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Spring 2018 - issue 12 Dear churchwardens, In this edition: A new MAP for Derby Diocese We are grateful to Ecclesiastical, as always, for providing Strategic Buildings Review this edition of Archdeacons’ Visitation News. It is just one School New Posts, VLF Officers example of the important partnership Ecclesiastical has with Mothers’ Union on gender violence dioceses in the . ‘Just be’... Our aim in the Archdeacons’ Visitation that we will emerge reinvigorated and ...a Quiet Day for wellbeing. News is to combine information which better able to serve. This Advent, a Quiet Day was run by and will be helpful to you in your specific role While some things change, others carry exclusively for lay people – a first time for me. as churchwardens – looking after church on pretty much as usual – and perhaps it Alistair Langton, (Youth Adviser), Teresa Dickens buildings, health and safety, and other is the ability to do the routine things well in and I ran the event at the Glebe Centre, Crich. legal matters you need to be aware of an unflashy way which is one of the marks The day included collective worship, quiet space – with more general news about what is with options of creative activity or a walk, and of a good churchwarden! We are well happening in the diocese, so you can have lunch, which was less quiet. The practice of aware and enormously appreciative of the a better understanding of the good things taking time out to be quiet, meet with God and to considerable amount of time and energy that are happening and the resources reflect is not new. And it was clear that the people you put in to the work, at a time when the attending were committed volunteers who valued available to you and your parishes. Do stresses and strains of every public and this. However, several wondered if they had the share this information more widely – there representative office seem to be growing. luxury of this much time to themselves. will be somebody in your congregation Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you who is interested in something here! I began running events like this as a constructive have a question or concern, however response to stress and poor mental health. We It has been said that every period is trivial it may seem. If we can’t give you (Derby Diocese Mental Health Steering Group) a period of transition. While that is an answer, we probably know someone began at Oakwood including people on a Quiet undoubtedly true, the past year has who can! Day for the very first time. We’ve also run them in different settings in Ilkeston and Bakewell around certainly been a time of significant Thank you for everything you do. We look themes such as being an antidote to ‘blue Monday’. change in the diocese. Since last year’s forward to working with you during the Quiet Days have included professionals, carers Visitations, we have welcomed a new coming year. Dean of Derby, a new Diocesan Secretary, and people who have a diagnosis of a mental Every blessing. health condition, as does the steering group itself. and most recently a new Archdeacon of Events like this are run regularly in the Diocese, Chesterfield, Carol Coslett. We will be occasionally by us and regularly by others. saying farewell to Bishop Alastair later See the School of Formation webpage for more this year and preparing to welcome a new information. Why not take up the opportunity in due course. There is this year to try one. Or try one before you run information here about other new things one locally? – the Strategic Buildings Review, a new Stella Collishaw way of doing Mission Action Planning Community Action Officer, Derby Diocese (MAP), the new Cathedral School, and [email protected] two new Vocations, Learning and Formation Officers. Produced and printed by There is a lot happening for which we can be thankful. Change is often challenging, The Venerable The Venerable but it is also life-giving. If institutions don’t Dr Christopher Carol Coslett change they will die. And we trust in a God Cunliffe Archdeacon of who will be with us through the changes, Chesterfield

www.ecclesiastical.com/churchmatters Strategic Buildings Review It struck me that these three words are used separately in many different contexts and areas of life, and that we could all probably make a good stab at defining them...

