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JULY/AUGUST 2012 Water canon By the Rev Canon David Kitley They had long wanted at vintage cars from 1935. We were so thankful that the sun came out! Kippington to put their vicar in Inside the church centre were teas, in the the stocks, and chose the Diamond church a display of women’s clothing from the Jubilee to do so! The children last 60 years (including two wedding dresses), books published about the Queen’s made sure he got a thorough Coronation, and a wonderful flower display on soaking! the red, white and blue theme. There were But that was only at the end of an also guided tours of the building, and afternoon perfectly planned by members of escorted visits to the tower. Our neighbours the church as a free community event to responded enthusiastically to the whole celebrate the Queen’s 60-year reign. project; some helped to run the stalls, while Outside there were races for children on a numerous others read about it and turned up. track kindly marked on our lawn by a local The whole event felt like a little foretaste of school, a coconut shy, ‘splat the rat’, the Rev heaven. This is the first such fete ever Roly Bain the clown, a jelly stall, face- arranged here. Now we need an excuse for painting, a bouncy castle, fishing for (plastic) another one! ducks in a paddling pool, and on display two Jubilee Lunch

St Paul’s Church, BBQ, lasagne, chilli, jacket potatoes, coronation chicken and lots of cakes! Northumberland Heath teamed The lunch was followed by craft activities up with our uniformed such as windmill making, beading and making organisations for a special Jubilee crowns and jubilee badges; there was a showing of the Queen’s Coronation on the big Lunch.We opened the doors at screen, and fun and games including Slug 12pm, not knowing how many Racing, Panning for Gold, WII games and a would come, and were humbled bouncy castle. Everyone left with a present of a special that many families came off the Jubilee edition of the New Testament, a estates in the rain; we were able to Jubilee mug, a More Than Gold mini-mag for welcome around 300 people: God the Olympic games and a booklet of flyers for upcoming events and weekly family activities is good. at St Paul’s Church. A very happy and enjoyable afternoon It was great to be at the heart of our was had by all, starting with an Opening community celebrations, bringing people Ceremony with the Rev Geoff Clark and the together, and also making new links and Scout and Guide leaders, with prayers and friendships. Well done and thank you to singing of the National Anthem, followed by everyone involved, and to everyone who came. Trying to run at St Mary, Kippington a lunch of burgers and sausages on the Psalm for the Diamond Jubilee Arranged by Rachel Miles 1. God save our / gracious / Queen : as she them with frequent / royal / tours and / lacking / in po/litical cor/rectness; the / Church : will he be found in the Abbey celeb / rateth her / Diamond / Jubilee. walkabouts. 10. Had he not been a consort, he could have praying to God, or out in the churchyard / 2. We rejoice that, as our ruler, she hath been 6. Her radiant smile can / light up a / nation : / been a con / tortionist: owing to his talking / to the / plants? bless'd with 59 / wonderful / years: and only / but who may abide her glare / when she is / astonishing ability to open his / mouth and / 14. Now we wish Her Majesty an enjoyable one an / nus horr / ibilis. not am/us-ed? put his / foot in it. Jubilee, and another 60 / years as our / 3. By virtue of the wonders of the / modern / 7. She is a lover of animals, and is ever 11. Her son and heir Prince Charles is a / Queen : which, judging by her late mother's media : she is a constant / presence / in our / surrounded by / manifold / corgis : which are spiritual / man : who hath an all-inclusive / longevity, is not beyond the realms of / lives: to her a / source of much / comfort and / attitude to /ward re/ligion; possi/bility. 4. Who could imagine Christmas Day without pleasure; 12. It is his desire to be defender / of all / 15. Therefore let us sing with one / joyful her / televised / speech : or the tabloids 8. It hath also been said that they render great faiths : which, presumably, includes his belief ac/cord : / God / save the / Queen! without the gossip con/cerning her / colourful help to the / royal / servants doing a in alternative medicine, and various other / Rachel Miles / family? multitude of little / jobs a/round the / palace. uncon /ventional / practices. Christ Church Bexleyheath 5. She hath alway had a desire to be 9. Her husband Prince Philip is ever / at her / 13. [2nd part] This beggeth the question, Chant taken from The National Anthem accessible / to her / subjects : delighting side : a man of great fortitude, but sadly when he is crowned as King and / Head of arranged by Rachel Miles (/ denotes breath) PLEASE NOTE: Copy deadline for the September issue of The Link is 17 August at 4pm 2 ochester Link

