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Who is who?

 Revd Dr Caroline as ECC+C Animal Welfare Chaplain is keen to herald the wonderful work of horsewoman, Sarah Weston, seen in the photo above right, at the recent New Forest Show.

Sarah has worked with Caroline and her horses over quite a few years and is author of a fantastic book about force-free horse training called “No Fear, No Force”; a guide to handling and training semi-feral foals in a gentle and effective way. The autumn sees thousands of wild native foals changing hands at the sales. Many of them have had little or no handling. For the new owner it can be a daunting prospect taming their new foal.

Beautifully illustrated, the book will make an incredible difference to the lives of foals that are trained using the gentle and effective methods described.

Link to view the website and her book

 Sarah is a Recommended Associate of Intelligent
Horsemanship and the Holder of the Monty Robert’s Preliminary Certificate in Horsemanship.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is a recognised condition ordinary people can experience having witnessed (or been a victim of) an abnormal situation or event. Many of the young soldiers of World War 1 experienced PTSD, widely understood today as a human reaction to trauma. However at the time these young men were shot for cowardice. More and more, we are seeing men and women return from war zones around the world with similar symptoms. Mercifully they are now treated - but this condition is not always diagnosed as it should be. When people rush into disaster sites to save lives they can be deeply traumatised days, months even years later by what they witnessed. Even people in traumatic work situations like work-place persecution, (sanitised by calling it merely 'bullying'), and enforced redundancy can experience the devasting affects of PTSD. Suffice it to say, our modern world is full of events and happenings which can affect the individuals(s) concerned in a devastating way. We only have to remind ourselves how we all felt witnessing the TV coverage of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers from the comfort of our sitting rooms. Can you really imagine having been there? This can happen to any one of us at any time.

However it is only within the last few decades experts have pinpointed what PTSD is and why it happens.

 Two of our ecumenical colleagues, the Reverends David and Anne Bennett of the Liberal Catholic Church, have tackled this head on and are today, world leaders in the Christian Socially Responsibile work of helping those affected and increasing awareness about this terribly human condition. Their decades of research, training resources and hands-on assitance for people with PTSD is phenomenal and although they themselves would never say so, we can. They have written a book on Trauma and PTSD which can be ordered from their website if you follow the links.

Please learn more about them and where appropriate you could support their work in any way you can.

Trauma 999

We have been contacted by a number of churches in Developing Countries asking for the ECC+C to offer them Incardination. We are not able to look after any overseas community with any true integrity because we are so far apart and haven't the finances to travel to them regularly which is what is needed - but we pray for them in brotherly and sisterly love across the thousands of miles that separate us. It is a well known fact that some small churches jump at the chance of incardinating any person or group from overseas who email them. We choose to be different mainly because we have seen this go horribly wrong on both sides because noone knows one another nor do they travel to see one another. The whole contract is often to make small churches look bigger!

However, we do know of one community which needs our help and has been visited by some of our clergy. They are not a part of the ECC+C for the reasons stated above but as we know them we hope to raise their profile in order to help them.

The Victory Centre Natural Church based in Ghana and visited by Revd Elizabeth Wilbur of the ECCNA.

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 Reverend Elizabeth visited this Church and met Pastor Samuel, so we are pleased to make their mission more widely known.

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Fr Rod and Revd Dr Caroline at the New Forest Show

   

We are delighted and excited to welcome the Reverend Valerie M Chadwick as a part of our ECC+C team, based in the North of England. Rev'd Valerie currently works with the elderly and vulnerable and brings with her a variety of gifts which will hugely benefit the entire church community. She is also a very good friend and one +Nicola and Renate+ have both wanted to work with ever since they met. Rev'd Valerie is an active member and trustee for the On Call Charity.

 

The ECC+C fully supports the work of RCWP and we have permission to promote their mission in the USA and Europe.  

Roman Catholic Women Priests

Fr Rod Walton and Rev'd Dr Caroline Wilkins have expanded upon their ministries in the New Forest.

Their ethos is that LOVE should be the energy behind every action we take in our lives.

New Forest Ministries

Fr Rod has been invited to join local radio for a Christian questions and answers slot and he and Rev'd Caroline are soon to have their research findings on Near Death Experience published. This will be their second book - their first covers Bereavement Issues surrounding the fear experienced by so many that the death of their loved ones is not 'the end' of their spiritual life, it is just the beginning. Their book 'Bereavement Rescue' offers much needed reasurances to the bereaved.

