Walking Welcoming THE BRIDGE Growing

Newspaper of the Anglican Diocese of Vol.24 No.6 July/August 2019

Inside Ordained for ministry THE BRIDGE ...this month in Southwark Diocese Twenty-four people were ordained as Deacons by Bishop Christopher on Marking the 2nd Saturday 29 June in anniversary of the - Bridge more than the number attack - page 3 ordained in the past two years combined. As the Diocese welcomed this year’s new deacons, and celebrated eleven deacons being ordained priest, there was more good news relating to vocations in Southwark. Since 2015, the number of people entering the discernment process Don’t just take a exploring ordained ministry holiday... make a in the Diocese of Southwark Those ordained Deacon and the where they will serve their curacies are as follows: pilgrimage has increased by 130% and Hayley Argles-Grant: Ruth Chapman: Hannah Gordon: Joseph Moore: - pages 8/9 lay ministries have increased Streatham, St Leonard Warlingham w Chelsham & Carshalton Beeches, The Good Minster by 65%. Sarah Atkins: Ham, St Richard Farleigh Team Ministry Shepherd Nicholas Quanrud: These fi gures far exceed Dr Emmanuel Baikie: Dr Stephen Davidson: Reginald Grant: Kennington, St John The the strategic objective Surbiton Hill, Christ Church North Lambeth Team Ministry Reigate, St Mark Divine w St James The Apostle set in 2017 as part of the Liz Barnett: Bernadette Excell: Jonathan Haynes, Putney, St Tomos Reed: Southwark Vision, which Dulwich, St Barnabas , St Mary & St John Mary South Dulwich, St Stephen aimed to grow lay and Trini Mari (Carol) Bates; The Divine Michael Johns-Perring: Joseph (Josh) Skidmore: ordained vocations by 50% East Wickham, St Michael Paul Fitzpatrick: Surbiton, St Andrew & St Mark Wimbledon, Emmanuel by 2020. Martin Calderbank: Beddington & Roundshaw, St Tim Jones: (Proprietary Chapel) Great strides have also Barnes, St Michael Michael & All Angels Clapham, Holy Trinity Sarah Whitehouse: been made in increasing & All Angels Erin Gilmour: Emma Lowth: Tooting, All Saints In Profile - diversity among our ordained Reigate, St Mary Magdalene Gipsy Hill, Christ Church Deepthi Wickremasinghe: Charlton United ministers in order to refl ect Walworth, St Christopher Benefice - page 11 the diversity of the Diocese – another major goal. Of the 61 On Saturday 6 July 11 Deacons were ordained to the Priesthood having served a year as Deacons: ordinands in training in the CROYDON AREA KINGSTON AREA WOOLWICH AREA Diocese in 2018, 24% were Ordained by the Bishop of Ordained by the Bishop of Ordained by the Bishop of Chris Hanning black, Asian and minority Croydon in Croydon Minster. Kingston at Kingston, All Saints. Southwark at Bermondsey, Blackheath, ethnic (BAME), well above Cordella Dawson Lisa Bewick St James. St John the Evangelist Page 15 the national average. Woodside, St Luke Waterloo, St John w St Andrew Timothy Ajayi Jacob Mercer In addition, more than a Alistair Forster Tom Collins Blackheath, Bermondsey, Hearts third (35%) were under 32 Norbury, St Oswald Balham Hill, The Ascension St Michael & All Angels St James & St Anne UB years old, nearly half (48%) Darius Weithers Vanessa Elston Raymond Baudon Christopher Rogers on Fire were women and 30% were Croydon, St Matthew South Lambeth, East Dulwich, Catford (Southend) & with a Vision offering for non-stipendiary St Anne & All Saints St John the Evangelist Downham Team Ministry for growth ministry. Walking with Jesus and “These fi gures really show getting to know Jesus that Southwark is taking its better as we journey on strategic objectives seriously Welcoming all, and equipping its ministry embracing our diversity to refl ect our vibrant and and seeking new ways of being church diverse Diocese,” said Ruth Martin, Diocesan Secretary. Growing in numbers, generosity, faith and “We are very proud and discipleship as we grow happy to welcome all our God’s Kingdom new deacons.” Follow the Diocesan Blog: ‘Hearts on Fire – sharing God’s Good News in Southwark Diocese’ - http://southwarkcofe.tumblr.com/ 2 THE BRIDGE... July/August 2019 A view from Standing together to combat THE BRIDGE serious youth violence St Mark’s Church, Kennington hosted ‘Churches Standing Together’ on 4 July - a Synergy Travel broadens Network meeting to discuss how to tackle the rising challenge of serious youth violence. the mind It brought together youth Mark Twain practitioners from churches famously wrote and other groups to explore “Travel is fatal to how different organisations can prejudice, bigotry, work with the Church and youth and narrow- outreach programmes. mindedness…. The meeting heard from broad, wholesome, organisations working with charitable views young people and in local of men and things communities and about the new cannot be acquired Churches Together in Britain by vegetating in and Ireland website ‘Churches one little corner of Standing Together’. After group the earth all one’s discussions the meeting closed lifetime”. with communion led by the Perhaps the same Revd Canon Steve Coulson and might be said of the Revd Canon Dr Rosemarie those of us who have Mallett. found our niche in The event was organised in one church or style cooperation with Churches of worship, closing Together in Britain and Ireland, our minds to alternatives. London City Mission, Ascension For many of us our holidays are not just a chance Trust and the Diocese of to ‘get away from it all’. They’re also an opportunity Southwark. to take time to refl ect, to give thanks, to pray and to attend services in diff erent churches, perhaps a church where the style of service and congregation are not what we’re used to. ‘Church on the This month’s centrespread focuses on pilgrimages. Many of us don’t have the time or energy to tackle the Camino de Santiago, but there are other, easier, Hill’ celebrates options closer to home, like Cornwall’s Saints’ Way, the probable route of early Christian pilgrims on their way from Ireland and Wales to Brittany and elsewhere. diamond jubilee Aside from walking, one of the things I enjoy on holiday is being able to celebrate religious festivals in St Barnabas Church, serve for many years to come. a diff erent way. This year I was in Palma at Easter, to Purley celebrated its The St Barnabas witness the amazing spectacle of thousands of people congregation were joined dressed as penitents walking from their local churches 60th anniversary on in celebration by All Saints, to their cathedral. Sunday 9 June. Kenley and The Hayes Church, We joined people of all ages to watch the procession, Bishop Christopher presided Kenley, both sister churches. listening to the hypnotic beat of drums which enable at the service of celebration Later in the afternoon St those carrying the pasos (fl oats refl ecting scenes from with Priest in Charge the Revd Barnabas hosted a Purley the Gospels) to keep in step, sharing sweets with Justine Middlemiss and in Churches Together service of and chatting to people we didn’t know, sometimes the presence of the Mayor of ‘Scones and Songs’. just being quiet. It was a chance to refl ect on the Croydon Cllr Humayun Kabir. importance of walking and celebrating together and, as The Bishop described the pasos paused en route, it was also an opportunity ‘The Church on the Hill’ as to say a small, silent prayer, giving thanks for an very important to the life opportunity to share with others a closeness with God. and worship of the Purley Sallie Eden community and said that hoped it would continue to Chair: Biddy Taylor E: biddytaylor.spidirchair The SEPTEMBER edition @gmail.com is due to be printed on 22 AUGUST and in your 020 7622 4912 THE BRIDGE from the following For information about Sunday. training courses to The Bridge is produced & published by Material for that edition become a spiritual Kent Christian Press for Press and Communications must be with Wendy S. on behalf of The Diocese of Southwark, Trinity House, director contact Biddy Robins at Trinity House by Taylor (above) 4 Chapel Court, , London SE1 1HW MONDAY 12 AUGUST Tel: 020 7939 9400 Membership Secretary E-mail: [email protected] Space limitations mean that we cannot guarantee to E: [email protected] 01306 884467 Managing Editor: Editorial publish everything we receive and material may be edited. 