Alan

Vacancy for Rector

Vacancy for Rector

As spoken of elsewhere on this website, in our services and on the benefice Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/matvchurch) we have been without a rector since Mark finished in May. We are currently going through the process of consulting our congregations (we had a "vision day" in July) and our PCCs (parochial church councils, one for each parish) are drawing up the information they would like to go in a combined benefice profile. The benefice ministry team has been drawing up a description of the benefice as a whole.

The ministry team is aiming to meet up with all the churchwardens later this month and have the benefice profile agreed by all the PCCs by about 9th October in consultation with our Archdeacon, Catherine, and Bishop Jane. The next step will then be to make the benefice profile available to those who may be interested in joining us. We are appreciative of Catherine's proactive role in helping us, including the posting of Mattishall and Tudd Valley as looking for a new rector even before we here in the benefice got started. Please see our benefice highlighted at Vacancies - Diocese of Norwich. This was put in place back in June.

For more information about the process, please ask any of the ministry team (Rev. Sally Thurgill, Alan Cossey (LLM), Jackie Crisp (LLM) and Mel Stevenson (LLM)).

 

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Alan

Thanks from Open Doors

Thanks from Open Doors

Dear Friends at All Saints - Mattishall, 

Thank you so much for your kind gift of £462.00 to strengthen our persecuted church family around the world who are risking it all to follow Jesus. Thanks to your prayers and support, our brothers and sisters know they are not alone and can stand strong in their faith.
Lalita* gave her life to Jesus last year, exposing her to verbal abuse and physical attack from her in-laws. She and her son were later thrown out of their home after she refused to take part in Hindu funeral rites when a relative died. Her husband has been living abroad for 15 years and her local community won’t help her unless she renounces her faith.
Today, Lalita and her son live in a small house on her in-law’s land. She works as a maid. Her in-laws want her to leave, but she is standing firm in her faith – helped by you, after attending persecution survival training.
“I am very much thankful to God and Open Doors partners,” she says. “This seminar strengthens my faith. I knew that I was not alone in this persecution journey. The stories of God’s people encouraged me to depend on the Lord. This training became a cornerstone for me to stand on in the time of difficult situations. Thank you.”

May the Lord fill you with His Spirit and surround you with His love.

Your sister in Christ,

Henrietta Blyth
CEO, Open Doors UK and Ireland

 

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St Marys

St Marys

New photo St Marys after tower mods

 

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Alan

Rector Vacancy Update

Rector Vacancy Update

As of Sunday 12th May, things are getting underway. When Archdeacon Catherine visited the benefice as part of her already planned "visitation" in April, she met for a short while with the churchwardens who had been already elected. All the churchwardens now elected and the Ministry Team* are going to meet with Catherine and our Rural Dean, Tim Weathersone, on Wednesday 5th June. In the meantime, Catherine will be meeting the Ministry Team on Monday 13th May.

For people who may be interested in becoming Rector of Mattishall and Tudd Valley Benefice, there is already some basic information available at www.dioceseofnorwich.org/about/about-vacancies/ Scroll down to "Upcoming Clergy Vacancies" and then to "Archeaconry of Lynn"

* What was formerly known as the Staff Team is now known as the Ministry Team, the term usually used throughout our diocese and in parish profiles used in vacancies like ours. As with many tltles it can be misunderstood, particularly as there are many in the benefice who exercise different ministries, but when you see "Ministry Team" please think "clergy and Licensed Lay Ministers (LLMs)".

We will be doing our very best to keep everyone up-to-date with things as they happen.

 

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