Bro Ystumanner Ministry Area

04/06/2026

Services in June in all Bro Ystumanner Ministry Area churches. Please share with your friends and networks. Diolch yn Fawr!

18/05/2026

Some photos from the very successful cream tea at St Cynon's earlier this month - thank you to all for your support!

30/04/2026

Services in May in Bro Ystumanner Ministry Area churches.
(Please note that Llanegryn church is closed due to building work.)
Please share with your friends and networks.

19/04/2026

Services in Bro Ystumanner Ministry Area Churches in April.

18/04/2026

Please watch out for., and pray for, the pilgrims walking the Llwybr Cadfan / Cadfan Way, starting in St Cadfan's Tywyn on Monday 20th April in support of the Christian Mountain Centre (CMC). If you feel the work of the CMC is important please consider making a donation. Details at the bottom of the image. Diolch yn fawr!

16/04/2026

13/04/2026

Talk in St Cynon's church at 7pm this Wednesday 15th April. Steffan Jones, Outreach Lead, will give a talk on bringing hope, support and prayers to suffering Christians.

02/04/2026

Tomorrow/yfory.

23/03/2026

Services in all our churches during Holy Week leading up to Easter.

Please note - the time of the Aberdyfi Easter morning service has been changed 10:00 am.

11/03/2026

From Rev Steve:

International Women’s Day

Our regular Lent 3 Holy Eucharist at St Peter’s, Aberdyfi, turned out to be a fitting celebration of women at the 11:15 on Sunday 8 March, 2026.

We really missed our organist Fiona, but strove (wo)manfully to sing a capella Father Hear the Prayer We Offer, I Heard the Voice of Jesus, Jesu Lover of My Soul and I Cannot Tell. After the notices by warden Alison, the OT reading was Moses striking water from the rock on Horeb and the long gospel was John’s account of Jesus’
encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well in Sychar.

The sermon pointed out that she, an outsider as a woman from Samaria, a social outcast because of her irregular life, becomes the first evangelist to the Samaritan people. She it is who recognises that Jesus is ‘the Saviour of the world.’ And the people find that for themselves through their own experience of Jesus. We were challenged to share our own experience of Jesus after receiving his Body and Blood in communion.

In the afternoon I attended the Women’s World Day of Prayer service at Capel Peniel Newydd in Llanegryn (2pm). This year materials had been prepared by the Christian women of Nigeria. We sang ‘Dyro dy gariad i’n clymu’ (Let there be loved shared among us), ‘Dewch Ataf Fi’ (to the tune of Calon Lan), ‘O’r fath gyfaill ydyw’r Iesu’ (to Converse), ‘Brwydra bob dydd, cryfha dy ffydd’ (Fight the good fight: Pentecost), ‘Yn gymaint iti gofio un o’r rhain’ and ‘Y dydd a roddaist, Ior, a giliodd’ (The day thou gavest:
St Clement).

We heard the stories of Nigerian women: of Chioma and her burden of uncertainty, of Beatrice and the burden of being on the Margins of Society, of Jato and the burden of religious persecution, of Blessing and the burden of poverty and despair. We prayed for
women exploited in factories and elsewhere, the 110 school girls kidnapped from a high school in Dapchi by Boko Haram in Feb 2018, and especially Leah Sharibu who refused to convert to Islam and still remains in captivity. The theme was ‘Rhoddaf orffwys i chi,
dewch’ (I will give you rest, come) from Jesus’ words in Matthew 11:28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

We said the Lord’s Prayer together and received a blessing before sharing a paned and cake. Truly the Spirit was with us in this ecumenical celebration on International Women’s Day.