Bishop Brian’s Diary - July What’s on LULLINGSTONE – ‘A well trodden path’ – an exhibition 1 July 1030 Preach & preside at Patronal Festival -St Peter July to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Book of & St Paul, Bromley Sunday 1 July Common Prayer 14-15 July. Over 70 Prayer Books at St 1830 Preach at 350th anniversary of Book of SHOREHAM – Temenos Chamber ‘Arise my love’: Botolph’s Church, Saturday 11am-5pm, Sunday 12pm- Common Prayer - Chelsfield choral works inspired by love by Gurrero, Victoria, Purcell 5pm. Free entry. and Elgar. Concert followed by refreshments at The Old 2 July 1000 Spirituality Network Edenbridge Vicarage. Tickets £12-£6 from Shoreham Village Stores August 1730 Bishop’s Council Meeting - Rochester or Sevenoaks Bookshop. Saturday 4 August Wednesday 4 July LAMBERHURST - Garden Opera Company will perform 3 July 1400 Speak at Bromley & Bexley Archdeaconry ROCHESTER – Summer Concert by King’s Rochester Puccini’s La Boheme at Bayham Abbey. Bring a pinic. Residential - Woking Senior Choir and Chamber Choir at Rochester . Gates open at 5pm, performance starts at 7pm. Tickets Performing sacred and secular music by Britten, Finzi and £30 but available at £27.50 until 1 August. Contact 4 July 0830 Agenda Planning Group - Rochester Monteverdi. Free admission. Contact 01634 888590. 01892 891115 or visit www.lamberhurstmusic.co.uk. TONBRIDGE – Fun afternoon at 2pm at St Philip’s 5 July-18 July Visit our LINK Dioceses of Kondoa and EYNSFORD – Churchyards Workshop 10am-3:45pm at Church including games, attractions and activities for all Mpapwa, Tanzania Eynsford Village Hall. Workshops will include talks on ages. bats, churchyard rules and regulations and grassland 22 July 1000 Confirmation - Darenth management. Free but booking is essential. Contact Tania Sunday 5 August Avard on 01622 662012. TONBRIDGE – All age service to celebrate the Olympics at 10:30am at St Philip’s Church. CONTACT US Saturday 7 July News and letters to the Editor: /#(%34%2 BEXLEY – The Friends of St Mary’s are holding a Friday 24 August Email: [email protected] Strawberry Tea 3pm-5pm at 43 Wansunt Road, DA5 – St Michael and All Angels is marking the Telephone: 01634 560000 2DH. Admission £3 includes strawberry tea. Stalls with 350th anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer with NEXT COPY DEADLINE plants, cakes, raffles and gifts. celebration of Holy Communion at 7:30pm. August 17 for September Link ,INK0ROCLAIMING THE WORD  WORK OF 'OD September ADVERTISEMENTS Friday 13 July Email: [email protected] WEST MALLING – Dr Jazz is appearing at St Mary’s Saturday 8 September Church 7pm-10:30pm. Take part in the Friends of Churches Ride and Stride Copy for The Link needs to be typed and submitted by email please. Images must be submitted to raise money for your church or chapel on Saturday 8 as either a TIFF or a JPEG file of 300dpi. 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Contact Ron Smith TESTON – The Grand Question - A pageant starts on the Details from your local church or from TEL/FAX: 020 8300 1527 village green at 3pm. Tickets from the Lych Gate on the Carolyn Millen on 01622 843383 For September Link please email What’s On events to Fee & Mileage day, £5 (includes cream tea). Contact 01622 812691. e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] To advertise in www.friendsofkentchurches.co.uk Saturday 21 July the Rochester Link call FKC Registered Charity No: 20721 CUXTON – Grand sports day Cuxton churches 2pm-5pm Children in Church? Euthuse them 01752 225623 on the Sports Field, Bush Road. Races, fun and displays for all ages, tug of war and refreshments. through music On Saturday 7 July at 4:30pm at Emmanual URC, HALLING – The Marlowe Singers and the Alma and Alma West Wickham, BR4 9JS. This RSCM course is Junior Saxophone. Quartets from Armenia at 7:30pm at St designed to help anyone leading or assisting Junior John the Baptist. 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By the Very Rev Dr Mark Beach

