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Annual Calendar of Events
The member churches join in a wide range of regular activities together, including the regular events below.
January
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Lent
Lenten Breakfast Discussions
March
Women's' World Day of Prayer
Good Friday
Acts of Witness and Frugal Lunch
May
Parish Christian Aid Collection (15 - 21 May 2011)
Quiet Morning at Harvest, Advent & Pentecost 14 May 2011
September
Quiet Morning at Harvest, Advent & Pentecost 24 September 2011
October
One World Week Service
November
Quiet Morning at Harvest, Advent & Pentecost 26 November 2011
December
Christmas Celebration
For further information about Churches Together in Balsall and Berkswell please contact the Honorary Joint Secretaries: Eileen Lamb or Canon Claire Laland, email contact: claire.map@mypostoffice.co.uk
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The Breakfasts are a series of Talks and Discussions that have been developed jointly by the five Churches in Balsall Common and Berkswell. They are held in the Methodist Church Hall on Saturday mornings of Lent. The first of the breakfasts will be held on Saturday 12 March 2011.
The Breakfasts have established themselves in the village as a lively intelligent forum. Themes are taken for which straight forward answers are not available. The intention is to encourage people to think through the difficulties and so to strengthen a religious faith in one’s ordinary daily life. They are enjoyed equally by people who attend one of the churches, as well as by many others who are not church members.
Breakfast begins at 8.30 am and consists of cereals, croissants and coffee. At 9.00 am, after a short introduction, the Guest Speaker introduces the theme for the session and usually speaks for about a quarter of an hour. The meeting is then thrown open for discussion, and a Question and Answer session ensues. The discussion will close no later than 9.45 am to allow the hall to be cleaned and cleared by 10.00 am.
There is a small charge of £2.00 for the breakfast and the surplus after deduction of costs will go to a mutually agreed charity.
Programme for Lent Breakfasts
Wellbeing
Saturday 12 March 2011 - Physical Wellbeing and Personal Responsibility, Speaker: Dr David Stableforth
Saturday 19 March 2011 - Psychology, Religion and Wellbeing, Speaker: Dr Hugh McCredie PhD CPsychol
Saturday 26 March 2011 - Wellbeing: Aristotle, Bentham and the Good Life, Speaker: Dr Sue Chetwynd
Saturday 2 April 2011 - Sport, Faith and Wellbeing, Speaker: Professor Andrew Parker
Saturday 9 April 2011 - Wellbeing and Spirituality, Speaker: Revd Dr Ruth Tuschling
Saturday 16 April 2011 - Wellbeing at the End of Life, Speaker: Canon Peter Holliday
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