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  • The beginning of another week … We begin our ninth week of lockdown with … 💗 A heartfelt thanks to everyone who has donated to our Christian Aid appeal. We have raised well over a thousand pounds in online giving through Christian Aid week. 🔒 Thanks too for messages of encouragement and understanding yesterday as Zoom wouldn’t allow…

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  • Bore da!  Good morning! Welcome to our online service, brought to you by Reverends David and Eryl Parry, Lana Flood and Andrea (Andy) Butler. We are joined by many others at the end, so we hope that it gives a real sense of us as a community being joined together in worship. Simply click the arrow…

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  • ‘Built up’ in love When we having been saying ‘we’ through the pages of these daily reflections – who do we mean? It’s certainly not only those who live and worship in the churches of the Bro Celynnin Ministry Area, although many of ‘us’ do. We are connected across the miles by love, and a…

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  • God is love What a great title to be given by today’s reflection-writer, Ros Hughes, as she ends our week in the way we started – singing! Her reflection helps us to use the words of a famous hymn as today’s prayer. We have indeed seen lots of indications of God’s love working through His…

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  • Doing ‘lockdown’ time From time to time, some of our writers have given us helpful insights by relating previous experience to our current shared situation. Today, we get to know more of Andrea (Andy) Butler’s work as a prison chaplain – where ‘doing time’ is well understood! Mae amser wedi ei bennu i bopeth, amser penodol i bopeth…

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  • Greetings Today we begin with greetings from Marjorie Stott, a long-standing member of the choir at St. Mary’s Conwy. Like many of our more senior folk, she is not able to connect online, but we are indebted to others in our community who print these daily reflections regularly to make sure everyone is included. It fits well with the…

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  • Hidden Depths One of the recent themes for discussion in some of the church press and amongst Christians friends, has been ‘What do we think God might be saying to us through this crisis?’ Reverend David Parry has been drawn to the channels in the mudflats of Conwy’s low tide as a metaphor for these…

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  • Keep on singing! This is the start of week 8 of lockdown – and we are blessed each morning by the contributions of different members of our community who have written, shared songs, prayers and ‘sung out’ the messages of God’s love and faithfulness far and wide through email, social media, website and print. Thank you…

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  • Welcome to Sunday Worship As this Sunday is the beginning of Christian Aid Week, we have made it the theme of our short service of worship together. We have also opened a ‘Just Giving’ page for donations to this year’s Bro Celynnin Christian Aid Appeal. Please click here to make a donation. There’s an invitation, too, to see…

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  • We are the church There has been much speculation this week about the likely content of the Prime Minister’s next national address. What will he say about the possible lifting of some of the restrictions on our daily lives? There has inevitably been debate too about when we might be able to get access to…

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