Dear Friends,

This week we have come to the year's anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. This Sunday churches across the world will continue in their prayers for the people of the whole region: for the end to conflict and the journey to a new security and peace, for all those families separated by war, and for all who are exiles across European host nations. I have shaped the attached prayers to enable us to join with that wave of prayer for a better tomorrow for all who are suffering.

I think the story of Jesus' tempations, which is the gospel for this weekend, offers us his complete rejection of underlying influences that lead towards the injustices, inequalities, violence and lack of compassion which are prevalent in our world. His decisive rejection of self-satisfaction, dramatic sensation to force faith and the idolising of things that are not of God shows us a way towards the better tomorrow we pray for.

May our keeping of Lent help us to make steps on that way in his company.

A reminder:

Monday 27th Feb 3.30pm Lent Group at the Rectory.

The URC Living Waters are hosting a Bible Study at 10.30 on a Wednesday morning during Lent - all welcome

God bless

Samantha