February 2018
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OUR NEWS FEBRUARY 2018 GREEN CHURCH KERNOW PILOT PARISH OPPORTUNITY Is your parish a member of the FOUR SIMPLE STEPS TOWARDS Parish Giving Scheme? If so, we have an opportunity YOUR FIRST BRONZE AWARD for a few parishes to trial With the news that Penzance has become extending the reach of PGS to the first place in the UK to gain the new their wider community. Plastic Free Coastlines status (See page This would ideally suit rural parishes. 5), we are encouraging parishes across the diocese to see what they can do to INTERESTED? improve their local environment. Rebecca Evans Our Green Church Kernow Awards Parish Support Advisor provide simple ways in which a parish T 01872 360039 can do something towards helping the E [email protected] environment AND receive an award for their church at the same time. RESOURCES If you missed the New Year article about 3 Install Renewable Energy System e.g. starting the Green Church Award Scheme Solar PV panels, etc. you can find ithere and start anytime. 4 Arrange for the composting of all organic Each month we will feature four simple materials – (eg flowers and kitchen waste), actions and here are February’s four: check here for offers from Cornwall Council. FREE PRINTER & COPIER CHRISTIAN LIVING A free black and white printer/ copier is You can also get in touch with me today if free to a good home from Church House, 1 Register as a Fairtrade Church with the your church or local school would like some Threemilestone. The new owner would Fairtrade Foundation FREE gardening tools! need to be responsible for repairs and COMMUNITY MORE INFORMATION maintenance and it will need collecting. www.trurodiocese.org.uk/wp-content/ The copier is available on a first come, first 2 Lobby (& thank) your MP for uploads/2016/04/Environment-Award- served basis so if you are interested please parliamentary action on climate change Scheme-2017.pdf contact Church House on 01872 274351. Click Pledge 4 JOIN THE BISHOP’S LENT CHALLENGE AND SHOW THE LOVE! The Bishop’s Lent Challenge is for us to “See how they love one another,” the world love one another! This is not a new idea, rarely says, but needs to see. Let us be a but we are not always great at telling one sign of hope to a world sadly divided. another within the church that we matter, Bishop Chris will be talking to Donna Birrell or as Jesus put it, we are “one body.” on Radio Cornwall on Sunday, February 11 The Bishop asks us to write a simple to launch the challenge and to encourage letter to someone in the church, the letter as many of you as possible to take part. reminds us, and them, that we depend on Do listen in and if you feel moved to, do one another’s flourishing for our own. please share your letter! SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO PARISH GIVING OUR NEWS FEBRUARY 2018 2 DON’T PANIC! DIOCESAN DIRECTORY CHANGES & UPDATES FREE GDPR TRAINING FOR LICENSED CLERGY The Revd Chris Thomson* has been licensed as a Public Preacher. PARISHES & CLERGY IN MARCH The Revd Dr Donna Lazenby* has been licensed as a Public Preacher. The Revd Dr Elizabeth Wild* has been instituted and inducted as Rector of the The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) North Cornwall Cluster. She was formerly Priest-in-Charge replaces the Data Protection Act and the changes it The Revd Jane Everitt has resigned as Team Rector of Launceston and has taken brings from May 25 will affect most parishes and all up a post in the Diocese of Coventry. The Revd James Hills has resigned as clergy. It cannot be ignored! Assistant Curate of St Kea. He has taken up a post in the Diocese of Southwark. The Revd Richard Ward-Smith has With that in mind, the Revd Mark Jones been licensed as Associate Priest of of Portsmouth Diocese, who is a data Kilkhampton and Morwenstow and of the protection expert and vicar, will deliver MONDAY, MARCH 19 North Cornwall Benefice. two-hour training sessions designed for Revd Canon Andrew Wade has retired and is no longer Team Rector of Probus, parishes and clergy across four locations GDPR TRAINING VENUES Ladock, Grampound with Creed and St in the Diocese of Truro. Gulval Village Hall, Erme. He continues as the Diocesan Rural The sessions are FREE and will give an Penzance 9.30am Links Officer. overview of the new legislation, what it means for parishes, and most importantly All Saints Church, PTO provide a simple guide to what parishes Higher town Truro and clergy need to do to ensure they are 12.45pm The Revd Ian Lowell* is now PTO category A (formerly B). compliant with the law. Church House, The Revd Janet Salter* is now PTO All training sessions are on MARCH 19. 