Rising to the challenges of the wider world

• Zulu warriors drum up support from Romford

  
  ROMFORD children and residents joined a dance and drum workshop at St Mark's church with the help of visitors from Christian Aid partner organisation KCAP in South Africa.

• Ink is a better deal for poor

  
  AROUND 65 million printer cartridges are used in the UK every year. Only 15 per cent of these are recycled. The rest go to landfill.

• Curates strengthen links with Kenyans

  
  SIX curates and a youth worker from the Diocese of Chelmsford are pictured with retired Archbishop Dr David Gitari during their visit to Chelmsford's link dioceses of Embu and Kirinyaga in Kenya.

• Bishop John encourages participation in Olympics

  
  THE Bishop of Chelmsford Rt Revd John Gladwin, intervened in a House of Lords debate on March 19, encouraging participation in this summer's Beijing Olympics. He suggested the manner of people's participation can have a profound effect - witness the 1936 Munich Games.

• CA backs Global volunteer scheme

  
  A NEW Government backed global volunteering scheme for 18 to 25 year olds will offer young adults from less-advantaged backgrounds the opportunity to live, work and learn about life in poorer countries while making a real difference to people's lives.

• African encounter sharpens vision

  
  EVERY year, hundreds of churchgoers from Essex and East London volunteer for overseas projects for the first time. Civil engineer John Harrison, of St Mary's church Newport, took the plunge, and it changed his views about helping the developing world

• Follow our shoe boxes on a flightpath to Belarus

  
  TRISH CONDER helped pack the Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes in Chelmsford and followed the gifts to their destination in Belarus.

• Lambeth bishops will get taste of Essex parish life

  
  IN July, Chelmsford diocese will have a double celebration.

• Bishop sends messages to Kenyan church

  
  THE Bishop of Chelmsford, Rt Revd John Gladwin, has expressed deep sadness at the tragic loss of lives in Kenya, including those who perished in the church in Eldoret.

• Ernie chops up collar in support of Archbishop

  
  A MINISTER cut up his dog collar in front of surprised parishioners as he pledged to support the Archbishop of York's public stand against Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe.

• Priest caught in killer cyclone

  
  A CYCLONE that killed 260 Papua New Guineans was witnessed by vicar Chris Garland and his wife Nancy.

• On earth as it is in heaven...

  
  Join us this year in supporting projects in Bangladesh, Kenya and Uganda that show we care for our world - for God's world - and the people in it. And pray with us that we will see God's will done on earth as in heaven

• Midnight hour draws close for Holy Land

  
  Bishop John reflects on his visit to Israel and Palestine as chair of Christian Aid

• Classroom Connections

  
  FOR two years a project has been in the planning to link schools and parishes in the Diocese of Chelmsford with schools in the partner Dioceses of Embu, Kirinyaga, Meru and Mbeere in Kenya.

• Andrew is new Bishop in Ethiopia

  
  REVD Canon Andrew Proud, a former member of St James' Church, Colchester who served his title post in the parish of Stansted Mountfitchet, has been consecrated as Bishop for the Horn of Africa.

• Set All Free is spectacular

  
  A SPECIAL service to commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of the Slave Trade Act, ‘Set All Free' was held at Chelmsford Cathedral on the 200th anniversary, March 25.

• Bethlehem remembered

  
  ST Botolph's church in Colchester held three charity concerts during October, November and December to raise £1,500 for the Sheepfold Day Care Centre in Bethlehem.

• Growing a future

  
  THIS year marks the 50th anniversary of Christian Aid Week.

• Sleepover supports Zambians

  
  A GROUP of young people spent the night in Chelmsford cathedral on a 24- hour famine sleepover on February 10 as part of a national campaign organised by World Vision to highlight the needs of people in a project in Keembe, Zambia.

• Flying Fairtrade Flag

  
  Huw Jacobs leads the ‘Peace & Justice’ group which exists to be the conscience of St John’s by regularly bringing peace and justice issuesto our attention (through appeals, campaigns,lunches and magazine articles) andencouraging us to get involved.

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