Congratulations to Darryl Reeves!
Congratulations to Darryl Reeves who was confirmed at Holy Trinity Penn last Sunday. (Photo: Darryl with Nnamdi and Christoph)
Interested in confirmation? Contact our church office (office@denhamparish.church)
Dinah Roe-Kendall: Simeon and Anna with the Christ Child
At our service on 30 January Ian Jennings spoke about Luke 2.22-40 and the impact that Dinah Roe Kendall’s painting made on him. Here is the painting! You can watch his talk below (start at 23 min 20 seconds for the reading and 26min 25sec for the talk).
Your harvest gifts – thank you!
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our harvest gifts last Sunday! Here is Nnamdi Maduka delivering your food gifts to Hillingdon Foodbank in New Denham.
You have given £200 to our mission partner SHOC/Trinity supporting homeless people in our area.
We have also received a total of £250 in vouchers for supermarkets, which will support local people and families through direct gifts and through Give & Share.
A Postscript to VE Day: Bonhoeffer’s Creed
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed for his resistance to Hitler on 9 April 1945 in Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, only four weeks before VE Day. He wrote this creed days before his execution by the Gestapo:
I believe that God can and will generate good out of everything, even out of the worst evil. For that, he needs people who allow that everything that happens fits into a pattern for good.
I believe that God will give us in each state of emergency as much power of resistance as we need. But he will not give in advance, so that we do not rely on ourselves but on him alone. Through such faith all anxiety concerning the future should be overcome.
I believe that even our mistakes and failings are not in vain, and that it is not more difficult for God to cope with these as with our assumed good deeds.
I believe that God is not a timeless fate, but that he waits for and responds to honest prayers and responsible action. Amen.
(Flossenbürg Concentration Camp today: Walking into the light)
Trust in the Lord in 2020 – mini poster
Please click here to view or download the poster in high resolution.
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