Lent 2024

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Retreat day: Saturday 23rd March with Rev Geoff Lanham. Please note this event is now fully booked.
A day away to listen to God, stop, rest and pray. If you’ve never been on a retreat day before, why not give it a go?
Booking essential. (Venue to be confirmed).

Creative Spirituality Project: with Rev Steve Johnson
Calling all writers, poets, artists, colourers, photographers, crafters, dancers, song writers, modelers and more.
Join Rev Steve Johnson in exploring God through creativity this Lent. For any experience level.
Introductory session: Fri 23rd Feb, 7.30pm (SJH)
Sharing session: Fri 22nd Mar, 7.30pm (SJH)

The Grace Course: Tuesdays from 13th Feb (away day on 16th March).
Led by Jackie McGillicuddy with Rev Steve Johnson.
A 6 week course of teaching, discussion and prayer for all Christians. The Grace Course helps us to understand more deeply what it means to be God’s child and to serve him out of love and the freedom he has given us. Booking essential. Click here for more information.

To sign up for Creative Theology Project or The Grace Course email office@kpc.org.uk / phone the parish office 01564 779123

Services in Holy Week
Palm Sunday 24th March, 7.45am; 9.30am; 11.15am and 6:30pm
Holy Communion Wed 27th March, 10am
Maundy Thursday 28th March, 8pm
Good Friday 11am All Age, 3pm 'An Hour at the Cross' service, 8.30pm Service of Reflection
Easter Day 31st March, Sunrise 6.15am, 9.30am and 11.15am (NB, no 6.30pm service)

Suggested Devotional material

Watch and Pray: Daily devotionals for Adults and Children from the Church of England, encouraging us to wait expectantly for God to meet us and sustain us through the trials we all face.
Tarry Awhile: Selina Stone explores our individual and collective waiting on God in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2024.
The Rest is Worship: Sara and Sam Hargreaves. 40 short chapters on exploring rest this Lent. Also comes as a 40 day devotional calendar and as 10 podcasts. Purchase from Engageworship.org
Practicing the Way: John Mark Comer’s new discipleship book about ‘Being with Jesus, becoming like him and living like him.’

Home group / study resources

Suggestions for use in your home group, with a group of friends or for individual study.
The one who suffers: 3 study sessions from Mark’s gospel, produced by the team at KPC following our Sunday sermons. Each week looks at Jesus’ predictions of his crucifixion
Practicing the Way: Adopting the spiritual practices of Jesus. 4 week courses on either Sabbath; Prayer; Fasting or Solitude by John Mark Comer.
The Sanctuary Course: An 8 week course starting conversations around faith and mental health.
The Lectio Course: A 5 week course reading Scripture prayerfully, slowly and with imagination, creating space for God to speak to our hearts.

Planning your Visit

A Warm Hello

Whether you are thinking of coming to church for the first time because you are interested in exploring faith, whether you’re new to the area and looking for a church, or whether you’re investigating baptism or marriage, you are really welcome. Our vision is to be “A house of God’s light for all peoples and generations,” and we really hope you’ll get to experience some of that light.
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You’ll find we have different styles of services that reflect our diverse congregation. Click here to find out which of our services might suit you. When you arrive you should be met by a member of our Welcome Team who will be wearing a Welcome badge. Please do make yourself known to them so that they can let you have a Welcome Pack and, if you like, can introduce you to someone to sit next to in the service.

What is there for my children?
If you are coming along with children, you might find our 9.30 Family Service most suitable. Most weeks, the children start in the church with their accompanying adult (we really value worshipping God altogether as an inter-generational community.) After around 15 minutes, children go out to their own Sunday groups. More details of these age groups can be found on our Children and Young People page. On the first Sunday of the month, we hold either an All Age or All In service.

How do I get to know people in such a big church?
While you will get to know some people if you come to a church service, it is often at smaller gatherings which happen during the week that you will get to know people better. Click here to read about the other groups which run during the week and here for activities that go on at the church.

How can I get involved?
Click here to read about the many ways in which you can get involved in the life of the church. Getting involved is another great way of way of getting to know people. We’d love KPC to be a church where we grow spiritually by contributing.

We hope very much that you will like what you taste and soon feel at home in our church.

Best wishes,
Geoff Lanham, Vicar
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Get in touch with us to plan your visit

If you would like to come and visit the church beforehand you are more than welcome! Get in touch and we can arrange a time that suits you.

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Next, we will contact you by email to say hello and help arrange anything necessary for your visit.