“Transformation. Now!”

We have two community pages on Facebook

• Canterbury Diocese Mothers’ Union linking with the worldwide Anglican Communion
• Maidstone Mothers’ Union – connecting Kent with Maidstone Archdeaconry

 

•  Cathedral prayer time. Noon.  midday prayers in Jesus Chapel –  Last Thursday of every month (except December)  more information on the prayer and spirituality page. 

• March 16-18 Wave of Prayer – praying for our worldwide MU links and for peace and Justice for Ukraine. 

ANNUAL  MEETING St Paul’s Centre, Canterbury  Saturday 15th June

Autumn Members’ meeting St Paul’s Centre Canterbury  Tuesday 5^th November

ADVENT December 4^th a  Service for ADVENT  in  Canterbury Cathedral Crypt 11am. 

 

Archive

2023  ADVENT SERVICE Speaker  Dean Of Canterbury, David Monteith, the senior Canon of Canterbury Cathedral.

2022  COMMISSIONING NEW TRUSTEE BOARD  Festival Service 2^nd April  2022 Canterbury Cathedral Crypt 11am with the Bishop of Dover

 2021

ADVENT SERVICE in Canterbury cathedral crypt. Revd Phil Goodey Public. 2nd December

16 days of Activism – service and display of knitted links to highlight victims of human trafficking.  Jesus Chapel 

ONLINE EVENTS  Zoom Coffee Lounge 11.30am Thursday 30 September to include midday prayers

August virtual coffee morning Reimagining MU

  9th August – celebration of the Legacy of Mary Sumner – an  AUCTION sale of items with links to the Bible at St Paul’s Centre, Canterbury .   SUNDAY WORSHIP 5pm choral evensong at the Cathedral.

Tuesday 22 June Annual Meeting review of 2020 (on-line  Zoom)

Wave of Prayer 16-18 March 2021 – Service linking our members worldwide via YOU TUBE watch here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rf7Xacquq

April ‘Coffee Lounge’ on-line discussion  – Isle of Sheppey prisons. 

Archive 2020

Advent YOU TUBE

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•  Wednesday 4th November Autumn Members’ Meeting online 10.30-12.30 by
  Zoom.  MU LIVE – stories of change.  
• Tuesday 20th October 10.00 – 12 noon on-line celebration and service
  presented by central MU
• Thursday 25th June ARCHDEACONRIES  ZOOM MEETING  11.30am  the virtual AGM.
• Saturday/Sunday 30th & 31st  May DIOCESAN DAY OF PILGRIMAGE – now on-line 
• Monday 16 – Wednesday 18 March Wave of Prayer celebration services
• Wednesday 10 March MEMBERS’ & SUPPORTERS MEETING 10.30am  St Paul’s Church, Church St, Canterbury CT1 1NH.  public welcome the speaker Teresa Redfern, Diocesan Environment Officer    BYO lunch 1.00pm – 2.00pm

 

• Archive 2019

• ADVENT SERVICE 2019  Friday 6th December 11am Canterbury Cathedral

•  METAMORPHOSIS  a vision day Saturday 9th November, Tunstall

• GENERAL MEETING  PORTSMOUTH  Guildhall –  Wednesday 18th September 2019

• JULY 3rd MAIDSTONE find out how you can help your local community by collecting and re-distributing  pre-loved school uniforms to support local families.  St Martin’s church : Northumberland Road, Maidstone ME15 7LP

• JUNE 18th ANNUAL MEETING CANTERBURY   guests: Community Wardrobe  to find out how you can help your local community by collecting and re-distributing free school uniforms to support local families.   Tuesday 18th June 10.30am St Paul’s Church Canterbury.

• APRIL The Mothers’ Union in the Diocese of Canterbury
  invite you to their 2019 Festival Service in the Nave of Canterbury Cathedral SATURDAY 27TH APRIL – 11am to celebrate a new triennium.   Presiding: The Right Reverend Trevor Willmott, Bishop of Dover (patron)

• Saturday 16th March  PRAISE CELEBRATION for overseas links

archive 2018:

Spring Council  Maidstone 5th March Guests: Holding on Letting Go

ADVENT SERVICE 2018 Thursday 6th December 11am Canterbury Cathedral, “Watching and Waiting”

November Thursday 29th – Noon-1pm a service in The Crypt, St Gabriel’s Chapel in support of the international campaign to end gender violence against women and girls.

