Christ Church
On Sunday 17th March, our Family Service for Palm Sunday will be at 10am. On Friday 21st March our Good Friday service will start at 9.45am, to give us time to join with other Crawley Christians at the Ecumenical Service in Queen’s Square at 11am. Early on Easter Sunday morning at 5.45am, we join with the Anglicans of St.Barnabas to meet at Milton Mount Lake for a service led by our minister, the Revd Bridget Banks, followed by a breakfast hosted by them at Barnies Place, Pound Hill
PREPARATION
We prepare for Easter during the 40 days of Lent, which parallel the time Christ spent in the Wilderness preparing for his work on earth. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, when we joined our Anglican friends at St. Barnabas for their special morning service
LENT STUDY GROUPS
Each Tuesday evening in Lent at 7.30, we host a study group of Pound Hill Christians, looking at our lifestyles though a course called ‘Attitudes’, and considering how they match up to the radical teaching of Jesus in what are called ‘The Beautitudes’. The group is led by our own minister, the Revd Bridget Banks, and the vicars from St.Barnabas and St.Nicholas.
Preceeding that, from 6.30 to 7.15, the church is open to all who wish to drop in and spend some time quietly relaxing, meditating, or praying. During January at this time, we suggested people might like to think about the troubled areas of the world, particularly Zimbabwe, one of the areas of charitable giving on which the United Reformed Church concentrates. Several local people from Zimbabwe came in to join us.
PALM SUNDAY
MAUNDY THURSDAY
On Thursday 20th March, there will be a special service of meditation in the Church at 7.30pm
GOOD FRIDAY
Easter
The Easter morning Communion Service at Christ Church follows at 10amALL ARE WELLCOME TO JOIN US AT ANY OF THE SERVICES