In this Autumn’s series of Saturday workshops, we will be exploring ‘creativity’. You will re-discover a sense of play through simple improvisation and writing exercises. And in the process have a lot of laughs and gain a fresh perspective on your own creative journey.

When: Saturdays, 2pm – 5pm (19th September, 3rd October, 10th October, 31st October)
Where: Church on the Corner
Who: Anyone! (You don’t need to come to all four, as each one is a stand alone session)

And finally, what people have said about previous Saturday afternoon workshops.
“I can’t encourage you enough to take part in one of these workshops. It may be the start of a whole new chapter in your life!”
“The laughter and freedom you experience is wondeful and as a non-creative person (my own label) I have
been amazed at what I have produced!”

Email Rebecca for more information or to book your place: rebecca.mackenzie@gmail.com

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 out (perhaps Titanic is an unfortunate adjective!)

Tom C took some fantastic pictures of the day (that boy has talent). You can find them here.

Easter Services

This Lent at COTC we are committing ourselves to reading the whole New Testament in 40 days. 

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. You can find pictures here

What’s on at COTC and in the Parish this Christmas. Download the full size version here.
UPDATE The Christmas tree is here!

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 see the kingdom of God come in their life, even if they couldn’t articulate it. We used them as a basis for our prayers, but so many of them were so good that I want to put them up in Church. This was a good one.

“My hope this Christmas is that my children don’t end up like me. I pray that they will escape from the life that I live, that the lessons they learn at school will be their passport out of this. I pray that they will never have to experience the feeling of not being able to pay the rent or buy food for their famly. This is what I hope.”

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.

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 have a menu of different types of prayer running at different times through the week – you can find out what is happening and when on the chapel page.