Vellore Mug

 

This mug comes from the Diocese of Vellore in the Church of South India. It depicts St John's Church, Fort, Vellore, where I preached on the first Sunday of our summer 2019 visit to Vellore. Cambridgeshire Ecumenical Council has a twiunning link with the diocese and the visit was part of the link.

It was thus, as with all such visits, a mark of partnership, but also, for me, a reminder that the church reaches different contexts. We were made extremely welcome and that is, or always should be, a mark of the church. It is quite something to follow a liturgy that has much in common with my usual experience in worship in such a different location. It was a reminder that God does not recognise the boundaries that we frequrently see as so important.