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AGM
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25th Anniversary Celebration-
April 5th 2008
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Top row - Bishop Roy Screech; The
Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop Roy sort through the questions; Audrey
receives a bouquet as our first Chair.
Lower row: Frank Field MP cuts our celebration cake; Jenny, Frank and
the Archbishop talk; general view of the Broken Rites audience; The Rev'd
John Marsh (Moderator Elect of the United reformed Church presents gift
to Broken Rites.); Irish visitors including Rev Ted Woods representing
Archbishop of Dublin; with the Rev. Hayden Foster representing Diocese of
Connor and the very Rev. Patrick Rooke, Dean of Amagh and two Broken Rites
reps.
We had a wonderful celebration
held at St. Columba's, Church of Scotland, Pont Street, London. In the
morning, we had the business meeting followed by a delicious buffet lunch.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and other guests and Church Representatives
joined us over lunch. Then Frank Field MP cut our cake and made a short
speech followed by a presentation to our first Chair.
After that, The Rev'd
John Marsh gave a short message and presented a gift to Broken Rites of a lantern. This
was received by Ruth, our non C of E Representative. We all enjoyed tea
and a piece of cake Then, the Archbishop spoke and answered
written questions. Finally, Bishop Roy closed the meeting with a blessing. |
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Summary of his
address
The Archbishop was born
in Swansea in 1950 and he read theology at Christ's College, Cambridge before
researching Christianity in Russia at Oxford University. Then he lectured for
two years at Mirfield Theological College followed by nine years at Cambridge
before becoming Professor of Theology at Oxford in 1986.
He was enthroned as
Archbishop of Wales in 2000 before becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. He has
written many theology books and his interests include music, fiction and
languages. He is married with a son and daughter.
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Our Display at General Synod in February
Thank you very much to everyone who supported this
event. Before the AGM there
was our display at The General Synod of the Church of England in February
this year. This seems rather a long time ago now! This was a
worthwhile venture and was an important thing to do to help raise
awareness of our existence.
People did come and
look at the stall, take leaflets and other information and we were able to
talk to Synod members. I am extremely grateful to Christine McMullen for
sponsoring the
display, to Dilys our Associate member on the Committee for organising
this event, and also to her and her family for bringing display stands,
pamphlets, leaflets, books etc. Without them we simply would not have
managed. I am also grateful to some of the London members for staffing
the stall, to Cilla for coming down from York to help, and to Jenny and
her son Julian for the posters. Jenny Dunlop, a Cheshire
Solicitor who has
helped many Broken Rites members is also a member of General Synod and was
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Our Presence General Synod:-
This is the first time we have arranged a display at
the National Assembly of the Church of England which consists of three
houses of Bishops, Clergy and Laity. They meet two or three times a year.
In February, they were meeting at Church House in Westminster.
We were sponsored by Christine, a member of
General Synod and our display was manned by different members of Broken
Rites over the four days Synod met. It gave us an unique opportunity to
talk to members of Synod and publicize our work.
Click here for
Christine McMullen's Booklist
Click here to see Broken Rites AGM in Edinburgh
in 2006
Click here for the visit to Northern
Ireland in October 2005
Click here for the
Residential committee Meeting held at Chester Retreat House in October 2006
BROKEN RITES STALL AT THE METHODIST CHURCH CONFERENCE
Ruth, the Non C of E Rep on the
Committee, has been able to arrange a Broken Rites stall on 7th 8th and
9th July at the Methodist Church Annual Conference to be held in
Scarborough this year.
I think this is a wonderful
new initiative and I am grateful for all Ruth’s hard work which hopefully
will help to raise awareness of the work of Broken Rites in that
denomination. I am sure we will all be interested to have an update in
the next edition of The Rite Lines. |
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