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RESILIEN C E IN GOOD TIMES A N D BA D Welcome to this edition of ICS News. I write this at a time of unprecedented creativity, energy and mission opportunities amongst the chaplaincies. Every day I speak to chaplains who are exploring new ways to support, encourage, reach out and care for those, not only in their congregations, but outside too. All this is taking place amidst a time of huge upheaval and personal stress for the chaplains. Of course, you will be aware that I am writing this during the height of the lockdown from what is grandly called my home office but is actually my third bedroom. A time of desperate pain and uncertainty.

It is also a time when the ICS team have had to learn to work differently, engage creativity and find a way around problems that would in previous times stumped us. I am grateful for their co-operation, flexibility and resilience through this time. But I am also aware that it is a time that as you read this you may be looking back on something we are emerging through, at least that is my hope.

It is often quoted that ‘you never step into the same river twice’, things are always changing and moving, and it is my experience that you never experience the same ICS twice. This year has been one of huge change but at the same time continuity as you will read in this newsletter. As Leipzig will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary and Holy Trinity, MaisonLaffitte their centenary this October, you will also encounter new faces and new names and realise that some familiar characters have moved on, as well as chaplains coming to terms with the changes that the implications of the Coronavirus and its aftermath have made necessary.

Turning now to some comings and goings. We are delighted that Dominic Newstead has been appointed as Chaplain to St. Paul’s, Tervuren. Dominic was previously chaplain in Fontainebleau and sat on the ICS Council. Charlotte Sullivan has taken up the post of Chaplain at Holy Trinity, Maisons-Laffitte, she was formerly in Bordeaux. I am excited for them both and what God will do through them. Mark and Jess Simpson have now returned from Christ Church Rio, we wish them well in their new role.

At the time of writing, we are not sure whether the Resort Mission will have a summer season at all. This was the year we were to celebrate 150 years of ministry in Zermatt, how we do that now is up in the air, but what can be assured is that we will celebrate, we will reconnect with the resorts and we will continue to tell people about the living Lord Jesus in these places. If I were to leave you with one word of how I am experiencing ICS now, and I hope you will be when you read this, it is the word ‘resilient’. We have resilient chaplaincies served by resilient chaplains seeking to reach out with the love of God in season and out.

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IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD

As we look towards the summer, no one is quite sure what the next few months hold. It’s a time of uncertainty and holding plans ‘loosely’ as we wait for updates and the next new phase of life.

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This has been especially true online, church is no longer about finding a seat and queueing for coffee at the end, nowadays it’s about logging on and seeing who’s joining you for virtual worship. ICS chaplaincies have leapt into action: Giles Williams at Holy Trinity, Cannes has been streaming online services, night prayers and worship, Nathan Gregory of St. Paul’s, Tervuren has been running socials and coffee gatherings over Zoom, while Christ Church Rio have been running online services and videos involving multiple members of the church! As ICS’s Social Media Administrator, I’ve had the joy of watching this develop and grow. Social Media is a great place to get instant reaction and updates, of congregations joining together to say how grateful they are for the online efforts.

In April, we should have been at High Leigh Conference Centre for the ICS Chaplains’ Conference. I admit I was really looking forward to lots of coffee and catching up with all the friends I’d made the year before. I was hoping to take better photos and steal people away to film more videos. Alas this was not to be in our new circumstances.

Moving a conference from the physical to the virtual was new for all of us but we were delighted with the results.

We had over fifty-five attendees each day and the sense of community was wonderful. Our speaker, Simon Ponsonby, shared insights with us and we loved chatting in the Zoom breakout rooms after.

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LE N E I P Z I G GLISH CHURCH

BY MARTIN REAKES-WILLIAMS CHAPLAIN, LEIPZIG ENGLISH CHURCH

In most churches nowadays, the minister keeps changing while the congregation remains stable. Our history in Leipzig has followed a different trajectory–the congregation has continually evolved but the minister has remained stable, more or less!

In the early days, there were many students at a 5pm service; then after five years we moved to a building where we could slowly introduce morning services, so as to attract more families. We still kept the evening service going, very much the exception here in Germany, because it didn't seem right to close down what the Lord was blessing, and it has indeed often been the service with greater spiritual depth and maturity despite the younger age range.