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Margaret is still a valued member of the for further information ministry team at St Luke’s Church, Eltham Park. The Bridge - in print, in your parish... and on line at www.southwark.anglican.org/thebridge THE BRIDGE...July/August 2019 3 Second anniversary of London Bridge attack commemorated in the Cathedral The second up in the attack, and PC Wayne of London, and representatives Marques GM, of the British of other organisations anniversary of the Transport Police, who was including Southwark Council London Bridge attack injured in the attack. and the Police Service. was commemorated During his address, the Dean The Cathedral remained at a special Choral of Southwark, The Very Revd open all evening for prayer , talked about the and silent refl ection. The day Evensong in ongoing inquest into the attack of Remembrance was brought Southwark Cathedral and said, “we want to know the to a close with a service of on Monday 3 June truth because the truth will set Compline at 9.58pm, fi nishing us free – eventually”. at 10.16pm, marking the times It was attended by survivors The full address can be found of the start and fi nish of the of the attack, families of the attack. victims, police offi cers, civic on the Cathedral website: leaders and others who were http://bit.ly/2Z1RS4Q. Bishop Christopher said affected by the events of that At the end of the service that the Service was “all about evening. the congregation processed the slow, hard painful road of healing. It comes by growing The Queen was represented outside to the Tree of Healing, planted on the fi rst anniversary closer to each other and at the service by her Deputy sharing what those depths of Lieutenant for the Borough of of the attack, for an Act of Remembrance where the fear have been and where we Southwark, Simon Duckworth; are two years on”. also present were the Mayor of names of those who died were London, Sadiq Khan; the Mayor read out and silence was kept. Images from the service can of Southwark, Cllr Sandra The fi nal blessing was be found on Flickr at: https:// Rhule; Neil Coyle, MP for given jointly by The Bishop fl ic.kr/s/aHsmE1PkgE Bermondsey & Old Southwark, of Southwark, The Rt Revd and Peter John, Leader of , and the Southwark Council. Roman Catholic Archbishop During the service the Mayor of Southwark, the Most Revd of London lit a Candle of Peter Smith. Remembrance on the altar on At the end of the service behalf of the people of London fl oral tributes were laid in (left) and the Lessons were read front of the Tree of Healing by 3 day Refresher course by Amir Eden, Chair of Living survivors and relatives of the for spiritual directors Bankside, one of those caught victims and also by the Mayor currently on the SPIDIR directory Mon Sept 30th, Jan 20th & Mar 2nd 10.30 am -3.30 pm Bring your lunch Tea and coffee provided. 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For the past 17 years Whoosh is people from the Parish In June a team of budding artists from St Peter’s Church, Limpsfield and the village of Herne Hill have have been outside showcasing their artistic talent. Led by Dr Richard Spiller, the headed out on their team have created a community mural depicting pilgrims from Geoffrey Chaucer’s bikes for an early May ‘Canterbury Tales’ on dormant hoardings opposite St Peter’s Church Hall. 17 going on 18 cycling pilgrimage. The project was completed in just under a week and has plans to expand involving more of the community, with a panel reserved for children from the local Church of England Infant School in Limpsfield. The mural can be seen from the church and is lit Jim Belben writes This fi rst ride gave us our gives us a sense of shared at night by street lamps, admired by many including passers-by who use the church hall name – Welsh Hills O O enterprise. In the evenings entrance to get down to the Glebe Meadow. School Hall. Since then we we eat together, sing together Cycling 50 to 70 miles have tackled Land’s End, Saint and play games – good old- per day is not for the David’s, the Scottish Highlands fashioned fun you might say! & Islands, the Causeway Coast The ride has also built up faint hearted – but in Northern Ireland and much our parish life. It has engaged for many of us it has more. men and women who were become the highlight This year’s ride – our 17th otherwise not involved in of our year, combining – took us from Exmouth church life. on the South Devon coast It has given us much broader physical challenge with to Cleethorpes on the charitable impact. We support wonderful company Lincolnshire coast, broadly projects that might not and amazing scenery. following the ancient Fosse otherwise get parish time or Way! The photo shows us about money. It all started as a parental to set off from Bath on a crisp But most of all I think it fundraising effort for the parish May morning. school, St Saviour’s. We were has a sense of pilgrimage. To Over our 17 years we have building a new school hall wake up each day knowing you raised funds for over 30 and needed to raise £20,000 have a place to get to, and a different charities (two or ourselves to top off the grant challenging ride to get there, WWYCHCROFTYCHCROFT sometimes three each time) RRetreatetreat andand RResourceesource Centre,Centre, BBletchingleyletchingley funding. Simon Brindley (one but knowing you are doing it in raising between £10,000 and • OOpportunitiespportunities aandnd sspacepace fforor nnurtureurture aandnd pprayerrayer of our Readers) suggested a the company of others, hearing £15,000 each year. 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THE BRIDGE...July/August 2019 5 Your Lent Call donations help the Church Army in Nairobi On 13 June Bishop Christopher emphasis on the training of The Church Army degradation that is so obvious hosted a meeting with the students to work in the poorest Evangelists, who are trained in the communities that are Revd Capt. Patience Wanzala, parts of Nairobi, especially in to work in these areas of social being served. Principal of the Church Army’s the slums where families and need, take the message of hope The Lent Fund contribution Carlile College Nairobi. The individuals who lack the basics that is central to the Christian which is distributed in College is one of the Bishop’s of life are crowded into poor faith whilst also working with November will be used by the Lent Call Projects in 2019. housing. people on gaining practical College to assist in funding The problems of poverty due skills that will lift them out of student fees for those who lack The Revd Terry to low incomes, poor health poverty. the fi nancial ability to pay for Drummond and young girls becoming The work that is undertaken themselves. pregnant are endemic. Whilst is diffi cult and, because it is The visit of Patience to the Patience spoke of the work of similar issues might be found with the most deprived, is not Diocese enabled her to give her the College - named in memory in London the big difference necessarily seen in a positive personal thanks for the support of Wilson Carlile, the founder is the lack of a social welfare light by those who do not of the Lent Fund. of the Church Army - with an system that can offer support. suffer from the deprivation and Iftar shared at All Saints Kingston All Saints Church has been at the centre of Kingston life for centuries and serving the community in a variety of different ways is a top priority for us. Isobel Isaacson writes:

It therefore seemed a good opportunity to continue this tradition when Beyza Nur Coskun approached the On Sunday 23 June the Lewisham Interfaith Forum held its fifth Inter Faith Walk for Rector, Jonathan Wilkes, Peace. It was attended by over 400 people and included stops at a Hindu Temple, Islamic to say that a group she was Centre, St Mary’s Parish Church, the Civic Centre, the Unitarian Church and a Synagogue. involved with of Turkish that we can become more • who do you love the most? Muslims, the Dialogue Society familiar with the different In answering the second and Fethullah Gulen would sections of our communities. and third we discovered of like to host us in our own There was then a short fi lm course that there were many church as they broke their fast about the Dialogue Society. similarities in the answers in Ramadan. The Dialogue Society is a given, regardless of place of Jonathan was delighted to registered charity, established birth. accept on our behalf and to in London in 1999, and with Then the food was served invite people to come and join the aim of advancing social and fully lived up to the in. So it was that we gathered cohesion by connecting delicious smells. The many together for this purpose on communities, and making children present happily the evening of Wednesday possible dialogue on a whole brought dishes to the tables 29 May. Many of us already range of social issues. The and helped to clear away, too. knew Beyza as she is a valued main aim of this event was All in all, it was a very member of our Listening simply to promote friendship. enjoyable evening and perfectly service at the church and as We settled ourselves at tables illustrated some words from numbers grew there was a around the café making sure the epistle for the following cheerful buzz of conversation that we didn’t sit solely with Sunday (Sunday after and tantalising aromas became people we knew. To help us to Ascension Day): noticeable in the café area. get to know something of our “Use hospitality one to another Jonathan gave a welcoming fellow guests we had a list of without grudging. As every speech, setting out something three questions which each man hath received the gift, of the signifi cant heritage of person was invited to answer: even so minister the same one the church. He emphasised • where were you born? to another, as good stewards of that the church is open to all • what was your moment of the manifold grace of God.” and it is in ways such as this greatest joy?

