Electric Atmosphere As a Thousand School Children Pack Newcastle Cathedral EARLY a Thousand Hardman, and the Other by the Bish- About to Move to Secondary School
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INSIDE: July 2019 Page 3 God’s Tent Page 4 Going for Green Page 6 Our new Ordinands Page 9 Pathways from Abraham Page 10 Pathways Mission one year on Electric atmosphere as a thousand school children pack Newcastle Cathedral EARLY a thousand Hardman, and the other by the Bish- about to move to secondary school. children packed New- op of Berwick, the Right Reverend For many, it's an emotional time, castle Cathedral for Mark Tanner. and both Bishops were there to offer our biggest school Children from schools across the wonderful words of reassurance. leavers' event ever. diocese, from Berwick to Newcastle, NIt was so big, two separate servic- attended the day, marking the end ■ For some pictures of the event, es were held throughout the day, of the year when they leave their visit our Flickr page: one attended by the Bishop of New- Church of England schools and https://flic.kr/s/aHsmEqgUUX castle, the Right Reverend Christine move on. Most were in Year Six, 2 generous engaged open Bishops’ Diaries July Setting God’s People Free for... This is not a full list of the Bishops’ engagements, but includes the items we think might be of particular interest to you. BISHOP OF NEWCASTLE Monday to Saturday (as well as Sunday!) 1st 10.00am St. Hilda’s Trust 2.30pm Warkworth CofE Aided Primary School 6.00pm Bishop’s Council 2nd Leadership Seminar, Church House Westminster 3rd 9.45am Consecration, St. Paul’s Cathedral 4th 10.00am HMP Northumberland 1.30pm Peer Review 5.30pm St Michael’s, Byker 5th – 9th General Synod, York 10th 9.30am Bishop’s Staff Meeting 11th 8.30am Meeting of Bishops and Archdeacons 1.00pm Cathedral Council 3.30pm Garden Party, Bishop’s House 12th 3.30pm Garden Party, Bishop’s House 14th 10.00am Christ Church, North Shields - Confirmation 6.00pm Holy Sepulchre, Ashington - Confirmation 15th - 19th House of Lords 17th 10.30am Church Commissioners Mission and Pastoral Committee, Westminster 22nd 6.00pm Diocesan Synod 24th -25th Strategic Learning Community, Birmingham Church life can be busy – whether we have a but what challenges and opportunities they face. BISHOP OF BERWICK leadership role in a church, undertake slots on Then there is the chance to pray for that person 1st Canada Day various rotas or are simply trying to juggle all the either there and then or in the intercessions. 6.00pm Bishop’s Council demands on our time. The gathered life and It doesn’t have to be people in big jobs and, to 2nd am Presenting the Archbishop of York’s Learner of worship of a church is a vital expression of our begin with, probably shouldn’t be. Make sure you faith, but how can this time together better include young people, too. This Time Tomorrow is the Year Awards nurture our life of faith across the week? a small step that really does make a big difference. 3rd Consecration of the Revd Canon Dr Dagmar Winter as This Time Tomorrow is an interview with It has also had a positive impact in church Bishop of Huntingdon, St Paul’s Cathedral someone in a congregation in a Sunday or meetings – PCCs and Synods for example. It might 4th Chairing Trustees of the Church Pastoral Aids Society midweek service, for two or three minutes, about need a variation where a person is asked about the 5th Chairing National Selection Oversight Group where they will be this time tomorrow. It’s a day they have just had, or will have the next day. chance to ask them not only where they will be, General Synod, York 7th Confirmation, Holy Island 7-9th General Synod 9th Licensing of the Revd Mike Hills, St Andrew, Newcastle Gospel Readings 10th 9.30am Bishop’s Staff Meeting 11th 8.30am Meeting of Bishops and Archdeacons Monday Matthew 8.18-22 Osmund, Bishop 1099 Matthew 11.20-24 am Counselling and Wellbeing Oversight Group Tuesday Matthew 8.23-27 Wednesday Matthew 11.25-27 3.30pm Garden Party, Bishop’s House 12th 3.30pm Garden Party, Bishop’s House Wednesday John 20.24-29 Thursday Matthew 11.28-end 13th am Morpeth Parish Men’s Breakfast Thursday Matthew 9.1-8 Friday Matthew 12.1-8 14th am Holy Communion, St Peter, Scremerston Friday Matthew 9.9-13 Saturday