Come to our family service on Sunday, December 4th at 4pm at St John’s, and help us create an Advent wreath, and sing Christmas carols.
All ages are welcome at the service – not just families with children – and we need your help to create the wreath. There will be carols and prayers and it will be followed by sandwiches and cakes (see the picture below…)
Thy Kingdom Come – words so many of us know from the Lord’s Prayer, and, since 2016, the name given to the days between Ascension and Pentecost (this year May 21-31) which are set aside by many churches and individuals as a time of prayer.
We are joining in – church closures can’t get in the way of prayer! Every day we will be posting a video below, and, at midday you will find a version of the Lord’s Prayer spoken (or sung) by a member of the parish. There are also loads of wonderful resources on the Thy Kingdom Come website, including an app for Apple and Android.
Then there is a fun, interactive prayer map (the Archbishop of Canterbury is said to be a bit of a fan), with a daily podcast , a prayer journal, a Novena (a guide for nine days of prayer), and other ideas. It will end on Pentecost Sunday when we will be having three services – 9.30am formal, 10.30am informal, and 6pm all-sung (even the sermon!).
Day 11: This Pentecost is very different from last year’s but it is the same Spirit! Here are some highlights from last year:
Day 10: Can you meet God in silence?
Day Nine:
A touching video about what adoption into God’s family means:
Day Eight:
Pope Francis prays ‘Thy Kingdom Come’:
Day Seven:
Faith on a different frontline.
Christian Armed Service workers share about the power of faith on the frontline and how it sustains them through difficult times.
Day Six: The power of prayer.
Methodist Youth president, Thelma Commey reflects on God’s love through praying and serving others.
Day Five: Watch Eye Can Talk author Jonathan Bryan reflect on what it means to offer our lives to God irrespective of our circumstances.
Day Four and a moving story about the life-giving, transforming, rescuing power of Jesus, with us in real darkness, in light and in everything:
Day Three and two videos. In the first, Bishop Michael Curry of the Episcopal Church talks about giving thanks and in the second emergency workers talk about prayer:
Day Two, focuses on praise and a new hymn for Thy Kingdom Come:
Day one of Thy Kingdom Come:
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