The hope that the SVP Team is able to offer to those we help is beautifully reflected in the hope that we all experience through the message of our Risen Lord on Easter morning.
Without your help, though, the hope being offered by the SVP Team would not be possible. So, at this lovely time of year, we would like to wish you all a very Happy and Holy Easter and say a huge ‘Thank You’ for sustaining us through your encouragement, feedback and support.
One of our new initiatives for 2021 has been the launch of Gifted, our religious items shop/stall. It operates after all the Sunday masses on the first Sunday of each month – 5:30pm Saturday and 10am, 12noon and 6pm on Sunday. So far it has operated in February and March and your support has been just brilliant! We never realised that our congregation missed a religious items shop/stall so much. Please God the SVP, with the help of the Young Persons SVP, will be able to keep this initiative running in to the long term!
We support both the mission of the SVP, and that of the Jesuit Refugee Service (the JRS), by visiting (phone buddying at present) our brothers and sisters held in detention. At the monthly JRS meeting on Tuesday evening, the news of the mobile devices that you recently donated was joyously received. Our Young Persons SVP members completed the checking and resetting of all the devices and so these should be in the hands of those being held in detention very soon.
With the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the SVP Team elected its new president on Monday evening! On April 26, Tracy Tierney will be our new leader and there is no doubt that, with your support, Tracy will be a fantastic success over the next five years.
For example, our first initative of 2021, our religious items stall named ‘Gifted’, sprang from one of Tracy’s ideas for the New Year. Gifted will be open this weekend after all the Sunday masses – 5:30pm, 10am, 12noon and 6pm – and we really hope you enjoy the range of items that we have procured. Please have a look, and remember that the plan is that Gifted will be open on the first weekend of each month.
The SVP Team meet on Monday evening for our monthly meeting and this meeting is a milestone for us! The team will be 5 years old in April and, so, to comply with good goverance and SVP Rules we need to have a new President in place by then. Once elected, the new President will then appoint a Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary.
The election of the new President will take place at Monday’s meeting so please say a prayer for all the team. Please God, this process will then place the SVP Team in a great position to face the next 5 years with Faith, Hope and Love. If you would like to join us on the next part of our journey then why not get in touch!