Standing at the Great West Door of Cathedral on its welcome and saying how Gather us in - the lost and forsaken, the Cathedral on the day of my much they enjoyed the day. gather us in - the blind and the lame. For all comers the Cathedral is a place of Call to us now, and we shall awaken, installation as Dean, I saw again the peace and beauty, some see only the heritage we shall arise at the sound of our name. view that greets our many visitors of the place, those beautiful columns or the and pilgrims.The solid beauty of occasional Green Man smirking down from A place of welcome for all. But of course this the roof. Our task is to help them to see more, is not just the vocation of a cathedral but of the Norman headed by the to understand the motivation of the people every Christian community gathering in an Pulpitum Screen and drawing the who built it, and to understand our motivation ancient church or an anonymous front room. eye on to the graceful soaring today to ensure that it lives and breathes the To be a place of welcome and transformation love of God for his creation. where women and men can meet with the columns of the Quire;What a I am reminded of a hymn by Marty Haugen, Holy God in Jesus and be awakened into new view! a contemporary American hymnwriter: faith and new life. I have been amazed at the numbers of So I hope that very soon I will be able to people who pass through the building. Here in this place, new light is streaming, welcome you to your Cathedral whether on Children dressing as monks on a school trip, now is the darkness vanished away. your own, part of a big diocesan celebration characters from Dickens’ stories joining us for See, in this space, our fears and our or perhaps on a parish pilgrimage. We write Evensong during the festival and pilgrims from dreamings, to parishes shortly before they are parishes within the Diocese and beyond. brought here to you in the light of this day. remembered on the Diocesan Prayer Diary Some come with specific intentions for prayer, inviting them to come for Evensong, please do others simply come in off the street out of Your Cathedral, for that is what it is, your plan to come and join us in the transforming curiosity. Cathedral, is such a place, where our “fears daily round of prayer. We can even lay on a and dreaming” can be brought to God. But cream tea in the Tea Rooms! One group from a parish in London wrote The Very Rev Dr Mark Beach to us after their visit, complimenting the Haugen goes on:

Bishop James’ Diary - July/August July 1830 Awards Evening with the Archbishop of 25 July 1930 Rededication following Reordering - 1 July 1100 Patronal Festival - St Martin of Tours, Canterbury - Abbey Court School, Rainham St Michael, Wilmington Ashurst 12 July 1930 Institution: the Rev Martin Booth - 29 July 1030 Speak: ‘More Than Gold’ event - 1800 Patronal Festival - St Peter’s (Old Church), Riverhead with Dunton Green Jackson Fields, Rochester Pembury 13 July All day Kent County Show, Detling August 2 July 1730 Bishop’s Council Meeting 1 Aug 0930 Diocesan Synod Planning Group - 14 July 1600 Diocesan Family 2012 Festival - West Bishopscourt 3 July 1500 Garden Party - Retired Clergy & Spouses Kingsdown CEP School and Clergy Widows 5 Aug 1030 Preside & Preach - St Francis of Assisi, 1800 Garden Party - Serving Clergy, Spouses & 15 July 1000 Preside & Preach - 150th Anniversary of Families St James, Tunbridge Wells 4 July 1030 Teddybear Service for Baby & Toddler 1830 Confirmation Service - Holy Trinity, 10 Aug 1030 Gravesend Olympic Celebration - group - Christ Church, Beckenham Beckenham Riverview Junior School

5 July 1930 Confirmation Service - Cobham Deanery at 17 July 1930 Collation: The Rev Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy 11-21 Aug Holiday St John, Meopham 21 July 1000 Patronal Festival - St Mary Magdalene, 26 Aug 1000 Preside & Preach: Dedication of new 6-10 July General Synod - York Gillingham Chapel - St Margaret, Darenth

