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As part of 'The Big Hello' welcome being extended to around 1,000 bishops attending the Anglican Communion’s Lambeth Conference in Canterbury in July 2020, we expect to host up to 20 at St Martins Lodge in Leicester. We are delighted that this occasion will bring together Christians from around the world, united in worship of Jesus Christ. We hope to have help from churches around the diocese to assist with the following:
To find out more about any of these volunteering opportunities, please email lynn.phillips@leccofe.org
A working group is co-ordinating our participation in this hospitality Initiative. We want to offer our visiting bishops scope for rest and refreshment following international travel but also for mutual blessing of the body of Christ as we serve the bishops and they serve our communities. We are planning various ways of celebrating ‘the world in a diocese’ both with our visitors and residents, reflecting the fabulous variety of God’s world.
This will provide an opportunity for each bishop to contribute in some way to a worship service (eg interview, sermon or testimony) as well the church community enabling the bishop to experience something of their local context (and perhaps mission activities) through the lunchtime and early afternoon, but without exhausting them! Most importantly, for both hosts and bishops, we hope the Sunday visits will deepen mutual learning and delight in our membership together of the Body of Christ! If your church or fresh expression of Church is interested in hosting:If your church or fresh expression of church is interested in hosting, please click here for an expression of interest form that you can complete. We want to learn from each other different ways in which our Everyday Faith is lived out and God’s love is shared. We hope that each church community visit might:
You can see a range of prayer resources by clicking here, and you can also watch Videos made by the Lambeth Conference team here.
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Pre-Lambeth Conference hospitality: The Big Hello
