Ken's Pastoral Letter for June
Dear Friends, It was a great privilege earlier this month, on Saturday the 15th , to gather at the cenotaph in Uppermill, at nine o’clock in the morning, with Rev John Rosedale, team vicar with pastoral charge of St Thomas’s in Delph, and three members of the local branch of the Royal British Legion: Alison, chairperson and on this occasion standard-bearer, Joe, branch secretary and Jackie, branch treasurer and also on this occasion photographer and camera operator, and to ma
Ken's Pastoral Letter for May
Dear Friends, As we enter into May and prepare to celebrate Pentecost later this month we are reminded of the need in the church for the dynamic of the Holy Spirit to empower and to direct our efforts in witness and ministry. The coming of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples in Jerusalem, where they had been commanded by the risen Jesus to wait ‘to be endued with power from on high’ (Luke 24:49), marked the birth and the commissioning of the Church. When the Spirit fell upon h