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Chaplains and Churches
My programme for the Leeds District!Saturday 6th. October Arrival at 11:43 in Harrogate. 1pm. – Signing of the Area Partnership with the Ripon and Leeds Diocese, Trinity Methodist Harrogate, Act of...
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VP - Birmingham to Bethlehem
On Monday and Tuesday it was off to Birmingham for the Conservative Party Conference. The Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) had again enabled the joint-Churches group to meet politicians such as Eric...
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VP - Much to celebrate and ponder
Back from Bethlehem and the next day it was joining the wonderful celebrations for Westminster Central Hall's 100th Anniversary. A lovely celebration supper on Saturday evening with excellent speeches;...
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Churches Together and Notts/Derby
I was part of the group that represented the Methodist Church at the ChurchesTogether in England forum from Tuesday to Thursday at Swanwick. There were some inspiring contributions, especially for me...
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VP - Connected Worship at Warrington
Travelled on Saturday, with my wife Isabel and fellow lay worker Hazel, to Warrington to be with preachers and worship leaders for the Connected Worship week-end. We met some lovely people, had...
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VP - in Lancashire
What an encouraging week-end! A Thursday evening meeting with some of the emerging leaders that I was with at the Birmingham week-end in September, now planning their own 24 hour event in the District....
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The future is going to be so much better than the pastI haven't quite got this blogging thing yet. So far I've kept a diary and then sent stuff to the wonderful David Webster which he cleverly puts in...
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VP - Being reGenerated
I was privileged to be at two wonderfully life-affirming events over the last seven days. The first had nothing to do with being VP, but our niece was playing in the Youth Music Festival at the Albert...
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26th November The President at the BBC Daily ServiceI’m sitting on a train after an early start in Manchester for the Daily Service – it goes out on Radio 4 Longwave every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...
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27th November 2012 President ‘Do Your Best’I was a Cub Scout – not a good one - but a Cub Scout. My mother tells me that I came home one evening and proudly announced that I would be ‘Unroled...
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28th November 2012 Pioneer ConnexionHere is something dear to my heart. I may be hopelessly wrong about it but I sense a real God moment, a real KAIROS moment whenever I meet the immensely charming...
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28th November 2012 President at SwanwickI’m on my way back from the City Centre group of the Methodist Church where I’ve spent the last 24 hours. It’s a gathering of those, rather obviously, who have...
View ArticleVP - A launch and a celebration
Action for Children invited me to the official launch of the Junior ISA.This scheme has been jointly promoted by AfC, Barnardo's and Sharefound, together persuading government to give £16.7m to close a...
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President says, "No Christmas Presents Please"This is only relevant to a very small number of people. Most people were thinking - but we weren't going to buy him one anyway so ignore this blog. A few...
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President on the death of his cousin Jeremy SorrelThis isn’t easy – far too mixed up and complicated, but it’s part of being me and being a President. I’m not a President with a very confident...
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Last night I gave a short presentation to the Banbury Circuit meeting about some of the things that I've been engaged in this Autumn as VP, and therefore why I have been absent from them so often. I...
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I've had plenty of correspondence in December concerning decisions taken at conference in July, but it has been a quiet month re official VP appointments, hardly surprising in the busyness that takes...
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VP - Happy New Year
Possibly a little tardy, but nonetheless sincere HNY to all who are reading this. What kind of happiness does one wish for another human being? Certainly not unbridled joy for 12 months, because that's...
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VP - A quiet week?
If there's no District visit or exciting event on the official calendar, some people assume that Mark and I have 'quiet' weeks. Actually, mine started on Sunday with a difficult, snowy journey to a...
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VP - Justice on the agenda
During last week I travelled to both Queen's in Birmingham and Cliff College, having been aware that a lot of comments in Methodist circles about Fruitful Field could be read as implied (at best)...
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