People on the move News from The Revd Philip Julian Frank Goodey, of the Benefice of Botley, Rector the Church of of the Benefice of Durley and Vicar of the Benefice of Curdridge in the England Diocese of Portsmouth, has been appointed Team Rector of the Benefice of between the Drypool. Humber and The Revd Clive Duxbury, Chaplain to HM Prison Everthorpe, has additionally tter the Tees been appointed SSM Assistant of the Benefice of Elloughton and Newsle Brough with Brantingham. January & February 2011 The Archbishop has re-appointed the Revd Carol Fisher-Bailey as Team Vicar of the Benefice of Sutton, St James and Wawne, St Peter for a further period of one year. Give us this day our daily bread

The Revd Oliver James Coss, Assistant Curate of the Benefice of Cottingham, As part of our Year of the has resigned to be Vicar of the Benefice of Small Heath in the Diocese of Environment in 2011, we’d like to Birmingham. invite your church to join in with our study course, at Lent or another The Revd Graeme Robert Drewery, Rector of the Benefice of Brotton Parva, time in the year. "Give Us This Day has resigned. Our Daily Bread" consists of 5 sessions looking at issues of faith The Archbishop has granted Permission to Officiate to the Revd Canon Ian James Fox of Thirsk. and the environment through the story of a loaf of bread. Save money on your parish stationary The sessions will contain: Whether buying paper for parish magazines and service sheets, printer toner 1) Thought-provoking information The course is being produced by the cartridges or envelopes, materials for childrens and youth activities or office on environmental issues through a Revd Dr Gavin Wakefield (Director stationery, PCCs spend several million pounds on stationery each year. The DVD and written material of Training, Mission and Ministry), 's procurement group, comprising of diocesan, national 2) Biblical passages with the Revd Canon Richard Rowling and parish representatives seeks to offer parishes suppliers that offer good commentary (the Archbishop's Advisor on Rural service, are environmentally responsible, and can achieve significant savings 3) Practical ways in which people Affairs) the Ven Paul Ferguson compared with current prices. Visit www.2buy2.com or can change their behaviour to help (Archdeacon of Cleveland) and the www.parishresources.org.uk/buying/stationery.htm to find out more about our environment. Revd Rachel Hirst (Training Adviser saving your parishes money on office products . 4) Imaginative ideas for reflection for the York Archdeaconry). and prayer. Diocese of York News January & February 2011 "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" Editor: Eleanor Course, Diocesan Communications Officer, Diocesan House, The course comes in two versions: a costs £3 for the leaders’ booklet and Aviator Court, Clifton Moor, York YO30 4WJ. Tel 01904 699530, Email DVD, and 50p for the participants [email protected] booklet for leaders, with DVD, the participants’ text, additional notes booklet. Send your details and the Deadline to include items in the March issue is Mon 31st January 2011. for leaders and ideas for worship, number of booklets you want with a The Diocese of York News may be copied for use in Parish Magazines etc, and and a shorter booklet for cheque made out to "York Diocesan may be downloaded as a ‘pdf’ file from www.dioceseofyork.org.uk. Board of Finance Ltd" to Alice Ridley, Contact Eleanor Course as above to receive an e-mailed download link for each participants, with text for the five week course. Diocesan House, Aviator Court, new issue. Clifton Moor, York YO30 4WJ.

