London Calling

On Sunday 22nd October I was in London, having been invited to lead worship at Anchor Church, Wandsworth in the morning and Wimbledon Congregational Church in the afternoon. I set off on a windy Saturday (storm Brian) and had a very long train journey from the coast of west Wales to Paddington.

On Sunday, I was collected from my hotel by Nigel Lindsay, the minister at Anchor Church and led their Anniversary Service. The sermon was based on Acts 20 where we are instructed to be Shepherds of the Church of God. After the service, the fellowship remained for a lunch at the church and it turned out to be a blessed time of fellowship as we shared a meal together.

It was then a trip across to Wimbledon to a 3pm service at the Congregational Church in Dundonald Road. The sermon was based on the healing of the blind man in John 9 where Jesus reminds us that He is the light of the world.

The service was followed by a time of fellowship, tea and cake and the members were remaining for the evening service, which was a talk given by some of the members on their recent mission trip to Spain.



I stayed in London for the next couple of days because on Tuesday 25th October, I was deputising for our General Secretary at a gathering of Churches Together in England, at Lambeth Palace. There was a shared meal and a time of discussion around the publication Insights into Churches Together in England and contemporary ecumenism. The results of the round table discussion will be fed into the various bodies that make up CTE and it is pleasing that a Welshman was able to contribute to English ecumenism!