Parish News - June 2026 - Printable Newsletter
A downloadable and print-friendly newsletter to insert in parish magazines
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A downloadable and print-friendly newsletter to insert in parish magazines
A downloadable and print-friendly newsletter to insert in parish magazines
Our church schools and academies are not just places where children learn information and life skills, but also where they put down roots and build foundations so that each child and young person in our care has a chance to explore the Christian faith and experience life in all its fullness that Jesus Christ promises.
Where there is, missional vision and aspiration for community there is life. Where there is nothing, but steady prayer and faith God can and will work for the good of those who love him and for the coming of His Kingdom
As Christians we all live in the overlap. We are already saved by grace, we are being saved and sustained by grace, and one day we shall be fully saved by grace when Christ returns. God’s kingdom of justice and joy has already begun with Christ’s first coming, his death, resurrection, and ascension, and one day it will fully begin at his return. We are citizens of the nation in which we live, and we are citizens of heaven.
We talk a lot about failure. It is something we are super sensitive about. We have all had our failures. I am no exception and struggle most days with a fear of failing family, colleagues, church and God.
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A downloadable and print-friendly newsletter to insert in parish magazines
There’s been a lot of walking around the Diocese recently. Bishop Richard has led walks up high places in each of our deaneries, and led simple services of Holy Communion on the hills, as part of our Year of Prayer. The Golden Valley Pilgrim Way, beginning and ending at our Cathedral, has seen more and more pilgrims walking along its route. Some are doing the full 59 miles, sometimes sleeping overnight by prior arrangement in one of the churches along the way.
Asylum Seekers are the real face of refugees in our midst – ‘the stranger.’ They flee their countries of origin often in fear, searching for something better, the freedom to live and eventually contribute through work. They find themselves in a strange place, reliant on the mercy and generosity of others – us.