The United Benefice of Fen Drayton with Conington and Lolworth and Swavesey Benefice Links and Resources AICM The parishes of the benefice support the work of African International Christian Ministry (AICM) which ministers principally in Uganda and neighbouring countries.  Bishop Enoch Kayayee, the founder of AICM has visited the benefice on several occasions.  For full information of the work of AICM see the AICM website. Christian Aid Each year in May parishioners take part in the Christian Aid Week collection. Collections are made in the churches at other times of the year for particular emergency appeals through Christian Aid as the need arises.  Details can be found on the Christian Aid Website. Diocese of Ely Newsletter To subscribe to the Diocese of Ely Newsletter go to www.ely.anglican.org/mailman/listinfo/Diocesan-newsletter.ely. Alternatively, if you simply want to look at the current issue (or any back numbers), the archive can be found at www.ely.anglican.org/news_events/newsletters. Kirchentag Details of the German Protestant Church Congress (Kirchentag) to be held in Dresden from 1st to 5th June 2011 and the next Ecumenical (Protestant and Roman Catholic) Kirchentag in Munich from 12th to 16th May 2010 can be found on the UK Kirchentag website. Church Records Many people are now busily researching their ancestry using church records among other sources. The Cambridgeshire Family History Society has now completed the transcription of all the parochial registers of the parishes of Fen Drayton, Conington, Lolworth and Swavesey and offers CDs of these registers for sale to those interested. The CFHS has also made studies of many local family names across parish boundaries. The Cambridgeshire Family History Society website can be found at www.cfhs.org.uk. Northelbian Church The Diocese of Ely has a partnership agreement with the Northelbian Protestant Lutheran Church in the German States of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.  The benefice sometimes hosts visitors from the Northelbian Church and the Vicar has visited several parishes in Northelbia.   The Northelbian Church website offers many pages in the English language. Documents relating to the Partner Consultation of The Northelbian Church (June 2005): Letter of the Ecumenical Partners to the Northelbian Church (in English) Recommendations of the Partner Consultations (in English) Letter of the Ecumenical Partners to the Northelbian Church (in German) Recommendations of the Partner Consultations (in German) Ecumenical Participants in the Partner Consultation Also, an essay first written in April 2007 after a follow-up visit to the Northelbian Church: The Spirituality of the Northelbian Church. Other Resources A personal survey of the Churches of Cambridgeshire including entries on the benefice parishes can be found on the Cambridgeshire Churches Website. The Parishes of the benefice have no parish halls of their own.  Village Hall facilities available include Fen Drayton Village Hall, The Memorial Hall, Swavesey, and the Robinson Hall, Lolworth. An independent website offering verse and worse (also music and prose) can be found at Occasional Impressions.