Lent Bible Study - Thames Valley Sound of Music! / Dates for our diaries (from Rev’d Vicci) Last year, when we went into the first lockdown during Lent, some wag put "This is the Lentiest Lent I have ever Lented" on Facebook and it was shared by thousands of people with whom it resonated. As we think about entering Lent once more, we have not really left those initial feelings behind. There is a sense in which, however hard we tried to celebrate and mark the passage of the Church year, we have been in the desert since last March. The Circuit staff felt that this was not the time to embark upon a Bible Study that addressed some of the more traditional themes of Lent but that instead we needed something a little more uplifting, something that resonated with living through difficult times but held out hope, joy and Julie Andrews!

This year, the Lent Bible Study has been written by the Circuit Staff and will look at songs from one of the most popular musicals ever, linking them to major Biblical themes and allowing us to meet together over Zoom to reflect on climbing mountains, remember favourite things and wonder if somewhere the hills are still alive with the Sound of Music. Join us on Ash Wednesday and subsequent Wednesdays in Lent (not the 3rd of March) at 7:30 for an hour of fun, song, Bible Study and prayer. All these meetings will happen via Zoom.