Someone visiting our Church the other week remarked, "It's very international, isn't it?" Whilst technology changes at breath-taking speed, the make up of Wycombe has been changing just as fast. And because the British have lost their love for God the Church is changing more rapidly even than the High Street. Scarcely a week goes by when I am not writing a Welcome Letter to someone with a name that certainly doesn't owe its origin to the Anglo-Saxons.
It struck me forcibly a few weeks ago when we went to lunch with some people from the Church. Our family was born in England; one was from Africa, one from North America, two from Central America, one from Oceania.
In fact it struck me that the mix of people in our Church is more international than in the International Church we visited on vacation.
On September 11 it is good to realise that although the world is full of differences it is also full of people with shared lives, including those whose destiny lies beyond nationality in a Heavenly City with gates in every direction.
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