Lent is the season when we reflect on our lives and prepare for the Easter Sunday celebrations by thinking about the events that lead up to Easter. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent and in the last week of Lent, we especially think about Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.

Our Sunday services encourage us to get rid of  bad habits or wrong attitudes have crept into our lives. Individuals often choose to exercise some self discipline like giving up chocolate, as a symbol of the sacrifice and temptation that Jesus faced for us.

   

Our notice board encourages everyone
to join us at our lent services.

Individuals and groups also try to give positive time to thinking more about our Christian Life like reading a Christian book. one year, as a church, we all tried to listen to the New Testament on tape during Lent. We often join together with other Churches in South East Colchester for a united Lent service.

The forty days of Lent especially marks Jesus spending 40 days in the wilderness preparing for his work by fasting, praying and obediently resisting sin, as well as remembering the forty days the Israelites spent in the wilderness because they were not obedient.  We are asked to obediently prepare ourselves by turning from sin so that we may renew the joy of living the Christian life with Jesus.

     Bible: Matthew 4 v1-11