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Clergy Mailing - August 2017 Contents 1. Nifty Notes 2. Diocesan Conference booking form 3. Big E Training Event 2017 4. Growing Disciples through Messy Church 5. Education Sunday Niftynotes news & information from the Diocese www.southwell.anglican.org AUGUST 2017 Compiled by Nicola Mellors email: [email protected] Historic night as Bishop commissions first group of Diocesan Interns istory was made in Southwell & Nottingham Hwhen Bishop Paul Williams commissioned the first cohort of interns graduating from the Diocesan Internship Programme. The cohort included nine young leaders who undertook a year of learning, personal development and service with the Diocese’s Younger Leadership College. commission them this evening Pippa Scott and Alex Shiells, are The College was set up in because it has never been just now set to start their ordination September 2016, as part of the about this one year – we are training, while the others are diocesan vision of Growing going to send them out as they moving into a range of other Disciples: Wider, Younger, continue to serve God.” He said exciting leadership contexts Deeper, and has a vision to equip, the command to every disciple Continued on page 3 resource and commission 1,000 was “to go into all the world, and younger leaders over the next this is what tonight is all about – In this month’s issue: seven years. This group of nine the commissioning is a sending interns were among the first out”. 2 News in brief young people to get involved. Andy Wolfe, Dean of the College, 4 Events & information The commissioning took place invited each of the interns to the during a service at Holy Trinity, front of the church: Amelia 5 Prayer Diary Southwell, and was followed by a Delbridge, Tom Tuck, Duncan celebration meal in the Dean, Josie Rowland, Joanne ` 9 Training Courses Archbishop’s Palace. Bishop Paul Arton, Pippa Scott, Niamh told the interns, their families, Shewell-Cooper and Iona 11 What’s On friends and supporters, that it was Loffman; there he presented them right to take a moment to thank with a gift and prayed for them. 12 Comings & Goings God for the first year of the intern programme: “We are going to Three of the interns, Tom Tuck, 2 August 17 News in brief. News in brief. News in brief. News in brief. Arnold St Mary’s man awarded Archbishop's British Empire Medal Palace Southwell Minster Reader from St Mary’s Specialist Plant Church Arnold has been Aawarded the British Empire Fair 2017 Medal. Top Plant Nurseries with Eighty year old Alan J W something special for Langton’s involvement with the every garden community life of Arnold and Mapperley has earned him the prestigious award, which will be Sunday presented to him on 1st September 13th August at Nottingham Council House by 11 am-4pm the Lord-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, Sir John Peace, and he will have an invitation to Entry donation: £1.00 Buckingham Palace for one of the Garden Parties next year. In aid of the Minster’s project to Alan says: “My professional career was always in teaching, and I conserve and better interpret the taught at Eastwood Hall Park School and Carlton le Willows School, stone carvings of animals, plants before being appointed to the Headship of South Wolds School at and green men in the late Keyworth in 1981. I retired from this post in 1994 after thirteen very thirteenth century Chapter happy years within this village community. At the same time as House teaching during the week I was licenced as a Reader in the Diocese of Southwell in 1963, and have continued to serve the parish of Saint The Archbishop's Palace, Mary’s Arnold for fifty four years, and worked with seven different Southwell Minster vicars during that time.” Church Street, Southwell, Notts NG25 0HD In 1986 he was one of a group of men who formed the original Rotary email: info@ Club of Arnold and Mapperley, where he is still a member. This lively archbishopspalacesouthwell. group seeks to address and respond to local issues and local people by org.uk helping with money and practical schemes which we feel require additional support. He has also been the local representative for the www.southwellminster.org Leprosy Mission in the area, and helped to help raise large sums of Tel: 01 636 81 2649 money for this international cause over the last thirty years planthuntersfairs.co.uk “After my retirement from teaching I wished to continue making a 513115Specialist Plant Fairs contribution to society, especially in the area of Arnold and at Beautiful Gardens and Mapperley, where I have always lived. I formed the ‘Arnold Golden Countryside Locations Eagles’, a