Mission and Unity

Specilaist Adviser: John Roberts
john.roberts@dabnet.org
Priest Adviser: Fr. Tony Churchill

Office: The Christian Education Centre, Crawley.

Commission for Mission and Unity:

Chair: Fr Anthony Churchill, Vice-Chair: Mr John Roberts, Secretary: vacant, Surrey Committee Representative: Miss Sylvia Fitzgerald, Sussex Committee Representative: Mr Steve Innes, Miss Anne Byrne, Ms Toni Buckley, Fr. Simon Hall, Fr Anthony Milner, Mrs Anne Stone, Ecumenical Observer, Surrey: Rev.Sue Loveday, Co-ordinator of Churches Together in Surrey, Ecumenical Observer, Sussex: Mr.Ian Chisnall, Co-ordinator for Mission and Unity, Churches Together in Sussex.

The Deanery Co-ordinators are members of the Mission & Unity Diocesan Forum which meets as two committees, for Surrey and Sussex. The Parish Co-ordinators are members of their local Mission & Unity Deanery Forum.

At a service in Guildford Cathedral
3p.m. Sunday May 18th 2008

Click here for more details of the celebration of the centeneray of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Together to Unity

On 22 May 2004 we successfully launched a new ecumenical resource for parishes entitled "Together to Unity" and many of the parish Mission and Unity contacts from around the Diocese were present on that occasion. The resource pack has been compiled by John Roberts (Adviser for Mission & Unity) in collaboration with Fr Kieron O'Brien, (Episcopal Vicar for Mission and Unity) and the Commission members. It replaces and updates the "Working for Unity" pack which was produced over ten years ago.

In June 2005 the Appendicies were updated - these contain lots of contact information etc.

The pack consists of four main components:

1. A Mission & Unity Handbook for Parishes, 1st Edition - May 2004
2. A Mission and Unity Handbook for Parishes - Appendix April 2007
3. Collection of Churches Together in England leaflets
4. Booklet entitled "Ecumenism for Catholics" by Fr William Steele

Copies of items 1 & 2 are available in PDF format by clicking above (note they are quitle large - 878 and 238KB respectively)

The Churches Together leaflets can be seen on the CTE website:
www.churches-together.org.uk/resources_freeleaflets.html

Please contact Sue Fellows at DABCEC on 01293 515666 (email sue.fellows@dabnet.org) to order a copy of the full pack, price 10.00 plus P&P.

Guidelines for Catholics in Local Ecumenical Partnerships

prepared by the Committee for Christian Unity of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales The newly published Guidelines for Catholics in Local Ecumenical Partnerships (LEPs) were launched at a conference at London Colney on the 23rd July. Catholics are very involved in LEPs and similar arrangements in England and Wales . It is the hope of the Committee for Christian Unity that these leaflets will both support present LEPs and encourage the growth of new ones.

These leaflets are available to download at
http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/resource/lepguide/

Documents

Useful Links

Help available on ecumenical matters in parishes:
contact John Roberts at DABCEC,
Secretary: Sue Fellows, 01293 515666, sue.fellows@dabnet.org