27 November 2024
Market Chaplaincy
Volunteer chaplain Gavin Page writes: ‘It’s that time of year again when the Frankfurt Christmas Market returns to Birmingham City…
Resources for Lent
29th January 2024
The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, 14 February, and runs until Maundy Thursday, 28 March 2024
Church of England
Watch and Pray
“Watch and Pray challenges us to seek God in both familiar and unfamiliar places: in darkness and in quiet; in movement and migration; in the healing and transforming work of the Spirit; in the weeping of Holy Week and in the joy of Easter morning.”
Archbishops Justin Welby and Stephen Cottrell
Watch and Pray – Resources for Lent 2024 | The Church of England
Christian Aid, Trussell Trust, Church Action on Poverty, Joint Public Issues Team, Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches
Act on Poverty
‘Christian Aid has teamed up with partner organisations across the UK to help churches gain a deeper understanding of poverty and empower Christians to act in the run up to the next UK general election.
It all starts with their ‘Act on Poverty’ Lent course’
Act on Poverty – Christian Aid
CAFOD 
The Big Lent Walk
‘ Walk 200km in 40 days to help fight global poverty’
‘Your sponsorship can and will change lives. Every £1 raised through the Big Lent Walk will help fight poverty globally in countries like Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan.’
The Big Lent Walk 2024 (cafod.org.uk)
Methodist Church 
Unbounded Love
God’s love doesn’t stay in the lines
You can sign up to receive daily reflection emails via the link below
Unbounded Love – Lent 2024 reflections (methodist.org.uk)
The Bible Society 
The Bible Society is offering a journey ‘in the shadow of the cross’ every day throughout Lent. Participants will receive a devotion by e-mail, with the option to listen to the words being read out by the author, with the aim of arriving at your Easter celebrations with a renewed appreciation for all that Jesus accomplished on the cross.
Information and sign-up The Lent Encounter 2024 – Bible Society
Fellowship of Reconciliation 
The Fellowship of Reconciliation is running a 5 week Lent course; Layers of Peace
Week 1 – The roots of peace
Week 2 – Peace in ourselves
Week 3 – Peace in our community
Week 4 – Peace in our world
Week 5 – Where now for Peace?
Information and sign up: https://www.for.org.uk/lent/
We shall publicise more Lent resources as they become available. Do let us know of others not included in the list above.