group especially for older citizens where they could find out more about the workings of health and council and social service organisations as they affected their lives. This was a sub-group of the Arnold Area Forum, which I have represented on the county-wide Older People’s Advisory Group (OPAG), the object of which is to try Continued on page 4 Niftynotes 3 News in brief. News in brief. News in brief. News in brief. Bishop of Natal on ten-day visit News from Sacrista Prebend ast month, the Bishop of Natal, the Rt Revd Dino Gabriel, arrived in the diocese for a 10-day visit with his wife Elizabeth Retreat House: Land the Link Officer in Natal, the Revd Dane Elsworth. They travelled extensively around the diocese, attending the Transform A Quiet Space in the Heart of Weekend and Evensong at Southwell Minster as well as meeting Southwell chaplains, visiting a school and experiencing the breadth of ministry that stretches from outer estates to the city centre to rural contexts. Saturday 16th September 2017 On arrival, the group had lunch at the Minster Refectory, before meeting staff at Jubilee House. The Bishop, accompanied by Bishop Walking Pilgrimage to Paul, visited churches in Nottingham – Trinity Church, in Mansfield Southwell: Drawing water Road; St Stephen’s in Hyson Green, and St Nic’s in the city centre. from the wells of salvation (or Holy wells) Part of the visit was to meet those who have ‘small story’ links between parishes – and those who are seeking them. led by Alison Milbank Bishop Dino has been Bishop of Natal for about 18 months. Bishop From pagan times, springs and Paul visited Natal last year, and this is a return visit. The dioceses are wells have been considered to be exploring ways to build on the friendship and to broaden and enrich holy places, and have been our shared journey of faith. visited for healing. After morning prayer at Sacrista, this day will offer an opportunity to walk the paths and lanes between Halloughton and Southwell, and to meditate on the role of water in the actual landscape as well as the spiritual life. We shall visit dew-ponds and the original south well and examine the feature so distinctive of this area: the dumble, which is a stream cutting between steep narrow Photo: the Revd Naeem Bahadur, Bishop Paul, Elizabeth, Bishop banks, with a rich plant life. Dino, the Revd Clive Burrows at St Stephen’s, Hyson Green There will be an opportunity to follow traditional Christian Continued from page 1 prayer practices at holy wells. Our pilgrimage will end at across various areas of culture and society. The programme is set to Southwell Minster, where we continue in 2017-18 with a new cohort recruited and ready to start. shall pray in the chapel on the site of the original holy well and Andy Said: “It has been such a privilege to see these young leaders baptistery, and then go on to grow and develop throughout this year, and have such a fantastic Sacrista Prebend for afternoon impact on their church contexts and right across the Diocese. We are tea. There will be approximately thrilled that this group of pioneering leaders have taken this step, and Continued on page 4 look forward to welcoming next year’s cohort in September”. 4 August 17 Events & information. Events & information. Events & informatio Bishop Tony taking part in CEO Continued from page 3 Sleepout five miles of walking, in a mix of conversation and silence. Please wear stout shoes/walking boots and bring a packed lunch and something for the rain. The Revd. Professor Dr. Alison Milbank is Associate Professor of Literature and Theology in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham University. She is currently Priest Vicar at Southwell Minster, and will be installed as Canon Theologian in October. Photo: Nottingham Post ishop Tony Porter will be taking part in the second CEO The day will begin at Sacrista at Sleepout at Meadow Lane on 5th October. 9.45am with coffee, and end at B 3.30pm with tea and cake. He will be joined by club owner Alan Hardy and other business and community leaders who will sleep at the side of the pitch to raise Please bring your own lunch and money for the homeless. drinks for the walk. A donation of £20 is requested to cover the Notts County Football in the Community is leading the project in costs of the day. partnership with the Trent Bridge Community Trust; last year 80 people slept out at Meadow Lane and raised £46,000. For all enquiries and to book a place on this retreat, please West Bridgford’s The Friary, a drop-in centre for homeless and contact: unemployed people, and Emmanuel House support centre on Sacrista Prebend, Goosegate, will be the project’s beneficiaries this year.