The last fifteen years have seen a steady increase in mixed-nationality families, so that probably 80% of families currently attending are such. That's quite significant as we look into the future: these families tend to be long-term, are not tied to a handful of key employers, and are committed to the health of the church family as their children grow up. They will be the stable core around which future ministers will change!

I was licensed at the ICS conference in May 1995 and landed here on 20 June. A week or two later, I began meeting with Fred for Bible study and prayer—the spiritual birth of the church. Fred was an English architect whom I had met on an exploratory visit, and he became the sort of church warden and elder that every pastor dreams of. Nowadays we joke that he was probably just an idealised mythical figure, a projection of the early church's desires and longings . . .

Martin left, Grit, the first pianist centre, and Fred right

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How did we get things going, inasmuch as it was our doing? The Lord had very helpfully humbled me in my pre-Leipzig life, so I wasn't encumbered by excessive expectations. I would need to stick to my last, do the basics, and see what the Lord did. That meant two priorities, already expressed in that first meeting with Fred:

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Dependence on the Lord in prayer

That wasn't so difficult to start with: when you have nothing, getting on your knees is a no-brainer. It's been harder to maintain that beating heart of prayer as things have developed and become more (seemingly) self-sustaining. I've often been discouraged by attendance at our monthly prayer meeting, which is not a bad thermometer of dependence, but the last couple of years have seen a welcome uptick. We've averaged in the low 30s, out of an electoral roll of 110-120. Interestingly, our newish German service is proportionately over-represented, another example of the above principle that when you have less, you pray more.

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Confidence in the Lord to speak and act through his Word The Parable of the Sower has always been important to me. Even the Lord Jesus expected a lot of the seed to go to waste but He is also the Lord of the Harvest who sees to it that plenty lands on good soil. The parables of seed and soil also remind us that the Lord tends to work slowly and steadily.

In the early years someone gave me the advice that we overestimate what we can do in six months, and underestimate what God can do in five years.

It's one of the blessings of a long pastorate that you are around to see some of the long-term harvest. Earlier this year I choked up as I conducted the wedding of a young woman who had joined the church at the age of eight, when her mother came to faith. At times she was the only child in her Sunday School class so had two-on-one mentoring! Prayer was answered and the soil was good: twenty years on she is a lovely, godly young woman, who runs the children's ministry at our German service, and translates books by the likes of John Piper with great theological acumen. The wedding was the fruit of much prayer and sowing by many. Who would not be moved to see what the Lord has done?

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"Our God is the same forever…faithful, loving, abundant in grace and mercy."

Events over the last few weeks have been momentous the world over. When the lock-down started in Belgium mid-March, it was a scramble to make the necessary adjustments. Now, early May, we start to prepare ourselves for a gradual easing of the restrictions.

At Holy Trinity Brussels we have adapted as follows: Pastoral care We have tried hard to stay in touch with everyone in our church family through calls, emails, WhatsApp etc and we continue to do so.

Worship While we cannot meet in church, online worship has been provided through YouTube, Zoom, Facebook etc.

Four quite different offerings on a Sunday!

This continues to evolve, especially as we prepare for a gradual lifting of the current restrictions (eg, ‘hybrid worship’).

Communication Staying in touch with one another is vitally important. We use many different means to stay in touch with everybody. ’One size’ does not fit all.

Finance Our first priority has been looking after those who have lost income as a result of the crisis or who are in urgent financial need. People have given generously to the newly established Solidarity Fund We also take action regarding giving and spending.

It is wonderful to see how people have responded. Whether by looking after neighbours with practical help, contributing to the Solidarity Fund, or by contributing to the work of 'The Community Kitchen'.

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The Community Kitchen at Holy Trinity Brussels aims to help provide good, homecooked food to feed those who are hungry, homeless, or vulnerable in our city. When the virus hit, the decision was taken to keep the Community Kitchen running, reducing the number of volunteers present, distributing production, and maintaining the high levels of hygiene for this time. And the call went out for people to help. The response has been overwhelming, also from people outside the church. One week 1400 muffins came in!

Another week 400 meals for refugees were needed and dozens of quiches, hundreds of hard-boiled eggs, and more muffins came in.

