Hearts THE BRIDGE on Fire The Diocese of Southwark

Newspaper of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark Vol.23 No.2 March 2018

Inside THE BRIDGE ‘Ashes-to-Go’ ...this month SouthwarkSSoutthhwark chchurcheshurrchheess hhititi tthehhe pavements on Ash Wednesday offering ‘Ashes-to-Go’ to commuters, shoppers - and bus drivers! Whilst across the Diocese last year’s Palm Crosses were burnt and Lent was ‘marked’ (literally) in church services - in the more built- up parishes clergy and laity took ashes out to the streets in a Lenten outreach. The Revd Ann In West Lewisham, for example, Gurney awarded Deanery churches teamed up to offer ashes at key locations - Forest Hill & Lancelot Honor Oak stations, Sydenham High Greenwich Andrewes medal - Street and the SavaCentre. page 2 The Revd Edd Stock described it as ‘a fab morning’... “A total of 55 people accepted ashing from the team and 170 prayer cards were Hither Green given out explaining Ash Wednesday and Lent”.

Cloud of ‘Doubt’ - Cathedral Lent Installation - page 5

Sydenham Honor Oak Croydon ... and on a no.12 bus in Walworth A Lenten journey to the land of the Celebrating lay leadership and lay ministry ‘living stones’ in Southwark On Monday 19 February, Jesus’ birth, life, death and Diocese - pages 84 pilgrims travelled resurrection - and meet the together from Heathrow to people of the Holy Land, the 6,7 & 8 Tel Aviv where they were ‘living stones’. For all of them, joined by one pilgrim who this Pilgrimage offers the PLUS had already travelled. They possibility of new insights into parish news are taking part in the 2018 their faith story and a chance and pictures Southwark Diocesan Holy to see things from a different Land Pilgrimage, led by Bishop and ever changing viewpoint. and Christopher and Dean Andrew. It is often said that those who They will visit sites of visit the Holy Land are never signifi cance in the story of the same again. Find out about where they went, what they saw - and their refl ections at Page11 https://southwarkpilgrimages.com

Follow the Diocesan Blog: ‘Hearts on Fire – sharing God’s Good News in Southwark Diocese’ - http://southwarkcofe.tumblr.com/ 2 THE BRIDGE... March 2018 A view from Lancelot THE BRIDGE Andrewes Medal for ‘invaluable Faith is simple and very part of the team’ The Revd Ann Gurney was Following her Ordination, complicated presented with the Lancelot she joined Holy Trinity Parish Being Christian and being a Andrewes medal by Bishop Church. The Very Revd Jeffrey Christian are not quite the same Christopher at a service in John, Dean of St Albans ,who thing. Jesus said love God and Holy Trinity Church, Eltham was Vicar at the time, recalls love your neighbour as yourself. in December. The service also “Bishop Roy phoned me up, So, Christianity for us marked her ‘retirement’ after and actually asked me, ‘Would subscribers should mean serving the parish as a priest you like a present?’ (meaning a conscious, careful way of for 24 years, working with Ann). After that I always saw treating other people, whoever three incumbents, all of whom Ann as a gift of God, and I they may be - and thus being found her ‘an invaluable part of was not wrong! Her centred, inspired by the power of the team’. focused, prayerful ministry was goodness that is God, which we In 1994 Ann Gurney was the perfect foil to the rather are often not able to recognise one of the fi rst women to be more neurotic (or chaotic) or be sure about. Goodness can ordained Priest in the Church approach of both Father be so complicated, barely discernible. Faith too is simple and of England. However, she had Graham Owen and me, so I felt very complicated. already served the Church for we made a good team”. lots of fond memories of you In his sermon at the service A really Christian deed is an action that all agree is forty years having been made Tribute was also paid in a and your wisdom, and given Bishop Christopher said, “Ann unusually, morally good, and often not easily performed. This a Deaconess in 1954. In that message from another former how much I learned from you, has served the Parish and sense of what ‘being Christian’ and Christianity are about is in time she served as a full time Vicar, now Bishop of Dunwich, I can only begin to imagine Congregation of Holy Trinity the language and all around us - shared even with the many Deaconess in Lewisham, as the Rt Revd Mike Harrison, how your ministry has been a for the better part of a quarter people who feel themselves atheists. This usually means they Warden of Berridge House who wrote: “You have given blessing to so many”. of a century, unfailingly cannot believe in the existence of God as the one eternal being College of Education, as fantastic service to Holy The Revd Brett Ward, humble and modest, steadfast in the life through which we so fl eetingly pass, though God is Principal of that same Gilmore Trinity and indeed to the wider Holy Trinity’s current Vicar and reliable. In the forty years no thing (as Rupert Shortt’s book says). House (in Clapham) where she Church over the course of said, “I’ve never ceased to after she was made Deaconess, Ann must, I feel sure, have Our creator’s understanding of peace and love, the herself had trained, and then as your ministry and it was a true appreciate her contribution looked forward in hope to the understanding we can fi nd in our core being, was the life of the Bishop of London’s Adviser blessing to have you as part as an encouraging colleague time when it would be possible Jesus who died and rose. The reality of that goodness and for Lay Ministry. of the ministry team. I have and a wise – and forthright – for her to follow her calling the nature of Jesus’s gospel teaching continue to resonate. sounding-board. Her presence to be a Priest. Yet that very Everybody surely believes in the extraordinary power of has been a source of insight, looking forward may perhaps goodness. So what sets church people and those who do not clarity and good sense, and it have added an urgency and do church apart? Christians following Jesus have no monopoly Professor will continue to be – this is not depth to the way she used the in their call to disciplehood. a eulogy! We’ve all consistently appreciated her thoughtful time between. The laity are the people, us. Clergy are called to service Solomon preaching, which is unfailingly “It was to honour just such of all. We laity are called to think our faith, feel our mutual insightful, well-constructed service, faithfully rendered over dependency, and try and recognise the hard truth of what and sound (and always many decades without thought loving neighbours means: our enemies, our friends. As Pratt A Service of Thanksgiving was containing something of her of earthly reward, that I had people we are no better able to rise to the challenge than the held at St Mark’s, Mitcham on sense of humour which is both the Lancelot Andrewes medal Israelites were in Old Testament times. But now we have the 13 January for the life of Prof. quirky and self-deprecating). struck and so it was right and model of Jesus and the saints. Solomon Pratt who died on 28 continued preaching until And beneath all of that, there is proper to confer it upon her”. Of course the good news is not all about activism. If we are December (days after his 97th Summer 2017. her warm and generous heart. gifted for leadership we will be called. We may serve what God birthday). His funeral took “Music was an important wants in every day in every way if we are able and have the place a week later at Freetown part of Solomon’s life, as an vision. But answering the call comes variously - also in silence Cathedral, Sierra Leone, where organist, choirmaster and and inaction. he was a Lay Canon. writer of Christmas Carols in OPPORTUNITIES Being able to pray, being able to follow, being able to The Revd Nigel Stone writes: Krio. He recently trained a understand are also part of a Christian’s being able. Jesus “Although Solomon was born new singing group at St Marks spoke of lost sheep, rejoiced over, of fl owers that did not spin in the Gambia, his home was to sing anthems including at St John the Bap st, Ca ord cloth, of a widow whose little gift was greatest because it was Sierra Leone. He served his our Confi rmation Service with all she had. We may take part or we may not. We are no army country as a lawyer, politician Bishop Richard on St Mark’s 353 Bromley Road, SE6 2RP mobilised. The paths to answer any call are many and narrow. and statesman including a Day 2017”. To be lost may be to fi nd oneself. brief period as Acting Prime seeks to appoint Tom Sutcliffe Minister. He had been a Reader a gi ed, enthusias c, and dedicated at St Marks since 1999 and Metalsmith Part-Time The APRIL edition is due and woodworker Conscientious and reliable, Parish Administrator to be printed on £10,000 gross p.a. two days per week 22 March Ian Marshall provides new THE BRIDGE and in your parish from work and maintenance for a (£25,000 gross p.a. pro rata) the following Sunday. number of churches. To join Closing date: 16th March 2018 is produced & published by Kent Christian Press Material for that edition his list of satisfi ed customers. Interviews: 19th March 2018 for Communications and Resources on behalf of must be with Wendy S. Call: 020 8850 7851 or 077 Start date: 1st May 2018 or by nego a on. 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March 2018 3 Students ask; ‘What makes a good city?’

