News  »  Monkhill Chapel newsletter 20th February 2021

Good evening everyone,

Another week flown by!

You will be pleased to hear that both Donald and I received our Covid jabs last Wednesday so I think all Chapel members will now be waiting for their 2nd jabs in due course.

It may be the fact that I'm now inoculated but I do feel a sense of "turning the corner" as far as this wretched virus is concerned, not that we should be complacent though. Let's hear what Government ministers have to say next week about our way out of lockdown (or otherwise) - fingers crossed or rather heads bowed in prayer.

 

The March Parish Magazine will be due out at the end of next week but no paper copies will be delivered again. Instead you will be able to see an on-line copy at www.eastsolwaychurches.org under Church Life and scroll down or go to the Parish website www.beaumont-pc.org.uk and while having a look at all the information there, go to Useful Links and scroll down to the link to the East Solway Churches website.

 

Hope you are still joining in or listening to our North Cumbria Methodist Circuit services so you are up to date with weekly events especially during Lent. You can also get this information on the Circuit website or facebook page.

 

Nothing else to report this week, but I thought you may be interested in the following posted on the facebook page by David Newlove. It's 20 years since Foot and Mouth devastated livestock farms as I'm sure you'll have heard in the media this week;

 

20 years on we remember

 

The enforced isolation

The loss of flock and herd

The grief in the destruction of healthy stock

 

20 years on we remember

 

And hold silence

At the unspoken memories

And as the raw pain returns

 

20 years on we remember

 

Reflecting on the change it brought

To farm, family and community

And in the isolation of today

When we suffer the loss this hidden virus brings

And we cannot meet and cannot mix

 

We remember and ask God to hold us again

AMEN

 

Also remember God is with us

Hands, Face, Space, Grace

 

Good night,

Lynne