Rev’d Sue Levitt 14 Tarporley Road, Tarvin CH3 8ER Tel: 01829 741022 email:
[email protected] February, 2018 Dear friends, Happy New Year! And what a start to 2018 it has been! In the Methodist Church in January we share in the Covenant service. It is something I have always valued and treasured. From the earliest days of Methodist societies John Wesley invited the Methodist people to renew their covenant relationship with God each year. And so, as every year I, along with all in church that Sunday prayed, ”I am no longer my own but yours, Your will not mine be done in all things, wherever you may place me, in all I do and in all that I may endure…… I willingly offer all I have and I am to serve you as and where you choose.” Two days later, I received a telephone call from Peter Barber, our Chair of District, asking me on behalf of the connexion to consider moving this summer to become the superintendent of the Kidderminster and Stourport Circuit. I came off the phone, and I admit I was stunned … saying “God, I know I said I’d serve you as and where you choose but I’m not sure I meant it!” However, as I reflected on it more rationally and prayerfully, as I read the profile of the appointment and met the people I realised it was a ‘Sue-shaped’ hole that needed to be filled. And so sad as I am to be leaving, I realise that God’s hand is in this and that it is God who is moving us all on.