5BDIXFEE/PWFNCFS Everest First schedule, training six days per Royal Geographical Society in week. To prepare for the extreme London. altitude and minus 30 degree tem- Tori and the team have raised peratures the team also climbed on £10,000 for The Prince’s Trust. Tori Cho Oyu – the sixth highest moun- comments: “Fundraising challenges tain in the world (8,201metres), as such as this really can make a well as Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and difference to others. By climbing A packed audience filled the function suite of Wolfscastle Country Hotel recently to hear local Denali in Alaska. It was just two Everest I want to help other young adventurer Tori James give an account of her successful World record ascent of Everest years ago (May 2005) that Tori people climb their own ‘Everest’, became the youngest British female whether that’s going for a job HE parishioners of Wiston She makes up one quarter of and onset of the monsoon. This also to complete a 360-mile race to the interview or picking up the phone to TChurch were delighted to learn ‘The Everest 2007 Team’ which was sees Omar as the first ever Egyptian Magnetic North Pole, overcoming The Trust and asking for help. The that on 24th May 2007 at 0730 (local formed through the London Business to reach the summit of Mount temperatures as low as minus 40 difference is that on reaching the time), Tori James became the first School’s Rock & Mountain club. It Everest. The team were accom- degrees Celsius, avoiding polar summit, I must take the same route ever Welsh woman and the youngest was ‘four out of four’ for the team panied by Chamonix-based British bears and racing for over 14 hours down, whereas the young people that British female to reach the summit and after two months in Nepal, team guide Kenton Cool as well as Rob each day. I help will be able to go in any of Mount Everest (8,850m). members Greg Maud (from South Casserley. Both Kenton and Rob Tori was brought up on a farm in direction, with the support of The Tori, who grew up on the family Africa) and Omar Samra (from reached the summit twice this season Pembrokeshire. She studied Geo- Prince’s Trust.” farm at New Moat, Pembs, used to Egypt) reached the summit on 17th making them the first British graphy at Royal Holloway, To learn more about the Everest be a choir member at St Mary’s, May and Tori and Ben, her boyfriend, climbers to do so. University of London and then went 2007 team, read their blog Wiston, where prayers had been summited a week later on 24th May, Tori and the team committed on to work as the office manager at and hear their podcasts visit said during her training and ascent. just before the return of the jet stream themselves to an 18-month training BSES Expeditions, based at the www.everest2007.net Contributions SiteSite forfor SoreSore EyesEyes to Pobl Dewi www.stdavidsdiocese.org.uk www.esgobaethytddewi.org.uk We welcome articles of interest from readers and, in particular, HE new diocesan website will Diocesan Communications team said we would like to encourage be accessible for the first time that the new site was a significant T submission of articles in Welsh. to sight and hearing impaired surfers, step in the direction of a culture the archdeacon of St Davids said, in change for the diocese. It was a new Revd Nicholas Cale launching it at the Diocesan Con- and dynamic way of presenting and [email protected], ference. Also it will be equally embodying the connectedness of our is the lead editor of the next available to those with broadband church communities. Assembling the issue and will be pleased to hear and dial-up connections. It has taken site had provided new challenges for from anyone who would like to three years to put together this diocesan language policy, but these submit an article. comprehensive and bi-lingual shop- had been met. The other regional editors can window for the diocese. A small team will be responsible be contacted as follows: Visitors will be able to find out for maintaining the dynamism of anything they need to know about the the site through monitoring, com- Tessa Briggs work the diocese does, from missioning, encouraging and [email protected] information about every Church receiving feedback. It will be their Revd Don MacGregor School to the Diocesan Intercessions task to seek ways in which this then after pushing a button any parish The bishop was the first visitor [email protected], Calendar. There are extracts from cultural shift can be sustained. can have its own website. to the new site. He said, “this is an Diocesan DVDs, reports from One new provincial initiative is Eighty-six per cent of parishes exciting development and I am glad or articles can be posted to: diocesan organisations, copies of the