Nottingham

London St. Anne’s Lutheran Church Church of St. Mary at Hill, Lovat Lane, London (EC3R 8EE) Leeds St Luke’s and St Matthew’s Lutheran Church St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 9 Alma Road, Headingley, Leeds (LS6 2AH) Nottingham Student Chaplaincy at the University of Nottingham Portland Building Chaplaincy Level A, University of Nottingham, University Park (NG7 2RD)

We continue with the effort to educate everyone about our three candidates for bishop—Pastor Mark Hardy, Pastor Paulina Hławiczka-Trotman, and Dr Jaakko Rusama. A Zoom call will be held at 10:00 a.m. on April 1 to allow everyone to meet the candidates, and they will all be present at the Synod on April 22. Here are the Zoom details: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83907273282?pwd=dDhBdXRoT1NwTG1YK2tMYU10ekhVZz09 Meeting ID: 839 0727 3282 Passcode: 803427 From left to right: Rev Pau

6-8 October our pastors had a Ministerium meeting and Retreat at Focolare Centre for Unity in Welwyn Garden City. Fr Thomas Seville form the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfield talked about the psalms and the use of the psalter at church services. LCiGB pastor Jo Jan Vandenheede shared some of his PhD study on Porvoo (Anglican-Lutheran) agreement and communion. We also celebrated the oak jubilees (80) of bishop Walter Jagucki and pastor John Evenson, who both received

The LCiGB and the Council of Lutheran Churches asked pastor Paulina Hławiczka—one of our Polish-born priests in the Lutheran Church in GB—what it means to her and her colleagues that the ordination of women to the priesthood is now possible in Polish Lutheran church too. This is a real Revolution! We have been waiting and fighting for it for the last 70 years! Women will now finally be allowed to become priests and even bishops. In Polish language we don’t have enough words f

Photo: Paulina Hławiczka Bishop Tor B Jørgensen and his wife Anne visited Nottingham Trinity Lutheran Congregation on Sunday, the 26th of September. The worship was together with the United Reformed Church, LCiGB pastor Paulina Hławiczka was leading and preaching at this service. After the service the members of Trinity Lutheran group were invited to move to a coffee shop nearby, to be together and talk. Bishop Tor said that it was his first visit to Nottingham, “An important

Trinity Leicester-Nottingham is to give thanks for this year’s harvest, and to share their experiences regarding the Black History Month (October) on Sunday 18th Oct 12:30pm. “We will pray with thanksgiving for: the gift of food, and God’s creation around us; all who take part in different activities to raise awareness of systemic racism during October – Black History Month; all who struggle with covid19, grieving families, survivors, infected (especially the students in Nott