Helloooooo Elaine and Peter!

I got the Greek Lexicon today, thank you so much!!!
Ive been googling to find ur email address and stumbled accross this site!So thought id drop u a message!
Anything to put of the Greek!Hehe *jokes* ive been working non stop for the past 3 weeks!
Exam is on tuesday (9 th Jan)so pray for me!
Im going to find your email address now to thank you again incase you dont read this message!

Hope you are all ok, you are in my thoughts and prayers, as always!

Loads of love from Amy xXx

Hi Annette, How good to hear from you - and back in the UK - that is wonderful. I'm sure we'll meet again sometime, even though I am now based in Frodsham.
Elaine - yes I can make the next meeting.
Liz - are you still out there somewhere?
Everybody - and especially Val - we just had the opening of the refurbished Church Hall this weekend and to celebrate we had our 10am service in the hall instead of in church. At the beginning of the service and during the intercessions there was this fabulous image projected onto the wall. Drawn by someone called Val Fryer - anyone heard of her!!!?
Val - any chance you can email me the image? I could use it a lot. It's the one with the footwashing scene encapsulated in God's hands and the cross above it.
Love to everyone, Kath

How fantastic! I have asked Alan to pass your request for prayer to the prayer chain people so they will be on the case as well.
Hope to catch up sometime soon
Elaine
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Hi everyone, another blast from the past!! Lukas and I had moved back to the UK and moved in with the grandparents whilst Rob is still in Switzerland and visit us every week-end. Lukas have just completed his first week at Stretton Day nursery!! This was an answer to our prayers to get him in there and he is loving it! I am traveling like mad all over the world for the next six weeks and really wanted Lukas to be settled and the help of grandparents...then we will start looking for a house, a new job for daddy so that he can move back too etc. Prayers will be appreciated as it is a chaotic time but little Lukas is sleeping with a smile on his face and that is our number one priority at the moment. Hope to see everyone soon once all the dust has settled...Lots of Love. Annette, Rob and Lukas. (Thanks for the prayers Elaine & Peter - a miracle got Lukas into our first choice of nursery and provided much needed child care - now can we please have a new house, jobs....just joking!)

Hi,
Thanks for the emails. We are busy and the main challenge is to make sure I get a day off! Nicola has started driving lessons so I may yet be transported in the style to which I could become accustomed. In the meantime it improves my prayer life. We should catch up sometime soon for a meal but regards work, we have set a date for the development committee to be Tuesdfay October 3rd at the Vicarage at 7.30pm. Please come if you can make it.

Take Care
Love Elaine
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Hello - here is a blast from the past. How are you all at St Cross and St Matthew. I have settled in here at Frodsham but still miss you all.
How is the fund raising going?
Kath

Hi Everyone,
Just had to say how very much I valued the opportunities and challenges posed by our wonderful Parish Week-end at Scargill.So many people put so much time,effort and love into creating the experience it was that,as a parishioner,I wanted to say a huge "Thank You" !
Do we know how Jackie's interviews have gone?I so much hope that her vocation will be enabled,for she has so much to offer.
Thank you all for your hard work.It was so much appreciated.
LindseyX

Hi Annette,
How lovely to hear from you!Thank you very much for your good wishes,and I hope we get the chance to meet before your little son is born.
With every good wish,
Lindsey

Hi Lindsey, lovely to meet you! Congratulations on your wedding - it is awesome to be married as I am sure you know by now. We are expecting a little boy and can't wait to meet him now. I will try my best to go to St Matthews on Sunday night and I will def pop in to see Elaine&Peter at the Vicarage during my flying visit. BTW - Is there a Faithcourse session on Monday night? Love Annette

Hi Elaine and Peter,
Just confirming that Peter and I are booked in for the Parish week-end?Let us know when and how much we need to send,and I'll drop a cheque in to the Vicarage ASAP.
Love Lindsey E.

Hi everyone,
Just to let you know that there are only 2 places left at the Parish Weekend. First come first serve.
Sunday Evening - Helen Houston will be doing evensong at St Matthew's which will be good. If we aren't at the service call in afterwards.

Hi Annette,
I don't know if we've ever met,but,having read your message,I'd just like to wish you and your baby well for April 8th,or whenever he or she decides to put in an appearance!
I live in Parkland Close and Peter and I were married in May 2004 at St.Cross Church,by Elaine.
If I get the chance to go to Evensong on Sunday,at St.Matt's,I'll look forward to seeing you there!
With every good wish,
Lindsey(Etheridge)

Hi everyone, just a quick update from snowy Switzerland. All is well with Rob and I although I must say I can't wait to meet our little arrival now (due 8 April) and to have my body back! I will be in the UK on Sunday night, probably my last visit for a while and I will come to Church - can't wait! I need that hug again so where will everyone be - Elaine, Peter, Kath etc...St Matthews or St Cross? Love Annette

