A PROMINENT member of the church is undertaking one of the UK’s most difficult running routes in order to raise money for refugees who have faced harrowing ordeals.

The Bishop of Bangor, the Right Reverend Andy John, has announced that he will be running the Snowdonia Marathon on 29 October.

It will be the fourth time that he has run a marathon and third time that he has pounded the gruelling slopes of the Snowdonia Marathon route.

It was in 2014 that he last tried the route, and he finished in a very respectable time of three hours and 40 minutes.

Bishop Andy will be running to raise some funds in support of the work and ministry of Caroline Gregory, who is a Christian volunteer at the Jungle Camp in Calais.

Ms Gregory gave up a role in journalism because she felt called to serve the displaced people of Calais’ Jungle Camp and her ministry there is now supported by donations from people – some who have a faith and some who do not – in Wales and the UK.

For more information or to donate, please visit www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/andyjohn

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