Good Friday Three Hours


Good Friday Three Hours 

Friday 18 April

12:00pm - 3:00pm / Nave

Come along for three hours or drop in for as long as you can. The service will include a guest speaker, music from our Choir and time for reflective silence.


Good Friday Guest Speaker

Chris Rose / Director of Amos Trust 
The Three Hours will feature, Chris Rose, Director of Amos Trust, who will be sharing stories from the work they do in Climate Justice and Palestine.


Chris Rose - We Do Hope 

I often try to avoid churches on Good Friday. Too often the focus of the day is on the brutality of Jesus death and how ‘my sins’ put him on the cross. Fair enough, but that misses so much. For the events of Good Friday, also remind us that: each time we support someone in need, each time we stand up for an ideal , each time we speak out against injustice or seek to prevent people from destroying our planet, we stop people from knowing what it means to be forsaken.


About Chris

Chris Rose is the Director of Amos Trust, a small creative human rights organisation which has three main areas of work: promoting Palestinian rights, creating opportunities for girls and young women on the streets and calling for climate justice.  


Chris has travelled extensively to Amos partner projects and led many trips and activities with them, such as home rebuilding, cycling and marathons trips in Palestine. He co-founded the Street Child World Cup in South Africa in 2010 and led Amos’ Just Walk from London to Jerusalem in 2017.


Prior to this he was CEO of Romsey Mill a highly innovative youth project in Cambridge and is an ordained Anglican Minister.


amostrust.org


Good Friday for Families

During the Good Friday Three Hours service, we will be hosting a drop-in session for families, featuring free activities,in Faithspace on nearby Prewett Street. 




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