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Celebrating 90 Years of Music THE DIOCESAN FESTIVAL CHOIR Date May 17, 2015 Venue Kingston Parish Church Time 3:30 p.m. This is a special invitation to congregations and friends to attend the Service to launch the 90th Anniversary Celebration of the Diocesan Festival…
Photo Credit: Flickr/SIM Central and South East Asia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) (Extracted from the Anglican Communion website) The Rev. Lewis Lew, Dean of Nepal Deanery of the Diocese of Singapore of the Church of the Province of South East Asia, says the effects of the 7.9 Richter scale earthquake that hit Nepal just before mid-day…
The Easter 2015 issue of The Anglican is out and has been circulated to Churches. Highlights of the issue include: Easter Messages from the Bishops, the installation of the first female priest as Rector of St George’s Church, Grand Cayman, the new Diocesan Mission at Longville Park in Clarendon and happenings in the Diocese from…
Retirees and awardees with senior officials of the Diocese In a gesture which was deeply appreciated by the honourees, the recent Synod took a break from its business sessions on April 9, to say thanks to six retirees and to recognize outstanding performances by four church organisations in 2014. Honoured for their contributions to the…
A Panel Discussion in which Mrs. Diahann Gordon-Harrison, Children’s Advocate, was the main presenter was one of the highlights on the second day (Tuesday, April 8) of the recently-concluded Diocesan Synod. The focus was “Children, Crime, Corruption – A Case Study of Jamaica’s Adolescents.” The Children’s Advocate defined corruption as “the cold calculated theft of…
St. John 21:6 & 7 Jesus said to them “Cast your nets on the right side of the ship and you shall find.” and “Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter “It is the Lord.” Over the years, the scientific minds of human beings have searched for logical explanations for the mysteries of life. This was true two thousand years…
Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, the Rt. Rev. Howard Gregory, says both the church and the nation must accept responsibility for the present moral, social, spiritual and economic tone in the society, and not blame some cruel fate. However, he offers the assurance that, within the providence of God, no individual or nation…
SERMON text: Luke 24: 46-49 “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised;…
Synod Theme: “Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land” Acts 10:39 – “We are witness to all that [Jesus] did both in Judea and Jerusalem.” These words of the Apostle Peter are part of a longer speech, spoken in what was at the time for him an unusual, strange, context. They were spoken in…
Theme: Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land Jeremiah 29:1, 4-14 (Other readings: Psalm 62:1-9; Luke 22- Jesus predicts Simon’s denial or Luke 24:36-49, Acts 1:1-5 – waiting for the baptism with the Holy Spirit) These are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining elders among…
Miss Judith Thompson, Manager of the National Housing Trust’s May Pen Branch, presents the keys to the Longville Park house to Bishop Howard Gregory, while a thankful Bishop Thompson observes. The Jamaica Church Missionary Society (JCMS) has purchased a two-bedroom house in Phase 3 of the Longville Park community in Clarendon to serve as a…
The Rt. Rev. Libby Lane was consecrated as the first female bishop in the Church of England in a packed service at York Minster today (January 26) attended by more than 100 bishops from the Church of England and women bishops from across the Anglican Communion. In a statement shortly after being consecrated, Bishop Libby said she was…