INTRODUCTION

As we pray with our partners around the world, lifting our many and varied concerns to God, we journey with each other through the densest part of the liturgical year. The self-scrutiny of Lent gives way to Christ’s love and forgiveness at Easter. The Ascension, heralding the changing nature of relationships, makes way for the gift of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, promising unity in diversity. We end with Trinity Sunday, when communion gives way to community as we are drawn into the heart of God.

Propelling this movement forward is a desire, implicit in the biblical narrative as it gathers pace, and explicit in the stories of our partners from across the Anglican Communion. A desire - God’s desire - for justice, for right relationships. Put simply, it is a desire for us to live in right relationship with our maker, with ourselves, with one another and with our environment.

Our Christian journey is a constant movement towards justice, towards oneness with God and his creation. Whether seeking to be good neighbours through challenging stigma and exclusion in Tanzania, protecting the environment through effective waste management in Zambia, supporting Ukrainian refugees in Poland, championing youth employment in the Caribbean or scrutinising USPG’s colonial past to build just relationships in the present, our stories unite us in a common cause: to act justly, love mercy and to walk humbly with our God.