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St Mary's Men's Fellowship meets on the first Saturday of each month, between 8.15 and
9.30 a.m. Meetings start with a short breakfast followed by informal discussion.The purpose of St Mary’s Men’s Fellowship is to provide a forum to facilitate fellowship, discussion and exploration of faith in today’s world.
The programme for 2008 is as follows:

2nd February "Opportunities for Christianity in Asia" with Adrian Dawes
1st March

Jackie Nelson, Director of the Christian Association of Business Executives (CABE), together with Ben Paine who is one of CABE's trustees and UK director of Medair, will be talking about the history of CABE as well as its Principles For Those in Business, and how in some cases these have been applied in a working environment.

April No meeting
3rd May

Paul Hellyer will be speaking about The Mercy Ships. Paul is a qualified dentist  who spent 2 weeks with Mercy Ships in Liberia in 2007.

6th June Paul Plumley will be speaking about a joint project in the Gambia between West Kent YMCA and YMCA of the Gambia. The project is to build a Health Clinic in a village in the Gambia which is particularly in need of such facilities.
6th September Ben Paine, Development Director of Medair UK, will be speaking about Medair's life-saving relief and rehabilitation in disasters, conflict areas, and other crises by working alongside the most vulnerable. Ben has just returned from Afghanistan and will be speaking about his experiences there and about Medair in general.
4th October "What Muslims do not understand about Christianity" with Ricky Fawcett
1st November "My journey from a career in education to becoming and Anglican priest" by Canon Don Laurie
6th December "Clement Attlee - a wonderful Prime Minister and true Socialist" by Revd Basil Marshall