October 2017 Cathedral News 2 FROM THE CLERGY This month the Dean writes … of administration that has procured the In Praise of Administration grant money for the Bells Project and On Tuesday 29 August a good number of the many other projects that have us were at Oxenhope for Cat Thatcher’s recently been delivered here. It is licensing as priest at St Mary’s but also as administration that has delivered the Clergy Development Officer for annual Artspace and Music programme. Bradford Episcopal Area. It was packed Look around the Cathedral and note the out and such a wonderful service. You things that require administration and felt welcomed as soon as you went in you will see that you cannot operate and when some of us ended up sitting without it. It is a spiritual gift that is both on the floor and tables it just improved pastoral and strategic. Praise God for the feel of the event. It was clear that administration!! the congregation had prepared very well On 26 November at 4pm Choral for the event and organisationally it was Evensong Bishop Nick will be installing a triumph. some new Canons but we shall also be Administration is often missed out in the praying for the Cathedral Council and lists of more obvious expressions of Chapter. In addition, we shall be ministry but it is absolutely vital for a commissioning three new Cathedral healthy church. Without it things get Chaplains, Myra Shackley, Helen Lealman missed and it shows. We are fortunate at and Rod Anderson. I am delighted that the Cathedral to have some gifted they have taken up the invitation to be administrators, both in the congregation Chaplains and they have doubled the size and the staff. Administrators are the of the team. Cathedral Foundations completer finishers, the ones who (Chapter, Council and College of anticipate and serve, often in very hidden Canons) have come under the national and less than obvious ways. Who spotlight recently and the national organised the food distribution and Cathedrals Working Group will collection at the feeding of the 5000? undoubtedly be addressing some of the Who organised the new community of areas that need to be improved. Do Jesus in Jerusalem after his resurrection? come along for this special service and They could not have happened without pray for your Foundation. someone organising them! It is the gift The Dean Dean Jerry Canon Paul Canon Mandy Director of Op’s Amanda 3 MISSION Sudan Church Association Usually you need to place two stamps together adding up to the correct postal rate, at no extra cost to yourself. You can choose whether to order Christmas stamps, or other designs. Stamps are available in First or Second class and in The Sudan Church Association is the packs of 20, 50 and 100. network which supports the Episcopal Investigate for yourself to find a greater Church of South Sudan which includes variety of choices or, if you wish to our Link Diocese of Kadugli, and Sudan. order independently, email Its key scriptural text is “I was hungry [email protected] or ring Helen on and you fed me; I was thirsty and you 01626 865757. gave me drink; I was a stranger and you I have simplified the options for the sake took me in; I was naked and you clothed of a bulk order that’s not too me; I was sick and you visited me.” Matt complicated! Otherwise please place 25 v35 and its objective is to promote your orders with me, Jane Tarver, a.s.a.p., and maintain prayerful interest and and by Sunday 15 October. support for the church and people of 20 x 2nd class stamps at 56p = £11.20 this war-torn part of Africa. 50 x 2nd class stamps at 56p = £28.00 For some years now Bradford Cathedral 100 x 2nd class stamps at 56p = £56.00 has supported SCA by patronising their Please make your cheques payable to: Mint Stamps Scheme. Through bequests Mrs J M Tarver. and bulk purchasing SCA can sell older mint commemorative stamps for YOU to So as we begin to prepare for a Jesus- affix on your Christmas card envelopes centred Christmas please consider and other mail throughout the year. supporting this venture! Jane Tarver Monthly Worship Workshop This month on Sunday 15 October from 11.45am - 12.30pm in St Aidan's Chapel. We will be discussing the place of hymns within our weekly Eucharist and in particular the rationale behind their selection. Please come and be part of the conversation. Canon Paul Our Purpose To serve Jesus Christ as a vibrant community of worship and mission enriching the City, the Diocese and further afield. Our Values Hospitality Faithfulness Wholeness 4 MISSION Acorn Christian Healing Foundation The last newsletter from Acorn an- nounced the start of a residential pro- Stitching the Cathedral gramme at