Pentecost Festival 26 - 31 May
A massive weekend party in central London with hundreds of free events and high impact performances. A cross-generational, multi-cultural celebration of the Church’s creativity and compassion filling scores of venues in the nation’s capital.
www.pentecostfestival.co.uk Tu 26/5 – Th 28/5: Themed events on the arts, music, theatre,
comedy and academic issues.
Fr 29/5 and Sat 30/5: 12 Big Ticketed Events happening over 2 nights.
Saturday 30 May Festival Feel
Over 100 music, sport, artistic, intellectual, spiritual and cultural events put on by the local church, the Church of the UK and its people. This year events are more focused in central London but include
Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 6-8.30pm Voices from the Edge a drama specially produced for Poverty and Homelessness Action Week earlier this year.
Included in the Saturday programme is
Taize Workshop and Prayer at the French Church off Leicester Square. Register 12/30 for 1 - 5.30pm.
Sunday 31 May Pentecost Explored Attend a worship centre with a different style or culture - celebrating the diverse practices of Christianity across London
http://www.pentecostfestival.co.uk/#/explored/4533355032 Churches include the American Church, Bloomsbury Central Baptist and St Pancras Euston Rd.
Pentecost Sunday is also the
Global Day of Prayer http://www.gdoplondon.com The aim this year was to have an afternoon or evening prayer celebration in each of the London Boroughs. Thanks to Brandon Munoz of Freedom House, Camden will have its gathering at St Michael's Camden Town at 4pm. (nb the wrong address is listed on the GDoP website). See attached Pentecost Prayer Event.
There’s also – unlisted:
Pentecost Sunday Prayer with Songs from Taizé 6pm at St Mary’s Primrose Hill
And
Churches Together in Westminster's Pentecost Service 6.30pm at Crown Court Church of Scotland, Russell Street,
Covent Garden WC2B 5EZ.
Guest preacher will be Revd Geoffrey H Roper from Lumen URC.
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