The latest CMS certificate in pioneer mission has been completed with an awards ceremony and commissioning of three new lay pioneers in the Diocese. Eight completed the course, with two being from Jersey. These pioneers are work across housing estates, among the homeless and those recovering from addiction, children and young people, the houseboat community on the Kennet and Avon canal, and rural Dorset village.
During Evensong on Monday 23 September, four new canons were installed into the College of Canons. In a service held at Salisbury Cathedral, The Revd Kate McFarlane (Rector of the Benefice of St Bartholomew in Semley), The Revd Paul Brooks (Vicar of St Paul's in Jersey), Alan Smith (First Church Estates Commissioner for the Church of England) and Sue de Candole (Diocesan Registrar), were installed by Bishop Stephen.
Last Sunday, after a long journey of faith, Linda Bird-Davis decided to get baptised outside Bremhill Church (St Martin's).
As the partnership enters its 53rd year, Canon Ian Woodward writes of dire developments in Sudan and urgent need for food and prayer
95 year old Mavis Lindstrom confirmed in joyful service in Bradford on Avon
On Saturday 28 September two new lay ministers will be admitted and licensed in Salisbury Cathedral by Bishop Karen as Warden of Licensed Lay Ministers, and many more will renew their promises, as they do each year in a service that celebrates this essential ministry.
Last Sunday, 1 September, over thirty bikers from Dorset and Wiltshire came to St Mary's, Gillingham for a motorcycle blessing.
On Sunday 1 September, Creation Sunday at the start of Creationtide, St John's Church in Broadstone celebrated their Silver Eco Church Award. When the St John's Eco Gang will be leading the morning service. There is also an afternoon pet service at 3pm that day, called Wet Nose Sunday, when all pets are brought to the service and blessed, and they will celebrate it there also. Eco Church and Pet Service celebrations held in Broadstone!
On the current violence across the UK.
"No longer the forgotten people of the Holocaust" said Betty Smith Billington from the Dorset based Kushti Bok charity
