Easter Day is 31st March this year, which is a 5th Sunday. Because it is Easter we not having just one service (which is what normally happens when there is a fifth Sunday) but two! For the early risers there is a Holy Communion service at Lamplugh at 9a.m., and then at 11 a.m. we are having an All Age Holy Communion service at Kirkland.This replaces the normal All Age communion on the fourth Sunday, which is Palm Sunday, so the service at Kirkland at 11 a.m. will be Common Worship Holy Communion; the same service as will have happened at Ennerdale at 9 a.m. But because it is Palm Sunday we won't have a sermon; instead there will be a reading of the Passion narrative from Mark's gospel in its entirety.The third Sunday in March is as normal, but turning to the second Sunday, there is no Messy Church in the afternoon because it is Mothering Sunday. Instead we have All Age Worship at Kirkland in the morning (complete with our traditional 'Messy Interlude' in the middle of the service.If all that seems complicated, just look at the Calendar of services for the appropriate church, and it should be clear what is happening.
This year we are working together with the other churches in our Mission Community to offer a Lent Course, based on the book Loving my Neighbour - A Lenten journey edited by Olivia Warburton and published by BRF (Bible Reading Fellowship)On Monday evenings at 7 p.m. the course will be offered via Zoom (contact us for the Zoom link), and the same material will be repeated on a Wednesday morning at 10.30 a.m. in the Parish Hall in Egremont,
From January 2024, Messy Church moves to the second Sunday afternoon in the month, but it's still at 2 p.m. and still at Kirkland Mission Church. On the fourth Sunday in the month, we shall have an all-age service of Holy Communion at 11 a.m. at Kirkland Mission Church with opportunity for children to participate, and no sermon.[It will be all change again just for March, because this year, the second Sunday in March is Mothering Sunday, and we'll have our traditional All Age service with messy interlude, while all-age Holy Communion will be on the fifth Sunday in March, which is Easter Sunday.]
To avoid clashing with other events, in December the "First Tuesday" Christmas celebration will be on WEDNESDAY December 6th, at Kirkland Mission as usual between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. In January, there will be NO First Tuesday at 2.Normal service will be resumed in February
