Thank you Joy, Lucy, Katie and Amelia for this poster.
We celebrated Ashley’s seventieth birthday over the weekend with a barn dance and supper on Saturday and a Service on Sunday. The whole weekend was a very special occasion.
Thank you so much for so many of you coming to celebrate with us. We also missed others that couldn't make it and were in all our thoughts. We met lots of friends, families and children. A wonderful event.
I was delighted to see people from Ashley representing all the seven decades that the church has been in existence. It has had many changes and different expressions of our shared faith.
Ashley started in a different world before most of us were born. It has been small, large, more formal, less formal but always attempting to keep Jesus Christ at the centre. This has resulted in many different ministries, styles and initiatives with links across the world. We have all of you to thank for the journey we have been on and for the foundation we have for going further into this century. We have a great building and community to embrace this future.
We are always trying to answer the question ‘Why did God decide to convert a laundry into a church at the junction of Ashley and Hatfield Roads in the midst of many other churches?’ With all your help we have tried to answer that question in the way we ‘do church’ and will continue to do so with ever changing circumstances and personnel. We hope always to do this creatively seasoned with some radical thinking from time to time.
This weekend of celebration acknowledged the many contributions of you all. Some of you for a short time, and others of us for a longer time – but all valued, important and significant. We were so pleased to be together to celebrate God’s grace and goodness. .
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