Christ Church CE Primary Battersea were invited to go to Chelsea Flower Show 2019 on press day to visit the Duchess of Cambridge garden. They were accompanied by Head Teacher Mrs Colette Morris and two parents who during the visit discussed the benefits of outdoor learning. Christ Church has been involved in developing outdoor learning over the last ten years and hold the RHS level 5 award as well as the Learning Outside the Classroom Gold Accreditation. 6 THE BRIDGE... July/August 2019 Reflecting the increasing global diversity in Southwark Diocese It is a real refl ection of the increasing diversity within the Diocese that, since the last edition of the Bridge was published, Bishop Christopher has been visited by two Bishops from the Church in India and has instituted two priests and licensed another On 14 June the newly elected Mayors, Council Chairs and the Chief Executives of the from other parts of the local authorities in the Diocese of Southwark gathered at Bishop’s House, to meet the Bishops, and other senior staff. world to lead parishes in this Diocese. The Most Revd Pradeep Samantaroy, Bishop of And the band played on Amritsar in the Church of two priests and licensed the Bishop’s Permission North India joined Bishop another from other parts of the to Offi ciate became Vicar Christopher at the Pentecost world to lead parishes in this of Peckham, St John w St ...at the Christian Aid Fair Confi rmation in the Cathedral Diocese. Andrew having exercised A brass band from St Mark’s and The Ploughman’s lunches (see P10) and The Rt Revd senior ministry in Nigeria Samuel Devasahayam They were (left to right Ascension, and enjoyed by the and copious amounts of tea below) and serenaded visitors to congregations after the Sunday were also consumed and Ebenezer Clement, Bishop the Plumstead UB of Thoothukudi- Nazareth in • The Revd Leslie • The Revd Premraj service. approximately £350 was raised. Tamil Nadu came to Bishop’s Jesudason, who comes Dhanaraj, who had served Christian Aid Fair on House with the Anands who are to us from the Diocese of his title in this Diocese Saturday 1 June - and Oxford and is now Vicar of and returns to us from from his Dicoese and are now it was a ‘family affair’. priests in this Diocese. Croydon, Christ Church, the Diocese of Madras in India, is now Priest in The Stedfast Association Then, as is his custom, • The Revd Emmanuel Charge of New Addington, Band Director of Music Bishop Christopher instituted Adeloye, who had held St Edward the Confessor. is Dennis Hawkes, whose daughter Denise Kamau is a band member - and one of the churchwardens at St Mark’s w St Margaret’s Church where the event was held. Stalls inside the church hall included a collection of original art painted by a member of our congregation – and cakes, including an enormous pink one which was bought jointly by two members

They walked six miles from OOPPORTUNITIESPPORTUNITIES Woolwich Eynsford, via Shoreham, to Otford, visiting the three St Mary’s Church, village churches of St Martin, Welcare is recruiting…… Readers St Peter & St Paul (below) , Wimbledon Are you passionate about the mission of Welcare to work and St Bartholomew for prayer Part-time Verger alongside parents to give children secure and confi dent walk the and refl ection. childhoods to enable them to thrive in the future? The Revd Diane Rees St Mary’s Church, Wimbledon is seeking a (Shoreham) and the Revd Community Fundraising and Engagement Manager Darenth Richard Worssam (Otford) team player with good communication skills (£36,283 p.a.) and initiative to be our Verger on a part-time basis. welcomed the travellers We are looking for a dynamic enthusiastic Community to their churches for Duties include preparing and verging for services, responsibility Fundraising and Engagement Manager with great people Valley for the security of the building, and concerts, and some cleaning. skills to implement our fundraising and volunteer engagement Woolwich Area Readers made a refreshments, talked about the Due to the nature of the work, applicants must be physically fi t. strategy. Midsummer Pilgrimage along history of the churches and led them in prayer. Woolwich Area 10 hours a week plus Occasional Offi ces, Holy Days and Ideally, you will have a track record of successful community the Darenth Valley in Kent, Festivals. £120 per week plus £50 for each Wedding or Funeral. and stakeholder engagement; supporter care; and experience of accompanied by members of St Representative Marion Watson digital marketing campaigns. Mary, Lewisham on Saturday said: “It was a lovely day, Applicants should be sympathetic with St Mary’s main purpose Download an information pack from 22 June. enjoyed by all”. of Christian worship. The appointment is subject to an Enhanced https://welcare.org/job/community-fundraiser/ DBS check. To apply email your covering letter and CV to [email protected] Full job description and application form are available on the Application closing date: 23 July 2019 church website www.stmaryswimbledon.org or from the Parish Interviews: 31 July 2019 Offi ce. Closing Date for Applications Midnight 26th July Trustees (reasonable expenses only) We are looking for trustees with diverse skills who can Interviews on the morning of 3rd August. demonstrate a commitment to Welcare’s mission and willingness Applications will only be considered if made on the church to devote the required time and eff ort; a problem-solving ‘can-do’ application form. attitude, enthusiastic approach and ability to work eff ectively as Completed application forms should be returned to The Rev’d part of a team. Mandy Hodgson, at the Parish Offi ce, St Mary’s Wimbledon, Download an information pack and application details from Fellowship House, 30 St Mary’s Road, Wimbledon, SW19 7BP. https://welcare.org/job/trustee/ E-mail parish.offi [email protected] Application closing date: 19 August 2019. Enquiries or expressions of interest to Diane Taylor at [email protected] To advertise your vacancy in The Bridge (in print and on-line) call 01474 854503 Welcare 19 Frederick Crescent, London SW9 6XN or e-mail: [email protected] Registered Charity Number 1107859 THE BRIDGE...July/August 2019 7 SPA Treasurer ‘recognised’ Meanwhile as Lay Ministry changes Eight New SPAs commissioned Eight new Southwark Pastoral Emeritus were presented to The newly commissioned Margaret Quaife was surprised Auxiliaries were commissioned the Bishop. He prayed and SPAs in the Kingston Area are: and delighted when during at Southwark Cathedral on thanked Brenda Barron, Guy Fiona Carnegie (Telford Park, the last meeting of the Monday 24 June. Buckland, Maureen Edmonds, St Thomas with St Stephen); SPA (Southwark Pastoral Sue Liptrot, Daphne Marshall, Anna Corcoran (Wandsworth, Auxiliary) Council Bishop SPA Training Officer Mary Ann Meldrum, Rosie St Mary Magdalene); Oona Christopher presented her Paula Thorvaldsen Plumb, Suzanne Retter, Andy Emerson (Streatham, St with the Lancelot Andrewes writes: Reynolds, Yvonne Trotmann, Leonards). medal in recognition of her Barbara Walker, Margaret The newly commissioned Wood and Hilary Yates for their SPAs in the Croydon Area work as SPA Treasurer and The service was conducted by service. are: Justina Foli (St Helier, St Reigate Archdeaconry SPA. Bishop Christopher, while The Peter); Sandra Groombridge Margaret will continue as Venerable Dr Jane Steen gave SPAs are men and women (Sanderstead, All Saints); Reigate Archdeaconry SPA but an uplifting sermon about the who are called to share in Claire Mills (Chipstead, St has retired from her role as importance of living out what the ministry of caring and Margaret’s); Daniel Simpson Treasurer. we believe and showing it forth are authorised for pastoral (Upper Norwood, St John the The work of the SPA Council in our lives. work on behalf of the Church in a voluntary capacity. The Evangelist); Marie Williams came to an end at this meeting After the commissioning ministry of each is different (Croydon, Holy Saviour). and the work of the Diocesan promises, Bishop Christopher depending on their calling If you are interested in Readers’ Board will also come anointed the hands of each and their personal gifts this exciting ministry and to an end later in the year. him once a year to take forward In this new role Raewynne candidate and all SPAs present and according to the needs would like more information, The formation of a Diocesan specifi c initiatives to ensure will be taking forward the were invited to recommit identifi ed in the local church please contact me on paula. Lay Council was agreed at the the fl ourishing of the work of recommendations of the themselves to their ministry. and community. thorvaldsen@southwark. Diocesan Council of Trustees these two important groups Diocesan Lay Leadership and Those becoming SPA on 22 May 2019. It will be a within our lay ministries and Lay Ministries Advisory Group, anglican.org or 07711 887430 unifying body which will bring pastoral care for members of particularly in growing and together practitioners and them. discerning vocations to lay others to celebrate, grow and Deputy Director ministry. support lay leadership and She will work closely with ministry in its many forms in As part of the Diocese’s the new Lay Council to identify the Diocese. It will be chaired commitment to recognising, and nurture new ministries by Bishop Christopher. The growing and supporting the including learning and training Council is a key part of the ministry of all God’s people pathways and help the Diocese Diocesan intention to focus throughout the week Bishop to achieve one of its strategic on the fl ourishing of all God’s Christopher has appointed The objectives ‘to grow lay as people and it aims to recognise Revd Dr Raewynne Whitely as well as ordained vocations the charism of lay people in Deputy Director of Discipleship and to better refl ect the rich their ministry and leadership and Lay Ministry. She will diversity of our Diocese in our as Christians in society as well move from the Vocations Team leadership. as in the Church. to work in the Ministry and Raewynne will take up There will be Bishop’s Discipleship Department which her new role on Thursday 1 Advisory groups for SPAs and is led by The Revd Canon Dr August. Readers which will meet with Mandy Ford.

