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The Minster Church of All Saints Rotherham Parish Profiles 2018 The Parish Church of St Paul's Contents Mission Statement and Vision 2 Joint Profile statement 4 Rotherham - The Parish and the Place 5 St Paul’s - The Parish 8 The Minster – The Church 9 St Paul’s – The Church 10 The Chapel of Our Lady on the Bridge 12 Mission and Outreach - The Minster 13 St Paul’s - Worship and Community 15 Meet the Team - St Paul’s 17 The Minster People and Ministry 18 Bell Tower and Ringing Group 20 Pastoral Care and Spiritual Growth 21 St Paul’s - Activities and its people 23 The Vicarage 24 Appendix I Annual Accounts Further information and informal discussion please contact the parish representatives: - Samantha Newton – - [email protected] Christopher Badger - [email protected] 1 The Minster Church of All Saints Rotherham St Paul’s Parish Masbrough Mission Statement The Parish of Rotherham seeks to make known and to share the love of Jesus Christ with all people without distinction. Vision The Minster is uniquely placed at the heart of Rotherham to play an important part in the recovery and development of the town at this critical time, and to have a significant Kingdom impact in the town centre and surrounding area. As such, we are currently the subJect of a Diocesan Strategic Development Bid, which, if successful, will bring in significant additional resources, increasing our capacity to realise the many missional opportunities around us and become a resourcing church to the wider deanery. The strategy involves two distinct but coordinated approaches to missional engagement and growth. We have a vision both to develop the Minster as a centre of musical excellence, and to continue the development of TimeBuilders in the town. Music specialists on the Minster staff, funded by the SDF, will be tasked with visiting local schools to form and train choirs, with each term’s work culminating in a concert performance in the Minster. This benefits hard-pressed schools struggling financially to maintain any investment in music-making and grows the profile and reputation of the Minster in the local community. A focus on local primary schools will enable us to develop a non-auditioned Junior choir, meeting weekly in term-time to practice, which could in turn contribute to worship at maJor festivals, especially in all age services, as well as participate in an ongoing programme of concerts. This musical engagement with schools will also give opportunity for the Minster to recruit boy and girl choristers for the treble line of their own auditioned choir, to lead worship regularly. As well as affirming musical gifts in children and providing them with the opportunity to exercise those gifts in a quality choir, this approach will also encourage parents and families to engage with the Minster’s ministry as they support their children. TimeBuilders is an innovative time banking initiative. It has the potential to transform the lives of disadvantaged people, by creating a parallel “economy” of Time Credits to incentivise purposeful work which tackles loneliness, mental illness and boredom. These can be exchanged for rewards provided by local businesses who donate spare capacity e.g. seats at football games or cinema tickets. We focus on 3 sources of assets: People, surplus capacity in leisure organisations and waste food. TimeBuilders has a transformative impact on people’s well-being. We ask people what they can contribute – how they can help us. Many people have never been asked this question before. But it changes everything. It gives each person the opportunity to develop social networks and to do worthwhile and valued activity. It enables people to help themselves: to be part of the solution to their problems. We are already seeing this work develop in Rotherham though at a very early stage. These initiatives will enable us to be a blessing to the people of Rotherham. Through utilising the historical significance of our buildings and ensuring our faith and values remain central we will see people's lives transformed. 2 The Minster Church of All Saints Rotherham St Paul’s Parish Masbrough We are also keen to embrace new opportunities in our partnership with St Paul's Masbrough, blending the traditional with fresh expressions of church and missional activity to see spiritual and numerical growth. In short, we aspire to be: • excellent parish churches • a people who are spiritually growing • the beating heart at the centre of our communities We are committed to looking outward in mission and open to renewal, to fostering community engagement and outreach, and to creating strong links with our schools, colleges and the new university campus. We aim to build on our strengths and maximise our historical heritage. As a Minster church we are aware that we could be a focal resource for the deanery and borough and we are enthusiastic to work to achieve this vision. 