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ISSN 2056 3310 www.chichester.anglican.org SPRING ISSUE 17 • FEBRUARY 2018 INSPIRING VISION VISUAL ARTS TAKES CENTRE STAGE FOR THE YEAR OF PRAYER LENT COURSE FIND OUT HOW YOUR PARISH CAN GET INVOLVED ON PAGE 10 BIGGER AND HARTFIELD HELP FOR THE BETTER SCHOOL OPENS WHOLE FAMILY / 14 PRAYER GARDEN / 22 / 18 Fishbourne prepares for FSW plans to double its 3rd literary festival support workers In memory of school governor, Marion Jackson ISSUE 17 3 WORDS MATTER They convey meaning and give expression to our experience, to our emotions and to the freedom of our imagination. The poet, a word-smith, develops the skill of expanding the power of words by applying them in surprising and contrasting combinations and contexts. In a similar way the artist uses colour, shape, form and figure to convey meaning and experience with greater fluidity and immediacy than might be done by words alone. The Year of the Bible began to open up for us the words that are inspired by God and communicate God’s self-revealing. As we move now into the Year of Prayer we have an opportunity to review how those words shape our experience of God. Most particularly, of course, they are shaped by the Word made flesh, Jesus Christ, who speaks in human dialect from the heart of God the Father whom we cannot see or hear. In Jesus Christ God uses human senses to engage the mind. Prayer draws on so many media. Of course it uses words - very often words that are hallowed by use across the centuries, such as the Lord’s prayer, or our local inheritance of words from St Richard of Chichester. Through the Holy Spirit the words of prayer also connect us with people across time and continent, uniting us with the Church in every land, where Christians are praying in languages we may not know or understand.. For many people, visual images enrich our capacity to bring alive the words of scripture INFORMATION ASSESS COMMUNITY ONLINE MARKETPLACE and the inherited patterns of prayer which inform the articulation of our penitence, AND ADVICE YOUR NEEDS GROUPS OF LOCAL SERVICES adoration and thanksgiving. Our Lent Course this year explores how to come alive to God in this way. I hope and pray it will inspire you to look again at how word, images, sounds and actions that are familiar when you gather with others for worship will also deepen you habit and The one-stop shop for care experience of daily prayer. Come Holy Spirit, inextinguishable flame of divine love, and inspire in us the words of and support in West Sussex faith and life. With best wishes. Visit our website for care and support for adults in West Sussex. +Martin www.westsussexconnecttosupport.org Bishop of Chichester If you need help using the website, call Adults’ CarePoint 01.2017 WORKING TOGETHER on 01243 642121 WS31763 ISSUE 17 5 CONTENTS JOYS AND 6-9 News Across the Diocese Faithful CHALLENGE / 16 I N A C H A N G I N G W O R L D 10-11 Lent Course Ten years of the marriage 12-13 Year Of Prayer 2018 course and still going strong 14-21 Parish News 22-23 Help For The Helpers 24-25 Our Mission To Africa TRINITY LAUNCHES 26 Young Vocation Groups 27 New CEO For Rural Resource Centre DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE IN LEWES / 17 28 Dear Church, Can You Hear Me? ‘seeing lives transformed’ EASTBOURNE 4-7 MAY 2018 is at heart of new scheme 29 A Priviledge & A Responsibility 30 In Persuit Of Learning And Fun SPEAKERS JEREMY MCQUOID LEE MCMUNN JONTY ALLCOCK EMMA SCRIVENER INCLUDE GRAHAM BEYNON SIMON VIBERT 31 Thy Kingdom Come 2018 GLYNN HARRISON 32 Abundant Life 07958 047140 [email protected] 33 Stories Behind The Hymns RENEWING LINKS / 20 34-35 Meet The New DAC Team Members Past and Present comes 36-37 Come Into The Garden For Quiet Reflection together in Maresfield 38-39 Cursillo 40-41 Chichester Cathedral reports on its Day of Peace 42-43 Books & Reviews ‘A TRULY AMAZING TRIP / 24 Rev Kate Bailey reports on her journey to Kenya To subscribe to Faith in Sussex magazine, please Editor: Lisa Williamson contact the communications department: [email protected] [email protected] Editorial Support: Kate Parkin Creative: kaufcreative.com If you would like to discuss an article for a future issue Pictures: Jim Holden, Graham Franks of Faith in Sussex please contact the editor: Print and Distribution: CPO [email protected] Contact us www.chichester.anglican.org Faith in Sussex magazine is published in Diocesan Church House Chichester Diocese conjunction with the weekly e-bulletin. 211 New Church Road Hove, BN3 4ED @Chichesterdio Switchboard: 01273 421021 Fax: 01273 421041 Diocese of Chichester Published by: The Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance Incorporated. 