11 July 0930 Bishop’s Staff Meeting - Bishopscourt 22 July 1030 House of Bishops’ Senior Appointments Group - Leicester

Rochester Diocesan Golf Day - 11 June By the Rev Ian Brown

Twenty four players, male and female, lay and nearest shot to the pin competition, with ordained, gathered in the mist and rain for an Peter’s being the longest drive. Marc won a early start with Bishop James. For the second new club for a ‘special award’ and Gary won year running the games commenced in the the clergy ‘best in class’ competition rain, but our spirits were not dampened and (surnames withheld to prevent undue self- soon the merry sounds of club hitting ball, ball congratulation or despair!). hitting tree and golfers beating the ground in Bishop James presented the prizes, ritual despair were ringing out across the Campbell told us all another story(!), Vicky North Kent countryside! Yes it was good to be received a round of applause for marking all of back on the golf course once more. the scorecards and we all went home When the valiant band of players returned resolved to do better next time.... to the clubhouse for drinks and for lunch, the Next year we hope to repeat the Diocesan tales of our morning’s exertions began to Golf Day on the second Monday in June unfold. Graham came top of the pile, closely 2013, so we invite you to make it a date and followed by John. Derek and Brian won the join with us! 4 ochester Link Advertising Feature

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the Archbishop of Canterbury. This too was deeply appreciated. “The Consecration Service itself required us to be at the Cathedral area at 8.30am and lasted for 3 hours; the accompanying proceedings did not finish until 2pm! (Who complains about long services in ?) We then had a further 2 hours of eating lunch and witnessing greetings and gifts being offered from parishes and groups and other bishops to the new Bishop. “We had personal time with Given Gaula and were able to present him with a pectoral cross as a gift from Bishop James, Bishop Brian and the Diocese here. He was thrilled to bits with this and wore it at his Consecration on the following day. Do pray for him and his people and for their Christian life, witness and service in a part of Tanzania which is materially very poor and where Islam is the majority faith.” The Rev Bryan Knapp, the Rt Rev Dr Given Gaula and the Ven Clive Mansell 6 ochester Link Into the garden

Bishopscourt garden exhibition

Recent visitors to the Bishopscourt represent different areas in Rochester, including Lorenzo's high street restaurant and garden have been treated to a . She explained, "I have display of three dimensional investigated the juxtaposition of my artwork created by students from relationship with the town and the historical landmarks of Rochester as a Cathedral town. the University of Creative Arts Visitors should be able to use the map esque (UCA), entitled, "Into the garden." dial to understand their own physical location Course tutor Rebecca Waterworth said, and my relationship to Rochester." "Into the garden was my idea. It is To create his work entitled, "Ayla sol metaphorical in the sense that the students Pangea" (the moon's halo of light, the sun and take something and extend it. I suppose that’s finally, "pangea" the time when all the earth's how we see the garden in England. The continents were connected), Jesse Pollack garden is a notion of the extension of the studied occult imagery, native art, folk art, house or of the interior space.” Rebecca voodoo and mythology. His idea was to added, “The students initially completed a 10 combine native symbols and patterns to week project for their pre-degree course. create one entire entity. Tucked behind several This exhibition gave them the opportunity to slender tree trunks, the result is a large board extend those ideas into the exhibits displayed bearing the complex image of a bear, drawn in the Bishopscourt garden.” sitting cross-legged, with its right paw raised. Suspended from the boughs of a tree, The body and limbs of the bear are made up Above: Georgina Ritson Georgina Ritson's work, "Digital Sanctuary" of numerous images including eagles, a comprises a transparent acrylic stencil tortoise, a bee and a frog. Nestling at the foot outlining Rochester Cathedral alongside of the tree are four other drawings, each features from the Bishopscourt garden, sketched on a separate section of a tree including a sun-dial and water fountain. trunk. Resting in the flowerbeds beyond, another Pippa Thomson is interested in how we coloured stencil lies on the soil. Georgina commune with nature. Her "cocoon" was said, "I liked the way you can see through a inspired by Hobbit holes from the Lord of the stencil and the outside makes up the image. I Rings film. Created from wood, turf and quilts, decided to hang my stencil on the tree the cocoon is a secure structure, which, because it is near the scenery I used to create despite its artificial creation would grow the image - so as you walk around the naturally over time. It looks like a tunnel garden, you can see the Rochester Cathedral covered with green turf! Pippa said, " My spire." piece is about how we immerse ourselves in Interested in the way space changes over an environment, what we are comfortable and time, artist Layla Moore has created a three uncomfortable with. I am interested in how dimensional map of Rochester from upturned people get an outside lifestyle, how we screw-top jars, sited on concentric circles on respond to nature and how we synthesise that a board. Entitled, "Map esque dial" Layla has with our lifestyle now and for the future.” drawn skyline silhouettes with location details Walking across the lawn, Kirsty Stainsby's in indelible marker on each water-filled jar to work "Worms" can be quite disconcerting.