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For most of us, the words ‘summer holiday’ conjure up visions of beaches and suntans, city breaks and child- St Cuthbert’s Way friendly activities. Yet for many hundreds of people the summer break off ers the chance to go on a spiritual This cross-border route follows in the footsteps of Celtic saint Every 10 as well as a physical journey, by St Cuthbert. It covers 100km from Melrose in the Scottish Borders, mountai undertaking a pilgrimage. where St Cuthbert began his religious life, to the Holy Island of world w Pilgrimages off er a unique perspective Lindisfarne, where he died. Pilgrims can undertake the whole Years’ W on faith and life. Travellers fi nd it transformational to take time out to route in one go (it will take between four and six days), or do a play of t walk and pray with intention, whether series of short walks ranging from one to eight miles in length. every de they are going the full 1,195 miles of 400 yea the Camino de Santiago or spending a Although Cuthbert undertook his own journey in around 650AD, this trail has been offi cially open only weekend completing a single stage of St since 1996. Even so, modern pilgrims will be able to get some sense of Cuthbert’s spiritual journey Next yea Cuthbert’s Way. regardless of how far they travel, according to Celtic spirituality expert Dr Nick Mayhew-Smith. “In joining t It’s about making space in a busy life to refl ect, to draw close to God, to early Christianity there wasn’t really pilgrimage as we understand it now,” says Nick, a Reader in many ce listen and to be in fellowship with Southwark Diocese. “When you look at Cuthbert, he had a very, very intense relationship with the land thanking others who are ― not doing the same where he was standing. He would go into the sea to pray, and he would talk to the birds and let them encoura journey, because I think all our journeys nest in his hut. It’s not a pilgrimage in that sense — it’s very much a focus on the ground beneath one’s and stic are individual, but who are on a feet where you are.” parallel journey,” says the Revd Dr Sue As with Clarke, who is taking her Furzedown parishioners to the Passion Play at For more information: www.stcuthbertsway.info; Dr Nick Mayhew-Smith’s new book, ‘The Naked getting Hermit: A Journey to the Heart of Celtic Britain’, is published by SPCK Oberammergau next year. For mor Don’t expect luxury, says Neil Tryner, who has walked part of the Camino Way for the past four years, but do embrace the experience. “Staying in a pilgrim hostel at €6 a night in a dormitory of 40 people is not my preferred holiday sleeping arrangements ― I like my home Southwark Cathedral to Canterbury comforts. But actually staying in a big dormitory and carrying my own bag is really important. It makes me realise Travellers have been following the Pilgrim’s Way from Southwark how little I need. I don’t need all the to Canterbury since Chaucer’s time — the characters in his stuff I have; none of it’s important.” Canterbury Tales gather at the Tabard Inn on Borough High Be prepared for the eff ects to last, too, Street before their journey. These days, pilgrims can pick up a Neil adds. “It’s not just about walking for those two or three weeks or however Passport from the Cathedral and get it stamped by churches and long you do; it’s about how that impacts businesses along the 70-mile route. on your life. What you learn while you’re walking actually carries on with you Among the pilgrims this year were the Revd Steve Hall (right) and some 30 parishioners from St Mary, every day, more than I ever thought it Lewisham, who did the journey in stages over eight days in late May. “We planned it so that every day would.” we started and ended at a train station — we weren’t staying on village hall fl oors or anything like “I would say that, for me, and on that that,” says Steve. “People joined us when they could, and in the end over 30 of us arrived spiritual or Christian side of things, it’s about time with me, time with others in Canterbury.” and time with God,” says the Revd Steve Hall of St Mary, Lewisham, who has There were moments when the group was tired and fed up, but these were easily outweighed by the recently returned from a pilgrimage with day-to-day highlights of walking through “beautiful countryside” and the joy of being together as his parishioners to Canterbury and who group. And being welcomed into Canterbury Cathedral at journey’s end and sharing a special Eucharist plans to walk 400 miles of the Camino Way during his sabbatical this autumn. in the crypt was “the ultimate highlight”, says Steve. “It was really, really special.” “You’re walking along and sometimes For more information see longer article on page 12 and visit www.pilgrimswaycanterbury.org you are just on your own, in your own thoughts, and that’s great, and sometimes you’re chatting with the Perhaps people you’re walking with, but as much as anything it’s that awareness of being Santiago with God on the journey and that’s a visitors really powerful thing,” he adds. Rouen to Mont-Saint-Michel Europe b You don’t even have to leave the comfort in north of your own home to experience the The sight of the monastery rising out of the sea at Mont-Saint- those w benefi ts. The Revd Ruth Lampard, a self- Michel at the end of a 205-mile journey from Rouen is as welcome supporting minister in the Diocese who accompl to modern-day pilgrims as it would have been to medieval ones. suff ers from ME and cannot walk more 100km o than a few kilometres a day, undertook Although Mont-Saint-Michel is primarily a historical monument these a ‘virtual’ pilgrimage to Santiago de days, pilgrims, known as miquelots, still travel there from across Neil Tryn Compostela last year. Each day she would Southwa track her steps around her house or France. The most well-known routes are the ones that join up with neighbourhood and plot them against a the Camino de Santiago, but the road from Rouen has a charm of its own, with plenty of unspoiled a norma map of the Camino; she completed her scenery and quiet forest paths. fellow p virtual pilgrimage in 275 days. amazing Those who can’t make the whole journey can simply walk across the causeway from the mainland If the upcoming holidays have inspired recoveri you to take a diff erent kind of journey, and join the Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem who celebrate Mass daily. the panel (right) shows seven of the most For mor popular destinations, all in or (in the For more information: www.lescheminsdumontsaintmichel.com case of Ephesus) on the edge of Europe. THE BRIDGE... July/August 2019 9 ay - make a pilgrimage…

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0 years, the sleepy village of Oberammergau, set high in the Rome ins of Bavaria, becomes a magnet for pilgrims from all over the The Eternal when it stages its renowned Passion Play. In 1633, as the Thirty City has always War ravaged the local area, the inhabitants vowed to perform a been a popular the “suff ering, death and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ” destination with pilgrims, including 36 from ecade if God would save them from the plague. And for the next St Peter, Walworth who visited the city of rs, with the exception of 1940, they have fulfi lled their promise. their patron saint this Eastertide after fi ve ar, the Revd Canon Dr Sue Clarke and some of her parisioners from Furzedown Team Ministry will be years of planning and saving. the pilgrims to see the Passion Play. “It was the historicity of it,” she says. “Because it goes back “Highlights included the chance to pray enturies, and the fact that the members of this little village have chosen to do this as a way of at the tombs of St Peter and St Paul, with g God for their deliverance from the plague, and have kept to that promise and commitment, is very many pilgrims fi nding the space and calm aging and challenging for us in the modern day; how much we commit to doing something in gratitude of the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls k with it — and that village has stuck with it.” especially moving,” says the Rector of St any pilgrimage, however, it’s about more than the destination, Sue adds: “It’s the journeying, and Peter’s, the Revd Andrew Moughtin-Mumby. to know people, worshipping together, being together and sharing together.” Greeting the Pope in St Peter’s Square re information: www.passionsspiele-oberammergau.de/en/home (alongside tens of thousands of fellow Christians), and visiting the house beneath which St Paul was kept prisoner were also important milestones in the trip. In the words of one of the Southwark pilgrims: “This pilgrimage has blown my mind. It’s one thing to hear about people like St Peter, but it’s another thing to actually be where they were.” Read more at southwarkcofe.tumblr.com

