We now have dates confirmed for the beginning of the new SEP Discipleship course, using the resources provided by friends from St Martin in the Fields Church.

It is very much designed to meet and greet enquirers and new converts to Christ, offering a chance to think and ponder the presence of God in the world, and call of Christ upon their lives.

Initially the course will be offered ‘online’ only – with evening meetings on Zoom at 7.30pm. Led by Peterson and Phil.

Full details of the date and how to sign up are contained in this month’s mega SEP newsletter available to download here.

There’s also news of  a new £92 million listed places of worship fund to be administered by Historic England and funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Again full details are in the newsletter.

The recent killing of George Floyd has revealed afresh the depths of racism that remain in our world, and the evils that flourish when it is allowed to go unnoticed. Every black life matters, and every black life is of infinite worth in God’s eyes – and ours too.

We abhor racism in all its forms, and are committed to fighting racism, and to pointing to ways in which our society remains unjust and our world unequal.

We are sorry for our failure to recognise racism, our failure to listen to our black sisters and brothers and understand the racism that they have had to endure as an everyday part of their lives, our failure to stand alongside them, and our failure to fight racism and injustice in our communities, in our country and in the world.

We pray that God might be at work in our own lives, in the church, and in the world, revealing and helping us to eradicate racism, and to work for justice and peace in the world that he loved so much that he redeemed it through his Son, Jesus Christ, crucified, buried and risen.