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Health and Healing
Committee Members
Convener: Revd Brenda Russell Secretary: Revd Jim Needham
Mrs Jackie Ballard, Revd David Chapman, Revd Ward Jones, Dr
Margaret Moore, Revd Malcolm White, Dr Janet Wigle, Revd Elsie Howelly
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Personnel
1.1 We bade farewell to
Revd Jim Hollyman last summer. Revd Jim Needham has taken over as
Secretary. Revd Brenda Russell is now the Convener. Revd Elsie Howell
takes the place of Dr Ivan Cox as URC Representative. We have been helped
in the year by the attendance at each meeting of Mrs Beatrice Brandon, an
observer, and a member of the Church of England Working Party.
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2.1 In September the
decision was taken to lay the Churches Council for Health and Healing to
rest. The Council has lurched through several crises of late. Yet its
achievement over the years are significant, not least at the interface
between religion and medicine.
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Ecumenical Developments
3.1 So what next? One of
our aims is to further ecumenical development. We therefore invited Revd
John Kennedy, on whose desk is the call for a new ecumenical forum for
Healing ministry, to meet with us. We envisage an evolving process in
which we have a key role especially in relation to England. We will
encourage our Advisors in Scotland and Wales to pursue their own links
there. It will not be easy to determine who can speak for Roman Catholics
and Anglicans at a national level.
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Willersley Castle (Cromford) Conference
4.1 ‘Time for Healing’ is the title when we meet on 6th to 9th November 2000. Chair of the Anglican Working Party report, which is due to be published in June 2000, will be the keynote speaker, Bishop John Perry. There will be a day on Complementary and Alternative therapies, and half a day on Deliverance ministry. Anyone interested will be welcome to join us. Please book directly with Willersley (01629 582270).
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