by Sara Black | Dec 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
This is GrowTH is a Tower Hamlets homelessness project run in partnership with a number of churches in the borough. Their vision is “to see transformation in the lives of marginalised men and women in Tower Hamlets, for God’s glory”. At their core, they “are a...
by Sara Black | Dec 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Centre for Theology and Community (CTC), based in east London, has been awarded £453,000 by the Strategic Mission and Ministry Investment Board (SMMIB) to extend its work to more than 50 parishes across the country. The award follows a successful three-year pilot...
by Sara Black | Nov 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bishop Joanne has written a prayer for Safeguarding Sunday today, but it could be used throughout the year: Lord of all truth and light, you know the pain of those who are abused, in families, churches, and communities, and by human trafficking. Shine the beams of...
by Sara Black | Nov 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Two pictures from a recent visit to Poland shaped my sense of Remembrance as it approached this year. The first is a chalk sketch of the face of a toddler, Margolit Lichtensztejn, by her artist mother Gela Seksztajn. Margolit’s family was forced into the Warsaw ghetto...
by Joanne Grenfell | Oct 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
Evensong for the London Mayors Westminster Abbey 15 October 2023 The Bishop of Stepney, The Rt Revd Dr Joanne Woolway Grenfell Wisdom 1:1-6, 11; Luke 19.29-40 “As Jesus came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, ‘If you, even you, had only recognized on this...
by Sara Black | Sep 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Father Tom was much loved by the church family at All Saints and St Nicholas and by the people of Poplar and beyond. Tom made a return to the Church in the mid-seventies following the death of his mother. After time he persuaded his father to join him and subsequently...
