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Pastoral Letter

                                            churches work together. This should
                                            make the post of vicar for our
                                            benefice more appealing and attract
                                            more applicants for the post.
                                               The recruitment process has
                                            inevitably been slow and a little
                                            bureaucratic but progress is being
                 ongratulations to all of you  made. Each church has pretty much
                 who have survived          completed its parish profile, which
                 whatever challenge you set  provides the backbone of the
                 you
         C rself during Lent.               Walkingham Hill Brochure, a copy of
         Whether it involved chocolate, chips,  which will be given to each applicant.
         wine or whisky, six and a half weeks   Once the Brochure is complete and
         of abstinence is a toughie. Well   approved, it can be printed and the
         done!                              post advertised. We are hopeful that,
            But now Easter and spring are   if things go well, a new vicar will be in
         here, a time to celebrate. In      place by the autumn. Fingers
         particular, we celebrate the fact that  crossed!
         Jesus has not walked off the pitch    The interregnum began when
         and deserted us but has moved into   Camilla left to take up her new role
         the manager’s dugout, ready to guide  last summer. One very positive

         “The Walkingham Hill churches have worked brilliantly together as a
                             team and continue to do so.”


         us though the difficult games that lie  aspect is that despite the difficulties
         ahead in life. Thank you, JC. (Note to  the Walkingham Hill churches have
         self – please, no more football    had to deal with, we have worked
         analogies!)                        brilliantly together as a team and
            We need some guidance too       continue to do so.
         because, as you probably know, we     Spring is a fantastic time, flora
         are in an interregnum and on the   and fauna have gone into overdrive
         hunt for a new vicar. We are being   and there is new life all around. The
         steered by the Archdeacon and the   birds chirping away all day, it’s
         Area Dean, both of whom have       wonderful. It does have a dark side,
         encouraged us to make changes to   however – something that sends a
         the way in which the PCCs of all five                 (Continued on page 5)


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