St Catherine's Video

Matthew Truelove shot some video footage after a morning service a few weeks back; he's still working on his grand opus, but Marcus has put some of these clips together with a few photos so that when the new website is up and running we'll have a good taster about the church for anyone having a look.

Click on the link above and have a look for yourself now! And hopefully the revamped website will be coming soon!

PodCaths 2

PodCaths 2 is now "live" on iTunes. If you'd like to listen to the second edition of our Podcast then please go to iTunes and search for "PodCaths" (we are beginning to be recognised by the search engine, and not just seem to be a spelling mistake - though to be sure, type in "PodCaths Marcus Green" and there we are!).

Of course, if you press the subscribe button, I think you should get every episode... Let us know if there's a problem: PodCaths@st-caths.org is the email.

PodCaths on Radio Wales

Kate Scott-Williams from BBC Radio Wales came back to St Catherine's today to spend time with the PodCaths crew and to record a piece for Good Morning Wales about our podcast!

Here she is, interviewing Stewart and Joyce after we had recorded today's PodCaths.

Chicken and Parsnip soup, and a special chocolate cake for Joyce's birthday were on the lunch menu, then we worked our way through the ending to John 6 with all its references to eating and drinking. Strangely, nobody pointed this link out at the time.

At last Julie Davies got her wish and we did think about Judas. The vicar continues to wonder why one of his wardens is so preoccupied with this particular disciple...

The second edition of PodCaths is all edited and ready to go - with a bit of luck, it might be up on iTunes by the middle of next week!

Clocking On

The BBC website is now running the story about our church clock!

And today (Tuesday August 11th) between 4 and 6.30pm Marcus will be on Radio Wales with the bells sounding our clearly for all to hear, as he has been interviewed for the evening news programme.

Premier Christian Radio have also rung up to feature the story - so St Catherine's is clocking on to the news media near you.

And here is Matt from BBC Wales TV interviewing Marcus this afternoon. Tuesday August 11th 6.30 BBC 1 Wales - watch it and see! (Please note: the sunny weather is entirely typical of this summer in Pontypridd; we hope the Lord has also been blessing you!)

(Later)

The BBC Website is now carrying Matt's TV story, which is excellent. But we also loved Liz's GTFM piece, and Kate's BBC Radio Wales piece. We've added pictures to Kate's piece and uploaded it (with permission) to YouTube: here it is, if you missed it on Tuesday.

St Catz Kidz News

Trish Tazzini-Lloyd is our new children's worker at St Catherine's!

The PCC sub-committee met with Trish on Thursday, and after prayer & over lunch we were all convinced that Trish was God's person for us as a church at this time. She has masses of experience and enthusiasm, and until recently has been running the Salvation Army church in Woodbridge, Suffolk.

Marcus says: "Trish first contacted me just after Easter, when she knew that they as a family would be moving to Ponty, but we didn't then know Kirsty would decide to hand over the reigns this summer; she had seen the website and wanted to ask about the church here, and what opportunities there might be to serve. When this post later opened up, it seemed like the Lord preparing the way for everyone!"

Trish's husband David is originally from Maesycoed, so this is a return to old stamping ground for him - though as a boy he went to various other local churches, from Elim to St John the Graig, and this is his first time at St Catherine's! So far, he is enjoying it! Gemma, their daughter, will be attending Maesycoed Primary School from September.

Kirsty took over from Naomi, and had enormous shoes to fill; but she was the right person, and through her, the Lord has blessed us beyond telling. Now Trish finds herself in the same place, and we trust we will see the same process again. Do pray for them as a family: that we as a church will become a new family for them, and that their house (which has needed a fair amount of work) will soon become a real home. Pray that their time here in Pontypridd will be a blessing - to them, to us, and to many people we don't even know yet - a blessing beyond our imagining as the Lord continues to use this post to pour his love upon children and families in our community.

Podcaths

PodCaths, our brand new Podcast, is now 'live'! Just click and listen. We think it's the first regular podcast from a Church in Wales church, and this is its very first edition.

PodCaths is a mixture of Bible study and conversation about God, taking place around the Vicarage kitchen table during our Wednesday lunchtime homegroup. Regular members Joyce Stephens, Stewart Franklin, Yvonne Eveleigh, Julie Morgan, and Bert Davies were joined by Esther Sowerby, and Marcus Green hosted as usual. Matt the dog listened in! We don't have all the answers, but we enjoy looking at the Scriptures together, and we thought that maybe our musings might encourage others in our church, and perhaps elsewhere too.

This was a kind of trial run, just to see if we could do it...

We'll be hoping to record a new edition each month, or maybe more often if we have special guests visiting. So - watch this space. And if you have a comment or a question when you've listened, you can email us on podcaths@st-caths.org as well!