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The Newsletter of the Diocese of Sheffield 05 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE DIOCESE OF SHEFFIELD 05 AUTUMN 2016 Lay ministry across St Peter’s College the Meet the Diocesan the Diocese of diocesan learning Environmental Sheffield celebrated community Adviser See page 4 See page 8 See page 12 Welcome from Bishop Peter Welcome to the latest issue of Network magazine. There are many things happening in the diocese at the moment, but I think what has probably caught most people’s attention, is our search for a new Diocesan Bishop. During September, hundreds of local people have took pressing on like the Olympic athlete to the final goal. the opportunity to give their thoughts on what skills and We are in the present but looking to the future. God is a qualities they would like to see in a new Bishop of creative God, always doing something new, his Sheffield. We have also produced a ‘Statement of blessings are new every morning and we are called to Needs’ which gives a detailed overview of the diocese. these new things. Our search for a new Bishop will The document will give a prospective candidate a good certainly concentrate on someone who will continue idea of what qualities and skills will be needed to lead this journey that we are on, and will lead forward to our diocese. what lies ahead. The appointments process is long, (fairly) complex but So as you can see from this magazine, this isn’t just a also very interesting. You can keep up-to-date with the period of steadying the ship or business as usual but latest developments, and download the full Statement about us continuing to work towards the prize in of Needs, on our website at www.sheffield.anglican.org creative, imaginative and collaborative ways expecting God to act always. At this time, I find it helpful to keep our diocesan vision statement to mind. It is a statement of expectation, of intent and journey. The statement says “the Diocese of Sheffield is called”, it implies we aren’t there yet, there is still much to be done and again, as St Paul reminds us, full maturity means knowing that we haven’t yet arrived, there’s more travelling to do. It reminds us of the imperative to keep 2 NETWORK | WELCOME THE NEWSLETTER OF THE DIOCESE OF SHEFFIELD TTHTHEHE DIOCESEDDIDIODIOCDIOCEDIOCES Contents Issue 05 OFO SHEFFIELDSSHSHESHEFSHEFFSHEFFISHEFFIESHEFFIEL Page Page 04 11 Thirty-eight adults were admitted or On Saturday 11 June the Cathedral community authorised to work as ‘Lay Ministers’ across welcomed 205 special guests to a banquet the Diocese of Sheffield. lunch for the Queen’s 90th birthday. Page Page 06 12 The church is beginning to rediscover the Travel Blog by guest writer Lucy Laughton a value of intentionally creating networks 17 year old member of St Matthew’s, Carver where people can learn together. Street. Page Page 08 14 St Peter’s College is the diocesan learning New ways of reaching out to people for community for mission and ministry and is whom traditional forms of church no longer being launched this month. seem to have any attraction. If you are interested in contributing an article in future editions of Network please email communications@sheffield.anglican.org or telephone the Communications Team on 01709 309100 . Network is copyright © of the Diocesan Board of Finance, a company limited by guarantee and registered in England (No. 196087). Registered charity No. 245861. Registered address: Church House, 95-99 Effingham Street, Rotherham, S65 1BL. CONTENTS | NETWORK 3 Lay ministry across the Diocese of Sheffield celebrated at Sheffield Cathedral 38 adults were admitted or authorised to work as ‘Lay Ministers’ across the Diocese of Sheffield by the Bishop of Doncaster, Peter Burrows on Saturday 17 September in a special service at Sheffield Cathedral. Lay Ministers offer their time and skills to The Bishop also admitted 8 people to The Celebration of Lay Ministries Service, enable the Church to worship and serve begin their ministry as Readers, authorised which takes place once a year, sees throughout the regions of South Yorkshire 3 Pastoral Workers, 4 Youth Ministers, friends, family, clergy and parishes and the East Riding. The service marks an 7 Children’s Ministers, 11 Worship Leaders, proudly supporting their candidates. important step on the journey of vocation 1 Parish Evangelist and 4 Lay Pioneer All those being authorised have studied for the church that will continue with Ministers. further learning. for the specific area of ministry they are in. In his sermon, Bishop Peter said: “We are Sheffield Cathedral was full as the service not called to just serve those within the Speaking before the service, Canon Dr started with a long procession around the church, but we are called to serve our Christine Gore, Director of Formation and outside of the Cathedral