portal and then on to the Hot Springs in Semuliki National Park. This beautiful park is in the Rift Valley and is part of the Congo Basin Forest, second only to the Amazon in size. It’s tropical and the springs are about 500 metres above the …
Author archives: Philip Rawlings
2025-07-24 Uganda
24th July. A rainy day with donations ready to be divided between Fountain of Peace families.
2025-07-23 Uganda
Some early photos from Lucy. Libby & Lucy at Kyenjojo, Uganda
Sermon 2025-07-20
20th July 2025 – St James the Apostle For us, celebrating the feast day of St. James is an occasion for a party, a festive celebration, a good time. But the fact that our Church is named after St. James, that St. James the Apostle is our patron saint, probably doesn’t mean a great deal …
Music 2025-09-07
7th September 2025 – 12th Sunday after Trinity 10.30 Parish Communion Organ Adagio (BWV 564ii) – J S BachIntroit Call to Worship – RVW/DHHymns NEH447 Sing praise to God who reigns above; NEH456 Teach me, my God and King; NEH95 When I survey the wondrous cross; NEH185 Sing we of the Blessèd MotherAnthem …
Music 2025-08-17
17th August 2025 – 9th Sunday after Trinity 10:30 Benefice Communion Service led by The Rector: Rev’d Kia Pakenham Preacher Hugh SkeilViolin Laura SteeleOpening Music: Adagio in E – Mozart; At Communion Sonata in G minor (1st) – Handel; Concluding Sonata in G minor (4th) – HandelHymns: NEH186 Tell out, my soul; Gloria Beethoven sheet; NEH431 …
Softball & hot dogs
Sermon 2025-07-13
13th jULY 2025 eVENSONG Genesis 32:9-30 and Mark 7:1-23. I love escaping into the pages of a good book, it is something I have enjoyed since I was a young child. Sometimes we can be tempted to skip ahead to find out what happens next. I remember being told by my mother how much it …
Sermon 20205-07-06
6th July 2025 2 Kings 5: 1-14, Luke 10: 1-11, 16-20 Today we have had as our first reading one of my favourite stories from the Old Testament because in part it has so many insights into human behaviour and ultimately about trust in God. Naaman, undoubtedly an important man, commander of the king of …
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