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Rector’s Easter Letter

Dear friends and parishioners,

It’s the time of year when many of us are sowing seeds (or watching others sowing…); getting out into gardens and parks, and seeing the first flowers springing to life, enjoying the colour of a bright blue sky or the pink buds on a tree or the unfurling of a green leaf. It always feels miraculous that new life can come from bare earth; that things which we do can have practical, visible and beautiful results. Seeds often look so unpromising – small, brown, the opposite of what they turn into.

So too the death of a preacher from a small town in Northern Israel 2000 years ago – an apparent troublemaker who challenged his own people and annoyed the ruling authorities – must have looked like a small, unpromising event. Yet from this ‘unpromising’ start came a practical, visible and beautiful result; a group of people who were committed to one another and to loving and helping those around them, the very first Christians. The Easter story does not begin and end on Easter Day. It is never-ending. The things which we do continue to affect people (increasingly so in the context of the ‘global village’), and we can often choose to act in ways which enrich the lives of others, simply by thinking a little before we act. Placing love at the heart of what we do brings new life, even into situations which seem unpromising or hopeless.

With my love and best wishes for a very happy Easter,

Rev. Nicola Lenthall

Telephone 872 223

group of people who were committed to one another and to loving and helping those around them, the very first Christians. The Easter story does not begin and end on Easter Day. It is never-ending. The things which we do continue to affect people (increasingly so in the context of the ‘global village’), and we can often choose to act in ways which enrich the lives of others, simply by thinking a little before we act. Placing love at the heart of what we do brings new life, even into situations which seem unpromising or hopeless.

With my love and best wishes for a very happy Easter,

Nicola Lenthall

Rector