On Sunday 1 September, Creation Sunday at the start of Creationtide, St John's Church in Broadstone celebrated their Silver Eco Church Award. When the St John's Eco Gang will be leading the morning service. There is also an afternoon pet service at 3pm that day, called Wet Nose Sunday, when all pets are brought to the service and blessed, and they will celebrate it there also. Eco Church and Pet Service celebrations held in Broadstone!
On the current violence across the UK.
"No longer the forgotten people of the Holocaust" said Betty Smith Billington from the Dorset based Kushti Bok charity
Year 3 went on to tell me they had been learning about Roman mosaics – so decided to put these two bits of learning together. So they made this lovely mosaic representing the story of Pentecost.
The final diocesan synod of the current three year period met in Salisbury to worship together and thank those who are stepping down after – in some cases – decades of membership.
In May, we wrote of Geoff and Will Sherwood (from St Luke's, Parkstone, Poole) fundraising challenge to complete a 3,400-mile ‘reverse pilgrimage’ from Cyprus to Canterbury. You can read all about this here.
A small glimpse into HM King Charles III and Queen Camilla's visit.
The annual clergy day invited clergy from across the diocese to come together
40 pilot projects have been chosen to create new worshipping communities through partnerships between schools and churches
Eleven new priests and eleven deacons were ordained in services over the weekend, with one priest who has waited 14 years after her diocese voted against ordination of women to be ordained in Jersey this evening
