Father Andrew

The beautiful Parish Church of St Peter, Walworth has stood at the heart of this community for 199 years, witnessing to God's love. All welcome: come and see!

[Father Andrew @StPeterWalworth]

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[Father Andrew @StPeterWalworth]

Friends! Our amazing annual community celebration St Peter's Party in the Park is on Saturday 12th July and we're looking forward to a great day together in our 200th Anniversary year! Everyone is very welcome! Please share with family and friends :-) Thanks to all our amazing sponsors for helping us to keep prices low as always! @Southwark_News @SouthwarkCofE @WalworthSociety @se17 @DeanCarby

[Father Andrew @StPeterWalworth]

Very pleased to be hosting this wonderful evening of music and Walworth history organised by the Walworth Society for our 200th Anniversary! Come and enjoy! Free tickets available here>>> https://t.co/TV19q4cj94 @WalworthSociety @se17 @Southwark_News @SouthwarkCofE

[Father Andrew @StPeterWalworth]

Friends! This Sunday we celebrate our 200th St Peter's Day and everyone is invited to come and celebrate! We'll be welcoming Mother Doris as our new curate, processing through the streets, and sharing a Bring and Share Lunch after Mass! Come and enjoy! Everyone welcome! 🙏🏽😊🙏🏽
#walworth #se17 #community @SouthwarkCofE @WalworthSociety @se17 @Southwark_News

[Ree_create @reee_create]

Save the date 📝

[Father Andrew @StPeterWalworth]

Friends!, enjoy the view! Tomorrow is the last of my 4 bike rides: 200 Miles for 200 Years! Raising vital match-funding for our 200th Anniversary via our crowdfunder page! Thank you to everyone who's sponsored us so far! If you can, pls give a little or a lot! It is part of a successful National Lottery Heritage Fund Development Grant @heritagefund to restore and open up this beautiful John Soane Church: one of only 4 Gr 1 listed building in @lb_southwark Thanks to Lottery Players for making this possible! And to you for your sponsorship!
@SouthwarkCofE @WalworthSociety @Southwark_News #heritagefund #nationallottery @SoaneMuseum @Pitzhanger @DulwichGallery @UAL @mentivity #dji #djimini4pro #dronevideo

[Father Andrew @StPeterWalworth]

Happy LGBTQIA+ Pride Month everyone! To celebrate, here is an online Pride Exhibition from Sir John Soane's Museum the house St Peter's famous architect Sir John Soane turned into an architectural and artistic treasure-trove for himself to live in. @SoaneMuseum is free to visit, and they have been helping us all the way with our 200th Anniversary Building Appeal: https://t.co/0fqrBMK9MO @SouthwarkCofE @WalworthSociety @HeritageFundUK

[Father Andrew @StPeterWalworth]

Good morning friends and Happy Saturday!Today is our 3rd Sponsored Bike Ride: to @StAlbansAbbey and back!! Cycling 200 Miles for 200 Years to raise match-funding for our 200th Anniversary Building Appeal! Please pray for us and if you'd like to sponsor us you can click here 🙂 https://t.co/lN57RQS2iP

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

“Five years ago today, George Floyd was murdered in broad daylight in an unpardonable, inhumane, dehumanizing act by police officer, Derek Chauvin, who nonchalantly pressed his knee into George’s neck for over nine minutes. NINE MINUTES.

I am praying for George’s family, especially for his daughter, Gianna, who is now 11. Gianna’s “Daddy” matters to her.

George’s life didn’t matter to Derek Chauvin. It still doesn’t matter to many today who make excuses for Derek’s brutality and even suggest pardoning the unpardonable.

But George’s life mattered and still matters to millions, who responded to viewing that knee on his neck for nine minutes with protest and efforts for policy change in legislative halls and corporate suites.

There were some positive results until there was what my father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., called “white backlash.” In his book, ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?,’ Daddy wrote:

“The step backward has a new name today. It is called the “white backlash.” But the white backlash is nothing new. It is the surfacing of old prejudices, hostilities and ambivalences that have always been there. It was caused neither by the cry of Black Power nor by the unfortunate recent wave of riots in our cities. The white backlash of today is rooted in the same problem that has characterized America ever since the black man landed in chains on the shores of this nation. The white backlash is an expression of the same vacillations, the same search for rationalizations, the same lack of commitment that have always characterized white America on the question of race.”

