Author: Sue Fairhead

prayer of the week

Almighty God,
who sent your Holy Spirit
to be the life and light of your Church:
open our hearts to the riches of your grace,
that we may bring forth the fruit of the Spirit
in love and joy and peace;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen

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Charity Shop

The St Helena’s charity shop regular opening hours are 9.00am – 12.30am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The charity shop will be CLOSED during August.

Book Sale

There will be no book sale during July and August.

Prayer Guide

You can find the current Diocesan prayer guide here.

A Listening Ear

If you are a Cyprus resident and would like an opportunity to share where you are; how you are in this season, a trained Spiritual Director is available to listen confidentially.  Information here.

Safeguarding Mission Statement

St Helena’s Anglican Church makes full commitment to the ongoing welfare and safekeeping of vulnerable children and adults attending this Church at all times.

We undertake the responsibility of all within our Church to protect them as far as is practically possible from abuse of any kind.  We will ensure that all proper procedures and guidelines are followed, and that the appropriate person will be assigned to conduct any required investigations.  A mentoring system will be in place.

As part of policy and good practice, the following people have been trained to the appropriate level and have been appointed as shown:

Protection Officer (PO):                      Mrs Marina Peters
Deputy Protection Officer (DPO):       Fr Geoff Graham

Katafiyio Retreat House

Latest information about the retreat house at Katafiyio can be found here.

We look forward to welcoming you to St. Helena’s

March against Human Trafficking

‘Abolish slavery everywhere, forever.’ So read one of the placards under which we walked. At 10am on October 19th, the seafront at Limassol looked just a little different. There were the usual tourists dressed to enjoy the sunshine.

But there were also some 130 people of different ages and nationalities clothed completely in black. Christopher and I were among them. Silently, in single file we walked slowly along the promenade…

(to read the rest of the article, see: human trafficking)

Afternoon Tea

On Wednesday 16th October 2019, some 35 of us enjoyed gathering for wonderful home-made cakes and conversation at St. Helena’s. 

Do join us for our next tea at 3.00 pm on Tuesday 14th January. We look forward to welcoming you.

New Chaplains at St Helena’s

On Saturday 7 September 2019 Bishop Michael collated and instituted the Venerable Christopher Futcher as the new Archdeacon in Cyprus and parish priest of St Helena Larnaca. 

At the same service he licensed Christopher’s wife, the Revd Anne Futcher, as archdeaconry social concern officer and an associate priest at St Helena’s.

Christmas pastoral letter 2018

Advent Calendars have become a familiar feature of Christmas anticipation. Beginning on December 1st (usually before Advent) and ending on Christmas Eve, I can remember when they were filled with different religious images and pictures, rather than chocolates. The idea is to mark each day as special on the countdown to Christmas…

To read the rest, see Christmas Pastoral Letter 2018