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Highlight Everybody Feel at Home The official gazette of the Diocese of Port Elizabeth, Anglican Church of Southern Africa PO Box 7109 Newton Park 6055 Vol 30 No 5 June 2019 Three special Easter events Pentecost 2019 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit Bishop Eddie blesses Marion and Wyndam Muspratt- came on all who heard the Williams on their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Their son Bihop Eddie baptising Charlotte with Provost Sharon Nell message. The circumcised Paul (left) and Mark (at their right) look on with Crucifer, and parents Laura and James Medcalf looking on. Pearl Bruinders, and Provost Sharon Nell in attendance. believers who had come with Peter were astonished that aster Day 2019 was a very special day Williams it was being blessed by Bishop conducted their wedding service. the gift of the Holy Spirit had of celebration at the Cathedral with Eddie as they celebrated their Golden (50 Of course, for the large congregation it been poured out even on Ethree special events happening: years) Wedding Anniversary; was also a wonderful celebration of the - for our Bishop Eddie, it was his first - and for James and Laura Medcalf it was Christ, risen from the dead and a time of Gentiles. Easter celebration at the Cathedral after a special service as their baby Charlotte singing all the wonderful Easter hymns Act 10:44-45 NIV his Consecration; was baptised by Bishop Eddie who said to the resounding music of the organ and This blessing is for everyone so voices of choir. - for Wyndam and Marion Muspratt- this Baptism was special for him as he had seek it with all your heart. Wearing slippers to church Not Pentecost fire Andrea Potgieter Everyone arriving at church in slippers is not what one expects to see in an Anglican church but on Sunday 12 May this is what happened at St Luke’s in Palmridge. The rector, Andrea Potgieter, had challenged the congregation to participate in a delayed ‘Slipper Friday’ in aid of Reach for a Dream. She had bought 100 tickets to demonstrate their support of this wonderful initiative and the congregation responded positively by arriving at church in a variety of slippers which reflected their personalities. Andrea’s slippers read “Queen of everything” (LOL)! Members of the congregation had paid their R10 ticket fee and put their best foot, or rather slipper, forward and enjoyed the fun experience. Michelle, PE office manager of Reach for a Dream Foundation, was extremely excited about St Luke’s initiative which Putting their best foot (or was it slipper?) forward are members of St Luke’s Vagrants, trying to keep warm, lit a demonstrated its support of the incredible in Palmridge who enjoyed participating in the Slipper Sunday challenge in aid fire right next to the wooden door work done by the Foundation. Michelle of Reach for a Dream Foundation. The rector, Andrea Potgieter, also wearing into the bell tower at Holy Trinity in had shared with Andrea that many of slippers with her white alb, is in the centre. Central. the ‘dreamers’ come from the Northern Fortunately a member of the Areas so it was wonderful that a church neighbour’ saying that, “Sometimes we this could be a case of wearing slippers congregation, Miranda Kopele, who within the area was so supportive of the need to step out of our comfort zones to church. Andrea said she hopes that lives in Central, spotted the fire and Foundation’s work. to show our love and make a difference next year many of the parishes will join alerted Atlas Security who promptly Andrea had encouraged the St Luke in the lives of people who are less this initiative and support the dreams of arrived and put the fire out. family to take seriously the challenge of fortunate than ourselves.” Using the children who have terminal diseases and In 1897 the church burnt down and ‘love the Lord your God and love your hash tag #whybenormal, she said that only a short life left in which to reach them. nobody wants that to happen again! 