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A Prayer for ‘Living Christ’s Story’ God our loving Father, TheNews you have called your Church into being in your love and strengthened us for APRIL 2021 your service. Inside this month: Guide and inspire us as we seek to re-shape our approach to mission and Thanksgiving for Jabs! ministry in our diocese; ...Which means that we may be a joyful Church of missionary disciples, As the government's vaccination programme rolls ‘God saves’: one in heart and mind; for the sake of your kingdom, out across the country and protects a growing Archbishop Stephen through Jesus Christ our Lord, number of people from the COVID coronavirus P2

who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, that has made life so difficult for the last year, why one God, now and for ever. not take the opportunity to offer thanks to God for Jonny Amen. www.dioceseofyork.org.uk/living-christs-story your 'jab' in a practical way as well as in prayer? Hedges—new face at Christian Aid Stepping Up works with some P3 of the poorest Prayer and Challenge: remembering Sarah Everard and most vulner- Farewell The , the Rt Revd Dr able communities Humphrey— across the world, former Bishop , has spoken about the Merciful God, where there may of Selby dies death of -born Sarah Everard hear the cries of our grief, be little hope of a P4 and public response to it. for you know the anguish of our vaccine rollout. "Like many others I have been hearts. Ten years of These people already face a lack of water, food, shocked by the terrible news of It is beyond our understanding RPAs—much to and healthcare. Sarah Everard's death. and more than we can bear. celebrate "Sarah grew up and went to school Accept our prayer Christian Aid is already on the ground, helping P5 in York and so her family and many that as Sarah has been released keep people safe from coronavirus with practical from this world's cruelty, support – but with your gift of thanks can do of her friends are local people. People on so may she be received into your more. the Move: "I would ask everyone to pray for safe hands and secure love.  If you or your loved ones have had your Comings & Sarah's family, and to challenge We pray that justice may be done 'jab', go to bit.ly/ca-jabthanks to make a Goings gender-based violence in our society and that we may treasure the donation, and in leaving your message feel P7 and the damaging climate of fear

memory of her life more than the which limits free to mention that you're from the Diocese manner of her death. women’s of York. For Christ's sake, ...and there’s more! freedom of Amen. It’s something positive you can do choice and when life is quite austere anyway! personal © The Archbishops' Council safety." of the Church of , 2000-2005 , AMY JOHNSON WAY, CLIFTON MOOR, YORK YO30 4XT. [email protected] T:01904 699500 WWW.DIOCESEOFYORK.ORG.UK 8 1

