Monthly Archives: April 2020

Pastoral Letter- Easter 3

Dear Friends, As we continue to move through the Easter Season, spotting glimpses of resurrection all around us, and with beautiful sunshine most days, we are still living with the strange phenomenon of being largely shut in our homes. For … Continue reading

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Connection and disconnection- Zoom and other things….

I have just been in a Zoom meeting, it ended and my house is silent …. Silent again! I am left trying to process my sense of utter disconnection having been connected for just over an hour, and then with … Continue reading

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Pastoral Letter- Easter 2

Dear Friends, Well we made it to Easter, and hopefully you, like me were able to celebrate in some way, and that the deep truth that death has been swallowed up by the resurrection life is continuing to break through … Continue reading

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Easter blessings- pastoral letter

10th April 2020 Dear Friends, Here we are in Holy Week, and looking towards Easter Sunday, a day of celebration and rejoicing, so I wonder how you have walked with Jesus this week. In our Circuit Staff Meeting this morning … Continue reading

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Doubts, fears and anxieties, approaching Easter Day…

I have listened to the news this morning, read probably far to many articles, and feel anxiety rising within me, and it sits alongside fear, and anger. I think I want to deal with the anger first, I am angry … Continue reading

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not a leveller… Covid-19

Over and over again I have heard it said on the news, and by other people that Covid-19 is a great leveller, that we are all just as susceptible to it, we are of course, but I write this from … Continue reading

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on being afraid….

perfect love casts out fear, I have been told that today, but do you know what… today for me it doesn’t… I know I am loved, held by love, held in love, and yet I am still afraid… I am … Continue reading

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I weep ( catching the heart of Christ)

here I weep, weep for the vulnerable, and those who thought they were invulnerable, I weep, I weep for loves sake, for the world in all of her expressions, rich and poor now levelled, despite disparity I weep! I weep … Continue reading

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United by distance

It is Palm Sunday, and I have just joined a streamed service led by my colleague and friend James, in joining it I was joining with others because I could watch as people responded and yes I did join in … Continue reading

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Pastoral Letter for Palm Sunday

Dear Friends, As I sit here today, I am reflecting that next week is Holy Week and this letter is going out for Palm Sunday, how strange it is that we will not be meeting for Holy Week Reflections or … Continue reading

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