building, creating communities. So as we rejoice and Ministry at the Diocese of Sheffield, said: a spectacle for the city to be a part of. celebrate today I want to encourage each "Today is the day we celebrate and During the service, Bishop Peter also of you to see your ministry as that of the acknowledge how important lay ministers commissioned the Revd John Hibberd as service of others”. He continued: “ensure the Warden of Parish Evangelists and the that we are a church that not only invites are in the life of the church and its Revd Canon Mark Wigglesworth as the people to come to us, but that also goes communities. We are enormously grateful Warden of Lay Pioneer Ministers. out to the people”. for them and all they do.” Breathe Deep 2017 Breathe Deep is BACK! How do you like the sound of spending a day with loads of young Christians like yourself from across South Yorkshire? On Saturday 28 January 2017 in Sheffield, the doors will open to the third youth development day, called Breathe Deep for young people aged 11-18. There will be the usual mix of exploring some important issues alongside worshiping, bouncing, eating, chilling, gaming, making and dancing. Bookings are now open, see www.breathdeepday.info 4 NETWORK | NEWS Doncaster Minster’s project supporting asylum seekers and refugees enters race for £10,000 prize in national competition A project helping refugees and asylum seekers in Doncaster integrate into the local community has recently entered a national competition to win a £10,000 cash prize to support its activities. The Minster’s English Literacy project, set “As the Middle East and Europe n The Minster’s English Literacy up in January 2016, aims to assist experience migration and displacement at project entered into national refugees and asylum seekers to improve a level unseen since World War II, there is competition to win £10,000 cash their English literacy skills and feel part of a huge need for local people to reach out prize the local community. Since asylum creatively to others who are seeking seekers are not permitted to access international protection under asylum n Project aims to help asylum funded courses to learn English in systems and to assist refugees become seekers and refugees in local Doncaster, they can become isolated and part of society. Civic churches as places of area feel more confident in being feel unable to learn outside their continuity are important places of part of the Doncaster community immediate friendship groups. sanctuary and connection with a place by improving their English Between 40 and 50 adult learners from and we even use the building itself as a language skills Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Eritrea, Kuwait, teaching resource. n Competition run by Ecclesiastical Afghanistan and many other countries “Our literacy project has already attracted Insurance aims to uncover top gather in the Minster building every the interest of many other places of community initiatives run by Wednesday to learn English reading, worship locally and nationally, some of churches writing and speaking with the help of a whom want to learn how to set up dozen volunteers. Learners range from something along the same lines. We feel n Top prize of £10,000 and five people who have not attended school in that not only have we succeeded in runner-up prizes of £2,000 each their own countries to people who read attracting consistent numbers of adults will be awarded by the specialist and write in three or four different learning English, but we also have better church, charity and heritage languages to others who have studied to engaged with our local community as a insurer in November 2016 a degree level in their mother tongue. result of this project.” They have, therefore, been divided into different groups to have a flexible approach to teaching and meet individual learning needs as much as possible. No participant is charged for the lessons as all the materials and refreshments have either been donated or fundraised for by the Minster and its volunteers in the local community. Louise O’Brien, who works at the Minster and who initiated the project, said: “What we have here at the Minster in this project is a strong will to be part of one of the most pressing needs of our times – that of assisting people seeking sanctuary in the UK – as well as the space and community members who want to be part of all this. NEWS | NETWORK 5 Learning together As I write, the Olympics is in full flow. You can see individuals exceeding their personal bests, often giving credit to their coaches for these new levels of achievement. Teams similarly work in unity to build on previous John Hibberd Sessions focus around key themes like performances and to spur one another on communication, leadership and the towards their goals.
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