SS James and John Friern Barnet is linked with St George’s Church, Beira

[Source: Elizabeth Tucker, Parish of Friern Barnet, October 2007]

1998	Parish decides to form a link with St George’s in Beira. Elizabeth Tucker joins the first visit to Mozambique by an ALMA group. She is badly injured in the car accident at Zove that kills Berta Sengulane.
2000	Fr Isaiah from St George’s Beira visits Friern Barnet. Bishop Dinis also visits St John’s. ALMA celebration service at St Paul’s. ‘Place of Hope’ video about Zove distributed to London parishes. It was edited by Elizabeth and Leo Ugo from videos provided by Fr Isaiah.
From 2000	ALMA Sundays held each year, news items shared in the parish magazine, diocesan appeals supported. St George’s Beira, Mozambique and Angola included in prayer diary and intercessions. Contact with link parish via Chris Hemborough who works for Project Mozambique and lives in Beira.
From 2001	Music concerts held in aid of ALMA. Over £6000 has been raised (as of October 2007)
2005	John, David and Frances Philpott visit Beira and neigbouring country, including Zove, where there is now a church called St Mary's, an Esperanca Berta Health Centre and an Esperanca Berta primary school.
2006	Chris Hemborough suggests to Fr Paul Walmsley-McLeod that the Esperanca Berta school could twin with St John’s primary school. Letters received from pupils in Zove, whose ages are very different from those at St John's.
2007	A very good report on Zove is received from Father Isaiah. Bishop Dinis invites ElizabethTucker to be one of his commissaries in England and visits St John’s church in September during a short visit to London. ALMA charity breakfast held at St. John’s School.
2008	On Ash Wednesday Bishop Richard Chartres launches the 2008 Lent Appeal ‘Education for All’ at St John’s Church and St John’s Primary School. Invitation from Father Isaiah to attend the 10th anniversary of Berta’s death in Zove.