The Hearth of Mopsus

Swanvale Halt is quiet at the moment. Some of this is down to the schools being out, and some to the heat (it was absolutely deathly at the ...

Christine the dog lady maintained in 2021 that she would never have another Boxer after her third died . In the end she took a final beast i...

It has been deathly quiet in Swanvale Halt over the last week. Not only is it half term so as usual everyone who can be absent is, but the h...

The new-ish contemplative service on the third Sunday evening in the month was over. I've been trying this since September: there are ve...

It wasn't even the Archdeacon who came to do the Archdeacon's Visitation at the church this week; it was the Deputy Archdeacon, the ...

When Emily's family first came to Swanvale Halt, they arrived at our Toddler Group before they'd even moved into the area. They were...

‘When we talk about the Mysteries of the Church’, I told the congregation on Sunday, ‘we usually mean baptism or holy communion. But there a...

… has offered a variety of experiences. Monday: I attend on my Spiritual Director and mention that the Bishop, for the first time ever, is...

Last Wednesday we finished the five sessions of the Lent course I’d put together, the first time in several years that we’d done anything of...

... it would be easier to say, was the same as nearly every year, except there are always variations on a theme. Every event was better atte...

It is, of course, a privilege to host the Civic Service for the new Mayor of Hornington. Peter is a member of the congregation and it was no...

Every few years at Swanvale Halt church, we go through a process of trying to sort out a new rota for giving lifts to church to congregation...

Faye started attending the church quite recently after her mother's funeral, and attending quite frequently. She even brought a friend t...

The approach of Christmas is about concerts and nativities, but it's also about taking communion to members of the Church who won't ...

Matt our New Churchwarden has been on the New Churchwardens’ Course and has had it drummed into him how local churches are responsible for s...

Two single mums get talking at the Messy Church tea, just when we were despairing that it was our worst-attended Messy Church ever. They dec...

The church was full for the main service on Sunday for a baptism, which is an infrequent event as most of ours happen separately. But this w...

Among the tasks we've set ourselves in our Church Development Plan is the aim 'To establish a group to regularly, deliberately and e...

It was a large and somewhat chaotic baptism, for the younger sister of a boy who I baptised five years ago: about a third of the congregatio...

It wasn’t the fault of the planning team that the non-eucharistic first-Sunday-in-the-month service had a few issues this week. The order of...