Throughout the Anglican Communion, your beloved bishop is known and respected as a bridge-builder committed to interfaith initiatives for reconciliation and lasting peace. By word and by action he heralds hope for the peoples of the Holy Land. In his Easter Message this year – he wrote of our witness to the Risen Lord, “we are defined by our love, by our compassion.” I look forward this week to visiting a number of parishes, schools and health care facilities operated by the diocese. I am hopeful we will also see the Baptismal site where you plan to build a church and retreat centre to serve as a place of pilgrimage, worship and education in the ways of peace.