The Spotlight journey is new, exciting and an integral part of the St Mary’s community life and for the whole community of Redbourn. Our Autumn Term Series 2 focuses on ‘Relationships’.  This has just started; and we are growing!  In response to people’s wishes we have added a new group on Tuesday evenings. Come and join us!  We would love to have you in the mix!  Knowledge is not a prerequisite, neither is there a silly question.  We are journeying together. 

On the day that Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple computers died, we may well heed the mantra he longed to live by - ‘stay hungry, stay foolish’! Come and jump into the Spotlight train and join in this exciting journey of discovery together.  You are all very welcome.

“Spotlight makes me make time to stop, put aside all my rushing about, open my mind and to feel God's presence.  It is good to share this valued time with others, to get to know members of the community better, to make new friends and to share our spiritual hearts.” “I have only been to one home group so far but it was good.”

Contact Melanie Wooding Jones or Penny McAdam

Some young people from the parish - and some that were more young at heart - had a great trip to Fellowship Afloat last weekend. We enjoyed a very busy weekend of team games, cake, archery, cake, and a trip out on to the Blackwater estuary, some more cake, and some great music and a bit of Rockclimbing!. Everyone seems to have had a really great weekend and our thanks go to the Fellowship Afloat staff for looking after us and the St Marys leaders for organizing it all. 

A few pictures are below but a much bigger collection will be shown to the Gospellers at the meeting on the 25th September. - See you then!

Is the Bible just words and stories or is it something more?

Well, for many of us the Bible is ‘God’s Word’ and day by day we read the Bible, alongside millions of Christians around the world as we seek to hear afresh God’s purpose for us in our lives.  God speaks to us through the verses of scripture, through the ebbs and flows of narrative and poetry, of history and prophecy, of Gospels and letters, telling the story of God’s loving relationship with the world that culminates in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

But we are fortunate for we have the chance to read the Bible in English.  Most of us are not fluent in the original Biblical languages – Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic – and yet, through the endeavours of Bible translators – we, like many around the world, can now read the Bible in our native tongue.

On Sunday 21st June at the end of the 9.30 am Parish Eucharist, additional burial ground was Consecrated in the extension to the churchyard here at St Mary’s. The Act of Consecration was led by Bishop Robin Smith, in the presence of the Diocesan Registrar, Mr David Cheetham, and The Rt Worshipful Mayor St Albans City and District, Councillor Chris Oxley.  The ground was purchased on behalf of the church by St Albans District Council who is responsible for the provision of public burial space with the kind assistance and agreement of Mr and Mrs George Blair, who owned and farmed the land. The half acre space will ensure that the people of Redbourn continue to have somewhere in the village to bury their loved ones as the existing churchyard is now full.

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