To say it’s been a memorable 24 hours is an understatement! I’m sitting at my computer on Sunday afternoon after the most amazing weekend of celebrations, beginning with being ordained Priest at St Edmundsbury Cathedral on Saturday 2nd July and ending with a celebratory lunch with friends old and new after presiding at communion for the first time.

On Sunday 29th we welcomed Archdeacon Jeanette as she licensed and re-licensed our elders. 

L-R: Neil, Richard, Gill, Jeanette, Vivian, Marinus, Chris

Tuesday 24th May - 7pm - St Andrew's Church.

At the APCM, the following people were elected/re-elected:

Church Wardens: Judy Jones, Stanley Rogers

PCC: Rachel Cornwell, Richard Copestake, Mike Dean, Gill Hadwen, Angie Smith.

In what way is the church like a helicopter? Sometimes people are nervous about getting too close in case they get sucked into the rotas!

As with all good jokes, it’s funny because there’s an element of truth in it! But vocation and calling are about more than finding willing workers for the enormous list of jobs that an active church manages to generate – vocation is not about what you do but who you are. Roles and jobs may come out of discovering a vocation, but the starting place is to ask the question of God and yourself: who are you calling me to be?

Read the plea for prayer from the Anglican church in the heart of Moscow:

https://www.churchofengland.org/media-and-news/stories-blogs-and-features/were-centre-power-and-yet-we-are-powerless-read-plea

This last week has seen the outbreak of war with Russia invading the Ukraine. This is a time when so much seems uncertain and I don’t know about you but I feel confused and helpless. There is so much I don’t understand but I know we are called to pray. To cry out to God for peace and justice – I pray that the hearts of those set on war will be changed – I pray that there will be a miracle.