Today our activities were all based around the theme of Jesus the Good Shepherd. For our prayers of confession we hunted for lost sheep, hidden around the church, and brought them back home. We thought about times that we’d strayed away from our Good Shepherd and we accepted God’s love and forgiveness. …
Now that the “beast from the east” is a distant memory, flowers in the churchyard are coming to life, especially the red tulips planted around the war memorial by Joe last autumn. The railings and gates are also looking wonderful, painted by Joyce – great work…
Next Anglican Bishop of Lancaster is Rev Dr Jill Duff A priest who is passionate about planting new congregations and creating confident witnesses for Jesus Christ who can become ‘beacons’ in their communities has been chosen to be the next Anglican Suffragan Bishop of Lancaster. Bolton-born Rev Dr Jill Duff, 45, is currently the founding Director…
Palm Sunday 25th March 8 a.m. Holy Communion 10 a.m. All Age Eucharist – a service suitable for people of all ages 6.30 Evening Prayer Monday 26th March 9p.m. Compline – a short quiet, reflective service. In these services our readings follow Jesus through the events of Holy Week. Tuesday 27th March 9p.m. Compline Wednesday…
Phil Carruthers and his volunteers have worked extremely hard over the past week. The hall and kitchen are now almost finished and they are well on with painting the entrance vestibule. The vestibule floor will be painted on Tuesday night and Wednesday night, when the final jobs will also be done. Thursday is clean-up day,…
The Church of England has issued a set of climate-conscious commandments to reduce the amount of plastic we use over Lent. It has been circulated to each of the church’s 42 dioceses and includes calls for parishes to ditch disposable cups and encourage worshippers to bring their own mugs to church. Ruth Knight, the church’s environmental…
This sermon begind with a reading of Ursula Fanthorpe’s poem BC:AD which can be found here On the surface, this poem has nothing much to do with Candlemas – the presentation of Christ in the Temple. It’s a Christmas poem – one of a series written by Ursula Fanthorpe each year at Christmas – to…
The Prince’s Trust and the Vicar have been planning a repainting project for the hall. Around 25 young people will take up their paint brushes to transform the interior as their contribution to the village community. Many thanks to Phil Carruthers and his team for all their efforts and we look forward to their arrival…
We had a good time at our All Age Worship this morning! As usual the first half of our service consisted of 3 activites for the Confession, the Intercessions and the Sermon. Today in our Confession we were thinking about Good News (and our failure to be it). A candle surrounded by lots of sparkly…
Many thanks to Reverend Graham Sawyer, Vicar of St James’ Church, Briercliffe, Burnley for leading our Evening Prayer service today. Graham preached about the meanings of the names of Jesus.
The Old Testament reading was about the boy, Samuel, being called by God. This is portrayed in the small statue given to the church by the sculptor Josefina de Vasconcellos.
