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ALMA EMAIL CIRCULAR 27 November 2012

From Sheenagh Burrell, ALMA Co-ordinator
almacoordinator@london.anglican.org T: Tuesdays: 020 7932 1231

Dear ALMA Reps and Friends,

ALMA has had a busy autumn: October saw Bishop Paul’s visit and St Paul’s Ealing visit to Niassa and Lebombo. The news hounds among you will have picked up the two reports on Bishop Paul’s visit in the Diocesan news: Bishop Paul shares confirmation with Bishop Mark of Niassa and Bishop of Kensington joins a gathering of 5000 at the Diocese of Lebombo family weekend . We also have an album of photos of the family weekend in Maciene on the ALMA website sent to us by Fr Juliao Mutemba. Later on in the circular I will try to give you a flavour of my parish visit, and the ALMA days I spent in Lichinga and Maputo.

November has proved no less full, with the complication of some wintry coughs and colds! John, Helen D and I went to Swanwick to the Partners in World Mission Conference where Janice Price’s book ‘World-Shaped Mission’ set the tone for a conference on Being Cross-Cultural Christians. Since then we’ve led the monthly MU prayer meeting in the Cathedral and updated Hammersmith and Fulham Deanery Synod on the two church building projects, Xai Xai and T3, they have supported in Lebombo. And finally Revd Richard Fermer has been licensed as Priest in Charge of the Grosvenor Chapel. It is good to welcome Richard and his wife, Giseli, to London.

December of course brings the happy event of Bishop Dinis’ wedding to Lina Valoi on 8 December. Please do pray for them and their families as they prepare for their marriage. I am thrilled to have been given an air miles flight to Johannesburg and to be making a very short visit to Maputo for the wedding to represent ALMA.

1. Diary Dates

1 December. World Aids day

7-9 December. Bishop Dinis and Lina’s wedding weekend. Wedding at St Stephen and at Lawrence Maputo on 8 December

2. News from our Partners

a) Angola

b) Lebombo

c) Niassa

3. London News

With best wishes to you all, and thanks to those who baked for and helped with the Reps meeting with Bishop Mark,

Sheenagh Burrell
ALMA Co-ordinator
Tel: 020 7932 1231 Tuesdays Diocese of London, London Diocesan House 36, Causton St, London SW1P 4AU.