🌿 Spring Highlights from St Thomas'🌿

As we look back on March, April and May, we give thanks for a wonderful season of worship, fellowship and community life across our churches.

✝️ Journeying Through Lent and Easter
Spring began with our Lent Course exploring inclusion, hospitality and radical welcome, helping us prepare our hearts for Easter. We then gathered for Palm Sunday, Holy Week and Easter celebrations, rejoicing together in the good news that Christ is risen. Easter services, vigils and Easter Egg Hunts brought people of all ages together in worship and celebration.

🌍 Caring for God's Creation
We continued with our environmental commitments and throughout the spring we reflected on our responsibility to care for God's creation.

👶 Welcoming Families
Parent & Toddler groups continued to flourish, and in April we launched Bubble Church, a fun, puppet-led service designed especially for toddlers and young children. We have been encouraged by the growing number of families joining us.

☕ Friendship and Fellowship
Our regular Warm Welcome Lunches have continued to provide valued opportunities for friendship, conversation and support. These gatherings remain at the heart of our community life, offering hospitality and companionship to all.

🎉 Fun Community Events
There has been no shortage of opportunities to enjoy ourselves together, including:

💃 Line Dancing Evening
🎶 Preparations for concerts and musical events
🍲 Shared meals, lunches and social gatherings

⛪ Special Worship and Reflection
We marked Rogation Sunday, Ascension Day and Pentecost, celebrating God's presence in creation, Christ's ascension and the gift of the Holy Spirit. Thoughtful Tuesday evenings have also provided opportunities to explore prayer, scripture and everyday faith together.

🤝 A Commitment to Welcome
We continued reflecting on what it means to be an inclusive church, building on the Radical Welcome course and renewing our commitment to ensuring everyone feels valued, respected and welcome within our church communities.

🙏 Through changing seasons and changing circumstances, we have continued to trust in God's faithfulness, support one another and celebrate the many blessings He has given us.

Thank you to everyone who has worshipped, volunteered, supported events, shared fellowship and helped make our church communities such welcoming places. We look forward to all that God has in store for the months ahead.

💜 "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." (Psalm 46:1) ✝️

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