Matthew 12.14-21 15th am Praying around the Deaneries, St John, Shotley Saturday Thomas More, Scholar, 5th Sunday pm Presenting Archbishop’s Youth Trust Awards, and John Fisher, after Trinity Luke 10.38-end St Mary, Ponteland Bishop, Martyrs, 1535 Monday John 20.1-2, 11-18 17th am School Confirmation 3rd Sunday Tuesday Matthew 12.46-end 22nd Finance Synod Meeting after Trinity Luke 10.1-11, 16-20 Wednesday Matthew 13.1-9 23rd Impact Strand Oversight Group Monday Matthew 9.18-26 Thursday Matthew 20.20-28 Deanery Conversations Oversight Group Tuesday Matthew 9.32-end Friday Matthew 13.16-17 24-25th Diocesan Strategic Learning Community Wednesday Matthew 10.1-7 Saturday Matthew 13.24-30 Thursday Matthew 10.7-15 Sunday Luke 11.1-13 Friday Matthew 10.16-23 Monday John 12.1-8 Saturday Matthew 10.24-33 Tuesday Matthew 13.36-43 4th Sunday Trinity Luke 10.25-37 Wednesday Matthew 13.44-46 CONTACT US Monday Matthew 10.34-11.1 The Link, Church House, St John’s Terrace, North Shields. 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Please contact the Newcastle on 30th September 2019. Ellingham editor before submitting obituaries. The Revd Joanna Kathryn Porter, currently Assistant RETIREMENTS For advertising rates and deadlines see www.newcastle.anglican.org/link. Curate, Ashington, Holy Sepulchre, has been appointed The Revd Elizabeth Jane Scott, Priest in Charge, Copy date for August/September issue: Monday 15 July 2019. Assistant Curate, Cannings and Redhorn, Diocese of Whittingham and Edlingham with Bolton Chapel, will retire on 30th September 2019. growing church bringing hope 3 Pitching God’s tent in our wonderful rural schools This Saturday, I will be ordaining fifteen men and women as Deacons and Priests to serve in parishes OU could soon be seeing God’s Tent across our Diocese. This marks a significant moment pitched at a school near you! in their personal responses to God’s call on their The tent, best described as an eye- lives, and in our life together as a Diocese. catching mobile prayer space and a At the ordination, as we pray for those being newY way of doing church, has become a com- ordained, we are reminded in the liturgy that, ‘The mon sight in the west of Northumberland and Church is the Body of Christ, the people of God and the this month was tried out at three of our rural dwelling-place of the Holy Spirit. In baptism the whole schools. It is the first time the tent has been Church is summoned to witness to God’s love and to taken into schools and over three days, it work for the coming of his kingdom.’ Ordinations are pitched up at Church of England schools in not just about those being ordained, it is the about Henshaw, Newbrough and Greenhead. the whole Church. The tent is the brainchild of the Reverend We are all prompted, lay and ordained, to reflect Benjamin Carter, vicar of Haydon Bridge and on our own unique calling to join with God in the building of his Kingdom, and to think about what Beltingham with Henshaw. “God’s Tent is a next step we might need to take to live more fully new way of doing church which we’re explor- into this. Each one of us brings something special ing in our parishes by the Wall. We’ve been all to contribute to God’s mission to the world, and this over the place – Hadrian’s Wall, riverbanks, is nurtured through discipleship; being open to be we’ve done a baptism by the Tyne with the shaped by the life of Christ within us, and to share tent pitched by the river, in woodlands, all this Jesus shaped life with others. over the place. We pitch the tent once a month One of the greatest privileges of being a bishop in all kinds of places and explore the story of is to see how people across the whole Diocese God’s love for us in creative ways all around are responding in creative and courageous ways this fantastic landscape that we live in. to God’s call on their lives. Alongside excellent “This week, we’ve been working with a team ordained and Reader ministry, it is a delight to see from Prayer Spaces for Schools to find simple the work that the newly appointed Missioners are ways of exploring prayer with the children in doing in Denton and Newbiggin Hall/Cowgate, our schools running along the Tyne Valley at and to see Pioneer Ministry emerging in various Newbrough, Henshaw and at Greenhead.