GOOD NEWS FROM THE CHURCH OF DIOCESE OF SEPTEMBER 2016 St Matthias being launched at a Holy Trinity Brompton Focus Week. Olly is joined by Nicky Gumbel, Bishop Sarah and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby RESOURCING CHURCH in N EXCITING new development launch at a big event at 5.30pm on Sunday 25 in church life in Plymouth is September. being launched this month as a Olly said: “We want to play our part to help Resource Church opens its doors. everyone to experience what it is to come to Resource is a national initiative know God. God is very much alive and loves Awhich aims to create city centre hubs to people and loves life. serve, resource and encourage the church “We want to help people and encourage for growth. It will do this through planting them in all areas of their lives; to come new churches, supporting existing churches, alongside them in the heavy stuff of life. We delivering high quality training and inspiring want to work out how Church can best bring social transformation initiatives. hope, life and joy.” In February Olly Ryder was appointed as The Bishop of Plymouth, Nick McKinnel Priest-in-Charge of St Matthias Church, North said: “I am delighted to welcome Olly and our Hill to begin work and to make connections new Resource Church to Plymouth which will with all the other churches in Plymouth and be a great addition to the churches that we the South West. The church will officially already have here.”

NEW gargoyle in the shape of a Bishop’s Bishop Sarah unveils mitre has been unveiled by NEW GARGOYLE ABishop Sarah, marking her on the 15th century tower. appointment as the first It was designed to mark woman bishop in Devon. the appointment of Bishop The new gargoyle on Sarah Mullally as the new the church of St Mary, bishop of in 2015. replaces one She was the first woman lost from the church bishop in the South West, decades ago, and joins the and the fourth in the three remaining gargoyles country as a whole. Please pray for all those to be ordained as deacons and priests in our diocese this month:

Those being ordained Deacon on Sunday Those to be ordained priest during the 11th September in Exeter Cathedral by weekend of 24/25 September in locations Bishop Robert: around the diocese:

●● PHILLIP BROKENSHIRE ●● REVD DAVID BOND Benefice of Holy Trinity Exeter and Dodbrooke ●● BEVERLEY CREE ●● REVD CARL BUDDEN Benefice of Plymouth Emmanuel, St Paul Eggbuckland Efford and St Augustine ●● REVD MURRAY ALDRIDGE-COLLINS ●● ROBERT DENSMORE , Lee, , Benefice of Upton (St Mary Magdalene) and MortehoeRobert ●● HELEN DREVER ●● REVD LEON CATALLO Benefice of Crediton, , and Plymouth Saint Andrew and Saint Paul Sandford with Upton Hellions Stonehouse ●● ROBERT FOWLER ●● REVD RUTH FRAMPTON Benefice of Charles with St Matthias and with ●● JANE HAYES Benefice of , , Buckland ●● REVD CLIVE JOBBINS Brewer, Hartland, , , Mission Community Woolfardisworthy West, Bucks Mills ●● REVD DR STEVEN MARTIN and Lundy , St Paul & Brent Tor ●● STEVEN JONES ●● REVD BRYANT SANDERS MBE Benefice of with Bridgetown, Mission Community , with Brooking, ●● REVD CHRISTOPHER DURRANT , , and Exeter St David ●● REVD JANE FROST ●● PENNY LAWSON Totnes Mission Community Benefice of South Molton with Nymet ●● REVD ANNE FUTCHER Saint George, High Bray, Charles, Colyton, , and , Warkleigh with Satterleigh, , Kingsnympton, ●● REVD PETER INGERSLEV with Twitchen, and Topsham and Wear with ●● REVD NATHAN KIYAGA ●● ADAM PRICE Upton (Saint Mary Magdalene) Benefice of St Budeaux ●● REVD JEAN LOVEDAY ●● CATHY SCOFFIELD , , , Benefice of Brendon, Countisbury, , ●● CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR and Benefice of Plymouth Emmanuel, St Paul ●● REVD PROFESSOR MORWENNA LUDLOW Efford and St Augustine Exeter Cathedral ●● SUSAN TUCKER ●● REVD CAROLINE RABY Benefice of Tavistock, Gulworthy and with Marwood and Brent Tor West DownRevd Pam WheelerBrixham ●● STEPHEN YATES Mission Community Benefice of St Matthias, St Mark and Holy ●● REVD LEIGH WINSBURY Trinity (Torquay) Mission Community PILGRIM on a journey

