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In years to come how will we look back on this crisis? I suspect that one observation will be the way we all had to adapt; indeed, make significant changes to our everyday lives. Shopping, family, technology, meetings, leisure time; almost no part of our lives will not have been affected.
And likewise the Church. The church has had to adapt for 2000 years and very often it’s a crisis that has provoked change. It was when the earliest Christians were persecuted and had to flee far and wide that the message of Christianity was carried beyond Jerusalem and out to the wider world; something good came out of something bad. Many would argue that in recent times the church has not adapted fast enough to the changes in our world and society. Well this crisis is certainly provoking change. The church doors may be locked but there is no sense that God is in lockdown. Up and down the country-and indeed across the world-many church leaders are having to become a lot more savvy in the use of online technology for Sunday and midweek services and also many other aspects of the church’s life.
One of the striking outcomes we have noticed is that it would seem many more people are able to join us online than would normally attend on a Sunday. Church online has been a particular blessing for a number of housebound people who due to ill health have not been able to attend church for a long time. Suddenly, they are able to be with us again. And we’ve also been able to have a number of
“Church coffee and chat” Zoom sessions in which we can see and connect with one another. For many none of this will replace the joy of actually being together in church but it’s been a blessing nevertheless.
As Christians we do believe God is active in the midst of all that is going on and so prayer has felt even more important. We are very much praying for our community for our businesses, council, schools, food bank and the many individual and family needs that we are hearing about. Therefore, if you would like us to pray for you or a situation you are concerned about then please do leave a prayer request in confidence, via our website prayer line. Or alternatively drop a prayer request into the prayer box in St Nicholas Church entrance foyer on either a Wednesday or Friday morning when the doors are open to the food bank. And of course we very much hope that eventually we will be able to welcome people back into our churches for private prayer, perhaps as early as July depending on government guidance.
With love and prayers to all in our community
Rev'd Jane Burgess
stnicholascm@gmail.com
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