Worship & Prayer
Read summaries below: Sunday Worship | Worship in the Week
At Carrs Lane, we do not believe in ‘one-size-fits-all’ Christian worship. Instead, we offer a range of opportunities to share in prayer and worship – different styles, different times, different days.
All these acts of worship have one thing at heart, however: an honest attempt to understand what it means to respond to Jesus’ command to, ‘Follow me’.
Sunday Worship
On a Sunday, a good number of people gather to share in morning worship at 10.30am. This service is often fairly traditional in format, with challenging, relevant teaching and a mixture of styles of music.
Children’s Church meets on the third Sunday of each month at 2.30pm, where worship incorporates appropriate activities and refreshments.
On the third Sunday of each month, an informal Communion Service with a specific focus on prayers for healing takes place at 4.30pm: the Laying on of Hands is offered at this service.
Radical Worship takes place on the fourth Sunday evening of each month at 6.30pm: this service is intended to help Christians develop an agenda for radical social and spiritual action, and often uses film to stimulate discussion and reflection.
Worship in the Week
On each weekday, The Community @ Carrs Lane invites all to share in short acts of worship, usually held at 8.00am, 1.15pm (except Wednesdays) and 6.00pm.
On Wednesdays, a short, informal Communion Service, open to all, takes place at 1.15pm.
On two Wednesday evenings each month there is the opportunity to gather for prayer at 7.30. The first Wednesday of the month is dedicated to prayers for healing and the third Wednesday for general prayers.
Food4Thought – a congregation for young adults run in conjunction with Aston University Free Church Chaplaincy – meets in the Martin Luther King Centre in Aston University on the second and fourth Mondays of the month during term time at 7.30pm: informal reflective worship is followed by a shared meal.