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the most iconic of all pilgrimages, El Camino de Ephesus o (The Way of St James) attracts more than 300,000 This ancient site in modern-day Turkey a year. There are a dozen possible routes across has been a focus for pilgrimage since the but all end at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela seventh century BC, when Greeks fl ocked ern Spain, where a Pilgrim’s Mass is held daily for to its Temple of Artemis. It has been an ho have earned their compostela — a certifi cate of important Christian site since St Paul lishment confi rming that the pilgrim has completed preached there and established the Church on foot or 200km by bike. of Ephesus, which became the head of the ner, who was prompted to leave his corporate job after his fi rst Camino and who now worships at Seven Churches in western Asia minor. ark Cathedral, describes himself as “addicted”. He says: “It’s something about stripping away from These days, Christian visitors can get a al, busy life. I always come away feeling incredibly blessed.” For Neil, the real joy is meeting his sense of the kinds of places Paul would pilgrims, and that is what brings him back year after year. “Every time I’ve walked I’ve met the most have known and been part of, as well as g people,” he says, “people who are dealing with really big life stuff , like losing a child or a parent, or gaining a greater understanding of how ing from their third recurring cancer, with real grace. It makes me feel that I am really privileged.” our forebears in the faith lived and the re information: www.csj.org.uk diff erence their faith made to them. 10 THE BRIDGE... July/August 2019 ‘When the Day of Pentecost had come...’ A Song

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came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it fi lled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of Season fi re, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were fi lled with the Holy Spirit. ‘ of Now there were devout people from every nation under ‘heaven living in Southwark. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard the good Creation news: Columbians, Spanish, Jamaicans and residents of Trinidad, A Song for the Season of Cameroon and Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Ghana, migrants from Creation has been written Manchester and Humberside, Teesside and the parts of Ireland for churches to include in belonging to the UK, and visitors from Europe, both Belgian Creationtide services later and German - in our own languages we hear about God’s this year. A recording by deeds of power. St Bride’s Church choir The Revd Jonathan Roberts, has been produced with Camberwell St Michael & All Angels & All Souls w Emmanuel the support of the CofE’s Mission and Public Affairs. The song, which uses poet Malcolm Guite’s words, has been commissioned by the CofE’s Environmental Working Group and has been arranged for singers of various ranges. Sue Mallinson, Diocesan Environmental Offi cer, said: “The music really helped me refl ect. It needs to be heard around Southwark Diocese, and not only in September and October”. Sheet music, rehearsal fi les and recordings can be downloaded free of charge from the St Bride’s website http://www.stbrides.com/ webcast/2019/05/a-song- On the eve of Pentecost Saturday 8 June, 31 candidates were confirmed at Southwark for-the-season-of-creation. Cathedral by the Bishop of Southwark, the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun. He was joined by Nine different languages join in the Acts Pentecost php The Most Revd Dr Pradeep Samantaroy, Bishop of Amritsar in the Church of North India. reading at St James Merton. Photo: Jean Lamb Choose the UK’s most trusted home insurance provider and we’ll donate £130 to your church

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century and Grade 2* listed) on Charlton a prominent corner opposite the historic Charlton house - now a community centre! United There was once a Holy Trinity Church and a St Mary’s and St Benefice Paul’s in the parish but they are long gone. St Thomas’s Every new incumbent Church is ‘newer’ (Victorian) is the signal for a new and was radically reordered in the 1980s to provide a more beginning for a parish fl exible layout with the east but how do you achieve end partitioned off to provide that when you’ve been a two-storey meeting space. St Luke’s, in contrast, remains part of it for 34 years? almost as it was 200 years ago. When the Revd Liz Newman As was not uncommon became Rector of Charlton along what was a smelly River United Benefi ce in 2017, Thames, St Luke’s at the top of St Luke St Thomas St Richard she’d been a member of the the hill was the village church congregation, then a Reader surrounded by large houses. St and from 2005 an Ordained Thomas’s parish, down the hill reaches almost all, with St Thomas’s Church is language classes for recently the many groups using it, from Local Minister – and she’d nearer to the river was a mix curriculum related teaching already a community hub - arrived Syrian families. Guides and Scouts to ‘Knit been an unpaid member of the of industry and large terraced about faith. Tom’s Café, a youth partly because of its fl exible The northern part of & natter’ and dog training clergy team whilst a school and houses, for up and coming group has started up at St layout but also because the benefi ce is the Thames classes means it is already a hospital chaplain locally. Victorians. Nowadays there’s Thomas’s; they’ve already held the local community feels riverside – currently industrial community focal point and “It comes with advantages – little difference between the their fi rst Messy Church; and ‘ownership’. There are groups and retail estates. But plans the intention is to build on you know the place and people two parishes (except in size). at St Luke’s a group is looking for the elderly and for young are afoot for redevelopment that familiarity with the help so well – but also disadvantages Both have a mix of private at how to make services more people (Tom’s Café); a boxing which will bring some 8.000 of lay pioneers, as a centre because it’s harder to be houses, houses in multiple inclusive for young people. club uses the fi rst fl oor of new homes to an area of the for mission in the area and detached and see the need for occupation and social housing - Other ideas emerging include the church; ‘Champions for benefi ce which is ‘remote’ eventually a new congregation. change” she said. and despite some gentrifi cation a holiday church aimed at Change’ promotes fi tness and from both St Thomas’s and St A music group has been started But change was needed both are still among the most reaching non-church families. well-being for all ages from Luke’s. As part of ‘Charlton for preschool children and – because Charlton and its deprived areas of London. Sharing faith: Discipleship children to OAPs, and an Together’ the benefi ce is next year should see a Holiday anti-gang project is about to Church Play Scheme and a parishes had changed and “The fi rst priority”, said Liz, courses are planned for the working with the local Council begin. The church and hall ‘lunch box library’. It is also there’s more change to come. “was to take a good long look two congregations aimed at to try to ensure that homes also host a winter night shelter about to open its doors to an The United Benefi ce, created at ourselves, prayerfully and deepening and enabling people not housing units are built, for the homeless, community exhibition on the riverside in 2002, brought together ask ourselves why do we exist to have more confi dence in where people can thrive in meetings, parties and local development schemes. the parishes of St Luke with and what is God calling our sharing their faith; there are community. Near that area councillors’ surgeries - and Holy Trinity, Charlton and churches to be”. The response also plans for an enquirers is the St Richard’s Centre – Liz Newman said “The new St Thomas’s MAP plans are St Thomas, Old Charlton – a was a Mission Action Plan course and a discussion group originally a tin mission hut but start began with MAP - asking focused on further developing population of some 22,000 launched last September, in the local for people rebuilt after WW2 damage – it ourselves, what is Church as the community focal point people in a wide area which which combines some shared who don’t defi ne themselves has been unused for Anglican for? The process took a year, including offering English sweeps down from Shooters elements with, crucially, as religious, but are open to worship for 15 years. However including three months of Hill Road to the Thames. individual plans for the two refl ecting on some of the big prayer, focus groups and Both churches have smallish, parishes. questions of life. Currently listening to the community. It was thorough and ambitious multicultural congregations. The priorities established worship is largely eucharistic and so it’s a big ask we have The ministry team - Liz were: with 10am Sunday services at Newman (Rector), two non- both churches and a midweek set ourselves, especially with • nurturing children and Communion at St Luke’s. limited resources and relatively stipendiary priests Bennett young people Spong and Joe Lee and fi ve There is also morning prayer small congregations. However SPAs - works equally across • sharing faith confi dently and daily at St Luke’s and evening both congregations are both. The two parishes have • developing community prayer at St Thomas’. However growing and the new people retained their individuality and engagement and action formal church may be daunting coming in have helped to make independence, with separate Children & young people: to some, so the churches are ‘change’ more sustainable. PCCs and budgets but the The benefi ce includes four looking at