OUR NEWS SEPTEMBER 2018 RINGERS SOUGHT TO MARK CENTENARY OF ARMISTICE Diocesan Guild of Ringers is backing a government project inviting all bell ringers to join the nation in marking the end of the First World War by ringing together on Remembrance Sunday. The Guild is keen to encourage all churches within the diocese to join in. Ringers are asked to mark the centenary at 12.30pm on Sunday, November 11 to coincide with the nation’s tribute as thousands march past the Cenotaph. All are welcome. If you haven’t done so already, speak to your tower captain and start making PHOTO CREDIT: www.therebutnotthere.org.uk / Martin Barraud plans for ringing during this national moment. READ MORE www.trurodiocese.org.uk/2018/08/ THERE BUT NOT THERE SILHOUETTE ringing-remembers-bells-to-ring- out-to-mark-the-centenary-of-the- GRANTS FOR WW1 REMEMBRANCE armistice/ A national charity which supports War Graves Foundation and Project soldiers and aims to commemorate Equinox: Housing Veterans. SAVE THE DATE: 100 years since the end of World War 1 is hoping to encourage churches and Grants available DIOCESAN SYNOD other community organisations to host If you are interested in a figure, whether The next diocesan synod takes place installations of seated silhouettes to you are representing a religious at County Hall in Truro on September remember those soldiers lost in battle. organisation, school, village council 29. More information is available on the diocesan website. The There But Not There campaign is or other community organisation, the an initiative from Remembered. Armed Forces Covenant Trust Fund will be releasing microgrants to allow It is hoped the silhouettes will appear as many communities as possible to wherever there is a roll of honour, take part. This grant opportunity will LOCAL PASTORAL MINISTRY taking names off memorial walls and re-open on Monday, September 3 until KEY SKILLS COURSE returning them to the spaces they left September 30. This has been extended behind, putting them back into each due to the overwhelming number of There is a Local Pastoral Ministry community’s psyche once again. applications received. Key Skills course planned for October. The course will take place on Thursday All money raised will be distributed READ MORE afternoons in the cathedral starting in evenly between The Royal Foundation’s www.trurodiocese.org.uk/2018/08/ October. Armed Forces Programmes, Walking there-but-not-there-silhouette-grants- With The Wounded, Combat Stress, for-ww1-remembrance/ More information is available from Help for Heroes, The Commonwealth Sarah Welply on 01872 247211.

SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO GIVING OUR NEWS SEPTEMBER 2018 2 ENVIRONMENT DIOCESAN DIRECTORY CHANGES & UPDATES LICENSED CLERGY HARVESTING CREATIONTIDE The Revd Chris McQuillen-Wright* was licensed yesterday as Rural Dean of Pydar. He continues as Priest in Charge of St Many churches and schools celebrate Harvest festivals Columb Minor & St Colan. this month. PTO The Revd Eileen Martin* has been given PTO in this diocese. The Revd Fran Clemow* has been given PTO in this The season of Creationtide, from The link between climate change diocese. September 1 to October 4, focuses and poverty is a daily reality for * Contact details can be found in the on our Christian responsibility to care the environmentally fragile parts online directory for God’s creation, both by giving of our world. Many churches will be http://www.trurodiocese.org.uk/directory-live/ thanks for God’s good gifts and also by supporting Christian Aid’s Harvest considering how we may care better Appeal which this year will help for creation. Helpful resources can be empower rural women in Ethiopia CONFERENCE TO CALL FOR found at creationtide.com and you can through access to sustainable energy. sign up at ecochurchsouthwest.org.uk/ The appeal is being match funded SANCTUARY COMMITMENT creationtide/ for daily emails of prayers 1:4 by the EU (each pound donated A conference planned for December and readings during this season. becomes £5). For more information go is aiming to bring together the key tochristianaid.org.uk/harvest-appeal organisations in to discuss the As we thank God for the harvest so we for stories of communities whose lives are also called to take action to care importance of the county being a place are affected by the reality of climate of sanctuary for all people. for the natural world. Luci Isaacson, change. If your church