AUTUMN MEMBERS’ DAY Tuesday 6th November 10.30am-3pm in St Paul’s Church, Church Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT12NH “Listen, observe, act – in step with God.” – the MUloa journey  led by Revd Lesley Valiant and guest Nikki Sweatman, MU President Canterbury Province

MICHAELMAS MARKET 10-2pm Saturday 13 October St Mary Bredin Church, 59 Nunnery Fields, Canterbury CT1 3JN

GENERAL MEETING 2018 – Tuesday 18 September Swansea, Wales (Celebration of Triennium)

ANNUAL MEETING 19th June 2018  Raising a child with a disability is particularly hard for parents and if you are affected by hearing loss you will be interested to learn that we will have a speaker on Deaf Awareness and British Sign Language at the annual meeting.
This has been inspired by the Oscar winning short film The Silent Child which centres around a profoundly deaf four – year old girl named Libby who is born into a middle-class family and lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her the gift of communication.

SPRING COUNCIL meeting 6th March  2018 10.30am-1pm  in St Paul’s Church Canterbury. A report of Trustees’ visit to our MU link  Kajo Keji Diocese South Sudan, displaced into the refugee camps in N. Uganda..

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OCTOBER Craft Exchange

SPRING COUNCIL March  meeting St Paul’s Church Canterbury with Guest Mrs Jane  Namurye Poggo from the link Diocese of Kajo Keji South Sudan.

 

Saturday 22 April 2017  FASHION @ THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY  Broadstairs

Are you a community Group based in Margate, Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Westgate, Birchington or the Thanet Villages?         

 Do you want to have fun, meet new people and strut your stuff and raid your wardrobes?

archive 2016

Hat·tê·ḇāh

TRAINING DAY 29th November  for those in a profession who may meet unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

1st November 10.15am MEET DOMENICA  ‘raising awareness and myth busting’ around migrants and asylum seekers.  COME TO St Paul’s Centre, Canterbury and learn about Hat·tê·ḇāh a new project to support vulnerable young refugees in the diocese.

 

THANK YOU TO ALL for your support of the October  – MICHAELMAS MARKET @St Paul’s Centre, Canterbury  – all stalls run by members of the Mothers’ Union.

2016 140^th Anniversary Year of the Mothers’ Union  festival invite 4col

The Mothers’ Union in the Diocese of Canterbury

invite you to their 2016 Festival Service

 in the Nave of Canterbury Cathedral

Presiding: The Right Reverend Trevor Willmott, Bishop of Dover

 Saturday 23rd April 2016 at 11 am

Preacher: The Right Reverend Trevor Willmott, Bishop of Dover

 

The service includes the Commissioning of Nikki Sweatman as Provincial President,

Marianna Poliszczuk as Diocesan President and the Board of Trustees for the new triennium.

 

Archive 2015

2015 Sunday 13th September Mote Park MAIDSTONE MELA  literature stall and games at a multicultural family event

2015 Saturday 17^th October   MU Market  10.30am -12.30pm    open to public . Come along to St Paul’s Church, Canterbury CT1 1NH

2015 UNA Service for World Peace CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL (in the Nave)  On Sunday 25th October, 2015  18:30 Hrs – 19:45 Hrs

UNA Canterbury welcomes everyone to join in commemorating the United Nations’ 70th Anniversary with their 34th annual UN Service. MU will be represented and will parade our Diocesan banner

2015 Tuesday 2nd June    Annual Meeting 10.30 am – 12.30 pm    St Paul’s Church, Church Street, Canterbury CT1 1NH

2015 PILGRIMAGE Canterbury to Rochester Cathedral –  continuing in the footsteps of St. Augustine  9^th and 10^th May 2015  All MU members are welcome to join us for one, both or part of a day.

 Saturday  Meet at Canterbury Cathedral.Take train from Canterbury East to Selling and walk across country in westerly direction to Wormshill via Selling Church, Sheldwich Church, Eastling (lunch stop at church) and Wichling using footpaths and tracks.

Sunday    After Holy Communion Service leave Wormshill. Pick up Pilgrims Way and also using North Downs Way walk to Rochester Cathedral.

 

Tuesday 17^th March   Diocesan Council, St Paul’s Church Canterbury 10.15am – 1.00pm with celebration of our new Wave of Prayer links in Nigeria, South Sudan and Tanzania. Guest speaker Marion Pope and the new Inspired ideas to promote your Mother’s Union in the community.

 

Archive 2014

Thursday 26th June QUIET DAY in Minster Abbey, Thanet

Saturday 26th July -Saying Goodbye Service in Canterbury Cathedral  – in support of bereaved parents.

Sunday 14th September Mote Park MAIDSTONE MELA  literature stall and games at a multicultural family event

26-28 September Dane John Gardens CANTERBURY  literature stall at food and drink festival

20-24 October VOLUNTEER WEEK  The Mall, Maidstone town shopping centre.

 

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What a fabulous day on Saturday 20th  April 2013 when members filled the nave of Canterbury Cathedral for the Festival Service and Commissioning of the Trustee Board and Archdeaconry Presidents for the new Triennial

Preacher: Mrs Lynne Tembey, Worldwide President of  The Mothers’ Union