Alleluia, Christ is risen! Today, I went to a church service in an actual church building for the first time since I preached at St Mary's, Thirsk at the end of the Archbishop's mission in York. That was at the beginning of March. Nathan has taken the brave decision to open St Giles this morning. [...]
Category: Ministry
A month as a Vicar
So, my licensing on Zoom happened just over four weeks ago and I thought I'd check in to say how it's all going. The licensing service itself, although weird because it wasn't in church, was lovely. At Nathan's, there were just 9 screens, and I had wanted to keep mine quite small too. In the [...]
Video: My First Week as a Vicar!
Here is a video I made for the Sunday service at my curacy churches, and, as promised, I'm sharing it here! Holy Trinity and St Michael's have a new section in their service called 'this time tomorrow' where people share the kinds of things they do in their work. Thanks to the wonderful David & [...]
Holy Week in a pandemic: Easter Day
5.45am I am awake to make sure that the link to the sunrise service is posted on the Facebook pages. Usually there is a dawn service outside Holy Trinity, complete with a fire, songs, readings, prayers and bacon butties! Right now, I can hear the birds singing and it is beautiful. I'm not sure that [...]