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ochester Link 1 Design a Cross Competition - See pages 6 and 7 Photo by Katerina Gerhardt APRIL 2013 Design a Cross Competition Winners Beatrice Fury, aged 10, won first place in the 9 - 10 category with her entry (below) Zara Farrow, aged 11, won second place in the 11 - 12 category with her entry (below) The winners of the Diocese 2nd place Harvey Chandler, aged 10 of Rochester design a cross 3rd place Holly Wise, aged 9 competition have been chosen. Aged 7 - 8 The competition, which was open to all 1st place Evie Cooper, aged 7 children in the Diocese up to the age of 2nd place Jody Gyekye, aged 8 12, proved very popular and winners were 3rd place Juliette Mc Manus, aged 7 given their certificates and prizes of Real Aged 5 - 6 Easter Eggs by Bishop James on Monday 11 March. 1st place Evie Whitcomb, age 6 The winners in the five age categories were 2nd place Pradipta Panthi, aged 5 as follows: 3rd place Josh Lawson, aged 6 Aged 11 - 12 Pre-School 1st place Luke Fenn, aged 11 1st place Ryan Free, aged 4 2nd place Zara Farrow, aged 11 2nd place Isabelle Eniola, aged 4 3rd place Louis Hamilton, aged 11 3rd place George Anokye, aged 4 Aged 9 - 10 Our congratulations to all the winners and 1st place Beatrice Fury, aged 10 also to all those youngsters who took part. 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Sing his praise without delayes, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise with him mayst rise: George Herbert, perhaps my with the Risen Lord and go to the places and favourite poet, captures the people he leads us to, in order that we too essence of our Easter celebrations might rise. Here at the Cathedral we have spent the last and in doing so inspires me on my six months renewing our sense of vision, our journey of faith; as two features forward plan for the next five years. of these opening lines of his poem And we have become increasingly clear that Easter combine. this plan must be a journey, hand in hand with Jesus, that leads us into a deeper encounter First a call to joyful, uplifting praise in with our neighbours and our communities. response to the empty tomb, perhaps that For example, in partnership with the Parish overwhelming feeling in the Apostles as they of Rochester, we are looking at how we can realised the enormity of what had happened serve the new developments at Rochester on that Sunday morning. It is an urgent Riverside, next to the Bridge. response, again just as the Apostles ran to tell their companions the Good News. 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