The story of the Covid-19 crisis is a big one, but the story of God’s love flowing into the world through Jesus and his followers and friends, is an even bigger one. The lockdown period has been a steep learning curve in various areas, but we give thanks how God’s people have responded and how God’s grace has been poured out.

What I have described above is playing out in various wonderful ways in our Archdeaconry and the Diocese. Chaplaincies large and small are working very hard to adjust to new realities, but our God is the same for ever…faithful, loving, abundant in grace and mercy. In the Easter season we continued to rejoice that the grave could not hold our Lord Jesus; that life conquered death. Love will conquer all.

Paul Vrolijk Senior Chaplain and Canon Chancellor Archdeacon of North West Europe Member, Anglican Central Committee of Belgium

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NATALIE JONES & JEREMY HEUSLEIN

The European Chapel

'Faces of Easter' virtual service

Godly Play via Zoom

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When we arrived in Brussels in September 2012, carrying four suitcases which represented all of our worldly possessions, we had no idea what God had in store for us. We’d planned on being in Brussels long enough for Jeremy to finish his degree and then we’d see what was next for us. Our original two-year plan turned into three, then five, and now eight years.

Holy Trinity quickly became our spiritual home; our communities grew out of the evening service, other people in their twenties and thirties (sometimes beyond!) with little to no idea what they were doing with their lives–just like us. We took our time getting involved with the church; for the first year, we attended services, allowed friendships to grow, and focused on our fledgling marriage, only two months in when we arrived. We lived in community with a family from Holy Trinity for our first year in Brussels, an experience which made us passionate about community, chosen family, and living life together as the family of God. After that first year, Natalie joined the team for the evening service midweek group, and Jeremy got a part-time job as the Outreach Worker, a new post they had just developed to work with the Ecumenical Chapel in the European quarter to reach people in the European Institutions. As Jeremy continued work on his MPhil, he began to meet with assistants to Members of European Parliament, offering spiritual support and a listening ear when they needed one.

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For the last seven years, this work has grown and changed from starting programmes at the Chapel for Europe and organising conferences to small groups in the EU Parliament (including a Christianity Explored course) to ‘Theology on Tap’ to baptisms and saying au revoir to many friends made around the EU Institutions, as well as at the evening service at Holy Trinity. Looking into the future, there is more that could be done to grow the Kingdom of God in Brussels—as will always be the case! Specifically, there has been a growing partnership with the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity, which could expand into a fully-fledged BICC someday.

The Chapel for Europe is and will continue to be a strategic place and partnership, as Christians from all denominations can gather to engage with European and global issues from Christian perspectives. In this, there is a unique place for Anglicanism, with its classic ‘three-legged stool’ of Scripture, tradition, and reason, as well as its being neither Roman Catholic nor Protestant. Even with the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, the opportunity for Anglican values, approaches, and resources to reach people with the Good News has never been greater. Brexit hasn’t and won’t change the work of the Gospel, and as lives are disrupted and interrupted, Jesus remains the calm in the storm, the everpresent help in times of trouble.

Midway through the winding course of Jeremy’s Outreach Worker post, Natalie joined the staff at Holy Trinity as the Youth and Children’s Worker, a re-established position that came out of a renewed commitment to children and youth focused ministries by the Church Council. From the summer of 2016, Natalie has helped to redevelop and bring new energy to children and youth work at Holy Trinity. Alongside a team of enthusiasts, she introduced Godly Play as a spiritual formation curriculum for children aged three to ten years old. This has proven to be a great success, expanding into two Godly Play rooms and bringing in more volunteers, as well as sustaining their own spiritual reflections. We worked together on bringing new materials and facilities to the youth and have seen the tremendous potential of this group begin to emerge. Holy Trinity is so

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blessed by remarkable young people, and we can’t wait to hear about the ways that God continues to use and develop this ministry in the years to come.

The evening service at Holy Trinity has been a place where we’ve worked out our vocations, ministered, and been ministered to. Mentored

by John Wilkinson, we’ve had the chance to explore leading, preaching, teaching, and prayer ministries as well as explore the strategic vision for the service. As people have come and gone, we’ve built friendships that now span continents (only Antarctica is missing). We’ve learned much about working within a community; this has been coupled with the continually changing midweek fellowship group we run in our home. For us, this group has been an opportunity for prayer, connection, and wrestling together with God and the Scriptures. We have seen faith blossom, relationships deepen, and discipleship expand, including our own.

