CHURCH is a place where people go to worship and show adoration for a mighty creator. It is also a place where people of like mind gather together to corporately confirm their faith. Attending church offers a unique opportunity to find out about God and to worship Him. It offers a space for people to come together and discover who God is and build up a relationship with Him.

It is also an opportunity to learn more about who Jesus is and what he has done for through his dying on a cross and being raised to life to sit at the right hand of God. And, as time is spent in worship, it allows God’s Holy Spirit to move among people, speak to them of God as father and Jesus as brother and teach those things that are needed in order to live a life of Christian faith today.

Church is also somewhere where people go to have fellowship with other believers and specifically listen and wait for God to speak.

It is a safe place where faults can be acknowledged without condemnation because of Jesus’ dying on a cross and his rising from the dead opening the way for people to be released from the bad that they have done.

It is also where support and love is offered to one another during difficult times with shared joy and laughter during the good times.

The season of Lent that begins this week, is a time when Christians reflect on "who is this Jesus" and learn more about his ministry and what that means for people today. Lent comes prior to the celebration of Easter, which is about the sadness of the death of Jesus to the joy of his resurrection on Easter day.

Easter is not just about Hot Cross Buns and Easter Eggs, tasty as they are, but is about reflecting on that important final event in Jesus’ ministry that brought access to God’s kingdom within the reach of all people.

At Easter we remember that Jesus died in order that we may live, free from the wrongs that punish us long after others have stopped and freedom from the fear of death. All we have to do to receive this hope is believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

The Church’s aim is to share this good news and help people discover this truth for themselves.