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Holy Trinity, South Wimbledon; Christ Church, Colliers Wood; St. John the Divine, Merton

13/05/2026

A grave threat to the work of FiA - please sign our online petition

We sadly have news of a grave threat to the continuation of our work. The Salvation Army has informed us that they will shortly be serving us with notice to quit and that we may have to vacate our premises as early as the end of November this year.

As you may know, FiA has, since its inception, operated from the Salvation Army Hall in Kingston Road, Wimbledon. This is a wonderful location for us.

We can offer hot showers, washing machines, counselling and help, a meeting space for service users and of course an extensive kitchen where our volunteers cook nutritious hot meals for the homeless of Merton. And it’s well served by public transport, so those in need can get to us.

With your help, we’ve been able to bring hope and dignity to some of the most marginalised people in our community.

Finding alternative premises in the area that can offer affordable facilities as extensive as these is a Herculean task, and so while we are looking for somewhere else, we are focused on persuading the Salvation Army to reverse their decision.

We desperately need your help. Please sign the petition by clicking this link:
https://www.change.org/SaveMertonFaithInAction

Thank you.

05/04/2026

ALLELUIA! CHRIST IS RISEN! 🌅 The tomb is empty. The angel is matter-of-fact: 'Do not be afraid. He is not here. Come and see. Now go quickly and tell.' Easter is not a private comfort — it is public news, sent out in haste. The same Jesus who was crucified is risen. Death could not hold love. The women who came to tend a body are the first witnesses of the most world-changing event in history. Go and tell! Christ is risen — and everything has changed. He is risen indeed. Alleluia!

Reading: Matthew 28:1-10 / Acts 10:34-43 / Colossians 3:1-4

03/04/2026

We stand at the foot of the cross. Good Friday asks us to stay here, to not rush to Sunday. Isaiah describes the suffering servant 'wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities.' And John shows us Jesus reigning from the cross — not a victim of history but the one who lays down his life freely. 'It is finished' — in Greek, tetelestai — is not a cry of defeat but of completion. The work of love is done. Sit with it today.

Reading: John 18:1–19:42 / Isaiah 52:13–53:12

02/04/2026

Maundy Thursday is the night of the Last Supper, the institution of Holy Communion, and an extraordinary act: the Lord of all things kneels and washes his disciples' feet. 'Do you know what I have done to you?' Love, made visible in humble service, is the mark of the community that bears his name. Tonight many churches will share bread and wine, wash feet, and then watch the altar stripped bare in sorrowful silence. The command (mandatum) is love. That is all. That is everything.

Reading: John 13:1-17, 31b-35 / Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14 / 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

01/04/2026

Today is sometimes called 'Spy Wednesday' — the day Judas goes to the chief priests to arrange the betrayal. The third Servant Song from Isaiah is read: the servant who does not flinch from suffering, who sets his face like flint because 'the Lord God helps me.' The contrast could not be starker: Judas chooses thirty pieces of silver; Jesus chooses the path of costly faithfulness. Holy Wednesday invites us to examine our own loyalties.

Reading: Matthew 26:14-25 / Isaiah 50:4-9

31/03/2026

Some Greeks come to Philip with a simple request: 'Sir, we wish to see Jesus.' And Jesus responds with a teaching about seeds — how death is the path to fruitfulness, how clinging to life loses it, how giving it away finds it. The cross is coming into view. The logic of the kingdom is the logic of the seed: not self-preservation, but self-giving. Holy Week asks us: what are you holding on to that God might be inviting you to release?

Reading: John 12:20-36 / Isaiah 49:1-7

30/03/2026

Holy Monday. The atmosphere in Jerusalem is electric with danger and expectation. Jesus cleanses the Temple (Matthew 21:12-17) and teaches daily as the authorities plot. Isaiah's servant is taken by the hand and kept — not immune from suffering, but not abandoned. As we walk each day of Holy Week, we do not walk alone. God takes us by the hand. Whatever this week stirs in your heart, you are held.

Reading: John 12:1-11 / Isaiah 42:1-9

29/03/2026

Today we begin Holy Week by waving our palms and shouting Hosanna — and then we read the whole Passion narrative. The crowd that welcomes Jesus today will call for his crucifixion within days. Palm Sunday holds joy and sorrow, triumph and tragedy, in the same breath. This week is not for the faint-hearted. It asks us to sit with the whole story — including the parts where we see ourselves in the crowd, in Peter's denial, in Pilate's compromise. Will you journey with Jesus to the end?

Reading: Matthew 21:1-11 (Procession); Matthew 26:14–27:66 (Liturgy of the Passion)

28/03/2026

Psalm 31 speaks the language of Holy Week before it arrives: 'I am the scorn of all my adversaries, a horror to my neighbours... I am forgotten like one who is dead.' And yet: 'I trust in you, O Lord.' This is the Psalm Jesus will quote from the cross. 'My times are in your hand.' Tomorrow we begin Holy Week. Whatever our own burdens and fears, we too can rest our times in those hands — the same hands that will bear wounds for love of us.

Reading: Psalm 31:9-16

27/03/2026

Jeremiah, the prophet who suffers for his faithfulness, cries out with extraordinary confidence in the midst of threat and betrayal. 'Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.' This Lenten Friday, we hold together the suffering of faithful witness and the confidence that God is not absent. Holy Week will take us into the depths. But the story doesn't end in darkness.

Reading: Jeremiah 20:10-13

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