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NETWORK
magazine
Andrew’s
Histon
Pentecost 2021
May edition
Viewpoint
The shape of the month
Review & Preview
From Nazi Germany
to Impington
The pull of the East
Eight centuries a centre
for the community
Community noticeboard
Rwanda update from
Manasseh
‘. . . and they were filled
with the Holy Spirit’
(See Review & Preview,
‘Cover photo’)
Viewpoint
St. Andrew’s Vicarage, Church Street, Histon, Cambridge CB24 9EP. 01223 320425
I am writing this on the day of the funeral of HRH The Prince
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, so perhaps it is only natural that I
should reflect on his influence on my life. The truth is I’ve never
met him. I’ve been in the same room as him, and once went to a
celebration of his birthday in the House of Lords, but we’ve never
shaken hands or spoken a word to each other. I have been the very
happy beneficiary of the facility he set up at St George’s House in
Windsor Castle, spending several pleasant weeks there discussing
theology, politics, philosophy and the national interest with the
great and the good (without ever being quite sure how I got the
invitations!).
Canon James Blandford-Baker What I know of Prince Philip has come second hand and
through institutions that he set up. Since his death, though, much
has come out about the Prince’s influence and activity in all sorts
of fields; it has been fascinating to re-evaluate my non-
relationship with him and wonder if meeting him in real life might
have been a quite different experience from what I previously
supposed. I suspect that all sorts of people will have revised their
opinion of him in the light of these newly articulated narratives of
his life.
I often meet people today who are quite keen to tell me why they
aren’t followers of Jesus Christ; it is the lot of Vicars to receive
such speeches! One of the great failings of contemporary culture
is that people reject others summarily without actually engaging
with them or seeking to understand them. Most of those who reject
Jesus are rejecting a caricature of him which is far from the Jesus
described in the Bible by people who knew him.
We cannot meet Jesus in person today but that doesn’t mean we
cannot know him—after all, during this pandemic we have
discovered new ways of getting to know people without meeting
them. Jesus’ life, death and resurrection in the Bible are among
the best attested facts of history. As with our perceptions of Prince
Philip, my experience of Jesus is that just as you think you’ve got
him sewn up, you discover he did or said something that isn’t what
you expected at all. One of those ‘somethings’ is that Jesus never
rejected people out of hand or accepted they couldn’t change or be
transformed. That is worth taking time to ponder.
Please see
foot of page
The shape of the month
All regular activities are grouped together at the end of the Diary.
Arrangements for online services and activities subject to review
Every Sunday Service, available from 8am on YouTube1
Worship in church at times to be confirmed
Bible study, 7–8pm on Zoom2
Children and For details of weekly groups for children and young people, please contact:
young people Tim (tim@standrewshiston.org) or Clare (clare@standrewshiston.org).
May
Sunday 2 Fifth Sunday of Easter
Monday 3 May Day Bank Holiday
Tuesday 4 Planning deadline for June edition of Network magazine
PCC meeting, 7.30pm on Zoom
Wednesday 5 Choir coffee, 10.30am on Zoom
Besom prayer meeting, 2.30pm on Zoom
Prayer Central, 7.45pm on Zoom2
Friday 7 Deadline for Electoral Roll revision
Sunday 9 Sixth Sunday of Easter
Monday 10 Final copy date for June edition of Network magazine
Wednesday 12 Prayer Walk: meet 12.30pm opposite Park Primary School
Thursday 13 Ascension Day
Sunday 16 Seventh Sunday of Easter Sunday after Ascension Day
Monday 17 Saint Andrew’s Café fully reopens: Monday–Friday 9am–4pm; Saturday, 9am–2pm
Wednesday 19 Choir coffee, 10.30am, Saint Andrew’s Café
Prayer Central, 7.45pm on Zoom2
Friday 21 Publication of June edition of Network magazine, from 2.30pm, 29 Home Close
Sunday 23 Day of Pentecost (Whit Sunday)
Wednesday 26 Prayer Walk: meet 12.30pm, Firs House Surgery
Sunday 30 Trinity Sunday
Monday 31 May Bank Holiday
REGULAR WEEKDAY ACTIVITIES
Tuesday Little Stars (for small babies), 10–11am, Stable Room lawn3
Tuesday Fellowship, 2.30pm by Zoom/phone (details: Cicely Stevens, 560977)
Wednesday Essence, 9.30–10.45am on Zoom2
Thursday Morning Prayer, 9.30am on Zoom2
Friday Job Club, 10am on Zoom (details: www.jobclub.hisimp.com)
Shine (under 5s), 10–11am, Stable Room lawn3
Saturday Morning Prayer available from 8am on YouTube1
1
Search on YouTube for ‘St Andrew’s Churches, Histon and Impington’.
