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Live the Mission November 2017 Live the Mission November 2017 On page 2 read about the first silver Eco Church in the Diocese. Pictured are Andy Lester from A Rocha and Rev’d Julian Williams from St John's, Rownhams ave you ever wondered what into a valuable resource for the whole H people think? Christopher Diocese —the Clerical Registry. Butler, retired minister and a member Alongside these are news and ideas from of Clerical Registry, certainly does. He other churches, plus encouragement to believes it is key to ministry and become a Fairtrade church. hopes that the Who Cares? initiative will help provide some answers. Have a good month. Both Clerical Registry and Who Cares? feature in this month’s Live the Inside Mission. The first stage of Who Cares? News and Fairtrade..……. p.2-3 —the listening phase—has come to an end and the responding phase has Who Cares? …...……..….…. p 4-5 begun. On pages 4-5 you can read more about what hurts people most Clerical Registry ………….. p.6-7 and how churches are beginning to Mission in practice—churches at take action. work …………………………… p.8 Then on pages 6-7 there is an insight 1 News from across the Diocese St John’s is first Silver Eco Church in Diocese t John’s, Rownhams, is the first S church in the diocese to receive its Silver Eco Church award. The award was presented by Andy Lester, A Rocha UK conservation director, in a celebration service where the theme was that every action counts in looking after God's earth. The Ichthian young people's group The allotment at St John’s performed a powerful drama celebrated Earth Hour and held a sale depicting a forest fire and unhelpful of unwanted Christmas presents. animals which mocked a humming bird which was trying to extinguish the Church member Angela Jones said: fire one drop of water at a time. The “To ‘Go for Gold’ is a huge challenge. congregation were also given acorns We have produced an Individual to hold as Andy Lester asked them to Lifestyle Eco Survey, asking the think what a hard journey it is for one congregation to take part so we can to grow into an oak tree. He all see how we’re doing and perhaps encouraged the church to think how do one or two more actions to live they could take the opportunity to more sustainably in our damaged and flourish by doing one more thing to fragile world. This is for the sake of ‘Go for Gold’. future generations and for those many people in the world who are suffering To gain silver, the church has grown dreadfully from the effects of climate food in the churchyard allotment with change.” produce going to Basics Bank, promoted Eco Church, committed to For details of the Eco Church scheme, pray for an A Rocha project, visit https://ecochurch.arocha.org.uk/ Speaking out prophetically through Fairtrade hat does it mean to be Prophetic Every Fairtrade registered church sends a W Global Citizens? One answer message to our communities that God might be that God’s prophets often cares about fair pay for their produce. spoke out against trade injustice and It's really easy to become a Fairtrade defrauding the poor (e.g. Leviticus 19:35, Church and speak out for the world's Micah 6: 11). poorest producers. Find out how at www.fairtrade.org 2 Happy 100th birthday, All Saints ll Saints’ Church, Basingstoke, is A 100 years old. The celebrations lasted for a fortnight, beginning with a talk by local historian Debbie Reavell about the religious history of Basingstoke, leading up to the building of All Saints’ church, and ended with Messy Church with activities inspired by the building. On September 23, the bell ringers contributed to the celebrations by Bishop David cuts the birthday cake ringing a record six-hour peal while the the congregation both of the faith of church welcomed visitors coming to see those who had built the church during a ‘Faith and Flowers’ display. This was World War 1, and of the God who is followed the next day by a celebration always searching for us to bring us home. service with Bishop David who reminded Building work, building faith ix young members of St Saviour’s, led by the children and visited a project S Iford, Bournemouth, this summer run by the charity Mosaic Vision which spent two weeks in Rukungiri, Uganda, supports families where children have with the charity Mission Direct which been orphaned or abandoned. works with local partners to support One particularly moving experience was communities through a visit to Rukungiri prison building work, education, which Frankie described training and healthcare. as “life-changing”. “As we Nathan Bendell, Frankie walked into the prison, Bendell, Sarah Bendell, we were greeted by Lucy Cox-O’Rourke, Lizzie approximately 300 men Dibden and David Oldham singing and dancing spent much of the time praises to God ,” she said. helping a rehabilitation She concluded: “We were centre for children with inspired by the faith, love disabilities, many of and joy for the Lord whom are isolated from displayed by the people, their community. They despite the great poverty also visited schools, took There’s always time to skip they are living in.” part in a church service 3 Who Cares? Churches listen ack in July we reported on the as far afield as Lymington and Fleet B launch of Who Cares?, an initiative gathered to share their experiences and across Hampshire whereby 59 churches to pray for how they would respond. of varying traditions and backgrounds went out to ask those around them – David Grant, chair of Who Cares? churchgoers and non-churchgoers alike Hampshire, stressed that “the – ‘What hurts you the most?’. responding phase will go on for years”. Asking the question is just the beginning The answers – given anonymously – and has involved churches stepping out have come in thick and fast – 11,798 of into the community. Now the challenge them – and an analysis has shown that is to stay there in the community and the areas that most worried people show, as David said: “love and care for were negative emotions, family and people as Christ did”. relationships, though the results varied when issues such as age were taken into Bishop David, who also spoke at the account (for instance the prevalent area event, emphasised another point – that of concern for the 65+ age group was responding was not about providing injustice). some form of paternalistic answer but of journeying together. “When we start to The question then is what to do about step into someone’s life we are not this. On October 5, the ‘Responding being invited to rescue them but to Phase’ was launched at London Street accompany them”. Drawing on United Reformed Church, Basingstoke, Philippians 1, verse 6 (‘I am confident of when representatives of churches from this, that the one who began a good What hurts the most? Analysis of the answers: Nega- tive emotions represented 19.77% of the overall number of categorisations; 18.26% were fam- ily and 16.89% were relation- ships. The small- est areas of hurt were loneliness at 4.54% and money at 5.4%. The percentage of hurts in each category 4 Now it is time to respond work among you will bring it to Jesus—will complete the work he has completion by the day of begun.” He added: “What Jesus Christ’) he further “When we start to we become while we wait reminded people: “Who is step into someone’s is as important as what we at work? Jesus is at work… life we are not being are waiting for because he It is the Lord who does the has begun a good work”. helping. We are not to try invited to rescue them to make other people like but to accompany How each church is responding depends to a us but to walk along with them”. them.” He reminded large extent upon their people that “We will have community and the needs to be patient and we may have to wait. which this community has expressed. We will get things wrong but he— Here is one church’s story so far: Having a Heart for Overton St Mary’s is something of a focal point in the village of Overton but the church realised that not everyone living there knows about all the care and support available in the area. It has therefore launched ‘Heart for Overton’, which will provide a directory of those who provide a caring service locally. They will deliver this to every home in the village and keep people up-to Children join in the Overton open -date via noticeboards and online. afternoon This practical response is a reflection of something larger – a desire to show that Christians care. St Mary’s has also started a weekly coffee drop-in on Tuesday mornings at the library, where people can drink coffee, have a chat and find support if it is needed. Another initiative is‘Soul Space’ on Saturday mornings in the doctors’ surgery where people can learn to meditate. A series of talks has also begun on subjects that came to light in the Who Cares? survey, topics such as injustice, family hurts and healings, relationships and ‘Where is God when it hurts?’, and there are plans for other groups including ‘Crossing the Generations’ – a friendship group for children and older people. The church put on an open afternoon on October 8 to draw attention to what is available and are hopeful for the future.
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