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The church of the Thessalonians

5/6/2016

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Wherever we are in the world, we always try to get to church on Sunday. A quick search on the internet revealed the presence of an Anglican church in Thessaloniki.
They meet in premises owned by a German congregation on the first floor of a commercial building and are visited once a month by the Anglican chaplain in Athens. The rest of the time they run their own service and take turns leading. Today's sermon had been downloaded from a church website in Ireland and was read to us by Theo, the lady whose turn it was to lead today. We all sat around a table for the service, as you can see in the picture. Tom played the electric organ and we sang from Hymns Old and New!
The setup made me think of the early churches founded by St Paul, who must have operated in a very similar way (though they couldn't download sermons!)  We were made very welcome.  


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Theodora Caldwell Petridis
5/6/2016 10:32:19 pm

It was great that you were able to join us yesterday. Enjoy the remainder of your trip and we look forward to following your travels online.

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Liz Percival
7/6/2016 05:32:25 am

It's good to see you found some church family. It reminded me of our days in Stavanger when the vicar visited once a month and members of the congregation were allowed to give a talk (not called a sermon) when we met in the intervening weeks. It really made one think about what "church" really means. Enjoy your trip.

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    Rev John Castle has been Rector of St Michael & All Angels Church in Sandhurst, Berks since October 2004.
    Before that he was Assistant Vicar at Namirembe Cathedral, Kampala, Uganda after serving a curacy in Southborough, Kent. He is married to Georgina, and they have 3 grown-up sons and two labrador dogs.  John enjoys playing the trumpet, travelling to other countries to learn about their culture and history, and studying biblical Hebrew.




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