Memory Verse
What’s on this month
Sunday Services 10:30 am:
April 5th : Phil Sparkes
April 12th : Colin Baxter
April 19th : Tony Hood
April 26th : Darren Rozier
Monday Meet – weekly at 2:30 pm at the Room, excepting public holidays and the summer holiday.
April 6th : No Meeting
April 13th : Margaret Cook
April 20th : Graham Fuller
April 27th : Rev. Sarah Hall
Bible Study & Prayer – Tuesdays 7:00 pm at Margaret’s
April 7th : Victor Jack
April 14th : Missionary Prayer – Graham Fuller
April 21st : Victor Jack
April 28th : Rita Langston
I Wonder Why? – weekly 7 pm
Next series to be announced.
Upcoming Events
You are very welcome to come to any of our events:
June 12th 10:30 am – 12:30 pm – Quilting : Rosie
July 4th 12:30 pm – BBQ – all welcome
Woolpit Village Website
Easter
The Garden of Gethsemane, just outside the walls of Old Jerusalem, is a quiet sanctuary with very ancient olive trees. It was obviously a place frequented by Jesus as Judas suggested that it be there that the soldiers come to arrest Him.
Peter and I visited this garden when we went to Israel many years ago. We tried to imagine how Jesus might have felt on the night He was betrayed. It is not possible to begin to understand the anguish that Jesus must have suffered as He pleaded with God to show Him an escape route from the cross. The gospel writers give a glimpse of the pain and turmoil He endured. “The sorrow in my heart is so great that it almost crushes me” (Matt:26:38)
The Son of God gripped by fear!
The Son of God crushed by a killing sorrow!
The Son of God in anguish
The Son of God sweating great drops of blood!
The Son of God shrinking at the cost of the cross!
It was not easy for Jesus to die for us!
Gilbert Shaw wrote: – “O Jesus, by Thy bonds of love draw me to Your cross and bind me there, lest I waste all and cause you further pain”
A hymn we often sing says, “Love so amazing, so divine, demands my life, my soul, my all” (Isaac Watts)
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