Cross and Stable Church, Downs Barn, has announced its programme of activities to be held during Holy Week from Sunday March 24 to March 31.

Sunday March 24 will be a Holy Communion service at 11am with the distribution of Palm Crosses, followed by the church’s annual meeting.

Lenten Reflections will be held on Wednesday March 27 from 12.30pm to 1.30pm before a free ticketed Passover Supper takes place on Maundy Thursday from 6pm.

From 3-4pm on Good Friday there will be Meditation at the Cross. Holy Communion for Easter Sunday takes place at 11am.

St Andrew’s Church, Great Linford, is to host a coffee morning in aid of Willen Hospice on Saturday March 9.

The event runs from 10.30am to 12.30pm – pop in any time for coffee, tea, cake and a good chat plus a raffle.

St Andrew’s Church can be found at the far end of Parklands, Great Linford.

Full details on the poster available to download here.

Stantonbury Ecumenical Partnership is currently exploring issues around being an Inclusive Church, in order to build towards a wider partnership meeting in May.

As part of this journey, St. James’ congregation will be hosting a whole-parish-invited sermon series and Lent group in the 6 weeks before Easter.  Using 6 booklets from www.inclusivechurch.org, our Sunday services, followed by a Monday evening home-group, will cover the following subjects:

18/19^th February – Including Ethnicity;

25/26^th February – Including Sexuality;

3/4^th March – Including Mental Health;

10/11^th March – Including Disability;

17/18^th March – Including Gender;

24/25^th March – Including Poverty.

You are warmly welcome to attend any or all of the services/home-groups. Being part of an Ecumenical Parish, there are a wide variety of outlooks, traditions and interpretations of these issues.  In running this Lent sermon and home-group series, we hope to deepen the discussions and face these important questions together.

The Inclusive Church Statement of Belief is:

‘We believe in Inclusive Church – church which does not discriminate, on any level, on grounds of economic power, gender, mental health, physical ability, race or sexuality.  We believe in church which welcomes and serves all people in the name of Jesus Christ; which is scripturally faithful; which seeks to proclaim the Gospel afresh for each generation; and which, in the power of the Holy Spirit, allows all people to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Jesus Christ.’

For more information, especially if you would like to be more involved, please contact:-

Jo, Gini, Helen, Gill or Duncan, (duncanbarnesmusic@gmail.com)