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Norfolk health chaplain to lead online prayer  Rev Helen Garrard, Lead Chaplain for Norfolk Community Health and Care is holding a weekly two-hour online prayer meeting following on from a 24-hour prayer vigil for all NHS acute and community services and other care providers. Talking from her own, frontline experience, Helen said: “The situation nationally has been deteriorating for many weeks with increasing cases of Covid-19 arising from a newer, highly transmissible variant. In Norfol...

Sound repairs help Christmas Masses reach 1000s St John’s Catholic Cathedral in Norwich welcomed around 1800 socially-distanced worshippers over its 17 Christmas Masses and many more via its live-stream and on Radio Maria after some emergency work on its sound system, which completely failed on Christmas Eve. The entire Cathedral in-house and live-stream sound went down at 11am on Christmas Eve and Director of Music Daniel Justin turned to the Cathedral’s sound engineer, Darren Butler of...

Security Measures Spur Angry Exchange in House: Inaugural Update Bloomberg 1/13/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg U.S. President Donald Trump waves while disembarking Air Force One at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, U.S. on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. (Bloomberg) -- Metal detectors at entry to House floor spark complaints by lawmakers. President Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff says it would be uncharacteristic for him to appeal to the nation f...

The Norfolk and Norwich Christian community website Network Norwich and Norfolk > People > Opinion > Inspiration from a year most of us will want to forget Opinion Inspiration from a year most of us want to forget Keith Morris finds some inspiration from 2020 - a year that most of us will want to forget. I am sure that you, like me, look back on 2020 as a year that you do not want to see repeated in your lifetime. We lost so many freedoms which we had taken for granted. We also lost pe...

Security Measures Spur Angry Exchange in House: Inaugural Update Bloomberg 1/13/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg U.S. President Donald Trump waves while disembarking Air Force One at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, U.S. on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. (Bloomberg) -- Metal detectors at entry to House floor spark complaints by lawmakers. President Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff says it would be uncharacteristic for him to appeal to the nation f...

Piano or Music Theory, David is one of the most inspiring teachers working in Norwich. Under his encouraging teaching, countless students have gone to pursue careers in music.   David is a Christian who has spent some 35 years in the Christian music world, recording and touring with many key worship leaders, song writers and musicians. He now aims to bring all of his past experience to a new generation of aspiring musicians.   David commenced his studies at the age of 15 (for three years...

Pray on the phone with Norwich Healing Rooms  Norwich Healing Rooms are not meeting at the moment due to the restrictions but they are available for prayer on the phone and on zoom. The Norwich Healing Rooms is a place where anyone can come for prayer, no matter what the need, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual concerns. The team is dedicated to seeing the same healings which took place in the Bible, take place today, because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. No...

90% of Norfolk Anglican churches go online-only  The Bishop of Norwich has said that 90% of churches across the Diocese of Norwich will take their services online-only during the current third national lockdown, despite government regulations allowing them to remain open for public worship. Speaking to BBC Look East, Bishop Graham Usher said: “Overwhelmingly across the diocese about 90% of churches have moved to online provision. A few still feel that they can meet physically and do that...

Norfolk churches’ progress on combatting racism  Rev’d Karlene Kerr gives an insight into how the issue of racism is being addressed within the Church locally and nationally. Six months ago, Team Vicar St Faiths Gaywood, was appointed as Bishops Advisor for Black Asian & Minority Ethnic Affairs, which was covered by pictured above, now gives us an update into the progress that has been made.   The issue of how the church should address and combat racism is a pertinent one, especia...

Embrace hope says East Anglia Methodist Chair  In his new year message, Chair of the Methodist Church East Anglia District, Rev Julian Pursehouse, says that this is a time to embrace and embody hope. Sisters and Brothers in Christ, I am writing this letter on the first day of the New Year and I suspect that for many of us our festive celebrations and our marking of the New Year will have been somewhat muted in character given the circumstances we find ourselves in. Just a week before Chri...