Anna Chaplaincy Cumbria

21/04/2026

The benefit of the beauty of nature and gardening as we come into spring. Many of our elderly say they love their garden and find it a spiritual space.

21/04/2026

This incredible photo is of my father in the Phillipines at a football match. He is 80 years old. He was sitting on the floor in the stadium with 20 thousand other spectators when they brought him a chair to sit on across the crowd and passed it through the crowd. How nice to see our elderly elevated and cared for.

28/02/2026

I came across this wonderful vintage car and wondered if any of our older folk had perhaps driven one? Or does anyone know what it is?Vintage photos are super for reminiscence work with the older person with dementia or memory loss. Helping them to remember fun times in their life and relieve stress or the loneliness they can feel with their condition.

In the background is my dear partner Mark.

28/02/2026

Anna Chaplanicy is delighted to re-commission Beverley Moore Anna Chaplain and renew her license again for a further three years. Thank you to Beverley and her dedicated team of Anna Friends. Thank you to Reverend Shanthi for her continued support of this ministry for older people.
Paul Burden Chair and Sam Pester AC lead were pleased to be present at the service.
The commissioning took place on the 28th September2025

28/02/2026

A wonderful celebration for Anna Chaplaincy in Natland saw the commissioning of Anna Friends with Doctor Gill Pilling as Anna Chaplain. Gill has been a Doctor for end stage life care and is a dedicated volunteer.
The friends all gathered for a training afternoon with Sam Pester Lead Anna Chaplain last week, to look at ageing and its impact on the older people we work with.

28/02/2026

Highlights of this last year. Celebration of the commissioning of Lois Maguire Anna Chaplain. Lois has shown great dedication to support the elderly in her community of Barrow in Furness.
Lois’s commissioning took place on the 11th August 2025
Thank you to the dedicated team in Barrow and our Chair Paul Burden for his tireless support of the ministry.

28/02/2026

Wonderful news from Cumbria Anna Chaplaincy.
This last year has seen a huge growth in the ministry for older people, with Anna Chaplaincy in Cumbria now having nearly 80 Anna Chaplains, Friends and volunteers across the county.
Our ministry helped nearly 8000 older people who were feeling lonely or vulnerable.

Barrow in Furness, the flagship for ecumenical ministry in Anna Chaplaincy and inter generational ministry, saw young people from the Barrow schools helping to make gift tags for presents for the elderly in care homes and then take them to the residents.
Thank you to all for their dedicated work.

25/12/2025

Wishing everybody in Anna Chaplaincy and CTiC a blessed Christmas and a peaceful New Year. Thank you for everything you have all done this year to make a huge difference to the elderly and vulnerable people across Cumbria.

From across the border in Northumberland, a beautiful picture of Hexham Abbey. 🎄

With blessings from,

Sam Pester
Anna Chaplaincy Lead for Cumbria

25/12/2025

08/05/2025

Anna Chaplaincy marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day, as fighting ceased on May 8th 1945
In the lovely photo below children wave flags at a street party. A touching tribute to those who gave their lives for us. God bless them.