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.
What is prayer ? What does it involve and how important is it writes Rev. Noreen Russell as our our Archbishops continue to call on the nation to pray.In other news Captain Tom Moore is fondly remembered for his amazing and insirational response to the Covid crisis, as the nation mourns his loss this week.Preb. Terry Bloor's sermon this week based on a passage John's gospel 1:1-14. God's love for humanity is seen in the person of Jesus Christ who chose to come and live among us . His desire is to be in fellowship with us as he cares and wants to share in our lives Cardinal Basil Hume captures this amazing love that God has for us in a perfect Valentine statement , writes Terry read on ..............Prayers this week have been contributed by David Harman.
