SERVICES IN THE BENEFICE IN MARCH 2026 2026
Welcome to our services in March leading up to remembering and engaging with the Passion of our Lord in our Easter celebrations. We will continue our sermon series and a weekly bible study prepared by 24-7 Prayer. The Meditation Service on 8th March will be in Pontesbury Church at 7pm. Palm Sunday falls on a fifth Sunday, 29th March, so we will have one Benefice Messy Church Holy Communion Service at Annscroft, starting the service in the car park at and processing to the area outside the church door. Then we will move around three further stations in church wrapped around a Holy Communion Service. There will be a hot meal afterwards following the pattern of our Lent Soup Lunches – donations will be invited for Shelterbox. On Good Friday we will have a Stations of the Cross (we hope with a choir) and poems from 2-3pm in Hanwood Church followed by hot cross buns. Our celebration of the wonderful principal feast of Easter on Sunday 5th April will start with a dawn celebration at 6.15am at The Knapp, Castle Pulverbatch, followed by bacon butties – a great way to start our celebrations. Other services as shown – having had Palm Sunday at Annscroft, we shall change the pattern and have our Easter Holy Communion at Longden, not Annscroft.
On the third Sunday at Hanwood at 4.30pm we celebrate with a service of Songs of Praise. We usually meet in Vine Close Community Centre. This is an informal service in which people are asked to choose their favourite hymn and say why they have chosen it.
We also have reading(s) from the Bible, a short reflection and prayers. The service lasts about 45 minutes. Refreshments are provided after the service.
Do come and sing along with us. If you'd like to sing a particular hymn, please get in touch with our curate Freddie Strong who'd love to hear from you. revfreddiestrong@gmail.com