3 The Minster Church of All Saints Rotherham St Paul’s Parish Masbrough Joint Profile Statement for Rotherham Minster and St Paul’s Masbrough Mission Partnership Rotherham Minster (formerly All Saints Parish Church) and St Paul's Masbrough are working together in a mission partnership, whilst retaining their distinct parish identities. The Vicar of Rotherham will also be licensed as Priest in Charge of St Paul's Masbrough, and be expected to offer pastoral oversight to the St Paul’s congregation. The histories of the two churches are very different. Rotherham All Saints has been a parish for over 1000 years whilst St Paul's gained parish status only about 100 years ago. The current parish of St Paul's came into being in 1984 with the closure of St Michael's Northfield, when a part of the parish of St Thomas Kimberworth was added to St Paul's/St Michael's to form what is now the Masbrough parish. Both churches have organists and choirs, although the styles of worship and tradition are different. The Minster holds two services each Sunday whilst St Paul's have one. The Minster holds a service each Tuesday at Chapel of our Lady on the Bridge. St Paul's hold a mid- week service on alternate Wednesdays . We feel there is a firm foundation in place for this Mission Partnership to grow and thrive in faith and trust, with the rich and diverse gifts that both parishes have to offer. 4 The Minster Church of All Saints Rotherham St Paul’s Parish Masbrough Rotherham The Parish and the Place The Minster Church of All Saints Rotherham, has been at the centre of the town for over 1000 years, gracing the town centre of Rotherham since the fifteenth century. The Parish of Rotherham is the historic civic parish. In addition to the Medieval Grade One Listed Minster, All Saints Parish Church became a Minster in 2004, the parish includes The Medieval Chapel of Our Lady on the Bridge. The Minster dominates the townscape and is much valued by the people of Rotherham, including those who would not normally attend services. The Town and Borough Rotherham is a borough, situated in South Yorkshire, covering 110 Sq miles with a population of 260,100 who mostly live in urban areas though 72% of the area is greenbelt. Rotherham has a diverse community which includes 20,000 people from minority ethnic groups (8.1%) the largest communities being Pakistani, Kashmiri and Slovak/Czech Roma. The borough is also made up of many towns, villages and suburbs, which form a wide range of 4 geographic communities. The name Rotherham usually conJures up images of the towns industrial past. In the 1480’s the Rotherham born Archbishop of York, Thomas Rotherham, instigated the building of a college (The College of Jesus). This and the new Parish Church of All Saints made Rotherham an enviable and modern town at the turn of the 16th Century. The college was dissolved under the reign of Edward VI and by the end of the 16th Century, Rotherham had become notorious for gambling and vice. The region had been exploited for iron since Roman times, but it was coal that first brought the industrial revolution to Rotherham. The seams were the driving force behind the improvements to navigation along the River Don, the various cuttings eventually forming the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. An Iron and Steel industry also developed throughout the 18th century, the Walker foundries produced high quality cannons, in addition to several early cast iron bridges. Meanwhile Joseph FolJambe established a factory to produce his “Rotherham Plough”, the first commercially successful iron plough. The first Rotherham glassworks was set up in 1751 and went on to become Beatson Clark & Co, one of the town’s largest manufacturers, exporting glass medical bottle worldwide. 5 The Minster Church of All Saints Rotherham St Paul’s Parish Masbrough Iron and later Steel became the principal industry in Rotherham, surviving well into the 20th Century. Steel Peech and Tozer’s massive Templeborough steelworks, at its peak over a mile long employing 10,000 workers and housing six electric arc furnaces, produced 1.8 million tonnes of steel a year. The operation finally closed down in 2001 and is now Magna, the largest science adventure centre in Europe. The Tata steel plant in Rotherham, now owned by Liberty House, continues to produce steel for a number of products worldwide. But it’s not all Coal, Iron and Steel. The Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) at Waverley is leading new business growth creating Jobs in high technology enterprise. Meadowhall one of the largest indoor Shopping Centres in the UK sits only 2 miles from the town centre.