generates the diocesan environment officer, is renewable energy from solar panels, Sanctuary in Cornwall will take place visiting churches across the diocese Jill Stone, regional coordinator for on Saturday, December 1 and those during September; get in touch with Christian Aid would love to talk you. attending are being invited to declare her ([email protected]) if you Email [email protected]. their school/ business/ community and would like ideas. organisation a place of sanctuary. The conference, which is a partnership between the , All Saints Church , Cornwall Quakers, Cornwall Refugee Resettlement Network, Turning the Tide and RJ Working, will feature a range of speakers. The event is being hosted by All Saints Church Highertown and attendees are currently on an invite only basis although tickets are likely to become available to the general public nearer the time. READ MORE Many are achieving small steps to See the poster on page 4 or visit the living more simply, while preparing diocesan website. for Creationtide or answering the call to switch to renewable energy, across the diocese (www. trurodiocese.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2016/04/Environment- CHRISTIAN AID Award-Scheme-2018.pdf). Here are St Mary’s, St John’s, St Peter’s and St Pol de Leon of the Penlee KERALA APPEAL Cluster and Epiphany House, Truro, who received Green Church Kernow Bronze. STOP! GREEN CHURCH KERNOW AWARDS More information MORE INFORMATION www.trurodiocese.org.uk/resources/social-action/environment/green-church-kernow-awards/ HERE

SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO PARISH GIVING OUR NEWS SEPTEMBER 2018 3 CHANGES TO NATIONAL ALL SAFELY GATHERED IN? THE CHURCHES TRUST GRANT PROGRAMMES CHALLENGES FACING FARMERS The National Churches Trust has The weather has made this year an published details of its grants extremely challenging one for many programme for 2019 to 2023. farmers. How can we help those in Foundation Grants (£500 - £3,000, our communities at a time when Gateway Grants (£3,000 - £10,000) the harvest is coming in but the and Cornerstone Grants (£10,000 - emotional, economical and practical £50,000) are all being introduced. pressures of achieving that have been a very high price to pay? Current grant programmes will come to an end on their next deadlines. Revd Caspar Bush was a dairy farmer until five years ago when he sold his The Maintenance Grant Programme cows to become a clergyman. Today deadline is September 26, 2018. he is team rector of the five churches Revd Caspar Bush pictured during This will also be the last round of the in and around and knows his farming days Maintenance Programme under its first-hand about the issues facing our current name. farming communities. He said: “This facing severe financial difficulties and More details can be found in the year has created a powerful reminder even insolvency.” guidance note on the , where of the vulnerability of many farmers’ website you can also find the link to the and growers’ businesses. It’s a stark Clergy working across our rural application form. reality that the two things which farming communities are urging affect farming fortunes far more than people, especially as harvest time is anything else – the weather and the upon us, to remember to ask people market – are things which farmers how things really are. CHURCH HOUSING TRUST have absolutely no control over. Caspar said: “Harvest festivals are a CHANGES ITS NAME “Thank God, the farmers and growers great time to check on any farmers Homelessness charity Church Housing who produce our food are usually very you know, to pray for them, and Trust has changed its name to Church resilient and resourceful and most will encourage them in the work they do in Homeless Trust. find a way to struggle through this good times and in bad.” year. But the worries for all are very Church Homeless Trust’s new name real and relentless, and some will be READ MORE emphasises its focus on homeless individuals and the specific support they need to rebuild their lives. There is no government funding for individual INSPIRING PROJECT AIMED AT ‘REMEMBERING GOD’ FOR needs such as new ID, stipends for transport, or living costs if someone’s THOSE WITH NO CONFIDENCE IN GOING TO CHURCH Universal Credit has been delayed. It’s undeniable that across Cornwall Annabel King, it’s a short service Without these items it is impossible to we have a problem with missing designed specifically with