Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

  Audio recording here .  Good morning. My name is CN, minister CCH. I wonder if you know much about your forebears? Perhaps you’ve done a DNA test, or you’ve got into ancestry.com . Perhaps you’ve got an old trinket or a piece of furniture from a distant relative. Well I had the privilege this week to go with my dad and my cousin and his son to the town where my great-grandfather lived for a special event in his honour. His dad (my great-great -grandfather) was the local postmaster, and he was an office lad who grow up to be an estate agent and a business man. Amazingly 100 years on, last Thursday a building was being named after him. Quite an honour for me and my family. It raises the question, what kind of legacy would you like to leave? How would you like to be remembered 100 years after your death? There will only be very few of us who are still talked about in 100 years’ time perhaps for some amazing invention or our involvement in some event of history. Perhaps ...

 Click here for audio Good morning. My name is Charlie Newcombe, I'm the minister at CCH.  Last month, a report was published analysing the countries of the world for how they are doing with their mental health. Those who instigated this report have found that in general after the Covid lockdowns there wasn’t a recovery in wellbeing as might have been expected, but that globally we have sunk to a new low. And specifically for those of us living in the UK, the UK came 2 nd from the bottom of the list for its mental health quotient, and bottom of the list for the percentage of people distressed or struggling with 35% of those interviewed saying that they were distressed or struggling. Why is that? Why are we statistically more unhappy even than those living in Ukraine? Those in Latin America and Africa are far happier than us. Well someone might claim that we are talking about mental health a lot more than before, and so the stats have gone up. And actually that’s a go...