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Ilkeston - No Ordinary Man!
w/e 21 April 2019
All of this week's pictures were
taken with a Kodak DX6490
Holy Week began on Palm Sunday at all the local churches including
in St Mary's where a basket of palm crosses was ready for distribution
to the congregation.
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On Good Friday attention centred on the Queen Street Baptist
Church where there was Opening Worship prior to the annual Silent
Walk of Witness.
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The doors were flung open wide but for some, it was still standing
room only as Christians from all the local churches met for a
short service.
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Armed with brightly coloured hymn sheets, everyone exited the
church to reconvene on the Market Place.
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The assembly point was in front of the Town Hall.
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Following a simple wooden cross and to the beat of a solitary
drum, the procession started slowly to make its way across the
Market Place towards Bath Street.
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There were three stops on route for dramatic readings under the
heading of "No Ordinary Man!", the first being on the
Lower Market Place where the hymn "From heaven you came"
was sung.
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The procession then proceeded down Bath Street stopping just
below the Albion Centre for the second reading and another hymn
"There is s green hill far away".
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The procession stretching back up Bath Street continued to its
final stop.
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This was outside St Andrew's Methodist Church where the final
dramatic reading took place with the singing of "When I
survey the wondrous cross" following. The walkers were then
invited inside the church for refreshments.
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