As Community Project Development Officer, I have had the privilege of seeing parishes small and large, rural and urban, creatively engage with their buildings and their communities: a super kitchen in New Mills, a half-a-million-pound regeneration in Pear Tree, a community shop in Grindleford, heritage community projects in Wirksworth, numerous foodbanks up and down the Diocese, and re-ordering to facilitate Messy Church and other fresh expressions, kitchens and toilets and better accessibility for all. I want to encourage you to think and pray about your part in God’s work and what that might mean for Perhaps though, it’s when we put them the care, development and future of together like this, that the meaning can your buildings. Also, if you have any be lost, or worse still, for those parishes case studies of which you think the that feel vulnerable and at a low ebb, Diocese might not be aware, please these words can feel threatening. email details and any other thoughts you might have that will enable as When I first came to the Diocese in May full a picture to emerge from the 2013, I wrote out what appeared to me Strategic Buildings Review. to be the crux of the job description I was given, on a compliment slip which I secured Gareth Greenwood, Community with Blu-Tack (other sticky substances are Project Development Officer. also available!) to the shelf edge right in gareth.greenwood@derby. front of me – it’s still there. anglican.org it isn’t), we are then in a good place to One of the key strands to my role was identify what we need, and imagine ways to ‘encourage and enable’ parishes to forward for our buildings. This might include develop their buildings in a way that would new partnerships, identification of resources facilitate mission through engaging with and how the nature, significance and utility of their communities. As the Diocese started our churches, halls and centres, can continue to think about responding to the National to serve Parish and Deanery. Church Buildings Review Group 2015 report, encouraging the Church of England’s In the five years I have been in post, two stewardship of its church buildings, I realised churches have closed and two resurrected; Diocesan Training that having a strong appreciation of the the premise of this review is not ‘closure’ Calendar difficulties and opportunities that parishes of buildings, but it is the need for the face, would be important to the shaping and identification of a positive way forward for All diocesan training and learning framing of the Strategic Buildings Review. each and every parish. opportunities are available under the That is why I got involved. Most of you involved in looking after School of Formation webpage. This The data collection stage has been buildings will be all too aware of the complete list will make it easier to find necessary to update the building information challenges ahead and the crucial decisions training. It is constantly being updated that we hold, and to get a refreshed picture that need to be made. This Strategic with new events, so do keep of how the buildings are being used and the Review will present a range of options and checking back. ministries that are enabled. resources for Parishes and Deaneries to http://www.derby.anglican.org Once we fully understand what we have, positively engage with those challenges what condition it is in, where it is (and where and decisions. Risk Management Advice Line

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A headteacher designate has been successfully appointed and is hard at work refining curriculum policies, appointing A New MAP for staff and securing the systems needed to ensure an effective and efficient opening. Derby Diocese Gordon Inglis was headteacher of Bolsover With so many pressures in parish life, School in North Derbyshire for 11 years. it is all too easy to lose sight of our He asserts that during that time, the simple calling: to be the Church God Cathedral School headship opportunity calls us to be. Mission Action Planning has been the only job he has applied for for Derby Diocese seeks not to add as “it needed something special to tempt further burdens, but instead to help any me to leave”. We are delighted that he church to respond effectively to that call. has succumbed to this temptation! The latest version of MAP for Derby Of equal delight has been the securing Diocese draws on our extensive use of of a first-rate and nationally recognised MAP, but it is also a major reworking. inspirational education leader to be chair It is based on the conviction that if we are of governors. Brian Walker retires as faithful in being God’s Church, then he headteacher of West Park School, Spondon will, by his Holy Spirit, grow his Church. this summer, after 21 years in which he Gordon Inglis Headteacher designate MAP for Derby Diocese is a process has worked to secure an ‘outstanding’ to help churches respond to God’s OFSTED rating for West Park and seen the permanent site is developed to provide call to be his Church by helping school rated as ‘the best secondary school state-of-the-art facilities into which the them to reflect his character, in Derbyshire’ in the Real Schools Guide school will hopefully be able to move in purpose and priorities. of 2017. Designated by the Department September 2020. for Education as a National Leader of MAP for Derby Diocese isn’t about Education, Mr Walker was last year awarded The permanent site for the school will be doing more, but about helping us to be an MBE for his services to education. the western half of the Friar Gate Goods his Church. Its theology and language Yard, some nine acres in total. It will not seek to be faithful to God’s call without however include the Grade II-listed bonded being over-reliant on secular models. warehouse on the eastern side of the goods It encompasses the whole of our mission yard. This site was a preferred location and ministry, so that every part of our from the very inception of the school common life is addressed. However, it is also light, simple and flexible, with project, due to its central position being in just three core principles and three core close proximity to the Cathedral and the elements, supported by a wide variety long-standing need for its development to of optional and extra resources. enhance the infrastructure of the city. All these things mean that MAP for With specialisms in mathematics and Derby Diocese can be used by music, Derby Cathedral School will be churches of any context, tradition a component of the Derby Diocesan or size, at any level. Academy Trust, but it will work in very close If you would like to find out more, you can: partnership with other local schools and the City Council in meeting the need for both go to the Mission Action Planning additional secondary school places and in section of the Derby Diocese securing high educational standards and website [click ‘Mission’ on the home Brian Walker MBE opportunities for the young people of Derby page, and then scroll down and click National Leader of Education as a whole. While offering a nurturing CofE the ‘Mission Action Plans (MAP)’ tile] environment, it will be ‘open to all faiths and speak to Jason Kennedy or any of The school will open in temporary none’. By so doing, it will seek to deliver the the Mission and Ministry Team at accommodation at Midland House on vision, so well expressed by Nigel Genders, Church House. Nelson Street (beside the Rail Station). the CofE Chief Education Officer, of This building was previously used as a Rev Jason Kennedy providing “not a faith school for the faithful, school and is presently being refurbished, Diocesan Missioner but a church school for the community”. resourced and upgraded. It is envisaged [email protected] that these temporary premises will be The Revd Dr Alan Flintham 01332 388691 required for around two years while the Additional Chaplain, Derby Cathedral New Posts