Hi everyone,
Hope your gas supply is fully functioning again,Kath!This is NOT the time of year to do without the Central Heating.I feel very out-of-touch at the moment because, for various family reasons,I've not been able to get to a service for some weeks.I'm hoping to rectify that this Sunday!
Have given all the details of Scargill,to Lindsay and Steve Grace,and they are thinking of coming along,but,as we both have canine friends to accommodate whenever we go away,it makes it a "dear do"!!Fingers crossed!
Look forward to seeing you soon,
LindseyX

How nice to see the site being used to keep in touch. (You can see how long ago it was when I last looked as I have only just noticed Lindsey and Annette's contributions this year). Its great to have more people use this facility - and it doesn't matter if you are in Switzerland, Alaska or anywhere in Cheshire!
I am stuck at home at the moment as there is a smell of gas and Transco have kindly cut off the supply. Am waiting patiently for British Gas - it is minus 1 degree outside but fortunately I have two very efficient electric fires. Mmmmm... time for a coffee, I think.

Thanks for that,Elaine.
Please would you reserve 2 places for me and Peter?Let me know how much of a Deposit you need,or whether it's payment in full straight away.
See you soon,
Lindsey

Thanks Lyndsey
There are still plenty of places left for the Scargill Weekend - and this year we have deliberately opened it to everyone in either parish. So if anyone would like to join us, the Parish Weekend will be from 21st to 23rd April 2006.

Hi everyone,

I agree with Lyndsey that this is just another way of reaching out and being in touch with our "Christian family". I just got back to Switzerland from a flying visit to the UK for Christmas - it was wonderful but too short and the brief hug of Elaine and Peter on Christmas Eve will have to sustain me for a while...I did not have much time to meet with anyone so just wanted to let you know that all is well and Rob and I wish you all a wonderful New Year full of love and happiness. Annette

Hi Elaine and Peter,
I've only just discovered this wonderful means of keeping in touch,and really enjoyed reading the previous messages.I feel a bit of a fraud using this site,when I know Liz and Annette have been so "Far flung"!Nevertheless,because I work full-time in Chester,this means that I can keep in touch,when phones get so busy.This way allows me time to reflect and communicate,rather than talk.
It was Ed who got me thinking,as,after the service this a.m.,I asked if the Parish Week-end was all booked up and he suggested I E-mailed you.Well,I searched high and low,but couldn't find your address,so I searched for our Web Site and found this!
I found the time at Scargill last year so amazing,that I'd really like the opportunity to come again.My Peter found it difficult,but he's happy to come along,knowing that there'll be no pressure exerted to participate in anything he feels uncomfortable with.He certainly gained a great deal from the peacefulness and time to reflect on things.
I've really rambled,so I'll leave you in peace,but,as it's hard to put very strong feelings and thoughts into spoken words,I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for the support,prayers and love which have supported me and my family over the last year.All of this has strengthened my absolute belief in the power of the Holy Spirit to turn lives around,if only we'll just let him in.Thank you all.
With much love from
Lindsey.

Great, I look forward to see you at Church on Sunday!! Love Annette

I will be at the 6.30 for a re-dedication service. It would be great to see you if you can make it.
With love Elaine

Dear Elaine, I am so sorry I missed it! We decided to go to Egypt for a short break and just got back. Rob has now gone to Zurich and left me to do the packing whilst being frantic at work...life is happening too fast at the moment! Will you be at Church on Sunday night? I would love to say goodbye and give you my forwarding address as I move to Zurich next Wednesday! Lots of love Annette

Message to Annette. We were really disappointed not to have seen you at the faithcourse. Let us know where you are up to.
With much love Elaine

Great to hear from you Liz. We really miss you. I'm glad you had a good break and have steeled back. What's the wether like there? Do you have autumnal/winter conditions?
Elaine

I'm finally back on Sakhalin feeling very travel weary. I don't know how you do it Annette! (I will e mail you re your forth coming move separately). Pete and I got back from our holiday with Chris (son)last Thursday. It was great being able to spend time with Chris AND that he had to stay with us the whole 9 days as there was nowhere else for him to go and nobody else for him to see! Pete and I both had tears in our eyes as we saw him off at the airport.(He left 2 days before us)

If any one reads this message before the faithcourse meeting tonight will they please say hello from me and that I hope everyone is well and happy!
All for now
Love Liz XX

...and we will miss you too Annette. You will have to send us lots of photos and I will have to get this photo album up and running.....
Calling Liz, come in Liz, is anybody there?

Hi everyone, I have just returned from China, Korea and Japan. Our move is also taking shape in that after much prayer and thought we are moving to Zurich for up to 3 years at the end of September!! I will miss our Church and the Faithcourse terribly and hope we will find the time for me to say goodbye to everyone, maybe at the next Faithcourse meeting 19 September?. I know it is not forever and hope we can be in touch via e-mail etc. Love Annette

Has anyone been doing any travelling these days? Liz, how are things with you?
I am going to start work on putting the Faithcourse material on a website today. Not sure how long it will take.