2
Contact the church office for links to Zoom sessions.
3
See church website, Shine fb page or @Shine.StAndrewsHiston for updates
Church websites standrewshiston.org www.standrewscentre.org.uk
In this edition This month we are privileged to be given insights into many people’s stories. We asked
Volker Heine, a world leader in theoretical physics, to tell us about his most unusual
start in life. George and Judith Adam share their faith journey and experience of life in
Malaysia and China. Rwandan Manasseh tells us why his family is now in Germany.
As restrictions lift, we report on many activities that are coming to life—although
much remains uncertain.
Review & Preview
Saint Andrew’s Office: 320420 or email office@standrewshiston.org
Worship plans for May As we emerge from the latest lockdown, St Andrew’s has begun
meeting again for worship in accordance with the COVID-19
regulations. At the moment this is at 11am on a Sunday morning
and all are welcome to attend, though you will need to book in with
the church office (320420, office@standrewshiston.org) as, due to
social distancing, numbers are restricted. Please follow us on
Facebook, check our website (http://standrewshiston.org) or call
the church office to find out the latest details about services; these
are likely to change as the restrictions are gradually released.
We would love to see you! James Blandford-Baker
Tuesday Fellowship Tuesday Fellowship leader, Cicely Stevens, writes: since February
Zooms ahead! we have been getting together again for our meetings at 2.30pm
each Tuesday, either on Zoom or by telephone. We average ten
members. I asked some of them for their reactions.
Elizabeth Blair: I am happy to be on Zoom with the ladies of the
Fellowship. It is fun to talk to them and we have a good laugh, as
when we were in lockdown we didn’t see anyone. It is lovely to
talk to others about the week we have and any problems we have.
Margaret Wood: all our members had been so bereft on Tuesday
afternoons since lockdown. We so enjoyed our get-togethers, and
our meetings were always cheerful and friendly. Although now on
Zoom, not everyone can manage this—so may the restrictions end
soon, please! Our new curate, Ruth Chamberlain, spoke to the
Fellowship recently, but meeting her in person will be great.
Eileen Pearson: Nigel Evans has been a tremendous help, setting
us up and giving tech support. He has now stepped back, and we
seem to be managing well! Some of us are able to use Zoom on-
line, so we can see and hear each other, but the rest of us are able to
join using our phones. We start with a short service led by Cicely
Stevens and we take it in turns to find readings to share.
It has been lovely to reconnect and have a focus in the week for
worship and encouragement. Huge thanks to Nigel and Cicely!
Magazine distribution Warm thanks go to Win Weeks for delivering Network magazine
to Melvin Way over the last ten years. We are most grateful to Iain
Davidson for taking on this round in addition to Pease Way.
Cover photo This is one of a pair of banners displayed in the church at this season
of Pentecost when we celebrate God’s gift of the Holy Spirit, both
to empower his first disciples (see Acts chapter 2) and now to
enlighten and strenthen us as his followers.
From Nazi Germany to Impington
I was born in 1930 in Hamburg, Germany in a middle class family.
The Nazi times impacted me even as a primary school child when I
was up in front of the Headmaster for not singing the national
anthem lustily enough! At age seven or eight my mind was
pondering for the first time the words about greater Germany
reaching from the river Maas (in France) to the Memel (in eastern
Poland!). He threatened me with his cane, which came as such a
shock that I wet my pants all over his floor!
The outbreak of World War II came in the wrong week for our
family, catching us in disarray. My parents had been travelling to
New Zealand (NZ) to see whether my father, a lawyer, might find a
Volker Heine job there. Just as they arrived, Father briefly had to fly back alone
to Germany for urgent business matters but was trapped there by
the start of the war. Luckily we four children, aged three to fifteen,
were in Holland and could sail to NZ—dodging the U-boats! We
were not re-united in NZ till 1947 when I was already spending my
summer holidays earning money for my university years.
