A Week in the Life

Imagine a life where you achieve a healthy balance of work, play, rest, and prayer- a flourishing life.

Prayer

Our Daily Rhythm of Life has prayer pulsing through it. We pray Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer together in our Chapel. Each day we make space for individuals to spend time in solitude reading the Bible and meditating upon it.

Each member has a person they meet for regular spiritual accompaniment. This person will be from outside the community, trained in Spiritual Direction and offer a confidential listening space.

Study

We have one Study Day a week with teaching from our own team and speakers we bring in. We don’t offer an academic qualification, but we do offer quality input on the Bible, Spiritual Formation, and Spirituality. Expect to be stretched and challenged in a learning environment that is tailored to your needs and encourages personal growth. We aim to equip you to live a rooted, flourishing, fruitful life for God, whatever you go on to do.

Sharing Life

We will eat together every day- you’ll be pleased to hear that! Meals together are central to community life and we will aim to make them as tasty and healthy as possible. Preparing, cooking, serving and clearing up will all take time, but it’s where relationships grow and get strengthened.

Sabbath

We will celebrate the Sabbath together every week. The idea is to prepare well, do all our chores, then share a Community Communion, followed by a Sabbath Celebration meal and social time to relax together as we start our ‘day off’. People will be free to plan their own way to make the most of the ‘day off’.

Sharing and Reconciliation

One evening a week we will meet in Sharing Groups. In these smaller groups we will take time to listen to one another, share our stories and help each other grow towards Christlikeness.

Reconciliation is one of our core practices. That means we will need to be honest with one another, learn how to express and work through our disagreements, confess our failings, offer forgiveness and work at building relationships.

Compassion and Justice

One day a week we will go into the city to serve in social action projects. We want to be with people who are in need, giving the best of our time, attention and care.

Jesus said, ‘What you did to the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it to me.’(Matt 25:40)

Mission

One day a week, plus Sundays, we will go in pairs to Partner Churches. Our aim is to share with churches in praying, listening and discerning what God is doing. We will be involving ourselves in the mission of our partner churches and especially looking for ways to encourage children and young people in learning to pray.

Prayer on the Streets

One afternoon a week we will be out on the streets of Leicester listening to God, listening to people and praying as God leads us.

We are passionate about praying for the world and we set aside one evening a week to pray and intercede. It’s a creative mix of worship, art, silence, noise, singing…being open to God’s leading.

As we grow in prayer ourselves we’d like to explore leading prayer events for young people across the diocese and city.