Mothering Sunday

10:30am Sunday 14th March

Once considered a "day off" from the discipline of Lent, when servant girls were often allowed to go home and see their mothers. This has become a well loved celebration of mothers and all that they do for us.

Join us in St Thomas' church for a family service including the distribution of flowers to all mothers. Uniformed young people's organizations are invited to parade in Church.

Palm Sunday

10:30am Sunday 28th March

On Palm Sunday we remember how Jesus rode into Jerusalem, humbly on a donkey. The crowds greeted him with wild jubilation and took branches from the palm trees and laid them on the road in front of him. Hence the name 'Palm Sunday'.

At St Thomas' we have our own procession with banners through the streets of Keresley. We start in the Church Hall car park at 10:30 and take about half an hour to make our way through the streets and back to church. Here we join up with those unable to walk with us for the last part of the service held in church. All ages are welcome.

Holy Week

Monday 29th March to Saturday 3rd April

7:30pm Monday 29th

2:00pm Tuesday 30th

7:30pm Wednesday 31st

On each day a different group of church members will be leading a brief service. Why not take time to join us, and so enter more deeply into the meaning of what Jesus has done.

Jesus went up to Jerusalem knowing that he would be betrayed and killed. He did it because he loved us.

"God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

Maundy Thursday

7:30pm Thursday 1st April

On Maundy Thursday we remember the Last Supper that Jesus shared with his disciples. It was the Jewish festival of Passover.

Jesus began the meal by washing the disciple's feet (a job normally done by a slave), then he commanded them to love each other as he loved them. Next he took bread and wine, said a prayer of thanks, and shared the bread and wine with his disciples. He told them to do this in memory of him.

Our service held in Keresley Village Community Church is a simplified Passover meal, with foot washing, and the sharing of bread and wine.

Good Friday

Friday 2nd April

After his Last Supper, Jesus went out to pray, and there in the garden he was arrested. The leaders had been plotting for months to get rid of him - now they held a hasty trial, then they passed him over to the Roman authorities to have him executed.

It looked like Jesus had failed. But in fact this was God's loving plan. By sacrificing himself on our behalf, he made possible all the forgiveness and new life that God wants to give to us his children.

10:00am - 12:00noon

In the morning on Good Friday we offer a children's activity (crafts, songs, stories etc)

2:00pm - 3:00pm

In the afternoon we offer a quiet reflection in Church, a chance to consider the Love which gave himself for us.

Easter Day

Sunday 4th April

This is the geatest celebration in the Christian Year.

The tomb is empty. Jesus is alive. He is seen and recognised, known and touched. The power of God has defeated the power of death. From now on everyone can be a part of this.

Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live even though they die, and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you bellieve this?"

All ages are invited to join in a special Family Communion Service at 10:30am