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Palm Sunday April 2017 – Prevette Easter Update
Palm Sunday – Prevette Update It is a lovely Spring day in England! Today is Palm Sunday and we have just returned from a service at our local village church where we celebrated the historic entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. The contrast of beauty and pain struck us again as we turned on the BBC…
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Autumn Update 2016 – As Seasons Change
Prevette Autumn Update – October 1, 2016 As Seasons Change… Greetings from Oxford, England–we are beginning a special time of year here in northern Europe. Ky and I have always loved Autumn and these colder regions really know how to display their colors and dazzle the eyes. These are the opening lines of the poem…
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Prevette Spring 2016 Update April 22, 2016
An Update from Oxford – Multiculturalism in the UK I started writing this update to you, our friends and supporters, on Good Friday – four weeks ago today. Needless to say, the last four weeks have ‘flashed before our eyes’. Our apologies for being so overdue in getting this organized and sent out. (Culture alert! …
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Soul Care in the midst of responding to Exploitation – by Ky Prevette
“Those of us who care for others do not wish to admit we can break ourselves. We are the capable ones, the ones who hold the keys to health, strength and power. But we DO break…an accumulation of distress and sadness from the external world of our caring, combines with the strata of distress already…
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Prevette December 2015 Update – A Prayer of Thanksgiving during Advent
Prevette December Update A Prayer of Thanksgiving during Advent 2015 It is now early December, we are experiencing very long nights and short days here in the UK as winter settles over our leafless trees and soggy landscape. Despite the grey, it is the first week of Advent in the Christian liturgical calendar, a season…
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August 2015 – Prevette Late Summer Medical Update
Late Summer Prevette Update – August 2015 ‘Pain, Puzzlement, Patience and Purpose’ I have started to write this newsletter two or three times over the past weeks and each time our situation has undergone a major change. Normally we try to provide a report of our ministry activities, but given our circumstances over the summer…
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Prevette Report – Spring 2015 from Oxford
Warm Spring Greetings from Oxford! Last Sunday marked our fifth Easter living in England. That makes five times we have taken part in an outdoor, public Good Friday service held in the center of our local community. A number of churches from North Oxford join together to organize and participate in the service and, as…
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Christmas Greetings from Oxford – 2014
Christmas Greetings from Oxford, England – 2014 It is almost the ‘day before Christmas’ and the wind is whistling around our little house in Oxford. Ky has been busy making Christmas eggnog and pecan pie. I even got around to making my mom’s favorite butter pecan cookies. We both had a nasty flu bug over…
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Stitches from the Trenches – August 2014
Here in the UK and throughout the continent of Europe, August marks the time for long family holidays and time away from normal routines. If one needs to make appointments or schedule meetings – this is not the best month for it! As for our American friends, August signals the return to a more structured…
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Prevette Update – Spring 2014 – Easter in Oxford
Greetings from Oxford! We have celebrated a very meaningful Holy Week and Easter season in our adopted city and hope that your celebration was significant, too. This year we participated in a Maundy Thursday gathering (from the Latin –mandatum – "A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another; as I have…
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