I mostly grew up with a lovely NZ family, having a wonderful
therapeutic outdoor life, e.g. chopping and sawing all the wood to
heat the water and fuel cooking on a range (no coal). My children
born in Cambridge think an old photo of me milking a cow is
‘hoots’. I also picked up the NZ culture of self-reliance, and the
wartime attitude of just getting on with whatever needs doing.
This has coloured my attitude to bi-culturalism, having changed
my culture twice, from Germany to NZ and later from NZ to
Cambridge which has a very different culture (no cow to milk, no
wood-burning range!). I was critical of some central European
refugees who complained about the absence of opera, but were a
bit blind to so many wonderful things about NZ. The issue is what
to embrace of the new culture, and what valuable things to retain
of the previous one: for example, it would be absurd for me to give
my lectures in Cambridge dressed in khaki shorts. However, the
way I led the research group followed my NZ experience, such as
in the status of the group secretary and the graduate students.
After being a student in NZ up to MSc level, I came to
Cambridge on a Shell Commonwealth Scholarship in 1954 to do
my PhD degree—and got stuck here until retiring in 1997 as a
professor after teaching and researching in Physics. My research
has been on the theory and computation of the (mostly) quantum
structure and behaviour of materials including metals, silicate
Milking, in NZ minerals and semiconductor surfaces. One aspect was putting the
laws of physics into the computer to do ‘computer experiments’ on
materials. I was elected to the Royal Society, and I was a regular
visitor of a Max Planck research institute in Stuttgart, Germany.
Throughout the 1970s I helped run a course entitled Science,
Technology and Society.
I had joined the ‘Quakers’ (Religious Society of Friends) while
a student in NZ, realising that there was ‘more in heaven and earth
than was dreamt of in my rationalist schoolboyish philosophy of
life’ (to borrow from Hamlet). Daphne and I met that way in NZ,
and we were married at the Quaker Meeting House in Cambridge
in 1955 (without our parents: the journey to NZ of one month each
way was unaffordable). We have continued active in the Quaker
‘Meeting’ (congregation) in Cambridge ever since, and we took
our three children to the Quaker Meeting on the first or second
Sunday after they were born to introduce them and start them
Daphne and Volker feeling ‘at home’ there! In due course, they attended Impington
Village College where I was a governor for nearly ten years in the
1970s and early 1980s; meanwhile Daphne was active with the
Girl Guide movement and ran a Brownie group.
I have long worked for understanding and peace across Europe.
During the Cold War in 1960–70, we as youngish Quakers and
other Christians organised discussions with young people on the
other side of the ‘Iron Curtain’ to counteract at a personal level
some of the poisonous hate, lies and distortions issuing from both
sides (for which I was on the mat with the Foreign Office!). I also
used my research contacts to give some lectures in Prague, and
could arrange for some Czech students to join international
‘Work’ Camps organised by Quakers, which was a profound
experience for a Czech youth leader (whom I met again 25 years
later). The Prague visit was combined with our family enjoying a
camping holiday in Czechoslovakia en route, and similarly later
some lectures in Budapest with camping by Lake Balaton. This
helped to keep the visits personal and non-political. There were
also three discussions for young graduates jointly organised by
USA and UK Quakers with the Russians.
Later, from about 1980 onwards, I was a leader in building a
couple of networks for research cooperation in my particular field
of theoretical and computational physics of materials. Scientists
should know better, but individualism, nationalism and com-
petitiveness can get in the way of productive cooperation. The
field has developed rapidly due to theoretical advances and the
arrival of supercomputers. What holds each of our networks
together is a commitment to excellence in science and opportun-
ities for all researchers (mostly young) across Europe in our field,
not prestige or money or powerful groups. Volker HeineThe pull of the East
We asked George and Judith Adam to share their faith journey and
some of their experiences of life in Malaysia and China.
George was brought up in London, attending an Anglican church
and Crusaders, where his faith crystallised thanks to godly leaders.
Judith was brought up in Cheshire, attending a Methodist church
and Sunday School, but decided not to become a Sunday School
teacher at twelve, as she was unsure what she believed. In her first
week at university, she was taken by another new student to a talk
by a Christian speaker, David MacInnes, and left soundly con-
verted. We both studied Chemistry and got engaged at the end of
our first year and married at the end of the second, slightly to
George and Judith Adam
Judith’s parents’ apprehension. But with God at the centre, we
have survived 46 years and counting.
