3 January 2023
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Our mixer desk at church has seen well over 20 years of service and has been increasingly losing functions. We’ve put up with intermittent signal on the headphones and a lack of pre-fade listen metering on a good chunk of … Continue reading
16 December 2022
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It’s Christmas gig time tonight with Charnwood Concert Band at Thorpe Acre church. That means I get to do double duty – as worship pastor of the church, welcoming the band in and making sure they have everything they need … Continue reading
11 December 2022
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This year, our church carol service was a week earlier than we would normally have placed it. I’m not sure whether next Sunday evening’s World Cup final will be such a problem for services held on 18th December now that … Continue reading
6 December 2022
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As we move through December, several of the musical projects I’ve been working on are getting to the point of performances. For example, on Friday and Saturday I am playing with the Charnwood Symphonic Wind Orchestra at St James the … Continue reading
20 November 2022
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Today was my turn to step up and deliver the sermon again. I had an apparently odd pair of passages to work with: Luke’s narrative of Jesus on the cross between two criminals (Luke 23: 33-43) and a passage from … Continue reading
14 November 2022
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Rehearsals will start soon for the Christmas choir at Thorpe Acre church, in preparation for the carol service at 6pm on Sunday 11 December. Getting ready for that is relatively straightforward on the music side. I have suitable parts for … Continue reading
2 November 2022
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We need some stones for this Sunday’s all-age service at church. Fortunately the allotment seems to have an almost infinite amount of them. Time to get round to an inedible harvest!
28 September 2022
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This morning, our Toddlers group at church had their harvest celebration. We moved into the church for this one rather than the hall we normally use and I brought along my electric guitar instead of a ukulele. I only got … Continue reading
25 September 2022
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Thorpe Acre church passed a key milestone today – the first service with our new vicar at the helm. Rev. Tim Day comes to us from a team ministry on the edge of Leicester and was originally due to be … Continue reading
7 September 2022
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In a couple of weeks, I’m leading the service and we’ve got someone taking on the intercessions who hasn’t played that role before, although he has been in plenty of our services which always include this slot. Intercessions, for those … Continue reading