Dear Friends

Can it possibly be time to write again?  Can it really be a month since our Christmas celebrations already?  Doesn’t time fly when you are having fun.  As I write we are concluding our celebrations of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity after a
wonderful service at St Philip’s and St James’.  It was lovely to see Christians from across the village sharing in food, fellowship and worship together and bringing our hopes for 2010 to God.

This is a very special year as it marks 100 years of the modern ecumenical
movement with the anniversary in June of the 1910 World Mission Conference which was held in Edinburgh.  This conference sought to bring Christians from many
traditions together after years of ‘competing’ with each other in the missionary field.  Many look back to that time and see the hopeful beginnings of the Churches
Together movement.  As the Chair of Churches Together in Alderley I am passionate about working together; it has been an enormous pleasure over the last 2½ years to share in times of worship and witness with Christian friends around the village but I continue to hope for even greater cooperation between the churches.

I wonder how many of you have attended one of our Edge of Reason events at Costa Coffee?  These are part of our ecumenical outreach.  Part of the purpose of these events is that Christians in the village are being seen in a prominent place.  Our next event is on 21st February at 5pm when we will be sharing together looking at Lent as a time of preparation.

I wonder how many of you attended our ecumenical Hunger Lunches last year?  These provide a wonderful time of sharing, learning, fellowship and Lenten
preparation.  This year Alderley Edge Methodist Church will be hosting all these events from 8th February for 7 weeks.  Rev Jane Parry will be leading us through a series of studies on the ‘Seven Churches of Revelation’.  Each study will last 30

minutes followed by a soup hunger lunch with a recommended minimum donation of £3 to Christian Aid.  Come along and join us.

I wonder how many of you have attended an ecumenical service in the last year?  Many will have joined us on the Good Friday Walk of Witness and some on the Easter Morning Sonrise service at Castle Rock, Alderley Edge.  If you haven’t experienced these before then it is a fantastic opportunity to share together.

There is so much to celebrate with our Christian friends throughout the village but there is much more we could do together.  Come and join one of our events, and please pray that God’s kingdom will be furthered here in Alderley.

Yours in Christ
Ben

Dear Friends

Can it possibly be time to write again?  Can it really be a month since our Christmas celebrations already?  Doesn’t time fly when you are having fun.  As I write we are concluding our celebrations of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity after a
wonderful service at St Philip’s and St James’.  It was lovely to see Christians from across the village sharing in food, fellowship and worship together and bringing our hopes for 2010 to God.

This is a very special year as it marks 100 years of the modern ecumenical
movement with the anniversary in June of the 1910 World Mission Conference which was held in Edinburgh.  This conference sought to bring Christians from many
traditions together after years of ‘competing’ with each other in the missionary field.  Many look back to that time and see the hopeful beginnings of the Churches
Together movement.  As the Chair of Churches Together in Alderley I am passionate about working together; it has been an enormous pleasure over the last 2½ years to share in times of worship and witness with Christian friends around the village but I continue to hope for even greater cooperation between the churches.

I wonder how many of you have attended one of our Edge of Reason events at Costa Coffee?  These are part of our ecumenical outreach.  Part of the purpose of these events is that Christians in the village are being seen in a prominent place.  Our next event is on 21st February at 5pm when we will be sharing together looking at Lent as a time of preparation.

I wonder how many of you attended our ecumenical Hunger Lunches last year?  These provide a wonderful time of sharing, learning, fellowship and Lenten
preparation.  This year Alderley Edge Methodist Church will be hosting all these events from 8th February for 7 weeks.  Rev Jane Parry will be leading us through a series of studies on the ‘Seven Churches of Revelation’.  Each study will last 30

minutes followed by a soup hunger lunch with a recommended minimum donation of £3 to Christian Aid.  Come along and join us.

I wonder how many of you have attended an ecumenical service in the last year?  Many will have joined us on the Good Friday Walk of Witness and some on the Easter Morning Sonrise service at Castle Rock, Alderley Edge.  If you haven’t experienced these before then it is a fantastic opportunity to share together.

There is so much to celebrate with our Christian friends throughout the village but there is much more we could do together.  Come and join one of our events, and please pray that God’s kingdom will be furthered here in Alderley.

