I spent the last few days at a symposium at St John’s in the beautiful city of Durham. It was a gathering of christians working in the digital environment, and it was a fascinating gathering of people.
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Football Tournament
Another amazing London Churches Football Tournament at Hyde Park. COTC host this every year, along with Ambassadors in Sport to raise money for local football ministry and 60 odd churches from across London and beyond compete. A Titanic effort from everyone at church to make it happen, and from the four teams we put outContinue reading “Football Tournament”
Change
We made this video in honour of James and Katherine’s wedding. G E N I U S!
Holy Week 2009
Easter Services Maundy Thursday 9th April The last Supper. Communion Service at All Saints church 7.45pm Good Friday Service of Shadows 7.45pm at COTC Easter Sunday Celebration. 10.30am at St Andrews No Sunday evening service at COTC this week. Back as usual on 19th April
Lent 2009 – 40 Days
This Lent at COTC we are committing ourselves to reading the whole New Testament in 40 days. Traditionally lent has been a time for reflection, self-sacrifice, rededication and self denial. I was challenged by my own sermon on Sunday evening about our failure to really open ourselves up to the Bible, to let it shape and challenge ourContinue reading “Lent 2009 – 40 Days”
Home
Rebecca Mackenzie is our new Artist in Residence. She will be encouraging the many creative gifts at church, and her first project is called Home. The project involves daily writing, reflecting on the theme of home, and everyone is welcome to participate. You can find out more here.
Christmas Carols
We had both our Christmas Lunch and the first of our carol services this week. Both very lovely. Well done to Bee, Jon and Anna for their amazing work cooking christmas Dinner for 70 people, and to Sam and the corner voices, and thank you to everyone who pitched in for this mammoth sunday. YouContinue reading “Christmas Carols”
Christmas at COTC
What’s on at COTC and in the Parish this Christmas. Download the full size version here. UPDATE The Christmas tree is here!
Be part of the action
This is a great piece of work. I spotted it on the BBC website, it is an oil painting by Andrew Gad for the Church Advertising network who were responsible for The revolution begins. Instead of the traditional nativity scene it imagines Jesus born in a London bus shelter. Not only provocative, it is beautifulContinue reading “Be part of the action”
Advent Prayers
Lovely to see so many of you at our Advent prayer meeting. I particularly appreciated some of the responses to our ‘Advent Hope’ section, where we imagined we were writing a card telling the story of someone we had met, someone who was in need in one way or another and who needed to seeContinue reading “Advent Prayers”
Advent Countdown 2008
We had an amazing opening to advent last night, with the London Vocal Project. We talked about the fact that Advent often gets lost in the preparations for christmas, and that we wanted it to stand for itself. So today we start our series of advent reflections. You can find them here.
The Chapel
Ruth D has been leading a discussion at Church and in Church Council about how we deepen our prayer, and we have been inspired with a few initiatives. One of them is setting apart one of the rooms upstairs as a chapel space, and developing a rhythm of prayer and meditation. We intend to haveContinue reading “The Chapel”
Empire & Kingdom
Our new term starts this sunday at COTC. It has always seemed strange that we still work on academic years, yet september always feels like a new beginning, we are hopefully a little rested and refreshed and ready to get stuck into a new year. This term we are looking at the book of acts,Continue reading “Empire & Kingdom”
At Greenbelt 2008
Welcome to all of you who are visiting after seeing us at greenbelt. Thanks so much for coming to our session, and all the positive feedback. We worked really hard on our set, and it was particularly gratifying to feel the passion with which you all engaged with the liturgy for the city at theContinue reading “At Greenbelt 2008”
Morning service church plant
As of September 2009, we ended our morning service and planted into St Andrew’s – the parish church down the road (map here) – with the hope of helping them to grow the sort of vibrant, diverse, family-friendly church community that would effectively reach out to our parish and beyond. It has started with a smallContinue reading “Morning service church plant”
Kings Cross Redevelopment
Things are changing quickly in our local area. The arrival of Eurostar and the redevelopment of the old railway sidings at Kings Cross is apparently the biggest brownfields redevelopment in Europe. It will mean something like 3000 new homes, shops and offices on the edge of the Parish, and is sure to have an enormousContinue reading “Kings Cross Redevelopment”
Urban Wilderness
Church on the Corner are at Greenbelt this year, very exciting. We are doing a session in the new forms cafe called ‘Urban Wilderness – the spirituality of the city‘. This is our blurb – Christian spirituality has often focussed on escaping the noise and pressure of the city, so how can those who liveContinue reading “Urban Wilderness”
The Drawing Room
This Thursday at COTC we are pleased to be hosting one of Rob Peppers excellent ‘Drawing Room’ workships (as seen in Time Out). It is more than a drawing class, using drawing as a meditation. It is open to all – no experience necessary, and is a lovely non-threatening environment to kick start your creativity,Continue reading “The Drawing Room”
Easter 2008
If felt to me that Easter brought together all the themes we have been exploring over the last few months, themes like Kingdom, justice, restoration & creation. On Sunday morning we reflected on the resurrection account in Luke, and also this wonderful image by Stanley Spencer (click for a very large version). He imagines theContinue reading “Easter 2008”
Lent
We talked yesterday about preparing to enter into the wilderness at Lent to create some space and to seek repentance and humility. You can find the talk on the resources page. And whether you are planning to give something up, or take up some practical discipline our hope is that this is restorative for usContinue reading “Lent”
Church on the Corner 