Issue 23 | Summer 2025 | www.ecclesiastical.com/church
Diocese of Gloucester
archdeacons’
visitation news
Dear Churchwardens Welcome to the 2025 edition of Visitation News. We hope that you enjoy reading the articles it contains and find inspiration and support, together with plenty of new ideas to reflect upon. This has been a year of changes. At Christmas, we said goodbye to Archdeacon Phil, celebrating and giving thanks for his ministry among us. On Mothering Sunday, a new archidiaconal partnership began with the arrival of Archdeacon Katrina. You will find out more about Katrina later in this newsletter. As we work together, we do so as a team, seeking to support you as churchwardens as well as the communities that you love and serve.
future, we are mindful that we are one family, the body of Christ in this Diocese of Gloucester. At the end of the first letter to the Thessalonians, we find these words: Therefore encourage one another, and build one another up, just as you are doing. (1 Thessalonians 5:11) Thank you for all that you are and all that you do as churchwardens, and for your ministry of encouragement and building up. It will be a joy to be with you soon at the Visitation Services and to be able to thank you, in person, for your care and dedication. Hilary and Katrina
It has also been a year of gatherings and meetings as we continue to work on our deanery strategic pathways and shape and live the new Parish Share process. These gatherings and meetings have represented a real coming together of those who live out their ministry primarily in worshipping communities and those who live out their ministry primarily in College Green. It is a privilege as Archdeacons to be those who can help to connect others, ever mindful of the 'arch' in Archdeacon. As we seek together to be faithful to God in the present and seek God's will for the
The Venerable Katrina Scott
The Venerable Hilary Dawson
Archdeacon of Cheltenham
Archdeacon of Gloucester
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