News from the Church of between the and the Tees

June 2015

Hornsea church starts Job Club

St Nicholas Church, , has opened the town’s first Job Club. The Job Club will be run from the parish hall every Monday morning from 9am to 12.30pm. Job seekers from the town can receive coaching for interviews and help finding jobs online, and local jobs will be displayed on a vacancies board.

The job club was started by the Revd Phil Lamb, vicar of St Nicholas Church (pictured with Yvonne people going hungry, and now we’re Hird) . Phil said, “Hornsea’s a big helping people who are unemployed. town, and there are new estates If we’re serious about loving our being built here all the time. But neighbour, we have to look at the there’s no support for people who areas where they are struggling and are unemployed here. If you’ve got do what we can to help. no job, you’ve got to find the money to travel to or Hull to go to “We’re not experts, so we’ll be a job centre. So we wanted to open a learning alongside the people who job club here to help Hornsea folk are coming to the job club, but we who are struggling to find work. believe we can make a difference. One of our volunteers, Yvonne Hird, “The church has to take a lead in has experience of job clubs and will helping people in need. Jesus teaches be running coaching for interviews us to love our neighbour, and that’s with people, to give job seekers more what we’re trying to do here. In 2011 confidence. Opening a job club is the church opened the first something that any church can do, if Foodbank in East , to help there’s a need in their community.”

1 The joy of good news for all

Good news! My daughter’s had a have found in the love of Jesus. Its lovely baby! My friend is recovering fine to speak about the joy of the from his illness! At long last I’ve got gospel, but letting it affect how we a job I can enjoy! talk to others is another matter! Most of us still feel awkward When we have good news we are chatting about our faith even though ready to share it. We know that other it is very important to us. people will be interested and want to share our joy. This joy is the theme of So another way we are looking to Jesus’ teaching in St Luke’s Gospel help us all gain some confidence and chapter 15: the joy of the shepherd have some practical ideas is through who finds his lost sheep and brings it running a Leading your Church into home. The joy of the poor woman Growth conference in September. who finds her silver coin, lost from About 30 benefices from across the her meagre savings. The joy of a diocese have signed up, each sending father who welcomes home his lost a team of vicar and two lay people. son, prodigal son, and still loves the This isn’t a magic wand but son who never left home. experience in many places, including a few of our parishes, shows that the No wonder that Pope Francis called ideas proposed are achievable and his guidance on sharing the good can be adapted to your news of Jesus The Joy of the Gospel . circumstances. Over time churches Back in Lent clergy from across our can develop new ways of sharing the diocese joined with Roman Catholic good news about Jesus, the joy of the colleagues from the Diocese of gospel, and see others become to learn from this disciples of Jesus. exciting and challenging book. Together we explored the Pope’s I believe this conference and what encouragement to be grateful as we will follow on is good news for us! remember what God has done for us And we can look forward to sharing in Jesus. We were challenged by the that joy with those we meet! Pope’s insistence that “God’s heart has a special place for the poor”. We The Revd Dr Gavin Wakefield, were sent out to be “Spirit-filled Director of Training for Missional evangelizers who work and pray”. As Ministry Francis puts it, “the primary reason for evangelizing is the love of Jesus which we have received”.

Yet we know we are not always very good at sharing the good news we

2 Church Urban Fund promotes “frugal lunches” for Poverty Sunday

The Church Urban Fund (CUF) is Church Urban Fund, working in encouraging parishes to take part in partnership with the Diocese of . activities for Poverty Sunday. The project has been working across Middlesbrough for over 2 years and Local churches are being invited to is expanding it’s work into Redcar hold a Poverty Sunday Service and Cleveland. Working with local followed by a “frugal lunch” on 21 churches and Christian activists June, or on another date that suits, TMC has supported the development to raise funds for CUF. A “frugal of a variety of projects including lunch” involves replacing a normal Food Banks, support for asylum Sunday lunch with soup or another seekers and refugees, the Positive inexpensive meal, with the savings Pathways project supporting donated to the Church Urban Fund. homeless people and Hope 4 To download your free resources and Summer - summer activities for find out more visit vulnerable families and children. www.povertysunday.org.uk. Heather Black, Development Officer Paul Hackwood, CUF Executive with TMC said:“At a time when local Chair, said: “We believe this is an families and individuals are important time for churches to get struggling with the basic necessities involved. Great work is already being of food, warmth, shelter and done but the need is immense. The clothing, and many are experiencing more we can raise money, the more isolation and loneliness, the church lives are going to be transformed.” is actively responding in Christ’s name. It is often simple acts of In this Diocese, Together human kindness shared with love Middlesbrough and Cleveland that can bring hope and enable (TMC) is the local response of human flourishing.”

