News from our Voluntary & Part-Time Chaplains 

Mrs Maggie Paddison-Chapman
Vice Chairman of Kent SACRE

Canterbury Cathedral Lay Chaplain

Although I retired from ACTS work in January I am still part of the Kent SACRE on behalf of SEBA. In fact, I was voted in as Vice Chair as I have a little more time now and I still help run an RE Hub for local schools in Thanet.

I also became a Chaplain at Canterbury Cathedral in May and I work there 2 days a week in this role. I love it, such amazing opportunities every time I'm there to serve God, walk alongside people when they need prayer, bless pilgrims, bring the Cathedral to hourly prayers and lots more! I am also starting to run Creative Bible journaling groups & enabling people to dig into their Bible in a creative way!

Emerge Advocacy

Joy Wright is the Founder and CEO of Emerge, a charity that she formed a number of years ago to help bring a voice of hope to young people in A&E, who have been brought in due to self-harm or emotional crisis.

Joy is asking for your help:

"Please take our super quick survey. We are speaking with people in churches up and down the country, to help us understand how we could make it possible for churches to pick up and run their own Emerge project. Whether or not your church might be up for this, we need your perspective."

Click the link to help out - https://buff.ly/4fzF510