St Mary Magdalene is linked with the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Lusaka, Zambia. Dean Charlie Thomas and Rod Corke are in Email contact, and, although as we go to press this link is in its infancy, we hope to establish a relationship-based link.
Our vision of Mission is of people learning about each other so that needs become apparent and there can be a reciprocal giving and receiving. The hope is that the various groups in both parishes establish contact by letter or email, eg, the home groups with their home “cells”, the two choirs and the sacristans and servers, the Mothers’Union, the youth groups in both places, and more, and as relationships grow there is the possible potential of visits both ways.
The Cathedral officially inaugurated their link with a service with their Bishop on 13th September. St Mary Magdalene launched its link on 18th October with a special African-themed service, at which Jenny Humphreys, our Diocesan Link Secretary, talked, followed by a celebratory lunch.
