His programme, approved by his training incumbent (the Bishop of Sheffield), includes a research project in Blackburn, Lancashire, on a very positive ministry collaboration between three evangelical parishes. The town includes a large Muslim population which poses particular challenges and opportunities for gospel ministry.
Your curate also plans to spend some days at Cranmer Hall, Durham, doing some theological study and attending lectures.
Youth group prayers that this is a profitable time in Christ's service would be appreciated.
Your curate leaves the youth group with the BCP Collect for the Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity:
Lord, we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
A piece by cc about the ministry of Iwerne Minster - Reaching the Institutionalized - appeared in October's New Directions.
It troubles me, Julian, that it is only three weeks leave! That is hardly time to breathe more easily, let alone read a book, to say nothing of enjoying Blackburn and Durham. I imagine, however, that you will make the most of the allotted time :)
ReplyDeletePeter Carrell
Plenty of time for Blackburn I'd have thought.
ReplyDeleteStephen Watkinson
(Curate in Blackburn :-))