12 1 What’s saving your life? What’s On Another New Year, another to step back and ask ourselves - Sun 2 - Fri 7 Jan - New Year Break at Sat 22 Jan - Affirming Catholicism opportunity to think back about and God - what really matters at Holy Rood House, Thirsk. Call meeting, St Olave's, York. 'Cutting - what’s been important and what the moment? What should I 01845 522580 or email Edge Mission' Speaker : The Revd lies ahead. In my family it was a really care about this week, this [email protected]. Rob Hinton, Chaplain to the wedding of one daughter and a month, this year? Business Community In Leeds. baby for another that defined Fri 7 - Sun 9 Jan - Follow your Star: Contact : Simon Lockley 01904 2010. 3. When has your discipleship Reflecting on Vocation at Holy Rood 788306. and ministry been most satisfying House, Thirsk. An epiphany retreat So what was important for you in recently? for ordinands with Elizabeth Baxter, 31 Jan - 8 Feb - Pilgrimage to the 2010? Do you have plans This question might help us think Jan Berry and David Mann. For Holy Land, led by the of Hull, satisfying for 2011 that make it about being in the right place at more information email the Rt Revd Richard Frith. See page 6. look exciting or difficult? the right time. Perhaps it [email protected] or connects with the particular gifts call 01845 522580. Sat 5 Feb - SPARK at North Ferriby. Chewing over what is important and skills God has given us, using A monthly youth service at 19.30, to us was a challenge given to the them to God’s glory and our own Sat 8 Jan - York and District Branch open to all 11-18's which includes clergy who went to the Diocesan sense of well-being. of Companions of the Community of tuck, games, worship, Nintendo Wii, Clergy Conference last Ressurection. 'Julian Meeting', a talk engaging talk plus more. February's September. John Pritchard, 4. What one thing could you do by Revd Robin Waite, from 11.00 am SPARK will have guest speaker Ali Bishop of Oxford, posed four to make a difference in how you until 12.30 pm. We begin with Mass Crompton from Beverley questions for us and I thought enjoy discipleship and ministry? at 11.00 and then Fr Robin will talk Community Church and will be held these questions were worth We don’t necessarily expect to about Julian of Norwich and the at North Ferriby Parish Hall. sharing with you, as they can enjoy discipleship always – it is regular meetings he holds. All are help us in our walk with God this also about taking up the cross very welcome, further details may be Wed 9 Feb - Ebor Lecture at York St year. day by day, but is the abundant, obtained from Paul Taylor, tel 01759 John University with Professor the rich life that Jesus promises seen 305484. Baroness Haleh Afshar. See page 7. 1. What is saving your life at in what we do and who we are? present? If we are drowning, not waving, Sat 8 Jan - SPARK at Swanland. A Sat 12 Feb - XLS Factor at York When we say we’re drowning is there something we can do monthly youth service at 19.30, open Minster. See page 3. under a wave of work, swamped about it? After hearing these to all 11-18's which includes tuck, by troubles, what will keep us questions I realised that I need to games, worship, Nintendo Wii, Weds 16 Feb - Collective Worship afloat? Who are the people, what put in my diary some protected engaging talk plus more. Guest Training Day at Sneaton Castle, are the activities which bring us space for prayer, reflection and speaker will be Jon Steel and will be . To make a booking, please the abundant life Jesus promised? reading. It is beginning to help! held at St Barnabas' Church in contact 01904 699511. Swanland. 2. What are the biggest questions As we start 2011, can you take a Thurs 17 Feb - Twilight Taize, I am asking about my life right little time to ask these questions Mon 10 Jan - SIAS: A briefing. At Scarbrough. See page 7. now? with God, listen for the answers Diocesan House, Aviator Court, We all too easily get on with the and then act on them? York, YO30 4WJ, from 1pm - Sat 26 Feb - Church Growth and next thing that comes our way, a The Revd Dr Gavin Wakefield, 3.30pm. To book a place, please Decline in the North of England, person or an e-mail, a letter or a Director of Training, Mission and contact Anita Ranyell, Administrator, Durham. See page 5. phone call. Can we find a space Ministry on 01904 699511.

