Excerpts from the April 2024 edition…

FROM THE EDITOR

This edition of Pilgrim has some useful information on the future programmes and the work done by FCI. There will be a Missionary Story Telling Day Conference in June later this year. The FCI Annual Day will be held in September. We describe the numerous projects undertaken by the Diocese of Durgapur, Church of North India and we include the missionary stories of the work done by Revd Sarah Miller. ….

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A Mission Story Telling Day Conference

Our churches and mission agencies represent a vast reservoir of the stories of God’s works through those who have faithfully served him as they have crossed borders and cultures. Many of these stories have gone unrecorded or undocumented, or simply not been told widely enough. This day conference is an opportunity for such stories to be told, shared and recorded and from which we, and many others can be inspired and learn, now and in the future. All participants will have an opportunity to tell their own story to a small group as well as to hear from a selection of designated key storytellers. ….

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Projects in Diocese of Durgapur, Church of North India

The history of the Diocese of Durgapur reveals a rich and dynamic heritage as well as inspiring memories. Three Protestant denominations were involved in this area, namely the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the Methodist Missionary Society (MMS), and the American Baptist Mission. The missionary work in this area began about one hundred and seventy-two years ago. The geographical territory of the Diocese of Durgapur is about 43,340 sq. km. The Diocese covers the districts of Burdwan, Bankura, Purulia, Midnapore, Malda, Uttar Dinajpur and Dakshin Dinajpur. At present it consists of 31 pastorates; 209 churches and the total membership is about 29,948. This is basically the composition of the Diocese.

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Missionary Reflections – Revd Sarah Miller

My parents Jeffery and Frances Miller went to Andhra Pradesh in 1954 to serve as CMS missionaries. They arrived in India on their first wedding anniversary and for the next thirteen years were based at Masulipatnam (now Machilipatnam) on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. As a missionary priest, my father was correspondent of Noble School and my mother ran the sick-room for the boarders’ hostel. They had four children during these years, of which I am the youngest, born in 1965. Our family returned to England in 1967, when I was only eighteen months old, so I was too young to remember India as a child – but grew up absorbing the memories of my parents and three older siblings. India had formed our family history and culture.

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Remembering Revd Canon Ivor Smith-Cameron

Tribute to The Revd Dr Gordon Shaw

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