Easter has escaped some of the commercialisation of Christmas. Oh, I know that for many people it is just a name and a Bank Holiday, a time for bunnies and chocolate eggs, but there remains a residual sense of redemption and hope that is mirrored by the promise of Spring. It is the calling of Christians to explain those residual feelings, to tell the Good News of salvation to a world that careers between despair and empty self-sufficiency. Easter is a time to remind ourselves that Jesus died and rose to save all mankind… a message that must be told to all so that everyone can know and receive redemption. Christians proclaim the Good News, through prayer and praise and by the story of lives changed. God's work of salvation in the Christian believer has already been accomplished through Christ… all that is needed is to believe it, live it and take on board the message of the risen Christ to Mary on that first Easter morning… "Don't hold on to me… rather go and tell!"

My thanks to Bob Kiteley, Rector of Ashtead, for giving me the chance to write in this issue of . It is a reminder that we really are all 'singing from the same hymn sheet' - as the saying goes - all of us who believe. Rejoice. Jesus Christ is risen, as he said. Alleluia. A blessed and happy Easter to all of you.