Introducing Lent

 

Lent is a time when Christians intentionally make room in busy lives to draw nearer to God. It’s a period for preparing hearts and minds for the great festival of Easter. Lent can be a time to clear away the clutter from our lives through reflection and prayer, and to reassess our priorities. God offers us renewal and refreshment, healing and restoration.

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Dancing to the Heartbeat of God

 

Mondays 10.30 a.m. Flat 1, Manor Farm, Milborne St Andrew, DT11 0JS

starting 23rd February

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​Dancing to the Heartbeat of God explores many aspects of discipleship. With a foreword and afterword by Archbishop Sarah Mullaly, the book’s 30 chapters are drawn from Christians across the globe. Through personal stories, testimonies, and reflections, the writers explore what it really means to follow Christ faithfully. Rooted in real experience rather than abstract theory, these voices speak with honesty, energy, and hope, and encourage us to share our faith with others.

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Week 1— friendship, simplicity, belonging

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Week 2—prayer, waiting, churchgoing

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Week 3—generosity, baptismal covenant, relationships, wordless prayer

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Week 4—grace, sacrifice, spaciousness, the Kingdom

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Week 5— community, opposition, love, seeds and growth

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Week 6—listening, following, seeing, inclusion, anxiety and division

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What to bring with you: course book

 

 

 

 

Gravity Defied

A Lent Course based on the film Wicked

 

Tuesdays 7.30 p.m. Church Room, Puddletown

starting 24th February

 

Gravity Defied is a new Lent course by Rachel Mann, based on scenes and ideas in the Oscar-nominated movie Wicked. The course explores a number of themes relevant to each of us in the contemporary world. These include recognising what is good and right, and standing up for it even when mocked, the temptations of success, popularity and respectability, and the importance of friendship and solidarity. All is discussed within the context of Jesus’s ministry recorded in the Gospels, the temptations and threats that he faced, and persecution of those who followed him.

 

Week 1—Watching the film

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Week 2—How do we judge what is good?

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Week 3—Fear and loathing in the land of Oz

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Week 4—What is a life well lived?

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Week 5— The pitfalls of popularity

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Week 6—The joy and cost of authentic living

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What to bring with you: Bible, course book, pen

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Suggested Reading

Draw Near: Life-giving habits for Lent

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Draw Near invites you to develop a rhythm of life that will help you grow as a disciple of Christ day by day, as you prepare to celebrate the mystery of God’s saving love at Easter. Each week a different contributor explores an activity central to Christian discipleship: worship, prayer, Scripture, communion, service to others and sharing the good news. For each day of Lent it offers daily Bible readings, images, short reflections, prayers and practical responses to help you draw near to God this Lent and beyond.

 

"Draw Near is all about teaching us how we can cultivate the habits and practices that will draw us nearer to God. And we will find that, in doing so, God will draw nearer to us, too." (Archbishops Sarah Mullaly and Stephen Cottrell)

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Ash Wednesday Service

18th February

6.00 p.m. Puddletown Church Room

A service of Holy Communion  with the Imposition of Ashes

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Morning, Evening Prayer and Compline in Lent

 

Morning Prayer takes place each day on Zoom.

Mon-Thurs. 8.30 a.m.; Sat. 9.00 a.m.

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Compline 6.00 p.m. Wednesday evenings

Milborne St Andrew Church (starting 25th February)

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Evening Prayer 6.30 p.m. Thursday evenings

Dewlish church (beginning 26th February)

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Holy Week and Easter

Please look at the monthly service posters or March Parish magazine for details of  Holy Week and Easter services.

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Dewlish Lent Lunches — open to all

Thursday/Tuesday at 12.30 p.m.

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Come and enjoy soup, bread and cheese in congenial surroundings, and support a charity with a donation at the same time.

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​Thursday 5th March           Up Top, Dewlish

Tuesday 17th March           Village Hall, Dewlish

Tuesday 31st March            Parsonage Farm, Dewlish

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Milborne St Andrew Lent Lunches — open to all

Wednesday at 12.30 p.m.

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Wednesday 18th March         The Ground Floor Flat, Manor Farmhouse, The Grove

Wednesday 1st April              The Ground Floor Flat, Manor Farmhouse, The Grove

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We would love to welcome you to any or all of the events offered in this leaflet. You do not have to be a regular churchgoer to attend. All that is needed is a willingness to explore what faith might mean for you, a commitment to listening to others’ ideas without judgment and a desire to learn.

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For information about anything in this leaflet, please contact the

Vicar, Sarah Hillman, on 07350 414483; sarah.c.hillman@outlook.com

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