211 New Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 4ED. Opinions expressed in the magazine do not necessarily reflect official iocesan or Church of England policy. We reserve the right to shorten or omit any submitted articles. Submitted material becomes copyright of The Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance Inc. © Copyright 2018 Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance Inc. 6 FAITH IN SUSSEX ISSUE 17 7 NEWS ACROSS OUR DIOCESE BISHOP MARTIN HONORARY WELCOMED TO CANONS HOUSE OF LORDS ON SATURDAY, January 20, the Dean of Westminster the Very Rev Dr John Hall and the THE Right Rev Dr Martin Warner was formally Rev Dr Jennifer Strawbridge, an Oxford associate introduced to the House of Lords on January 15. professor, were installed as honorary canons of He was supported by the bishops of Norwich and Chichester Cathedral. Chelmsford. The Dean of Westminster will take the stall of Bishop Martin said: “I look forward to joining the Prebendary of Bursalis and Mansfield College others from Sussex who serve in both houses VERY REV JOHN HALL associate professor Rev Strawbridge will take the stall REV DR JENNIFER STRAWBRIDGE at Westminster and to sharing in the Church of THE BISHOP OF CHICHESTER WITH of the Prebendary of Bargham. England’s contribution to the national life through BISHOP STEPHEN COTTRELL (LEFT) Parliament.” AND BISHOP GRAHAM JAMES The Bishop of Chichester also appointed the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, the Right Rev Richard Moth, He has maintained a creative conversation with local as one of the five canons of honour of Chichester MPs on issues of importance to the county, and of Cathedral. He will be installed on February 11. course the diocese, and aims to continue to do so. At a short ceremony in the chamber of the Lords, the bishop presented his Writ of Summons from the The Rev Martin Lane, vicar of Bosham, and Rev Lisa He will become one of 26 “Lords Spiritual”, a Crown, took the Parliamentary oath and then took Barnett, vicar of Scaynes Hill, were also appointed as group that includes the Archbishops of Canterbury his place on the bishops’ bench. honorary canons. Rev Martin will take the stall of the and York, the bishops of London, Durham and Prebendary of Gates and Rev Barnett the stall of the Winchester as ex-officio members, and 21 diocesan He will make a maiden speech at some point in Prebendary of Woodhorn. The installation will take bishops introduced in order of seniority. the future. place at the cathedral in the context of Evensong on Sunday, March 18, at 3.30pm. REV LISA BARNETT REV MARTIN LANE TO CONTINUE the support for growth and renewal, the diocese has successfully passed the first THY KINGDOM SUPPORT FOR stage of obtaining another grant from the Church Commissions Strategic Development Fund (SDF). COME GRANT CHURCH GROWTH The diocese has applied for £1.5 million to help church leaders develop their parishes. This will be THE diocese has been granted £5,000 towards supported by a mission hub in Maybridge, Worthing, Beacon events for the global prayer movement Thy and will feed into the curacy training programme. Kingdom Come this year. Beacon events will happen The next stage will be to develop a more detailed across the diocese and there will be three specific proposal and if that is successful, the funding will be events, including one in Chichester Cathedral. The available from June. grant will be used for resources including a 24/7 digital prayer initiative/ virtual prayer room that will The next issue of Faith in Sussex in May will report enable people from across the diocese to engage fully on how the first tranche SDF projects have been with Thy Kingdom Come. More information will be doing and what steps are being taken to promote available soon. See page 31 for more details about growth across the diocese. Thy Kingdom Come in the Diocese of Chichester. 8 FAITH IN SUSSEX ISSUE 17 9 NEWS CONTINUED SETTING GOD’S PEOPLE FREE DATA PROTECTION NINE dioceses were represented at a two-day event “The Chichester team will be working together over in Birmingham, with four or five delegates from each. the coming months to find and share stories which THE General Data Protection Regulation show best practice. We would love to hear from you will take effect in the UK from May The overall objective for the Discipleship Learning if you know people who are fruitfully sharing and 25. It replaces the existing law on data Community is to support the implementation of demonstrating their faith as Jesus’s followers in the protection (the Data Protection Act Setting God’s People Free, part of the Church of workplace, neighbourhood or among friends and 1998) and gives individuals more rights England’s Renewal and Reform programme aimed at family.” and protection in how their personal helping the diocese to become a growing church for data is used by organisations.