After completing his DPhil, George joined British Leyland as a
CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) Body Engineer, spent two
years with CADCentre in Cambridge, then moved to GKN in
Birmingham to set up a CAE department. He also started an MBA
with the Open University. In 1992, he moved to Penang, Malaysia,
to help start a new GKN factory. As a family we settled on Penang
Island, near an International School where Sarah (then 12) and
Joseph (9) continued their education. We joined St George’s
Anglican Church in Penang, a fascinating mixture of Eurasians,
Chinese, Tamils and expats, with services in both English and
Tamil. There was a lively youth group: particular highlights were
the boys up palm trees, gathering branches for Palm Sunday
church decorations, and carol singing at Christmas in all sorts of
homes, from well-appointed to very poor. Government regulations
forbade Malay citizens from attending church, and from being
invited to events. We were all challenged to find ways to express
our faith to those whose background was Buddhist, Hindu,
Confucian, and Muslim. In general, the different communities
lived peacefully together, and joined in celebrating each other’s
festivals. Each had a holiday for their faith: Christmas Day for
Christians.
Returning to the UK after three years was quite a culture shock,
especially for Sarah (now 15) and Joseph (12) whose peers could
not understand their ignorance of contemporary youth culture, and
local and British events (the internet had only just been invented).
George had a roving post with GKN, so Judith knew the route to
Birmingham Airport extremely well. In 1998 George went back to
Penang, while the family stayed in UK, the children being in examyears. This was very challenging due to the ‘Asian Economic Crisis’ which devastated the local economies. Six months became ten before a successor was appointed. In 2000 George again spent a year alone in Penang. These assignments were challenging times for Judith at home, with teenagers facing exam stress as well as missing their dad. The church communities at both ends became very important in family support. By 2001 both children were away from home, Sarah at uni- versity and Joseph on a gap year with Viz-a-Viz, so Judith joined George in Penang. Then George was asked to go to Shanghai, where GKN had a 50 per cent share in a Chinese company. His challenging task was to ensure compliance with GKN’s standards, technically and managerially. George worked long hours, trying to align the expectations of Head Office with reality on the ground, being one of two foreigners in a factory of 1,000 Chinese, where all the managers had to be communist party members. We knew Malaysian Chinese culture from Penang, but Shanghai was very different. We started Chinese lessons, but it was slow work. We joined other expatriate Christians worshipping at 4pm in a building used by the Chinese official church in the mornings. No Chinese citizens were allowed to attend, unless married to a foreigner. This was enforced strictly, on occasion with police cars outside the church with cameras. With an American colleague, Judith headed up the children’s groups at church, catering for up to two hundred children, but in premises not their own never knowing where anything might have been put. We were allowed home groups, under strict conditions. We led one in our flat: the group and the service became lifelines in an atheist society where religion was branded outdated and ‘superstitious’. We returned to the UK in 2005. When George was given further assignments in China, Judith only visited as she stayed in the UK to help his mum (by then 86 and welcoming support—George being her only child). When George returned for his mum’s sake in 2008, he was made redundant; another hard time, but God is faithful. Six months later George had a new job. After a year, they said, ‘China experience? Could you go to China?’, resulting in 21 months apart, with visits every month or so. Then the company was taken over, and George made redundant. He started a consultancy business, which led to one more job before he started winding down. George’s mum died in 2019 at 98, so we moved to be near Joseph and Hannah with their three children in Histon, and closer to Sarah’s family in Chesham. It was good to worship with the family at St Andrew’s, although lockdown soon prevented us from gathering. Yet again we have been grateful for the church family’s support in negotiating challenging times.Judith and George Adam
Eight centuries a centre for the community
Most medieval parish churches, like that of the long lost neigh-
bouring church of St Etheldreda, follow a similar plan: usually a
tower (originally derived from a defensive feature), with a nave
where the community stood to witness Latin services conducted
by the clergy in a chancel beyond. Marriages would have been
performed at the church door. Infant baptism had become the
norm, hence small fonts. Within, colour would have been seen
throughout. Geometric and floral designs alongside biblical
paintings were lit by sunlight streaming through lancet and, later,
the larger perpendicular type windows. External walls were
plastered and limewashed white. The surrounding yard was a
Histon Church (1845): sacred site for burial, church festivities and if you were lucky, as at
south door and transept St Etheldreda’s, your vicarage housed an apothecary. By the
Middle Ages, churches had become our community centres.
