July 2024 Clergy Letter
Finding God in Silence Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before...
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'Sharing the Love of Jesus in Word and Action'
Clergy Letter
- May 23
Clergy Letter June 2024
Witness In Conversations Last time I wrote the clergy newsletter, nearly a year ago, I shared my experience of being priested. A lot can...
- Apr 25
May 2024 Clergy Letter
When I last wrote in March, I was anticipating the birth of my first grandchild. Little Levi William kept us all waiting. He was due on...
- Apr 6
April 2024 Clergy Letter
A very Happy Easter to you all! Or as we will declare in all our Churches Christ is risen! This climax of the Christian calendar is...
- Feb 23
March 2024 Clergy Letter
March is dominated by lengthening daylight and by LENT (old English for ‘lengthen’), with its air of austerity, fasting or giving-up...
- Jan 26
February 2024 Clergy Letter
A Fusion of Festivals I recall one of our pre-school children saying at Easter, as we told the story of Jesus dying on the cross…”But...
- Dec 2, 2023
Dec 23/Jan 24 Clergy Letter
Christmas is coming! At least if you read this in the first part of December. My hope is that you are able to enjoy the traditional...
- Nov 2, 2023
Clergy Letter November 2023
This tree at Sycamore Gap on Hadrian’s Wall stood for over 200 years – witnessing life events from marriage proposals to the scattering...
- Sep 21, 2023
Clergy Letter October 2023
On our recent visit to the island of Jura in Scotland, I chanced upon a Craft Fayre in their tiny community hall in the village of...
- Aug 15, 2023
Clergy Letter Aug/Sept 2023
Childs Ercall Sunday school – on their Summer Outing to Hodnet Hall Gardens – ‘A memorable moment’ perhaps reminiscent of the ‘Wise man...
- Jun 29, 2023
Clergy Letter July 2023
Could you do with a REST? Reading an interview in the Church Times last weekend, I came across this line: ‘Bible meditation is allowing...
- Jun 5, 2023
Clergy Letter June 2023
We have just celebrated Ascension Day. What is Ascension Day? It happens 40 days after Jesus’ resurrection. He rises into the air and...
- May 2, 2023
Clergy Letter May 2023
On Maundy Thursday this year we gathered in three of our churches to share a traditional Jewish Passover Meal and recall how Jesus’...
- Mar 29, 2023
April Clergy Letter
Easter is the season of resurrection – new life. On Easter day we celebrate Jesus being raised to new life and the promise that we too...
- Mar 1, 2023
Clergy Letter For March 2023
The first part of February 2023 will be remembered in Cheswardine for the murmurations of starlings which performed their incredible...
- Feb 2, 2023
Clergy Letter February 2023
As I write, we are midway through January and snow carpets the ground and brightens a dreary wet month. January used to be a time to take...
- Nov 23, 2022
Dec 22/Jan 23 Clergy Letter
Good News of Great Joy! I am writing this on a cold, wet November day, of which there have been many this year. Outside the puddles are...
- Oct 28, 2022
November Clergy Letter
‘Remember, remember the fifth of November……. November is a month for remembering. The nights draw in, the leaves fall, the garden goes to...
- Sep 29, 2022
OCTOBER CLERGY LETTER
Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe. (Rev. 14.15) As we enter the season...
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