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Light up the World in Prayer St Helen’s, Bilton-in-Ainsty St John the Baptist, Healaugh St John the Baptist, Hessay All Saints, Moor Monkton All Saints, Wighill READINGS AND PSALMS FOR JUNE YEAR C These are the readings taken from the Church Lectionary and are suggested as read on the following Sundays. They may be changed depending on the theme of the service. Sunday 2nd June Acts 16:16-34 • Psalm 97 • Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 • John 17:20-26 Sunday 9th June Acts 2:1-21 or Genesis 11:1-9 • Psalm 104:24-34, 35b • Romans 8:14-17 or Acts 2:1- 21 • John 14:8-17, (25-27) Sunday 16th June Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 and Psalm 8 • Romans 5:1-5 • John 16:12-15 Sunday 23rd June 1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a and Psalm 42 and 43 • Isaiah 65:1-9 and Psalm 22:19-28 • Galatians 3:23-29 • Luke 8:26-39 Sunday 30th June 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 and Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20 • 1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21 and Psalm 16 • Galatians 5:1, 13-25 • Luke 9:51-62 1 CONTENTS Parish Letter 3 Moving On 5 Archdeacon of York to be Bishop of Shrewsbury 6 Ordinations 9 Walk with Me 10 Easter across the Parish 11 Home Group News 14 SOZO Ministry 15 RAYC 17 From the Registers 17 Magazine News 18 Canon John Rendall Celebrates 19 Community News 21 Military Wives Choirs 25 Baby Basics 26 A Church Near You 27 Supporting the Bishops Mission Order 27 York Minster Parish Pass 28 Kids Corner 29 St Mary’s Church of England Primary school 31 WW Garden Tea Party 33 Brownies 34 Rainbows 35 Long Marston Yorkshire Countrywomen’s Association 36 Classified 37 Parish Contacts 42 Church Rotas 43 2 PARISH LETTER Thy Kingdom Come … I’m writing this parish letter with an invitation for you to join us in something called, Thy Kingdom Come. Some of you might recognize that phrase as belonging to The Lord’s Prayer, when Jesus prayed, “your kingdom come and your will be done.” Put simply, this global period of praying together across cultures, countries and churches brings before God our needs. Prayer connects us to God and allows us to take seriously the suffering of the world within the deeper context of our Christian hope. But what are the deep questions that we share? If we can voice the questions that we as a society ponder or perhaps struggle with, surely this will help us in praying for the needs of our communities on a local, national and international level. We live with environmental disasters and ecological fragility; we live with rapid developments in media and the raft of different viewpoints, alternative news and individualistic claims on truth; we live in a world where injustice against the poorest fails to demonstrate love and kindness; we live with a rise in loneliness despite an increasingly connected world. Popular culture is brilliant at summarizing collective malaise. The Black Eyed Peas lyric from Where Is the Love says it like this Father, Father, Father help us Send some guidance from above ‘Cause people got me, got me questionin’ Where is the Love? We are not called to lay aside any of these questions but to look through Jesus’ eyes and work in God’s strength to bring about transformation and healing to 3 our broken world. We can pray for more people to explore Jesus’ good news of peace and hope and love. “Your kingdom come, your will be done”- what might that look like, especially across our villages? In November I prayer walked each village and prayed for an increase in, ‘love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control.’ Please join us as we pray for more opportunities to belong and believe, and for more places of mutual support. You will find information regarding all Thy Kingdom Come activities in this magazine. Please come along and join in. Yours, Rev Lucy 4 MOVING ON Since starting work with Richard in Rural Ainsty in September 2017, two years has passed so quickly! As many of you will already know, it’s time for me and my family to move on to the next step in my training as my mission and ministry placement in Rural Ainsty has come to an end, and the academic part of my course is almost finished. With some trepidation, but lots of joy, I will be ordained a deacon by Archbishop Sentamu in York Minster on 30th June, to which you are all welcome. I will then take up a post as curate at St Mary’s Church in Strensall for the next three years, so I won’t be too far away and I hope to keep in touch with many of you. St Mary’s has one building, and Strensall parish is one