It is with great sadness that we heard this morning that our colleague the Revd Julie Roberts, who has served in our parishes for nine years now, died in the early hours of this morning; she has been surrounded by prayers and love over the time this has been known to be coming. She’s be the first to have wanted this announcement to be one of Christian hope ‘for we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him… therefore encourage one another with these words’ (I Thessalonians 4.14, 18).