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As we pass the terrible landmark of 100,000 Covid-related deaths across the UK, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York are inviting the nation to pray.
Each person who has died was known and cherished by God.
Mr Welby and Mr Cottrell called on people to join in a “prayer for the nation” at 6pm every day from 1st February.
Read the full text of the letter…
We have started praying on Wednesday at 6pm. Please join us, whether you pray on your own where you are or together on Zoom. Click on the link below to download the prayer sheet for today. It also includes the Zoom link.
Our theme for today is “How to grow in the wilderness”. As we navigate the current crisis, we will explore Jesus’ time in the wilderness and how we can experience growth in hard times. Find all the links below the video.
Church Coffee Online at 11.15am…
Open the Book Video: Jospeh the Dreamer…
Activity Sheet: Jesus calls the disciples…
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayers
Find the prayer sheet for our new weekly evening prayer on Wednesdays in this attachment. It also contains the details to join the Zoom session.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has received his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and encouraged others to do the same. Calling the vaccine “an answer to prayer,” Welby said that receiving the jab is part of Christ’s call to “love our neighbour as ourselves”.
“I want to encourage everyone to get the Covid-19 vaccine when they are invited,” Welby said in a statement. “Staff across the NHS, and health workers across the world, are under immense pressure on the front lines of this pandemic. They deserve not just our admiration but our support – and getting the vaccine when we have the opportunity is something we can all do to help relieve the burden on them.”
Welby received the vaccine due to his work as a volunteer chaplain at St Thomas’ hospital in London. Early on in the pandemic, it emerged that Welby had been secretly volunteering as a chaplain to comfort the sick and dying.
“It has been a privilege to volunteer at St Thomas’ over the past year,” the Archbishop added. “Chaplains here and across the country are doing a vital job of providing spiritual and pastoral care to patients, staff and relatives at this acutely painful and difficult time.”
(Source: premierchristian.news)
Last autumn, Dexter Brown wrote an article about Dentistry during the Covid pandemic.
As we interviewed his wife Jane at Church Coffee Online today to ask how things were going (find the link below), we are publishing the article here again:
By Dexter Brown
On the 23rd of March, I saw my last dental patient and locked up the surgery. The doors did not open again until 9th June. Dental problems did not go away but dental surgeries were told to close and all we could do was give the three A’s: Advice, Analgesics (painkillers) and Antibiotics, as physical contact with patients was prohibited. I spoke to over 60 patients during this period, with issues ranging from minor problems to serious infections.
It felt so medieval in such a modern high-tech profession and era to be resorting to basic DIY dentistry. I guided patients who had sharp and broken teeth to file off edges with nail files. I talked an elderly shielding lady through extracting her very mobile lower tooth and how to deal with the bleeding. She was developing a spreading infection in her face and was terrified of leaving her home for care. Removing the tooth resolved the issue.
One gentleman had a crown (cap) which had come off a tooth. I talked him through how he could correctly relocate it back into his mouth – he practiced and was able to do so. He came to the surgery and collected dental cement for use at home. He called back later to relay that the procedure had ended in disaster and that he now needed a plumber not a dentist. In the course of trying to recement the crown, whilst he was looking in his bathroom mirror, the crown slipped from his fingers, fell down the sink plug hole and lodged itself in the U-bend!
As Covid-19 is a respiratory disease and the virus is therefore present in the mouth, it may be transferred to the atmosphere of the surgery through drilling. Protocols have been developed which require a surgery to be left for an hour after treatment, to allow aerosol to settle. Then every exposed surface in the room has to be wiped down and disinfected. This has slowed the through-put of patients, and where our practice saw up to 30 people a day, we are currently seeing a maximum of 10.
Dentistry has always been a highly clinical and safe place to visit, and I can reassure you that this remains the case today.
At today’s Church Coffee Online we spoke to Jane about life in lockdown. You can catch up here:
Today we introduce another healthy habit of the Christian life: Reading and learning from the Bible. Join Edda and Christoph live from the Rectory. Find all the links mentioned in the service below.
OPEN THE BOOK: ABRAHAM, GOD’S FRIEND…
ACTIVTY SHEET…
If you’d like to explore the Christian faith, we’d love to be part of your journey of faith. There are also some helpful websites as a starting point:
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