Diocese of Winchester

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’ Union. [...]

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 Jade [...]

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 years Mothers’ [...]

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 pray [...]

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 this [...]

Sunday 6th December, four Mothers’ Union members (including one new gentleman) attended service in the West Hill Chapel of HMP Winchester, as they normally do on the first Sunday of each month. It was a lovely service for a few men who really are committed to the faith they have found with God – time [...]

This weekend the church moves into a new year, as Christians start to anticipate both the coming of Jesus (which we celebrate at Christmas) and the second coming of our Lord, when God’s Kingdom will be complete and his church will be in glory with him.
During the next few weeks, you may like to make [...]

On the first Wednesday of each month, Mothers’ Union supporters in the Winchester Region meet for a short service of worship and prayer in the Epiphany Chapel of Winchester Cathedral.
This month the newly re-formed Yateley Branch from Odiham Deanery led a short service of worship based on part of the days lectionary reading from the [...]

Mothers’ Union members go to one wing of HMP Winchester each month to worship with, and preach for the inmates. One of our contacts there is Jade, a member of the chaplaincy and it’s Church Army Community Chaplain, a role which enables her to have contact with the inmates families, and to follow up their [...]

Mothers’ Union is resourced by prayer, and yet we do find it difficult to pray, even though it should be as simple as a conversation with any other friend or close member of the family, because that is our relationship with God.
One helpful general guideline which many Christian’s use to pray is
PRAY – Praise, Repent, [...]