This year we are going back to the future. Instead of a Maundy Thursday service, a Good Friday service, and an Easter service, we have one service lasting sixty hours, with two big breaks.

What's this all about? Well:

The most terrible, wonderful and world-changing events in history happened two thousand years ago. O that we were there, as we sing in the carol; but we were not.

We can, however, enter into those great days, as the church has always done, by the keeping the three days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday as a single observance. We remember and celebrate the events at the time and on the day when they happened.

Thus on Maundy Thursday we start at 7.30, and after the Last Supper, Foot Washing and a Vigil we go our separate ways but still together in spirit.

On Good Friday we return to the building after the ecumenical Walk of Witness (starting about 12.30 at Minstead Gardens Methodist Church) and pick up the story again remembering the crucifixion - that segment lasts from 1.45 to 2.45 (to fit in with the Liturgy at St Joseph's RC Church).

On Sunday we gather again just before 6am to conclude the service, lighting the new fire, bringing light and life back into the Church, welcoming the risen Lord, and renewing our baptismal vows. Breakfast to follow!