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“Hearing loss and deafness is an invisible disability. You can’t tell if a person is deaf or hard of hearing just by looking at them. Especially if they are like teenage me, who styled her hair purposely to hide her “embarrassing” hearing aids,” writes our Deaf Community Mission Outreach Worker, Nicola Roylance.

Five schools from across Bridgend gathered together in St Mary’s, Nolton for a celebration of Welsh language and culture at a diocesan Gymanfa Ganu organised by Clare Werrett, our Diocesan Head of Education.

Wrexham Class at Fochriw Primary School have been learning all about celebrations in their RE classes, so they held a very special wedding at St Tyfaelog’s Church, Pontlottyn in Taff Rhymney Ministry Area to learn all about marriage.

Bishop Mary and Rev’d Emma have visited Llanfair Uniting Church in Penrhys in Rhondda Ministry Area to learn about the many ways the church makes a difference to the community. Llanfair is an ecumenical church, supported and recognised by eight of the historic churches in Wales.

This year Lent and Ramadan coincide with each other and several of our clergy have been invited to attend Iftar suppers alongside our Muslim brothers and sisters.

Once a fortnight, ‘The Lounge’ project transforms a classroom at Cowbridge Comprehensive School into a space where Year 7 pupils can meet and chat over a free hot chocolate during their lunch break.

Congratulations to Llansannor & Llanharry C/W Primary School in Cowbridge Ministry Area who are the first of our schools in the Vale of Glamorgan to be given the prestigious Schools of Sanctuary Award, following two years of hard work.

Pedair Afon Ministry Area recently trialled a project which saw 35 individuals from two of the MA’s most deprived areas receive potentially life-saving training. 100% of participants reported an increased level of confidence to perform CPR and use a defibrillator following the training session.

On a glorious spring morning Bishop Mary and Dean Jason joined the Most Reverend Mark O’Toole, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff-Menevia in St John Baptist Church in the City Centre for the Lord Mayor’s St David’s Day Civic Service.