REACHING OUT TO YOU…
One of the perennial problems faced by your Diocesan Service Team is trying to reach out into all the nooks and crannies of our large Diocese - to get to know you and about anything we can do to help your Prayer Group members; whether they live down in rural South Shropshire or are based in one of the urban areas of North Cheshire or on far western side of our Diocese somewhere in the Wirral peninsula. We also have to accept that most, if not all, of our Service Team members have other family and work commitments and are not always able to devote as much time as they would like to the promotion and development of Charismatic Renewal within our Diocese. However, we are doing our best to overcome these problems by trying to establish a Service Team Representative from within each of the fourteen Deaneries that comprise our Diocese as follows:
1. Shrewsbury & West Shropshire (St. Mary's Deanery) Steve Hall Tel: 01743 350 119 Email: alisonsteve@ukonline.co.uk
2. Telford & East Shropshire (St. Peter & Paul's Deanery) Terry Dee Tel: 01939 233037 Email: terrydeeis@hotmail.com
3. Altrincham & Sale (St. Ambrose Deanery) David Waite Tel: 0161 941 3337 Email: dmw@engineering2003.co.uk
4. Birkenhead (St. Bede's Deanery) Vacancy for Deanery Representative at present.
5. Chester & Ellesmere Port (St. Werburgh's Deanery) Fr. Jim Kenny Tel: 01244 371 660
6. Deeside (St. Alphonsus Deanery) Vacancy for a Deanery Representative at present.
7 .East Cheshire (St. Alban's Deanery) Monica Meah (Chairman of Service Team) Tel: 01625 426 844 Email: monicameah@hotmail.com
8. East Wirral (St. John Plessington's Deanery) Philomena Fletcher Tel: 0151 608 0303 Assistant: Gillian Barber Tel: 0151 336 1746
9. Mid Cheshire (St. Margaret Ward's Deanery) Sheila Connor Tel: 01606 553 680
10.NorthEast Cheshire (St. Anselm's Deanery) Fr. Bernard Forshaw Tel: 0161 338 2575 Email: stpeterssb@hotmail.com
11.Stockport (St. Chad's Deanery) Ann Bonner Tel: 0161 456 6152
12.Wallasey (St. Hilary's Deanery Jim McCrave Tel: 0151 638 1654 Assistant: Teresa McLean Tel: 0151 677 3694
13. Warrington & Runcorn (St. Thomas More's Deanery) Sue Colville Tel: 01928 722197 Email: tubyloo@yahoo.co.uk
14.Wythenshaw (St. Bonaventure's Deanery) Lillian Loftus Tel: 0161 998 5295
Additional DST Representatives:
Phil Read-Shaw Tel: 01625 828 152 Email: readshawadvertising@readshawadvertising.screaming .net
Catherine Mossey (Treasurer) Tel: 01625 426 868 Email: newlife@seminar2000.co.uk
Youth Representatives:
Vacancy for a Diocesan Youth Representative(s) at present.
Diocesan Representative:
Sr. Josephine Bird RC Tel: 01244 345 832 Email: Jo@cenacle.fsnet.co.uk
Ecumenical Representative:
Vacancy for an Ecumenical Representative at present.
Vacant Posts in Service Team
If you would like to nominate someone for any of the vacant posts noted above, it would be appreciated if you could initially get in touch with our DST Chairman, Monica Meah (See Deanery No. 7 above).
If there are any other issues you would like to raise or discuss with your Deanery Representative on the DST, why not get in touch with them or just have a friendly chat. We would especially welcome any news of planned events or activities that we can publicise for you in 'The Vision' newsletter - please make sure you let us know about it before the editors deadline which is always noted at the foot of the 'What's On' page.
This Promise is for You….
Anyone wishing to help start up a new prayer group in their Parish or Deanery will be most welcome to borrow the excellent video series "This Promise is for You." Just get in touch with either your Deanery Representative or our DST Chairman to make sure we can book it for your particular dates and also provide you with the excellent Leader's Manual which has lots of very helpful guidance for successfully undertaking this series of six talks given by some internationally renowned speakers.
Prayers Please
Finally, our Service Team would very much appreciate your prayers to enable us to clearly discern how we may best achieve our Vision Statement to "To serve all members of the community within the Shrewsbury Diocese using the gifts of the Holy Spirit to bring love and healing."