Senior church leaders gather in South London Senior church leaders joining together to pray, Bishop Christopher refl ect, discuss and eat together Revd Alison Trethewy gathered at Southwark at a time when unity and PLWMI Bishop’s Chaplain, On a cold and rainy day at the Battersea to the Barrier, which from the Blitz; and the 2017 Cathedral on 23 partnership, is crucial for our Roger and Faith Forster, end of January, a group of 26 focuses on the question, ‘What attack on Borough Market and city and world”. January to mark the Ichthus Christian Fellowship Year 8 students met up with makes a good city?’ London Bridge. The students Photo (left-right): Week of Prayer for Revd Nicola Furley-Smith, a team from the Diocese at At News UK we attended a learned that it’s important to Christian Unity. They Bishop Paul Hendricks, Roman United Reformed Church the News UK building, near learning session about fake keep telling our city’s stories, Catholic Bishop of Southwark. Moderator, Southern Synod. London Bridge. news, and why it’s important because they help us to learn met at the invitation of Revd Phil Barnard, Baptist CTSL represents over 50 for reporters to check their from the past and build Churches Together in Association Team Leader, local ecumenical networks Laura Tuhou writes facts and sources. The students resilience for the future. South London (CTSL). Archimandrite Christodoulos across 10 London boroughs also got some hands-on The visit to Southwark Persopoulos, Greek Orthodox south of the River Thames, The students, from three Bishop Christopher invited experience investigating and Cathedral and News UK was Cathedral, Camberwell and is one of 49 intermediary C of E schools – St Martin- the leaders to share plans reporting local news - they the third in a series of six bodies around the country for in-the-Fields, Tulse Hill; St for 2018 and many common Archbishop Angaelos, Coptic were tasked with writing and events throughout the school Churches Together in England. Mary Magdalene, Greenwich areas emerged, including Orthodox Archbishop of London presenting a 90-second bulletin year, each with a different Peninsula; and St Saviour’s and CTSL’s upcoming Forum on Claire Crowley You can fi nd your nearest about top stories they’d theme. Previous days included St Olave’s, Elephant & Castle 22 March at Livability in North Revd Dr Jongikaya Zihle, Chair local network on www. researched using newspapers visits to Battersea Power - are taking part in this year’s Greenwich, which will take Methodist London District ctslondon.org.uk and their mobile phones. Station (looking at real estate Diocesan schools initiative, development), St John’s forward initiatives to tackle Bishop Dr Donnett Thomas Following a very windswept Waterloo and the Southbank knife crime in the capital. Power of the Living Word dash across the road and a Centre (learning about art in CTSL’s, Claire Crowley Ministries International (PLWMI) break for lunch, we were treated to a guided tour of the digital age and community- said, “It is a powerful witness Bishop Moses Owusu-Sekyere, with building through theatre arts). to fellowship between Apostolic Pastoral Congress the Dean and his colleagues. 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chaired the DAC for the past fi ve years, and to the Revd ‘All Change’ Canon Dr John Thewlis, who has been an adviser for 26 years. Warm tributes were paid to them both. on the DAC Left to right are: Bishop Christopher its February meeting New Chair of the DAC, Philip Fletcher and other guests to welcome Philip Former Chair of the DAC, Paul joined members of Fletcher as the new Parkinson the Diocesan Advisory DAC Chair. The Revd Canon Dr John Committee at a Presentations were made Thewlis, retiring as DAC to Paul Parkinson, who has Adviser after 26 years special lunch before and (far left) Bishop Christopher and the Chancellor of the Diocese, Philip Petchey

St John’s marks 25th anniversary of restoration Sheltered accommodation available at St John’s, Dormansland, A replacement pipe organ The anniversary concert, the Whitgift Almshouses - Croydon marked the 25th Anniversary was considered prohibitively entitled ‘The Power and of the restoration of the church expensive, and exceeded the Pizazz of the Organ’, was led following a devastating fi re, insurance cover. However, by internationally renowned with a weekend of celebrations thanks to the expertise of organist and bass baritone Are you: on 27-28 January 2018. church member and organist Laurence Williams, a former It included an exhibition Richard Williams, the organist and choir master at St Over 60 and in need of accommodation to live of pictures, artefacts and restoration team were put in John’s, supported by his father independently but with 24hr on-call support? reminiscences from the fi re touch with Ernest Copeman Richard Williams and a chorus Hart, who built ‘the Rolls- of professional singers and and restoration, a concert Looking to be part of a thriving and inclusive centred on the church’s new Royce of electronic organs’ at musicians (photo below). organ (installed following vastly cheaper cost. community? the fi re), and a Service of Thanksgiving. A communicant member of the Church of The fi re took place on 26 England and presently live in the parishes of October 1990, destroying the original pipe organ, stained Croydon, Lambeth or the county of Kent? glass windows and chancel If yes, then the Whitgift Almshouses, North End, can offer you a roof, leaving it open to the haven of tranquillity and security where self-contained flats are elements. Firemen knocked a hole in the nave roof to prevent clustered around a beautiful quadrangle. Residents have access further damage. to their own Chapel, Common Room, fully equipped laundry and a weekly programme of social activities. The restoration project included replacing what Interested? was lost, casting a new fl oor Call us on 020 8256 1596 slab, fi tting a damp course, Proud to be part of constructing a dais, installing Email [email protected] a new organ and vestry, and Visit whitgiftcare.co.uk conserving water-damaged Whitgift Almshouses, North End, Croydon, CR9 1SS fabrics and documents. 6 THE BRIDGE... March 2018 Celebrating lay leaders lay ministry in Southwa

