As you enter into our beautiful Church to worship, to pray, for peace or to view the architecture take a minute to reflect on the beauty of the window in the porch door. “Look for me and you will find me”.

The design depicts a rainbow, placed in the heavens after the Flood as a visible sign of God’s love for Mankind, and is included in the window at the special wish of the donor. It is appropriate that it is seen best as you leave the church and go out into the world – God’s promise goes with you.

The design also incorporates a wave form (water being one of the necessary things to make a rainbow) which could alternatively be read as a sheltering wing and as an expression of the Holy Spirit. The glass chosen for this part of the window contains many small bubbles that catch the light as drops of water do.

Because the glass is in the porch, light does not always flood through the stained glass.

The appearance and mood of the window changes as it is viewed, depending on the amount of light shining through. Because of the way the rainbow itself has been constructed, some of the colours are ‘lost’ from time to time depending on the amount of light available. And so it can be in our own experience of life…..

The text is taken from a popular bereavement poem, “Look for me in rainbows” but the wording also occurs in similar forms in various parts of the Bible, e.g. Jeremiah 29:13 and Deuteronomy 4:29. The second “me” is enclosed in a cruciform halo to subtly reinforce the message of the Church: as you walk into the building, looking, you will find Christ.