{"id":545,"date":"2024-10-08T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinitypalmgrove.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=545"},"modified":"2025-01-29T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T11:25:22","slug":"ministers-letter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trinitypalmgrove.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=545","title":{"rendered":"Ministers Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"545\" class=\"elementor elementor-545\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2f1f82 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c2f1f82\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dbaac92 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"dbaac92\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Minister's Letter<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e79fe29 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e79fe29\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2ce24d elementor-widget elementor-widget-posts\" data-id=\"b2ce24d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;full_content_row_gap&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:35,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"posts.full_content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-posts-container elementor-posts elementor-posts--skin-full_content elementor-grid\" role=\"list\">\n\t\t\t\t<article class=\"elementor-post elementor-grid-item post-1704 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-rev-letter\" role=\"listitem\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__text\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/trinitypalmgrove.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1704\" >\n\t\t\t\tMinister&#8217;s Letter April 2026\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__content\"><style>.elementor-1704 .elementor-element.elementor-element-4d4a3de3{--display:flex;}.elementor-widget-text-editor{font-family:var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif;font-weight:var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );color:var( --e-global-color-text );}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:var( --e-global-color-primary );}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap, .elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-default .elementor-drop-cap{color:var( --e-global-color-primary );border-color:var( --e-global-color-primary );}<\/style>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1704\" class=\"elementor elementor-1704\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d4a3de3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4d4a3de3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f3818ff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f3818ff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dear Friends,<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are now seeing the seasons turn once more and the lighter nights are here with us. The darkness of winter is coming to an end we look forward to the plans we have made for spring and summer.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sometimes when we make plans we find that a \u2018spanner has been thrown in the works\u2019, which often leads to us having to rethink our plans. So it was for the disciples. As we approach Holy Week with the roller coast of feelings and emotions and ultimately to Easter Day, again we are no different to the disciples. They had the highs of Palm Sunday, when all their dreams were still alive but that changed as they celebrated the Passover meal in the upper room.\u00a0 We heard they were frightened of what the future held for them. What they learned was, their strength came from being together as a group facing the challenges that lay ahead.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We know on that glorious Easter Morning when Jesus was raised from the dead \u2013 as well as being alarmed the disciples worked together just as Jesus commanded.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As we look at our churches and their memberships, we have concerns about the future for all our communities. Some of us have completed the Leading Your Church into Growth local over the past 10 months and this has encouraged us to look at what can be achieved as a group. We all have different strengths, which, when pooled together with the blessing of God changes mind-sets.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As we look to our future some of us may be in the Good Friday black hole but we need to remember Easter Day is coming with the resurrection and hope are just around the corner. The sale of Bibles has risen &#8211; the \u2018Gen Z\u2019 (18 \u2013 29) and the Millennials (30 and upwards) are showing an increasing interest in the Bible and faith.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If we look further ahead we have Pentecost on 24<sup>th<\/sup> May, a time when all those who were gathered heard the message of hope in their own language and the Holy Spirit moved among them. The same Holy Spirit is still moving among us and encouraging us to be disciples in the truest sense of the word.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So as we prepare ourselves for the coming events of Holy week, remember , no matter how dark it may seem we have to travel through the events of Good Friday for new life to be revealed to us.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wishing everyone a happy Easter.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mark.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister&#8217;s Letter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypalmgrove.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypalmgrove.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypalmgrove.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypalmgrove.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypalmgrove.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypalmgrove.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypalmgrove.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypalmgrove.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}