Minister’s Message – Lent 2026
 Let Go and Be Open

As we approach the season of Lent, we find ourselves once again standing at a spiritual threshold.

Lent is often described as a journey — a forty-day pilgrimage of reflection, repentance, and renewal as we walk with Christ towards the cross, and ultimately towards the hope of Easter morning.

This year, I invite us to enter that journey with a simple but challenging posture:

Let go — and be open.

In the busyness of church life and the pressures of our personal lives, we can find our hands and hearts already full — full of worries, habits, expectations, and sometimes even discouragement. Yet Scripture reminds us that God is always seeking to do a new thing among us (Isaiah 43:19).

But to receive the new, we must loosen our grip on the old.

Lent offers us sacred space:

• To let go of what weighs heavily on the soul
• To release patterns that distance us from God
• To lay down anxieties we were never meant to carry
• To become open again to the movement of the Holy Spirit

My prayer is that, as a church community, we will allow this season to renew us — not only in personal faith, but in our shared life, mission, and hope for the future.

You are warmly invited to join us in worship throughout this holy season:

Ash Wednesday - 18th February 2026 at 7.00pm

Maundy Thursday - 2nd April 2026 at 7.30pm

Good Friday - 3rd April 2026 at 9.45am

Easter Sunday - 5th April 2026 at 10.30am

Lent runs from 18th February to 5th April 2026, and I encourage you to share in as much of the journey as you are able — in worship, in prayer, in reflection, and in fellowship.

As we begin, may God gently teach us what it means to let go…
 and may we find ourselves newly open to grace, to growth, and to the transforming love of Christ.

Grace and peace,

 Revd Marcia Tull