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Churches Tourism Network, Wales Newsletter - Dec 2012

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Tourism Tidings - Dec 2012

Robert Pope's Address to the Meeting of the National Synod of Wales

'You are the body of Christ and individually members of it' (1 Cor. 12:27) says Paul in this most challenging passage of his first letter to the Corinthians.  It is a passage which offers us two important principles; first, there should be unity and not division in the church for all are one body in Christ and, second, that the body of Christ is made up of diverse people each of whom has a place within it. There is unity, but there is not uniformity. How wonderful that might seem. How easy it might appear to be to practice. How great has been the church's failure down through the centuries to allow such great principles to govern its life and witness.

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Courage, Conscience and Conviction

Events to mark the Great Ejectment of 1662

Now that we are well into 2012, the year that marks the 350th anniversary of The Great Ejectment, when more than 2,000 ministers were turned out of their livings because they could not 'conform' to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, events to mark this significant date are crowding in.

The spirit of the year is captured in the title to a conference at Oxford University – Courage, Conscience and Conviction. The Act of Uniformity obliged all ministers to conform to the practice of the Church of England. Those who refused suffered persecution and harassment. Yet so many did refuse. They faced prosecution, imprisonment and fines. They could not take public office, they could not go to university.

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Prayers for the visit of our Synod to the Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar (FJKM)

The United Reformed Church, National Synod of Wales, Visit to Madagascar
16th - 23rd October 2011

This pastoral visit is being made the Moderator of General Assembly, Mrs Val Morrison, and Revd. Jane Rowell, Secretary for Word Church Relations, with the intention of showing support for FJKM in a period of political turmoil that is still ongoing. We also hope to re-establish a link between our Synod and FJKM. We are asking that Churches will pray for the visit and for FJKM on each Sunday in October.

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