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www.facebook.com/share/p/15zo46Bfpk/Please pray for the people of Myanmar and Thailand in the wake of today’s earthquake. We have received the following prayer request from friends there:
Dear all. May I request you to pray for our country Myanmar which was hit by a 7.7 earthquake around noon 12:50 today. There are destruction of buildings, an old bridge in central Myanmar including many houses, shops and even the highway road. Our church members also suffer from fallen roofs.
Please join us in praying for the Church’s leadership, especially Archbishop Stephen Than Myint Oond, Archbishop of Myanamar, and Archbishop Titus Chung, Archbishop of the Province of the Anglican Church in South East Asia (of which Thailand is a part), and the members of the Church in the region as they go through this harrowing time.
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I have recently had some fascinating conversations regarding the unsustainable nature of current ministry and how that could be made sustainable. This has some useful insights.
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Clergy Burnout and the Cure of Souls
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We need to share the load, more lay lead services like family services, all age worship, favourite hymns, bible study services, communion does not need be at every service. Let's think outside the box, have a worship team, a pastoral care team.
The context Mark is speaking out of is one I am personally very familiar with. It is where the parish is no longer the individual unit in a locality, but rather a series of sparsely populated communities with poor infrastructure. Consequently trying to disperse resources across such geographies under 'One' parish is almost un-workable. In my experience of working in that context, the only way it can work is by retaining the uniqiueness of the local and specific. It takes alot for a leadership council to delegate to the local individual community, but that is the only way you can maintain buy-in. The problem is the clergy can often be seen to be going against the trend that a given hierarchy might be wanting to seed, when the opposite is true – the clergy are trying to make it work at the local, being present to the local with the vision. It is here where clergy can be at their most vulnerable, parishes not wanting to change, diocese thinking they are not changing enough – and the cleric can end up badly broken by being caught in the middle. Just some thoughts from one who has shared similar territory to the author in the same province.
Interesting, very accurate & relevant; the writer knows what he's talking about, and his observations resonate far and wide.
Read it last night and have been pondering on its truth ever since.
It is fascinating reading…thanks
Should be compulsory reading
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Don’t forget the Parish AGM this Sunday 30th March, at 11.30am (following the 10am Eucharist) at St Matthew’s Church. … See MoreSee Less
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Services in the Parish this Sunday, 23rd March – all welcome. … See MoreSee Less
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As part of the nomination process for the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the Church of England has launched a public consultation inviting input from around the Anglican Communion.
The consultation closes on March 28.
The consultation is an opportunity to gather the views of a wide range of people from across the Anglican Communion on the gifts, qualities and skills needed in the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. Those who take part will also be able to submit names for the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) to consider.
The CNC will use the themes that emerge through this process to inform the Commission on the needs of the mission of the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion.
Take part in the Public Consultation online today: www.churchofengland.org/ABC106ConsultKia ora e te whānau,
As part of the nomination process for the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the Church of England has launched a public consultation inviting input from around the Anglican Communion.
The consultation closes on March 28.
The consultation is an opportunity to gather the views of a wide range of people from across the Anglican Communion on the gifts, qualities and skills needed in the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. Those who take part will also be able to submit names for the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) to consider.
The CNC will use the themes that emerge through this process to inform the Commission on the needs of the mission of the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion.
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Max Toth, so talented
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Is the Op shop at St.Martins going to be open?
Looks like fun!