Lent is one of the most important periods in the Christian calendar.
So, it would be really good to see you at one or more of the following events…
March 2020 magazine
Here’s our March 2020 church magazine.
There are thoughts about Lent and Mothering Sunday plus more on the upcoming 250th celebrations for St John’s. Also lots of news and views from our various groups as well as this letter from our Reader Emeritus Margery Spencer…
Sit somewhere different
He walked down one of the narrow streets then hesitated a moment before entering the potter’s shed.
First, he was hit by the smell of wet clay. Then the sound of the wheel turning. He saw the bowl of water, the liquid clay on the hands.
As he sat beside the potter, slowly he noticed the effort involved in keeping the clay in place on the wheel and the subtlety of pressure by different parts of the hand.
He began to understand the testing of the potter’s creativity. The accuracy. The love.
March 2020 Bible readings
Here are the March 2020 Bible readings which we’ll be using in church during the season of Lent. If you want to read up in advance – or if you can’t be with us and want to follow the same readings – then here you go!
This month includes eating the wrong food, getting away from it all, being asked to ‘go’ but no destination given, spit, skeletons and someone special in tears.
In the beginning
Here are the opening verses of Genesis from The Message:
‘First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss. God spoke: “Light!” And light appeared’.
Coffee morning & book-fair
This Saturday, February 15th, we’ll be having another of our very popular Coffee Mornings with lots of pre-loved books. This will be in the church hall from 10am – 12pm. Our postcode is BL9 6NY.
There will be plenty of home-made cakes, bacon butties and thousands of books.