Chads News - 13th March 2025

 Dear Church family,

It has been a joy in the past couple of weeks to share with anyone who will listen; the sense of excitement a number of us are feeling as we hear stories from around the country of many turning back to God.  I am sure we will share more in the coming weeks.  I am writing this on Wednesday afternoon shortly after our lunchtime prayer gathering; as we finished, Judith commented on the tangible sense of the presence of the Holy Spirit amongst us and I was so glad she had felt it too!  We don’t do hype in the North of England, but we do encouragement and in the midst of chaos in the world, there are many signs of new life.  It is an extraordinary time to be alive.

I hope you are enjoying our Lent blogs series; another one was posted this morning. It is such a delight to reflect on the Bible together and let God speak to us in this way.  If you haven’t accessed them yet, can I encourage you to do so: a few minutes reading and pondering through the day is time well spent.  Lent is a time of refining and preparation, of taking up and letting go.  This is preparation for Easter, when we engage deeply in the rich beauty of the cross and the joy of Jesus rising from the dead. In this copy of Chads News you will see the beautiful publicity for our Easter services which Alys has           created. New for this year is a time of worship on Easter Saturday, that day between the Cross and the empty tomb is an amazing time to meditate on what we have already      received and what we still hope for. On Easter Sunday we will have baptisms and      confirmations at 11am and if you are still considering that for yourself, please do chat to Dave soon.

On the other side of Easter we will have an All Together service on 11^th May to share    vision and include the annual business we need to do as a church family, including the voting for our PCC.  We have a couple of vacancies on the PCC coming up, so if that is something you are feeling called to, or intrigued about as a way you could serve St Chads, please talk to me, Katie or one of our wardens Jan and Andrew.  We would      particularly like to encourage members of our 9.15am congregation to consider being part of the PCC.

May you have a great week and I look forward to seeing you soon.

With love,

Richard.

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