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St Mary Magdalen

Dear Friends,

As I write this there is less than three weeks to go before my final service in licensed ministry on 14th June. I have already been overwhelmed by the love and good wishes that you have shown to me at my last morning service at St George’s yesterday, and I am looking forward to my last morning service at St Mary Magdalen’s on 7th June.

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Thank to you everybody who has indicated that they are coming on 14th at 3pm at St George’s. We are going to have a churchfull! I know that St George’s and St Mary Magdalen’s will do what you do best – welcome people.

Here is some of what I have written in the introduction to the service.

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'This service has three strands. It is part funeral, part wedding and part ordination. That said, I am not getting ordained again, Gill and I are not getting married again, and I am definitely not yet dead.

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But my role as Vicar is coming to an end. Saying goodbye to that, and to each other, is a key part of this service, giving thanks for the past and holding each other at a time of significant change.

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Looking forward, God will be doing new things. Gill and I are entering a new stage of married life, and I will begin a new type of ordained ministry, one that is more private, but still connected to the world, offering service in hidden ways.'

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Thank you in advance for being there, all of you, my church family that I love and long for. Thank you for being so generous and so loving over many years.

It will not be an easy day, but it will be a good one. For all of us.

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I will leave you in the capable hands of the Staff Team and the Area Dean. Peter Mayers will take over as Benefice News Editor and Polly Falconer will take the lead on pastoral services.

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God is good. ‘All shall be well. And all manner of things shall be well.’

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With every blessing

Adam