Lent Study and ReflectionLent Study Groups
Some Churches run their own Lent study courses which may not be specifically ecumenical but may be open to friends and neighbours as well as Parishioners.
Churches Together in Hampstead Lent Groups 2nd March to 3rd April
Course on Ethics at various venues. There are groups each weekday evening including Wednesdays 8pm at Emmanuel Church Vicarage NW6
& Thursdays 8pm at Heath Street Baptist Church. Also Weds 3pm at St Andrew’s URC. Details from Secretary 020 7267 9339. Churches Together in Highgate Lent Groups 2nd March – 3rd April
6 different 5-week courses in a total 11 venues.
Plus
Weekly lunchtime Christian Meditation with a Lenten theme
And Sat 28/3 Children’s Workshop to prepare the Stations of the Cross
Full details from Jenny Lee T: 020 8883 9267 and available on CTIC website.
Kings Cross Churches are meeting for 11am start
Weds 25th February to 1st April at Lumen. Sense making Faith is based on the CTBI Lent course used by BBC R4 for Sunday Worship and the Daily Service.
25th February Fr Chris Cawrse 'Journey into Seeing'.
4th March Rev. Pippa Turner 'Journey into the Imagination'.
11th March Rev. Geoffrey Roper 'Journey into Smell'.
18th March Deacon Janet Heys 'Journey into Touching'.
25th March Rev. Geoffrey Roper 'Journey into Taste'.
1st April Fr Chris Cawrse 'Journey into Hearing'.
Details from chriscawrse@blueyonder.co.uk, T: 020 7278 6263. Gospel Oak Methodist Church invites fellow Christians to join them 7.30pm Tuesdays in Lent for the course Lentwise – spiritual essentials for real life.
As we journey through life, we face challenges - both big and small.
What spiritual essentials will help us through life's storms? Lentwise is a 5-session course which helps us deal with the rigours of real life.
Using passages from John's Gospel which have been freshly translated by the author, Paula Gooder, it explores: direction, nourishment, wisdom, refreshment and security. St Martin’s Vicar’s Road will be studying the York course on Faith, Hope and Love
St Peter's Belsize Park will have groups in the Vicarage on Wednesdays to study “Applying Monastic Values to Secular Life”.
The course will lead into a 24-hour Retreat on 4/5 April at St Peter's Bourne.
St Saviour's Eton Road devotional Lent Group on Wednesdays at 8pm in the vestry “Understanding Wealth and Poverty in Christian Scripture and Prayer Tradition”.
Exploring Christianity
Tuesday lunchtimes February/March 1.15 - 2pm at St Pancras Euston Road.
Short introduction and discussion exploring some aspect of Christianity within the given theme. Studies in the Gospel of Luke with a global perspective All welcome of any faith or none. Disciples on the Way
March Sundays in Lent 4.30 – 5.45pm at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
‘Evangelism a Bloomsbury taboo?’ Come and share in lively discussions.
For many people, evangelism is a word to describe the under-thoughtful and over-enthusiastic attempt to achieve church success by a spiritualised version of pyramid-selling. Using either the power of positive thinking, or the power of guilt, church members are encouraged to learn formulae to lead their Non-Christian-Friends (NCFs!) to become Christian. Such approaches to evangelism are rightly condemned, but this is a long way from how evangelism in Scripture ever worked in practice.
This series of discussions will offer an alternative way of understanding evangelism, and practical suggestions about what this means for members of Bloomsbury today.
The basic structure will be as follows: 1/3 Session 1
Evangelising and the subversion of the empire. What did evangelism mean for the Romans and what Christians did about it? 8/3 Session 2
Bad News: Evangelism, Evangelicalism, Heaven and Hell. The motives for doing evangelism well. 15/3 Session 3
The Altar Call: Evangelism and worship. 22/3 Session 4
A Baptist Duty: Church growth Evangelism as the task of the church, to what extent should every individual be an evangelist? 29/3 Session 5
Evangelising and Contemporary London: Practical considerations about evangelising well in central London. Living Faith
During Lent there will be a short course at St James Church NW6 to encourage reflection on how we live as Christians in the world today. It will be held on three Saturdays in Lent from 10am - 12noon ending with Mass. (+ parallel children's programme on these days)
28th February - Sustainable Life, 14th March - Faithful Life, 28th March - Understanding Life Daily reflections and other resources for Lent:
Sense Making Faith: a journey into the senses with worship, prayer and reflections. Resources prepared by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland will be used by BBC Radio 4 in their Sunday Worship and Daily Service and may be downloaded from http://www.ctbi.org.uk/355. Delia Smith invites us to commit to a daily 20 minute silence http://www.cafod.org.uk/news/daily-silence-2009-02-11 Christian Aid suggests we “Count our Blessings” and raise funds for their work http://www.christianaid.org.uk/getinvolved/lent/count-your-blessings.aspx Just Church Lent programme is designed by Church Action on Poverty programme to help us embed social justice and a concern for UK poverty more deeply in our church's life. It is endorsed by various denominations and recommended by Pax Christi. http://www.justchurch.info/lent.html Tearfund invites us to join their Carbon Fast and help protect poor people from climate change. Sign up for emails with daily action, facts, prayers & reflection www.tearfund.org USPG Anglicans in World Mission offers Lent resources to help us explore God’s mission in and for the world today http://www.uspg.org.uk/resource.php?id=33. Updated 1/3/09 |
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