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Showing posts with label Childs Hill. Show all posts
Ecclesiastes 11:3b
Lord's Day September 22 2024
We were our usual numbers more or less last Sunday when Eddie preached in the morning on Christian freedom in the morning and I carried on with 2 Chronicles in the evening. W ehad communion before the evening meeting, as usual. In the morning, there were two new Iranian ladies and an Iranian man who had first come the week before last. With two new Kurdish Iranians who have come a little while now (and with whom I had a Bible study the next day) and our established Iranian friends, there are still lots of Persians. At the end of the morning service two young men turned up, one a Bengali Indian, the other a Cretan Filipino. I hope we see them again. They live nearby. There were also visitors in the vening, a realtive of one of our members and a friend of hers, a retured pastor's wife. Good day.
Door to door in diverse Childs Hill
My assistant Eddie and I try and do door to door work on a Friday. Last Friday we tackled one of the three high rise blocks of flats in the area. Most of the residents of the sixty flats were out but we caught some in and chatted to one or two. It struck me again the diversity of the area. We met people whose roots are Somali, Kenyan, Indian, Bangladeshi, Portuguese, Iranian, etc (my Ghanaian friends were out). Religiously, there were those of Muslim, Hindu, Quaker, Anglican and Pentecostal persuasion (I know that some JWs also live in this block).
Living in a pricey area
One of the issues that faces us here in Childs Hill is the prohibitive cost of housing. Over the years many have had to move away because it is so costly here.
New figures from the Office for National Statistics show where properties are likely to set you back the most in Barnet, and where you could snap up a bargain.
The Garden Suburb neighbourhood was Barnet's priciest, with a median value of £1,150,000 among the 161 sales in the area last calendar year.
The next most expensive was the Childs Hill area, where a house could set you back £885,000, and Totteridge, which had a median price of £850,000 in 2022.
Meanwhile, the Burnt Oak neighbourhood saw the lowest house prices, with buyers paying an average of £438,000 across 82 sales last year.
This was followed by Colindale and Woodhouse, where buyers spent £440,000 and £512,250 respectively.
Aware of this we have embarked on a major project to turn the lower ground floor of our building into accommodation.
Day Off Week 2 2022
After all the holiday, we are trying to get back into some sort of routine, so last Tuesday it was my first day off of the year. I did a lot of work on various books I have written or am writing. Someone kindly sent me a festchrift that has been written for Bob Penhearow of Carey Outreach Ministries, which I have had some small connection with. I love that format and there were lots of good things on there. More details here. I went for a walk and a coffee and bumped into Lord and lady Childs Hill who I rarely see together. They told me they are celebrating their sixtieth wedding anniversary this year. I also watched a bit of TV. Nice day.
(The book I should add features Bible Studies, theology, church history and pastoralia. I enjoyed the church history best. I'd never heard of Chang and Chu of Shanxi - brilliant story [inevitably the solitary typo I spotted comes where Pastor Hsi is called His] or of Charles Tupper and I though Dr Haykin did an excellent piece on Machen. I also found Carl Muller on butn out interesting - it reminded me of the importance of the day off!)
Lord's Day May 24 2020
This week was slightly different in that I didn't preach in the morning. A student with us, Benjamin Saunders, preached on Psalm 45 in the morning. He preached well. I did the rest if the service apart from the reading and sermon. So I still had to out in a few hours putting the thing together. In the evening it was zoom again and Joshua 2. It was nice to have a visiting friend. We began in the morning with singing. It's all on our website.
Childs Hill or Princes Risborough?
I spotted this Metro article here, which is interesting. Of course, I don't have 890k to spend anyway.
Constablesque Clouds
Grenfell and Childs Hill
Yorkshire Wedding
In Yorkshire again this weekend and again at a wedding. This time, it was Pieter de Jong, who grew up in Childs Hill, and Coralie Severs. My oldest son is Pieter's lifelong friend and he was best man. My niece is a good friend of Coralie's and was one of a host of bridesmaids. It was a great day.
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Lord's Day August 17 2014
It was a great joy and a privilege to be back preaching again in Childs Hill. I have hardly preached in the last five months owing to illness, a two month sabbatical and some holiday. I preached on Ezekiel 11:19, 20 on a new heart and spirit (partly inspired by my recent heart problems) and 1 John 1:7 on walking in the light and the blood of Christ. I had a little sleep in the afternoon to make sure I was able to do both but I seem to have been okay. You realise again how difficult preaching is. What a joy nevertheless. I intend to put them both on my sermon blog, Preached Sermons, soon.
Childs Hill Sunrise
We sometimes feature a Childs Hill sunset here but I don't remember a sunrise for some reason. Here's one!
I'm home!
So I am home from hospital. No, I'm not planning anything silly like basketball but I am glad to be back here. They were a good bunch in the ward I was on and the professional staff brilliant but I just needed to get out after a week away. I now have to await a date for the big op. Hope it's soon. Thanks for all the emails, Facebook thingies, texts, cards, visits, etc, etc.
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