OLLOWING A matter of gritting your teeth and although taking on a CAREER as a and echoing the man in challenging role is positive solicitor and the Gospel who shouted about the experience. He having journeyed ‘I believe, forgive my said: “It has been a bumpy through grief unbelief’.” road…. but on the whole Ffollowing the death of Nick had been involved it has been an amazing two of their children, in church youth work for journey.” Nick Shutt responded to many years and following He adds: “I love the image God’s call to ordination conversations with his then of us being pilgrims who and is now Rector of the rector decided to explore journey with purpose. It is West Dartmoor Mission the path to ordained very fitting for a place like Community. ministry. What became clear Dartmoor which is littered Nick and his wife Corinne to Nick in the process is his with wayside crosses were left devastated over belief in self-supporting and ancient trackways their loss and they realised ministry. previously used by that there are no easy He said: “I am a pilgrims.” answers where suffering is passionate believer in self- And it is Nick’s vision of concerned. supporting ministry and us as God’s people that he He said: “In the midst I continued with my legal finishes with: “Our God- of our grief we found it career.” given lives are precious and hard to cope with those Only later, following it would be good to see who seemed to want to retirement from law, did more people embrace the turn our tragedy into Nick become a full-time fact that Christ came so something good. I learned minister (still unpaid) in the that we might enjoy that faith is sometimes a Yelverton Team Ministry abundant life.”

Nick with Willow, their new 14 week old Cocker Spaniel puppy

Faith is sometimes a matter of gritting your teeth and shouting ‘I believe, forgive my unbelief’ Open the doors of faith

T THE BEGINNING OF MAY I had the great joy of sharing with some friends in a pilgrimage to Rome as part of the celebrations of a recent significant birthday. The Acity is in the midst of a Jubilee Year of Mercy, announced by Pope Francis just over a year ago. The first thing that struck me as I wandered round the city wasn’t the number of pilgrims but the hugely increased security since my last visit four years ago. Every metro ‘Jesus Christ is the face of the Father’s mercy’ station, tourist site, government building and and reminded his hearers that the Psalmist religious site was guarded by armed forces proclaims that ‘God’s mercy endures for personnel: a very visual sign of the real fear evermore’ (Ps 136). The mercy of God is his of a terrorist attack in the Eternal City. loving concern for each one of us and we are It’s very easy when we are faced with commended to be merciful as those to whom images of terror attacks, be they in Europe mercy has been shown. or around the world, to retreat to a world In the midst of an increasingly terrorised of fear to close our lives off from what is world, with the necessary security that frightening, from what is different. But the entails, the role of the church is to throw Jubilee Year reminded me that as Christians open the doors of faith ever wider, to and as the Church we are called not to close proclaim ever more loudly over the clamour ourselves off to the world but to be open and of a violent world the message of the mercy welcoming. and love of God and to make real and One of the features of any Jubilee Year is apparent that love and mercy in our own the door. All over the world churches have lives and the life of his world. opened a door named the Door of Mercy. This is especially so in Rome where the major THE VEN IAN CHANDLER basilicas have a door which is normally ARCHDEACON OF PLYMOUTH sealed but only opened during a Jubilee. An open and welcoming sign in the midst of fear This article was written before the murder of the and protection. Catholic priest Pere Jacques in northern France. In his announcement of the Jubilee of Please continue to pray for all at the church and Mercy, Pope Francis began with the words, for the people of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

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