Diocese–wide mission in 2023
We are delighted to announce a partnership with SOMA (Sharing of Ministries Abroad) for a diocese–wide mission in the two weeks leading up to our Diocesan Synod in June 2023.
Bishop David has invited SOMA to send 150 people to us from the Anglican Church worldwide – from Singapore, South Africa, America and England – to help run mission and outreach: enough for a team in every parish.
Mission teams will be available from Friday 2 June until Diocesan Synod on Thursday 15 June and can be placed with parishes for a 3, 4, or 7–day mission. Each participant will be making their own way to the diocese, so host parishes need only provide accommodation and food.
Our guests are coming to share Christ, to speak at outreach events, and to be available for whatever mission activities a parish has planned.
Bishop David invites us at this stage to pray, to begin to put together a programme and to identify the people in our parishes who could work alongside the SOMA team member(s).
He says, “It’s an exciting opportunity and it’s one that I’m asking all our parishes to grasp. These will be days of blessing and interaction with people from the worldwide church with every parish in our diocese.”
Look out for more details in the New Year.
Find out more about SOMA Ireland: www.somaie.org