3 St Hilda’s Way

A new 42 mile pilgrimage, St The route for the inaugural walk is: Hilda’s Way, is being launched on Day 1 - Sunday 28th June Sunday 28 June. St Hilda’s Way • 11.00 am – Service of Blessing at starts at Hinderwell and finishes at St Hilda's Well, Hinderwell Whitby Abbey, visiting eight • 12.00 noon – Picnic Lunch churches and chapels dedicated to St • 1.30 pm – Start of walk – Hilda, as well as two other churches Hinderwell to Scaling Dam named after St Hedda and St Mary. Day 2 – Monday 29th June At each location there is a special • 9.30 am – Meet at Scaling Dam focus on a different aspect of the Visitor Centre car park Saint's life, something to find in the • Walk – Scaling Dam to Danby church and the opportunity for Station to Danby Church reflection and meditation. Day 3 – Tuesday 30th June • 10.00 am – Meet at National On Sunday 28 June the Way will be Park Visitor Centre, Danby launched with a special service at St • Walk – Danby to Lealholm to Hilda's Holy Well at Hinderwell Glaisdale to Egton Bridge Church, led by the Rt Revd Paul Day 4 – Wednesday 1st July Ferguson, the Bishop of Whitby. • 9.30 am – Meet St Hedda's There is then a led pilgrimage and Church, Egton Bridge the first leg of the trail, from • Walk – Egton Bridget Mortuary Hinderwell to Scaling Dam, will be Chapel to Egton to Sleights walked that afternoon. The full walk Day 5 – Thursday 2nd July will be completed over the following • 9.30 am – Meet Sleights Railway five days, culminating on the cliff top Station at Whitby Abbey on Friday 3 July. • Walk – Sleights to Sneaton to Whitby Railway Station The idea for St Hilda’s Way came Day 6 – Friday 3rd July from the churches in Whitby, • 9.30 am – Meet Whitby Railway inspired by the icon of St Hilda Station written by Edith Reyntiens. Veteran • Walk a Church Town Trail to visit long-distance walkers the Revd St Hilda's RC Church, St Hilda's Nancy and John Eckersley, have lent Priory, St Hilda's CofE Church, St their assistance in devising the route Mary's Church, Whitby Abbey and writing the guidebook. All are welcome to join all or part of The guidebook has extracts from the the inaugural walk but please let Ordnance Survey OL27 map covering Revd Barry Pyke ( 01947 840249 or the route in short sections of [email protected]) know between two and six miles. Nancy before you come so we have an idea has taken most of the photos and of how many to expect. Further written the majority of the 'special detail at www.whitbydeanery.org or interest' content. John has devised www.johneckersley.wordpress.com/St the route. Hilda.

4 New Altar for Rievaulx Abbey

On 4 June Archbishop Sentamu, accompanied by the Bishop of Whitby; the Roman Catholic Bishop of Middlesbrough; the Prior of Ampleforth and the Chair of the Methodist District of York and Hull, will dedicate the newly built high altar at Rievaulx Abbey.

A member of our congregation, Chris Bryant, now sadly deceased, but a generous benefactor to this project and churches across the denominations in Helmsley, initiated the vision to return Rievaulx Abbey to being a living witness to the The service is at 7pm. Do join us to Christian Gospel now, in this twenty celebrate. The grounds are open for first century. Funding from three the service from 6pm so do bring a anonymous donors from overseas picnic. We cannot provide chairs but has also been found through the please do bring your own seating or Archbishop of York. Worship has rugs. Unfortunately there are few continued sporadically on this site toilets and there is limited access for since its dissolution in 1538. This those with disabilities. restoration of the altar re-establishes permanent sacramental presence in If you know you are coming please Rievaulx Abbey. let us know with numbers to [email protected]. We are very grateful to English Heritage for supporting and The Revd Tim Robinson, Vicar of executing the building up of the Helmsley altar. On the Move

The Archbishop has appointed the Revd Michael John Proctor, Vicar of South Cave and Ellerker with Broomfleet, to be Rural Dean of for a period of five years in addition to his existing responsibilities. Mr Proctor succeeds the Revd James Little.

The Revd Elizabeth Baxter has been re-appointed as Director of Holy Rood House, Thirsk.

