On the 7th of April at 7.30 pm at St Bede, we welcome Revd Viv Ashworth to be Priest in Charge and Revd Tim Ashworth, (Viv's Husband) to be Non Stipendiary Minister of St Bede and St Thomas and St John Lostock.

What a joy it will be to welcome them both to ministry in our midst. Bishop Chris and Archdeacon David will lead the Licensing Service that evening and there will be a church full of people to lend prayer support, encouragement and backing to God's call to this wonderful new ministry.

Appointment of new Priest in Charge of St Bede & St Thomas and St John Lostock

Praise God for His timing, on this Christmas day 2008, the Bishop of Manchester has announced this morning that the Rev Viv Ashworth is to be the new priest  in charge of St Bede's and St Thomas and St John Lostock.

Over the last few weeks or so there have been some interesting developments with the future of Scargill House.  Our new Bishop (Chris Edmondson) has been appointed Chairman of the Scargill Movement Trust, and then I had a message from Mike Peak (ex Scargill Community) with some very good news. I'll leave it to you to visit the Scargill Movement Trust website for full details, but in the meantime make a note of April 4th and June 20th in your diary.

I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our mobile phones?

It was wonderful to welcome Bishop Chris to St Bede this morning as President and Preacher for the first time. He found the church without a 'sat-nav'! and was very much at home and relaxed...

This Sunday morning the (Nearly New) Bishop of Bolton was at St Bede. I met Chris (the Bishop) last year (2007), when I had a weeks holiday at Lee Abbey in North Devon. Chris was the Warden of Lee Abbey at the time.

Way back in 1969, a group of us from what was then the 'St Bede Youth Club' went to a place called Scargill House for a Youth Weekend. On that occaision I was taken there by the then Curate of St Bede (Alan Litton) along with his wife and baby. Along with two others we were all packed into his little Austin for the journey.

Reproduced below are some pictures taken of the Bishop's Pilgrimage in February '08

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