The Anglican Church’s second most senior cleric, after the Archbishop of Canterbury, joined faith and civic leaders from across the city at a special event last night to celebrate the federation of the six towns 100 years ago.
Ugandan-born Dr Sentamu, who was the country’s first black archbishop, was guest speaker at the King’s Hall event organised to highlight the contribution of faith to the area over the past 100 years.
Addressing around 250 guests, he said: “Great people of this city may I be with you to banish fear.
“Fear has a crippling effect more than anything else. We will not be afraid.”
Thank you for this. My parish was founded 98 years ago by potters who emigrated from Stoke-on-Trent. The church is built from cast off bricks from local potteries, each one unique because of it’s different color. They took great pride in that and saw it as a metaphor for the church. Now I know whereby their mindset came from.
Dirk Reinken+