As everywhere, Brussels has been under quarantine since the middle of March, but lockdown hasn’t meant a slowdown.

Through virtual services, games nights, and lots of video-calling, the work of building community, encouraging people, and expressing the love of God continues. Skills that we never realised would be needed in ministry, have now been added to our toolkits and we have all become fluent in running virtual services, meeting as home groups on Zoom, and using breakout rooms to simulate ‘coffee time’ after gatherings.

The space of an article will never be able to encompass what our time at Holy Trinity has meant to us. It represents a decade of incredible growth in our lives; the entirety of our marriage, the birth of our two children, the exploration of our callings and the chance to minister in new ways under the tutelage of the incredibly wise, compassionate and capable staff team. God used this church and its community to draw us close. We can’t wait to see the ways God will continue to work in this remarkable church, and we are very grateful that we’ve been able to be part of that work during this season.

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ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

Haynes Hubbard moved as new Priest to St. John’s, Maadi at the start of 2020.

He has had a tumultuous start to his ministry in Egypt. First, read the introduction by Richard Bromley, then Haynes describes his ministry these first few months.

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Haynes to me is a person I greatly admire, though we have never actually met. We have spoken many times on Skype etc, but we have never sat down to drink coffee. In 2019, when he felt a calling to serve in Maadi, Cairo through the whole discernment process of sensing God’s will and then giving up his role in Canada and agreeing to come to Egypt, we chatted and sought God together.

In 2020 Haynes, his wife Susan and their son Caspian came to Maadi not knowing what a storm (literally) they were walking into. Cairo was hit by biblical floods not long after they arrived and then the lockdown, because of the Coronavirus, left Haynes ministering to a church he barely knew, through a crisis that no-one had ever been through before, in a country where he was still finding his feet. Susan and Caspian returned to Canada and Haynes was left alone to minister through this crisis. Haynes’ faithfulness and resilience are testament to the saying ‘those who God calls he equips’. I commend Haynes to your prayers as he serves faithfully in this amazing country.

Richard Bromley

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On Western Maundy Thursday, I was asked to preach for the Community Church which uses our church building. Because of the circumstances we are in at the moment, they wanted to pre-record the service, to show it the next day, on Good Friday. So, I preached on Maundy Thursday, about Good Friday. The next day, in the Anglican Church of Egypt, we observed Palm Sunday because here in Egypt we worship on Fridays, as that is the holy day here. And because for the Season of Lent we observed the Coptic calendar, we were a week later than the Western calendar, so while it was Good Friday for the West, it was Palm Sunday for us, on the Friday.

Then on Sunday, I spoke with my wife and children who are in Canada, and wished them Happy Easter, while it was Holy Week for us here in Egypt. On the Friday following, when we normally have Sunday services, we observed Good Friday, and then on Sunday we had Easter services, as it was Easter for us. The next Friday (Sunday for us) we changed back to following the Western calendar, so it was suddenly the Third Sunday (Friday) of Easter, the week before, for us, having been Easter Day. Such is liturgical life here in Egypt. An adventure!

A couple of days ago, the Sudanese Congregation which uses our building, gathered 400 bags of food to distribute to needy families. People here in Egypt, as everywhere, are affected by this time of isolation because many of them have been put out of work and have no resources at all to feed their families, as there is no social safety net of any kind. If you do not work, you do not get paid, and that is that. So, one of the poorest congregations I know of gathered its resources to provide food for 400 families who had been chosen from other congregations and schools in the area. Who says God is not acting through this crisis? ‘And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.’ Life is a bit more on the edge here in Egypt than it is in other places. We do consider it a gift to be here to be living this adventure and give thanks to God for bringing us to this place, at this time.

Fr. Haynes Hubbard St John the Baptist Maadi, Cairo, Egypt

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ZERMATT RESORT MISSION CHAPLAINCY The Zermatt Resort Mission chaplaincy this year has been like no other. My friend Angela and I arrived in Zermatt on 10 March and we were already aware that the border had been closed from Switzerland to Italy due to the outbreak of COVID-19. However, Zermatt was fully operational, and we went through the usual procedures of visiting locals that we knew from previous years, getting ourselves familiar again with chaplaincy duties and ‘setting up camp’ ready for the social evening and Sunday services at St. Peter’s. The first week is always really busy and there’s not much time for anything else, so I was looking forward to being able to take a few hours off during the following week to ski and enjoy the mountains in all their glory.

