Members of the community across the Upper Wreake Benefice recently enjoyed a prayerful week of pilgrim walks, taking in the beautiful, rural landscape and reflecting on where God was at work in their villages and the wider diocese. The four walks each covered between two and five miles and took place among the parishes of Frisby, Hoby, Rotherby, Ragdale, Kirby Bellars and Brooksby.
Bishop Martyn is asking for urgent financial support for our partners in India. We are hoping to help them purchase a new ambulance, oxygen concentrators, a ventilator and other equipment costing a total of £80,000.
Our Diocesan Director of Education, Canon Carolyn Lewis has been asked by the Rt Rev Libby Lane, Bishop of Derby to lead the work of Derby's Diocesan Board of Education for an interim period. Carolyn will undertake this role in addition to her role in our diocese and so become one of the first Executive Diocesan Directors of Education (DDE) in the Church of England. This is a pioneering step for both Leicester and Derby's education teams.
Bishop Martyn unveiled the quilt at a special service at a church in Castle Donington
A small network of churches and Christian organisations around the diocese have come together to help provide jobs for young people at risk of long-term unemployment.
This morning (17 May) saw not only the re-opening of the diocesan offices in St Martins House, but also the relocation to it of the much-loved "Statue of the Welcoming Christ" from Launde Abbey, the diocesan Retreat House, and the opening of Cafe No 7 (formerly the White Rose café), which is open to the public and located in St Martins House, next to the Cathedral.
On Sunday 16 May a service of confirmation and baptism took place at Leicester Cathedral.
The new book is available in paperback from Christian Resources book shop
New resources for the Diocese of Leicester
You can listen here to an inspiring interview broadcast by presenter Jo Bostock on BBC Radio Leicester's Sunday faith programme on 8 May 2021 with young Christians from some of our churches in the diocese talking about their new podcast project. Our Youth Ministry Officer Mike Kelly introduces their project.
