Come & celebrate the Mothers who have guided us through the journey of life.
Led by Local Preacher, Mr Vince Lamb in the Upper Hall.
Following the service join us for fellowship & refreshments.
Mother’s Day is the fourth Sunday in Lent and was also known as Refreshment Sunday because the fasting rules for Lent were relaxed that day. It has become a time for family reunions over a meal.
Unbounded Love, the Methodist Church’s Lent campaign for 2024
LENT 4 FINISH THEN THY NEW CREATION
Bible passages; Numbers 21:4-9, John 3:14-21
Background notes
The word John uses for the world is ‘kosmon,’ from which we get the English
word ‘cosmos’. In our understanding, and in other parts of the New Testament, it encompasses the whole of creation rather than just our human society, or even just our planet. The word literally means ‘ordered system’, where everything is in its right place. God sent Jesus so that the cosmos might be saved, brought back into order once more. God’s love is not bounded to the small-scale things we notice; it has a cosmic scope.
A Methodist Way of Life: the Flourish commitment reminds us that the universe is an expression of God’s loving, creative nature, and that God is involved in an ongoing process of re-creation.
Questions for discussion
Can you think of a time when you have felt awe in nature, a time when you have felt very small in comparison with your surroundings?
Do you think our planet is God’s favourite?
What signs have you seen recently of God bringing order, putting things back as
they should be?
The good news to get across
“Finish then thy new creation, perfectly restored in thee”: we know that we and this messy but beautiful universe are loved by God and we look forward to the time when everything that is broken will be fixed.