other forms of I believe we’ve got better at congregations co-operate well secondary and seven primary worship both in and out of the opening the front door – and on joint projects and share schools and a nursery – and churches, to create a ‘mixed closing the back door and at worship at patronal festivals whilst none are CofE schools, economy’. helping guests transform into and social events. relations with most primaries Church and community: This hosts. I’m delighted to say that St Luke’s is Charlton’s are good and a schools project where the two MAPs diverge. St our age profi le is also changing traditional parish church (17th run by a member of St Luke’s Luke’s has a pressing need for with a growing proportion of better community engagement. children and younger adults. Beautiful and historic but The contrasting interiors of St Luke’s (above) “We are working on our The Revd Liz Newman unfi t for mission in the 21st and St Thomas’s (below) ‘governance’ and fi nances century, the layout with bulky to ensure that we have the pillars and box pews makes building blocks which will it an infl exible space. It also support our mission plans; we needs a lot on money spent on have to grasp a few nettles, lighting and refurbishment the problems with St Luke’s and is usually closed except Church for example; and for services and special events. we need to look beyond our Its Grade 2* listing will make buildings to see how we can change ‘diffi cult’. Nevertheless, take the Gospel out to the a masterplan group is looking thousands of people in our at what is needed for the parishes who don’t yet know building to fulfi l a modern that God loves them. mission as both a worship “But whilst our space and a community congregations are relatively facility and a Friends group small, there is no shortage of is being set up to involve the passion and vision, we’re just community more in St Luke’s praying that God sends more future development. labourers for the harvest”. 12 THE BRIDGE... July/August 2019 A big day out with the DAC “Welcome”; (DAC) tour of churches in “One thing I feel very According to The Venerable the Diocese, led by the Revd strongly is that people , “celebration”; Canon Stephen Roberts and undervalue the role that of Wandsworth, one thing “vision”; Luke Tatam of the Pastoral churches play in spirituality,” all these churches spoke of “community”. Department. said Stephen. “They often was community. During the These were some of the The theme of the day, play a role even when they lunch break at St Andrew’s, words shared by participants which took place on 4 June, are empty. They tell you he refl ected on “place and at the end of the annual was “using our churches something about what the space” as it related to the Diocesan Advisory Committee for mission”, with Stephen church is doing. I think they Archdeaconry of Wandsworth Roberts wanting to share speak quite eloquently.” and how, “right from the start, examples with members of the we have been trying to build DAC and other key people in churches that respond to the the Diocese of how different Boost for places we serve”. uses of space can enhance the As he spoke in St Andrew’s, opener has been how varied that has allowed the church work of the Church. St John’s which has converted the west the churches are and how to expand while retaining they are interpreting their its historic character. The The focus this year was end of its nave into a café ‘reignition’ mission in different localities. impetus came from their on Kingston Episcopal Area, serving the whole of Earlsfi eld, It’s very valuable to me as an Mission Action Plan, he said, with the tour taking in St The campaign to he said: “It’s lovely to be in architect.” when they decided they needed Mark’s Battersea Rise, St ‘reignite’ St John’s this space, because that begins a space for children. The build Peter’s Battersea and St Waterloo has received an to show us what that means. The day ended in Richmond, began in October 2017 and Luke’s Ramsden Road, before important boost. A faculty It combines the warmth of where the Revd Tim Marwood was fi nished in eight months. breaking for lunch at Home has been granted for community and that invitation shared their 10-year and Café inside St Andrew’s signifi cant improvements to be quiet and refl ect.” £800,000 journey to making “We were just in time for Earlsfi eld. The day concluded to the worship and Virginia Wedgwood, an the tiny St Peter’s Church, our youth leader to run the with a visit to St Peter’s performance space of the architect and recent recruit Petersham fi t for purpose, fi rst activity with a still- Petersham. main fl oor. to the DAC, said: “The eye- with a bespoke meeting room concrete fl oor!” Southwark members take the lead at General Synod Members of General Synod which was carried and the The motion on combating country are well qualifi ed in from the Diocese and others amended motion itself was serious youth violence was put medicine, teaching, law or from the Diocese who had carried in all three houses. by . It called other professions but need to come to support them were Capt. Nicholas Lebey CA and upon the National Church undertake appropriate courses prominent at the July meeting the Revd Canon Dr Rosemarie Institutions, dioceses and and placements before they are of Synod held on 5-9 July. Mallett both proposed boards of education to take ready to practise here. The Venerable Dr Jane motions. These had come practical steps to help prevent The motion offered a Steen took part in the from Deanery Synods in the serious violence such as gun number of actions which debate on relations with the Diocese, through Southwark and knife crime and to support parishes and dioceses can take Methodist Church, in which Diocesan Synod to General those affected. It was passed to enable people to undertake Synod. by 315 votes with none against she proposed an amendment the appropriate courses so Parishioners from St Anne’s Church, Kew met local MP Zac and no abstentions. that they can practise again. Goldsmith on Friday 7 June to follow up a letter signed Nicholas Lebey put the Bishop Christopher also spoke by over 100 constituents, expressing their concerns about motion which had been passed in this debate. The motion climate change. Mr Goldsmith said he was committed at Diocesan Synod recognising was amended before it was put to doing all he could in Parliament to make it a political that some of the refugees and to Synod and the amended priority and is promoting pressure for action with like- asylum seekers coming to this motion was passed. minded MPs across all parties. Last few places left Lewisham’s Canterbury Tale The Revd Steve Hall Each day’s walk ended at Cathedral Evensong and a simple enjoyment. It’s clear a train station so we could welcome from the Dean. We pilgrimage has come back all come home at night. We also visited the French Chapel in fashion today, with many Pilgrimage to the At St Mary, Lewisham we reached Rochester by Tuesday in the Cathedral, a link with Christian pilgrim routes being enjoy a good pilgrimage: an evening and returned the a previous Vicar of St Mary’s revived. OBERAMMERGAU annual weekend at the shrine next morning to follow the in the 17th century, the Revd of Our Lady of Walsingham; For us at St Mary’s Pilgrims’ Way, the North Abraham Colfe. a walk each Holy Week to Lewisham it was a time PASSION PLAY Downs path. our cathedral; regular trips We had walked over 80 to draw closer to God and th July 20-27 2020 to St Peter’s abbey church in After eight days we arrived miles, shared much together to listen to God’s voice as Ghent, Belgium, our Mother in Canterbury on a sunny as we walked, and grown we walked, in silence, in In 1633, when the Travel by luxury coach from Church from the ninth Saturday, our numbers grown closer to one another and to conversations profound small Bavarian village of South London, visiting the century. And last year 20 of us to over 30. God. and profane, and in much laughter. Oberammergau was in fairy tale castles of Austria had a wonderful pilgrimage to We shared a moving For centuries people have the grip of the plague, the and Innsbruck, before seeing the Holy Land. eucharist in the chapel of gone on pilgrimage for many The encounter on the Road inhabitants vowed that, In summer 2018 we began Our Lady Undercroft, had different reasons – faith, to Emmaus was in our minds if they were spared, they a performance of the Passion lunch in the ancient church health, friendship, a specifi c as we met the Lord each day Play, and staying overnight in planning a walking pilgrimage would stage a Passion Play from Southwark Cathedral, via of St Paul’s and returned for prayer intention, or just for on the journey. every ten years. Oberammergau. Led by the Lewisham and Rochester, to It was also preparation for For hundreds of years since, Revd Canon Dr Sue Clarke Canterbury Cathedral. Routes me as I plan a 400 kilometre despite dangers and threats, Prices from £1,095 sharing, and stages were tried and walk in September on the they have kept their vow. (limited single rooms walked over many months and Camino, the pilgrim route Today pilgrims from all over available). plans made for a blessing at to Santiago de Compostela the world are captivated Rochester Cathedral, ending in Spain. My new boots and by the play which is both Contact: with a mass and Evensong in backpack held up well, as did a testimony of faith and an [email protected] Canterbury Cathedral. my knees and feet. outstanding cultural event. or 07710 744006 This May Dean Andrew It feels like 2019 has Nunn blessed us as we set become a Year of Walking out from Southwark on a for me, reminding me that busy day with celebrations our pilgrimage of faith starts in Southwark for 25 years afresh every day. But my own of women’s ministry. 