Today we remember Polycarp, bishop at Smyrna (Turkey) Turkey of Smyrna, 156 a pupil of John. Also today in 1997 the new church building of St David's was dedicated, after being destroyed in an arson fire in 1991!

                  Psalm 133:1,5

How good & pleasant it is when brothers

and sisters 

live together 

in harmony.  

  For there 

     the Lord ordains the blessing, 

                    life for evermore. 

The former 

Ottoman Empire 

was transformed 

into a modern, 

westernized nation 

with the foundation 

of the secular republic 

in 1923, by AÜrkas 

its first president. 

  Pray for the people of Turkey  
as the state moves way from democracy 
toward autocracy under its current  
leader, President Erdoğan.