September 2016
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OUR NEWS SEPTEMBER 2016 2016 ROADSHOWS: SAVE THE DATE This year’s Diocesan Roadshows will take place in October and November at venues across the Diocese. This year the evenings will have a different format to previous roadshows WALKING THE WAY THIS SUMMER with the aim of provoking thought and debate around wider issues affecting our Bishops put on their walking boots to lead pilgrims communities today under the heading of Cornwall’s Anglican bishops have both had overland to All Saints Church, Marazion, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: Thinking their walking boots on this summer, as stopping at key points along the way to Christianly About Everyday Issues. they led groups of pilgrims in the county. pray, read, sing and eat together. Join us on October 5th (Marazion), 11th Clergy, parishioners and locals were joined Bishop Tim said: “Pilgrimages are not (Launceston), 13th (Penryn) or 17th by others from further afield in the UK as measured in miles or days, but in the (Bodmin) or November 8th (Trispen) or they made the walks. journeys we make in our hearts, the 15th (Liskeard) and find out more. journeys of faith and fellowship. The Bishop Of Truro, the Right Reverend Tim Thornton, led one group from Laneast “I found the experience of walking together to the ancient holy well of St Clether, on as always very helpful and encouraging. Bodmin Moor. We were welcomed royally in the various SERVICE OF REFLECTION places we stopped. At the Holy Well Chapel Bishop Tim There will be a service of reflection reminded pilgrims of their baptisms “To celebrate the Eucharist at St Clether for those affected by suicide at Truro by splashing them with water from Holy Well was very special and spending Cathedral on September 11 at 2pm. the spring, before celebrating Holy time in prayer listening to God together in Communion. the beauty of that place was uplifting. Organised in conjunction with the Suicide Liaison Service, the service is open to all. The Right Reverend Chris Goldsmith, “I know from the conversations I had that Bishop of St Germans, led a group of others who were there have gone away Anne Embury, Suicide Liaison Lead for about 40 individuals in a pilgrimage walk thinking about how they can do something Outlook South West, said: “This is an in celebration of the feast of St James. similar. Talking, walking and praying They walked from St Uny Church, Lelant, together is a very good thing to do.” opportunity for people to come together and benefit from mutual support in circumstances of great tragedy.” There are around 80 deaths by suicide in Cornwall each year and the aftermath can have a devastating impact on those left behind. SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO PARISH GIVING OUR NEWS SEPTEMBER 2016 2 DIOCESAN DIRECTORY ARCHDEACON’S LETTER CHANGES & UPDATES Bishops’ Office Our development plan ‘Confidence in the Mrs Lesley Rogers, PA & Secretary to the Bishops of Truro and Bishops of St Gospel’ puts a clear marker in the sand: We Germans, has retired due to ill health. Her work and will pray. We are finding creative and encouraging commitment over the last 19 years to the ways to enable this to become a reality, to enable us offices of the Bishops has been exemplary and her knowledge to learn together how prayer challenges us to deeper and wisdom will be holiness and engagement. very much missed. We wish her well and a long and happy retirement. “Thy Kingdom Come” is a Clergy Section The Revd Canon Ed Pruen has moved out of the Diocese and is therefore no longer day OF prayer, not a day Rector of the Lann Pydar Benefice. The Revd Paul Holley has been licensed ABOUT prayer. It is a day as Priest in Charge of the Benefice of Bodmin with Lanhdyrock and Lanivet, and which you can drop into the parish of Cardynham. The Revd Canon Sherry has been licensed as Priest in Charge of St Tudy with St at any time, and stay as Mabyn and Michaelstow. She continues as Rector of Blisland with Temple, St long as you want. Breward and Helland. The Revd Canon Dave Elkington There will be plenty of opportunities for retired on 31 July and is therefore no prayer – based on each of the phrases of longer Deanery Priest of Trigg Minor and the Lord’s Prayer. These opportunities Bodmin and Assistant Curate of St Tudy with St Mabyn and Michaelstow and no will be creative and interactive. They will longer Assistant Curate of Bodmin with enable us to pray with our bodies, our Lanhydrock and Lanivet. imaginations, our hands and our voices. The Revd David Jasper is no longer Rural Dean of Trigg Major Deanery. The post ARCHDEACON AUDREY They will enable us to pray