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Some years later I was ‘That’s one small step for said the earth was fl at and, God of the universe, able to go to the National man, one giant leap for as it said on the old maps, we thank you for the Let Air and Space Museum in mankind.’ that ‘Beyond here there be beauty of creation, Washington DC and there Half a century later we dragons’ were not speaking this island planet we was the Lunar Module. are still pushing out into the truth. But they had call home, the moon, us It was incredible to see the universe, that questing the courage to push at the the stars, the sun. because it looked so fl imsy, spirit that is within us boundaries and discover a bit ‘Heath Robinson’ pushing at the boundaries what lay out there. As we seek greater pray to be honest, the kind of of knowledge and I might not be as knowledge out there thing that you might make experience. In September adventurous as some but help us to take small up in your garage at home it is the 500th anniversary of God has made us not to steps and giant leaps. July out of some boxes and tin the fi rst circumnavigation stand still but to take small Amen. I remember seeing those foil. But it had transported of the globe by Ferdinand steps and giant leaps. grainy pictures from the people to the surface of Magellan. Moon. Science fi ction had our closest neighbouring That was as monumental become science fact. All planet! and adventurous as being The Very Revd Andrew Nunn, those stories I had read as It was 50 years ago that fi red into space. Please follow me on Twitter as I off er a prayer each a child about spacemen Neil Armstrong stepped He and his crew could not morning so that you can join me in Morning Prayer. seemed to be coming true from the Module onto the be certain that those who Go to @deansouthwark and it was amazing. Moon’s surface and said The day we went to the House of Lords Stay

Who would’ve thought Lois – a Year Six pupil at St Peter’s calm & that a simple church Primary School reports: school in Walworth keep would have the honour When we arrived at the unsettling experience. of being invited to the entrance, there was a security After we were checked, we serving! check to ensure that no-one Palace of Westminster were given lanyards with our The annual Summer had any weapons which could visitor IDs/cards. Entering and the House of harm people. Festival of Evensong & Lords? But that was the lobby, we were greeted Benediction of the Company During the process, we all by Peter (Peter Haddock, of Servers – Southwark & exactly what happened felt a bit anxious because, even the Bishop of Southwark’s London Chapter was held on Tuesday 18 June. though we had no weapons, Parliamentary Adviser) who at St Saviour’s Church, going through security is an answered our questions. He Pimlico on Wednesday 26 was very patient with our June. everlasting questions and tried ‘My Lord Bishop’ in the House like not having a bed to sleep his best to answer them. of Lords. on until she was 14 but this did Michael Lewis Afterwards, he led us into There was an opportunity not deter her from following Chair, Southwark the consultation room where for us to share with the her dreams. I can personally we were split up into two & London Bishop our thoughts about relate to this as I have been Chapter: groups. One group was at one the visit. Most people spoke through a lot of hardship to end of the room and the other about the statues, how big the do with housing. Mother Rose group was at the opposite Palace of Westminster was realised that she had a passion The guest preacher end. The topics of the day and the artwork (which was for preaching the word of God was Bishop Jonathan were the medicine expectant astonishing). at a young age and she followed Clark who recalled his mothers are given and Brexit experiences of many church Another climax of the day this through. She continues to (of course). vestries – ranging from was meeting Mother Rose go from strength to strength. the highly regimented to The room was voluminous! Rose Hudson-Wilkins -what an The moral is that it doesn’t the absolutely chaotic but The highlight of the day was amazing lady. She enlightened matter what your background always full of anxiety before meeting Bishop Christopher. us about her experience and your beginnings are, if you the impending service We met up in his offi ce and he growing up and some of the have an aspiration- just follow (whether or not that was informed us about his role as diffi culties she was faced with it. Thank you to Mother Rose. due to his being present). He urged all who serve to fi nd that inner calm as they perform their duties before PPostbagostbag the altar of God. The worship was However, I was saddened There have been a number enhanced by a small choir to read in the piece entitled of appointments of women to whose members work for ‘A Journey through Women’s the Episcopate - notably that various central Church Ministry’ that the author of the new Bishop of London bodies; directed by Fr Peter thought it fi t to highlight the - but I haven’t heard many McGeary. withdrawal of Philip North voices raised in opposition, As part of Evensong a from his appointment as and to my knowledge none new Companion from the Bishop of Sheffi eld almost have withdrawn from their serving team at Southwark immediately after the piece appointments. Cathedral was admitted. talking about the introduction For my part, I am unable The service was followed by Mutual of the ‘Five Guiding Principles’ in all conscience to accept cheese & wine and a time to and the concept of ‘Mutual the Ordination of Women and catch up on news from each Flourishing? Flourishing.’ I hope that in this Diocese other’s parishes. This statement regarding we shall see some positive In June’s The Chapter’s next event Bishop Philip seems to me moves that refl ect the ‘Mutual issue of The is on Saturday 16 November to be one of ‘triumphalism’ - Flourishing’ that everyone says Bridge there 2019 at Southwark certainly not one of promoting they are keen to promote. is a lot written Cathedral: ‘Mutual Flourishing’ in that about the 25th At the moment I feel 10am: Welcome followed so much pressure was put on Anniversary of the Ordination somewhat isolated. by a talk on “A day in the a true and faithful priest that of Women to the Priesthood. Linda Maurice life of a Verger” by the Head he felt obliged to withdraw. Verger, Paul Timms In essence there is nothing Even Justin Welby-Archbishop Merton Deanery Synod wrong with this, as for many 12 noon: Mass in the of Canterbury-regarded this and South Wimbledon, Harvard Chapel. this marked a milestone in the as ‘deeply saddening for all All Saints All active servers in the Church of England. involved ,’ and a ‘setback.’ Dioceses of London and Southwark are welcome to Something to say? join the Company. Drop us a line - the postal & e-mail addresses are on page 2. Publication of a letter Details are available does not imply that it refl ects the views of the Diocese and letters may be edited. on the website: companyofservers.org THE BRIDGE... July/August 2019 15

Sunday 14 July Friday 26 July Saturday 17 August Lunchtime Music at  CROYDON - Jonathan  ADDINGTON - A Concert  BELLINGHAM - Organist St Matthew’s, Redhill Vaughn, Organist, of Medieval Music, Fransciso Cro Ramos - admission free, plays works by Hollins, 7.30pm at St Mary the of Trinity Laban donations invited Conte, Ireland, Bach & Blessed Virgin Church. Conservatoire of Every Thursday Tchaikovsky. 4.30pm at Featuring Wilde Roses Music and Dance, will at 1.10 pm th Croydon Minster. Free with the New York present a programme of 5 Recital - Anna admission. Retiring based Avon Faire. popular classics and new Cashell – Violin th Please send details of your events for collection Tickets £12 via www. music at St Dunstan’s 12 Chamber Music wilderoses.com or on Church 3.15pm followed Recital -Cadran Trio th SEPTEMBER ONWARDS to Trinity House Compline by Candlelight the door. by refreshments in the 19 Recital - Anna BY MONDAY 12 AUGUST St Mary’s Church, Farleigh church hall. Retiring Kondrashina – Flute Sunday 28 July th 8.00 pm collections for church 26 Piano Duet Recital ✽ TATSFIELD - Teas “ More people of Faith” ✝ TITSEY – Choral roof appeal 14th “The way of the Saturday 7 September Ongoing served every Sunday Evensong at St James’ Wednesday 21 August 3 - 5 p.m. at St Mary’s pilgrim” A pilgrim Church 6.30pm, ✽ MITCHAM - Mothers’ ✽ Church in 19c Russia, and SOUTHWARK Union International ✽ BEDDINGTON - Ukraine - Revd CATHEDRAL - Evening at Mitcham ✽ WADDON – St Quiet @St Mary’s - 3rd Michelle Edmonds August ‘Shameless’ - An Parish Church Centre, Thursday each month George – Community 21st Ken Leech (Anglican evening with author 5pm – 10pm. Adults 11am - 2pm. Various Café and Time to Share. priest, theologian, Compline by Candlelight Nadia Bolz-Weber £12, Children £5 (incl tools for quiet including Tuesday (Term time) Christian socialist) - St Mary’s Church, Farleigh 7pm - 8.30pm. A best- two course meal & labyrinth 9.30am – 11.30am. Bishop Jonathan 8.00 pm selling author and Disco) Cash Bar Lunch 12.15pm. 28th Lennox Berkeley “ More people of Faith” Lutheran Minister, her ✽ BOROUGH – St Tel: 020 8648 1566 Community Breakfast (Composer, 4th St Jerome (Translator latest book offers an George the Martyr Sunday 8 September 1st Saturday 10am – collaborator with commentator, overhaul of our harmful Community Cafe 12noon. Benjamin Britten) - historian) - and antiquated ideas ✽ LINGFIELD - Indian and TimeBank every Revd Simon Jones Mark Lanyon about sex, gender, and ✽ WARLINGHAM – Summer Tea at Lingfi eld Thursday 2pm to 4.30 11th - Robert Fitzroy our bodies. Tickets £5- and Dormansland Water Aid lunches in St Wednesday 17 July pm. (Admiral, scientist, £8 from ttps://www. 