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News From Haiti

First the Quake and now the Deluge 

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 3 March 2010 – Thirteen dead. Submerged houses. Fields and banana plantations waterlogged. Drowned livestock. Impassable roads. Fresh trauma for quake-displaced thousands. This is the plight of Les Cayes, a city on Haiti’s south coast, after an unseasonal deluge. And hurricane season is not far off.
Trucks loaded with 4,030 meals left Port-au-Prince on 2 March for emergency distribution in and around Les Cayes. Food has also been sent to Nippes region, north of Les Cayes, which has experienced bad flooding. Port-au-Prince
(see photo left)  
(photo:Christian Aid)

The UN World Food Programme, with local authorities and NGOs, plans to supply 10-day rations to affected populations, including some 3,000 people evacuated from their homes.
“The poor state of the sewers caused flooding in every [district] of the city,” said the regional president of the Haitian National Red Cross Society, Jean-Yves Placide.
“In some places the waters rose to ceiling level in people’s houses,” he said. “The situation will be really worrying if it continues to rain. The sun is out now, but the storm clouds come and go.”
“People are used to dealing with floods, just not this early,” one aid worker in Les Cayes told IRIN. A mother of two in the city’s Solon district told IRIN her family had lost everything to the flooding. “All our belongings were destroyed – our beds, our clothes, everything.”
Rains hit the area on 27-28 February. On 2 March many homes still had standing water, the aid worker said: “Many, many people have told us they lost their crops [including banana trees and sugar cane] and their animals.”  
Local NGOs who work with Christian Aid are assessing damage to agriculture, Prospery Raymond, the charity’s head in Haiti, told IRIN.
According to Haiti’s Department of Civil Protection, agriculture has been “heavily affected”.
The rainy season proper usually starts in the beginning of April and peaks in May.
According to Iain Logan, head of operations for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is ill-equipped to cope.
“The early floods in Les Cayes are a sharp reminder that the very significant disaster preparedness effort we started after the 2008 hurricanes will have to be expanded and adapted,” he said in an IFRC release.
“We face an almost unique set of circumstances generated by a catastrophic quake, a rainy season, and a hurricane season, one after the other in rapid succession,” he added.

From Christian Aid

This week at Christian Resources

Let us draw some specific titles to your attention this week.

Tom Wright’s latest offering is VIRTUE REBORN £12.99. Full of biblical exploration, the author seeks to help the reader find the answers to the questions “What am I here for?” and “How should I behave?”

MISSION SHAPED EVANGELISM by Steve Hollinghurst is sub-titled The Gospel in Contemporary Culture and is described as a must-read for church leaders wanting to engage in effective evangelism for the 21st century.

LIVING WITH DYING by Grace Sheppard tells of the author’s experience of caring for her husband, David Sheppard, after he was diagnosed with cancer, and his subsequent death. It is “a story of a pilgrimage of faith” and is a book “to sustain all those faced with the same journey.” £12.95

Email us, telephone us, come and see us at 10 Bishop Street, Leicester.
0116 2854499
enquiries@christianresourcesleicester.com

Lambing Service at Brooksby

Event Date: Mothering Sunday 14th March

This informal service will be held at Hall Farm, Brooksby Melton College with the address given by Bishop Tim.

As well as the ewes and lambs, there will also be calves and piglets on view. If you bring a vehicle please park on the College Playing Field Car Park (just south of the level crossing on Hoby Road). You may walk to Hall Farm (about ½ mile) or be ferried to the farm by tractor and trailer. Please aim to arrive at the car park by about 10.00am

Warm outdoor clothes and wellington boots or similar are recommended

For further information about any aspect of the service, please contact
Malcolm Britton Tel. 01664 434490 or mr.britton@virgin.net

Complete your visit with a Mothering Sunday lunch in Brooksby Hall. For a menu and full details please contact: brooksbyhall@brooksbymelton.ac.uk
Tel. 01664 855262. Booking is essential

Over quite a number of years now, a mixed choir comprising of voices from across the Diocese has sung as part of the Maundy Thursday Diocesan Eucharist…and it has always produced a fine result and added so much to this important and evocative Liturgy in the Diocesan Calendar. 
If you would like to sing this year, [...]

Event Date: Wednesday 24th March
Will be held at Leicester College on Wednesday 24th March 7.00 for 7.30pm to mark Revd Simon Harvey’s service as Warden of Readers. Readers and anyone else who would like to share in this occasion, please contact Malcolm Britton (01664 434490 or mr.britton@virgin.net) for further details. Last date for booking and [...]