2 11 Wolds Apart XLS Factor - you’ve got talent! travel the length and breadth of the country worshipping God with a sound that has been likened to setting an elephant loose on marching band. But it's not all about the music; SoS love The Diocese of York's amazing to celebrate God's glory with a youth event XLS is back at York vibrant energy that will get you Minster with a twist - this time, off your feet and dancing like we’ll be featuring the talents of your dad in no time. young people from across the Diocese! Wolds Apart West Gallery Quire is A typical Sunday would start with a GoldDigger are a high-energy part of a movement which seeks to rehearsal at 2.00pm followed by the electro-pop-rock band fronted by Sounds of Salvation will start off revive a style of singing which was service starting between 4.00pm and Beth Taylor and Mandy Toombs the evening, then we’ll have our common in English parish churches 6.00pm. who use music to communicate variety pack of young people from the late 17th to the mid 19th counter-cultural messages of performing, and after free centuries. This style is called West Refreshments are normally provided hope through contemporary issue refreshments in the cafe Gallery and is based on psalms, either before or after the service by based songs. GoldDigger are GoldDigger will finish the hymns and anthems sung to the host church for quire members, bringing their fresh edgy sound evening with their set. It’s going traditional tunes accompanied by many of whom travel long distances and gritty challenging lyrics to to be awesome evening! “non-chordal” instruments (violins, in order to take part. XLS Factor. Formed with the flutes, recorders, bass viol and double agenda to write songs with bass in our case). The sound Members of your congregations something worth saying, produced is both lively and vigorous. (singers and instrumentalists) are GoldDigger use music to welcome to join us for the rehearsal communicate counter-cultural We normally sing Evensong and service but numbers would be messages of hope. according to the BCP (1662) appreciated in advance so that we anywhere within a 50 mile radius can provide music. Tickets cost £6 each, and go on (approximately) of Hull and are on sale from 4 January, from available on the second Sunday of More information on the West ’s Box Office on the month (also on other special Gallery tradition can be found on 01904 557208, or occasions subject to availability of the West Gallery Music Association www.dioceseofyork.org. Tickets quire members). We welcome the website at www.wgma.org.uk. also available on the door £10 active participation of local clergy, each. though we are able to conduct the Anyone interested in booking the service ourselves if appropriate with quire or wanting more information This event is for young people of the help of two quire members who should contact the Revd Steve Foster Secondary School and College Sounds of Salvation are a high- are ordained . We therefore on 01947 880055, Hateley on age, coming as groups from octane, ten-piece, ska rock punk regard this as an act of worship and 01430 810495 or Gordon Corrick on churches, schools, colleges etc. Christian worship band with a not a concert. 01482 805804. Unaccompanied adults will not horn section that will blow your be allowed in. face off. Formed in 2004 they 10 3 Real Easter Egg campaign – ordering The Saint of Spurn Point now open for churches and individuals Phil Mathison from Brough has This book will draw you into the Last September supermarkets rejected written a new book on "The Saint spiritual and political world of the idea of The Real Easter Egg which of Spurn Point" - Wilgils, father the Dark Ages, the era in which is the first and only Easter egg to of St. Willibrord. Wilgils left his secular life and explain the Christian understanding founded his tiny community on of Easter on the box. Church schools Spurn peninsula may seem fragile the very edges of Northumbrian were asked to help join a campaign and otherworldly, but few present civilisation. to help prove demand by placing day visitors realise the spiritual orders before Christmas. Thousands significance of this remote To buy a copy of "The Saint of of eggs were ordered by schools in location. Spurn Head", contact Phil quantities ranging from 12 to 400 Mathison, 12 Wallingfen Lane, eggs at a time. In the early days of Christianity Newport, Brough, East Yorkshire, in northern Britain, many ascetic HU15 2RF, for £6.99 post free Churches and individuals are invited devotees of Christ were drawn, U.K. (ISBN 978-0956-2994-0-6) to join the campaign and place like the Desert Fathers before orders for The Real Easter Egg by 31 them, to inaccessible places to January 2011. Order forms, posters commune with their God. Once and flyers can be downloaded from such hermit was Wilgils, the www.realeasteregg.co.uk Eggs will be father of Saint Willibrord, famous in the Lowlands of dropped off to a single address in includes a charitable donation, VAT, Europe. Like Saint Cuthbert of early April 2011. handling and delivery to a single Lindisfarne, his 'desert place' of drop off point. The 125g high quality solitude was bound by the sea. The direct sale price of The Real Fairtrade milk chocolate has to be Easter Egg is £4.50 each which ordered in multiples of 12. The time was the late 7th century, when the promontory was then the southern extreme of Architects’ Fees Frozen the Kingdom of Northumbria, a region stretching from present The fees for Architects carrying out The current Quinquennial Inspection day Yorkshire to the Firth of Quinquennial Inspections across the fee (including VAT) is £592.20 Forth. Christianity had only been Diocese have been frozen for 2011, which will rise to £604.80 in January in the province for less than half to help churches' finances. In 2011 when the rate of VAT is a century, and Wilgils was January 2011, VAT will rise to 20%, increased to 20%. So, if you're due probably born within the first and the Diocesan Advisory your QI in 2011, make sure you decade of the establishment of a Committee for the Care of Churches make the most of our Inspecting church at York, then the capital (DAC) has decided not to increase Architects’ generosity - they will need of the southern region called the Architects' fees, to help to increase their fees in line with Deira. churches manage their finances at a costs for 2012. very difficult time and help them cope with the VAT increases.

