In September 2021, Catherine Askew, Sarah Hay and Sarah Pillar spent a few days with Kev Grimley and family at the Bethany Community, Leicestershire, to learn how to build a coracle…

Brendan, and other Irish monks, would have set out in this kind of small, round boat to find their own ‘desert in the sea’, entering into a deliberate, intentional vulnerability and expecting God to take them wherever wind and tide carried them.

A journey beyond the familiar and into the unknown…

Kevin and Ellen are long-term Companions in Community and served on one of the very first Mother House teams.  Please do consider supporting them in their current work as and their running of the St Joseph’s project and tearoom in Leicestershire – HERE