Urban Expression Cobridge

We’re working on ‘something new for Cobridge’...  #communityvenue #countmein #theangel

[Prayer from Grace Community, Ealing]

A New Year blessing.

Iona led a lovely Worship Thursday.  We made these beautiful mini mandalas.

We held our Christmas Nativity in the community garden, making lanterns and a snowman, eating soup, rolls and mince pies and doing a wonderful pop-up nativity with local children and adults. #feelingblessed #goodneighbours #allwelcome

Team Time.  Thinking about what we celebrate at Christmas #advent #preparing

And finally ... a lovely card for the whole team sent to us by Anita from the Netherlands. Anita spent two weeks with us in the summer and was such a joy to have around.

Encouraging insights from Cormac Russell.

Last week at Worship Thursday we had a lovely time reflecting on Isaiah 40. Howard used everyday objects to help us to focus on the passage. We then drew and stamped our responses. Our friend Peter from Church from Scratch in Southend joined us. It was also the Urban Expression Prayer Day so we spent time praying for friends in the West Midlands and the south coast.

We’re really sorry to have been so poor at keeping you up to date so we're going to try harder! We’ve not written on here for almost a year but now we've got a few posts at once. Waiting for buses to come along comes to mind!

We wish you all a joy-filled and peaceful Christmas. 

#worshipthursday #prayer #refelction

A lovely sunny day to harvest tomatoes at the community garden. Sowed some salad leaves and cress and carried on with the weeding and clearing.

It was ‘Worship Thursday’ Week.  We were looking at Psalm 139.  We reflected on where God has been for us this week, we wrote ‘consequence style’ prayers and made these brilliant balloon people.  Fun times!

We’re in the process of moving the Community Garden to a bigger space on one of the local estates.  On Sunday we gathered to move some of the raised beds and make some decorations.  We were joined by some of the neighbours and together we painted tyres, made bird feeders, fun fencing and slate signs.  It’s starting to look and feel pretty special! #funtimes #communitygardening 

#openhouse #oakcakes #community

On Easter Sunday we returned to the garden and, having removed the rubbish from the cross, we decorated it with brightly coloured ribbon and hung bunting between the trees.  People joined us to hear the Easter story (recited by Howard) and we hunted for Easter eggs. #EasterSunday #worship