Monthly Message from Our Minister

October 2024

In the past 12 months I have been developing Brick Church within my congregations at Toller and Desborough.   This is a great tool to get young people and adults to think about bible stories in a creative and artistic way.

Using the Lego and construction bricks we find alternative ways to think about the stories about the God we have come to know and love.   I have been asked recently to share our experience of Brick Church with other worship leaders in the URC.

The main thing that I have found is not in the building or the stories, but in the relationships it creates.  We have had others from the Baptist join us, and when you gather around a table to build, there is no barrier on age (we all just explore together).   The really precious nature of watching relationships build across the generations is so important as we move forwards in thinking about how we can work together in the love of God across generations.

 "He did this to prepare all God's people for the work of Christian service, in order to build up the body of Christ. 13 And so we shall all come together to that oneness in our faith and in our knowledge of the Son of God;"   Ephesians 4

Rev’d. Helen Wakefield-Carr