Graham & Wendy Toulmin (DRCongo with CMS) Many remember with prayer the Toulmins, Bishop Isesomo and the church in the DRC. Here’s some prayer updates from them: Give thanks for: Graham’s surgery for prostate cancer in October and pray for his complete recovery so he can join Wendy back in Congo 20th November as planned. […]
Please pray for Pakistan Asia Bibi has been acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan after facing trumped up charges. The Lahore High Court’s verdict sentencing her to death for blasphemy has been overturned. She has been in jail for over 8 years. Praise God for this decision and thank you for your continued prayerful support for […]
GAFCON – a remarkable change in the Anglican Church world-wide The Global Anglican Forum Conference – has already made a remarkable contribution to encouraging Anglican Churches world-wide to honour Jesus and obey the Bible. GAFCON now represents 70% of the world’s Anglicans and effectively has replaced Lambeth and Canterbury as the effective Anglican Communion. Peter Jensen has […]
Fuse Camp 2018 Last week 51 Youth and Kids from years 4-12 of school went away with a number of our legendary leaders for our first ever ‘Fuse Camp’ – a new initiative of Gymea Anglican fusing our X’treme (kids) and Revive (youth) camps into one! How was it? Fantastic! Despite a number of setbacks […]
Synod meets October 15-17,22-23 Our Synod meets over 5 days and nights 3.30pm to 9.30pm. This is the annual assembly (or parliament) of our diocese. You are represented by me, and your elected reps Prof Alan Watson and Barbara Archer. We are always very happy to hear your views or to discuss Synod business with our […]
New defibrillator has been purchased for $2,500 & installed on the wall outside of Roughley Hall. If a person stops breathing and their heart has stopped, this machine can be used by anyone to restart their heart, whilst CPR is administered. The defib is self-instructing & you cannot shock people with it unless they need […]
News from Katoke Alan Watson tells the story of Silivia Geofrey, Girl School Captain 2017/8, who has just completed her final year (Form 6). An orphan – she never knew her father and lost her mother when she was in Year 4 of primary school. An excellent student Silivia was sponsored at KLSS from Form 1 […]
Thanksgiving for Nextgen Every year we hold Thanksgiving Sunday with a special appeal for funds for our next year’s budget. This year our focus is Nextgen – the generation to follow us … our children and youth. So our goals are: $15,000 for Craig & Olivia’s Ministry $10,000 for our tax deductible SRE Trust $ […]
News From the Watsons (Tanzania) Elizabeth has passed on email letters that our members have written to students. “Workshop went well today-good attendance. Heavy rain early today & again @ 11am but now it’s fine. Approaching the wet season. Quite cool today. School has finished and Alan and Elizabeth have now left Katoke” and have begun […]
Our Older and Frailer members Need help Getting To Church I understand how busy life gets and we all find being tied to the dreaded “rosters” difficult. Once you get on a roster you can be taken for granted and sometimes never get off it! But would you consider offering to occasionally drive a housebound member to […]