Our St Andrew’s Church, however, has a cruciform plan and is
surrounded by a surprisingly small churchyard. Its stubby central
tower is of Norman origin. The small nave (enlarged by the addition
of aisles) is balanced by the chancel to the east. It is highly likely
that if current day parishioners were transported back some six
hundred years they would still recognise this church as their own.
Before the Victorian restorations of the 1860s and 70s, some
lithographs of Histon Church and its environs were made in 1845.
In the illustration above both thirteenth and fifteenth century
windows survive. Patches of lime mortar remain, as does the
original crucifix (portrayed as a tree with the crucified Christ) on
the end of the south transept roof.
The tower retained the mouldings of the original thatched
transept roof which frame the eighteenth century clock (then only
facing Histon Manor) with its single hour hand.
In 1845 the churchyard remained small. To the left of the church
door a boundary wall separated the churchyard from Histon
Manor grounds; this was taken down in 1913 for the current
extension to the churchyard. A further expansion, beyond the
limetree avenue, took place in the 1960s when the Old Vicarage
relinquished part of its garden.
Church registers shed no light on who was being buried in that
summer of 1845. We do not know the identity of the grave digger or
For more detailed local
the lady onlooker with her three young children. The churchyard
history articles contact looks a little neglected. However, the descendants of the rooks
the Village Society featured still occupy the nearby rockery. Eleanor Whitehead 2020
© Histon and Impington Village SocietyCommunity noticeboard
Archaeology Group On Monday 17 May, Kasia Gdaniek, Senior Archaeologist with
Cambridgeshire County Council will give a Zoom talk on the New
Geography of Ancient Cambridgeshire: the interaction of land-
scape and early settlement in the county.
All talks are free at present. Members are automatically sent the
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Visit link three days in advance while non-members can register to be
hiarchaeology.wordpress.com sent the link by using the ‘Contact us’ page of the website.1
Arnold Fertig
Women’s Institute At our next meeting on Thursday 20 May at 7.30pm we have two
speakers: Yvonne Murray will tell us about life as a local coun-
cillor, followed by Bena Forster with a cookery demonstration.
New members and visitors are most welcome; please contact
Denise Brading (232442, denise.brading@btinternet.com).
Claudia Clements
Outdoor On Saturday 22 May HI Friends are offering mindfulness practice,
Mindfulness mindful walking and opportunities for exploring mindfulness with
Elinor Brown and Dr Shani Langdon of Being Human Together.
Prior booking is essential as numbers are limited to twenty at each
of the two free sessions at 11am and 2pm on Manor Field, behind
Manor Park. Children are welcome if accompanied by an adult.
Contact beinghumantogether@gmail.com for more information
and info@hifriends.org.uk to book. Neil Davies
Village Society On Tuesday 25 May, at 7.30pm, Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin, a
course leader in Architecture at the University of Cambridge, will
speak on the Edwardians and their houses, discussing the domestic
architecture of this period and how it was very often designed and
built to an unprecedented level of sophistication.
The Society’s talks, currently on Zoom, are free of charge and
details for each talk are emailed directly to members. However,
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https://histonandimpington membership is free of charge to all until January 2022: visit the
villagesociety.wordpress.com website2 (or contact 07956 720023, handivsoc@gmail.com).
Katherine Mann
Run for Hope Again To raise money for the local bereavement support group, Hope
Again, MAS L&G (Marsh and Scott, Local and Global) have organ-
ised a running relay. The 12 Hour KBR (King Bill Relay), from
5am on Saturday 29 May, is an event for adults of all abilities over
a 1.7 mile loop from the King Bill in Histon. Participants sign up
3
https://maslandg.co.uk/events/ for half hour slots at a suggested donation of £5 per person and run
the-12-hour-kbr as many laps as they can. Visit the website3 for more details.
Hannah ScottAbbey Fields: Once the sale of Abbey Farm is completed, the Abbey Fields Task
village meeting and Finish Group plans to hold an open village meeting by Zoom,
probably in May. We will explain progress on the purchase of the
land and the need to fund both the capital cost and the upkeep by
building on the generous pledges so far received. A new local
charity is needed to receive the funds and use them to acquire the
land; also a ‘Friends’ group responsible for land management.