large village, so there will be a less complicated pattern of moving between services, though I think there are three services each Sunday morning! The church is lively and thriving with lots going on, though I am hoping to help to develop their work with families and children. Strensall has a large primary school which my son Sam will attend for a year before secondary school, and I’m looking forward to building on my experiences doing collective worship at Askham Richard St Mary’s school and putting my Breakfast Church experiences to good use at Strensall’s Café church. Phil, Ben, Sam and I would like to thank everyone in Rural Ainsty for making us welcome from the beginning and helping us to feel quickly part of the church community - though feeding us lots of cakes and biscuits has not been good for waistlines! I’m also very grateful for the ways you’ve let me experiment in our worship together, from leading my first sung evensong to Spa church to drawing our prayers in the sand. I know that Rural Ainsty will continue to grow in fellowship and numbers, and I feel privileged to have seen and taken part in that already. May Jesus leads you ever deeper into His love and ever more adventurously into discipleship. Kath McBride 5 ARCHDEACON OF YORK TO BE BISHOP OF SHREWSBURY DATE: Tue 7th May 2019 The Venerable Sarah Bullock, Archdeacon of York, is to be the new Area Bishop of Shrewsbury in the Diocese of Lichfield. No 10 Downing Street announced today that the Queen has approved Sarah’s nomination in succession to the Right Revd Mark Rylands, who moved to parish ministry in Exeter Diocese in July 2018 after almost nine years as Bishop of Shrewsbury. Sarah will be the first woman to serve as a bishop in the Diocese of Lichfield. She will join the Area Bishops of Wolverhampton and Stafford in an episcopal team led by the Bishop of Lichfield. Her particular responsibility will be the pastoral oversight of churches, ministers and communities in the towns and villages of North Shropshire, including Shrewsbury, and the northern part of Telford. Sarah (55) trained for ministry at Cranmer Hall, University of Durham, a theological college in the evangelical tradition of the Church of England. She was ordained 26 years ago after a short career in teaching and children’s and youth work in the Diocese of Manchester. She then served there in a variety of parish and diocesan roles including Bishop’s Adviser for Women’s Ministry and Borough Dean for the City and Borough of Manchester. She was made an Honorary Canon of Manchester Cathedral in 2007. In 2013 Sarah was appointed Archdeacon of York, a largely rural area which includes market towns, the deep rural communities of the Vale of York and the edges of the Yorkshire Wolds as well as the City of York. Building relationship in the rural communities has been a vital part of supporting and encouraging the churches and she has worked creatively with colleagues to develop new approaches to mission and ministry in such communities. While Archdeacon she has also learned to drive a tractor, operated a milking parlour, led a Carol Service in a cowshed at Askham Bryan (Agricultural) College and ridden a racehorse! She said: “I am honoured and delighted to have been invited to become the Bishop of Shrewsbury. I’m looking forward to really getting to know the communities of this area and those who live, work and worship here. “I’m passionate about the Christian faith and journeying with people to discover and share the love, joy and hope that Jesus offers to everyone. I look forward to supporting the churches, schools, colleges and communities of this area as we share the good news of God’s love, which brings transformation, hope and renewal." Sarah is married to Peter, a physicist, and they have one son, Joseph, who is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Durham. The Bishop of Lichfield, the Right Revd Dr Michael Ipgrave, said: “I am grateful for the prayers, wisdom and advice of many people who have been involved in helping to discern the right person to be the twelfth Bishop of Shrewsbury in the Church of England, and I would particularly like to thank the Advisory Group who have supported me in this quest. “I am delighted that Sarah has accepted our invitation to be nominated for this post. I know that in her we will be welcoming a caring and prayerful pastor, with an imaginative and energetic commitment to mission, a proven readiness to work with ecumenical and community partners in building up community, and a fine mind and warm heart firmly grounded in a deep Christian faith.
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