Chaplaincy Reflection - LSHTM Carol Service 2024

It was a great pleasure to speak at this year’s LSHTM Carol Service – on the “Big Steps” in the new Pumphandle Social Space. Over 150 attended. Thank you to my colleague and co-Chaplain Fr David Peebles for introducing the service, the University of London Chamber Choir for the fantastic music, to Ian Carter and the Student Support Services Team for providing the refreshments and to Godfrey from the Catering Team for serving them. During the service I gave the short reflection below:

LSHTM Chaplaincy Welcome Week Presentation

Frieze outside the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street by  P.R.Morley Horder

It is a great privilege to serve as Honorary Chaplain to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I work as part of the Student Support Services Team and at the start of each year we offer welcome presentations and hold a ‘marketplace’ (a post-graduate version of a freshers fair) for new students, many of whom are studying one year Masters Degrees, often travelling from overseas, leaving behind families and friends and having never visited London before.

Here is an approximation of my ‘welcome’ speech which I have given over various presentations to different grounds of students today: