Our church leaders for the three churches met together on Wednesday to discuss our plans for worship and when to begin in-person worship.
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The theme this year for our Circuit Video Services for Lent is God’s Promises. We also have a Circuit Lent Course and a Lent Prayer Calendar along with a daily ‘Thought for the Day’
Download a Calendar to print and colour and use as a prayer practice through Lent.
Lent begins in the middle of February. Our theme for Lent this year will be God’s Promises focusing on the many promises that God has made to us. Beginning with God’s covenant promise to Noah, we will trace the Biblical story through to Christ’s death and resurrection which ultimately fulfilled those promises. We will begin with a short service on Ash Wednesday 17th February.
With the whole country moving into a National Lockdown, the government is allowing churches to remain open with restrictions in place. However, the leaders of our three churches, along with most of the other churches in our Circuit, have decided to remain closed for in-person services at this time. We will reassess the situation again at the end of February.
A gift of light for you. This year we are unable to pass around a basket of stars, so if you would like a star word to help you with a spiritual focus for 2021, use the star word generator linked to this post.
The leadership of all three churches have all recently met and have come to the same decision, which is to cancel our Sunday in-person worship services through December at all three churches.
On November 29, 2020 we begin the second year of the cycle, Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary. But what exactly is the Lectionary?
Dear Siblings in Christ, With the national lockdown, there will be no in-person Sunday worship for at least the next 4 Sundays – our online worship is continuing as planned. Do join us for virtual coffee on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. (see Zoom info below). Today’s online service for Remembrance Sunday is available here as…
The 1st November is All Saints’ Day. John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, enjoyed and celebrated All Saints Day. In a journal entry in 1767, he called it “a festival I truly love.”