Question Teen is an event for the young people of the Diocese
‘Question Teen is where politicans listen to you!! So the politicians have started campaigning for your vote, saying you’re their priority, and that your voice counts….but does it?? Come to Emmanuel Church, on Forest Road in Loughborough on Thursday April 22nd, and ask genuine [...]

Event Date: 25th, 27th and 30th April
The City Deanery is hosting three hustings/question time type events in April.
The first at St John’s Clarendon Park on the 25th, the second at St Aidan’s, New Parks on the 27th and the third at Christ Church, Thurnby Lodge on the 30th. All will start at 7.30pm.
These gatherings will [...]

Director of Music required for the city centre church of St Margaret’s. Two organs, one 4 manuals by Taylor, rebuilt by Nicholson. A weekly evening choir rehearsal, for children and adults. Sunday Eucharist at 11.00 a.m., preceded by a practice. RSCM salary guidelines, A salaried organist is part of the music team. This post would suit a musician [...]

Sunday 14th March at 5.30pm
The Faith Leaders Forum presents a Question Time event.
confirmed panellists are:
Sir Peter Soulsby MP, Labour Leicester South
Jane Hunt, Conservatives PPC Leicester East
Zuffar Haq, Liberal Democrats PPC Harborough
Geoff Forse, Green Party PPC Leicester West
Please download the attached poster to put up and support this event.
To find out more about the Election visit [...]

The Bishop announces that Reverend Elaine Matthews-Loydall, Chaplain to Deaf People, will conclude her time in this role with effect from 14 April 2010

Saturday, March 20th 2010 at 7.00p.m. in St Margaret’s Church, Leicester (corner of St. Margaret’s Way)
‘Hope against Cancer’ (in association with Heritage Music) presents a unique candlelit performance in 18th century costume of Handel’s Messiah.
 Total proceeds for Hope against Cancer. 
The Graff Orchestra of England
The Handel Singers
Directed by Celia Davies
Download details and booking form below
messiah details

The Third Lent Lecture entitled: Should Politicians Do God? will be at Leicester Cathedral at 7pm. Admission is free and refreshments are provided
The first two lectures are available to download here

The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) is offering organ scholarships to two young organists at the 2010 Bath Summer Course for Young People. The successful candidates will have the opportunity to play the four-manual Klais organ in the city’s splendid Abbey church; the setting for some of the choral services. They will assist the [...]

Dr Clive Marsh, Director of Learning and Teaching in the Institute of Lifelong Learning at the University of Leicester, is to give the 2010 Fernley Hartley Lecture on Friday 7 May.
Entitled ‘Adventures in Affective Space: The Reconstruction of Piety in an Age of Entertainment’, the lecture asks whether popular culture has replaced religion or whether [...]

Pilgrims of St Francis are a small British  Christian group part of Compagnons de Saint Francois. Which is active in 8 European countries. Though it is primarily Christian its activities are open to all people of goodwill. Many people both in the UK and on the continent have found on pilgrimage a deepening of their spiritual experience [...]

17th of March, at 7.30pm at Bishop’s Lodge, 12 Springfield Road, Leicester
Young people and accompanying adults have been invited to meet with Brother Paolo of Taizé as part of his tour of the UK, meeting with young people and church leaders. Taizé is an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France. It is famous for its [...]

Purple chasuble, stole, burse and veil available. Vanpoulles make, with gold applique cross front and back on chasuble. The material is quite lightweight.
Contact the Revd Jeff Hopewell
The Vicarage
Church Lane
Old Dalby
Melton Mowbray
LE14 3LB
01664 820064
jshopewell@btinternet.com

Our world & lives have changed radically in the last twenty years, but how does the church adapt to this change? Mission Shaped intro (MSi) is a short course to explore these questions through a mix of teaching, reflection & story. A new MSi Course for the Diocese of Leicester is starting on Monday 12th [...]

Ideas for MOTHERING SUNDAY are what we’re focusing on this week. As well as Mothering Sunday cards, may we suggest some good reading such as
CLASSIC LINES – DEVOTIONAL INSIGHTS FOR WOMEN by Jenny Gilpin, (£6.99),
or JESUS AND THE GOSPEL WOMEN by Joanna Collicutt McGrath (£9.99),
or HEAR MY SONG by Pam Rhodes, “Meditations on life through [...]

The Bishop announces the appointment of the Revd Geoffrey Spencer, currently Priest in Charge, Church Langton cum Tur Langton, Thorpe Langton and Shangton, Billesdon cum Goadby and Rolleston and Skeffington as Priest in Charge of the benefice of Mundford with Ickburgh and Cranwich in the Diocese of Norwich.  Geoffrey’s date of licensing will take place at [...]

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