This Sunday (November 21st) we are delighted to welcome the Junior Choristers of the Guildford Cathedral Choir to lead a service of choral Evensong at 4pm at St Mary and All Saints' Church, Dunsfold.There are few more beautiful moments in an ancient church like ours than a cathedral choir guiding us through a service. Sunday afternoon's service should be truly memorable and we hope you can join us.We will be able to savour the exquisite voices of the choir. They will be accompanied by Canon Gilly Myers who will officiate at the service.The organist will be Cathedral organ scholar Michael Stephens-Jones.
Our joint parish Holy Communion service tomorrow is at St Peter's Church, Hascombe. If you can't be there you can join via the Zoom link below.Our celebrant is Reverend Tim Clifford Hill, the curate at St Nicolas, Cranleigh.https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86223710095?pwd=YnNqd1VTQXludVgyQUR2alMvZXdiZz09
Henry Akingbemisilu was born in Nigeria, coming to the UK to study mathematics and computer network engineering. His journey to ordination started in 2008, but it was only in 2015 that he finally started the official discernment process with Southwark Diocese. In the years that preceded this, he was involved in his church – in the choir, in prayer ministry groups and as Church Warden for eight years but felt a ‘calling’ to do more.“You know, when God is calling, you just won’t be at peace with yourself until you give in,” he explained. “It took me so many years.“I asked myself is this God or is it me making things up?“I was fighting it!” he laughed. “I held it to myself for so long, then I began to speak to the people around me – my family, my vicar.“I also knew a priest who had trained in my church. He was a government lawyer and a priest. He encouraged me, you don’t have to drop your job, he told me.“That was when I got the confirmation that I could continue doing what I was doing.”Henry (see photo) has continued working in Data Science and reading the latest in artificial intelligence.“I don’t plan to give up my job, I plan to be self-supporting all my life,” he said. Looking ahead, Henry added: “My long-term goal is to be a part of the people God will use to transform unjust structures of our society.“My immediate concern for the future as Deacon, is to see the needs of my community and attend to that. What do they need?"Where can I step in?” Henry reflected: “We can make plans all we like but it’s all in God’s hands.”
