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Befriending
network
Age
Concern Suffolk have three befriending schemes and a telephone befriending
scheme operating in the county.
Wendy Herber would love to hear from you if you run a visiting
service or if you are interested in tackling the issue of isolation for
older people in your community.
You can contact her on 01473 288047 or at wendy.herber@ageconcernsuffolk.org.uk Meissen
Library
Fifteen
years ago the Church of England signed the Meissen Agreement and entered
into an exciting ecumenical agreement with the German Protestant Church.
As part of the agreement a Library of German Protestant Studies was
established at Durham Cathedral.
But over £80,000 is needed to help resource and support the
library's work.
If you can help, please send your cheque payable to "Durham
Cathedral Donations Meissen Library" to:
Professor
Ann Loades, CBE Secretary, The
Meissen Library Appeal, Durham
Cathedral Library, The
College, Durham. DH1
3EH. New
World Mission website
A
website intended to stimulate new thinking about the theology
of mission has been set up by USPG, the Methodist Church and the United
College of the Ascension.
www.rethinkingmission.org.uk will be updated regularly with essays,
news and information. Ministers-at-Work
is
a quarterly journal aimed at all Christians who see their secular employment
as their primary Christian ministry.
More details www.chrism.org.uk Da
Vinci Decoded The
film ‘The Da Vinci Code’ was released on May 19th.
Already the book has stimulated many churches to hold ‘Da Vinci
nights’, an opportunity to present the real story behind Dan Brown’s
fictional work.
There are a range of resources available for churches to use. The
Christian Enquiry Agency is producing 270,000 scratch cards to go into
cinemas.
The cards will include an invitation to websites www.thedavincicode.org.uk
, www.rejesus.co.uk/davinci
and
a freepost section to send to CEA. The CEA will send a copy of ‘Cracking
the Da Vinci code’ booklet by Mark Stibbe together with further ideas for
help and an offer of the publication ‘No Ordinary Man’. The
Christian Publicity Organisation has produced a resource package to help
churches run themed nights. More details at www.cop.org.uk/dvc And
for late night reading… Coded
messages – evangelism and the Da Vinci code
by Steve Hollinghurst. Grove Booklet Evangelism
Series Number 73. Steve is Researcher in Evangelism to Post-Christian
Culture at the Church Army Sheffield Centre. Decoding
Da Vinci – the challenge of historic Christianity and fantasy by
Bishop Tom Wright in Grove booklets Biblical Series number 39.
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