Above: Layla Moore

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Using a collection of organic material landscapes they were discovered in. Objects including tree branches covered with moss continue on their journey of infinite and lichen, Kirsty has recreated human transformation." Holly has recycled discarded arteries and veins. Painted blood red, the rope, fabric and stones into her creation, gnarled and tapering branches climb the tree bringing new life to them by adding pink, blue trunk to which they have been screwed. A and green threads into the web-like structures further piece is suspended head-height from she created surrounding them. branches of the tree. Reflecting her interest in Nestling under the canopies of several trees biological science, Kirsty said, “My work was and surrounded by ivy on the ground, based on the human vascular system, using "Balancing Structures" was created by James trees as an organic material to show it. I have Davies using mirrors and transparent acrylic. put it on the tree so it is like a section of the He said, "I did not want visitors to be tree with its own blood supply.” distracted from the natural colours, textures Michael Davies took black and white and beauty of the garden. He explained, "I photographs of everyday garden plants such wanted to see how I could contrast between as allium, the curry plant, peony and tulip tree, architectural shapes and the natural shapes hazel, pinecones and columbine to create his and forms that you can find in a garden. I Harmony exhibition. Monochrome used clear materials to show the colours of photographs were suspended against the the garden and by using the mirror I tried to backdrop of a bright green Yew hedge to manipulate views of the garden.” In an art create contrast. He painstakingly cut out gallery, James's work would be balanced acrylic representations of flora and fauna and against itself, but for the garden exhibition, suspended these in the adjacent hedge. where it would have to withstand the wind Above: Michael Davies Michael said, "I took close-up photos of and rain, the exhibit has been glued together. details in the garden and turned them from 90% of wild plants are pollinated by bees 2D drawings to 3D structures out of acrylic. and honey is the only food including all the So I turned the garden elements into more substances necessary to sustain life - architectural features, rather than them looking according to Henry Flaherty's exhibition, completely natural.” "Information is power." Concerned about the At first glance, one installation ("nothing can natural world and the future of humanity, be erased") looks like a huge spider's web, Henry is concerned that bees are tangled with rusty barbed wire and endangered. Interested in information surrounded by rocks each bearing a coloured graphics, Henry's work shows mounted web or lichen growth. Fascinated by disorder images of giant bees atop of interesting facts and vast, mountainous landscapes, Holly "planted" in adjacent plant-pots. Causes of Duce said, "Untamed locations offer a sublime diminishing bee populations include loss of vision embracing fear of the unknown. I have natural habitat, global warming and the been exploring material in a state many would increasing use of pesticides. consider unusable or destroyed. I aimed to Other work exhibited was by Rosemarie amass objects in their state of decay and Foad, Rhianne Hill, Kate Samuels, Holly translate them sculpturally into something McDonald, Tom Helyer-Cardwell and chaotic and lawless as a portrayal of the Rebecca Waterworth.

Above: Holly Duce

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Exhibition celebrating 350 years of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer at St Botolph’s Church, Lullingstone