their HQ at Whitehill Chase, We’re now about halfway through the Bordon. They are asking us to continue time we have to complete the to pray for this project (MxP) and the kneelers for the high altar. We four initial young people who are under- worked out recently that we’ve put in going the training involved. The partici- at least 800 hours work so far! pants are being trained to go out into their churches to extend the Christian The Dean is planning to incorporate Healing ministry. the culmination of this project into the Cathedral’s centenary The programme of training in the Heal- celebrations in 2019, so we need not ing ministry and the Christian Listening ministry, both of which we at the Cathe- to relax our efforts! We would love dral have benefited from in the past, con- to welcome both experienced tinues and grows and again our prayers stitchers and also those who haven’t a are requested for all those involved both clue! Help is available and you’ll find it workers at Acorn and volunteers in a very pleasant way of passing time churches throughout the country. and making new friends. The HQ at Whitehill Chase regularly run One word of warning: the session we courses of Listening, Healing and Quite had planned for Saturday 21 October Days for reflection and an opportunity has been cancelled as the choir are on to refresh oneself and these are open to their half-term break. anyone who would feel they could bene- For more information, please contact fit from time away to reflect and re- Gillian Davis, the Cathedral’s charge. Education and Visitor Officer or Acorn continues to follow Bishop Morris 01274 777720 or email her on Maddock’s original vision of growing the [email protected]. Healing ministry in the church and his passion for leading people to meet with Jesus at their point of need. Acorn are so grateful for our continued financial and prayer support so please keep this ministry in your prayers. Alex McLelland 5 MISSION Place: An accessible and hospitable building, open at the same time every week. People: Open to everyone regardless of their circumstances or Launch date situation, and staffed by volunteers. Presence: A place where people Wednesday 4 October actively listen to one another. at 3pm Provision: Offering free Everyone is welcome to pop in refreshments (at least a cup of tea and for a chat and a drink and cake. a biscuit) and basic local information. Places of Welcome is a network of Participation: Recognises that small community organisations, every person coming to a Place of including faith communities, who offer Welcome will bring talents, an unconditional welcome to local experiences and skills that they might people for at least a few hours a week. be willing to share locally. The primary aim of the Places of The Community Committee, as part Welcome network is that ”every of the strategic development plan, has been looking for tangible ways to neighbourhood has places where all extend the Cathedral’s deep people feel safe to belong, connect commitment to hospitality and and contribute.” welcome to the city. Working with Places of Welcome developed out of Horton Housing we plan to launch the Birmingham Social Inclusion our Place of Welcome on Wednesday process ‘Giving Hope Changing Lives’, afternoons starting on 4 October as a response to the question - Is 2017 between 3pm and 4.30pm. Birmingham a welcoming city? We are looking for volunteers to help While Places of Welcome began in with hospitality and to welcome Birmingham, it is now developing people to the Cathedral. It is a further afield, as people respond to wonderful opportunity to get to the challenge to make our cities know new people and extend the and neighbourhoods more hand of friendship. welcoming. For further information please The network has developed a set of contact Canon Mandy guiding principles, key elements Further information about Places of of a Place of Welcome, which are Welcome can be found on their known as the 5P's - they are: website www.placesofwelcome.org 6 ECO Cathedral Wood Project - planting today for tomorrow’s future What is it? special focus on trees. As a Cathedral Planting trees to create new we have been looking for ways to off- permanent woodland. set our Carbon Footprint and we Aim of the Project recognized the remarkable gift that To create a green space in the city trees are to us in fixing CO2 in the which reflects our biblical mandate to atmosphere and producing O2 during be stewards of creation. daylight hours. Members of the congregation raised enough money to To fulfil our ambition, towards becoming plant over 60 trees, which Forest for Carbon neutral as a Cathedral and to Bradford which plant.