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Northern Light, March 2017 News from the Scottish Episcopal Church - Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney April 2017 Scottish Charity No. SC022180 Issue 96 Easter Edition A MESSAGE FROM MARK STRANGE, BISHOP OF MORAY, ROSS AND CAITHNESS and our Interim Bishop My Dear Friends in my old home Diocese, Can I start by thanking you all for your welcome to me at the various events I have attended across the diocese in these past few months. I have found many things happening which bring back childhood memories, not least the emotion generated in my chest as I was led to the Bishop's Throne for the Advent Carol Service. A little Aberdeen choir boy who is now Interim Bishop! It is always an interesting task, being Interim Bishop, as I am not part of the electoral process but I am acutely aware of it going on around me. The question has been asked "Why are you not involved in the election?". The reason is so that I can give my time to the diocese without being compromised if asked questions about what is happening. What I can tell you is that many people within the Diocese and within the wider Province are working very hard to progress along the route of Canon 4. It is hoped that as that process continues and by the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the right Bishop for this Diocese will emerge. Please pray for all those involved in the process. It is a complicated and at times exhausting journey and the spiritual support of the diocese is vital at this time. As Interim Bishop I try to bridge the gap between the loss of a well loved Christian Leader and the arrival of the fresh new face, keeping the Episcopal life going while enabling others to share in the ministry of preparation. It is a privilege that I am thoroughly enjoying, so for that, once again my thanks. Blessings, Mark Almighty God, you have given your Holy Spirit to the Church to lead us into all truth: bless us with the Spirit's grace and presence as we discern and choose the new Bishop for our Diocese. Keep us steadfast in faith and united in love that we may seek your will and hear your voice. through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A MEMBER OF THE MIDDLE CLASS eventually tip the balance, and I was glad to have been COMFY BRIGADE part of a process that offers hope and kindness rather In December 2016 Dr Julia House (Lay Representative, than playing into the hands of smugglers and fear. I St Devenick’s, Bieldside) spent a week helping in a would encourage you to go and volunteer with those refugee camp in Greece less fortunate than yourselves at home or far away depending on your skills and situation as you will find As a paid up member of the Middle Class comfy brigade it an enriching and rewarding experience. I have been following the Refugee Crisis from my sofa, so it was a surprise when my friend Paulina, home on a Not everyone can do what I did, but our support for break from a Greek Refugee Camp, responded to my those who are able to go and work directly with 'but I'm only a GP, you wouldn't want someone like me' refugees is of huge value. Alternatively, spreading our with 'But you're exactly the kind of person we need'! wealth by going on holiday to countries where refugee support is so much more significant than in the UK is I have been a GP in Aberdeen since we came here in another way you too can 'get off your sofa'. There are 1998, with a brief break for a posting to SE Asia with my lots of things we can all do, big and small, but doing husband. We have raised a family who are now grown nothing is the action to be avoided. up and away from home. We have always supported projects all over the world financially by donations ********************** through our church and with registered charities and have watched with frustration the decisions of the NEWS FROM THE IT OFFICER government regarding refugees. To go and actually do something felt exciting and scary. A NEW WEBSITE: I only went for a week, but even that was worthwhile. I This spring, I will be building a new diocesan website to was struck by the generous attitude of Greeks as I better meet our developing communication needs, and travelled from Athens to Oinofyta as well as the run to provide a more effective communication tool to down appearance of rural Greece. It was amazing how encourage the mission strategies and other initiatives of quickly it seemed normal to me for families to live in a the diocese. I am due to start the main phase of the tent or small room in the warehouse with only cold build in Easter week, and it is hoped (if we don’t have water at central taps and shared portaloos. Even in my too many delays) to launch the new site by Pentecost. week it became clear that this was such a mix of people, just like here. People looked so much older than their As I will be working a significant amount of overtime, I age, life was boring and repetitive, but safe and secure. will also be taking a period of time back over the For these Afghanis the lure of people smugglers was summer months. All this will have a significant impact only a text away and during my visit news came of a on my availability for other areas of my work, and there family who had disappeared a couple of weeks before, will be many normal tasks that I and my volunteers are now imprisoned in Albania. unable to complete. Please bear with me, and allow me, as is appropriate, to pick up these tasks in the autumn. The medical complaints were superficially simple, but If you know of any support you might need during this with underlying anxiety, stress and communication time, it would be helpful if you could contact me before always a difficulty. While I was there we managed to get Easter. together the pregnant ladies in the camp and start some basic antenatal care. Many had no idea of when they last SEEKING HELP: had a period as they had been stressed and I am always on the lookout for individuals who might malnourished as they travelled. Their daily hot meal be able to help share the ever-increasing workload in and safety meant they fell pregnant more easily, but are our Diocesan Communications work, and it is hoped still at high risk of foetal and maternal complications that with the help of volunteers, some of my regular due to poor nutrition and so on. Life for these families is workload will continue during the build of the new hard for the simplest of things, but the presence of website. children in the camp was one of its joys. I left Oinofyta aware of the complexity and ongoing At the moment, I am specifically and actively looking needs both of refugees and their hosts. I can see the for one or two volunteers who can take responsibility, difficulties for both those who flee and the country they and help drive our presence on Facebook, working with arrive in, but, as a fellow human being, it really seemed me to develop our use of this media tool, taking that individual acts of kindness are hugely worthwhile responsibility for many of the regular posts that go out and without them all is lost. So much of what happens in the name of the Diocese. If you, or anyone in your in our life is decided by the many small acts which congregations, might be interested in helping out, please do contact me at [email protected] We need more children being a parent or grandparent. It’s really unlikely that anyone reading this doesn’t know a single person under and youth! by Henna Cundill the age of 25. You included. No we don’t. No we absolutely So, when you think of a young person in your life, what don’t. We already have enough children and youth to would you say to these questions: work with. God has given us exactly the right amount. 1. Do they know where to find ‘the well’? Now, before I get sacked, let me explain myself… 2. Where are they in relation to the well? The only question I ever seemed to get asked about the 3. In which direction are they travelling? various youth groups in our diocese is “How many 4. What’s your role in calling or leading them to young people do they have?” Oh, I’m so sick of that the well? question, I could scream. In fact, sometimes I do The well, of course, is not Sunday Morning Worship. scream… The well is Jesus Christ himself, reflected through each Imagine you are a farmer, and someone asks you how of us; reflected through all the Christians in that young many cows you have. You go out and look at your field, person’s life. and the number of cows within the fence is the number My point? You are a children and youth worker you have, right? Now imagine you are a youth worker (whether you like it or not!). All Christians are children and the young people you work with are cows. Your and youth workers. We can hire trendy young youth Church community is your field.
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