3.30pm category B (formerly C). Threemilestone The Revd Garry Swinton is now PTO To sign up either click here or contact St Petroc’s Church, category B. Church House on 01872 274351. Please do Bodmin 7pm book as we need to ensure we have space CHURCH HOUSE for all those who wish to attend. Rebecca St Ledger-Renfree has returned For more information see the Diocese of following maternity leave. She is now Truro website. Parishes must comply with its Trainee Discipleship Officer, working with the Discipleship team. requirements, just like any other charity or FURTHER SUPPORT AVAILABLE The Revd Jane Horton has been organisation. GDPR is a law to strengthen data appointed as the Discipleship Co-ordinator protection for people in the UK and New helpful guidance including templates on a part-time basis. , Financial Controller, will leave Europe. It will apply in the UK from 25 May and checklists can be found on the Parish Nick Smith the diocese at the end of March. 2018. Is your church ready? Resources website * Contact details can be found in the online directory NEED HELP MAKING YOUR CHURCH A COMMUNITY ASSET? http://www.trurodiocese.org.uk/directory-live/ Grants up to £25,000 for projects which Grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 introduce facilities to enable increased are available for projects that have an THY KINGDOM COME 2018 community use of places of worship in estimated cost of at least £25,000, Thy Kingdom Come 2018 has launched. the UK are available from the National including VAT and fees. Churches Trust. Thy Kingdom Come is a simple invitation The trust prefers to see at least 50 to pray between Ascension and Pentecost The next application deadlines are March percent of match funding in place, either for friends and family to come to faith. 5, 2018 and July 2, 2018. through applications to other grant Now in its third year, participation has providers or local fundraising. grown every year. This year it takes place To be eligible, the building must: between May 10 and 20. Be a Christian place of worship (but not Application forms are available here. a Cathedral) in England; Be owned by the Please sign up to Thy Kingdom Come and The National Churches Trust, 7 Tufton applicant or the applicant must have the pledge to pray for people to come to know Street, London, SW1P 3QB right to carry out the work; and have been the love of Jesus Christ at T 020 7222 0605 originally built as a place of worship and is www.thykingdomcome.global or on social E [email protected] open for regular public worship. media use the hashtag #Pledge2Pray SUPPORT YOUR CHURCH & MISSION: SIGN UP TO PARISH GIVING OUR NEWS FEBRUARY 2018 3 TRUSTEE OPPORTUNITY LIVING FAITH: HOW TWO CLERGY The South West Ministry Training Course (SWMTC) prepares men and women for Christian mission and ministry in Devon RESPONDED TO THEIR CALLING and Cornwall. It is entering an exciting period of renewal and seeks new members Two videos aimed at encouraging of the Board to guide, support and advise people to think about answering its staff team. We are particularly looking a calling from God to join the to appoint trustees with expertise in the clergy have been launched on the areas of personnel, finance, ministerial formation and adult education. diocesan website this month. IS THIS YOU? Parish priest Jeremy Putnam and curate If so, contact Bishop Chris, who is also Arwen Folkes are featured in the short Chairman of the SWMTC Board at films, talking about their vocations, and [email protected] for how their calling features in their every an exploratory conversation. day lives. in my ministry. My heart is often so full Arwen, who was priested in 2017 and is because being called and enabled to walk now assistant curate in the parish of St- with Christ in community is an incredible Just-in-Roseland and St Mawes, said: “I privilege. It has changed my life and NEW SUPPORT GROUP FOR really hope others will see from the videos challenged my understanding of things that in a vocation, God first embraces in ways that I hadn’t ever dared to dream PARISH COMMUNICATORS who you actually are, and then uses and of. If the video helps just one person to This spring we are setting up a group expands all your characteristics and respond to that call in their own heart and to support parish communications experience in creative and exciting ways. life I will be very happy.” champions. This could be the person who collates the parish newsletter, who edits “I have never been more fulfilled than I am To watch the videos click here the website or who runs the church’s social media accounts.