The Book of Common Prayer worship today. “A well trodden path,” an exhibition at St Birchwood House represents the return to biblical Botolph’s Church, Lullingstone, will invite truth of the . visitors to turn the pages of history. The Rest Home It evolved over five versions, produced exhibition includes 17th century “black letter” during a period of 100 tumultuous years. copies, Georgian editions liberally Residential Home for During this time the country briefly returned to embellished with vibrant illustrations of the Elderly Roman Catholicism under Queen Mary and religious scenes and insights into the Respite care & short the book was banned. The principal author, Georgians at prayer, Victorian miniatures and Thomas Cranmer, was burnt at the stake for appropriately in this Jubilee year, Prayer stay available heresy. When Charles I was beheaded for Books associated with Royal occasions, as A beautifully refurbished Georgian manor house, set treason, there followed 10 years of extreme well as some volumes on loan from the in 6 acres of glorious Kent countryside, within easy Puritanism, when the book was banned again. Chapel Royal at Hampton Court. With over reach of Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells. The 1662 Book was published two years after seventy historic and interesting Prayer Books • All rooms have en-suite facilities & nurse call Charles II had been welcomed back to take on show, the exhibition charts the remarkable system. Lift to all floors. the throne. history of the 1662 Book and its 350th • Excellent home cooking, with special diets catered for. Many generations have had their faith anniversary. Entry is free. Saturday 14th July • Hairdressing, chiropody, library and mobile shop. strengthened by its use and have been 11am – 5pm. Sunday 15th July 12pm – 5pm. • Monthly in-house Holy Communion and links to baptised, married and buried by its rites. It Experience the Book of Common Prayer in the local church. has seen an empire rise and change into a use at the 11am Holy Communion service Stockland Green Road, Commonwealth of Nations. It has helped to preceding the re-opening of the exhibition on spread Anglicanism and the use of the Sunday, when the sermon will be given by the Speldhurst, Kent TN3 0TU English language across the world. It is not a the Ven Clive Mansell. Telephone: Langton (01892 86) 3559 Volumes ranging in date from 1669 to 1911 museum piece but remains an inspiring part of 10 ochester Link Advertising Feature

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Family Fun Day

The Friends of St Paulinus Church Crayford had a stall at the Crayford Town Fun Day (organised by the Crayford Rotary) on Saturday 16 June in the Waterside Gardens, Crayford. Led by their Chair, Marilyn Evennett, and supported by Friends committee members, the stall sold homemade cakes and held a tombola to raise funds. The stall also allowed the Friends to promote the St Paulinus Church Open Day on 6 October and membership of the Friends. Local MP, David Evennett, and local Councillors, Eileen Pallen and Howard Mariner, assisted at the stall. Pictured from left to right: David Evennett MP, Jenny Dunlop (Deputy Chair of the Friends), Wendy Hopwood (Secretary), Marilyn Evennett (Chair), Cllr Eileen Pallen and Cllr Howard Marriner; John Holbrook (Treasurer), Tim Hopwood and Matt Scott. The Cathedral Quire Stalls NNewew SSummerummer The Stalls in the Cathedral Quire, mostly including deaconesses and evangelists, EEditiondition occupied by the Honorary Canons of the together with parish, school and college Cathedral, are each named after significant missions in South London and temperance. characters in Rochester’s long history. He confirmed and later backed Wilson Carlile in founding the Church Army. In 1890 he was NNowow Out!Out! Anthony Thorold - Anthony Wilson Thorold appointed , dying in was born of a noble family in Lincolnshire in office in 1895 on the 18th anniversary of his The Son is a proactive, 1825. He graduated from Queen’s College consecration. An evangelical by conviction, provocative and Oxford in 1847 and was ordained in 1849. Bishop Thorold travelled widely for recreation, After a distinguished parish ministry in as far as America and Australia. He spoke and uncompromising central London, he was appointed a wrote well, inspiring his colleagues by newspaper which aims Residentiary Canon of York in 1874, and sincerity, hard work and devotion to Christ. consecrated in 1877. to put Jesus back at As Bishop, he was a fine administrator who The current Canon to occupy this stall the the centre of society. led by example. He established a fund for Rev Canon Ruth Oates. Rev Canon Ruth Oates ten new churches, encouraged lay ministry Written and presented in an easy to read tabloid style, based on the UK’s biggest circulation newspapers, The Son is an ideal tool to reach believers and unbe- Intercession during July/August lievers as well. 1 July: St Mary, Gravesend 24 July: St Paul with All Saints, Chatham 11 August: Cliffe with Cooling As well as up-to-the-minute 2 July: Advisory Council for Communications 25 July: Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust 12 August: Cuxton & Halling news, showbiz and sport from 3 July: Istead Rise 26 July: St Philip and St James, Chatham 13 August: South East Coast Ambulance the paper, we bring you some 4 July: Christ Church, Milton 27 July: St Stephen, Chatham NHS Trust uplifting testimonies and insight 5 July: St Peter and St Paul, Milton 28 July: Kent Air Ambulance 14 August: with & from The Son’s brilliant team of 29 July: Oxleas NHS Trust 6 July: General Synod 6-10 July columnists. 7 July: Mothers’ Union 30 July:Luton 15 August: Grain with Stoke 8 July: Sea Sunday 31 July: Princes Park 16 August: with Allhallows & 9 July: The Thames Gateway Management St Mary, Hoo It’s an ideal tool for 1 August: Queen Mary Sidcup NHS Trust Group 17 August: Burrswood Christian Centre Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS outreach. Why not 10 July: Christians working in the media 18 August: Higham with Merston Trust 11 July: Northfleet and Rosherville 19 August: St Werburgh, Hoo use The Son to reach 2 August: Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust 12 July: Members of Parliament & EC 20 August: Hospices serving the Diocese & Tunbridge Wells NHS Representatives 21 August: Diocesan Committee amongst the your community? Trust 13 July: Perry Street Deaf & Deaf/Blind 3 August: South West Kent PCT 14 July: Shorne 22 August: St Nicholas with St Mary, Strood Order your copies today: Dartford, Gravesham & Swanley 15 July: Southfleet 23 August: H M Prison Service NHS Trust www.theson.org.uk 16 July: Kent County Councils and local 24 August: Kent Ecumenical Police 4 August: NHS Trust Towns and District Councils Chaplaincy or call The Son hotline on 5 August: Kent & Medway NHS and Social 17 July: Chaplains, Air Training and Sea 25 August: Tonbridge Archdeaconry Care Partnership Trust Cadet Corp 26 August: Malling Deanery 01752 225623. 6 August: St , Rochester 18 July: Swanscombe 27 August: Aylesford 7 August: St Peter with St Margaret, 19 July: Rochester Deanery 28 August: Barming Rochester 20 July: Friends of the Clergy Corporation 29 August: BART Group 8 August: South Chatham The Son. 21 July: Borstal 30 August: Patrons responsible for livings 9 August: Medway PCT 22 July: St Mary and St John, Chatham 31 August: Burham & Wouldham 10 August: Strood Deanery 23 July: Our ministry to tourists and visitors We love him!

