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very happy new year to you all (it is only early January as I write!!).
However soon after this letter is posted on the web we will nearly be
in Lent! I want therefore to focus on one or two areas as Lent approaches. Ash Wednesday will be on February 22nd and we shall begin the season with celebrations of Holy Communion at 10-00am in Christ Church, and 7-30pm in Holy Cross. However, after the morning service there will be a dance performance by the children from the Resurrection Primary School in Beswick. This will be entitled “The Agnus Dei”. The idea is that we will have coffee after the service and the children will perform from 11-00am for about half an hour. This should be an interesting and different way of beginning our Lenten devotions. The children have performed in Manchester Cathedral, and are I believe very good so, if you are coming to the Communion service, please try and stay for this performance. Over the years the Churches Together in Timperley have had a number of different events during Lent, house groups, discussion meetings etc. but this year we are trying something we haven’t done before. The Churches are going to come together on a Sunday evening for shared worship (rather like we have done in the summer) but with a common Lenten theme running through them and building up to our Good Friday ecumenical worship. (Sadly no Riding Lights this year!!) The first of these services will be in Christ Church on the first Sunday of Lent (Feb 26th) at 6-30pm. It has been somewhat disappointing in recent years to witness the decline in the support for ecumenical activities, so I hope that these services will provide the opportunity to breathe some new life into the work of Churches Together in Timperley. Remember, as we are still in the season of Epiphany, that our task with all our fellow Christians is to bear witness together to the truth as it lies in Jesus. Our commitment as a parish to the Anglican Methodist Covenant has I believe been a positive one, but perhaps we are falling short in our wider ecumenical responsibilities. I trust that, in all its many forms, this coming Lent will be for us all a spiritual journey to the Cross as we deepen our faith and commitment to God and to each other. Yours in the service of Christ 
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