ADRU Website

Thank youfor looking at www.adru-churches.co.uk. It is still in the development stage and Ray would appreciate your comments. The more feedback we have the better the finished product will be.

 

Picked up from the site….

Little boy had been a problem at school and was, in desperation, transferred to the local church school.

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Editorial – July 2011

I seem to have been rushing about recently…chasing my tail, as the saying goes. Seemingly there is insufficient time to get everything done and there is a danger of burning the candle at both ends. From experience I know just where that leads….ultimately a huge increase in expended energy and a huge reduction in the

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Editorial June 2011

Flaming June. I wonder? With the rain and winds of late it would appear that we may have had our summer already but who knows with the unpredictability of our seasons.  I wonder what the people thought back in Noah’s day (see the scheduled E100 readings from earlier this month) when it started to rain

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ADRU Website

Ray Browne, who we are delighted to say has just joined us on the PCC, has been busy over the last few months with George Brown developing the ADRU website. The initial trial format is still in the development stage and Ray would appreciate all who  take a look at the site and feed back

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Editorial – May 2011

Thank you to everyone who passed on such encouraging comments about last month’s issue. It makes such a lot of difference to your hard working editorial team.

 

This month seesmore of what we trust you will find interesting and informative content. Contributions range across the funny, the serious, the reflective and the informative. We

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A letter from sendai, japan

The following was a letter received by Alex and Val from someone whom they know who lives and works in Japan. She wrote this letter home just a couple of weeks ago and gives a rare insight into how life really is on the ground in the stricken area of northern Japan. God shows up,

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Update from the dorlings

We wish you Every Blessing and send greetings from Northern Zululand

The other day I had a look at last year’s Christmas letter and was faced with a picture of Greety Gate Cottage in Broughton in the snow – much as I expect it looked earlier in the year….and nothing at all like things look

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Editorial – April 2011

Kath Miller wrote last month about our hymns, one of the many things that have been

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Editorial (Mar 2011)

Christmas and New Year are now a distant memory, the days are beginning to draw out and those dreaded dark mornings are

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Editorial (Feb 2011)

It’s the 4th Birthday for your Benefice News. Where does the time go?

In the first birthday issue I mentioned

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Editorial (Jan 2011)

I hope and pray that you had a peaceful and joyous Christmas and now we can look forward to the New Year with confidence and joy as we return to ‘business as usual’.

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Editorial – (Dec 2010)

There is so much not to like about Christmas and I guess

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Could you be a host this Christmas?

Dear Editor,

Home for Christmas:

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Editorial: (Nov 2010)

Well, I’m sorry friends but it’s that word change again.

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Editorial: (Oct 2010)

September certainly proved to be a busy month. Alex and Val were

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Editorial: (Sep 2010)

For most of us the holidays are over and slowly we are returning to a semblance of normality. I hope that you all enjoyed a good summer in spite of the variable weather and are suitably refreshed.

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