St Catwg Ministry Area

Events

Mission Action Plan

Pentecost 2025 sees the launch of our Ministry Area Mission Action Plan, calling us all to work together as we seek to develop and deepen our own discipleship and service, as well as to reach out to others in our community with the Gospel of Jesus.

The Mission Action Plan is intended to help us all to live out God’s personal call to mission in our local communities. Working together, we can achieve far more than we can as individual churches. I hope that we will all be able to contribute to making our vision bear spiritual fruit for the Kingdom, under the leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit.

Revd Rana Khan
Ministry Area Leader
Download the MAP

We have also prepared a prayer sheet containing a different short prayer to use on each day of the week. Print as double-sided (flip on short edge and fold) and use it as part of your daily prayer routine.

Daily Prayer Sheet

Jerusalem Choir

The Jerusalem Choir from the Korean London Full Gospel Church will be performing at St Edmund’s Church, Crickhowell at 2.00pm on Saturday 23 November 2024.

Robert Jermaine Thomas travelled from Llanover to China and Korea. Whilst he was killed in Korea for his faith, he left bibles which spread the seeds of the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus.

Come and be blessed through music, words, and refreshments. All are welcome.

Riding Lights Production

We are excited to announce that Riding Lights Theatre Company will be performing this year in the Clarence Hall, Crickhowell. Bring your friends and neighbours for an evening of entertainment and challenge.

Death and Life

Mortality affects us all, but we find it a difficult subject to talk about. In this FREE webinar, Joanna Collicutt discusses with Debbie Thrower her recently published six-week course and unpacks some of the crucial questions that death and dying raises.

The webinar will combine theological insights and practical wisdom to enable churches to create spaces for people to discuss mortality and what is sometimes known ‘as the last taboo’.

If you’re a church leader, bereavement counsellor, chaplain in a care home, hospital or hospice, or work in pastoral care, this free 2-hour webinar on 5 June will be extremely beneficial.

Find out more and sign up here.

Welcome Revd Deb Wilson

Everyone is invited to a special service to license and welcome the Revd Deb Wilson to the St Catwg Ministry Area.

The Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, the Rt Revd John Lomas, will conduct the service which will take place at St Edmund’s Church, Crickhowell on Thursday February 8th at 7 pm.

“It is with great joy that we welcome the Revd Deb to our team in the St Catwg Ministry Area. We look forward to sharing in our collective journey of faith as we serve together in unity and dedication.”
Revd Rana Khan,
Ministry Area Leader

Safeguarding Training

A face-to-face safeguarding training day has been arranged for Wednesday 24th January 2024 in Crickhowell Parish Hall. The trainer will be Rebecca Jones from the Church in Wales safeguarding team.

Module B – 09.30-12.00
Module C – 13.00-16.00

Module B is suitable for all clergy, churchwardens, licensed readers, vergers, MAC members, MA Safeguarding Officer, all safeguarding officers anyone working with children, young people, and adults at risk.

Module C is suitable for MA Leaders, all Safeguarding Officers, MA chairs and MA members and anyone with a leadership role within the church.

Please book online via www.churchinwales.org.uk/safeguarding

Module A is available online and should be completed first with its
certificate.

All safeguarding training needs to be renewed every three years.

Sherill Worgan
MA safeguarding officer.

Leading your Church into Growth

Our joint Ministry Area service on 29 October was inspirational with Bishop John Lomas preaching, and input from Mandy Bayton, the Provincial Director of Evangelism.

The key takeaways were that we need to read our Bibles and we need to pray. There are many resources available to help with this; here are a few:

Bible Apps

You Version Bible App, available for mobile devices. This is free to use and has a very wide range of Bible translations available. Audio reading is available for most of it, read by David Suchet.

The Olive Tree is the one mentioned by Bishop John. This is also free, but has fewer translations available for free. It does have one of the easiest-to-use navigation methods.

Prayer Resources

Lectio 365 from the 24-7 prayer network is an audio devotional for morning or evening prayer. It works particularly well for night time prayer.

PrayerMate is an app to help you manage prayer requests, when you feel overwhelmed by the number of different things you’ve been asked to pray for.

Leading your Church into Growth

You will have heard LyCiG mentioned a lot. The LyCiG website explains what it’s all about.

Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance

As part of the Season of Remembering we will be holding a service to remember loved ones. This service is run in conjunction with ataloss.org helping bereaved people find support and wellbeing.

St Catwg’s Church, Llangattock

Wednesday 1 November at 6pm

Bereavement Journey – Nov 2023

Are you grieving the death of a loved-one or struggling with the long-term effects of loss? St Edmund’s Church will be hosting this course in church commencing on 13 November 2023. Find out more