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The pace of social change, driven are afraid to open our emails for fear they will by digital communication, has been hurt us, but my suspicion is that some people have already arrived at that point. so fast in our lifetime that we The breathtaking speed of the digital forget how far we have come. revolution means that there are few norms Some of you will have seen Wall Street 2, surrounding its use. Over decades, social the post-crash sequel to the defining yuppie etiquette has developed slowly to deal with film of the 80s. Gordon Gekko is released the challenges of modern life. Good manners from prison for insider trading after twenty are no anachronism: they guide and advise years. He is handed his possessions by the human relationships, ensuring we treat one prison authorities, which include a another with respect and equality. But the monstrously sized mobile phone, once the advances in digital technology have been so height of sophistication but now a period rapid that we have yet to see good norms of absurdity. We have come a long way from the behaviour emerge surrounding them. At first it green glow Amstrad computers we once was the use of the mobile phone in a public used. place, often a train, where someone would In decades to come we will be known as treat the whole carriage to the minutiae of the first generation of the digital age. We may their love-life or what they are going to cook feel we are managing its challenges with cool that night. Now it’s the use of social media. self-awareness, but there is a chance that One commentator recently expressed her future eras will be aghast at our failure to dismay to find people updating their online handle new technology in a way that enabled statuses in the middle of a funeral service. human flourishing rather than undermine it. Some of you may have seen this happen. While digital tools enable us to have swift and Facebook and other social media sites words which dissipate into the air, these can era’s media and a whole world of opportunity efficient communication with one another, they have the potential to draw us closer together be recorded and shared by others. And they is out there. We should not be afraid, but find lack the essential intimacy of face to face and many of us have enjoyed this facility, even are. Bishops and Archdeacons have been encouragement and strength to pursue it. communication. By definition emails pare if it is sometimes surrounded by the most known to receive print-outs sent by people Some of you already are, and this day will down to a minimum the courtesies and mundane and prosaic of dialogue. But I worry essentially snitching on vicars. The fact that help you on this path. We don’t have to keep kindnesses of meeting someone. They can about the ethics of social media. Facebook’s pace with every avenue of communication, but our thinking is now routinely recorded in also be used aggressively to bully or creators have gone on record that part of the find our milieu. I have a personal website I digital form is like some kind of perverse intimidate without the cost of having to say it philosophy behind the company is the belief work on a little each week. It’s there for fulfilment of the eschatological promise that to someone’s face, thus creating something of that any divisions between public and private others to view if they want to. Yet I can’t be what we whisper in private will be shouted a coward’s charter today. in a person’s life are essentially false and bothered with Facebook and Twitter. For me from the rooftops. Social media are public, not We have all been hurt by emails; it is quite should be removed and that Facebook does that’s too much effort. But many churches are private and we should drill this mantra into likely we have hurt other people without that for us. Leaving to one side the alarm I feel using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in the realising it or intending to. Most people are that the biggest experiment in the history of ourselves. most creative and imaginative of ways. Be able to pick up the clues they are being given social intercourse is being driven by some One of the questions often asked of content with what you like, really. But always in face to face communication. Digital geographically removed men, I believe we celebrities is: Do you Google yourself? Some hold before you a sense that, in spite of this communication, by contrast, draws a veil over have dividing lines between public and private lie and say they don’t. I would recommend you media’s limitations, the Holy Spirit will the face. Some are critical of other cultures to reflect the complex and multi-layered nature do, if you haven’t! It's possibly the first thing a ceaselessly be at work to bring glory to God. for drawing opaque veils over the faces of of our personality. We should relate differently journalist will do if they are digging round a Only a few decades ago, the only people people, but blithely embrace this digital to family, friends, acquaintances, work story. There may not be much we can do who left a legacy in print were those veiling. The moral is clear: if we have colleagues and strangers. If we didn’t it would about the outcome, but it is helpful to know commissioned to write books or about whom something difficult to say to someone we become a disorientating world where all what’s there. books were written. This has changed. One should say it to their face, or at the least over become vulnerable. Yet this is what Facebook If these are some of the pitfalls of the of the enduring legacies we will now leave the phone, where voice intonation can be and other social media sites achieve. digital revolution, we could spend a day surrounding your faith is our digital footprint. discerned and a fluid conversation sustained. We should be very careful what we put looking at the benefits. The Christian message So let’s ensure it is an assured, gracious and It would be sad to create a world where we online, especially as Christian leaders. Unlike has endlessly and fruitfully adapted to the generous one for future generations to enjoy.