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Sunday every month Saturday 2pm disabled people at your (Astronomer, “ More people of Faith” co.uk or 01342 833994 astrologer, 1st Hannah Hurnard - church. To book visit Friday 13 - livability.org.uk/events mathematician) - Revd 20th century Christian  NORBURY - Andrew C Dowland – Pillinger author Lay Canon Sunday 15 September: July Chadney organ recital Lunchtime Concerts Ruth Martin ✽ SHIRLEY - St John’s at St Stephen’s Church at St Matthew’s Church, 8th St Hildegard of Bingen Flower Festival: For the Monday 5 to Saturday 13 July 3pm, Admission free Redhill (Abbess, visionary, beauty of the Earth - Friday 9 August - retiring collection in writer, composer, Flowers and Food of the  REDHILL - Summer Thursdays at 1.10pm aid of the Alzheimer’s ‘Christ Revealed’ mystic) Revd Col. P World, music, all-day Classics - Reigate & th Society. 18 Reigate Winds Bible Week at All Saints Hewlett-Smith Redhill Choral Society at café, Saturday night  MERTON - Wimbledon quintet Church Sanderstead 15th John Robinson St John’s Church 7.30pm. concert. Supporting the Chamber Choir concert, 25th Grand Finale & Daily at 3pm and 8pm. (Bishop, scholar, Food Bank.  RAYNES PARK - Organ 7.30pm at St Mary’s Annual Party: author of ‘Honest to Recital by Theodore 3pm ‘Finding Jesus Saturday 14 September Church. ‘The Greenwood ‘Dixieland Stompers’ God’) The Very Revd Frazer 7.30-9.30pm at Christ in the Hebrew Tree’ including Vaughan Dave Skinner & Andrew Nunn  MITCHAM -Wessex Scriptures’ nd St Saviour’s Church - Williams ‘In Windsor 22 St Mary Magdalene - Vocal Consort celebrates friends (Speaker: Nick Lunn). Tickets £10 (u/18 £1) on Forest’. Tickets £9 / £7 Revd Ruth Chapman “Hardy & Heritage” the door 8pm ‘What Jesus said’ th 020 8644 4053 Saturday 20 July 29 Bram Fischer (Anti- a concert of English (various speakers) apartheid activist, Choral Music.  STREATHAM - Richard For information contact Nelson Mandela’s 7.00pm Mitcham Parish Mackenzie returns rector@sanderstead- lawyer) Church. Tickets £10 from to play a “new” 18th parish.org.uk or Revd Sara Goatcher 020 8646 0666 century guitar in his Tel: 020 8657 1366 Refreshing Church farewell to London recital: Scaramouche, Glory in our life, our worship will you do the and our mission fandango? 4pm-5pm AllAll SaintsS Church and Richmond & Kingston PSC presentesenent at St Peter’s Church. Croydon Episcopal Area Retiring collection in Lay Conference 2019 aid of the Church Organ fund Tuesday 23 July ✽ PURLEY - Science/Faith talk at Christ Church Paula Gooder 7pm. Ruth Jarman, from Christian Climate Bishop Christopher Action, Green Christian and over a dozen practical workshops & Operation Noah. Talk- Tickets £10, including a light lunch 45 minutes, followed by 20 minute Q & A. Book at https://refreshing-church.eventbrite.co.uk A talk by Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian [Suggested] donation of Call Croydon Area Office for details: 020 8256 9633 £1, to cover expenses. Christian, about modern day life in the Holy Land under the rule of Israel’s military occupation. St. Bede's School LIMPSFIELD CHART -Teas Wednesday 24 July 7.30 pm at All Saints Church Carlton Rd, Redhill, RH1 2LQ served every Sunday in August from 63 East Sheen Avenue, London SW14 8AX Saturday 14 September 10.00 – 4.00 3pm - 5pm at St Andrew’s Church Register on Eventbright at bit.ly/PalestinianChristiansRichmond 16 THE BRIDGE... July/August 2019 Welcare celebrates Diocese 125 years of service awarded Diocesan family service. In his address he material poverty; it was to be support charity said “I want to focus on the an outcast”. £3.1 million spirit in which we pursue our Anna Khan, CEO of Welcare Welcare celebrated 125 future hope. We build on the (below) spoke about plans years serving children foundations of the past and beyond 2019. She said “We will and families struggling we look to the future; but if continue to provide one-to-one for Strategic we know where we have come and group work programmes with poverty, mental from, we fi nd it easier to know for families in need with and physical ill health, where we are going. children up to the age of 13. domestic abuse and “Take the name Welcare: This enables us to work with Development there may have been the whole family, and give social isolation at something quaint to the parents the skills, confi dence a special service in modern ear about a society and support to be the very best projects Southwark Cathedral committed to reaching out and parent they can be, whatever lead to poor self esteem, risky caring for “friendless girls” – their circumstances. behaviour, exclusion from We are delighted to be able to announce that on 15 June. yet there is a core truth that is “Our services are constantly school and possibly serious Welcare’s roots go back of the essence of Welcare today. evolving to fi ll gaps in youth crime.” the Diocese of Southwark has been awarded to 1894 when the Diocesan “In the 19th century, your provision and meet changing In 2019 Welcare launched £3.1million in Strategic Development Funding Association for Friendless Girls ‘friends’ were more than needs. That is what inspired their digital #CapeAbility from the Church of England. was started and over the years your social circle: they were us to work with older children campaign targeted at schools the charity has been renamed your family and your village, aged 11-13 especially at the and junior churches, to raise This, the second successful bid, will be used to several times and has now been everyone cared for each other point of transition from awareness and support for their help to fund six projects in Deptford Deanery, shortened to Welcare. long before social welfare primary to secondary school work with a new generation. East Greenwich, Elephant and Castle, Lambeth, Welcare President, Bishop and services emerged. To as it can be a turning point, The campaign uses Summerstown and Horley. Christopher presided at the be friendless was to be in where the wrong path can the metaphor of super- heroes (hence the Cape in Refl ecting our diverse Diocese, the projects are CapeAbility) to encourage intentionally focused on places where we can children to thrive, to care breathe new life into mission and ministry for and to inspire others and long term growth. recognise their own individual strengths and talents, and to They include expanding the Hispanic bilingual give them opportunities to test church of St Matthew’s at the Elephant and themselves, and so become Castle, a new worshipping community as an superheroes themselves. eco-church as well as lay workers focusing on Anna said “Through your continuing support and the students & young adults and greater engagement #CapeAbility campaign Welcare with children and families - all of which is in line will be able to give the next with our strategic objectives. generation of young people a brighter future”. More news and information in the September Find out more about Welcare edition of the Bridge. from www.welcare.org

An Ecumenical Caterham’s Pilgrimage to the three-legged Holy Land ministry begins! Two new Vicars ‘joined legs’ and walked cross-country from Chaldon to Whytleafe to symbolise their future journey together in a new shared model of ministry The Revd Helen Burnett Bishop Jonathan, Bishop of and the Revd Annie Kurk will Croydon. The Venerable Moira 3-10 March 2020 ‘job-share’ the role of Vicar Astin, Archdeacon of Reigate led by Bishop Christopher Chessun to the parishes of St Luke’s and Tandridge preached and at Whyteleafe and St Peter and St one point broke into song! and Bishop Paul Hendricks Paul, Chaldon in the Caterham After their fi rst service Team Ministry. in each church on 9 June, Cost £1,745 sharing a twin-bedded room Helen Burnett is no stranger Chaldon hosted a party in the with private facilities. Single room supplement. to either parish as she has been churchyard, which included there for three years. huge quantities of tabbouleh Details from the Pilgrimage Administrator Annie Kurk was previously and baklava prepared by one Trinity House, 4 Chapel Court, Chaplain to St Cecilia’s C of of the resettled Syrian Borough High Street, London SE1 1HW E School, Southfi elds and families that Helen has been Tel: 020 7939 9428 Assistant Vicar at St Barnabas, supporting! People of the two Email: [email protected] Clapham Common. parishes enjoyed time together, They were licensed together further cementing the ties at St Luke’s Whyteleafe by between them. Walking I Welcoming I Growing