Please look out for the list at the back of church, please pop your name on it if you would like me to come and see you – no strings! Just a lovely time to chat and have a catch up. If you are one of our parishioners who cannot attend church regularly, please email me areadean.pendle@blackburn.anglican.org or leave a message with your number 01254 396485
It was great to welcome people from both our parishes and also Revd Adrian, the Methodist Minister in Fence. I felt it was a very fruitful time of prayer, sharing and fellowship. Many stayed for lunch. Look out for more prayer events like this again after Easter.
If you are not baptised, please speak to Reverend Lesley. May each one of us start this year knowing the love of Jesus in our lives. Baptism marks the beginning of a journey with God which continues for the rest of our lives and is the first step in response to God’s love. It is traditionally done with babies and children, but age is no barrier – many adults nowadays wish to be baptised. The service paints many vivid pictures of what happens on the Christian way. There is the signing of the cross on the forehead, that invisible badge of faith worn in the Christian journey; there is the ‘drowning’ in the water where we believe we die to sin and are raised to new life; and there is the lighted candle symbolising the light of Christ conquering the darkness of evil. Everyone who is baptised walks in that light for the rest of their lives.
