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Inaugural Vestry Meeting Summary
On Sunday 6th February, our Inaugural Vestry Meeting as a new Ministry Area took place in St Augustine’s Church. Vestry Meeting Business Here’s a summary of what happened in the Vestry Meeting: Introductions and Explanations: Fr James Henley, Ministry Area Leader, chaired the meeting and began by explaining what the formation of the new Ministry Area would mean in terms of our governance. The Bishop’s decree, issued in our celebration and commissioning service on Sunday 30th January, has united the…
Announcement of new curate
The following announcement was made at all services in the churches of the East Cardiff Ministry Area on Sunday 23rd January 2022: Bishop Cherry is pleased to announce that Tina Parry will serve as stipendiary Assistant Curate in the East Cardiff Ministry Area, following her ordination to the diaconate at the end of June. Tina is already well-known to the congregation at St Augustine’s Rumney, but we look forward to welcoming her to our churches across East Cardiff when she begins her…
Commissioning and Celebration
Update: Livestream info Want to catch up with the celebration service? Watch the recording of the livestream: Download a copy of the Order of Service, to follow along: Invitation Dear Friends You are warmly invited to our: At this service, Bishop Cherry will issue the decree which will legally constitute the new Ministry Area, uniting our East Cardiff parishes. She will also formally commission our Ministry Team. The hall at St Teilo’s has been chosen because it has a large…
Announcement of new clergy
The following announcement was made at all services in the churches of the East Cardiff Ministry Area on Sunday 12th December 2021: We are delighted to announce that Bishop Cherry has appointed three priests to serve in the East Cardiff Ministry Area. The Revd Rose Hill and the Revd Anthony Beer are currently in parish ministry in the Diocese of Llandaff and the Revd Canon Andrew Hutchinson is a school chaplain in Solihull. We look forward to welcoming them in…
Vigil of Prayer
We’d like to invite you to join us in a vigil of prayer from our Feasts of Dedication (Sunday 24th October) to All Saints’ Day (Monday 1st November). Please join us in praying each day, as we hold up in prayer both the candidates and appointees for the three priests needed for our Ministry Area and ask for God’s guidance in bringing our Ministry Area to birth. PRayers For use any day Heavenly Fatherwe offer this time of prayer:the words…
Transition Team Update
Dear Friends I wanted to write with an update on our progress so far as we work together to form the new East Cardiff Ministry Area. Back in April, we formed a Ministry Area Transition Team, with representatives from all seven churches, who have co-ordinated this process. Since then, we’ve focused on three areas — Ministry, Governance and Finance — listening carefully to people’s views, and putting plans together, in each area. Here is what we’ve achieved so far: Ministry…
Forming the new ministry area
Dear friends, Many of you will be aware of the planned changes to Ministry Areas across the Diocese of Monmouth this year. For us locally, this means that the four parishes in East Cardiff will be joining together to form a new, larger Ministry Area: Cyncoed Ministry Area (All Saints’ Cyncoed, All Saints’ Llanedeyrn, St David’s, St Edeyrn’s) Llanrumney (St Dyfrig’s) Rumney (St Augustine’s) St Mellon’s Forming this new Ministry Area will enable us to work together more closely, share…