4 9 Holy Places, Holy People Church Growth and Decline in the North

If you’re looking for new places Church:North is holding a day across the north of England. The to explore in 2011, the Revd Dr conference at Cranmer Hall, conference will cover a wide range of Gavin Wakefield, our Diocesan Durham, on ‘Church Growth and denominations – including Director of Training, Mission and Decline in the North of England’. , Roman Catholicism, Ministry, has written a wonderful The conference will be held on 26 Methodism and newly formed book “Holy Places, Holy People: A February from 10 am to 4.30 pm churches Guide Through the Holy Places and People of North-East Speakers will include the Ven. Bob The conference fee is £30 (including England.” Jackson, former Archdeacon of lunch and refreshments). Walsall; the Revd Dr Gavin The conference is eligible for CME The North-East of England is rich Wakefield, Director of Training, grants and there is a reduced rate for in history, beautiful scenery and Mission and Ministry, Diocese of full-time students. welcoming people. Celebrated for York; Prof. Steve Bruce, Aberdeen its Christian heritage, its saints University; and Dr Alana Harris, For more information and to book a are as diverse as the varied Lincoln College, Oxford place on the conference, please scenery in which we discover contact Theresa Phillips on their history. This book is for ‘Church:North’ is an opportunity to [email protected] or pilgrims - both physical and hear and discuss top quality research write to Theresa Phillips, c/o metaphorical - who want the exploring patterns of growth and Cranmer Hall, St John’s College, 3 wisdom of the past to shape their decline in contemporary Christianity South Bailey, Durham DH1 3RJ. present. In each chapter we Cuthbert and Eadfrith; Hexham discover the stories of the saints, and Heavenfield - Oswald and both well known and unfamiliar, Wilfrid; Jarrow & Safeguarding children as we journey to the places they Monkwearmouth - Bede, Benedict made famous. Some of the sites Biscop and Ceolfrith; and, The Diocesan Child Protection and Nationally, the fourth edition of and saints included in the book Durham Cathedral - Cuthbert's Safeguarding Children policy is now Protecting All God’s Children, the are: Holy Island - Aidan, community. available to download from our Church of England’s child protection website, www.dioceseofyork.org. If policy since 1995, has been you’re not able to download a copy published. Since the last edition, in for your church, please do let the 2004, a significant amount of new team at Diocesan House know, and legislation and statutory guidance Fellowship of Clergy Wives Retreat we will send you a hard copy. has been produced concerning the safeguarding of children, most The Fellowship of Clergy Wives are retreat costs £117 (before subsidy). We have a responsibility to care for notably the Children Act 2004 and holding a retreat on the theme of Please send a £15 deposit to secure a one another, and to keep people safe Working Together to Safeguard “Created in his image - Knowing Me place to Mrs Diana Pearce, from harm. It is especially important Children 2010, which has been – Knowing God”, on 21st – 23rd Sutherland Bridge, Cropton, YO18 that children and vulnerable adults incorporated into the revised policy March at Wydale Hall. 8EU, tel: 01751 417420. Please make are protected. This is a principle that document. You can download this the cheque to “Clergy Wives is recognised, both from the from www.cofe.anglican.org. Guest Speakers are Dr Lia and the Fellowship” viewpoint of faith, and also in the Revd Robert Lens van Rijn. The context of the law.

8 5 Bishop Richard leads Pilgrimage to the Twilight Taize Holy Land Twilight Taize is a candlelit The , the Rt Revd invitation to contemplation, to inner Richard Frith, will be leading another peace. This experience will awaken Pilgrimage to the Holy Land from 31 your senses as you absorb the gentle January to 8 February. atmosphere of centuries of prayer on this ancient site. Set in the The Pilgrimage, which will be guided beautifully gothic 12th century St by Palestinian Christians and local Mary’s Church in Scarborough. Christians in the Holy Land, will follow in the footsteps of Jesus in Imagine the melodies of oboe and Galilee and Jerusalem. In Galilee the flute dancing through the air as group will visit Nazareth, the town voices combine and transport you to in which Jesus grew up, and limitless possibilities. Aromatic Capernaum, the fishing village which incense floats through the air and became the centre of his ministry, as infuses with prayer chants sung in well as other places associated with There will be Twilight Taize on Friday Latin and English. Email enquiries the events of the gospel. 17 February at 19.30 in Scarborugh, to Shena, Fresh Expressions team; as part of Coastival 2011. [email protected] In Jerusalem, the group will retrace Jesus' steps from Bethany to Land, as well as meeting with local Gethsemane and along the Way of church leaders and visiting various the Cross to the Church of the Holy projects. Sepulchre. The group will visit the Ebor Lecture Dead Sea and Qumran, the site In addition, BBC Radio Humberside where the Dead Sea Scrolls were will be following the pilgrimage and The first Ebor Lecture of 2011 will be of terrorism are changing our world. discovered and spend some time in covering local people on this journey held on Wednesday 9 February at Some argue our freedoms are being Bethlehem visiting the birthplace of of a lifetime, on a range of their 19.00 at York St John University. eroded and our liberty curtailed Jesus and taking the opportunity to midweek and weekend programmes. through the deliberate building up of learn about and reflect on current Professor the Baroness Haleh Afshar a climate of fear. Where is hope in realities and tensions for Christians If you would like further information OBE, AcSS - Department of Politics, all this? This series of Ebor Lectures and their neighbours in the Holy please contact 01992 576065 or visit University of York, will be speaking will explore these issues of freedom www.lightline.org.uk. on 'The Politics of Fear: What does it and security, the politics of fear and mean to those who are otherised and the politics of hope. feared'. Tickets are free but must be booked The theme for the 2010/11 lectures in advance. If you wish to book a is 'Politics of Fear, Politics of Hope? ticket please call 01904 876474 or Terrorism in the 21st Century.' Acts .email [email protected]. of terrorism and the perceived threat

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