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PETERTIDE THIS WEEKEND In a sign that we may be learning to live with Covid, the 2021 Petertide Ordinations will return to Cathedral on Friday, June 25 and Saturday, June 26.

Two services will be held on Friday, June all those being made on the William Salaman; The Revd Christine 25 and Saturday, June 26 to ordain six diocesan website here. Schmaus; and The Revd Robin James people as and eight people as Thwaites. priests. Having had their deacon services held locally last year with the majority of THOSE BEING ORDAINED AS A The Rt Revd , Bishop people watching online, this year will be DEACON of Truro, will lead the deacon service the first time the eight being priested will David Baylor; Hannah Bethany Baylor; with the , The Rt experience the service in the splendour of Thomas Ebbens; Michael Molano; Lesley Revd leading the service for the cathedral. Jane Selman; Sophie Marion Vannesa priests. Troczynska. THOSE BEING ORDAINED AS A PRIEST Among those being made a deacon The Revd Laura Michelle Bushell Hawke; Friday’s service will start at 7.30pm and this year are husband and wife David The Revd Carol Edleston; The Revd Helen Saturday’s service will start at 10.30am. and Hannah Baylor and coastguard Davies; The Revd Nicola Farr; The Revd Normal Covid-Safe restrictions apply. Tom Ebbens. You can read more about Patrick Andrew Gilbert; The Revd Paul SCHOOL UNIFORM RECYCLING TOOLKIT TO HELP STRUGGLING FAMILIES Buying school uniforms is a financial Forum and Volunteer Cornwall to release school or strengthening an existing challenge for many families in Cornwall. a School Uniform Recycling toolkit. scheme that is currently running. With children constantly growing or The general idea is to centrally collect In partnership with the Cornwall sometimes changing schools, the next good condition school uniforms and Community Foundation, grants of up to big expense is always around the corner. associated items and re-distribute £70 for new and existing projects to help Transformation Cornwall has teamed up them. The short guide gives top tips with things like boxes, rails and clothes with the Cornwall Independent Poverty for developing a scheme with your local washing were also offered.

SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO PARISH GIVING OUR NEWS JULY 2021 2 THE SAINTS’ WAY SAFEGUARDING PAST CASES REVIEW 2 (PCR2) STATEMENT Past Cases Review 2 is a DIOCESAN PRAYER DIARY commissioned independent review of safeguarding NOW AVAILABLE ON APP cases and practice over the last ten years which has You can now download the diocesan provided some helpful insight and recommendations. Prayer Diary direct to your phone or tablet.

The diocesan and cathedral safeguarding published in the spring of 2022. The has joined teams are pleased to announce the PrayerMate, an app that allows users conclusion of the PCR2 for the Diocese However, we are enacting the to download daily prayers that are of Truro and , which recommendations made within these relevant to them. commenced in January 2020. reports without delay and will ensure our safeguarding practice continues to The app is simple to use. To make it We would like to thank everyone who improve. easier, we have created a guide for has participated in the process. We getting you set up. You can access the are grateful for the thoroughness and We always act on information we guide here. commitment participants have shown, receive, and if you have concerns about leading to the Diocese of Truro and Truro safeguarding for yourself or someone else Cathedral being one of the very first there is advice here: https://trurodiocese. dioceses and cathedrals to complete the org.uk/resources/safeguarding/i-have- YOUTH MINISTRY report, well ahead of many who have yet worries-what-to-do-who-to-contact to reach this point. RESEARCH PROJECT The Rt Revd Philip Mounstephen, South West Youth Ministries (SWYM) It is expected that all dioceses will has been serving local churches across complete their reviews by the end of The Very Revd , the region, helping resource and equip the year and the national report will be youth and children’s ministry over the last 23 years. Having a reasonable understanding of the challenges and CREATION FEST TO TAKE PLACE IN PERSON & ONLINE opportunities in reaching and discipling As COVID-19 restrictions are being gatherings. Big Weekend Church Hubs this generation, SWYM are all too aware lifted, one of the few festivals going allow churches to open their doors to that their ministry is just scratching the ahead in-person is also expanding to their communities, both localising and surface. new horizons. From July 30 to August spreading the message of hope. Even 1, Creation Fest Big Weekend will be better, Creation Fest is providing the SWYM are therefore keen to get a snap- held in person at the Royal Cornwall resources, training, and inspiration for shot of the provision both within and Events Centre in Wadebridge, and will churches to host their own events. outreach to children and young people be made available in three formats: across the region with the aim to get • Anywhere - The festival will also be a picture of where there is excellent • In Cornwall - Smaller and more freely streamed online and on social coverage and impact being made that intimate than previous years to media so that anyone in the world can could be replicated but also areas where accommodate safety procedures, the experience Creation Fest no matter there is a barren wasteland of ministry focus of the free-to-attend, in person, where they are. to this generation. three-day festival will continue to be to make a big impact on people Sarah Yardley, Creation Fest’s mission The hope is that as a part of this as they encounter Jesus through and ministry lead, said: “Our vision is research SWYM might be able to music, seminars, skate, sports, family that the Creation Fest Big Weekend channel new work into areas of most activities, and the creative arts. will refresh the Church and re-imagine need and least coverage in the future as mission, becoming a catalyst for well as to ascertain if the resources and • In Church Hubs - New this year, creative gospel proclamation and training it provides for local churches to Creation Fest will expand its borders creating a culture of invitation that equip and resource them is in fact what by partnering with churches across embraces the grace, the freedom, and they really want. the UK to provide hubs that will the HOPE only God can give.” stream festival content for free. This MORE INFORMATION MORE INFORMATION is ideal for those unable to make it To sign up or for more information click to Cornwall or who are not yet able Visit Creation Fest’s website here. here. or comfortable with large-scale

SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO PARISH GIVING OUR NEWS JULY 2021 3 TRANSFORMATION CORNWALL GODLY PLAY TRAINING THIS SEPTEMBER WORRYING ABOUT MONEY Places are available for Godly Play Training which is taking place in September. A ‘Worrying about money?’ leaflet for Cornwall is set Godly Play Training is a three day to be launched on Thursday (July 1). certificated course led by members of the College of Trainers of Godly Play UK. The ‘Worrying about money?’ leaflet It is a creative and imaginative approach is a simple resource for people facing to Christian nurture that can be used in financial crisis - and those who are a variety of settings. supporting them - to quickly see available advice and support options Local Authorities to have produced Taking place in Truro, this training will and which agencies are best placed these leaflets. It is a pretty big deal develop your practice and understanding to help. The aim is to reduce the in terms of ‘swimming upstream’ of Godly Play, and will enable you to need for emergency food aid by for the foodbanks and charitable begin running it in your own setting. helping people access any existing food aid projects. Instead of pouring financial entitlements and advice on money into bolstering the emergency The course costs £40 per person for income maximisation. food provision, national and local the three days and takes place between anti-poverty organisations are September 21 and 23. Transformation Cornwall, the calling for a ‘Cash First Approach to Trussell Trust and the Independent Food Poverty’ – whereby people have Register your interest here. Food Aid Network (IFAN) and fair means to buy their own food Cornwall Council have worked directly and live with dignity. This together to develop the leaflet all comes from increasing welfare ‘Cornwall: Worrying About Money’. benefits, ending the five-week wait ON THE WAY PRAYERS for benefits, ending zero/low hour On The Way gathers weekly to pray and The leaflets are a part of the ‘Cash contracts and promoting grants, not you are invited to join in. We pray for the First Approach’ to food poverty loans, to people needing financial work and people involved in On The Way. and will be supported with some help.” We pray for wisdom and guidance. Join practical/simple training sessions us at 8.30am every Thursday morning in July and September which will An online version of the leaflet on Zoom in praying for this vital work as be delivered by Citizens Advice is available via this page on the we seek God’s plans for fruitfulness and Cornwall. Independent Food Aid Network sustainability in our diocese. (IFAN) website. Jane Yeomans, Project Manager for Transformation Cornwall, said: The launch event takes place on “This is really significant, in that Thursday, July 1 from 1pm to 2pm. Cornwall is one of the first English To attend click here. NCT CHURCH ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2021 The National Churches Trust is The Presidents’ Award for Church pleased to announce that its church Architecture is for the best new architecture awards have returned church architecture and for reordering, for 2021, after a break last year. extensions or alterations to existing Applications close on Monday, June church buildings. 28. The awards are: It is awarded on behalf of the The King of Prussia Gold Medal is Ecclesiastical Architects and awarded for the best church repair Surveyors Association President and conservation architecture. and the National Churches Trust’s Joint Presidents, the Archbishops of The award is open to the architect or Canterbury and York. chartered surveyor on any scheme of repair for a church or chapel of any Projects are eligible if they have been Christian denomination in the UK, completed within the last three years in use for regular worship, and over or after the Practical Completion one hundred years old. The scheme stage in their development. The award must have been funded by a grant is open to church buildings of all or loan from the National Churches Christian denominations in the UK. Trust, or would have been eligible for More details available here. such a grant or loan, and have been completed within the last three years.

SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO PARISH GIVING OUR NEWS JULY 2021 4 CREATION CARE MAKE COP COUNT Faith voices are coming together in a coalition of the major denominations, YOUNG CHRISTIANS MARCH TO faiths and NGOs called Make COP Count. We are calling for bold, courageous commitments to keep the world below 1.5 degrees of warming. To ensure this, GLASGOW FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE faith groups are asking for: An end to all use of public money to Hundreds of young Christians have set out on a subsidise fossil fuels and new and additional sources of finance for climate- pilgrimage which spans the length of the country – related loss and damage. from the G7 to COP26. These asks were included in a letter to the leaders of the G7 nations ahead of the summit earlier this month. Marching from Cornwall to Glasgow, the “More carbon emissions mean more pilgrims are calling on world leaders to disease, more food insecurity and more This , which is being added address the Climate Emergency. poverty. new website to all the time, will hold all the resources to enable you to add your voice. The Young Christian Climate Network “We will not let the UK government host organised the relay route which, instead summits on our doorstep only to hear of a baton, will see young activists meet more talk and no action.” to pass on the imperative of crucial CLIMATE SUNDAY action needed to reverse climate change. Truro recently launched an initiative New resources to inspire you as your which encouraged young people to sing hold a Climate Sunday service are The relay set off Truro Cathedral with a to world leaders, asking for them to regularly added to the website. Check service of blessing lead by Bishop Hugh tackle the climate emergency. out the themes prepared by the CofE Nelson, with the aim of reaching Glasgow environment programme on Climate where COP26 will be begin on October The song, written by Sir Tim Rice and and Buildings and on Church Energy. 31. Peter Hobbs, garnered thousands of views and participation from across the You can hold your Climate Sunday Rachel Mander, a young Christian and world. service any time between now and the relay co-leader, said: “We stand in September. We’ll be bringing all the solidarity with people and places that Parishioners, clergy, and bishops are local services together in a Four Nations are being plunged into debt and poverty supporting efforts for the world leaders celebration service streamed from because of climate change. to tackle the climate emergency. Glasgow Cathedral in the afternoon of Sunday September 5th. Save the date, joining details to follow. Remember to register your service to be included in the celebration and community of faith voices calling for action at COP26.

Deepen your commitment by signing up to Eco Church and signing The Time is Now declaration. GREEN CHURCH SHOWCASE The Green Church Showcase is on the hunt for inspiring church initiatives which protect and preserve the planet. ST ANTA WAVE OF HOPE FOR G7 Through the Green Church Awards and St Anta Church in Carbis Bay threw itself from their own displays to be added to the Green Health Awards, the Church into the G7 spirit by joining Christian St Anta’s for the countries leaders to see Times is inviting churches, church Aid’s Wave of Hope for G7. as they make their way to and from the schools, dioceses, and Christian groups meetings. of any denomination to submit details Local school children busily decorated of work that they have undertaken to hands to join the county-wide Wave of The Bishop of St Germans, The Rt Revd combat climate change, protect nature, Hope displayed outside churches in the Hugh Nelson, who also leads the Creation and involve their communities in making diocese throughout the G7 conference. Care work in the diocese popped down changes. to St Anta to see the display and meet Further details and an entry form are With St Anta right in the thick of it, children creating hands to add to the here. The closing date for entries is churches were asked to select a hand artwork. Wednesday, July 21.

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