The long anticipated start to our Spire restoration has begun. The scaffolders have begun to encase the Spire in scaffolding and slowly they are reaching heavenwards. Several days of heavy rain have severely curtailled their operations and the project is already a little behind the builder's schedule but we remain hopeful that if the weather improves the work will be completed on time for our Church Anniversary on Sunday 6 June.
As this work has begun so for us we have begun our own personal journeys through the Season of Lent. Many of us are following the Christian Aid Lent giving appeal - 'Count your blessings'. We started Lent together on Ash Wednesday with a short Penitential Service where we symbolically burned slips of paper on which we had listed the ways we discriminate against others and thereby prevent them encountering the gospel - on grounds of race, age, gender or 'class'.
Last Sunday saw us welcome two new members which has very encouraging to us all. The Knitting for the Needy group is also growing as is the mountain of wool donated to keep them busy.
We've crunched the numbers necessary to prepare and send off our BU Mission Grant application for 2011 and now await to hear back from our 'visitors' who will help decide whether we remain worthy of support from the Baptist family.
We continue to plan for Easter and our collection box for Easter Eggs for our Easter Egg Hunt is brimming over.
The routine of college lectures has now returned as week three of Semester 2 draws to its close. Assignments are started with the aim of turning them in well ahead of the 1 June deadline.
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