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Reflections From Our Minister
Here we are, after 12 months…
Lenten Greetings to you all!
You may be strictly keeping to a Lenten Discipline (as I write we have yet to be on
the first Sunday in Lent- your pancakes are still a recent memory and Easter seems
a long way away).
It was just after the start of Lent 2020 and we had concluded two of our Lenten
study sessions- working with the film Les Miserables- when the first Lock Down
began.
As LD 1 and LD2 seem to merge in my mind’s memory, we have been in lock down
now for practically a year. Here we are, after 12 months… many of us have had our
first vaccine some even both.
Never-the-less even two vaccines do not mean it is safe or advisable for any of us to
resume social visits and mingling, let alone attending a communal act of worship in
one place.
How grateful are you for your vaccine, a gift from the NHS?
If you feel able to, perhaps you might consider donating a nominal sum to the World
Health Organisation /Unseco/ Christian Aid - for their Covid-19 Relief Funding- to
help those around the world in less wealthy countries to get their vaccination-
We know that until the last of us has been vaccinated, we are all at risk. The figure I
heard was that £15-£20 would be a possible gift of appreciation for your vaccination.
As I listen to our Synod evening prayers I am reminded that within our Northampton
churches:
Rev’d Samuel Sillungwe and his wife and son; Rev’d Liz Adams her husband, son
and mother in law to name just a few, continue to battle with the virus.
Long Buckby United Reformed Church