How is God calling us Whole-life to live as disciples in discipleship the whole of our lives? But living as a disciple of Jesus That is the question – at work, at the school gates, in the community – takes being asked by a new confi dence. Part of the advisory advisory group set up group’s work is to discover the to explore how best the best ways of supporting people in living out their faith on the Diocese can support front line. It will report on this and encourage those in to Diocesan Synod in July, with the Church who are not a view to trialling various ideas and recommendations. ordained. Sharing best practice is One of Bishop Christopher’s already emerging as a theme. key priorities, as set out in Adam West, one of the lay Strategy for Ministry, is to champions working on the empower the laity at every level project, whose church, Holy of Diocesan life, and the Lay Trinity and St Matthias in Tulse Leadership and Lay Ministry Hill, runs many community Croydon Refugee Day Centre Andrea Campanale & Sacred Space Advisory Group (LL&LMAG) projects including his own recent arrivals are housed while is central to taking this work men’s group, believes that they wait to hear the outcome forward. communication is key. of their asylum applications. “This is about culture He describes how a member The diffi culty at fi rst was change,” says group chair Anne of his congregation set up a fi nding somewhere to hold it. Deering. group for people who were The families were struggling “We’re talking about a huge socially excluded: “It started to get their hands on the shift in focus, from inside the small and it’s been going for three things they needed to ‘gathered’ church to out in the fi ve or six years now. But it does travel: buggies, warm coats world in the ‘sent’ church, in need encouragement. I guess and Oystercards. But Rosie our Monday-to-Saturday lives. that’s what having the pilot worked on her relationship with And this change needs to be parishes is about: fi nding out the hotel manager and had a embedded in everything we do.” how we got to where we are, breakthrough. “They decided to The fi rst stage of that shift and how we can help others let us meet there in the hotel is well under way. Since the to do that. And I’m sure there itself. There’s no communal end of last year, the LL&LMAG are things happening in other space that we can hire, but on the fi rst friendly face they’ve has been working with 20 churches that we could learn their good will we can go in the seen since they arrived.” pilot parishes to assess where from as well.” dining room.” Work on the fringes of the the Diocese already stands in He also stresses the need Now the group meets to do church can come in many terms of lay leadership and lay for lay people to be given the pass through the hospital’s Clapham once a term but says maths and English, and to play forms. Andrea Campanale is ministry, gathering good news freedom to step up to leadership doors each year. Rosy Skinner, that she feels more called to games and do jigsaws. “They lay pioneer leader of the Sacred stories and information on what roles because, “actually, that’s at 81, is the longest serving minister from the pews than the love jigsaws,” says Rosie. “I had Space community in Kingston, is currently working well. what we’re called to. We’re chaplain there, having started pulpit. “I fi nd that lay leadership an 18-year-old Eritrean boy a core community of about 12 The hope of the LL&LMAG called to do the stuff Jesus in the mid-1990s alongside one is really important to me, the other day who said, ‘Please, people who seek to fi nd new is to fi nd ways to show that would do if he were here full-time chaplain and one other because my father was a priest, please can I do this Thomas ways of being Good News in the people’s service in the “sent” in physical form. It’s what volunteer. my brother was a priest. I just the Tank Engine jigsaw,’ just community. church is just as valuable as Christian worship should be These days, she visits patients feel that I can do far more being because he was intrigued – he’d Sacred Space have set up more church-based activities. about, doing those things that in a rehabilitation centre in a part of the congregation and never met one before.” stalls at Kingston University In the words of the Revd need doing.” Brixton, most of whom are talking to people. I’ve always Rosie and her fellow freshers’ fairs, helping students Canon Leanne Roberts, Director Out in the world elderly people who have had wanted to do ministry out in the volunteers provide a service that to think about their wellbeing of Vocations and another falls or strokes. She offers to world.” is badly needed but, she says, in terms of body, mind and member of the advisory group, Hundreds of people in the pray with them if they wish, In a hotel in South Croydon, they get just as much out of it. spirit. They visit steam punk “the aim is to re-energise the Diocese are already getting on or just keeps them company, meanwhile, Rosie Edser spends “Sometimes they hear a siren fairs several times a year, where whole people of God in the with just that. Over at Guy’s and sometimes fi nds herself every Wednesday running a and they immediately fl inch and they seek to build relationships Diocese, to make them realise and St Thomas’, for example, comforting friends and relatives school for between nine and start cringing, thinking that and offer to pray with people. that they are called, that they scores of chaplains and pastoral who can be distressed by the 10 refugee children under there’s about to be shooting. They also attend New Age are valued, and that they have a assistants offer support to the changes in their loved ones. the umbrella of the Croydon And it’s kind of a privilege to go, fairs, which is where Andrea’s life of discipleship”. 15,000-plus staff, as well as Refugee Day Centre. The hotel ‘Welcome to England, you’re calling began, when she fi rst thousands of the patients who Rosy is trained as a Reader and preaches at Holy Trinity is one of two in the area where safe.’ Most of the time you’re became aware of an interest

