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BBC News – Swaffham Bulbeck pom pom art and music fills church
“Amazing” response to Anglican Communion’s global advent calendar
I love this project!
“Amazing” response to Anglican Communion’s global advent calendar.
Bishop Leonard Wilson Memorial @ Askrigg Church, Wensleydale
Yesterday ~ a sharp frost, but bright sun all day, and at my father’s suggestion, went to check out Askrigg Church in Wensleydale, N. Yorkshire to see the memorial to Bishop Leonard Wilson, most famous for being Bishop of Singapore during the Japanese occupation, when he was imprisoned and tortured….
His sermon of how he suffered, yet kept the faith, shared the Gospel with some of his captors and led some of them to faith is retold in his sermon here, published in 1946. He retired to Askrigg in 1969 and although he died only a year later, he clearly found peace in Wensleydale ~ the story of the memorial is here.
The church is beautiful, the village too….
Very moving story, do make time to check it out….
Invitation to the Anglican Communion: “Celebrate Advent using your camera phones”
Check this out! Looks like a great idea for celebrating Advent this year – I’ve signed up already! Click on the link below:
Invitation to the Anglican Communion: “Celebrate Advent using your camera phones”.
The Episcopal Church House of Bishops @ Taiwan ~ Spouses Outing Day!
Yep, spouses outing day ~ and what a great day we all had ~ YES, it really was amazing!
While the bishops gathered for meetings all day, sharing and learning about ‘Theological Context and Mission Challenges’ in Taiwan, Hong Kong and then Pakistan, we made the most of the day and took the spouses out to experience something of Taiwan life……
One trip was planned for them to go to the National Marine Museum and Jiu-fen, led by Trinity Church, Keelung church members, and one trip was to Dharma Drum Mountain and Jinshan, led by us…
In the event, it was all so amazing that nobody wanted to leave Dharma Drum to go home! In fact, nobody even wanted to go to Jinshan, which we’d planned for the afternoon. Most of us could have stayed on for hours more, there was just so much to see and learn.
We’d gone to Dharma Drum to learn about Buddhism, and we learned loads. We were guided around by the world’s most lovely guides, led by most delightful Buddhist nun you could ever get to meet in the whole world ~ and between them they explained everything about their faith and practice, and the more they shared, the more questions we had and the more we wanted to know and experience….
So much to see and to learn in fact that we extended our trip by an hour, and could have extended it by many more!
What a fascinating day ~ plus a wonderful coffee break and great lunch ~ and we finished the day with sweet potato cakes bought for everyone on the way home…..
Smiles all round as we got off the bus!
Got back to the Grand Hotel to find the bishops ending their meetings, and
there was Bishop Samuel Azariah from Raiwind, Pakistan who obligingly posed for a photo with our good friend, Canon Peter Ng, Asia-Pacific Officer of the Episcopal Church….
It’s certainly all happening in Taiwan this week!
Now praying for the typhoon that is moving northwards in our direction – hope it doesn’t have too much of an effect, just a slight lowering of temperatures will be fine!
NCCT @ Taipei Holy Trinity Orthodox Church….
My first ever visit to the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Taipei ~ for an NCCT (National Council of Churches of Taiwan) meeting…..
The NCCT is quite unique in that RC, Orthodox and Protestant Churches are all represented ~ ‘n it don’t happen like that in many countries! So happens that for these 2 years, 2013-14, Bishop Lai is the NCCT chairperson, and we’re part of the team….
Holy Trinity is quite some church, on the 4th floor of a huge apartment block….
And the view’s quite some view!
And so of course, the meeting was quite some meeting!
A Summer in Sedbergh….
A Summer in Sedbergh – and quite some summer! Tourists galore soaking up the sunshine, browsing in the bookshops and hiking up the Howgills, while the locals are enjoying the summer weather walking their dogs, and smiling at increased trade in the town…
Meanwhile I’m busy sorting, clearing, packing and driving up almost daily to the Sedbergh Charity Shop to offload box after box of all sorts of wonderful stuff, now all on display inside the shop and outside on the street. If you’re up this way, do come and check it all out – there’s some great bargains on offer! The not-so-wonderful things are now all crammed into the recycling bins, also in Sedbergh, and the rest – the rubbish, well, that’s all piled high in the dustbins kindly lent to us by our lovely neighbours. And lovely neighbours they all are, full of encouragement and support when we need it most. And all of them full of praise for our newly cleaned-out and almost empty garage!
So far, 9 full-carloads of stuff sent to charity and/or recycling, and more to go, yippee!
Yep, the people are great, and Sedbergh is beautiful, especially on a sunny day! Notice photos of our other neighbours, the cows and sheep, who keep us entertained with all their escapades in the field across the road…
At Bishop Lai’s request, to share with his Quaker friends in Taiwan, I’ve been to check out the history of the Quakers, who kind of started in this area around Sedbergh…
Fox’s Pulpit on Firbank Fell, where George Fox preached to the multitudes in 1652 is very important in their history….
As is Brigflatts, the second-oldest Quaker Meeting House in the country… wow, what history!
Thanks for all your prayers and support, so far so good, and it’s all happening!
St. John’s University Student Fellowship 送舊 YA!
Saying goodbye is never easy, and every year as graduation nears, so we get ready to say congratulations and goodbye to another group of lovely students ~ this year the Chaplaincy Student Fellowship is saying goodbye to more than 20 of their group who graduate this weekend….
Delighted that many have become Christians during their 4 years here, some were already Christians when they came but quite a few have yet to make any decision – praying for them all!
Last night was the farewell 送舊 event, the students in years 1-3 saying goodbye to the graduating students in year 4 with a posh meal, entertainment, DVD of everyone saying goodbye and wishing them well (not just any old boring DVD, they’d spent hours filming around the campus and inviting people to take part) ~ then year 4 responded with their own farewell video (filmed in the church) and songs and presentation gift of a camera… older students from former years came by to bring their congratulations, then the graduating students were led around the campus and back in with eyes closed to a candlelit church for songs and prayer and gifts and photos and then cake…
Congratulations, best wishes, prayers and blessings to them all!
CMS Link Letter # 65
Click on the link below for my June 2014 CMS Link Letter….
Catherine Lee 