April 2024

We had a wonderful holy week here in Ravenshead parish which included a bumper attendance at our relatively new Sunday@Four children and family service on Palm Sunday when 66 adults and children came to worship through craft, games, prayer stations, bible stories, music and reflection, plus fun and food. This was followed midweek by Experience Easter when 180 Year 3 and Year 4 children from local primary schools had an immersive experience of the first holy week as part of

About 40 people gathered, a little bleary eyed, on Easter Sunday at 6.30am to celebrate what is now an annual event at Pusto Hill Farm.  As dawn broke, we celebrated the joy of Easter morning, thinking about how Jesus rolls our stones away, singing and praying together whilst being immersed in a full sensory experience of new life, complete with the birds and cows joining in! Afterwards, we were rewarded for our early rise with bacon and egg butties served by Jean

The Church started Holy Week open as members of the congregation had produced artwork for the Gedling Deanery Way of the Cross.  We celebrated a church family Passover style meal, where Robin Aldridge from the Churches Ministry among Jews came to explain all the elements and meaning. Afterward we shared communion in church.  Good Friday involved the Walk of Witness with an open air service at Mapperley Top. Despite the rain about 60 came together from local churches.  We held our annual

Holy week was a big week in the life of St Stephens. Children from St Stephens C of E School put together a Holy Week Pilgrimage and came to live it out in church at their Easter Service. Each class (year group) shared different aspects of the Easter Story. The whole school filled every seat in church including standing room at the back.  We then had Wednesday and Thursday as Retreat Days, sharing this time with Urban Abbey (House of Prayer