Friday 13 March (not that I’m superstitious) was a day that shocked the inhabitants and visitors of Zermatt. Without warning, all the lifts were closed at 5pm until further notice.

That weekend saw all the shops, pubs and the majority of hotels also closed for business. It was announced that seven people at the Hotel Post had contracted the Coronavirus and were now in hospital.

Suddenly, there was a mass exodus of visitors from the village and we sought advice from ICS on the following Monday. St. Peter’s was still open, and we spent the next few days offering pastoral care while trying to arrange transport back to the UK. We met Kirk from Washington State who was extremely anxious and didn’t know whether he would be allowed back into the USA. Alejandro had come from Mongolia and had been verbally abused in the main street

Frances & friend Angela

by a group of angry young men who accused him of being responsible for the Coronavirus and for spreading it around the world. In their ignorance, they assumed he was Chinese. Both young men were grateful for our prayers and reassurance in what had become a challenging and anxious time for many, particularly for overseas visitors.

The Canton officials acted swiftly by introducing social distancing with police patrolling the main towns and transport networks issuing penalty fines to those who were not observing the new rules. Fortunately, we managed to reschedule our train and flight back to the UK for Thursday 19 March.

Having closed the church and spring-cleaned the apartment, giving away any perishable food to locals and observing social distancing, we said our goodbyes and left a deserted and empty looking Zermatt with great sadness.

Geneva airport was just as deserted, except for a few people trying to get home and a roaming RTS television crew making a beeline for us hoping for an interview for the programme Mise au Point. Wanting to know where we were based in Switzerland and what our plans were, this presented an unexpected opportunity to promote St. Peter’s English Church and the work of the chaplaincy in Zermatt.

On our return to the UK, we decided to self-isolate for five days and were grateful to God for our safe travel home and continued wellbeing.

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SAINT MICHAEL’S, PARIS FLOURISHING IN ADVERSITY

It is strange to say it in lockdown, but Saint Michael’s seems to be in a better place. The last two years have been turbulent, first with Gilet Jaunes demonstrations and then transport strikes. People were prevented from getting to church on many Saturdays and Sundays. Church life has been hard going, with uncertainty over the building, disputes with our co-owners and the accompanying financial worries. Morale was low as some of the established pillars had moved on. Someone said that Saint Michael’s was a shell of its former self. After the first six months of sleepless nights, and spending a lot of energy on practical challenges both at home and in the church building (getting basic services like water and heating working) I was at a low ebb; the situation was complex, and I couldn’t see a way through.

But here we are, after another eighteen months, and even under lockdown, Saint Michael’s is in good heart. Overall numbers attending worship are steady; we now have twelve small groups in which disciples of Christ are being formed. Four of those groups are for children and teens, and two are for 20s-30s that have started in the last year; the quality of the leadership is high.

So, what happened? Well, a faithful remnant stayed and prayed. We prayed, and we got friends and family to pray. We told our former church in Leeds that we were in a cross-cultural situation that needed prayer, and they formed a small prayer group. Then, when any ICS prayer group or friend of Saint Michael’s asked for information, I responded immediately, thanking God for your interest and support, and you prayed.

This is the first time in our ministry when we’ve had the discipline of writing prayer letters. Often it was hard; we didn’t want to come over as moaners! When you have to write a letter, you have to be precise. This clarified the mind, and it clarified our prayers. I have written many prayer lists in the past two years, and now it is our delight to see them being answered and ticked off the list and to be replaced by new ones, of course!

Mainly, our prayers have been for God to send us the people we needed. And God has answered in two ways: sometimes sending new, young people through our doors; at other times bringing people back to serve who have been around for a long time. So now we have new life growing up from the old stump, and a growing unity between the newcomers and the old guard which we can see in our new council. It is a healthy balance.

Under the current trials of Covid-19 lesser problems have been put into perspective. People are pulling together and supporting each other.

