Good Friday
Three Hour Service with Canon Sammy Wainaina
Good Friday Three Hour Service
Friday 29 March
12.00 – 3.00
This year our reflections at the foot of the cross will be led by Rev Canon Sammy Wainaina. A Kenyan Clergy for the last 27 years, Sammy was Dean of All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi, for ten years before moving to London last summer to become the Adviser of the Archbishop of Canterbury on Anglican Communion Affairs, London. Sammy is married to Beatrice and they have three children.
Sammy will be taking the theme “The Way of the Cross” and will use readings, reflections, music and silence to help us understand more deeply and enter more fully into the experience of Good Friday.
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