Welcome back Archbishop Ben!
We’re delighted to welcome back Most Revd Dr Benjamin Kwashi as the speaker at this year’s Bible Week running from Tuesday 30 August until Friday 2 September. He will also speak at a Bible Week Youth Night on Saturday 3 September.
Ben is Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Jos and Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Jos in the Church of Nigeria and spoke at our Bible Week back in 2009. Many of us will remember him as a powerful and gifted communicator, passionate for the Gospel and willing to lay his life on the line in its cause. Ben has survived three assassination attempts at the hands of terrorists and more recently been declared cancer free after a diagnosis of stage 4 colon cancer which had also spread to his liver.
We very much look forward to Archbishop Ben’s testimony and Bible teaching (more details to follow).
Leadership
Bible Week will also be an occasion to celebrate leadership in the diocese with short acts of commissioning on Tuesday (Parish Readers) and Wednesday (Diocesan Readers). On Thursday Bishop David is inviting the clergy of the diocese to reaffirm their ordination vows.
On Friday we hope that choirs and worship teams will make a special effort to come along for ‘Let’s Sing’, an evening of worship and teaching from Archbishop Ben.
Time and place
Bible Week will begin each evening at 7.45 pm in Willowfield Church, 149 My Lady’s Road, Belfast, BT6 8FE.
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