the “five minute website” which in Wales still do not have even a to be associated with it. I hope it will Pobl Dewi, The Diocesan bishop’s speeches and sermons and parishes can create. All that will be simple website, and that is a figure help all aspects of diocesan com- Office, Abergwili, Carmarthen, an on-line edition of Pobl Dewi. needed is information and pictures which should reduce drastically with munication.” SA31 2JG, marked for the The archdeacon, chair of the sufficient to fill in a simple form and the new scheme. attention of ‘The Editor’. Menter Esgobaeth Tyddewi ... An initiative of the Diocese of St Davids Am ddim Free 2 Pobl Dewi, November 2007 Doors Open at Shalom by John Holdsworth EMBROKESHIRE has a brand member of Shalom,’ who first holiday, and donated the £3000 they Pnew hospice facility. Shalom developed the vision, and who is would have spent to provide a bed. House, due to open in November, credited with establishing the Trust, Two Yorkshire ladies staying in the is the culmination of more than ten which would put that vision into Gwaun Valley were so impressed years’ work by local people, in practice. with the scheme that they have made which church members have played The hospice will offer care that and donated ten very individual quilts a significant part. Chairman of the is complementary to that of the well- for the beds. The Director of Services Trustees and Cathedral Chapter established Paul Sartori Foundation, is a nursing specialist, Renata Clerk, Arwel Davies, said “I’m which offers palliative care at home. Thome, who is on secondment from tremendously proud that we have This facility will initially provide day Swansea University. achieved something that involves so respite care and treatment in state of Although the hospice movement many people giving so much and the art facilities for eight to ten is largely Christian inspired, and supporting us for such a long time. people, and “sooner rather than later” although a huge amount of work has Now it’s exciting to have the doors hopes to offer full twenty-four hour been done by local Christians, many open.” nursing care. The Trust is working of them Anglicans, the Trust is at The house in St Davids is the gift closely with local oncologists, GPs pains to point out that Shalom House of Elizabeth de Guise. During her and Withybush Hospital. Its patron is not a religious establishment as terminal illness she became aware of is Baroness Ilora Finlay, who was such. It is for all the people of the need for a residential facility such expected to open the house at the end Pembrokeshire. Margaret Burnett as this, and the seed of the vision was of November. said: “My passion is that the people planted. But it was her District The project has been financed of Pembrokeshire can have twenty- Nurse, Margaret Burnett, described largely through local generosity. One four hour care that really will make sometimes as ‘truly the founder local couple decided to forgo their a difference.” Cathedral regains its Cloisters RB Report Revamped The Dean of St Davids Cathedral, Wyn Evans, writes about the ROM restoring medieval part of an ailing city centre church completion of the Cloisters project Fcathedral cloisters and ancient into a community centre with a pilgrim pathways to creating drop-in/health facility for homeless AKING a cathedral fit for modern community centres and people. The RB organised the lease Mpurpose is nothing new. providing vital IT support, these are agreement to enable the project at Cathedrals have been successful in just some of the projects the St Matthew’s Church, Swansea, to this for the past millennium and a “support” arm of the church has go ahead successfully. half. been involved in over the past year. Meanwhile, the RB has helped Adaptation, however, is a con- You can find out all about the all parishes make the most of their tinuous process. The completion of work of the Representative Body collection plates. It organises the the Cloisters Project in 2007, the last of the Church in Wales in its annual GWADD – Give With A Direct phase of the Millennium Appeal report, which has recently been Debit – scheme, enabling parishes launched in 1999, does not mean published. This year the report, sent to reclaim tax on donations. This that the process is over. Society is out to every parish, has been re- makes giving easier for members, always changing, and the site and designed to provide a better picture provides parishes with a regular, buildings will continue to be adap- of the work of the Representative tax efficient income and also ted to meet contemporary need, new Body, showing clearly its role in reduces the work-load of parish legislation, upgrading, or, more helping the work of the Church at treasurers.