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Last month’s Week of Prayer for Churches Together in Churches Together in Christian Unity was very busy and Ewyas Harold – Lent Study – well attended across the county. Lunches Lent Please let me know if you have any joint events for Lent or Holy Churches in Ewyas Harold are Week and I will be pleased to put sharing the hosting of Lent Study Churches Together in Leominster them in the next newsletter. Lunches, to be held at the will be holding their usual Baptist Hall from 12 noon to 1.45 th successful Lent Study Course on Anna Nugent each Thursday in Lent from 18 th Wednesdays this year. They will County Ecumenical Officer February to 17 March. They be studying the Psalms – prayers will be using the United Society [email protected] for today’s Church. The course course ‘Migration & Movement’. ______will be held in parallel meetings, ______Churches Together in both on Wednesdays, in the Moravian Church Hall at 2.30pm Herefordshire – Lent and St Ethelbert’s Parish Room Course information Christians Together in at 7.30pm: February 17th and th nd Churches Together groups often Colwall - 24 ; March 2 , th th ask for information about Lent 9 and 16 . potential Lent courses. As we Christians in approach Lent and many groups Colwall will and individual churches start be coming together to organise planned courses, I would be Lent Lunches will be held by one of the series of Lent Lunches really grateful for some feedback Churches Together in Leominster held in the village. This will take about the course you follow. I on Fridays in Lent at 12.30pm place at 12 noon on February will collate the information and will consist of soup and a 16th at Chevenham Lounge. The which will then be available for roll, introduced with a short other Lent Lunches will be on groups in future years. Maybe devotion. Donations will be March 4th at 12 noon in the choose someone in your study taken in aid of CAFOD and Henry Ellis Room, Colwall group at the start of your course Christian Aid. February 19th – Community Church (organised to prepare brief thoughts about Methodist Church Hall; February by Colwall Community Church) the content, the format, the 26th – St Ethelbert’s Parish and on March 14th at 12 at the support for the leader, and Room; March 11th – Forbury Ale House – St James Church anything else that might be Chapel. (organised by the Mothers useful, to pass on to me: Union. [email protected]

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Churches Together in Jacquie Alsop 01432 353347 or Your commitment would only be – Christian Aid email once a month and all training [email protected] provided. If you would like to Women’s World Day of know more or would like Prayer someone from Vennture to come and speak to your Church, Churches Together in Hereford Most services please contact 0300 202 0730 (city) will be holding their next for the [email protected] th Women’s World meeting on Monday 8 February ______at 7pm, to which all will be Day of Prayer are organised by welcome as it is an Open Christian women of different Hereford Diocese Inclusive Meeting. They have a guest denominations working Church Forum – “It’s not speaker – Jill Stone – who is the together. The Day is celebrated th just about ramps!” Regional Co-ordinator for this year on Friday March 4 Christian Aid. She will be with services at the following This group will be holding an speaking and answering churches in Herefordshire: evening on disability awareness for all churches. Revd Zoe questions about Christian Aid’s St Mary’s Church, Burghill – current projects. The meeting Heming (Lichfield Diocese) will 10am be the main speaker, after which will then review CTH’s recent Weobley Methodist Chapel – activities and discuss future the meeting will divide into 10.30am groups, each led by someone ones. The meeting will be in St St Peter’s Church, Hereford – John’s Methodist Church Hall, St with expertise in some aspect of 10.30am disability. All welcome to Owen Street, Hereford. Leominster Baptist Church – 2pm ______Leominster Priory on Thursday Ledbury Baptist Church – 2pm 3rd March at 7.30pm. Kingsland Methodist Church – Hereford Food Bank ______2pm CBN - Superbook Churches and individuals all over ______the county contribute to Food Christian Banks in their town. Hereford Herefordshire Vennture – Broadcasting Food Bank alone has supplied Volunteers needed Network over 200 people with food since The Europe would like to invite all the beginning of the year Christians churches together in Hereford to already. If you would like to from a number of different a special Superbook showing of donate food, they are currently churches who work together on the Easter story ‘He is Risen’. asking specifically for the the ‘Lean on Me’ project have This is an opportunity for following: UHT and dried milk; lots of student volunteers keen families not involved in church Smash; porridge; jams; sugar; to get involved but need adult life to hear the gospel in a way toiletries; non-bio washing volunteers to support them, that is exciting and relevant to powder or tablets; household children. It is due to take place showing ’ love in a real and th cleaners; toilet paper; coffee; practical way. The Lean on Me on Saturday 19 March at pet food. They currently have a project is like a ‘receiving house’, Freedom Church, Old Odeon, 2- pasta and baked bean mountain delivered in conjunction with 4pm. CBN can provide you with – so no pasta or baked beans trained paramedics, offering a posters and even a visit to your please! friendly safe waiting area, a church from Gizmo the sober-up area and a non-invasive Superbook robot! Contact If you would like to volunteer, to [email protected] work in the Food Bank, or to treatment area to deal with help with collections or minor injuries in the night time fundraising, please contact economy.

Please note - this newsletter strives to share a wide range of ecumenical news and opinions and is not necessarily a reflection of the views of CTiH. February 2016