 The registered National Charity of On Call Clergy, headed by ECC+C coadjutor +Charles Michael, has been re-launched as 'Christians On Call' but the Charity of OCC remains the same. This allows for all the volunteers who are not ordained ministers to promote the ethos of acting as the 'Good Samaritan' within their communities all within the same banner of being 'On Call' to everyone who needs them.

The Charity will continue with its mission to provide a Christian presence within our local and wider communities, offering resources both in terms of hands-on help and financial help to vulnerable people in need.

Care Homes, Missions and local charities are amongst the groups who will benefit from their local team of Christians willing to offer practical help in all areas of Social Need and Christian Responsibility.

On Call Ministries

Support Dementia Awareness Week

	+Nicola is an 'Active Campaigner' for the Alzheimers's Society
Support Dementia Awareness Week
Alzheimer’s Society research reveals that 31% of people would not know how to get support following a diagnosis of dementia.   This Dementia Awareness Week we need your help to make sure everyone with dementia has access to the support they deserve.  Please email your MP and ask them to put pressure on your PCT continue to implement the objectives of the National Dementia Strategy for England.     http://alzheimers.org.uk/   Want to do more? In the current financial climate it is more important than ever to step up our campaigning to ensure dementia is a top priority.  Please contact us if you are interested in finding out about the campaign and media volunteer opportunities in your area.

We are more than delighted to welcome Fr Rod Walton and Rev'd Dr Caroline Wilkins to the ECC+C. Rev Caroline brings with her a Franciscan ethos behind her commitment to distressed and abused Animal Rescue as well as working alongside Fr Rod in their bereavement ministry. Their book, Bereavement Rescue can be accessed via their profile pages. Both Rod+ and Caroline+ bring gifts to the ECC+C we shall support fully as they blossom and grow.

The Bernadette Bereavement Support Group will meet for our training

 starting the second week of July. We are delighted to welcome our Core Group of 8 befrienders and counsellors and thank them for offering their time and energies to ensure a few local people are not left uncared for in their grief or loneliness.

We also still looking for more volunteers to care for some of our community and their gardens!

  

 

We are privileged to have Jo as our much needed funeral and bereavement advisor

to the Herts/Essex Bernadette Bereavement group in her capacity as an arranger and conductor. The empathy and compassion she has for families in grief is tangible and her vast experience of working in such a difficult and sensitive environment will be invaluable to us. Families heavily rely upon Funeral Directors with this level of commitment to guide them through what is the hardest and most painful few weeks of their lives. Clergy and Funeral Directors are at their best for helping the recently bereaved when they see each other as vital components of the same team and so we value her help to us more than we could really say.

 

 

We are overjoyed to welcome Rev'd Paul Fry

 - our Lutheran Pastor with over 20 years parish experience. He will be joining the Bereavement Group and will Team Minister in Hertfordshire and Essex with Rt Rev'd Nicola. We all thank God for His grace in bringing us together.

Health & Social Care Ambassadors LINk members:

Liverpool PCT Service Providers John Perry

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust Stanley Mayne

Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust (Alder Hey) Mike Marsh

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospital Trust Stanley Mayne

Walton Centre for Neurology Pat Brand

University Hospital Aintree Edwin Morgan

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust Rev Maria Renate

Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital NHS Trust Eric Toke

Taken from the LINk's recently published Annual Report:

Reverend Mother Maria Renate, who chaired the group which produced the ‘healthy weight’ report, has been invited to join Liverpool’s Obesity Task Force working to develop and oversee Liverpool’s Healthy Weight Strategy in order to ensure a continued public involvement in the direction, monitoring and successful delivery of this important public health issue.

Mother Renate works closely with The Church of England on equality with Bishop James of Liverpool. Seen above with Merseyside Chief Constable in her capacity for working towards a safer Liverpool free from Hate Crime, and below, addressing the delegates at the the IDAHO conference (a National inititative) at the Liverpool Town Hall attended by the City Mayor. Afterwards enjoying the lunch provided by the organisers.

+Nicola attended a Bereavement Seminar lead by Dr Bill Webster held at the Epping Forest Burial Park on the 18th of May 2010. This peaceful corner of Epping Forest is home to one of the Woodland Burial Parks, the natural choice for anyone looking for somewhere beautiful to visit and remember their loved ones. +Nicola has officiated over services there and they truly are spiritual and so tranquil. Please visit Bernadette to find full details of the Park and the tireless work of Dr Webster.