CHURCHES TOGETHER IN HEREFORDSHIRE NEWSLETTER APRIL 2017

Churches and Christians will be Churches Together Groups – through to High Town. coming together to worship, Holy Week Meet at the Odeon, Old Market witness and pray this Eastertide. at 10.30am. The walk will finish Hopefully, you can find something Churches Together in Leominster with hot cross buns at St John’s of interest near you. – Good Friday Methodist Church Hall in St Churches Together Owen’s Street. Please let me know of ecumenical in Leominster will events happening near you that I Churches Together in Weobley – be holding their Good Friday can publicise next month. Good Friday Walk of Witness Walk of Witness, starting from Deadline for copy – 25th. the Baptist Church at 11.15am, Christians in Weobley will be walking from St Thomas of Anna Nugent walking around the town with Hereford RC Church on Good County Ecumenical Officer stations for a hymn, reading and prayer. They finish at the Priory Friday from 11am. After walking [email protected] where there will be a Lent Lunch through the Churchyard to ______of soup and bread. the Methodist Church, it will finish on Castle Green. Churches Together in Christians Together in Colwall – Herefordshire – Open Lent and Christians Together in Bromyard – Good Friday March of Witness Meeting Holy Week Christians in Bromyard will be The Christians in Colwall will be coming together starting their Good Friday March speaker at the next Open at St Joseph’s RC Church at Meeting of Churches Together in to for a Prayer Walk on Saturday 8th April, starting at 10.30am. 10.45am, finishing at St Peter’s Herefordshire will be the Rev Church for hot cross buns. Prebendary Jill Groves, leader of There will be reflective Holy th the Spiritual Care Team at St Week services on Monday 10 , Christians Together in Orleton – th th Michael’s Hospice. Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 Ready Steady April, led by different churches. Easter The meeting will be held on The Good Friday Walk of Witness th Families in Orleton Wednesday 10 May at 7pm at starts at 10am with cross making are all welcome to Christ Church (a Methodist / URC at the Green – all welcome. the successful Local Ecumenical Partnership) in Further details available from the annual get together Ross on Wye. This is open to all churches. Churches Together Groups and – Ready Steady Easter. Crafts, anyone interested in ecumenism Churches Together in Hereford – stories, games will be enjoyed on th and the work of Churches Good Friday Walk of Witness Sunday April 9 from 2pm at Together in the county. For more Churches are coming together to Orleton Village Hall. They will information, contact lead Christians in a walk from the also have a quiet Good Friday [email protected] Old Market Shopping Centre in Walk from St George’s to the CHURCHES TOGETHER IN HEREFORDSHIRE NEWSLETTER 2

Chapel with a quiet liturgy and have a Christian presence at the Ecumenical Companions. The short meditation. annual River Carnival role gives the Cathedral th Christians Together in Ledbury – celebrations on Saturday 29 community an opportunity to Holy Week April on Bishops Meadow. There honour friends of other Christian will be a ‘Hereford Church’ denominations with whom they Christians in Ledbury are holding marquee with music, activities work closely for the Gospel of a 24 hour Prayer Vigil in St for children, opportunities for Jesus Christ. The two new Michael’s Church beginning at prayer and exhibits from many of Ecumenical Companions are 9am on Maundy Thursday 13th the ecumenical projects run by April and finishing at 9am on Christians working together in Good Friday morning. the city. If you or your church The Good Friday Walk of Witness would like to be involved, please in Ledbury starts at 10am from contact the Baptist Church, walking to the [email protected] Market House. All welcome. ______Father Cadfan Williams of Belmont and Steve Sully of Churches Together in Kington – CBN Superbook – Easter Challenge Community Church, Walk of Witness screening Hereford. They were welcomed The Churches in Kington are as Ecumenical Companions by coming together for their Good the Bishop during an Evensong Friday Walk of Witness, last month, watched by family, beginning with a short service at friends and parishioners of their St Mary’s Church at 10am. They Tickets are going fast for CBN respective communities. will be processing through the Europe’s Superbook Easter Event streets, taking turns to carry the th on 10 April. It features a Hereford Diocese Inclusive cross and stopping at each church specially edited Superbook Forum Conference – Radical for a reading and prayer, finishing episode as well as games, prizes, at Kington Court nursing home dancing and a visit from Gizmo Welcome where refreshments follow a himself – fun for all the family. Have you ever short service. Everyone is welcome, and it is a thought how your Churches Together in Ewyas great opportunity to invite church can give a more radically Harold – Taize Service friends who wouldn’t normally unconditional welcome to all? At come to church to experience the The Christians in Ewyas Harold this day conference there will be gospel this Easter. Register for will be coming together for a inspirational speakers and your free ticket at The Courtyard, service of Taize Prayer in the workshops which will include Hereford. peaceful setting of Dore Abbey to how to welcome those who feel www.courtyard.org.uk/events/a- marginalised; how to open up reflect upon the significance of superbook-easter/ worship to those with disabilities; the Easter story on Friday 21st ______April at 8pm. All welcome. becoming a Dementia Friendly ______Hereford Cathedral – church; ways to ensure no-one is Ecumenical Companions excluded because of sexuality, Hereford Church – presence age or financial circumstances. at the River Carnival Bishop Richard will be chairing the event at Leominster Priory on The (Chair of 20th May, 9.30am to 3.30pm. Churches Together in contact for more details Herefordshire), together with the Church leaders from a variety of [email protected] churches through the city of Chapter of , Hereford have come together to has appointed two new Please note - this newsletter strives to share a wide range of ecumenical news and opinions and is not necessarily a reflection of the views of CTiH. April 2017