We hope you're enjoying the wonderful weather this weekend. We also hope you'll find time to join us at Dunsfold Church tomorrow at 10 am for our joint Holy Communion service.If you can't be with us in person you can join us remotely by clicking on the Zoom link below. The link should take you straight to the service but you will also see below the log on details if required.We really do appreciate the number of people who are joining our services from home, hospital and sometimes further afield. You are very welcome.https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2746581498?pwd=WjlIcHBydjdOOEEzZ2tBVDNyMFBaZz09Meeting ID: 274 658 1498 Passcode: 7C7La6And to help those joining us via WiFi you'll find attached an order of service for tomorrow, Trinity Sunday.
"Here I am. Send me." (Isaiah 6:8)As followers of Jesus, we all have a vocation to discipleship first and foremost with some feeling an added sense of calling to a particular ministerial role. When I look back on the situations or activities that have fuelled me in the past such as teaching in one of the largest all-girls schools in Europe and Guiding UK, I realise I have always had a passion for women’s empowerment.I have been Diocesan Advisor for Women’s Ministry (DAWM) for several years now and frequently feel inadequate or insufficient in the role. Yet, like Isaiah, God touches my sense of unworthiness with cleansing words of assurance and sends me to ‘Go tell His people’.As DAWM I represent Guildford Diocese at a national level communicating relevant outcomes to the Director of Ministry. The National Association of Diocesan Advisors for Women’s Ministry (NADAWM) aims to be a resource to the Church of England. We advise and support the National Church, our Diocesan Senior Staff, and women in ministry on a range of issues, as we all work together to make the Church of England a place where women and men can flourish in their calling. NADAWM seeks to EQUIP, EVALUATE and ENGAGE.Consequently, I try to keep abreast of national and regional research and developments in relation to the ministry of ordained women alongside any specific training needs. I welcome the opportunity to listen to women’s stories and come alongside any who are struggling or in need of mentoring. I am fortunate that relatively few women contact me but maybe they are not aware I am here? Please feel free to contact me and I shall continue to be an advocate for women in our Diocese for as long as God calls, and Bishop Andrew requires me to.Reverend Rosemary Donovan, Vicar of Christ Church, Epsom.
The Church of England values our precious choral tradition which is at the heart of our Christian worship and the cultural heritage of the nation, and which offers a first class musical education to thousands of children and young people.Discussing the Government’s four-stage plan, The Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, who leads the Church of England’s Recovery Group, said:“We understand the frustration that many feel at the limitations in current Government guidance at this stage and share the longing for amateur choirs and indeed congregations to be able to sing without restrictions.“During the Covid-19 pandemic we have worked with the Government to try to ensure that guidance for churches and places of worship was proportionate, and informed by a detailed understanding of our environments and practices. All along, we have encouraged the Government to be alert to the consequences of our choirs’ continued silence as well as the loss of congregational singing.“We are reminding the Government of the importance we place on singing to lift our prayers to God, and look ahead to step four and the enabling of the singing of choirs and congregations to fill our churches and cathedrals once more.”
