Happy New Year to you!
I preached at St Oswald’s last Sunday about epiphanies. I think it’s fair to say that our world needs more of them. Are we willing to be an epiphany for others? Someone in whom others see and hear and feel God’s in-breaking inclusive love into our world? Someone whose living out of Scripture becomes an actual experience of the Word made flesh for others?
Three upcoming things I’m excited about that I wanted to share with you:
1. Lent Retreat in Daily Life
This retreat offers a structured approach to focused prayer, discernment, and conversations with a spiritual guide over 40 days during Lent, while continuing our daily routines and home life. Since many of us lack the luxury of retreating to secluded, peaceful retreat houses, the idea is to create a retreat within our everyday life - not away from it - by dedicating time to listen, align, wait, and then act. More details will be shared next week!
2. Visioning Awayday for all our churches
It is scheduled for Saturday, 7 March, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Hulland Ward Village Hall. It's open to everyone from any of our churches and communities to help decide how our six churches work together and where we are heading.
Everyone is welcome! Your voice matters, and we’d love for you to be part of shaping the future of our shared mission.
3. Tourism Working Group
If you have any background in tourism or have an interest in joining our Tourism Working Group at St Oswald’s Church, I’d love to hear from you! This will be a short-term time commitment. If it goes well at St Oswald’s, we’d love to explore how this might work in our other churches too.
A blessing for 2026
May God the Father keep us in all our days. May God the Son shield us in all our ways.
May God the Spirit bring us healing and peace. May God the Holy Trinity drive all darkness from us and pour upon us blessings and light.
Amen.
Rev'd Dwayne Engh