I’m writing to wish you a happy new year and particularly to encourage you in your faith.
Our aim over the past number of years and for the future is to be a learning, caring, worshipping, witnessing church (based on Acts 2:42-47).  These are all areas that we personally and corporately should be growing in,  and as we grow, the church will grow.
To that end, I’d like to encourage you in your daily Bible reading, the very basis of all these aims.  Sometimes we start the year with good intentions to read the Bible but soon become tired and give up.  Sometimes, we get behind in our daily Bible reading and soon feel guilty or discouraged – and give up.
To help get us back on the road again, I have available 2 Bible reading plans – one to read the whole Bible through in a year, and the other to read only the New Testament in six months.  Whichever you choose to do (or you might be following another Bible reading plan), keep going – even if it takes longer. That’s ok.
Please also find attached a little article about our spiritual resolutions for the new year.
Every blessing,

The Rector