To the Saints of the Diocese of York People on the Move The , Comings and Goings in the Diocese of York faith. It is what , we must The Revd Dominic Black, in has been writes: declare before Charge of , Most Holy appointed as we declare and Undivided Trinity (Hull ) has Assistant , SSM, of Sherburn in anything else: been appointed as Vicar of the same Elmet with Saxton. She will be licensed “He became what we are so that we God is with us. Benefice, known also as Holy Trinity and by the Bishop of Selby at 3.00pm on can be what he is” But there is designated . As Sunday, 21st March 2021 via Zoom. St Athanasius (296-373 AD) something else Black (from the 25th April) he will be The Revd Fiona Robinson, Assistant “For our sake he made him to be sin as well. The only instituted by the in Hull Curate, SSM, of Sutton Park St Andrew who knew no sin, so that in him we reason these Minster at 4.00pm on Sunday, 6th June and Wawne St Peter, Hull, has been might become the righteousness of images endure 2021. reappointed and will be known locally God.” and why new Mr Matthew Burnell, Multiply Minister in as Associate Minister. She will be 2 Corinthians 5. 21 ones are made each year, is , Hull, has resigned with effect licensed by the Bishop of Hull at 7.30pm because the God who shared our life from 28th May 2021. on Thursday, 13th May 2021 at St in Jesus and who died on the cross Peter's, Wawne. Two images dominate western art. was also risen on the third day. God’s The Revd Dot Hicks, who holds the You can see them in every art gallery sharing in our humanity is for a Archbishop’s Permission to Officiate has The Ven Armitage Shanks has been re- and in the stained glass windows of purpose: so that our lives can be been appointed as Distinctive appointed Attendant of the Privy nearly every church. One depicts a united with the life of God and even (SSM) of Strensall for a period of two Chamber from Maundy Thursday. child in his mother’s arms. The other carried into glory. years. She will be licensed by the Bishop The Revd Canon Roger Simpson shows a young man dying on a cross. Jesus, by his death and resurrection of Selby via Zoom at 2.00pm on (Prebend of Givendale), retired with The Christian faith says this child and gives our lives and gives the whole Sunday, 21st March 2021. effect from 16th December 2020. The this man are the same person. They world a new direction. The inner The Revd Terence McDonough, Vicar of Archbishop has conferred the title of say that he is God come down to compass of our humanity is re-set. All Fulford, York, will retire with effect from Canon Emeritus upon him with effect earth. this is the achievement of the man Wednesday, 31st March 2021. from 17th February 2021. upon the cross. His purpose is to die This seems preposterous! It’s not how The Revd Angela Morrison, who holds The Revd Catherine Staziker, former and rise and take us with him. In his we think of God. Surely God is not a the Archbishop’s Permission to Officate, Minor Canon of Sheffield Cathedral death, death is destroyed. In his life, tiny child? Surely God doesn’t hang life is restored: sins are forgiven and has been appointed as Assistant and now part of the Clergy team, and on a cross? Surely God – if he is God humanity is reconciled to God. Curate, SSM, of Dringhouses, York. She holding Permission to Officiate in the at all – is ‘all powerful’, ‘unchanging’, will be licensed by the Archbishop of , has been and ‘all knowing’. His name is Emmanuel, which means York at 10.00am on Sunday, 28th March appointed as Priest-in-Charge (House God is with us. In this man, and especially in the 2021 in St , for Duty) of Cloughton and Burniston awful climax of his awful death, we His name is Jesus, which means God Dringhouses. The service will be live- and of Ravenscar and Staintondale. are invited to consider God as one saves. streamed via YouTube. She will be licensed by the Bishop of Hull in St Mary, Cloughton at 7.30pm on who is emptied of power, as one who The Revd Wendy Plant, who holds the shares the life of earth. This is always Archbishop’s Permission to Officiate, Wednesday, 2nd June 2021. the first message of the Christian +Stephen Ebor: 2 7

Email Scam—beware! Jonny's the new Team Member for Mustard Seed Jonny Hedges joins the Mustard Seed request I need you to schools, run- Team in March as a third Associate handle discreetly. I am ning youth Programme Leader, alongside Liz currently busy in a ministries Holdsworth and Angela Bailey, with prayer session, no calls and mentor- Programme Leader Heather Black. so just reply my email.” ing pro- Jonny will support the programme’s grammes for A reply then draws the development, and lead Stepping Up lay people. recipient into a dialogue learning communities across Middles- Recently, in which they are asked brough and Guisborough Deaneries. Jonny has to buy vouchers, and worked for North Police as a The Mustard Seed programme’s work ultimately send images Response Officer and Investigator. of their serial and of ‘Growing disciples in places where In Redcar Jonny and his wife Abi security numbers to the life is tough’ is part of the Diocesan have launched Blank Canvas, a local fraudster. Goal to ‘Reach those we currently don't’. ecumenical youth charity, providing If you think you have received one of In a widespread scam, local church needs-based specific projects for these messages please report it to the ‘Stepping Up’ sees lay people across officers such as churchwardens, young people. police via their non-emergency line a Deanery meet weekly to grow as treasurers etc have received Jonny says “I believe and have huge 101. disciples, exploring mission in their par- fraudulent messages by email or text ish and supporting each other. Each confidence in the local church of this Martin Sheppard at Diocese of York impersonating members of the Mustard Seed parish will become a area to bring transformation to our Communications clergy, typically in their own parish, place of welcome, hospitality and local communities! This is what excites ([email protected]), is asking the recipient to spend money support where people can be lis- me about joining the Mustard Seed monitoring the scams and can on vouchers or gift cards. tened to, receive support and ex- team, supporting and journeying provide informal advice if you're One church office holder actually plore faith. alongside all the churches across unsure whether a message is valid or Middlesbrough and Guisborough spent quite a lot of their own money, “We look forward to Jonny getting to not. Deaneries.” but fortunately discovered before it know local people and parishes. He was too late.  Incumbents may like to consider will be a great source of support and Bishop of Hull the Rt Revd Alison advising their church officers and This is a national and international inspiration, as we live out Christ’s story White, who leads development of the PCC members that "I will never ask trend with similar reports from other in places where life is tough”, said Mustard Seed programme, said: you by email to spend your own Dioceses; we Heather Black. “It has been a joy to see the way God money for the church." have reported one specimen case to Jonny grew up in Redcar and re- is calling the Mustard Seed team into North Yorkshire Police who have  This has the advantage of needing turned there with his wife and daugh- being. Jonny Hedges comes with passed it over to Action Fraud, a no technical knowledge or ter in 2018 after nine years in full-time great gifts and energy and he is just national police scheme. understanding to help people Christian ministry, mostly in two Angli- the person we need to be alongside identify an incoming email as The first message reads something like can churches ‘down South’. those who are courageously fraudulent. ‘Stepping Up’.” “Do you have a moment I have a He’s worked with all ages, setting up early intervention programmes in mseed.org 6 3

