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South Sudan Appeal Fighting Continues in Parts of South Bor, 3,000 Had Been Buried, a Similar Courageous Moral Leadership at Great Sudan DIOCESE OF SALISBU RY 2014 No. 2 South Sudan Appeal Fighting continues in parts of South Bor, 3,000 had been buried, a similar courageous moral leadership at great Sudan. Almost a million people are number had not. He could smell peril, speaking out against political displaced with over 3 million at risk death. and ethnic factionalism and revenge. of hunger. At St Andrew’s Cathedral the bodies That’s why we’ve launched a Diocesan The Archbishop of Canterbury of 20 clergy and lay workers were appeal that will run until Easter to recently visited the country and saw laid out and he was asked to bless a help the Episcopal Church. After the scale of the problem first hand. In mass grave. There is deep anger at the Easter, we will ask again for help with perpetrators. more targeted projects to rebuild Our fellow Anglicans in the Episcopal lives. Church of South Sudan and Sudan are You can donate in three ways: responding directly on the ground. Online via www.justgiving.com/sdbf Their development agency, SUDRA, has the expertise, experience and Text “SSUD14 £10” to 70070 to give networks to make sure assistance gets £10 via text message. quickly to these who need it most. Post make cheques payable to South As well as providing relief, the Sudan Appeal. Send to Church House, South Sudanese Church is providing Crane Street, Salisbury, SP1 2QB. The Right Revd Dr Edward Condry Bishop’s Letter Bishop of Ramsbury Here it comes. Lent will soon be with carbon footprint by 40%during the many of the miles, for scheduled trips us. 40 days of Lent: the 40-40-40 Fast. to Manchester and London. What will it be this year? Cake? The Church of England General Otherwise, I shall be cycling. I’ve had Chocolate? I’m too easily tempted. Synod has just committed us to taking to borrow a specially small episcopal So, this year I’m giving up my car climate change more seriously. We staff from Bishop Nicholas to strap to for Lent. I drive about 1500 miles must think about how we turn good continued on back page a month, therefore it’s a bit of a intentions into real action. challenge. It will remind me how dependent we Cycling to Trowbridge on a cold wet have become on the motor vehicle day may not be quite like Jesus in the for everything from holidays and Judean desert, but it will make me shopping, to work, friends and the think hard about our responsibility school run. And that’s before you for creation. It will tie in with the remember the 2000 people who are dioceses’s campaign to find forty killed every year on the roads. parishes which will reduce their Trains and buses will take me for Church House, Crane Street, Salisbury, SP1 2QB [email protected] www.salisbury.anglican.org continued from front page my bike. virtually non-existent. There are Sharing in Christ Above all, taking a little longer will some evenings when I shall have to give me time to pray. There’s nothing pedal back 20 miles over the downs in Évreux like a good cycle ride for sorting your in the dark. I’ll keep a blog on the diocesan website. thoughts out. “Because we all share in the one baptism, Sunday mornings will be the biggest Are you allowed to enjoy Lent? I shall. we can consider ourselves all to be test, as then public transport is If you see me on the road, give me a members of the body of Christ, happily toot and a wave! all very different but indispensable to each other.” Chinese Art at Sarum That was the message of Abbé Pierre of the monastery of Le Bec Halouin in Pupils from a number of primary Normandy to a group of visitors from the schools gathered at Sarum Academy, Diocese of Salisbury. a Church of England academy in Salisbury, to mark Chinese New Year. The visitors were there to give life to Salisbury’s twinning with the Roman They embarked on an art day based Catholic Diocese of Évreux. on the theme of this colourful festival. Pupils learnt how to use watercolours, The dioceses have been linked for over fold paper into fan shapes and Daisy-Mae Gardner from Woodlands 30 years and have much in common. decorate them with Chinese patterns School said, “We all loved the Both are largely rural regions, with clergy and even Chinese writing. They made morning at Sarum Academy. It was often having to serve many villages. Both dragon puppets, dragon heads and fandabodocious, we got to take home are learning how to be Church in deeply lucky Chinese bags. all the things we made. We’d all like secular societies. to do it again, so I hope we get to The pupils were buzzing with soon”. excitement and loved the art rooms. Inspiring Youth to be Epic Our TVs and newspapers are full of Epic project after seeing her her son the struggles of young adults. Battling struggle to find a job. debt, high rents and a stuttering Epic helps 16-25 year olds in the economy, today’s youth are said to be from the Diocese’s Social Welfare Pewsey area to realise their potential Fund. the first in centuries worse off than by helping them with things like CV their parents. writing and interview skills. 16 year-old Jake Amor from Pewsey is one of the people helped by Epic. Jake One group in Wiltshire, however, is Sara said, “Robert tried so hard to get a working to turn the tide. said, “Epic showed me how to do a good job after he graduated, but like many CV, what to do at interview and how to Sara Hughes, who worships at St young people, he was up against it. be more organised with exam work. But Peter’s, Milton Lilbourne, set up the “There seemed to be so few places for it did a lot more than that. him to go for help. He didn’t want “Because I’m dyslexic, some people at to become a statistic, so he ended up school really took the mick out of me. moving to China to teach English. My confidence took a real knock, but “Not every young person is in a the people at Epic belived in me and position to move so far to find work.” really helped me get my mojo back. The Vale of Pewsey Team of Churches “I’m now studying public services supports Epic, by supplying many at New College in Swindon, and I’m of its volunteers, underwriting hoping to go on to study law at Uni.” insurance, and in prayer. The project Learn more on the group’s website: also receives some financial support www.epicpewsey.org.uk..
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