2 From Ash Wednesday ... to Easter / Letter to the editor Inside 3 The Bishop writes ... / The view from pulpit and pew iindaba 4 Joyous AWF elections / Down memory lane / Carnival time 2 iindaba June 2019 From Ash Wednesday ... to Easter Above - Proving that the very young can make palm crosses is Farrow Brass of St Luke’s in Palmridge. Note the pile of completed palm Above - Bishop Eddie leads the clergy as they renew their vows in St Hugh’s crosses at the bottom left hand corner. on Maundy Thursday 18 April. The Easter Garden in the Cathedral. From Jill Bromiley St Hugh’s held a Seder Meal, as an enactment of the Last Supper, which was enjoyed by Shirley Bosman, Marian Barrowman and Maureen Thomas. The meal was held on Wednesday 17 April and was well attended. Their rector, Claire Phelps, led it as part of their Holy Week programme. Above - The Holy Table is stripped and the Sanctuary is bare. Left - Good Friday children’s service at St Hugh’s with some of the little ones who attended listening attentively Above - Debbie Calder was part of to the story being the team of very hard workers who told by the rector, cleaned Holy Trinity in Central on Claire Phelps. Holy Saturday. Right - Provost Sharon Nell, despite a very painful and stiff knee, Left - Holding the red cloth, humbled herself and washed the symbolically representing the feet of twelve of the congregants. Blood of Jesus, Andrew White She is seen washing the right foot of and assistant priest Thanduxolo Laura Charakupa, while Tino Gavaza Noketshe cover the cross bearing the assists. various shaped and coloured pieces This year the Cathedral reverted to the stuck on by the people during the traditional Maundy Thursday Service Good Friday Three Hour Service. instead of incorporating it into a meal as St John’s in Walmer was almost full for was done by the early church. the Good Friday Three Hour service. Near the close the congregation looked at being very different shaped people, with different gifts and different aims ? Letter to the editor who need to fit together into the body to Bishop’s photographs make it one. Members of the congregation diocese were aware of this oversight, they I was looking at the March 2019 issue went forward and each picked up a piece would feel the same way! of iindaba - Archbishop Thabo writes of jigsaw puzzle which was then stuck on that this particular issue of the Anglican I do apologise for being a bit like a dog the cross to express the desire to fit into gazette will be read at around the time with a bone! God’s plan for the different gifts of each that the Revd Eddie Daniels is being Felicity Kickhofel person to be used by God. Each piece of consecrated as the FIFTH Bishop of Port St John’s, Walmer a puzzel, although different, fits together Elizabeth. to make a whole picture. Ed replies - Ipso facto: Bishops Philip This brings me back to my query of last Russell, Bruce Evans and Eric Pike did October or thereabouts, regarding the not wish to have a Cathedral building as Bingo afternoon fact that the only name on the board at St they preferred to be ‘in cathedra’ wherever Mary’s is that of Bishop Bethlehem. they were ministering, therefore the St Francis Xavier Whilst the Provost, Sharon Nell’s Church of St Mary the Virgin in Central Jade Road, Kabega Park explanation that he was the first to serve was not their Cathedral. Saturday 29 June “in cathedra“, after St Mary’s had been However, when Bishop Bethlehem was proclaimed / declared a Cathedral, might installed as the Bishop of Port Elizabeth, at 14h30 be perfectly valid, I still think it gives he insisted that he wanted a building as R80 (9 singles + 1 Full House) an erroneous and totally misleading his Cathedral and chose St Mary’s. So, impression that there was, in fact, no Above - Not only the inside but also Refreshments will be on sale protocol declares him the first Bishop Bishop of Port Elizabeth before him. the outside and perimeter area of of the Cathedral of St Mary the Virgin Reading Archbishop Thabo’s remarks just Holy Trinity in Central was cleaned. and therefore the photographs in the made me feel I must again send an email, Assistant priest, Charles van der Cathedral reflect this. expressing my feelings on the subject. Westhuisen, and Gareth Calder are The photographs of all our Bishops can shown cleaning the small garden I would be so bold as to state that I am be seen in the Diocesan Office at 7 Hurd outside the front gate of HTC. quite sure that, if other Anglicans in the Street in Newton Park. 3 iindaba June 2019 The Bishop writes ... A Pilgrim’s Journey to Israel 2019 The view from Dear Family of God, Part 2 pulpit and pew On the second day of our pilgrimage v iindaba asks prayers for: we boarded a bus and headed to the Sea - Neville Lobb, long time member of the Media (Lake) of Galilee. We boarded a wooden Committee. Neville is in hospital struggling with boat, built in Holland, named Concordia. a breathing problem; Interestingly, the lake, at its deepest, is - Dean Mark Derry who is recovering from eye only 50 metres and its size 20km long surgery but there are complications; and 12km wide. Galilee is known as ‘The - Elaine Fleurs, wife of Ulrught, the rector of Heart of David’.
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