Lovely to hear that you're coming back for a while Liz. I shall be on holiday on 20th June but hopefully I will be able to be there on 4th. A party - what a great idea Annette. Shame I shall be on hols.

Great to hear that you are coming home for a while. I was only thinking about you today. I will get Peter to send the last Faithcourse session on Jonah and I am supposed to be talking about healing tonight. I still haven't sorted it out yet and its only two hours to go. Don't tell anyone!!!
Love Elaine

Hi Liz,
It will be great to see you on the 20th June and/or 4 July! I will suggest to the group tonight that we hold a party on the 20th! I will report back what they say...(any excuse for a party and by that I mean tea and cakes).
Annette

I'm back in the UK 19th June to 8th July although I am taking a holiday in Cyprus during that time. Hope I can get to a faithcourse while I'm home and for that I'll be looking at June 20th or July 4th.It will probably land in the middle of those weeks!I have a list with the dates on it but I just can't lay my hands on it.
I've also just made contact with a lady who organises a car for those who want to go to the English service at the R.C. Church in town and I can start going along with them. There is a good rappour with this Church and the camp as we help them with charity work so I shall make enquiries to see if there is anything I can do to help.
Hope to see you all soon XX

Ah this is sad. We've all dried up. I keep checking every few days but we are either in silent contemplation or else we are very shy.
Is anyone else checking?

Alan came back safe from Australia and has now nipped off to Lourdes. I know he has missed us all and it will be great to catch up on the news when he returns.
Elaine

Hi Liz, How is everything going? And is Alan still tuning in from Australia? Or anyone else from anywhere else? We've gone all quiet!

Hi everyone, just back from the States. Liz, we had a great discussion about the DaVince code and we decided that it was too much for one session. Peter led a session on the DaVince code and the Bible. Tonight we are meeting again and I will lead "Mary Magdalene, the Church and Goddess Worship". I will email the notes to you.
Love
Annette

Thank you for all your best wishes. Hannah Elizabeth is beautiful and we feel so blessed - Matthew won't stop kissing and cuddling her and is very good at calming her down when crying!! Shame he can't do it throughout the night too!!Love to all. The Ratcliffe Family xx

My warmest congratulations to Jan, Paul and Matthew on the safe arrival of Hannah (lovely name). You must all be thrilled to bits. And happy birthday Jan! What a wonderful present.

Congratulations Jan and Paul. Fantastic news. A little girl - you must be delighted.
Loads of good wishes, Kath

Had a change of plan here and I'll be back in the UK for last 3 weeks of June. Hope to see you all then.
How did the da Vinci Code faithcourse session go? Are there any notes on it please?

Everybody has gone quiet! Who has seen a good film lately?

Wish I could 'teleport' to your meeting about the da vinci code. I have read it and would love to be able to join in! I would really appreciate the faith course notes and be very interested in peoples' points of view. Perhaps those with internet access could tell me via this site or my e mail address is liz_grady@yahoo.co.uk
All for now, except we got stuck in Japan for two days going back to Sakhalin AND it's still snowing!!!!
love Liz

Just thought I'd say this is a great and informative site -keep up the good work

Hi Alan. Fantastic to hear from you. If you email me piccies at kathlw@tiscali.co.uk, I'll add them to the gallery I am about to create. That applies to you all.
I hope you all don't mind the adverts that have appeared at the side. They are context sensitive and they have picked up on us mentioning Da Vinci, so we are getting lots of links to sites about this.
If its a problem to anyone, I can upgrade this site to the Pro version but it will cost some money - whereas this is free at the moment - hence the ads - that's what usually pays for free services on the Internet.

Many thanks for sending me the website details. It's great to be able to keep in touch when you are so far away.
 
Doreen and myself are fine and it's nice to be able to be with Sally again in Sydney, but I do also miss my Christian friends back home. I am getting to know quite a number of people at the local church here in Annandale, a friendly and interesting group.

You know I think this is the first time I've ever posted a message on a web site, I feel quite proud of myself really!

Thanks Kath for your work on the site and thanks for the info about forthcoming Monday night sessions - I'll have to read up about Da Vinci. Interestingly, they have had a session on 'De-coding the Da Vinci Code' at the above church, unfortunately I couldn't make it.

Take care and God bless you all, I look forward to being with you again early May.

Alan

p.s. Travel back safely, Liz. God bless.

