Parish of Porth Newydd
Confirmation at Holy Trinity Church, Tylorstown
Oct 31st October 2007 saw Holy Trinity Church, Tylorstown host an evening for nine canididates to be confirmed. Bishop David Yeoman officiated at the service. The other clergy present were Fr. Chris Lewis-Jenkins, Area Dean of the Rhondda Deanery, Fr, Andrew Davies Priest in charge of the Benefice of Rhondda Fach Uchaf and Vicar of Holy Trinity Church., and, Fr. Chris Coles Rev. Bev from the Benefice of Porth Newydd.
Tomos who is a server at St. John's Church, Porth Newydd attended Confirmation lessons with Fr. Chris Lewis-Jenkins in order to prepare for the sacraments of Confirmation and his first Holy Communion. Tomos' classmates were Rhys and Rhian who you can see in the pictures below.
After the service refreshments were served to the congregation. Special thanks go to Fr. Andrew for organsing the evening which was his first Confirmation since he became Ordained.
See below for Tomos' story of his Confirmation
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Rhys, Tomos and Rhian
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Bishop David Yeoman with the 9 confirmation candidates
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Tomos Surrey
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Gifts presented to Tomos
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My
Confirmation
By Tomos Surrey
As some of you know I am a server in St Johns Church in Cymmer. I wanted to be confirmed because I didn't want to be the only server having a blessing and wanted to know how it felt having communion and to share in the worship with everyone else. I talked to mam and dad about it and they said yes so in July I went to confirmation classes taken by Fr Chris Lewis Jenkins. There were two other children there, Rhian and Rhys. It was great to have them there because we were going through the same work together and we were helping each other. I learnt a lot about the church and what it means to have communion.
On the 31st of October 20007 I was confirmed at Holy Trinity
Church in Tylorstown by Bishop David Yeoman. The Church was full and I was
so happy to see lots of people from St John's there to support me. My Nanna
from Penygraig came to the service and my Nain and Taid came from Tywyn in
North Wales, it was lovely to see them there. Before the service I felt very
nervous, but when I knelt in front of the Bishop as he confirmed me, I felt
very happy and proud that I could now have communion with the other servers
and the congregation and remember what Jesus did for us.
At the end of the service we had a lovely cup of tea and something to eat.
Father Andrew from Holy Trinity Church gave us a lovely mug each to remember
the special day.
I will never forget my confirmation and I will never forget what Jesus did for me.
Thank you very much for all my cards, presents and good
wishes from everyone in St John's and St Luke's. It was very kind of you all
to think of me and I'm very grateful.