The relationships are already there. Groups meeting on Zoom are well attended, new ones are starting. We are learning new tricks with church-online and social media, as new leaders with a bit of time on their hands emerge. Of course, there will be more challenges ahead, and the future is very far from clear for a congregation whose life is based on international jobs and travel. Our building work has still not begun. We still await our new lift. Nevertheless, it feels like we have a more solid platform. Thank you to everyone who has said a prayer for Saint Michael’s Paris in the past two years.

Jonathan Clark, Chaplain, Saint Michael’s, Paris

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REFLECTION Peter Massey, Lorgues with Fayence

‘BEHOLD I AM DOING A NEW THING, DON’T YOU SEE IT?’ ISAIAH 43:19

When Richard asked me would I write something for this issue, I wondered the best way to go about it. Should it in some general way reflect where we are with church fellowship in this time of the Covid-19 crisis? Should it be about our chaplaincy, which is probably a bit different in its birth and development than other chaplaincies? Or, as Richard mused, should my impending retirement later this summer be of interest in some way? So, with a blank page in front of me, let’s see where this goes.

In a recent conversation with my son, who is a vicar in Bristol, we were comparing notes on how we were dealing with the fact that our respective congregations could not meet and that the only way to hold things together was to go online.

His church is a fairly upbeat church, not surprising as his background is HTB where he worked with Nicky Gumbel and Alpha. Communication was key, but sharing the gospel was the motive and purpose of the whole ministry of Alpha.

In other words, to introduce people to Jesus, to provide answers to the question mark that is Alpha’s logo.

His advice was very helpful, but I expect like many of you, I had to get to grips with it myself, probably learning a great deal as we stumbled through YouTube, email lists and what would it look like at the other end. Would it even work?

Would people bother with it? Then there is copyright to consider and how could it be presented anyway and be meaningful, let alone to get around the whole Holy Communion issue! But the amazing thing, which seems to be reflected across the wider church, is that we now have twice as many people following our online services from as far away as the UK and Ireland...there is a lesson there somewhere, and probably a sermon as well.

The other title I had in mind for this piece was ‘Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water'. Lorgues with Fayence is a dispersed elderly fellowship, never the same people on Sundays, and we only meet every other Sunday, but we have always focused on Christian fellowship and community. People may travel as far as 80km to come to us, and from all points of the compass, and Sunday is almost an all-day event; coffee, church service (sometimes in the garden), long leisurely provençal lunch to follow, and if we are lucky, the last car leaves about 4pm.

But isn’t that what this is all about? ‘A new commandment’, ‘love one another’, and they do because the word here is ‘family’. Our evangelism is subtle, no need for regular altar calls, just behave as Jesus did and let the Holy Spirit do the rest. And can that work online? I think so and we might just be on the brink of a second reformation in some way, after all, through all things God works to the good…Now there is a thought but keep it to yourself! And the retirement, well that’s for another day.

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YOUR INVITATION

FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2020 11AM-1PM Southwark Cathedral Gary Weston Library, London Bridge, London SE1 9DA

We are delighted to invite you to join us for the ICS AGM and Showcase, an opportunity to see into the world of ICS, its mission partners and their ministries.

Speakers

The Revd Richard Bromley (ICS Mission Director) and The Rt Revd Revd Richard Jackson (ICS Chair of Council)

Guest Speaker

The Revd Canon Clive Atkinson Chaplain of All Saints Vevey, St Peter's Château d'Oex and Neuchâtel English Church

Due to the uncertainty that the Coronavirus is causing, more details will follow

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PRAYER MEETINGS Local area ICS prayer meeting contact details are listed below.

However due to the COVID-19 situation, no prayer meetings are currently scheduled.

Cambridge Contact Elizabeth Sadler 01223 232 194

Northern Ireland Contact John Dinnen 028 44 811 148

Cheltenham Contact Audrey Martin-Doyle 01242 510 352

South East Contact Rod Whateley 01233 732 274

Edinburgh Contact Chris Martin 0131 668 4071 revchris.martin45@gmail.com

Warwick Contact Anna Hopkins 07745 223 580 The Wirral Contact Peter Jordan 0151 639 7860

Exeter Contact John Philpott 01395 225 044

Yorkshire Contact Michael Savage 01535 606 790

Norfolk Contact Martin Dale 01945 880 259

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