5 Holy Rood House celebrates 21 years as a centre for Creative Arts in Health and Well-being

In the picturesque village of Sowerby, for therapeutic purposes. The idea is just a short walk from Thirsk, are to use artistic mediums such as two beautiful old houses, one of painting to take all your worries and which was the house of Miss troubles and let them out through Warner, alias Mrs Pumphrey with the body and into the art. They are her famous Pekinese, Tricki-Woo, not created to look aesthetically from All Creatures Great and Small. pleasing or to be put on display, but These are the centre of the Holy many of them are stunning and Rood House community. packed with emotion and meaning.

On St David’s day, the house was Lots of the people celebrating were filled with celebration and a toast is community companions, a group of raised to give thanks to the creative people from around the country who God for the 21st anniversary of the support the work of the house; many place of Creative Arts in Health and of whom have had first-hand Well-being. Holy Rood House is a experience of the therapeutic centre of health and pastoral care activities of painting, sketching, which uses creative arts to help and moulding clay and weaving as a way heal the guests who stay there. to heal and relax. They believe that creative arts are a gift from God Inside the house are works of art, integral to healing, and that they are some beautiful, some simply strange vital to individuals and to blots and swirls of colour, all created communities.

6 The guest of honour at this celebration was Tom Ramsden (pictured left with art therapist Elaine Wisdom, and right with Holy Rood Director the Revd Elizabeth Baxter) , High Sheriff of , who shares this community’s passion for the arts. In his year in office Mr Ramsden has been working to set up an exciting project called ‘Arts for Change’, a fund which aims to promote the arts and use them as a way of stay there at difficult points in their transforming people’s lives. This will lives. It has beautiful gardens, and bring fantastic opportunities for even has some goats!, and has a charities, groups and individuals to supportive and loving community. apply for funding and use it to Guests of all ages go there from all spread the benefits of the arts around over the country, and find a the area. welcoming space where they can find God’s peace and healing. With the I asked him whether he was an artist help of God I trust it will keep himself. Although he claims he isn’t providing a place of sanctuary and himself, he says his mother, a trustee great blessing for many in the future. and valued supporter of Holy Rood House, and his wife and daughter are To keep up with the news about the all very artistic. Being surrounded by ‘Arts for Change’ fund visit the creative people, the arts have clearly Community Foundation’s website at had a huge influence on his life, and ww.trcf.org.uk. And if you want to given him a passion for spreading explore more about Holy Rood House their joy and benefit. visit their website at www.holyroodhouse.org.uk. Holy Rood uses several other ways of helping and healing the guests who Rosalynne Hutchings Rest in Peace The Ven Michael Ernest Bowering, who had the Archbishop’s Permission to Officiate, died on Saturday 25 April. Mr Bowering served in the Diocese of York from his Ordination in 1959 until 1987 when he was appointed Archdeacon of Lindisfarne. Mr Bowering was 79 and is survived by his wife, Aileen and three children, Paul, Alice and Joanne.

The Revd Canon Ronald Albert Marchant, who was resident at Dulverton Hall, Scarborough, died on 15 April.

7 Cherishing Churchyards Week

Why not celebrate the beauty of your an accessible resource for community churchyard or burial site with your learning. Most important of all - local community during National they provide a tranquil place for Cherishing Churchyard Week from remembrance and quiet reflection. Saturday 6th June - Sunday 14th June? Events offered during Cherishing Churchyards Week could include Caring for God’s Acre, the charity activities for families such as a quiz, dedicated to the conservation of a mini beast safari, tree bingo, letter burial sites of all kinds is promoting or leaf rubbing, making gargoyles out National Cherishing Churchyards of clay. Open days could be held with Week and helping people to organise guided tours. Volunteer activity days events which celebrate these special such as making compost areas, places in the heart of our scything grass, memorial recording, communities. bramble clearing, nest box making. Special workshops could be organised For instance a rich diversity of plant in dry stone walling, memorial safety and animal life can be discovered in and care, plant identification, burial sites and they often contain geology, tree care or creative writing distinctive and veteran trees such as and art. Yew trees, the oldest living things in Britain. The stonework of the For further information on memorials and boundary walls Cherishing Churchyards Week or the provides a home for a mosaic of work of the charity, Caring for God’s mosses, ferns and lichens. Burial Acre, take a look at sites are also important places for www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk archaeology and history, providing

Free to a good home

A complete set of costumes for a traditional Passion Play (suitable also for a Nativity Play), both adult and children's sizes, many originally purchased in Nazareth, Palestine. More than 50 outfits in all. Ideal for Church, School or Community Drama group. Complete with moth-proof storage trunk. Contact the Very Revd John Allen on 01723 859854.

