Beccles in Suffolk is not just beautiful, it’s also busy, though you wouldn’t think so if you looked at the roads at a weekend – all empty! But relaxing in the restaurants, climbing up the tower, and out on the … Continue reading Beautiful Beccles ~ CMS Link Visit No. 4 ~ YES!
Setting the scene, ‘Welcome to Worship’ ~ with a beautiful photo of Yushan, Mt. Jade – Taiwan’s highest mountain….. And the sun was out at St. Helen’s Church, Sandal Magna, Wakefield, W. Yorks as I arrived on Saturday afternoon for … Continue reading Sandal Parish, Wakefield ~ And what a great CMS Link Visit!
You just can’t beat the north of England for mountains and moorland. All of the high roads can be spectacular – well, either spectacularly bleak in the middle of a snowstorm or spectacularly beautiful on a sunny day. This weekend … Continue reading And a Very Warm Welcome to Northern England!
East Anglia is a land of big skies. They go on forever, and change colour frequently at this time of year as an orange sunrise gives way to blue skies ~ that change to grey to black, and the storm … Continue reading Welcome to East Anglia!
Just published by Church Mission Society, my latest link letter for you to read. It’s in pdf format. It mentions that we’re in the middle of the lotus flowering season…. It’s also telling you my UK Home Leave is coming up, starting in mid-August and that my church visits are already booked – dates given in the link letter. Many thanks to CMS for publishing it and to you for reading it! Just click on the link below: Lee, Catherine 75 It’s also on the website here The countdown in on, packing has started, preparations are ongoing ~ YES YES … Continue reading CMS Link Letter # 75!
In 1,400 words (that’s the CMS limit), my long silence on here has ended with the publication today of my latest Church Mission Society (CMS) Link Letter ~ click on this link below and it opens to a pdf document with words and photos describing why I’ve been silent for so long….. Catherine Lee 73 However, 1,400 words was not enough – and I had to leave much out. Notably thanking certain people. My family of course, and all those who offered support and prayers…. Next would be Alice from Mauritius who spent the summer here in Taiwan, staying in … Continue reading Hot off the press ~ CMS Link Letter # 73!
RIP Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen, tragically killed yesterday in a vicious act of violence. St. Thomas Church, Batley is one of my beloved CMS Link Churches, full of great people, the salt of the earth. When I last visited Batley in April 2015 it was in the midst of the election campaign in which Jo Cox won the seat for Batley and Spen. Praying for her family, friends, and the whole community of Batley at this sad time. This is my blog post from that visit to St. Thomas Church, originally posted on April 13, 2015…. https://catherinelee234.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/cms-link-visit-to-st-thomas-church-batley-w-yorkshire/ Continue reading Reblog: My CMS Link Visit to St. Thomas Church, Batley, W. Yorkshire
St. Mary’s Church, Thornham Parva in deepest Suffolk is just about everybody’s favorite UK church! Very small, very quaint, very thatched and very very old. It also happens to be one of my supporting churches and the people are wonderful ~ I visited them earlier this year (see my blog post here) ~ the salt of the earth! The church is also very famous for the retable that hangs above the altar, apparently the largest surviving altar-piece from the English Middle Ages. St. Catherine is second left, holding her wheel ~ so I bought lots of postcards of the retable to give to … Continue reading Thornham Parva Retable ~ Stunning!
Ah, June, a new month! Except that I’m only just surfacing – and realizing that 9 days of June has already passed. Ah well! However the good news is that, at long last, and a whole long year since the last one was published ~ hot off the press comes my latest CMS Link Letter ~ click on the link below…. Lee, Catherine 66 In it, you will see that the big event of this month so far was moving house on June 1. Yep, it all happened as planned, with a huge amount of help from many people, and … Continue reading New Month, New CMS Link Letter, New House!
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