himself trenchantly when he Remembering Bishop Humphrey disagreed with what was being Ten years of RPAs proposed." It's ten years The Rt Revd Humphrey Taylor, who This and other retirement tributes, since Recognised was of Selby in read in full, are notable for Parish Assistants the Diocese of York from 1991 to phrases such as "great vision and began serving 2003, died in Bristol on the 25th strong leadership", "Humphrey’s the Diocese in February at the age of 82. style was to work alongside his 2011. How are Widely loved and respected in the colleagues... to offer our RPAs Diocese, Humphrey Taylor was encouragement to them to use discovering and using their gifts in their own appointed Bishop of Selby by their skills," "thanks largely to churches large and small, rural and urban? Archbishop in Humphrey Taylor’s tireless succession to the Rt Revd Clifford advocacy," "his readiness to speak Anna King, RPA at St Mark’s Newby Barker, and following 11 years as up and be constructively critical," (Scarborough) since June 2014, is the pastoral General Secretary of mission "his quiet thoughtful care and wise group organiser, and believes RPAs contribute agency USPG. counsel," "by being well known, positively to the full range of ministry parishes Bishop Humphrey was born in accessible, he has become offer and likes to ‘get things done’, though she Newcastle in 1938, attended trusted and valued." recognises that ‘being an RPA is about Christian Harrow School and (following On retirement Bishop Humphrey living – not just getting jobs done, but thinking national service in the RAF) moved with Anne to the Vale of and praying about what God is calling us to.’ bishop clearly needs to be a good Pembroke College Cambridge, Evesham where he became an pastor, and a good organiser too, "One thing that changed for me during RPA where he intended to study Honorary Assistant Bishop in the given the large measure of training was I learned the real therapeutic value engineering and join the family Diocese of Worcester for ten autonomy enjoyed by suffragans in of simply listening to someone, without the need business. At Cambridge he switched years; more recently they moved this diocese. But I was also looking for to ‘do’ anything. In my job, I had to act on to theology and then studied for to Bristol to be close to family. something special. something that I was told, and so it was a relief at Mirfield; he was Thanks be to God for Bishop to come to understand that listening is very "Our most obvious need as a diocese ordained in 1961 and served as Humphrey's life, witness and valuable in its own right. at that time stemmed from the lack curate in Hammersmith and then ministry; we hold his family in our of any clear link with churches "Being an RPA has encouraged me to try to ‘love Notting Hill before going to Malawi prayers, and share their hope that overseas, and the rather weak my neighbour as myself’ even when someone is with USPG. He worked as a Chaplain a memorial service in the Diocese emphasis on mission in the diocese expressing views, or doing things, that do not in Higher Education in the 1970s and of York may be possible later in as a whole. It seemed to me that coincide with my own feelings." spent five years with the Church of the year as restrictions in response Bishop Humphrey’s previous England's national Board of to the COVID pandemic begin to "There is some preparation work to do (but no experience in USPG, and his long Education before returning to USPG. ease. essays!) and some theology to think about – but involvement in both education and On Bishop Humphrey's retirement in it’s a stepping stone into ministry, and the ‘doing’ mission, were just what we needed. 2003, Lord Habgood wrote of his  Read retirement tributes to Bishop after the course is really fulfilling." ...I knew that he had a perceptively appointment to Selby, "A suffragan Humphrey in the February 2003 issue of critical mind, and could express York Diocesan News: bit.ly/ydn0302 www.ysom.org.uk/rpas

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