Dear Friends and Supporters,
From the Editor
Thank you for your continuing support with prayers, feedback, enquires,
purchases from our website and of course DONATIONS! Please keep looking
at www.waldensian.org.uk for updates and new items. We need your support
more than ever!!! We are also on Facebook: The Waldensian Church Missions.
I hope the COVID19 has not affected any of you or your families and that
the lockdown has not been too painful to bear.
I have been following many online services,
meditations and Zoom choirs from all over Italy
and I am very impressed by how much the
small Waldensian–Methodist Church has been
able to produce. Radio Beckwith Evangelica
has been excellent in helping with communications
especially within the Waldensian Valleys,
Pinerolo and Turin. I have listened to an incredible
amount of Christian preaching from the
Alps to Sicily to Rome, via Parma, Milan, Turin
and even Basle. I have often tuned to the services
of Ponte S. Angelo English Speaking Methodist
Church and I have rarely missed a meditation by
First open-air service post-
Covid in Torre Pellice. Photo
G. Benigno
pastor Claudio Pasquet. As soon as it was possible open-air socially distanced
services (with canopies in case of rain) have promptly started. Sadly, Synod
is cancelled, though – postponed to Summer 2021.
Congratulations to our Committee member Alastair Morris for
being named Sheffield Businessperson of the year!
Congratulations to our Patron, The Lord The Rev. Dr Leslie
Griffiths, recently elected by his fellow peers, Labour Lords, to
be part of the UK delegation to the Parliament of the Council
of Europe, a body founded in 1949, well ahead of what became
the EU. Its focus is on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule
of Law. It comprises delegations from 47 nations across Europe
and beyond. Leslie is now one of the permanent members of the
Committee that deals with Migrations, Refugees and displaced
people and hopefully he will make well known the work of the
Waldensian Methodist Church in organising the ‘Humanitarian
Corridors’ and the welcoming of migrants in places like Lampedusa!
Cover: June 2015: Waldensian Church of Turin, from left: past. P. Ribet, O. Oudri
and E. Bernardini, respectively Moderators of the Mensa and of Tavola valdese,
Pope Francis and A. Trotta, then President of OPCEMI and now Moderator.
Photo P. Romeo/Riforma