Ellie Ballard and Kat Alldread took up new roles as Vocations, Learning & Formation Officers at the start of January. They are part of the Mission & Ministry team in the Parish Support Office and work within both the Vocations team and the School of Formation. Their primary focus is to encourage people to discern God’s calling and provide training opportunities for them to learn At least one in three women globally gender-based violence was led by the and develop in order to fulfil that calling. will experience some form of gender Diocesan Mothers’ Union Chaplain, God calls all of us to serve – in our families, work violence at some point in their lifetime Revd Eleanor Berry. We used a lives, churches and communities. We are called (World Health Organisation). In 2012, ‘Rainbow Prayer Day’ based on an idea to be siblings, children and parents, married and one in two women killed in a homicide from Liz Curtis, a member of Mothers’ single, scientists, social workers and shop keepers, lay and ordained, chaplains, choir members, and one in twenty men were killed Union in Gloucester. Each participant churchwardens and pastoral visitors, local by a partner, former partner or family was given a paper fish shape with councillors, food bank volunteers and playgroup member (UN Women). Mothers’ Union punched holes. There were seven leaders. The national Church initiative Setting practically meets the needs of those prayer stations around the Cathedral, God’s People Free envisions a Church where all affected by gender-based violence in each one with a colour theme using are enabled to explore their gifts and encouraged many ways. In the Democratic Republic the colours of the rainbow. At each to live out God’s purpose in all aspects of their lives. of Congo, Mothers’ Union members station, there was an opportunity to Transforming Faith is the Derby integrated learning work closely with survivors, particularly reflect on the prayers, poems and pathway – a course in which those training those affected by sexual violence images, but also the chance to write for ordination and licensed lay ministry learn collaboratively alongside those who seek to deepen as a result of conflict, by providing a prayer of their own or to do other their discipleship and grow in faith. The course is emotional support, meeting basic needs creative activities. Participants were based on discussion groups led by experienced such as housing, and equipping them invited to take a coloured ribbon and facilitators and is open to everyone. with skills to become economically attach it to their fish after each prayer Kat and Ellie are also working with deaneries and empowered. In the UK, members work station and at some they were able to parishes to identify training needs in their context closely with local domestic violence light candles. At the end of the time, and provide learning opportunities in specific areas refuges, providing essentials such as everyone came together to reflect of church life – examples may be churchwarden toiletries, food and clothing for women and say closing prayers. Across the training, intercessions, leading worship, focal and children who have had to flee their Diocese Mothers’ Union members held ministry and youth work. home due to violence. vigils at St Andrews, Swanick, and All The Church is changing; the hope is that we Saints, Glossop. Some members also will all be equipped to meet the challenges and The Mothers’ Union, attended a service being held at the opportunities presented. Please direct people to the along with support from the Community Crooked Spire in Chesterfield. School of Formation section of the Diocese website Action Officer, Stella Collishaw from for details of all training opportunities, and encourage the Mission and Ministry Team at Looking ahead, we will be holding them to speak to a church leader or vocations Church House, worked together to a vigil again this year on Friday 30 adviser about how God is calling them. organise a vigil to raise awareness of November between 10.30am – gender-based violence. The Diocesan 12.30pm at the Cathedral. President, Wendy Fitch, publicised the event on the Sunday morning Details of other venues will be programme on BBC Radio Derby and available in due course. If you would was also asked to be interviewed again like any information, please contact Mothers’ Union Office at Derby after the event. the Church House. Telephone: 07731 The two-hour vigil held in Derby 342447 or email: Ellie Ballard Kat Alldread Cathedral to remember victims of [email protected] ellie.ballard@derby. kat.alldread@derby. anglican.org anglican.org

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