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Your March magazine is here

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Welcome to March, to Spring, to Lent.

We are entering a busy, hopefully warmer, time of year in the church calendar. This month, Lent begins and with that our preparations for Easter. Many of us use this time to reflect on our relationship with our loving God and seek to draw nearer to God through prayer, meditation and study. Joining a Lent group can help with this and there are several in the parish – see inside the magazine for further details.

Inside you will also find news and details of events such as the Farnham Poetry Competition Awards Evening and Open Mic, Draw Farnham at St Mark’s, our Easter Craft Market and Easter egg hunt, Top 10 Hymns/Worship Songs and much more.

Please do have a look inside, and don’t forget our advertisers. Check them out and if you use them, don’t forget to tell them where you saw their advert. They help us by placing their ads with us so we want to help them.

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Prayer, St Mark's Church

Join our contemplative prayer group

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There is a contemplative prayer group meeting in the parish every Wednesday at St Mark’s Church from 3-4pm.

Contemplative/centering prayer is a silent form of prayer which can take place alone or in a group. The person or people praying remain silent and usually repeat in the mind a word or phrase such as ‘Maranatha’, an Aramaic word which means ‘our Lord, come’, or ‘our Lord has come’, depending on where the emphasis is placed. Some people prefer to use an image rather than a word.

The idea is that the word or image centres the mind and encourages it not to wander or flit from thought to thought, as human minds usually do, but instead just to be as we are in front of God. We don’t ask anything of God, we simply are there.

On Wednesday afternoons a group of us sit together in St Mark’s and spend 20 minutes in this form of silent prayer. We then drink tea, eat biscuits and chat.

It is a time of peace and stillness and highly recommended in this furiously busy world.

Anyone is welcome to join us.

dance, music, Social Events, St George's Church

A Valentine’s Day Barn Dance

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Did you know there is a Valentine’s Waltz? It’s a bit staid compared with what we have in store for you this February 14th – none other than a barn dance!

The Valentine’s Day Barn Dance will take place at St George’s, Badshot Lea, on Friday, February 14th, starting at 7pm. Kris Lawrence will be the caller and take us all through our paces as we dance to the music of Dragon Scales. Don’t worry – Kris is an expert caller and always explains clearly what we have to do.

If you don’t want to dance, that is OK too. Just enjoy the atmosphere, the music and the sight of everyone else making fools of themselves, er, dancing perfectly!

Entry to the barn dance is free, though donations are appreciated, and there will be a raffle. Bring your own snacks and drinks.

Serving the Villages North of Farnham: Badshot Lea, Hale, Heath End & Weybourne