Against Poverty project, one as CV writing or interview who had suffered abuse and Jean Grima of the organsiation’s 156 such skills, and then everyone sits was trying to put her life back clubs across the UK. CAP down to a meal. Jean says: “I together again, said: “Thank and Lotwina provided the training and Jean think that’s one of the unique you for bringing joy and Farodoye: made the contacts, persuading selling points of CAP: we offer laughter and nice company the landlord at the Roundshaw friendship and emotional into my life.” Springfi eld estate to give Springfi eld free support as well as helping And it is not just the job use of its community hall once people with various skills.” club participants who are Job Club a week. Lotwina adds: “Some of the empowered. Springfi eld is Now in its second quarter, Lotwina says: “I had always people who come to job club, “an enabling church”, says the Springfi eld Job Club has wanted to set up a job club, they’re so broken in terms Lotwina. She and Jean were already helped two people into so when a year ago Jean of their self-esteem that it’s encouraged to take their employment and provided mentioned this CAP job club heart-breaking. Just having a idea and run with it. “This fellowship for dozens more that she wanted to start my chat, having a meal and people is all lay-led,” adds Jean. on the Roundshaw estate in heart just rejoiced.” to befriend them, can really “We don’t have any clergy Sutton. The format is simple: each uplift their spirits.” input at all except for their Led by Jean and Lotwina, week, Jean or Lotwina tutor And it seems to work. One encouragement and support. the job club is a Christians on a different subject, such of the previous participants, It’s the Springfi eld way.” THE BRIDGE... March 2018 7 ship and ark Diocese

in spirituality that was in “It’s been a baptism of fi re,” “I think there’s something the culture and felt that this says Meg. “I’ve lost about quite community-like about might be a way of engaging two stone. But the benefi ts of the way we work. We have a people in conversations about what you get from this as an Christians Against Poverty Christianity. individual and a group are just ministry and we work the local Being outside the mainstream fantastic.” food bank and we run a Robes can sometimes be challenging, Her work in the community project. There’s a sense of but whether you are in a more is key for Caroline Levitt, too. familiarity, perhaps.” traditional or a fresh expression One of the Diocese’s 50 Over in Woolwich, That help can take all kinds they were able to spend time of church, employed children’s and youth meanwhile, volunteers from John of forms – it may be offering with her and minister to her Andrea says, “we’re all on the workers, she works part-time at Christ Church Greenwich to pray for someone, giving and make a difference to her same side and we want the same St Mark’s, Kennington. Much staff the Winter Night Shelter Goddard: out details of homeless drop-in that night.” one night a week. Charles thing”. of her work is outward-facing, Merton services to people sleeping John’s journey into Street such as encouraging children at Medhurst, now 92 and a lifelong rough, or helping a drunk A new use of church member of Christ Church, has Pastors wasn’t straightforward. the local church school to come reveller to get home. He tried to explore his Traditional churches are been volunteering there for Street up with prayer ideas – one of “It might be that we talk to vocation within the Church also being used in a new way several years. “We get to the the most recent was to give out Pastors someone for a long time about of England but wasn’t around the Diocese, revitalising church at about 6pm and we prayer party bags at the school John has been coordinating a problem,” says John. “Or it recommended to train as a the space between services. infl ate all the mattresses and fair. the work of Merton Street might be that we fi nd ladies priest at a Bishop’s Advisory One such project, the Home put duvet covers on the duvets, “We put out a sweet, a Pastors since 2010, looking walking barefoot at the end Panel. However, he says, “I still Community Café, is run by Meg which is a job in itself. We set memory verse and a small after the volunteers and of the night and give them fl ip- felt God pushing me, or asking Fry in St Andrew’s Earlsfi eld. out the chairs so they’ve all got toy and we suggested a way of patrolling the streets of a little cubicle, and during the fl ops – sometimes we’re called me, to walk in the direction of Meg conceived the idea about thinking about that toy and that Mitcham, Wimbledon and the fl ip-fl op angels.” ministry in some form.” three years ago and was looking evening they’re served dinner, sweet in relation to a prayer Morden alongside them on The one thing to remember, He continued writing for a retail unit that would and anybody who wants a based on the verse.” Friday nights from 10pm to he says, is that God is at work computer programs for a be big enough to run a going shower can go and have one.” She feels that St Mark’s place 3am. through this. “One of our living, but a year later he got concern but couldn’t fi nd one The volunteers work in at the heart of the community The aim of Street Pastors is teams got chatting to a lady the role with Street Pastors. cheap enough. shifts – 6pm to 10pm, overnight further helps to boost the to care, to listen and to help, and from 6am, when they in Morden and she sent me a “I really feel a calling to help Eventually, she was church’s popularity among he says. “We often fi nd it’s cook breakfast. Over the message later saying she had the church work in unity and approached to use St Andrew’s. parents – sometimes up to 35 not about what we’re trying three months they build up been positively impacted by it, to transform the community,” Initially she was uncertain – “I or 40 children attend Sunday to say, it’s about listening to relationships with the people and she was going to bed with John says. “It’s really easy wanted the café to be open to services. that person and asking how staying, who tend to come peace in her heart and a smile to see God’s hand at work everyone in the community, “There’s a farmer’s market their life is going and fi nding on her face. and I wondered if it being in regularly unless they are in drawing me out of the that happens in our churchyard out what their situation is and “She’d shared some of her a church might put people rehoused. computer world.” every Saturday, so we run then helping if we can.” troubles with the team and off” – but soon she began to see Messy Church partly within When he’s not at the night the huge benefi ts and the café that. When the weather’s warm shelter, Charles lends a hand opened four months ago. we do something outside, and wherever he’s needed. “I’ve been Leadership in action of taking on new challenges. preach. “People say, ‘Oh, you “I thought, what would it the vicar always stands outside doing the fl ower arranging for She has worked with children’s sound really confi dent.’ Well, look like to put the space right whether it’s cold or not, and many years because nobody else Karen Waple, from Christ groups, been on the PCC no, I’m not at all. I am very at the heart of the community? then people are invited in off was doing it. Most of the jobs I Church South Nutfi eld and and is now the pastoral team nervous,” she says, “but it’s a Churches are often the biggest the back of that. do are like that. Until last year I another lay champion, has also coordinator. But one of her good thing to get involved in. structures in our communities, ran the FairTrade stall too.” experienced the positive benefi ts biggest tests is getting up to It makes you feel part of the but they can be underutilised.” community.” Now, the café runs six days Home Community Cafe at St Andrew’s Church, Earlsfi eld Plus, she says, it has inspired a week and is popular with others: “A couple of people mums, older people and anyone have said to me when I’ve led a needing a chat. service, ‘Well, if you can do it I Home is already putting on can do it’.” a number of events designed to Clearly, leadership doesn’t draw in the local community, necessarily look the way you from a subsidised craft club for expect it to, as Busola Ade Ojo children to “Beer and Carols” of St John’s Deptford discovered at Christmas. There is also a when she took part in the “pay-it-forward” supper club, Whole Life Worship series. where the cost of your dinner St John’s has a very active goes towards a free meal for a congregation – the church’s refugee or someone using a food mission statement is “everyone bank. a worshipper, everyone a minister and everyone a missionary”. Even so, Busola and her fellow students found it eye-opening when the leader of the training put up photographs of the people with a role at St John’s and asked whether or not they saw them as ministers too. “It just gave us a greater understanding of what worshipping God is,” she says. “We don’t see the people that work in the church as ministers normally, you just think it’s the reverend who is. But every single person who plays a part in that church is a minister.” CONTINUES OVERLEAF 8 THE BRIDGE... March 2018 Celebrating lay leadership and lay ministry in Southwark Diocese... continued

The discipleship course, workplace.” Fruitfulness Building on ministry Fruitfulness on the Frontline, on the Frontline gave Lis a gave Lis Vernon, of St Paul’s practical place to start living In addition to discipleship Kingston, a renewed sense of out her faith in the workplace. and leadership, lay ministry is also under the spotlight, how her faith could support For Ruth Ruse, also at St with the Diocese planning her in the workplace. She Paul’s, it came as she was to signifi cantly increase and is part of the directorate for deciding what to do in her diversify the current range of student services at Kingston retirement. She now works licensed and commissioned University, and her job is to with one of the church’s ministries on offer, and to support students with money four mother-toddler groups affi rm and celebrate the variety and debt issues. and is also involved with of ministries that are already in At the time the university the church school, reading existence. was going through far-reaching one-to-one with children and Captain changes in the organisational accompanying the Year 6s on It’s about continuing to Nicholas structure and morale was very visits to a school for severely value the Readers, SPAs and low. Lis was feeling drained, disabled pupils. Church Army evangelists that the Diocese already has and Lebey: until one of the sessions really “There’s a strapline from extending that recognition to struck a chord: “One of the Fruitfulness on the Frontline, Thamesmead others, showing that everyone’s things that struck me was the ‘Make a difference wherever and a summer camp at Soul confi dence, like the woman work for the Kingdom is reference to the tree planted you are’,” says Ruth. “I think youth work Survivor. who began as the treasurer equally important, whether by the river from Psalm 1. for me that was the particular The work isn’t always but was eventually persuaded they are clergy or youth Nicholas was commissioned It didn’t wither but it bore challenge: I don’t just have easy. Thamesmead is a poor to volunteer on Friday night workers, street pastors or as a Church Army evangelist fruit, while God’s people to be sharing the Gospel in a area with problems of social “and has been there ever pioneers. in 2013 and is now in produced only sour grapes. more specifi c way. I can be a deprivation, poverty and since. She realised that with In the words of the Diocesan full-time ministry as a I was reminded that being Christian and show my faith pioneer youth evangelist in drug-dealing. “We’ve seen a bit of encouragement and fruitful was all about abiding in all sorts of ways, and that’s Director of Vocations, “We [problems] increase in terms support she can do it.” want to work out the best way Thamesmead. With his team in the vine, and I wondered what I’m trying to do in the of 12 volunteers, he runs of the young people being led And, of course, there is the how I could bear fruit in my context in which I volunteer.” of discerning and enabling lay into the drugs thing,” says joy when young people in ministries to fl ourish so that several youth groups a week, each with different themes. Nicholas. “And we’ve also seen his charge come to God. Last everyone can fulfi l their God- a number of young people summer, three young people The centre opens every given potential and calling, and Friday night is an activity- based youth club with a dropping out of mainstream came to faith. “I asked the Cath Tuesday, offering tea, coffee, become the person they were education.” He’d like to do team vicar, Jonathan Macy, companionship and a created to be.” “God slot” to share a thought Mitchenall for the day or testimony more for young people aged to baptise them and it was a meal. In addition, a trained One of this invisible army 18-plus, but time and money lovely service because their member of the congregation of volunteers is Rosemary on coming to faith. They and Pauline have also recently launched are both tight. families were there. It was a can provide benefi ts advice Hill, Reader at St John with But there are positives, too wonderful service.” and help people with appeals St Andrew, Peckham. She Tuesday Chill, a youth café Simpson: – for example, the dedication Photo: Bishop Christopher, and form-fi lling. has been a mainstay of the and prayer room, “so it of his volunteers: “Some of with Nick and some of Church for 20 years, operating will have a bit of social and Open Door The majority of the them come on Friday night the young people at an as PCC Secretary, running an spiritual dimension,” says regulars are single men over straight from work to the event celebrating the 50th drop-in ecumenical discussion group Nicholas. 50, says Cath. youth club to volunteer Anniversary of William and more. In addition, they have a centre “We’ve found that there are family and youth church, before going home, so that’s Temple Church building a lot of single guys out there It stems from her family Four years ago, Cath, Pauline and hold youth church away a huge, huge commitment – the building used for who are just a bit socially history of service, she says: and the other members of weekends in West Sussex on their part,” says Nicholas. the Sunday night youth excluded, perhaps with “My father was a churchwarden the Christ Church Gipsy He has watched them grow in Church. mental health or substance and local councillor and Hill Community Action abuse problems, quite lonely would bend over backwards Group canvassed the local and a bit lost.” to make things right for other children and youth group set a while to fi nd her vocation, whether that is in a traditional community to fi nd the areas up by Diocesan consultant and applied for the role only lay role or forging a new path Open Door offers them a people. And we would joke that of greatest need. Social whenever anyone had trouble Hugh Ridsdill-Smith. “I think at the fourth time of asking. in the community. isolation, debt and fi nancial space to chat, to play table it has been a really helpful “I just woke up and I felt like tennis and sometimes to pray in our village, my mother As Diocesan Secretary Ruth diffi culties topped the list, would take Marigolds (rubber network,” she says. “People say God was saying, ‘if they haven’t Martin concludes: “Minute and so the Open Door drop-in – “we build up relationships they value talking about what’s found anyone, actually you’re with people,” says Cath, “so gloves) and go and cook, clean by minute, day by day, we are centre was born. or look after.” working well or the challenges meant to be doing this.’” all called to what it means to you tell if someone’s got they’re facing, and chatting it something that’s particularly Even so, it took her years to The hope of the advisory be a Christian, which isn’t fi nd her vocation as a Reader: through with others who are group is that, ultimately, always easy. Lay leadership is troubling them, and there going through similar things.” have been opportunities to “I’m a bit like Jonah. I ran away everyone in the Diocese will be not about who does what in pray with people”. from it for donkeys’ years.” It Like Rosemary, Rachel took able to fi nd how they are called, church, it’s about whole-life discipleship.” Primarily, though, it’s wasn’t until she had left her job a place to give practical in adult education and joined The Lay Leadership help, and, as Pauline says, the Children’s Society that she and Lay Ministry “It meets a need within the realised where God might be community, and is clearly leading her. “You can almost Advisory Group will something that’s valued by see that I fell into it, really. I report to the Diocesan the people who come.” think I fell in the water and I got thrown up by the whale.” Synod in July. Since being licensed, If you have been Rosemary has valued the inspired by any of ongoing support of her vicar and a mentoring scheme she these stories to took part in several years ago. take part in the “I think that is very useful,” consultation or she says, “having someone to go to perhaps every 18 months, volunteer to undertake to say, ‘Well, this is what I’m a pilot study, or if doing. What more can I do, or you simply want to what less can I do?’ Because I think that’s one of the issues share your views, – actually knowing when to do contact the advisory less, so you can try to empower group through Charles others to take over the roles you’ve been doing.” Hudson-Beddows, Children and families worker Assistant Secretary to Rachel Gardner (right) also the Diocesan Synod, values the external support she gets. She is employed by at charles.hudson- St Peter’s Woodmansterne and beddows@southwark. is part of the Reigate Deanery anglican.org THE BRIDGE... March 2018 9 making Christ known; that faithfulness enduring in Lay Champions St Augustine’s College Timothy and in those he, in turn, inspired. A humble witness that doesn’t seek reception celebrates its students acclaim for itself but for the Southwark Cathedral provided Andrew Nunn quoted Paul’s mother Eunice and now, I am working of God’s love”. This The event was also an ideal the backdrop for St Augustine’s second letter to Timothy,’I am sure, lives in you.’ was the ministry the Dean Lay Champions from prayed the students would opportunity to hear what College of Theology’s reminded of your sincere faith, “We know nothing about all pilot parishes were emulate. practical activities are taking Celebration of Awards. In a faith that fi rst lived in your these women, save their names invited to a recent place across the churches of his sermon, the Very Revd grandmother Lois and your and the part they played in During the service, students reception at Bishop’s the Diocese as well as to share - lay readers, independent students, ordinands and House as a ‘thank you’ ideas for future actions. In his address, Bishop curates - were presented by for their involvement Christopher highlighted the Revd Dr Simon Stocks and in the project and the importance of the lay given certifi cates by the Revd Dr Alan Gregory, Principal of an opportunity for champions, and praised the ‘fantastic lay leadership in all St Augustine’s. Lay Champions from our co mmunities’ - noting If you are interested different parishes to that our work needs to be ‘led in theological study, St get to know each other. by the spirit’ and that ‘Christ is Augustine’s offers courses from the one who calls’. Certifi cate level up to Master’s Degree at Southwark and West Malling.There are also short courses and workshops, open to everyone. Details are available from 01732 252656 www.staugustinescollege.ac.uk.

She has run for various charities including Christian Sue Atkinson to run Aid, but most of her sponsorship has been for her 10th Marathon NSPCC. Sue has a passionate concern for ChildLine - the Sue Atkinson, Bishop Two years ago Sue phone service set up by Dame ‘celebrated’ her 70th Esther Rantzen to help and David’s wife, will be birthday by running the support abused children. running her tenth 100k (63 miles) Thames If you would like to support marathon on 22 April Path Challenge, from Putney Sue in what is likely to be Bridge to Henley on Thames her last marathon (given the – in London. to raise money for MacMillan punishment she has been She has taken part in the Cancer Care. giving her knees!), please go London Marathon before She was joined by her to https://www.justgiving. several times, and also son-in-law for the second half com/fundraising/sue- Edinburgh and North Kent. (photo right). atkinson3 10 THE BRIDGE... March 2018

year and one that we But in fact this was the Perhaps it was for When life is at its darkest have been keeping as a beginning of the end and Jesus, it certainly was for remember the dawn is just nation and as a Diocese things would change. the disciples and as we below the horizon. for the last four years, the Back in 1650 the writer, remember the events of Jesus, dawn into our Let centenary of the end of Thomas Fuller, said ‘It is Holy Week at the end of darkness, the First World War. this month we go through always darkest just before illuminate our lives But in March 1918 the the Day dawneth.’ That the darkness with them. war was not over and is the inspiration behind That is why the church with light, hope and us peace, battles were still being the title of the recently has always gathered in fought. The month of released fi lm about a later Vigil on Easter morning, with life that never March saw what are wartime leader, Winston before the dawn breaks, ends and pray known as the Spring Churchill, ‘The Darkest in that darkest moment, which the darkness Offensives and the German Hour’. to see the light victorious cannot overcome. March army making some It could be true in war- over the darkness. Amen. signifi cant gains. torn France, it could be Last month I It must have seemed as if true for Churchill, it can be mentioned the biggest The Very Revd Andrew Nunn, all was being lost as far as true for us – ‘It is always commemoration of this the Allies were concerned. darkest before the dawn’. Please follow me on Twitter as I off er a prayer each morning so that you can join me in Morning Prayer. Go to @deansouthwark

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Yet for many years after performance in the UK using soloists and instrumentalists; is not connected with Bach’s death, it was neglected, baroque instruments. there is also the essential USPG Project for Seniors until Felix Mendelssohn The specialist players helped element of audience and Life-long Ministry resurrected it in 1828. recreate the sounds for which participation, through the John Neilson, (PSALM), which might Bach was composing. singing of the chorales, many Secretary of Imperial have been suggested Martin Neary writes These are the sounds we of which have become familiar College London, will be the next Chair of the by the description of shall be hearing at St Michael to English congregations. the author, St Leonard’s I fi rst fell under the spell and All Angels on Sunday, 11 The outstanding team Trustees of USPG; United Society Partners in churchwarden Ann of the St Matthew Passion March, when, as part of the of soloists will be led by the Gospel. 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BARNES - Bach’s St Lunchtime Concerts at Matthew Passion at Croydon Minster St Michael’s Church Fridays at 1.10pm at 6 pm. The English 2 Michelle Candotti Chamber Singers, (Piano) soloists and the St 9 Alexa Campiglia Michael’s Choir will be (Cello), Ezgi Sarikciog accompanied by period (Violin), Daniel Ruizhur instrumentalists. At Please send details of your events (Piano) 7.15 there will be a 45 minute interval (bring 16 Students from for APRIL ONWARDS to Trinity House simple picnic). Tickets: Whitgift School BY MONDAY 12 MARCH £40, £30 reserved, £20, #LiveLent - Let Your Light Shine takes you on a six 23 Monasterium – new £15 unreserved from week discipleship journey through the Gospel of John, young professional vocal exploring what it means to be a witness. ✝ HACKBRIDGE - Taizé the barnesmusicfestival. For each day there is a short reading, a pause for Ongoing at All Saints at 7pm First ensemble com Free event - donations refl ection and prayer, and an idea for a simple action Sunday every month Wed 14 March that will enable the light of Jesus to shine through our ✽ BEDDINGTON - Quiet requested. ✽ KEW - Homemade everyday lives. @St Mary’s - 3rd Thursday ST PANCRAS - ‘Will cakes and teas 3-5pm each month 11am - 2pm. you still need me, • You can receive the daily refl ections by texting Lent on Sundays at St Anne’s Saturday 3 March Various tools for quiet will you still feed to 88802 or following #LiveLent on Twitter, Facebook Church. including labyrinth CROYDON - Come and me – when I’m 84?’ and Instagram, where they are posted daily. Suspended - until May Sing Handel’s Four • A 112p full-colour printed book #LiveLent: Let Your ✽ BOROUGH – St George Lecture by Ven Chris (building works) Coronation Anthems. Light Shine is available from Church House Publishing the Martyr Community Skilton (Archdeacon of ✽ WARLINGHAM – Choral workshop and (www.chpublishing.co.uk/features/live-lent) at £2.99 Cafe and TimeBank every Croydon), and discussion Water Aid lunches in St informal evening Thursday 2pm to 4.30 pm. on re-imagining the www.churchofengland.org/lent Ambrose Church Hall, performance at St Meet people, get advice, churches’ provision for 12-1pm fi rst Wednesday Matthew’s Church help one another older members. 5 pm ✝ with the Croydon Bach ✝ Friday 30 March ✽ ZIMBABWE ANGLICAN at St Pancras Church, EAST DULWICH - ELTHAM - Sing with Choir. 10am until 6pm. Sung Evensong, led COMMUNITY at St Mary, Euston Road. Details ✝ BETCHWORTH - Good an orchestra. Hymns, light Pre-registration and by the Choir, at St Newington – Shona Mass, from Ann at psalm@ Friday Readings and classics, popular standards payment is essential John’s Church, 6.00pm Second Sunday of month stpancraschurch.org Music for Passiontide 3pm last Sunday each at http://www. followed by a short at 2pm. Mothers’ Union Saturday 17 March 8pm at St Michael’s month (not Aug or Dec.) croydonbachchoir.org/ organ recital by Andrew last Saturday 2pm Church Eltham Pk Methodist Ch. events/ BIRMINGHAM – USPG Chadney, (St Stephen’s, Tuesday 6 March Conference - Rethinking Norbury). All welcome. Saturday 31 March Mission: Living in a  OXTED - Fauré ✽ Lunchtime Music at KEW - ‘Climate Change SELSDON - Messy Easter Religiously Diverse “Requiem” performed March St Matthew’s, Redhill and A Faithful Session from 10am- World 9.30am – 3pm, by Oxted and Limpsfi eld Thursdays at 1.10 pm Christian Response’ a 12noon at St John’s Birmingham Cathedral. Choral Society, 7pm at Thinking about the 1 Recital - Theresa Yu conversation between Church Hall. Inc light £10 (concs £5) inc. Oxted URC snack for the children Christian Faith: (Piano) Bp & lunch. Registration: Lent talks in the South 8 Recital - Hannah Fr Nicholas King, SJ http://bit.ly/2FWATs3 Wednesday 21 March Hever (Carinet) w Javier (Churches Together Croydon Benefi ce SOUTHWARK WESTMINSTER - April Morillas (Viola) & Tereza in Kew event) at CATHEDRAL - Verdi Westminster Cathedral Thursday evenings Stachova (Piano) The Barn Church, Wednesday 18 April at 7.30 pm Requiem sung by Interfaith Group 4 to 15 River City Saxes - Atwood Avenue. at St Augustine’s Church. Eltham Choral Society, 5 pm in the Hinsley WESTMINSTER - “Four Centuries for Four 7.45pm - 9.15pm Admission free; tea and West Barnes Singers Room, Morpeth Terrace. Westminster Cathedral Saxes” coffee served from 7pm Wednesday 7 March and Wimbledon Youth Discussion of Amoris Interfaith Group 22 Chalumeaux Clarinet Choir with orchestra laetitia - Pope Francis’s 1 March; What worship CATERHAM - Munch 4 to 5 pm in the Hinsley Quartet and soloists. 7.30pm. encyclical on the family means to me - The Very with Music at St John’s Room, Morpeth Terrace. Free, a donation of £3 Tickets: £20, £15, £12 Revd Andrew Nunn Church, Caterham Friday 23 March - Dr Helen Costigane per person to cover costs Valley. Trinity Laban & £10. From www. & Sunday 25 March (Heythrop College) 8 March; Why I is welcome. elthamchoral.org.uk, share Good News – Chamber Musicians WATERLOO - Verdi’s Thursday 19 April Friday 2 March www.westbarnessingers. Bishop Karowei (Piano, Violin and Luisa Miller sung by ‘Cello). Admission Free co.uk or on the door. CHELSEA - Getting 15 March; Why I read the ✝ NEW CROSS - Women’s MIdsummer Opera - Donations welcome. NEW CROSS - Elgar: The ready for the Spirit: Bible - The Venerable World Day of Prayer soloists, chorus and Tea/Coffee from 12:15. Dream of Gerontius Making the most of Chris Skilton Service 7.30pm, St orchestra at St John’s performance 12:45 - presented by Lewisham liturgy from Ascension James’ Church. ‘All Church. Friday at 7pm 22 March; Why I pray – 1:30pm. Bring your own Choral Society. 7:30 to Pentecost, including God’s Creation is Very and Sunday at 5pm. Bishop Christopher ‘Munch’ pm in Goldsmiths Great the opportunities Good!’ - service from Tickets: Friday £27 & Hall. Info from www. of “Thy Kingdom Suriname Saturday 10 March £25 (concs); Sunday £27. lewishamchoralsociety. Come”. PRAXIS day Children £10. Advanced  REIGATE – ‘Musical org.uk 10.30am - 3.30pm at St booking 020 7652 0070 Luke’s Church, Sydney Refl ections’ by the ✽ SANDERSTEAD - or wegottickets.com Street W3. The cost Triduum Services Reigate and Redhill Exhibition and Sale of Saturday 24 March £20; £15 for affi liate Choral Society. 7.30pm Pictures by Local Artists at St Michael’s Croydon members. No charge at St Mary’s Church in aid of the Children’s CROYDON – Croydon for ordinands, readers Maundy Thursday Society. 10am – 4.30pm Sunday 11 March Bach Choir Spring or others in training. 8pm Mass of the Last Supper and URC Hall, Sanderstead Concert at St Mary Details from: http://  DULWICH - Organ Recital Hill. 20% of all profi ts Vigil at the Altar of Repose until Midnight Magdalene Church, www.praxisworship.org. by Richard Hobson at go towards the Society. 7.30pm. Dvorák’s Mass uk/praxis_south.html Good Friday Christ’s Chapel, Dulwich Cakes and preserves, tea in D and Gounod’s St 1.30pm The Liturgy of the College - 7.45pm. and coffee and raffl e Cecilia Mass. Tickets Saturday 21 April Admission free Lord’s Passion and Death Sunday 18 March £12 (children £5) from SOUTHWARK DULWICH - Concordia www.ticketsource.co.uk/ CATHEDRAL - St Holy Saturday Chamber Choir Spring DORMANSLAND - the A croydonbachchoir Andrew’s Cathedral 8.30pm The Easter Vigil Concert - 7.30pm at All to Z of Musical Theatre Monday 26 March School from Sydney Saints Church, Lovelace 6.30pm at St John’s The Principal Celebrant and Preacher at these services in concert at 2pm to Road. Poulenc’s Gloria Church. Sam and Naomi ✽ will be the . BALHAM - ‘The Devils celebrate ANZAC Day. & 4 Motets and works Hiller, with friends, Passion’ a play by Justin The Vicar will be in Church to hear confessions by Debussy, Messiaen & perform a feast of Butcher, at St Mary & REIGATE - Organ concert at 11am on Monday and Wednesday in Holy Week Stravinsky. Tickets £12 showstoppers. Tickets St John Church 7.30pm. at St Mary’s Church at and on Good Friday at the door, or £11 in £15 from Wendy Rose Tickets £15 (£10 for 7.30 pm to celebrate advance from www. 01342 870681 or Myra u/18s, f/t students & the restoration of St Michael & All Angels the Norman and Poplar Walk, Croydon, CR0 1UA concordiachamberchoir. Keats 01342 835820 unwaged) from Brown co.uk. (Concs available) Beard organ. Free but www.stmichaelscroydon.com Paper Tickets; 0800 411 8881. please book via www. stmaryreigate.org 12 THE BRIDGE... March 2018

Make your CofE issues Lent voice heard • Share your journey with others on the Plastic-Less Lent Facebook Group • Share what you are Plastic Challenge doing with friends, tthe UK ankle-deep more than family and community The Church of ‘To strive to safeguard the • Ask your MP what they integrity of creation and tten times over. Just 9% was England has issued rrecycled. A lot ends up in the are doing to tackle sustain and renew the life single use plastics a Lent challenge of the earth’ ssea… where by 2050 we could to churches and hhave more plastic than fi sh (by • Join the UN Clean Seas The Anglican Communion wweight). campaign & Greenpeace congregations to give Fifth Mark of Mission. The ‘Lent Plastic Challenge’ Plastic Pledge up single-use plastics hhas daily suggestions on • Find out your own Over 8.3 bllbillion tonnes of f how to cut down your use plastic footprint – to reduce the plastic have been produced of single-use plastics – go to • Call on supermarkets for actions which damage since the 1950s. That’s enough http://southwark.anglican.org/ a Plastic Free Aisle plastic to cover every inch of God’s Creation. downloads/plastic_free_lent.pdf Bishop to lead two The Parish Support Autumn pilgrimages Fund and Bishop Christopher will Yerevan. The group will visit Then from 8 – 12 October Southwark lead a nine-day pilgrimage monuments from the earliest Bishop Christopher will lead to Armenia on behalf of the days of Christianity and from a pilgrimage refl ecting on Vision Anglican and Eastern Churches the Middle Ages. the life and work of Dietrich Association from 24 September The cost is £1,345 per person Bonhoeffer. It begins in Berlin - 2018 to 2 October. He will be joined (full board) sharing twin- at his parent’s home and takes by Bishop Hovakim Manukyan, bedded accommodation and in key sites associated with meetings Primate of Armenian Churches the plot to overthrow Hitler. including entrance fees and There’s still time to join in in the United Kingdom. They will visit the Jewish gratuities. Single rooms are one of the meetings about Memorial to the Holocaust, and Highlights of the tour available at an extra charge. the Parish Support Fund will include Echmiadzin, For information contact Flossenburg where Bonhoeffer • to share and celebrate the the spiritual centre of the the Revd Andrei Petrine, 38 was executed. good news stories from nation, Sevan, one of the Claremont Road, Basildon Details can be had from the around the Dioces; world’s largest fresh-water SS15 5PZ. Tel : 07723 026925 Revd Charles Bradshaw, 39 Mill mountain lakes, and the capital or e-mail; [email protected] Lane, Hurst Green RH8 9DF. • to become more familiar with our Diocesan aims and objectives for the coming years Date/time Archdeaconry Venue Thurs 1 March Reigate St John the Evangelist, Hurst Green, (11 for 11.30am – 1pm) Church Way, RH8 9EA Mon 5 March Croydon Croydon Area Offi ce,St Matthew’s House, Thy Kingdom (10 for 10.30am – 12) 100 George Street, Croydon, CR0 1PJ Tues 6 March Southwark All Saints, Peckham, (7 for 7.30pm – 9pm) Blenheim Grove, Peckham, SE15 4QS Thurs 8 March Wandsworth St Mark, Battersea Rise Come (7 for 7.30pm – 9pm) Battersea Rise, SW11 1EJ #Pledge2Pray Mon 12 March Lewisham & Greenwich St James, Kidbrooke 10-20 May 2018 (7 for 7.30pm – 9pm) Kidbrooke Park Road, SE3 0DU Join the global call to prayer If you can’t attend the meeting in your Archdeaconry, you will be welcome on any of the other dates. All meetings will follow a similar pattern, being one and a half hours long with this Pentecost refreshments beforehand. To give us some idea of numbers, it would be helpful if you could let us know if you are attending by email to psf@southwark. anglican.org or by phone to the Parish Giving Communications Offi cer, Gabby Parikh on 020 7939 9438. The Bishop of Southwark’s Lent Call 2018

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