8 Taking Funerals Seriously

Whether you are involved with The conference will take place 10-12 funerals, bereavement ministry, or June at Woodland Grange, work with the dying as a vicar, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. Highlights curate, chaplain, Reader or lay include the launch of national person, there will be something for funeral research and resources, key you at 'Taking Funerals Seriously'. note speakers on theology, culture This conference, the first national and pastoral care, and a visit to the Church of England conference on National Funerals show, the major death, dying and funerals, is a trade show for the funerals industry valuable opportunity to explore changing culture, trends, research For more information about the and theology around this crucial conference, to see keynote speakers ministry. and to book online, visit www.takingfuneralsseriously.org.

The Contribution of Faith to Reconciliation This year's theme for York St John's The Keynote Speaker is Toby summer symposium on the Howarth, Bishop of Bradford in the Challenge of Leadership in a newly-created Diocese of West Changing Church is "The Yorkshire and The Dales. His Contribution of Faith to previous post was as the Archbishop Reconciliation", to be held on 3rd of Canterbury’s Interfaith Adviser. June. He has worked in India and has a doctorate in the study of Islamic There is a growing view that some preaching. aspects of our world faiths contribute more to deepening division than Responders to the main presentation promoting reconciliation. In this our include Revd Dr Sarah Hills, Canon fourth Symposium we aim to bring for Reconciliation, Coventry together significant contributors to Cathedral Dr Ataullah Siddiqui, present and debate the positive role Reader in Religious Pluralism and which faith can make to Inter-Faith Relations, Markfield reconciliation. Faith leaders at local, Institute of Higher Education. national and international levels have a responsibility to be as There will be breakout groups to informed as possible about the enable detailed discussion of the particular contribution which they presentations. can make. In this Symposium we aim to offer the latest thinking For more details or to book a space, accompanied by engaged dialogue on visit www.yorksj.ac.uk/challenge-of- this vital subject. leadership.

9 What’s On

Mon 1 Jun - ‘Adrian Plass and the Sun 7 Jun - William Temple Church Weekend’ - St Edward the Association, York Group, York St Confessor, York, 7.15pm. An evening John University, 7pm. The Revd of theatre, stories, music & laughter Canon Charles Dobbin will give the with Searchlight Theatre Company, last talk in a series of four talks by World Vision and Adrian & Bridget different speakers on 'Living with Plass. Tickets: £12 (concessions Difference'. Contact 01904 411535 £10) from 01904 709111 or or [email protected]. parishoffi[email protected]. Mon 8 Jun - York and District CMS Weds 3 Jun - A Symposium on: The AGM and talk, The Tithe Barn, Challenge of Leadership in a Nether Poppleton, 7pm. York and Changing Church: The Contribution District CMS Association invites you of Faith to Reconciliation. See page to hear the Archbishop's Evangelist, the Revd Canon Roger Simpson. Thurs 4 Jun - Dedication of the new altar at Rievaulx Abbey. See page 5. Weds 10 Jun - Ebor Lectures on Theology and Public Life, York St Sat 6 Jun - In the Father's Hand John University, 7pm. The Rt Hon Summer Party!, St Andrew's Church, Frank Field MP will deliver a lecture Huntington Road, York, 2pm – 4pm. on "Give me a child until they are 4: There will be dancing, games, crafts toughening up the Jesuit teaching on and cream teas. Suitable for people shaping children's life chances". with learning disabilities or complex Admission to the lecture is free via needs - but everyone is welcome! For www.yorksj.ac/eborlectures. more information contact 07788 123538 or visit our website: Weds 10 Jun - Serving the world: the www.ifhyork.org.uk. opportunities and challenges of chaplaincy. Chaplains are engaging Sat 6 Jun - Stamford Bridge Singers with those who know little or concert, St Patrick’s, Patrington. nothing of the Christian Story and 7pm. Under the baton of Stuart more often than not in a multi-faith Nettleship, the Singers will entertain environment. This session will help with a wide range of music by us to explore the gifts and skills Vivaldi, Schubert, Rutter, Britten, needed to be an effective chaplain. Faure, Sullivan and more. For further details go to Sat 13 Jun - 'Conversations': www.stamfordbridgesingers.co.uk. Personality and Prayer, Alison Geary, Old Malton Priory, 10am – 12.30pm. Contact 01653 692370 or [email protected].

