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Inside UN appearance - 2 Baghdad vicar - 3 Amazing offer - 5 L GOOD NEWS Floating school - 6 FOR NORWICH & NORFOLK Spring 2018: FREE Beyond belief - 12 Great Norfolk to Malta motorhome giveaway I Cromer couple, ordained ministers Ray and Ruth Scorey (pictured left) have embarked on an epic journey of faith driving across a wintery Europe to donate their prized motorhome to a Christian charity in Malta. In November, the brave couple, who run Christian charity Norfolk Healing Rooms, set off on the five-week Archbishop to journey across Europe to give away the motorhome to their newly return to city established sister charity, Malta I The Archbishop of Canterbury is set to Healing Rooms. visit the Diocese of Norwich for the first time I Full story - see since his enthronement to the role in page six. February 2013. The Most Rev Justin Welby will be visiting the Diocese of Norwich from Wednesday November 7 to Friday November 9, the Bishop of Norwich has announced. Bishop Graham said: “I’m delighted that Archbishop Justin will be spending time in Norwich surgeon’s the Diocese in November. His first public ap - pearance in the run-up to his enthronement as Archbishop of Canterbury took place here in Norwich in February 2013 and it will be a delight to welcome him back. “Archbishop Justin knows Norfolk well, free operation plea having spent a good deal of time here with members of his family and their friends dur - ing his childhood. His affection for Norfolk A Norwich orthopaedic surgeon is knees in Norwich, but Adelaida’s life will poten - dates from those early days, and I know that tially be transformed at least as much as any one he will be assured a warm welcome.” appealing for support after of those patients if it goes well. She is struggling Pictured above is Archbishop Justin with agreeing to operate for free on a to walk far now and has little or no prospect for Bishop Graham outside the Forum in young Tanzanian health care marriage in Africa as she is. Norwich during his visit in February 2013. “The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital has worker to restore the use of her agreed to allow me to carry out her surgery as a legs and give her a brighter future. privately-funded patient towards the end of May, and some of our wonderful theatre staff, Football league Keith Morris reports. and two of my consultant colleagues, have offered to give up a Sunday morning in May, for no charge, to help me.” title hat-trick ohn Nolan, a consultant orthopaedic “Thanks to Fr Arockiya Seelan, a priest at St I Norwich Central Baptist Church have won surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich John’s, we have already found a Catholic family the Norfolk Christian Football League title for J Hospital and parishioner at St John’s who have agreed to host Adelaida for the the third year in a row, with two games to Cathedral in Norwich, was introduced to 23- entirety of her stay from April to August – spare. year-old Adelaida during a recent visit to which is wonderful news,” he said. They secured the title with a 3-1 victory Tanzania by his uncle Francis who has been a Now John is appealing for support to pay for against Kings Athletic and are, so far, Catholic missionary priest there for 50 years. Adelaida’s hospital costs, flight tickets and other unbeaten. Francis has visited Norwich on a number of expenses of being in the UK. NCBC will continue their quest for a occasions and has celebrated Mass at St John’s “The support I have received to date has been league and Bishop’s Cup double with a semi Cathedral in the city. amazing, from the clergy at St John’s to all sorts final against Soul Church at Britannia John said: “Adelaida was training as a health of strangers – it really does enhance one’s faith Barracks on Saturday March 13 while in the care assistant but is now unable to work or even in humanity to see such compassion and other semi-final, Heigham Park Rangers will walk very far as her hips have been badly dam - generosity. Quite wonderful really. take on St John’s at Recreation Road. aged by Sickle Cell Disease. I want to help her “I remain particularly grateful to the theatre Meanwhile Silver Road take on Stalham because she wants to help others as a health care nurses, anaesthetist, consultant haematologist Baptist at Fountain Park and Gateway worker in Tanzania. I was struck by the amazing and my surgical assistant who have so kindly Vineyard take on Sprowston Radicals at use they make of incredibly limited resources, offered to give up their Sunday morning at the Thorpe High School in the semi-finals of the when I visited the hospitals there last year. But end of May to make this possible.” Wroxham Road Shield on the same day. there is no suitable option for surgery in If you would like to make a donation towards The Bishop’s Cup Final will take place at Mwanza and I have offered to replace her hips the costs, visit: http://bit.ly/2BzNTV0 or email Norfolk FA’s Football Development Centre in Tanzanian health care worker Adelaida who is for free, here in Norwich. John at j [email protected] Bowthorpe on Saturday April 14 at 10.30am. coming to Norwich for an operation. “I have spent 25 years replacing hips and www.missionariesofafrica.org.uk/east-africa 2 Good News for Norwich & Norfolk, Spring 2018 www.networknorfolk.co.uk NEWS GOOD NEWS FOR NORWICH & NORFOLK Dreaming of new beginnings at Easter I Good News for Norwich & Norfolk is I "With every sun comes a new day. A new begin - Ruth However, just three days later, the view published by Network Norwich & Norfolk ning. 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