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The man who delivers Link around the “As a group we have been walking together Diocese each month, Tony Gilbert, together for a while and decided we wanted to take on with a group of bellringing friends from the a challenge and, while doing it, raise money Rochester area, is taking on the “Three for a local charity. The charity we have chosen Peaks Challenge”. The Challenge is to climb is Emmaus Medway. Emmaus Medway is part the three highest peaks in Scotland, of the national Emmaus movement, whose England and Wales in under 24 hours. President is Terry Waite CBE and Patron is A challenge indeed, as Tony describes: HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. Emmaus “During the course of the 24 hours we will supports people who are going through a climb Ben Nevis standing at 1344 metres, tough time and helps them get back on their Scafell Pike at a height of 978 metres and feet by offering them housing and learning a finally Snowdon at 1085 metres. On top of new set of skills recycling furniture, which is this, we will be travelling around 400 miles then sold through the Emmaus shop. The between the three peaks. Medway shop is at High Street, Rochester – “If that’s not enough, after driving to right on the corner by the Railway Station. Edinburgh on route to the start of the If you would like to support us in raising funds challenge we hope to be ringing at for this local charity go to Edinburgh Cathedral the night before. www.justgiving.co.uk and follow the search for The challenge will start at 5pm on Friday “The Bellringers”. 27 July at the foot of Ben Nevis and we will Walkers: Derna Brown, Alan Carfrae, Pete complete it (hopefully) by 5pm on 28 July Cornell, Tony Gilbert, Vince Howell and Ben when we descend Snowdon and reach the Kipling. Right to left: Pete Cornell, Vince Howell, Alan Carfree, Derna Brown and Tony Gilbert Pen-y-Pas Youth Hostel.