{"id":18590,"date":"2025-03-03T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/?p=18590"},"modified":"2025-03-04T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:34:11","slug":"cochaire-maggies-blog-3rd-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/cochaire-maggies-blog-3rd-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"CoChair Maggies Blog – 3rd March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daffodil Day<\/p>\n

Saturday found me at Daffodil Day at Westminster Central Hall. As always the hall looked magnificent with so many daffodils and as always it was good to catch up with friends. A peace Candle for Ukraine was lit and I was reminded of our Dora\u00a0 project working with girls whose lives had been disrupted by the war and vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking. \u00a0The music was amazing with\u00a0 the Methodist Central choir, the Gwalia Male Voice Choir and Revd Lola Brown leading in very different styles. Leonora,\u00a0 as co-chair, was interviewed by Pam Rhodes and spoke about her journey to taking on the role as well as her passion for raising awareness\u00a0 about violence\u00a0 against women.<\/p>\n

The address was given by Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths who spoke movingly about\u00a0 the \u201clittle things\u201d and how a small\u00a0 group of people in his community had\u00a0 come together to support him through\u00a0 grammar\u00a0 school which gave him the platform for\u00a0 the life he was to lead. He also spoke of the strength of his mother, a single Mum, and the judgemental attitudes of the church towards her at that time. This resonated with me as I remember my mother being treated in a judgemental way \u00a0\u00a0by the church after my father walked out just after I was born\u00a0 and she sought a divorce. Only in later life she\u00a0 found a way back to regular worship through the Salvation Army.<\/p>\n

The intercessions were also led by members of MWiB in a creative and meaningful way.<\/p>\n

It was good to see our fantastic and colourful\u00a0 new publicity on display and to see people taking the information away with them. Having that colour co-ordinated corporate approach will really help us get the name and work of\u00a0 Methodist Women in Britain out there.<\/p>\n

On Sunday I led worship at Brightlingsea United\u00a0 Church on the Essex coast.<\/p>\n

They have been a congregation that has been so supportive \u00a0of me and always\u00a0 keen to hear \u00a0of\u00a0 my MWiB adventures. I was pleased to hand out one of our new bookmarks\u00a0 to all who came. I reflected on \u00a0key areas of my last two and a half years\u00a0 including seeing \u00a0the bigger picture through Porto and looking forward to my trip to Rwanda. But going forward\u00a0 the little things that Leslie Griffiths spoke of are equally important. Connection and connectivity are essential at the grass roots to embed\u00a0 issues affecting women in the churches today. After the service the leadership \u00a0\u00a0spent time looking at the new publicity and what was available.<\/p>\n

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Daffodil Day Saturday found me at Daffodil Day at Westminster Central Hall. As always the hall looked magnificent with so many daffodils and as always it was good to catch up with friends. A peace Candle for Ukraine was lit and I was reminded of our Dora\u00a0 project working with girls whose lives had been disrupted by the war and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cochairs-blog"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 21:24:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}