Mission

Pray for the Celtic Roots Festival

The upcoming Celtic Roots Festival is a response to the LyCiG challenge to be more present in our communities. Another aspect of this challenge is to be praying more for our communities. We will therefore be combining these two priorities at St Edmund’s Church, Crickhowell on 17 October from 5pm – 6.30pm with an exciting evening of prayer for the festival.

Please come and join us for this time for what promises to be a key part of the Celtic Roots Festival. We will explore a little of what prayer can be, will spend time actually praying, and will explore the ways in which we can continue to pray before, during, and after the festival.

Find out more about how to pray for the festival here.

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.

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.

Anna Chaplain for Crickhowell & Llangynidr

We are delighted to announce Nell Cawley as the new Anna Chaplain for Crickhowell and Llangynidr. Nell is being commissioned during the Holy Eucharist service at Llangattock on September 17th at 9.30am. Archdeacon Alan will be leading the service and commissioning Nell.

Please encourage members of your church to come along and support her. It will be a joyous occasion. All are welcome!

Youth Leader Recruitment

We’re looking for a Youth Leader for the St Catwg Ministry Area, based in Crickhowell. Are you passionate about reaching out to young people and sharing God’s love with them? Do you know someone who would relish this opportunity? Find out more

Pioneer Ministry

The summer edition of the Church of England’s The Reader magazine was all about pioneer ministry. The article on pages 8-9 ‘What is Pioneer Ministry?’ was particularly interesting.

The Reader, Summer 2017

Our motivation is not primarily to get more people into church or to increase our level of income so we can keep the church going but simply to love those people outside the church enough to want to share Jesus with them.

Geoff Willis, chaplain evangelist at Lee Abbey when we were there back in the 1990s, always used to ask ‘Do we have any good news worth sharing? Do we have anyone worth sharing it with?’. Unless we can answer yes to both those then we are in deep trouble!

Ministry Area Prayers

It was good to see so many people from across the Ministry Area at this evening’s prayer meeting. Peter had put together a visual tour of the ministry area with prayer points for each of the ten churches. Mairwen introduced some of the themes we’ll be using in the forthcoming mission and Barry presented a summary of a recent report from the Church Times on the missing generation in our churches.

You can view some of the presentations as PDF files:

Ministry Area Prayer Journey

Writing on the Wall

Planning the Mission

First planning meeting for the mission week, and things are beginning to take shape. Last week Nick and Sue from Lee Abbey came to talk to the Ministry Area Council, and this evening we started to put together some ideas for a programme of events for the ten days. We’ll be preparing a newsletter before long so look out for the sign-up form on the website soon.

Visit from the Lee Abbey Mission Team

It was great to meet members of the Lee Abbey this Sunday led by Mission Chaplain Nick Haigh. With some well-coordinated transport they were able to visit all 10 churches for their morning services, with Nick preaching at both Llangattock and Crickhowell, and several of the team sharing testimonies of their experience of God. We look forward to the start of the mission in May.