14 April – online – Methodist Global Relationships Gathering

Wholehearted is a free monthly online gathering of Christians learning, playing, praying and working for the transformation of the Church and world God loves.

On Tuesday, 14 April, from 7 to 9 pm (BST), “We are honoured to welcome Revd Charissa Suli, President of the Uniting Church in Australia. She is the youngest person, the first person of non-Anglo-Celtic background, and the first of Pacifica heritage to hold this esteemed position.

Charissa will share her presidential theme, “Threads of Love: Weaving Christ’s Love Across Cultures and Boundaries.”

She will explore what this means for us as a global family of churches:

      • the power and hope of worldwide church relationships in a fragmented world, and
      • how our churches, shaped by migration and movement, are already globally diverse and multicultural spaces
      • how our churches are strengthened as their many strands are woven together

We will also hear a testimony from Liddy Buswell, reflecting on her experience of last year’s Young Adult Pilgrimage of Peace to Korea, and what it meant for her faith.

End the evening in our Global Relationships breakout room. We are delighted to be able to share this evening with two members of the Iranian Fellowship here in the Methodist Church in Britain who have journeyed from their homeland and found a home within the Methodist Church currently in the New River Circuit in London. Hossein and Farhad will share with us part of that journey in conversation with Nigel Cowgill our Global Communities Officer for the Methodist Church. You are invited to come and hear some of the challenges and the life changing story of Hossein and Farhad and how they live out their faith in a new place and how the Methodist Church has offered the gift of hospitality to them.”

Online and free to join

Register here

Congo Church Association – Prayer points for Anglican churches

Anglican churches continue to serve the people [of the DRC] in all manner of ways and make Jesus known:

  • through education in primary and secondary schools, nursing, dentistry and theological colleges, universities
  • Mothers’ Union groups: Bible study, prayer, care for victims of rape and sexual violence, skills-training
  • outreach including Football for peace initiatives
  • care for orphans, widows and street children
  • hosting displaced people who have lost their homes
  • through healthcare: hospitals, health centres and community health care.

A verse to pray over our friends in DRC: Romans 15:13

May the God of hope fill you (them) with all joy and peace as you (they) trust in him, so that you (they) may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.