One of the regular features in the former monthly SEI Newsletter was an expression of thanks to those who had given to the various SEI Funds over the preceding month; we shall do no less on this web site.
In the past month the ‘SEITraining Fund’ has benefitted from receiving deputising fees which would otherwise have been paid to the Revd Sally Gorton. Sally co-ordinates a rota of clergy and Lay Readers to cover vacancies, holidays and emergencies in the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway. When carrying out locum duties herself, Sally kindly requests that the fee be donated to a good cause, usually the SEI Training Fund or the Bishop’s Lent Appeal.
This month we thank Sally most warmly for her continuing generosity and also the charges of St Mary’s, Port Glasgow and St John the Evangelist, Greenock (Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway). We also thank the Revd Anne Macdonald DCS and the Revd Canon Robin Paisley (Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway) for their kind donations of supervision fees to the Fund. Such money goes directly to supporting those students training on the two full-time pathways, that is via New College or the Mixed Mode track. We currently have two students on these routes, and a new one joining in August, so this money is very welcome.
From time to time we receive donations of theological books which we then sell on to the students, this money going to the ‘Brazil Fund’ which supports the humanitarian work carried out by students in our sister TEI in Brazil, Centro de Estudos Anglicanos (CEA). This month we thank the Revd Canon Dr James Currall (Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness) for his kindness in bringing books to General Synod. These will be taken to the Orientation Week in August for sale then. We were delighted, too, to receive a most generous donation for this Fund from Dr Valerie Cameron, one of our six 2022 Leavers.
This week, at the end of the 2021-22 academic year, we were pleased to be able to send £813 to CEA. This money represents the giving of the SEI community at the six residential Eucharists. It goes towards the work with indigenous communities in the Amazon of which we heard in our webinar last month, the latter to be featured in the July 2022 edition of the TEAC bulletin (Theological Education in the Anglican Communion).
And finally, our grove at the Trees for Life hillside estate at Dundreggan in Glenmoriston continues to grow steadily; check it out.
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