Hi,
Good to see the forum being used well. I will set up a gallery and put a link to it from St. Cross homepage. If you email me piccies, I will put them on.
Peter - do you want me to put the faith course stuff up there on the new site or teach you how to do it. If the first, then I will need to know the password for FTPing to the site - you can tell me when you next see me. It would be good to have links to this forum and the picture gallery on the faithcourse site and vice versa etc.... a little network of sites!
Just another thought - I will do a links page which has loads of useful links on for us. I have one myself that I use as my homepage.

Great minds think alike. We have actually got a registered domain www.faithcourse.co.uk but as yet there is nothing there. We were going to put all the course notes there but I don't know how to do it. Maybe Kath can tell us!

Hi Kath,
Just a thought as I still can't sleep (I need to knock myself out!) the photo gallery is a great idea but what about a place where we can put the Faithcourse notes? That way Liz can share in what we are doing and I can also "catch-up" when I am away. Like Liz, I miss our discussions when I can't be at the meetings. I feel so guilty however in giving you and Peter more work - let me know if I can help in any way!! Love Annette

Hi Peter,
It is 6am and I can't sleep as my body is on some other time zone...it will be SO great to discuss the DaVinci code! I will be at the Faithcourse meeting on 25 April, can't wait to see everyone. Let me know if you want me to help prepare anything on the DaVinci code and when we are discussing it. See you soon. Annette

Glad to see you're back. Both Elaine & myself have now read the Da Vinci Code - Rebecca has now nipped off with the book, but I'll put together some notes as soon as possible ready for a Faithcourse discussion. I'll make sure that we discuss the controversial bits and don't discuss the plot! I'll also make sure that everyone can join in even if they haven't read it. See you soon.

Hi everyone,
I just got back to the UK without my luggage...the joys of travel. I am sorry I missed you Liz. Kath, the picture area is a great idea - want to share some pics and stories from China. It was a humbling experience as 1.3Billion people have to co-exist with so little and with such great happinenss and friendliness.
Love
Annette

Thanks Jan, Paul & Matthew and would you please say 'Hi' to Sue for me and send her my good wishes.
I'll take this opportunity to wish you a very speedy delivery!! and I'll look forward to seeing those photos!
Take Care
Love Liz XX

Kath
I think a photo gallery would be a very good idea.

Just to say hi to Liz and pass on a "big hello and lots of love" from Sue Tanner. I have only got 2 weeks to go now until Baby Ratcliffe No 2 arrives! Will e-mail some photos when the big day happens - if we can work out the digital camera that is!! Take care and God bless
Jan,Paul & Matthew xx

If people would like it, I'll create a gallery on the website for photos.

I agree with Annette, this is a great site, especially for those of us a bit further from home!
I went to the Faith Course tonight and what a lovely warm welcome, thank you all so much. I felt as if I'd never been away AND I do miss it so much.
I'm back to snowy Sakhalin on Friday, via Sapporo in Japan this time. Might as well see a bit of the East while I'm in the area!
I'll now be able to send photos and keep you up to date with my adventures (if I actually have any that is!)
Love Liz

Edited by author 11-04-2005 10:02 PM
Wow! The great wall of China. Have you seen all those figures as well? ummm...are they made of pottery or something? It's great to hear from you Annette - how lovely to be able to communicate from everywhere in the world. Even from Runcorn!!! How long are you in China?
Good to hear from you too Chris - keep them coming.

I cant compete with Beijing...but the site is a terrific idea. Great to hear from Liz.

Hi everyone,
I am in Beijing in China. I walked on the great wall of China yesterday - the wall between myself and Liz at the moment (with Mongolia in between...). This site is great - at least we can be in touch when we are scattered around the world. Thanks for creating this Kath!
Hope you are all well and hope to see you soon.
Love
Annette

Where is everyone?

Hi Everyone
I'm home till Friday 15th April and I'll try to see as many of you as I can!
Love liz

For all you 'watchers' out there - don't be deterred from joining in. If you want to register rather than be a guest, you can use a logon name that none of us can recognise, if you prefer.

Edited by author 05-04-2005 10:03 AM
Thanks, Jean.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to come to the fish and chip supper - I forgot I would be away with friends. I went to the Methodist Church's equivalent of Spring Harvest - it is called Easter People and it was at Southport. It was great. For those of you who were on the parish weekend, Jackie and Simon and their group Heptagon, were leading the worship in Southport Theatre every evening. Do any of you want to see pictures?
Talking about things away from home, have any of you thought of going on the lay conference? I went on one before I was ordained and it was great fun. Take the whisky for the evenings!!

I think this forum is an excellent idea. The date of the next development meeting is Tuesday 19th at my house.

Does anyone know the date of the next development committee meeting?

Edited by author 28-03-2005 10:42 AM
Hello, I have just set up this discussion board and am going to link it to the St Cross website so we can all talk to each other and see the latest news from each other - we can post details of meeting dates etc.
If it's a success, I shall upgrade to one with more functionality.
Hope you enjoy it! Any problems, contact me.
Kath