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.