The other day I noticed an interesting tweet in my Twitter stream: Just finishing talk for tomorrow’s Easter Praise. Have taken @thevicarswife Resurrection Eggs & adapted them for under 3s. It will be mayhem So I got onto Abi, who was responsible for the tweet and asked her if she’d mind writing up the details [...]
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Resurrection Eggs for Toddlers, Sunday School and Busy Vicars
Posted in Faith, Family, tagged activity, all age, Children, Craft, cross, death, donkey, Easter, Family, illustrations, Jesus, Kids, nails, paint your own eggs, prayer, resurrection, Resurrection Eggs, stone, Sunday school, toddlers, tomb on 15 April, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Something New for Easter
Posted in Faith, tagged Bible, biblical research, Cambridge, Christianity, cross, David Instone-Brewer, death, Easter, evidence, experts, Jesus, Jewish, manuscript, Munich Talmud, Peter Williams, resurrection, Tyndale House, video, YouTube on 5 April, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tyndale House, the biblical research centre in Cambridge, have produced three short video clips for Easter, with biblical scholars talking about evidence for Jesus’ trial, death and resurrection. One of the clips, where David Instone-Brewer and Peter Williams are looking at the Munich Talmud, was something I’d never heard about before – a very early [...]
Mark Ashton – Times Obituary
Posted in Faith, grief, vicar, tagged Ashton Thanksgiving Fund, Cambridge, cancer, CYFA, death, Fiona Ashton, Mark Ashton, Mark Hewett Ashton, newspaper, obituary, On My Way to Heaven, Rev Mark Ashton, Round Church, StAG, the Round Church, The Times, vicar on 12 May, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Times newspaper has just published an obituary of Mark Ashton, our much-loved former vicar. Many people have visited this site in the weeks since Mark died, and if you are looking for reflections on Mark’s life and ministry you may like to read mine or see what others had to say – I’ve collected [...]
Sad, Thankful and Encouraged: Memorial service for Mark Ashton
Posted in Faith, grief, tagged Ashton family, Ashton Thanksgiving Fund, cancer, Christopher Ash, death, Fiona Ashton, funeral, Jonathan Fletcher, Mark Ashton, Mark Hewett Ashton, memorial, Mike Neville, Nathan Buttery, Rev Mark Ashton, Round Church, StAG, thanksgiving service on 30 April, 2010 | 5 Comments »
A week ago the Vicar and I headed cross county to Cambridge to attend the Thanksgiving service for the life of Mark Ashton, who was my Vicar for 8 years. As so many people were expected, the service was repeated, with refreshments in between – just like Sunday mornings at StAG. We attended the first, [...]
Mark Ashton’s New Book – On My Way to Heaven
Posted in Faith, tagged 10ofthose.com, book, Cambridge, cancer, death, Mark Ashton, On My Way to Heaven, Rev Mark Ashton on 19 April, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Today 10ofthose.com have published a new book by my old vicar, Mark Ashton. As I have already blogged, Mark died on Easter Holy Saturday from gallbladder cancer. He had known that his illness was terminal for over a year. On My Way to Heaven is subtitled ‘facing death with Christ’ and in it Mark points [...]
Home from Hols
Posted in Vicar's wife job description, tagged death, Evangelicals Now, holiday, Mark Ashton, Melrose Sevens, StAG, terminal cancer, thanksgiving service on 12 April, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We were back late last night after a wonderful week away, mainly in Scotland with the Vicar’s family, but also visiting old friends and godchildren en route. Encouragement, laughter and sunshine has refreshed us; taking the kids to their first Melrose Sevens was a particular highlight. Coming back is a bit different: the Vicar spent [...]
Others Remembering Mark Ashton
Posted in Faith, grief, vicar, tagged Bishop of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Cambridge Evening News, cancer, Clifford Swartz, CYFA, David Thomson, death, Gavin McGrath, John Allister, John Richardson, Mark Ashton, Phil Ritchie, preacher, Rev Mark Ashton, Ronnie Stevens, Round Church, StAG, Steve Tilley, vicar, William Black on 4 April, 2010 | 6 Comments »
A few other folk have been posting their memories of Mark Ashton around the blogosphere: June’s edition of Evangelicals Now contains a short obituary from Jonathan Fletcher. Adrian Warnock has posted Jonathan Carswell’s tribute to Mark. Roger Pearse remembers Mark as ‘one of the best of men’. Rachel is also grateful for Mark’s ministry. Thankful [...]
Resurrection Day: Memories of Mark Ashton
Posted in Faith, grief, vicar, tagged Cambridge, cancer, death, illness, Mark Ashton, Mark Hewett Ashton, obituary, Rev Mark Ashton, StAG, the Round Church, YouTube on 3 April, 2010 | 6 Comments »
A dear friend called us this morning with the news that Mark Ashton had died. Mark, the Vicar of St Andrew the Great (StAG) in Cambridge, was my vicar for more than eight years and married me to my husband. His ministry was hugely influential in my life as it was in the lives of [...]
The Passion in Sand
Posted in Faith, tagged death, Jesus Christ, Joe Castillo, resurrection, sandbox, SandStory.com, the Passion on 2 April, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus shown vividly and movingly in sand images: [HT Rachel at Re-vis.e Re-form]
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