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Worship on the Web by the Provincial Men's Fellowship
- Sunday 27th June 2021
It was with a heavy heart that it was decided to postpone the annual Provincial Men's Fellowship Day set for Leominster on Saturday 26th June 2021 for a further twelve months due to the continuing COVID-19 restrictions. This has been done reluctantly and with the wellbeing of all those who would attend is at the forefront of our consideration and prayers but look forward to seeing you on Saturday 25th June 2022 in Leominster.
In the meantime, the Provincial Men's Fellowship will be leading Worship on the Web on Sunday 27th June 2021 as a means of trying to remain connected with the brethren of the Church. Further details of this service will be published here next month in the Moravian Messenger and the service will be available to view on the Moravian Church British Province YouTube channel.
Fetter Lane, London
Together again at Easter! (Partially)
After several months of meeting
up via Zoom for a weekly Bible
study, some of us from Fetter Lane
finally met in person (outdoors
only) at Moravian Close at 8am on Easter morning. Seeing each other, even if masked and socially distanced, felt like a special occasion, and of course it was in many ways. As usual, we named those who were called home during the year, including Sr Gloria Cameron, Sr Myrna Glasgow and most recently, Sr Deirdre Mason.
Normally, we are joined by Moravians from all over London for
Wellhouse, Yorkshire
The beginning of 2021 has been a quiet time for us all, communication and fellowship via the telephone with the occasional glimpse of a loved one or a long-time friend 'across an empty room'.
With Mother's Day upon us and Easter coming up shortly, we thought it was time to spread our wings, if only individually and share this season with our loved ones, Church members and the wider community.
As we did last year just after lockdown started, we decided that just because we are not allowed to meet in the Church building it was no excuse not to show our thanks to those who loved and supported us throughout our lives, whether that be our mothers, or other members of the Church or local community who have been there to guide us on the path our Lord wanted us to take.
With that in mind we purchased a number of primula plants into which we inserted a card with the words, 'A Mother's Day Gift from Church, With Love' and these were taken around the members and friends of the congregation just prior to the day. I think it brought a little joy to some lonely but not forgotten people.
University Road, Belfast
Sr Eunice Hoey from the University Road congregation has just clocked up a wonderful fifty years of vocational service as a nurse.
Eunice who hails from Fermanagh started her nursing career on 1st April when she was just 16 at Purdysburn Mental Hospital in Belfast in 1971. She was there for two years before moving to the Royal Victoria Hospital also in Belfast. She spent 35 years at the Royal with much of that time in neurosurgery. She was nursing at the Royal through much of the 'Troubles' and witnessed some horrific sights during this time. She said of this time 'there was no such thing as go home and cry about it. It was go home, get a good night's sleep and you were back on
duty the next morning. You weren't counselled or anything like that, it was just you worked, and you worked long hard hours.'
When Eunice retired from nursing at the Royal she went on to join Campbell College Boarding School as College Matron, where she has worked for the past 17 years.
Congratulations Eunice and well done!
© Br Edward Woolford
the service followed by a convivial Easter breakfast, but this year, we stuck mainly to our own small congregation and friends, with Br James Woolford (and his assistant, young Edward) leading us
through the Easter readings and liturgy.
It was 'bring your own breakfast' and the weather was hardly spring-like, but it did stay dry, and after two years, it felt good to be together on Easter morning, sharing familiar music and prayers.
Good health and hope to all in this time of renewal.
Sr Cynthia Dize
As a Churches Together in Mirfield, we decided as a follow- up to our Christmas Angels that we would put out an Easter message to the local community in the form of pieces of slate 'Welsh Slate no less' on which we would paint or draw a picture depicting something of the Easter story, as you can see from the attached picture, from Wellhouse we had 'a palm branch', 'a cross', '3 crosses on a hill', 'a crown of thorns', and 'Easter Garden with the empty tomb'. These will now be distributed in Passion Week and placed around our area for the community to share some of the Easter story, all the other Churches will be doing the same in their part of Mirfield.
We look forward to meeting together again on Maundy Thursday and on Easter Sunday and to meet around the Lord's Table to share together and to remember.
Br Kenneth Evans
© Sr Eunice Hoey
CONGREGATION NEWS
© Br Kenneth Evans