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Charlie Newcombe is the pastor of our church. He enjoys playing the guitar, gardening, and spending time with his wife Emma and their three daughters.

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Not all that glitters is Gold

Did you know that in vaults of the Bank of England there are around 400,000 bars of gold worth over £200billion! Only the Federal Reserve in New York has more gold than that! It’s so heavy that there are special purpose-built shelves to hold it all up, and of course lots of security, and as a result no gold has ever been stolen from the Bank of England. Italian Job, Oceans Eleven, sorry! However, in Victorian times there was a close miss! You can read about it on the Bank of England’s website . In 1836 the Bank of England’s Directors received anonymous letters from someone claiming to have access to their gold. In fact they offered to meet those directors inside the vault whenever they chose. Sure enough at the appointed time there was a noise heard from beneath the floor, and a man popped up through the floorboards. He had been doing repair work and had discovered an old drain that ran underneath the gold. Billions of pounds worth of gold was at his disposal, but he cho

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The Sheep are in Danger!

Last Saturday if you walking in the Riverside Park in Huntingdon you may noticed a rather strange sight. The River Ouse had broken its banks and was flooding over the fields on both sides. That’s nothing new, and probably most of us have seen that before. But the field on the Godmanchester side is home to a flock of sheep at the moment, and as the floodwaters rose around 30 of them had become cut off on a slightly raised piece of land opposite the boathouse with the fast flowing river on one side and a massive lake on the other. Take a look at the Christ Church Huntingdon blogspot to see a photo, or there may still be one on the Huntingdon Living facebook page. When I saw them, they were beginning to start fighting and butting each other! Well a flurry of social media posts and photos later and the illustrious whatsapp group of our neighbourhood received a message that eventually a land rover had been spotted and rescue was on the way, though it sounds like it took a

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

“Ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange, changes, look out you rock and rollers”. I wonder if you can name the singer!? Stay tuned to hear the song in a minute! Well we’ve certainly all faced our share of changes over the last 18 months. We’ve changed our working practices , with many people working from home. We’ve changed our schooling , with many kids being taught at home, now returning to new teachers, new friendship groups, new subjects. We’ve changed our understanding of what we are and aren’t allowed to do again and again as rules on bubbles, masks and social distancing have changed so many times. At Christ Church Huntingdon, we’ve had to change how we do church . First onto youtube, then onto zoom, then to Inflatabounce and now to Stukeley Meadows Primary School with a youtube livestream. Well in the Bible there’s a verse (Heb 13:8) that says that “Jesus Christ is the same , yesterday, today and forever”. It’s very reassuring that in a wo

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Downsizing

Well I wonder if you remember Betty Boothroyd's life in politics? She was the first and only female speaker in the House of Commons. Between 1992 and 2000 she kept order in the House of Commons, and now she is keeping order in her own house. Betty Boothroyd, or the Right Honourable Baroness Boothroyd OM as she now is, is 91 and downsizing from her London home to move to, yes, local Cambridgeshire, where she has bought a small cottage 1 which just doesn’t have the windowsills or space to display all the items from her time in public life. So 40 items from her life (which involved mixing with Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and others) are going under the hammer in auction. There’s an ornamental box from President Yeltsin, there’s a limited-edition figure of Lawrence of Arabia that was give to her for her work as president of the All-Party defence group. There’s a decanter presented to her by the British Navy in St Petersburg, and all have to go. “You can’t take it with you!

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Samson is back

Who is Samson you may be asking? An 1831 locomotive of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, a software platform for computational nanoscience, a Lockheed Martin military transport plane, a character from the Bible with legendary strength and long hair! Well Samson is all those things but he is also a cat. Samson is a cat that belongs to friends of ours from church in Huntingdon. And sadly Samson went missing for 48 hours. What would you do if you lost your cat? Search around the garden ask around the neighbours. Our friends did all the normal things but they did something else that is a bit more unusual. They asked their church to pray. Here’s the whatsapp message that went around Christ Church Huntingdon “Would love prayers that our missing cat would turn up- he hasn’t come home the past couple of nights… so worried that he might be trapped in someone’s shed/garage”. Then there are 5 emojis of praying hands as people got to work praying. What happened next? 2 hour

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Virtual Insanity

Just over two weeks ago, the social media giant Facebook suffered a connection problem and for six hours the world went without WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook [1] . It was a major problem, not least because according to some reports the software glitch also affected the security in Facebook’s head office in California, meaning that employees couldn’t get into the building to rectify the situation. I found it quite amusing to read posts on the internet saying, things like “How I can’t live without my beloved Facebook” and “This is the only way I can talk to my American Girlfriend”, with someone posting “Have you tried texting, emailing, or just (throwing it out there), a phone call?!!” A similar thing happened in June when a customer of one website company, Fastly, just did a simple change of their settings, causing 85% of the websites they host to go down [2] . Well billionaire founder, Mark Zuckerberg soon apologised, and life returned to normal. It ra

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Flat Stanley in Space

I wonder if you’ve ever heard of the Flat Stanley children’s books. Written back in the 90s by Jeff Brown, they are the quirky story of an American boy called Stanley Lambchop who had the misfortune of being squashed to being only an inch in thickness when a heavy pinboard fell on him in the night. Miraculously he survives, and lives the rest of his life as “Flat Stanley” and carries out all sorts of adventures. I’m currently reading “Stanley in Space” to my youngest daughter. Flat Stanley, due to his previous experiences, gets asked by the President of the United States to go with his mum and dad on a special mission into space to meet a group of aliens. All is going well, until they lose radio contact with earth, and it turns out that this alien race, called the Tyrrans, far from being friendly are out to capture Stanley and his spaceship, making them prisoners of their planet Tyrra. Most scary of all is when they see an extremely large alien with a big moustache a

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