The worship committee has started thinking about Holy Week. We are holding a special meeting on Wednesday 6th March, 7pm, in the worship space and would love to welcome anyone who is interested in planning the series of services: Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Dawn Service, Easter Day. If you are interested please contact [...]
Through Lent we followed the stations of the cross, looking through the eyes of Jesus guided by the paintings around the worship space. On Good Friday we concluded that journey. We went on a procession visiting various sites around the church property, remembering the steps that have led us to our remembering of the [...]
We travelled the long Lenten journey with Jesus, reflecting on the gifts of the covenant, the rainbow arch of God’s love, the promise of descendants, the gift of the Ten Commandments, the promise of healing in the desert and the law of love written on our hearts. In Holy Week we entered Jerusalem, [...]
Throughout Holy Week we will be using symbols derived through Lent from stories of God’s covenant love and promise to inspire our prayer and worship – the rainbow of hope, the stars of promise, the stones of groundedness, the snakeskin of growth and the heart of love. Palm Sunday, 28th March, 9:30am Maundy Thursday, 1st [...]
Holy Week this year will be unlike any before. Members of the worship committee have worked together to plan each of our four services. Lots of people have been invited to provide recordings of readings and prayers. All of the segments have been recorded and compiled into a whole service that will be our [...]
Palm Sunday Alongside the live stream on Sundays you can also connect to worship by reading the Sunday Prayer Post each week – Sunday Prayers 5/4 listening to the Sermon post each week – Are you ready to walk into this week? The full order of service for Palm Sunday is available here. You can also [...]
During Holy Week we carried our Lenten listening on a pilgrimage through our worship. We sang a pilgrim’s greeting - ‘Peace, Salaam, Shalom’. We marked our listening with a story staff, beautifully sculpted and carved by Colin Hunter. We remembered and placed the stories of our time alongside Jesus’ story. We responded to the [...]
Holy Week was an amazing experience of engaging with the central stories of our faith through actions, prayers, story telling, images and rituals. We drew on the rich traditions of our faith, our local customs and the enormous generosity, gift and talents of our congregation. Palm Sunday Holy Week [...]
Prayers of the People What do you hear? What do you see? As Jesus calls a new family into being from the cross, let us pray for his family in all the world, let us pray for all God’s children in need, let us pray for the family of creation, the world that God [...]
Good Friday Concluding our worship service on 30th March Ian commented ... No morning tea today, but gather at 12 for soup and hot cross buns at Adrian and Anita’s it is right that Christ’s people should be together on this most holy day because we are a community born at the cross. Alistair [...]