Fairtrade fortnight continues ! Check out their festival and be inspired in your shopping choices and help support overseas farmers and their workers who are on the front line of climate change. Closer to home ,do you feel that God is calling you to something ? Read about how a one year course can help you to discern your gifts and what God might be calling you to .This weeks sermon by Dr. Lynsey Hall asks what the new normal will look like as we return to church after the challenges we have faced and how the pursuit of normality might perhaps distract us from seeking God's kingdom.Our Church of England Lent course , 'God's story our story,' continues at 3pm on Sunday and this weeks session is entitled 'Jesus was in the transformation business '. All our welcome to come along to whats proving to be an enjoyable and thought provoking course. This week the session is being led by Nesta Williams. Our prayers this week have been prepared by Denise Snowball.
Thanks to generous donations and after only one week we can now fund three toilets in poorer countries through our toilet twinning project ! Following the success of last weeks session we are continuing our Lent course please do join us at 3pm on Sunday via the zoom link . This weeks session is called 'catching up with God'. From todays gospel reading for the second Sunday in Lent Ven. Julian Francis challenges us on the power of the cross . Have you ever wondered what power there is for Christian living and how the cross is a message is for every single one of us ? The cross is something that Jesus challenged his disciples with and now us for that matter, to take it up daily and follow him. Lent, writes Julian is a good time to be thinking more deeply and focussing on taking up the cross and what that can mean for our lives today . Read on to find out more ......
The question we are all asking . Venerable Sue Weller Archdeacon of Lichfield provides some answers to the question that is on all our minds . On this first sunday in Lent our bible readings from Genesis, the gospel of Mark and Peter's first letter all contain certain and enduring hope. The hope that is found in Jesus Christ. Join us this Sunday at 3 pm on zoom and for the next six Siunday's as we begin our Lent course #Live Lent as we journey towards Easter, details in our newsletter.Our church news this week is that after the successful installation of our new toilet in St. Mary's we think of those who dont have access to clean water or a safe toilet . Find out about our toilet twinning and how we are helping those in poorer countries . Members of our community share their thoughts as we near to the anniversary of the first lockdown and this weeks prayers have been contributed by Julie Lewney.
Reading stories can take us out of ourselves and something that is much needed at the present time. But we all have a story to tell too and as Christians we can tell the most wonderul story ever told and God is bound up in those stories . #Live Lent is an opportunity to participate in God's story read on to find out more .....This weeks sermon is by Simon Foster and is written on this weeks bible passage from 2 Corinthians 4.3-6.Our weekly prayers have been contributed by Frank Mugglestone plus read about PCC news from this weeks meeting.
