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Safeguarding Training - Foundation & Intermediate United Church Winchester, Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8RZ 10am - 4pm. Arrivals from 9.30am. Please bring your own lunch. Poster to download.
This event is for Church Safeguarding Coordinators and Deputy Safeguarding Coordinators in Wessex Synod. The morning session this year will look at adult safeguarding and case studies. The afternoon session will be led by Julian Whiting on supporting survivors. Julian Whiting is a freelance business development specialist, who among other things is a retired Metropolitan Police officer which included a short stint at Buckingham Palace. He has worked in the voluntary sector with charities supporting children and those parenting alone. He is passionate about truth and justice which stems from his own lived experience of abuse in a faith setting.
Lay Preachers' Gathering at Sarum College, Salisbury. Saturday 29 March 2025 Arrivals from 10.30am for 11am start. Finish at 4pm. If you have any difficulty booking via the website please email bookings@urcwessex.org.uk
Pear Tree Green, Southampton Windsor Trinity Church, Lower Earley, Reading April Eco Prayer God of new life As we celebrate your death and resurrection in Jesus Christ our Lord Amid the beauties and blessings of springtime in this part of the world We remember that you bring new life to places which had lost hope That out of small seeds you bring rich harvests So we pray for all who farm and grow food And those who work with them in harmony with creation and with You Adapting wherever they may to the realities of climate change Finding new ways to feed families And bring hope to communities May we too use our efforts to act with those Who help the poorest And bring life where there was none Through your Spirit Amen
Richmond Hill St Andrew's, Bournemouth Wheatley, Oxford April Eco Prayer God of new life As we celebrate your death and resurrection in Jesus Christ our Lord Amid the beauties and blessings of springtime in this part of the world We remember that you bring new life to places which had lost hope That out of small seeds you bring rich harvests So we pray for all who farm and grow food And those who work with them in harmony with creation and with You Adapting wherever they may to the realities of climate change Finding new ways to feed families And bring hope to communities May we too use our efforts to act with those Who help the poorest And bring life where there was none Through your Spirit Amen