So, 5 years later, we continue to grapple with racism in this nation and globally. But we will persist in organizing, creating community, and remembering George and so many others who were deemed unworthy to even breathe in America…to even live free or live at all in a nation that convicted indigenous and Black people of being casualties of imperialism and colonialism hundreds of years ago.

Let’s not give up on us, family.

#GeorgeFloyd #BelovedCommunity #HopeIsHere“

-Dr. Bernice A. King, CEO of The King Center

[Will Norman @willnorman]

20mph saves lives.

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

This weekend is Durham Pride

If you're in the city on Sunday, look out for this handmade banner created by worshippers at Durham Cathedral 🏳️‍🌈

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Five years ago today, George Floyd was murdered in broad daylight in an unpardonable, inhumane, dehumanizing act by police officer, Derek Chauvin, who nonchalantly pressed his knee into George’s neck for over nine minutes. NINE MINUTES.

I am praying for George’s family, especially for his daughter, Gianna, who is now 11. Gianna’s “Daddy” matters to her.

George’s life didn’t matter to Derek Chauvin. It still doesn’t matter to many today who make excuses for Derek’s brutality and even suggest pardoning the unpardonable.

But George’s life mattered and still matters to millions, who responded to viewing that knee on his neck for nine minutes with protest and efforts for policy change in legislative halls and corporate suites.

There were some positive results until there was what my father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., called “white backlash.” In his book, ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?,’ Daddy wrote:

“The step backward has a new name today. It is called the “white backlash.” But the white backlash is nothing new. It is the surfacing of old prejudices, hostilities and ambivalences that have always been there. It was caused neither by the cry of Black Power nor by the unfortunate recent wave of riots in our cities. The white backlash of today is rooted in the same problem that has characterized America ever since the black man landed in chains on the shores of this nation. The white backlash is an expression of the same vacillations, the same search for rationalizations, the same lack of commitment that have always characterized white America on the question of race.”

So, 5 years later, we continue to grapple with racism in this nation and globally. But we will persist in organizing, creating community, and remembering George and so many others who were deemed unworthy to even breathe in America…to even live free or live at all in a nation that convicted indigenous and Black people of being casualties of imperialism and colonialism hundreds of years ago.

Let’s not give up on us, family.

#GeorgeFloyd #BelovedCommunity #HopeIsHere

🖼️: @4NIKKOLAS

[Guli Francis-Dehqani @Guli_FD]

Very good to join in worship with one of the Orthodox Romanian communities in Chelmsford Diocese, meeting at St. John’s Corringham, and to offer a welcome to Archbishop Atanasie

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

“Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial” #SundayWithKing #MLK

[Anderson Jeremiah @TheOutsider40]

Good to be here at St James Waterloo🙏🏾
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@ChurchesEngland

[Father Andrew @StPeterWalworth]

5 years on from Mr George Floyd's murder by White police officers, and just back from the national anniversary service at St John's, Waterloo I'm remembering this moment in the depths of lockdown and social distancing, in the depth of the tragedy and sad sad lament, with a heavy heavy heart. I invited @BishopSouthwark @SouthwarkCofE to join us as members of St Peter's Church (and School joining at a distance) to take a knee in prayer and protest. 5 years on it's so hard to see how openly the simple belief that Black Lives Matter is being fought against by people within the Church of England, our nation, and our world. And yet there are signs of hope in our Church, and what feels like a steady resolve by Black and White people of goodwill to work for Racial Justice. The struggle goes on.
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[Ree_create @reee_create]

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@StPeterWalworth @WalworthSociety @Southwark_News

[Catriona Robertson @multifaith]

These young Londoners bring 🌀fun, debate, 👣 adventure & 🙏🏽 prayer to Iona Abbey - chip in so that they can make the journey ⛰️ @MartinWroe @Fidge @StPeterWalworth @ionacommunity @churchscotland @MethodistGB #Iona

[Father Andrew @StPeterWalworth]

Happy Monday friends! We're hoping to send a group of young pilgrims from Walworth to Iona again this year! They and we really appreciate your prayers, and any donations to the costs you can spare! It's an amazing overnight journey from Walworth to Iona by coach, train, boat and boat for teenagers from two parishes! Pls RT and you can sponsor them here: thank you! https://t.co/qKPIYaGXvt You can hear Rocky's experience here! https://t.co/8x5SurMeQs @SouthwarkCofE @BishopSouthwark @AlCutting @mentivity @inspirewalworth @multifaith @reee_create @stpaulslorrimor

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here, and have a part of it just like you. And no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?" —Paul Robeson