The Parish Council is playing a crucial part in the acquisition
process, and under current plans will nominate half of the charity’s
Trustees. The meeting will be an opportunity for people to ask
questions, provide feedback on the current plans, make sugges-
Visit www.Abbeyfields.online tions and hopefully get ready for the fundraising, and the
for details of the meeting. conservation of the meadow and woodland for our enjoyment.
Howard Biddle, AFTFG
Tree planting The Narrow Lane Residents Society is proud to support the
planting of trees towards The Queen’s Green Canopy (to be
launched in May to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022),
and as one of our Feast 2021 activities. Preservation and sustain-
ability were among the Duke of Edinburgh’s passions throughout
his life. At the time of his death a Narrow Lane resident planted a
cherry tree on one of the green spaces in Histon owned by the
Society as a modest start towards preserving and increasing our
stock of trees.
Perhaps other owners of our village green spaces would like to
offer land for tree planting; if so, please do contact Dan Mace
(danrmace@gmail.co.uk).
Watch our village social media and notice boards for more
information on tree planting as part of Feast 2021—one of the few
activities to go ahead, carefully structured under COVID.
Yvonne Murray, NLRS
Histon Bell Tower Following the Tower AGM back in January, we have been trialling
an online ringing meet-up every Tuesday at 8pm. It’s going
reasonably well—certainly it’s providing some focus for us!
However, I fear that it may mask the fact that a return to tower bell
ringing is not imminent; I think we are still many months away
from that. David Richards, Tower Captain
Magazine donations Network magazine continues to be delivered free of charge to all
who wish to receive it. Thank you to all who have already given
generously towards the cost of producing this publication. Further
donations may be made by scanning the QR code at the top of the
diary page—‘The shape of the month’—or cheques payable to
‘Histon PCC’ may be sent to the church office at The Saint
Andrew’s Centre, School Hill, Histon CB24 9JE.
Elizabeth Sadler, EditorRwanda update from Manasseh
Manasseh Tuyizere has visited Ely Diocese and is known to some
members of Histon and Impington Churches. He has been a pastor
in a Rwandan church, and active in the theological training of
pastors in Kigali Diocese; his German wife Catrin has been the
diocesan coordinator for early childhood development. However,
for some time they have been in Germany for Eliana, now nine
months old, to receive treatment for holes in the heart. While they
Manasseh and Catrin with
thank God that the defects seem to be healing, Eliana will continue
Emily (3) and Eliana to need regular check-ups at the Giessen Children’s Heart Centre,
and possibly more surgery. This and the pandemic meant that in
October 2020 Manasseh and Catrin had to accept that they could
not return to Rwanda. They were sad not to be able to pack up their
home there, or even to say farewell.
Thankfully, since 1 March, God has enabled them to continue as
*Vereinigte Deutsche missionaries with VDM* whose church-planting ministry in Haiger
Missionshilfe (United (about fifty miles east of Bonn), has welcomed them into a half-
German Mission Alliance) time role reaching out to refugees from Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Manasseh knows personally, from the Rwandan genocide, how it
feels to start life from scratch as a refugee and process traumatic
experiences. Catrin’s thesis at All Nations Christian College was
about the 2015 refugee crisis and how the church of Jesus can act
with love to meet people through word and deed. Manasseh has
also been appointed as pastor of Catrin’s home church, a half-time
post which the church had been trying to fill for some time.
Manasseh thanks us for our prayers amd also gives us an update
on Rwanda’s COVID situation. Until the end of March, only
nineteen of the 189 congregations in Kigali Diocese were able to
hold Sunday worship services, at thirty per cent of their capacity.
Only these churches were able to invest in meeting the
requirements of having hand washing stations, thermometers and
trained volunteers. About five more churches were added last
weekend, which has boosted the morale of many pastors. Weddings
and funerals can take place by permission, but attended by no more
than twenty people.
On the other hand, restrictions have cost many people their jobs
and livelihoods; the Diocese was really thankful for the donations
towards helping some clergy who were among those affected.
Kigali Theological College finally received accreditation under
the name of the East African Christian College and received its
first two hundred theological students this month.
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