ALMA Sunday 2011

The ALMA Sunday Poster

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Planning for the ALMA Sunday Eucharist at St Paul’s Cathedral on Sunday 10 July at 6pm is well underway. We’re delighted Bishop Dinis will be with us and warmly invite all ALMA Reps and Friends, your congregations, extended families and neighbours. There’s a colourful poster (right), which is available for you to download and display. Please don’t forget your church halls and external notice boards.

There are also three ways we would love you to be involved!

New Links will be prayed for and invited to receive a Link Covenant Certificate as part of the service (in due course all links will receive such a certificate along with one in Portuguese for their link parish or school). This ALMA Sunday we will celebrate the new links formed in the last year:

• St Marylebone with the Parish of the Martyrs Uige (A)
• St Peter’s Eaton Square with St Joseph’s Huambo (A)
• St Paul’s Bow Common with Santa Monica Malhazine, Maputo (L)
• St Barnabas Northolt with the Parish of Chigoma  (N)
• St Augustine’s Whitton with the Parish of Mecanhelas (N)
• Dr Tripletts Primary School with Malange Missionary Area (A)
• Stepney Greencoats Primary School with St Joseph’s Anglican College (A)
• Twyford C of E High School with Maciene School (L)

River of Prayer in Action

Beryl Warren spoke at the ALMA REPS meeting about the ‘River of Prayer in Action’: an opportunity to take part in a Link procession behind the ALMA banner holding some of the River of Prayer fabric from the 2008 10th anniversary service which is incorporated into the ALMA Banner. Please get back to her on this and remember it’s a great way of involving young people! She writes: ‘An open invitation to all ALMA Reps, especially members of twinned churches and schools to celebrate by being part of the ‘River of Prayer in Action’. It will be fun!’ berylwarren@hotmail.com

Joining the Diocesan Choir for the Service

ALMA Reps of good voice are invited to join the Diocesan Choir for this service. Mervyn Hogg who leads the Diocesan Choir writes

‘Singers from Link parishes  are encouraged to participate and are invited to register with me by email giving their name, voice part and church. Please respond by 12 June if possible. (Email  mervyn.hogg@blueyonder.co.uk)

The service and the music will include hymns, an African song, possible a congregational setting of the mass and an anthem during communion. I will let you know about details of the music a little nearer the time.

The intention is to meet on the day for a choir rehearsal, circa 16:15 - 17:30, in the Wren Suite (in the crypt of the Cathedral near the coffee shop). Our rehearsal will be partly concurrent with an organ concert so after that we will robe and go upstairs to form a procession in the Dean’s aisle in readiness to sing the service under the Dome. I anticipate the service will be finished before 19:30 so the commitment is just over three hours’.