Archbishop of Wales elected to the Crown Nominations Commission; Scotland: Churches in education link-up; C of E invokes power of prayer to help the press; Ministry and Calling Sunday; Say your online prayers for ‘me’; Church pair on child sex charges
Archbishop of Wales elected to the Crown Nominations Commission
ACNS -The Most Revd Dr Barry Morgan, Primate of The Church in Wales, has been elected to serve on the Crown Nominations Commission for Canterbury, the body that will nominate the next Archbishop of Canterbury. Archbishop Morgan was elected by members of the Standing Committee. They had been asked to nominate one Primate to represent the Anglican Communion on the Commission and their chosen Primates were grouped according to the five regions of the Communion. The Standing Committee then voted by single transferable vote—the method agreed by the Anglican Consultative Council for all its elections—and the name of Abp Morgan emerged.
Scotland: Churches in education link-up
ACNS – Two Churches in the region have signed a ground-breaking co-operation agreement. Representatives of the Church of Scotland’s Presbytery of Annandale and Eskdale and the Galloway District of Glasgow and Galloway diocese of the Scottish Episcopal Church have signed a Learning Agreement. The two denominations undertake to share resources, support and expertise for training and education. The goal is to equip and empower members of both denominations for Christian mission and ministry.
http://www.moffatnews.co.uk/news/churches-in-education-link-up/3162
C of E invokes power of prayer to help the press
Press Gazette – The prayer was written by Peter Crumpler, the former director of communications for the Church of England’s Archbishops’ Council who has worked with the church and media for almost 40 years. He said: “The British media is under the spotlight as never …
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=49269&c=1
Ministry and Calling Sunday – May 20: Churches pray for next generation of leaders
ACNS – Parishioners will pray for people called to lead churches at special services across Wales on May 20.
Ministry and Calling Sunday focuses on people thinking about becoming or training to be priests in the Church in Wales. The day is part of a wider drive by the church to seek out its next generation of leaders.
The services will have prayers and readings themed around ministry and people will be invited to think about whether they, or anyone they know, may have a vocation to be a priest.
The Bishop of St Asaph, Gregory Cameron, who leads the Church’s vocations strategy called Here I Am, Send Me, will be at a service at St Margaret’s Church, Wrexham.
He said, “Every human being finds fullness of life in doing what God has made that person to do. Ministry and Calling Sunday seeks to put the question to everyone ‘What did God make you to achieve in life?’ In particular, the Church wants to discover those whose gifts and calling are to lead the Church in the future – and that leadership could come from the most surprising directions, so we want to cast the net as widely as possible.”
People can find out more about vocation and serving the church online at the Church’s Vocation Wales website. It includes video clips of people describing times in their lives when they valued the ministry of a priest and new leaflets which can be downloaded, about all aspects of ministry.
www.vocationwales.org.uk
Say your online prayers for ‘me’
People accessing the power of prayer online rather than visiting a church are much more likely to pray for themselves rather than someone they know. A study from the University of Warwick analysing the prayers submitted to the Church of England’s Say …
http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/say-your-online-prayers-for-me/
Church pair on child sex charges
A priest and a church organist have been charged with child abuse dating back more than 20 years. Church of England vicar the Reverend Keith Wilkie Denford has been charged with three counts of abusing boys under the age of 16 during the late 1980s
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/church-pair-on-child-sex-charges-1-4526721