Thanks to all who have helped with school visits to our Churches from Horton Park, Marshfield, Copthorne and Bankfoot schools.
At All Saints
The roof over the organ is now finished. The builders are enlarging the gulley facing Little Horton Green, where water has in the past overflowed into Church.
People
Linda Chavula has been offered a place at Huddersfield University to start this coming September. She will study Mental health Nursing & the subjects will include Psychology, Biology and Social policy.
Allen Vogel celebrates his 90th birthday this month – congratulations!
David Gibson’s funeral on 2nd March was well-attended, and proper tribute was given to a good and dedicated Christian man.
At All Saints we baptised Ivetaka Robeena Gorolova-Amin on 19th March, from a lovely Slovakian family.
At Landmark Jo Watts is now running ‘Shine Together’ each Saturday. Jolene Hadley has sadly had to leave the Landmark board of trustees due to work pressure – thanks Jolene for all your support.
Sue Savage is working with the help of her daughter Jennifer to claim Gift Aid on giving to St Oswald’s for 2012 – which has to be done before the end of this tax year or it’s lost!
Sam Rushworth finishes her placement with St John’s Great Horton at Easter; she will continue her role as Reader-in-training at St Oswald’s, with lots of ideas for the future.
Jenny Green’s Lent course is on Tuesdays at 1 p.m. and Carol Wood 7 p.m. on Wednesdays, both at All Saints.
Fellowship Meal
All Saints begins its celebration of Easter with a party at 6 p.m. on Holy Saturday, with pie and peas, Easter Egg hunt and a chance to enjoy each other’s company.
Holy Week
Maundy Thursday gets its name from Latin ‘Mandatum’, meaning commandment. Jesus said, ‘This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you’. We share a meal at St Oswald’s as Jesus and the disciples did the night before he died. (Bring food with you, so that others can share yours and you theirs.)
The service at 7 p.m. includes Passover food that Jesus would have eaten – bitter herbs, salt water, ‘haroseth’ – a mixture that looks like mud: and crackers without yeast – as the Israelites ate on the night they left Egypt. Each item carries meaning. Finally the Church remains open from 8-10 p.m. for silent prayer in the semi-darkness of this beautiful place. Come to whichever part of the evening you wish.
Good Friday begins with Messy Church at 10 a.m. at St Oswald’s – crafts, games, story and food, for an hour.
The Three Hours service 12-3 p.m. at All Saints takes us through the seven ‘words’ Jesus spoke from the Cross. A hymn, silence and prayer follows each of the ‘words’. Come and go in this service, or stay for it all; it gets better the longer you stay!
At 3.30 p.m. Morrisons on Mayo Avenue have allowed Churches in BD5 to sing Good Friday and Easter hymns for an hour. We will have buckets out for the Sudan; shoppers are amazingly generous.
Easter Day is our biggest festival of the year. To the words, ‘The Lord is risen’ remember to reply, ’He is risen indeed!’