Diocese of Winchester

If you feel you need to take time-out from your normal schedule to sit with God and receive from him, here’s a really good chance for you to do just that. You would be most welcome to come and share in the next Mothers’ Union Quiet Day to be held at Wolvesey in Winchester on [...]

We have received  information about the Diocese of Masasi in Tanzania saying that it has been divided into two, with a new Diocese of Newala being formed in September 2009. The Diocese of Masasi remains one of the Diocese with which we are linked as prayer partners through the Mothers’ Union Wave of Prayer, and [...]

This month’s prayer letter from Jade the Community Chaplain talks about the things that men who have just been released want and need, and the welcome that churches can provide to those who have come to faith. Jade talks honestly about the idea of a drop-in centre in Southampton for released prisoners not having been [...]

When do you pray? Some people pray occasionally, some in emergencies, some daily, some frequently each day. Everyone is different, but some patterns of prayer bind groups of people together. Mothers’ Union supporters have a pattern of prayer which makes them stop whatever work or meetings they may be undertaking together at mid-day, and they [...]

Today’s formal announcement that the UK General Election will be held on 6th May 2010 makes it necessary for everyone to reflect on what issues we feel are important.  If politicians are to represent us effectively they need to know what we think, and therefore we need to keep ourselves informed as to what they are saying [...]

This weekend sees the opening of the North Hampshire Child Contact Centre in Hook. It will be opening on the first and third Saturday’s of March to its first clients. The North Hampshire Child Contact Centre has been initiated by, and the management committee is made up of, members from the North Hampshire Downs Mothers’ [...]

It has been a while since we updated the prayer requests for HMP Winchester, its chaplaincy staff and been able to share the news of Jade, their Community Chaplain. This is purely down to the error and overloaded life of the webmistress – HMP Winchester still need our prayers! In her prayer letter this month [...]

The Christian Calendar is now moving into Lent as we mark Ash Wednesday on 16th February 2010. Christian tradition encourages us to examine ourselves honestly, acknowledge our shortcomings, and seek reconciliation with God and with each other where we have compromised our relationships. Mothers’ Union has produced some material for Lent: Lent-Easter-Meditations2010 As part of this [...]

Mothers’ Union members around the globe have started to pray for members and projects organised by Mothers’ Union in the Diocese of Winchester, and the family of diocese to whom it is linked in our annual cycle of prayer. Winchester, Kitgum and Muhabura (both in Uganda), Masasi (in Tanzania) and Kajo-Keji (in Sudan) will remain [...]

Last week, Mothers’ Union backed calls from Churches in Sudan for peace and a respect for human rights to be upheld as the country prepares for national elections in April 2010 and crucial referendum in January 2011 on unity or independence for Southern Sudan. Mothers’ Union has families of Diocese stretching across the world who [...]

MASASI HEALTH CENTRE PROJECT – TANZANIA Sick people in Masasi currently have to travel 25 km (15 miles) to the nearest health centre and 16 km to the nearest dispensary just to buy drugs for pain or for prophylaxis treatment for malaria, which is among the top ten diseases in Tanzania. In addition to this, [...]

Kitgum is situtated in Northern Uganda and is one of the Diocese we form our regular international links through the Mothers’ Union Wave of Prayer. Together with Kitgum and Muhubura in Uganda, Masasi in Tanzania and Kajo-Keji in southern Sudan, we will be at the centre of the prayers of all Mothers’ Union members around [...]

The theme over-arching all Mothers’ Union work in 2010, across the 78 countries in which it operates, is Relationship Not Rules. We are moving into a new triennial in the development of our activities, and many members will be taking new leadership roles in their local Mothers’ Union groups and quite possibly in their church [...]

Every family is formed by a network of relationships where some members have particularly close relationships, and the same is true of the Mothers’ Union family; each diocese which has Mothers’ Union members is linked closely with a small group of other Mothers’ Union diocese around the globe, so that they get to know each [...]

Mothers’ Union has been privileged to be included in the Church of England’s online Advent calendar. The initiative, called Why are we waiting?  Has a filmed message for each day in Advent from dioceses and Christian development charities. Mothers’ Union will be the featured charity on 23rd December. The calendar can be found by following [...]