in silence, in action and in listening. We will pray on our will be vacant until 5 September when The pilgrimage led by Bishop Tim around Archdeacon Audrey will take on this role. own, together and as one body. The Revd Deb Grigg has been licensed as Laneast and St Clether in July brought a Public Preacher. Come and find new ways of praying, new together 30plus people from a range of The Revd Robert Thewsey has moved out parishes and deaneries. We walked and enthusiasm for prayer, new depths with of the Diocese ahead of taking up a post we talked, we ate and we prayed. God. in the Diocese of Oxford. He will therefore no longer be Rector of the Boscastle and We prayed at the beginning, in the middle During the day of prayer a new booklet Tintagel Group of Churches. He is no longer Rural Dean of Stratton. and at the end of our pilgrimage. We will be launched in the Diocese providing a flexible form of prayer for use in groups or The Revd Canon Tony Ingleby has prayed about God’s creation, about sharing retired and is no longer Priest in Charge our faith and about serving others. We alone, before a meeting or with a friend. of Liskeard and St Keyne and Associate Priest of St Pinnock. prayed with people we knew well, and ‘Praying on the Way’ gives a framework those we’d only just met. We prayed in The Revd Tony Windross was licensed as for regular prayer which can be as long or Rural Dean of Stratton on July 31. silence, in hearing the words of others, and as short as we need. It provides the text in speaking our own prayers. of prayers when we need them, and the PTO section The Revd Diane Powell has moved to a We fell into what felt like such a natural space to pray in our own words when we new address in Padstow, details can be rhythm of walking and praying, of being want. It gives us a balanced and simple found on the online directory. diet of prayer which we can adapt and with others and seeking solitude, of Church House movement and stillness. And what was develop for ourselves. Claire Watkins has joined as part time Communications Officer. most encouraging was the number of Copies of ‘Praying on the Way’ will people who said at the end ‘We could do Rebecca St Ledger-Renfree has be available on 3rd September, and moved into administration with a this in our own parishes’. afterwards from Church House or Communications focus. Archdeacon’s House in Bodmin. Kate Cortez will join as Head of Church ‘Confidence in the Gospel’ marks our House Operations in September. intention to hold an annual day of prayer. “We will pray”. Mike Geary, Architectural Technician, will The first of these will be held on3rd no longer be working at Church House September in St Petroc’s Church, Bodmin MORE INFORMATION from the end of August. between noon and 4pm. http://tinyurl.com/zufx8jh SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO PARISH GIVING OUR NEWS SEPTEMBER 2016 3 MISSION CASE STUDY FREE TREES CONFERENCES The Church is responsible for a large RIDING THE WAVE OF SUCCESS number of trees which, like churches, need managing. The often great age of churchyards, and the long term protection they offer, means many of these trees are WITH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES particularly important, and others have As Great Britain celebrates the success will support mission. One of the stumbling the potential to become so. of the 2016 summer Olympics, much blocks for the PCC though is how to go Two free churchyard trees conferences credit is being given to funding provided about it? Who is going to apply for the organised by the Conservation Foundation by the National Lottery to Sports. In fact, funding and how do you know which and supported by the Heritage Lottery three quarters of all UK sports funding funders are out there? Fund are being held this autumn. They will promote greater awareness of the now comes from the National Lottery and First you need a plan, where do you feel importance of churchyard trees and many commentators are attributing this God is calling you to work? What are the encourage maintenance, future growth funding as being the catalyst for the rise greatest chances of success? Just as UK and interpretation with the support of the in success from just one gold medal in Sport worked with the National Lottery community. Atlanta 1996 with Great Britain ranked to identify key sports where success was The conferences will be held in Liverpool 36th in the medal table to 27 gold medals most likely, so too can Churches identify Cathedral on October 6 and St John’s and ranked 2nd in the medal table just 20 their most viable assets and there are lots Waterloo on November 2 and feature years later in Rio de Janeiro.