10 Sat 13 Jun - Concert of Song and personality, outcast, railway visionary Music, St. Oswald's Church, and discredited trickster. Tickets Flamborough, 7pm. £9.50, available from georgehudson.eventbrite.co.uk. Sat 13 Jun - Roughshod: IrRESISTible, at Hollybush Christian Fellowship, Sat 20 – Sun 21 Jun - 150th Thirsk, 6.30pm. Box Office: 01845 Anniversary of St John the 587386. Tickets: Free. Evangelist, Middlesbrough. Open day on Saturday from 10am to 5pm Mon 15 May - Mental health with archive exhibition, flowers, awareness day, Old Malton entertainment and refreshments. On Community Centre, from 10am. A Sunday at 6pm: Sung Mass of day which aims to increase your Thanksgiving for 150th Anniversary understanding of, and response to, with the Bishop of Beverley. Further mental health issues, as they bear on details: please contact Fr Stephen those affected and their carers, Cooper on 01642 824779. covering issues in working age adults and the elderly. Sat 20 Jun - `Are You Coming to Strawberry Fair?`, St Nicholas Weds 15 Jun - Serving the world: the Church Guisborough, 10am—3pm, opportunities and challenges of Stalls, refreshments, raffle, tombola, chaplaincy, Christ Church etc. , 7.30pm. See Weds 10 Jun. Sat 20 Jun - Medieval Summer Fayre, Bridlington Priory, from 1pm. Fri 19 – Sun 21 Jun - Flower Festival Medieval Summer Fayre with royal at St Hilda's, Ellerburn. The festival procession, stalls, Morris Men, opens with a concert by 'Sing and refreshments and much more. More Tonic' at 7pm on 19th June. Church information on open Saturday and Sunday from www.bridlingtonpriory.co.uk or tel 10am - 4pm. Celebratory Evensong 01262 672221. 5pm on Sunday 21st June with the Bishop of Whitby in attendance. Sat 20 Jun - June Jamboree, All Contact [email protected] or Saints, , from 1pm. Music, 01751 460391 for concert tickets or barbecue, grand raffle, cake stall, further information. white elephant stall, activities for children and all that goes to make up Fri 19 Jun - An Evening with George a classic summer fair. Hudson, St Peter and St Paul’s, Scrayingham, 7pm. Actor and Mon 22 – Weds 24 Jun - storyteller Chris Cade will chart and International Conference on Peace celebrate Hudson’s varied life as a and Reconciliation, York St John millionaire, bankrupt, celebrated University, see page 9.

11 Mon 22 Jun - Quiet Day - Treasures enable networking between Both New and Old, Wydale Hall. chaplains. Book via Bishop Paul Ferguson will look at [email protected]. some of the treasure trove in the words that provide a framework for Fri 26 – Sun 28 Jun - Celebration of our prayers and build up our spiritual 900 years of worship at St Peter's, lives. Book via 01723 859270 or Wawne. There will be a Flower [email protected]. Festival during the weekend and on Sunday at 11.00 am we will welcome Mon 22 Jun - Special Public Lecture Archbishop Sentamu to lead our on Religions at the Service of Peace, worship. For more details contact York St John University, 6.30pm. 01482 825908. Speaker: Fr Prof Jamal Khader, Rector of the Latin Patriarch Seminary in Fri 26 & Sat 27 Jun - "In the Year of Beit Jala, Bethlehem. our Lord, 1536", with Weighton Waytes Choir, 7.30pm. Composed Weds 24 Jun - SPIDIR Resource Day - by Carole Readman and performed Music and Spirituality, Wydale Hall, in Tudor costumes, at Aughton led by the Revd Canon Peter Moger, Church on the Friday, and Selby Precentor of York Minster. Book via Abbey on the Saturday. 01723 859270 or [email protected]. Thurs 25 Jun - Managing Major Sun 28 Jun - Jazz Vespers at St. Building Projects in Places of Martin’s Church, Lowthorpe, 6pm. Worship, St Mary’s Brammall Lane, With the Rev Ray Quartet. Sheffield. Book at www.purcelluk.com. Tues 30 Jun - RSCM North and East Yorkshire Lecture, at Ripon Thurs 25 Jun - My school, my Cathedral, 6pm. An evening ministry: A day on school chaplaincy, seminar/lecture to be given by Philip Wydale Hall. We shall be looking at Moore, Organist Emeritus at York a range of aspects of chaplaincy, Minster. Choral Evensong at 6pm, including ways to support it and lecture at 7pm. make it more effective, and how to

Diocese of York News June 2015 Editor: Eleanor Course, Diocesan Communications Officer, Diocesan House, Aviator Court, Clifton Moor, York YO30 4WJ. Tel 01904 699530, Email [email protected]

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