Today is the First Day of the Third Month of 2009 – and marks the first Sunday of Lent, which leads up to Holy Week and the most special day in the Christian Calendar – Easter Sunday. That day is the Sunday in which Jesus Christ amazed everyone – cast all doubt away and rose from the dead – not only to see his friends again, but to prove that he is the Son of God and ultimately bare all of our Past and Future Sin on his shoulders and bring us forgiveness – bottled at source.
Before the First Sunday of Lent we celebrate another day (officially two) in the Christian Calendar – commonly known as Pancake Day – Shrove Tuesday, in which I am sure most if not all of you indulged in some freshly prepared pancakes smothered in your favorite topping (Maple Syrup for the Win!) – this marks the official start of the Lent (Festival?) because in much more traditional times the most common things people gave up for Lent were Dairy Products including Milks, Butter and Eggs – so with the world being such food fiends we decided to combine these ingredients and use them up in one meal – allowing for one last pleasure before showing our Love for Christ and emulating his 40 day fasting process in the Desert.
Anyway, we met up This Morning for our regular Morning Worship led by Majors Alan & Barbara – along with Barbara’s sister who led in This Mornings message. – it must have been quite an experience as you stand up and lead your Home Corps, the people who were a big part in your spiritual growth as a follower of God.
Before the Youth Groups split up to work on their own learning we spent some time Thanking God for the things we love – including, Family and Friends as well as belting out a few really powerful hymns and speaking The Lords Prayer.
Of course today wasn’t just significant because of its presence in Lent but also because it served as the culmination of this year’s Self Denial: Missionary Appeal – members of the Church – Young & Old returned their envelopes and boxes in the hope that the money raised will allow others to experience the same style of life as every person who sat in that hall this morning.
Although I was busy helping the younger youth with Hazel, I know that the older youth worked on understanding The Bible some more – and I also know they enjoyed working on a ‘Holy Ground’ exercise – but they did miss Dean who was called into work at the last minute This Morning – but Maureen did a brilliant job serving up a lunch of Sausage Rolls and Chips later in the afternoon.
As I mentioned above I had a change of scene this week and worked with the smaller guys (and girls) who listened to a story about the ‘Seeds of God’ before doing some colouring and having a bit of good old fashioned Chill Out Time.
After Ted came downstairs to collect both groups, as he usually does we returned upstairs to tell the congregation about our learning exploits – and the older youth group – which are led by Corps Young People’s Sargent Major Roy showed off some pretty polished knowledge of Bible verses in and around the chronicling of The Creation.
After Barbara & Alan closed This Mornings meeting with The Benediction we went downstairs a revelled in some time to run off some steam before returning to school for another week.
See You Next Week
Jordan
—
In some more generalised information I would like to bring to your attention www.saclifton.org.gg which is the offcial website for The Corps – it is updated weekly with new Diary Dates and Weekly What’s On? Guides as well as providing a digital download of our Weekly Printout – provided by Graham ‘The Keep In Touch’.
I am also hoping to add Photo Galleries to the site during Special Events – and there is no better place to begin than with some panoramic views of Clifton Hall or Photos from the Easter Celebrations.
If you have any Questions or Queries regarding the Website then drop me and email at this address:
