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OUR NEWS SEPTEMBER 2019 SIGN UP TO OUR MAILINGS HERE TAKING THE NEXT STEP: VOCATIONS DAY & FOND FAREWELL TO +CHRIS Bishop Chris’ leaving service will be an integral part of this year’s Diocese of Truro Vocations Day in the cathedral on Saturday, September 14 - and it couldn’t be more fitting. Before his ordination, Bishop discerning how you can ARCHDEACON WILL BE Chris spent many years as answer that call. a Reader, and even longer INSTALLED THIS SUNDAY as a disciple committed to Both Bishop Philip and bringing Christian values Bishop Chris will be there for The Venerable Paul Bryer will be installed into the workplace and other the day, and attendees will as the new Archdeacon of Cornwall on areas of life – and the next have an opportunity to hear Sunday, September 1 during a service at step on his pilgrimage is to from each of them. Truro Cathedral. head up the Ministry Division All are invited to attend the service, for the Church of England. In this The day will be punctuated by the which starts at 4pm, and welcome new role he will lead a team looking opportunity to talk in small groups Paul to the diocese. Refreshments will to encourage and increase the scale with facilitators. This will help those be served in the cathedral after the and diversity of those called to both who come along to explore the call Evensong and installation. lay and ordained ministries within the they might be experiencing and what church. the next steps might be for them. + READ MORE Vocations Day open to all Tea & cake Vocations Day is an opportunity for After lunch, people will come together DIOCESAN SYNOD TO BE anybody to explore their calling – at 1.30pm for worship and the service whatever that might be. It of thanks for Bishop Chris’s HELD IN SEPTEMBER could be that someone feels time in the diocese. Bishop The next diocesan synod takes place called to the priesthood, Chris will preach – and at County Hall in Truro on Saturday, but it could equally be that it is hoped that others September 28 from 9am. they are drawn to helping from across the diocese others in their community who might not have been Members of the public are welcome to by becoming a local worship able to make it for the full observe the meeting from the public leader, local pastoral day will come along for this. gallery in the main council chamber. minister, a youth worker, a After the service, there will be churchwarden, a teacher or presentations to Bishop Chris Being discussed this month: shaping school governor. The possibilities and and his wife, Ellie, who also served the diocesan budget for 2020 - 2022 opportunities for service are endless, as a minister in the diocese, followed and an update on MMF, an update and a calling can manifest itself in by tea and cake and the chance for on July’s General Synod and a draft many ways. There will be people on everybody to socialise. revised DAC constitution for approval. hand to help you listen to the voice A detailed agenda will be available that is calling you, and to begin + READ MORE shortly on the diocesan website. SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO PARISH GIVING OUR NEWS SEPTEMBER 2019 2 DIOCESAN DIRECTORY OPENING DOORS, HEARTS AND CHANGES & UPDATES LICENSED CLERGY KITCHENS TO THE HOMELESS has been licensed Revd Etienne van Blerk* as Priest in Charge of Carbis Bay, Lelant. Homelessness, being disadvantaged, living on the Revd Dr Peter Knight* has been licensed as Priest-in-Charge of Launceston margins. However you choose to describe the life and Priest-in-Charge of Boyton, North Tamerton, Werrington, St Giles-in-the- circumstances of too many of our neighbours, it Heath and Virginstow. He is also team doesn’t change the reality of what it is. Lonely, leader for the Conventional District of Trigg Major Deanery. isolating, confusing, often scary and almost PTO universally misunderstood. Revd John Hereward, Revd Philip Conway, Revd Chris Epps, Revd Jill Edwards and Seen by many as problem people, two the Rt Revd Graham James have been churches, St Michael’s in Newquay given PTO in this diocese. and St Columb Minor, refuse to refer to those struggling to live as society CHURCH HOUSE Penny Lane has joined the Church House expects as ‘them’. “Neither are they team as Operations Manager. problem people, they are simply people with problems,” say Revd Jem Thorold * Contact details can be found in the online directory at and rural dean, Revd Chris McQuillan- trurodiocese.org.uk/directory-live/ Wright. People with names, back- stories and lives that deserve to be n lived to the full. PICTURED ABOVE: Revd Chris, Revd Jem and Revd Lee DRIVERS SOUGHT When confronted with homelessness or similar issues, many people throw On Tuesday a drop in and share café Volunteer drivers are being sought by up their hands in despair and ask, (DISC) operates, run by another Volunteer Cornwall for its community often rhetorically, “But what can we volunteer, Monique, with food provided transport scheme. do?” Revd Jem and Revd Chris would by a restaurant chef from the town. answer, “Roll up your sleeves, open your Every year the organisation and doors and work out the best way to DISC is an inspiring model of how its drivers help 50,000 people get make people feel welcome, valued and churches can reach out and help. It not around Cornwall. This often involves cared for.” only provides a warm welcome and trips to the hospital, educational a good lunch but also, on occasion, appointments, and helping isolated Each is an associate priest to the the free services of a vet, barber, and people with disabilities get out of other and between them, they have a debt counselling, access to help with the house. powerful ministry for those closest to addiction through Addaction and Jesus heart. “Come to me all who are Newquay’s only needle exchange. Volunteer Cornwall urgently needs weary and are carrying heavy burdens more volunteers to ensure this vital and I will give you rest,” (Matthew On Thursday, they work with the Soul service can continue to be provided. 11:38). Food Kitchen at the Newquay Centre. Drivers get all mileage expenses It’s a community-based project that reimbursed and it also provides the Practicality, common sense and provides a meal and somewhere safe opportunity to meet new people. kindness lies behind the work at to go. Friday is Foodbank day as well St Michael’s. Under the title “Touch as DISC and on Saturday they run For more information call Volunteer the hem of the cloak of Christ,” a SNAK, another food-based welcome Cornwall on 01872 265300 or email programme to offer food and a place to to whoever wants to come. Whatever [email protected] to talk runs throughout the week. From day of the week, whatever your find out more. Sunday through to Saturday there is circumstances, there will be a warm something going on that involves food. welcome at St Michael’s. On Sunday and Monday there is Little + READ MORE CHAIRS AVAILABLE Sparrows, when the church is open for tea, sandwiches, biscuits and cake 50 chairs in good condition if someone has made one. Run by volunteer Anthony Marriot, he doesn’t available. For more information sit and wait for the people to come, call Peter or Vanessa he goes out to where they are and on 01579 382484. personally invites them. SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO PARISH GIVING OUR NEWS SEPTEMBER 2019 3 GRANTS FOR CHRISTIAN BRINGING BACK THE LIGHT BOOKS AVAILABLE At the beginning of August, a group of pilgrims could Speaking Volumes offers grants for libraries, schools, prisons, care homes be seen walking from Boscastle to its mother church, and churches – actually, anywhere a book can be borrowed and enjoyed by a Minster Church, where there is a holy well. wide readership. Walking through the beautiful Valency to dedicate the new windows at The grants are for the purchase of Valley, they traced the footsteps of St Minster. The pilgrims also stopped to Christian books from a local Christian Madryn who founded the church in its collect water from the holy well for bookshop and the list of available peaceful setting in the 6th Century. Bishop Chris to bless the windows. books can be seen on Madryn was a Welsh princess who www.speakingvolumes.org.uk became known as a healer, leading to Says Priest-in-Charge Revd Heather The next application period runs from a belief that the spring had healing Aston, “It was a wonderful community September 1 to October 31. While powers. event. We were delighted to welcome funding is available for all sorts of over 70 people and to make a special libraries, the charity has been given Led by Bishop Chris, this was a presentation to Arthur Bradley who, extra funding specifically for pilgrimage with purpose. They with his son-in-law Frank, was the were carrying the Light of Christ, craftsman who remade the windows For more information and to apply visit represented by a candle in a lantern, bringing light back to the church.” www.speakingvolumes.org.uk SPIRITUAL EXERCISES IN DAILY LIFE OFFERED Epiphany House is offering the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius in daily life from October 2019 to May 2020. The Spiritual Exercises are a compilation of meditations, prayers, and contemplative practices developed by St Ignatius Loyola to help people deepen their relationship with God. They ‘... BESIDE STILL WATERS’ TO RE-DEDICATE A BENCH help each person to know the God of love and compassion more intimately in The Bishop of Truro, the Rt Revd Philip their own life’s circumstances, to grow Mounstephen has re-dedicated a bench in that sense of love, and to see more in memory of Violet Knight, the mother clearly how to live out that love for God of the city’s current Town Crier, at and for others in those same particular Boscawen Park, Truro.