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The Monthly Magazine of the Cowley Team Ministry The last few weeks have brought of our own country but also of the home to us what a violent world we Kingdom of God. live in. We are used to seeing violence and carnage on the streets Jesus, during his lifetime, spent time of Middle Eastern towns or in other and energy talking and ministering to countries in the developing world but people of different races, religions when we are confronted with it on and backgrounds. Saint Paul reminds our own doorstep we are naturally us that within the family of God there is no distinction between Jew and disturbed. Greek, male or female, rich or poor. Although wehave been used to bombings in previous decades - The Christian community has a great usually associated with the volatile responsibility to work together with politics of Northern those of other faiths Ireland, the recent and no faith to create outrages bring home the kind of society the uneasy tension within which we are between the values of all respected and the West and those of valued. The three predominantly Muslim church primary culture. Apart from schools within our isolated violence in parish prepare the some north-western ground amongst the towns, the Muslim youngest in our communities within our community. We society live adults are called upon harmoniously alongside to do the same. peoples of other cultures. Even though we may feel The danger of the present situation is apprehensive about what is happening that we see our Muslim neighbours as around us, we need to remind objects of suspicion rather than as ourselves of our belief that Jesus is fellow citizens of the United indeed Lord of all creation. We place Kingdom. In such difficult times, it is our faith, our hope, and our trust in easy for those who wish to exploit the one who died in order to draw racial tensions to turn the spotlight all peoples closer to God. As St Paul on those who they feel are a danger reminds us, “nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus to our community. Our Lord”. Our Christian faith reminds us that we are all children of God regardless of our colour or race. Men and women of faith have to work and live together in order to demonstrate that we are fellow-citizens not only The monthly magazine of the Cowley Team Ministry August 2005 QUIET HOPE IN A Ministry of Healing BAD WORLD A monthly service on the first Tuesday of the month, The following is a letter alternating between St James and St Francis Churches from Cyprian. He lived in the 3rd century, became Bishop of Carthage and was Healing Services at 7.30 pm martyred for his faith. The letter was addressed to his Tuesday 3rd August old friend Donatus. St James Church “This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I Tuesday 7th September view it from this fair St Francis Church garden, under the shadow The ministry of healing is available at St James’ Church every of these vines. But if I climbed to some great Sunday during the 10 o’clock service. Please go to St Luke’s mountain and looked out Chapel after you have received Communion where over the wide lands, you members of the Healing Team will be available to listen and know very well what I to pray in complete confidence. would see: brigands on the high roads, pirates on the seas; in the amphitheatres men murdered to please BAD TIMING the applauding crowds; The luggage-laden husband stared miserably out of the under all roofs misery and window of the airline terminal at the departing jet. “If you hadn't selfishness. It is really a bad taken so long in getting ready,” he complained to his wife, “we world, Donatus, an would have caught that plane!” incredibly bad world. “That may be,” she retorted. “But if you hadn't hurried me along, we wouldn't have so long to wait for the next one!” “Yet, in the midst of it, I have found a quiet and holy people. They have NOTES FROM THE JUNE PCC. discovered a joy which is a thousand times better than The PCC received reports from the Treasurer, the Deanery any pleasure in this sinful Synod and the Church Committees. A meeting had been held life. They are despised and to decide the distribution of our mission giving. The opening persecuted, but they care of the new Church Centre has been delayed until September. not. They have overcome St. Francis’ Church is pursuing enquiries about a new heating the world. These people, system. Donatus, are the Christians, and I am one of The PCC authorised the letting of two rooms at the new them.” Church Centre to The Fellowship of Reconciliation on a two year contract with the option of a third year. The PCCheard that the Deanery is to carry out a mapping exercise for which we are asked to contribute a detailed profile of the Parish. A working group was appointed. The outcome of the Christian Giving Initiative is not yet known as we are still awaiting replies. M.C. The Rt Revd Dr John Sentamu, currently Bishop “It is important that the of Birmingham, is to succeed the Rt Revd Dr Church of England's voice is David Hope as the next Archbishop of York. heard locally, nationally and Here are some background notes to introduce internationally, standing up for him: justice, bringing Good News to the poor, healing to the Bishop Sentamu, who is 56, was born in Uganda. broken-hearted, setting at He was educated in Uganda, graduating in Law liberty those who are from Makerere University, Kampala and is an oppressed, and proclaiming Advocate of the High Court of Uganda. He the death of Christ and his resurrection until he practised Law both at the Bar and at the Bench comes again. What an exciting prospect.” before he came to the UK in 1974. In a statement from Lambeth Palace, the Here he read theology at Selwyn College Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams Cambridge, where he gained a Masters Degree welcomed Bishop John Sentamu as Archbishop and a Doctorate. He trained for ordination at of York. “He is someone who has always Ridley Hall, Cambridge, then part of the combined a passion for sharing the gospel with a Cambridge Federation of Theological keen sense of the problems and challenges of Colleges. Following his ordination in 1979 he our society, particularly where racism is served as Assistant Chaplain at Selwyn College, concerned. His ministry in London and Cambridge. From 1979-1982 he was Chaplain at Birmingham has been praised by Christians of all HM Remand Centre Lachmere House and backgrounds. He is a caring pastor and an Curate of St Andrew's, Ham in the Diocese of exciting communicator. I look forward with Southwark. great enthusiasm to working with him.” From 1982-1983 John Sentamu was Curate of Bishop Sentamu is married to Margaret, a Senior St Paul, Herne Hill, and from 1983-1984 Priest- Selection Secretary in the Ministry Division of in-Charge at Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill and Parish the Archbishops' Council, and they have two Priest of St Matthias Upper Tulse Hill. He then grown-up children, Grace and Geoffrey. Bishop became Vicar of the joint benefice of Holy Sentamu's interests include music, cooking, Trinity and St Matthias from 1984-1986. reading, athletics, rugby and football. Between 1987 and 1989 he was also Priest-in- Charge of St Saviour Brixton Hill. He was From 1997 to 1999, Bishop Sentamu was appointed Bishop of Stepney in 1996 and Bishop Adviser to the Stephen Lawrence Judicial Inquiry of Birmingham in 2002. and he chaired the Damilola Taylor Review, 2002. He has been the chairman of the NHS Bishop Sentamu says: “I am looking forward to Haemoglobinopathy Screening Programme since working with the Archbishop of Canterbury and 2001.Between 2002 and 2004 he was Chairman other bishops to lead the Church of England in of the EC1 New Deal. He became President of its mission to the nation. It is imperative that the Youth for Christ in 2004 and President of the Church regains her vision and confidence in YMCA in April 2005. mission, developing ways that will enable the Church of England to reconnect imaginatively with England. Roll over Shakespeare, forget clothes in The People's Republic as many as sixteen dinner guests about ‘Romeo and Juliet’, I’ve should be either brown or dark- quite regularly. She had an got a real-life love story this blue, a drab world indeed. At Amah (maid) to help and this month with a very different school she took an interest in same person was on hand to ending. In fact there are so science and so was directed assist with the birth and towards a university course in babyhood of her two daughters many twists and turns to this metallurgy. Eighteen year-old Rachel and Miriam. The whole story that it should be a full- Wing Wa's college was so far family attended church regularly length book. from home that she could only and it was at this time that travel across the vastness of Sarah learnt to love the hymns Act one opens in the Chinese China once a year to visit her that she heard there. city of Hoojan during the parents. austere regime of Chairman Let us now move on twenty Mao.Three year old Wing Wa We next meet our heroine in years or so and we find the two lived there with her family.
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