This week we began our Lent Journey together on the lead up to Easter.
The Faith Life Group which is chaired by Hilary and also includes Holly, Ania, Erika, Sylwia and Catherine who are representatives from each area of the community have organised several events in order for us to mark each stage in the lead up to Easter.
The first event happened on Shrove Tuesday also known as Pancake Day or Mardi Gras. The Community came together at The Workshops to enjoy a big helping of pancakes with some lovely fillings! Each house prepared the pancakes which seemed to be a lot of fun - plenty of pancake tossing was involved! The Workshops provided teas and coffees and also many fillings to cater to everyone's favourite flavours.
During the gathering, Hilary took the opportunity to gather everyone around and introduce them to 'Godly Play'. Godly Play is a new more gentle way to learn and worship. It helps people to understand and explore the stories of God and his people, the stories Jesus told and make connections between the stories and our worship. This is done by using handcrafted objects made either from wood or felt which come with each story in order to be a visual representative to those in the community who may struggle with longer spiels.
If you would like to look further into the Godly Play model you can log onto: http://www.godlyplay.org.uk/.
The second of our events was a service led by Bishop Mark in Braerannoch for Ash Wednesday. In Bishop Mark's service he explained about the celebration of Lent which is held on the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. He was assisted by our very own Mark Mitchell to place Ash crosses over everyone's forehead which Mark thoroughly enjoyed.
We as a community will be following the 'Faces of Easter' for the next 6-7 weeks and will continue with our Godly Play stories and mimes to aid us.
Our next event will be our Passover Meal and Footwashing Liturgy in Ness Bank Church on the 5th of April.
We hope to see many of you there!
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