seminar. The SEI student community I studied with will always hold a special
place in my heart and the relationships made then continue to be supportive
and I hope will continue to be mutually beneficial as we journey with our
calling.
Welcome 1: At the end of this month ten new students will arrive in SEI - a
Lay Reader candidate and nine ordinands, two of whom will be following the
Mixed Mode pathway - joining the existing fifteen students. Please do pray for
all the community using the 2018-19 Prayer Cycle available here on the SEI
web site.
Welcome 2: We welcome Dr Ros Brett as the new SEI Ambassador for the
Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, replacing the Revd Elaine Garman who has
moved to the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. Ros will
introduce herself in the October issue. Bishop Kevin hosted a lunch for the
Ambassadors in June, a chance for them to be thanked by the Convenor of
the Institute Council for their work this past year.
SEI Lecture 2018: This year’s Lecture will be held on Thursday 11 October at
17.30 in Parliament Hall, South Street, St
Andrews. Professor Elaine Graham,
Grosvenor Research Professor of Practical
Theology, University of Chester and Canon
Theologian of Chester Cathedral, will deliver
a paper entitled ‘Liberating the Laity: a
Theology for a Learning Church’. The
Lecture, sponsored by the School of Divinity
at St Andrews University, is open to all free
of charge, and is followed by a reception.
SEI Training Fund: Warm thanks this month
go to the congregations of St Oswald’s Kings
Park (Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway), St
John’s Forfar, (Diocese of St Andrews,
Dunkeld and Dunblane), St Martin’s (Diocese
of Edinburgh) and St Andrew’s Cathedral
(Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness) for
their kind and very generous donations, and to
the Revd Canon Robin Paisley for donating
fees for covering worship in vacant charges in the Diocese of Glasgow and
Galloway.
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