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The Shropshire Christian Newsletter
The Shropshire Christian Newsletter
Issue 12.03 - April 23rd 2012
From Churches Together in Shropshire
Please circulate locally.
For previous issues visit www.chtogshropshire.co.uk
From the secretary:
Here are more local announcements for your information and inspiration. If you have anything you want to be publicised in Shropshire, or a good idea you want to share, see contact details at foot of this Newsletter.
My apologies for the late compilation of this newsletter; I went for ages with little information being received and suddenly a whole load of stuff arrived in my in-tray!
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Local announcements:
Annual General Meeting
Plea for Victim Support Volunteers
Receptive Ecumenism Conference
United Nations event in Church Stretton
Shropshire Prayer Breakfast
Annual General Meeting
The AGM of Churches Together in Shropshire will be held on May 31st. The venue is Holy Trinity Meole Brace, Shrewsbury at 7.30. The guest speaker will be Jeremy Roberts who is the Hope Together Champion for Shropshire.
The formal notice will be sent out to local Churches Together contacts and others who have formal contact with Churches Together in Shropshire, but anyone is welcome to attend, and hear what Hope Together has to offer Shropshire.
Victim Support Charity(covering Shrewsbury and Telford Courts):
I have attached a copy of a document which provides detail of what we as a charity do, as many people mistakenly believe this service is provided by the police or local authority. Although we currently have a good number of volunteers in both Shrewsbury and Telford to provide our service in the community, we could really do with volunteers from North or South Shropshire who could provide a far more local service to victims in those areas during their time of need.
More pressing and the main reason for sending this is our need for at least another 10 volunteers specifically for our Witness Service that operates in both Telford and Shrewsbury Magistrates and Shrewsbury Crown Courts. The reason these posts are more difficult to fill is because it requires a commitment between 9am and 4pm (with lunch break) each time the volunteer has agreed to a date when they are available, unlike the community element which doesn't require such a lengthy time commitment and has more flexibility.
Due to the need for CRB checks and mandatory attendance for our core training as well as a period of shadowing, it can take months for a volunteer to be effective enough to include on our roster, so the sooner we can identify if there are any potential volunteers to warrant organising a selection day the better.
Should anyone wishing to volunteer want information on how to apply they can either phone our office Monday - Friday on 01743 362812 or go to this website: http://www.victimsupport.org/Home/Get-involved/Volunteering
Victim Support details
Receptive Ecumenism Study Day
I received this information from Revd Dr Adam Hood, Vice Principal, The Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham, B15 2QH:
I am writing to you to share information about a conference we are running here in June. I send this for your own information, but also to ask you to please feed this information through into the Churches Together network in ways that will get it to folks who may be interested in coming along. The brief details of the conference are:
21st June, 10am-4pm: Speakers Prof Paul Avis, Revd Dr Clive Barrett, Prof Paul Murray, Revd Elizabeth Welch.
The conference should be of interest to anyone interested in recent developments in ecumenical thought and practice. We hope that the conference will be a small contribution to the renewal of ecumenical vision in our churches.
Study Day details & form
United Nations Association(Shropshire branch) has a flagship event on Friday 11 May. The subject is peace and peacekeeping, under the title "What Price Peace?" A former Methodist minister in Church Stretton included in one of his sermons this gem of a quote "You cannot be a Christian and not care about peace". I hope some of the Christians in the Shropshire churches care enough to come and listen to Dame Margaret Anstee who worked in the UN for 40 years and was the first woman to lead a UN peacekeeping mission.
UN event details
Contact - Ruth Davies, Hon Sec of United Nations Association - Shropshire Branch (Church Stretton) - tel 01694 724304
Shropshire Prayer Breakfast - July 7th
Full details: Shropshire Prayer Breakfast
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DIARY DATES
May 11th United Nations event in Church Stretton - see above
May 13th Start of Christian Aid Week
May 26th Churches Together Marquee at the Shropshire County Show
May 27th St Nicholas Church Newport - Healing Space - A service of healing in the Iona tradition; led by members of the Newport Iona group
May 30th Olympic Torch in Much Wenlock - see previous issue
May 31st Annual General Meeting of Churches Together in Shropshire
Speaker from Hope Together
June 21st Receptive Ecumenism Conference - see above.
July 7th Shropshire Prayer Breakfast - see above
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To contact the secretary of Churches Together in Shropshire send e mail to ged.cliffe@tiscali.co.uk