Yours in Christ
Ben

Dear Friends

Can it possibly be time to write again?  Can it really be a month since our Christmas celebrations already?  Doesn’t time fly when you are having fun.  As I write we are concluding our celebrations of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity after a
wonderful service at St Philip’s and St James’.  It was lovely to see Christians from across the village sharing in food, fellowship and worship together and bringing our hopes for 2010 to God.

This is a very special year as it marks 100 years of the modern ecumenical
movement with the anniversary in June of the 1910 World Mission Conference which was held in Edinburgh.  This conference sought to bring Christians from many
traditions together after years of ‘competing’ with each other in the missionary field.  Many look back to that time and see the hopeful beginnings of the Churches
Together movement.  As the Chair of Churches Together in Alderley I am passionate about working together; it has been an enormous pleasure over the last 2½ years to share in times of worship and witness with Christian friends around the village but I continue to hope for even greater cooperation between the churches.

I wonder how many of you have attended one of our Edge of Reason events at Costa Coffee?  These are part of our ecumenical outreach.  Part of the purpose of these events is that Christians in the village are being seen in a prominent place.  Our next event is on 21st February at 5pm when we will be sharing together looking at Lent as a time of preparation.

I wonder how many of you attended our ecumenical Hunger Lunches last year?  These provide a wonderful time of sharing, learning, fellowship and Lenten
preparation.  This year Alderley Edge Methodist Church will be hosting all these events from 8th February for 7 weeks.  Rev Jane Parry will be leading us through a series of studies on the ‘Seven Churches of Revelation’.  Each study will last 30

minutes followed by a soup hunger lunch with a recommended minimum donation of £3 to Christian Aid.  Come along and join us.

I wonder how many of you have attended an ecumenical service in the last year?  Many will have joined us on the Good Friday Walk of Witness and some on the Easter Morning Sonrise service at Castle Rock, Alderley Edge.  If you haven’t experienced these before then it is a fantastic opportunity to share together.

There is so much to celebrate with our Christian friends throughout the village but there is much more we could do together.  Come and join one of our events, and please pray that God’s kingdom will be furthered here in Alderley.

Yours in Christ
Ben

Dear Friends

Can it possibly be time to write again?  Can it really be a month since our Christmas celebrations already?  Doesn’t time fly when you are having fun.  As I write we are concluding our celebrations of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity after a
wonderful service at St Philip’s and St James’.  It was lovely to see Christians from across the village sharing in food, fellowship and worship together and bringing our hopes for 2010 to God.

This is a very special year as it marks 100 years of the modern ecumenical
movement with the anniversary in June of the 1910 World Mission Conference which was held in Edinburgh.  This conference sought to bring Christians from many
traditions together after years of ‘competing’ with each other in the missionary field.  Many look back to that time and see the hopeful beginnings of the Churches
Together movement.  As the Chair of Churches Together in Alderley I am passionate about working together; it has been an enormous pleasure over the last 2½ years to share in times of worship and witness with Christian friends around the village but I continue to hope for even greater cooperation between the churches.

I wonder how many of you have attended one of our Edge of Reason events at Costa Coffee?  These are part of our ecumenical outreach.  Part of the purpose of these events is that Christians in the village are being seen in a prominent place.  Our next event is on 21st February at 5pm when we will be sharing together looking at Lent as a time of preparation.

I wonder how many of you attended our ecumenical Hunger Lunches last year?  These provide a wonderful time of sharing, learning, fellowship and Lenten
preparation.  This year Alderley Edge Methodist Church will be hosting all these events from 8th February for 7 weeks.  Rev Jane Parry will be leading us through a series of studies on the ‘Seven Churches of Revelation’.  Each study will last 30

minutes followed by a soup hunger lunch with a recommended minimum donation of £3 to Christian Aid.  Come along and join us.

I wonder how many of you have attended an ecumenical service in the last year?  Many will have joined us on the Good Friday Walk of Witness and some on the Easter Morning Sonrise service at Castle Rock, Alderley Edge.  If you haven’t experienced these before then it is a fantastic opportunity to share together.

There is so much to celebrate with our Christian friends throughout the village but there is much more we could do together.  Come and join one of our events, and please pray that God’s kingdom will be furthered here in Alderley.

Yours in Christ
Ben