older people live independently. generations in our churches. Not just in mind who, for whatever reason, the elusive ‘youth’ but whole other have lost their confidence in church. www.churchhomelesstrust.org.uk for generations below and above the age more information, of retirement. So, it’s very tempting Barbara was volunteering at their to think the older generation are okay Church Café and realised, through – they have the type of church they talking to those who came along, that WHAT DOES ‘FOLLOW-UP’ want and are being very well served. there were many barriers to people But are they? either coming back to church or trying it for the first time. “Some would say, ACTUALLY MEAN? What if you felt housebound? What if ‘Barbara, this café feels different,’ and We often talk about follow-up in Life you were living with dementia? Lonely, I would suggest, ’That’s because God Events – keeping in touch with all or lost the confidence to walk into a is here!’ And then we would talk about those who have recently had a church church. What if you felt the church what that meant. When I asked if they wedding, a baptism, or a Church of you knew and loved was no longer might like to come along to a church England-led funeral. But what do accessible to you and everyone you service, the answer would often be we mean by ‘follow-up’, and how is it knew has long since left? that they didn’t feel they had a place possible to ever have the time for it? there anymore, or couldn’t physically Sandra Millar explains on the Church God laid all of these questions on the get there at the appointed time, or it’s Support Hub website. heart of Barbara Bennett who decided not like it used to be.” it was time to act. Once a month Read it here. Barbara organises, “Remembering Read more of Barbara’s inspiring story God” at , part of on the diocesan website. the Cluster. Led by Revd

SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO PARISH GIVING OUR NEWS SEPTEMBER 2018 4 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY ST ’S SKELETONS noon, St Rumon’s Church, Ruan SEPTEMBER Lanihorne, 2pm - 4pm, refreshments 1 Church Open Day, available. Church, 11am - 3.30pm; 29 Diocesan Synod, County Hall, REVEALED BY WORKERS 1 Salt & Sky Folk Duo with Truro refreshments, St Tudy Church, 7pm 30 Patronal Service, Harvest Restoration at St Sithney 1 - 2 Never a dull moment flower Festival, lunch & Auction, Michael- revealed more of the festival, Church, St stow Church, 11am. Columb Major, 10am - 5pm. church’s past than they were 8 St Ives Flower Festival, St Ia’s expecting. As work began to Church, St Ives, 10am OCTOBER rebuild the floor, the building 8 Day of Prayer, , see page 17 - 18 Families & Faith Conference. contractors discovered 1. This 1-day conference will help all human skeletons. 11 - 15 Festival of Art & Crafts, St who meet families & young children Uny Church, , 10am - 5pm through baptism, toddler groups or Perhaps not as significant (10am - 4pm on 15th).In aid of the school. £125pp (£95pp if booked church floor fund, installation of before 1/9/18). See as the discovery the disabled access & facilities. familiesandfaith.org for information. skeleton of Richard III in 21 - 23 One Day, One Choir, World 17 Discover Landevennec Day, a car park, these were Peace Day , near , 11am - people nevertheless, just as 22 Organ Recital by Joseph Wicks, 3pm, £10, E datacontroller47@gmail. deserving of a high degree of St Tudy Church, 7pm; com 25 Friends & Fruit - a reflection 20 So What conference, Truro Bap- dignity and respect. “Our builders were not on John 15 Quiet Day, St Just in tist Church, 10am - 4.30pm, £5 21 World Mission Day A re-burial is planned and, as surprised by the finding of a Roseland Church, 10am - 4pm, few bones to begin with but 29 Choral Evensong, St Tudy 28 Oll an Gwella Shanty Group the remains were evidently Church, 6pm; & Cornish refreshments, St Tudy originally entrusted to the then got a shock when, the 29 Sponsored Folk Music after- Church, 2.30pm. care of St Sithney, that is more they dug, the more full where they will remain. As skeletons were discovered,” Revd Dr Peter Johnson said, said Shaun Rothwell GET IN TOUCH “We want to respect those of Rothwell Historical who previously worshipped Restorations. If you have a news story or a diary date to share, contact us: T 01872 360037 and lived in the parish.” READ MORE E [email protected] before the 17th of each month.

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