This 2025 Team Lent course is:
Let Me Go There
The Spirit of Lent, by Paula Gooder.
Focusing on the spirit of the season and opening up the scriptures that are read in churches during this period. The course is an introduction to the season of Lent and its characteristic themes, exploring how to use it as a time for spiritual growth.
Mondays 10th March - 14th April
7.30pm St John the Baptist, Stadhampton
For details please contact Rev Mel Stanley on [email protected]
Come and See is the Lent activity from Oxford Diocese. "Come and See takes place in Lent each year. It’s our big, warm open invitation to an adventure in faith and trust. It’s for everyone in the local church and the whole community... including children and young people, families and schools. It's free of charge and all are welcome." The 2025 theme is Baptism.
The Pilgrim series is a structured learning sequence that can be picked up at any stage. Bishop Steven writes for the Pilgim series, see their website for more.
In past years we locally started the Thy Kingdom Come Wave of Prayer between Ascension and Pentecost with a service on Wittenham Clumps. The full Thy Kingdom Come resource can be found on the Thy Kingdom Come website. There is no news of this happening at the Clumps in 2025.
Library. There is a small collection of books for browsing in the back of the church near the font, on the shelves on the back of the last row of pews (benches).
As you can imagine there are a lot of resources available on line too, the books and apps mentioned above for the Pilgrim Courses of course, and these might be useful too;
Church House Publishing is the Church of England's publisher:
Daily Prayer: The official app for Morning, Evening and Night prayer
Time to pray: Daily Prayer and Bible reading app
Reflections for Daily Prayer: Daily Bible notes app from the Church of England
Sunday Worship: Sunday Bible readings app, Collects and more
Reflections on the Psalms: A spiritual journey through the Psalms app
Lectionary: The official calendar of readings app for the Church of England
Our former Bishop, Rt Revd John Pritchard, has written in the Pilgrim Series and also publishes through SPCK publishing, including:
The Intercessions Handbook ISBN 0281049793
The second Intercessions Handbook ISBN 0281056498
Living faithfully ISBN 9780281067626
At such times as Advent, Lent and Easter the Church of England runs series of online daily reflections in an app such as "Follow the Star" for Advent and Christmas, and "Easter pilgrim" for Lent and Easter, see here. https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe
for general information, click on 'Advent and Christmas' or 'Lent, Holy Week and Easter' and here
https://www.churchofengland.org/faith-life/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter
for the 2025 Lent and Easter programmes. You'll see that several of our Holy Week events mesh in with the Lent theme. This years online daily reflections information is here. https://www.churchofengland.org/faith-life/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/living-hope-resources-lent-2025
Click to register for the app.
For Lent 2025 our Team Lent events can be seen in the below attachment, some are included on our Calendar.