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  Published: 31/03/2021 Helen Baldry To submit a story or to publicise an event please email: web@networknorwich.co.uk This section contains news stories about events and culture across the Norwich and Norfolk Christian community. It also includes a calendar of events to publicise your events.  Please bear in mind that currently most events are cancelled because of the coronavirus situation. Some event organisers may not have notified us of cancellation, so please check any event before you try to attend. Please e-mail the following details of your event to Network Norfolk Even...

Norwich pastor publishes book on Mount Zion  Vic Ready has published a book on his time as pastor at Mount Zion church in Norwich. The church had a significant impact on Pentecostal revival in Norwich, reaching hundreds and propelling many like Vic into ministry. Rev Vic Ready is currently Senior Pastor of Taverham Evangelical Church, and felt it was important to document the journey of the church and its fruitfulness.  Vic said, "Mount Zion church touched the lives of literally thousands of people, not just in this country but all over the world. It isn’t just the number of people w...

Yarmouth Catholic church repairs underway  Work is proceeding on urgent repairs to the roof of St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Great Yarmouth thanks to a grant from English Heritage. The roof of the Grade II* church on Regent Road in the town has been leaking, and in places water had come in and ruined paintings. In the 1960's the Welsh slate roof had been replaced by concrete tiles whose weight was causing huge strain on the roof timbers.   The full restoration will cost around £1.5m, but the English Heritage grant of almost £150,000 has enabled the essential work to proceed, ...

The Norfolk and Norwich Christian community website Quiet Waters retreat house set to reopen its doors Quiet Waters Christian Retreat House on the Norfolk/Suffolk border is now taking provisional bookings from May 17th and is advertising for a married couple to join its team. Phil Perry from Quiet Waters, said: “We are very much looking forward to welcoming our guests through the door and returning to the daily rhythm of life here. We are still very aware of our Covid responsibilities and most of the systems we put in place to open last summer will still be running, which we will con...

Norfolk schoolboy became a martyr in Zimbabwe  John Bradburne, the Norfolk schoolboy who became a Franciscan missionary and martyr, is having his centenary marked this year with 100 days of poetry readings.  John was born in 1921, the son of Thomas Bradburne, who became vicar of Cawston in Norfolk. He himself went to school at Gresham’s, near Holt. He later became a lay Franciscan and was killed in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1979 for refusing to abandon the leprosy patients he had looked after for many years.  He dedicated his life to looking after the poorest, most needy leprosy ...