For our prayers: June ordinations Archbishop Sentamu will be ordaining Priests in York Minster on the 16th June and TheNews Deacons on the 30th June this year. JUNE 2019 Please hold the candidates, their families and their churches in your prayers; lists DIOCESE OF YORK, AMY JOHNSON WAY, CLIFTON MOOR, YORK YO30 4XT. will appear next month. [email protected] T:01904 699500 F:01904 699501 WWW.DIOCESEOFYORK.ORG.UK A Gong for Feast of Fun! Inside this month: 'Feast of Fun', the Refreshment huge summer extrav- Break; aganza of Together Archdeacon Middlesbrough and Andy Broom Cleveland (TMC) for P2 Teesside children Our next involving over 23 Archbishop; churches, schools, a prayer and and community groups, has won the "Improving the some questions Health and Wellbeing of Residents" award at this P3 year's Middlesbrough Civic Community Awards. Feast of Fun was launched in 2014 by TMC, a joint Diocese venture between the Diocese of York and the holds1st-ever Church Urban Fund, with just six churches; it contin- 20s-40s workshop day ues today run by Heather Black, Val Oliver, and P4 Elaine Curry. "It was a wonderful evening," said Heather, who is Selby’s Edge Development Officer for TMC, "and we are very Community proud to have won!" marks ten years Feast of Fun offers holiday activities and healthy P5 food for over 1,000 children in low income families York School of Ministry who struggle during the summer holidays without Archdeacon of (YSOM) free school meals. York to be Equipping Christian Disciples for Ministry Feast of Fun supplies healthy, nutritious meals for chil- Bishop of Shrewsbury We offer courses for lay and ordained ministries dren and their families, and offers the chance to P6 that are biblically based and mission-focused. travel out of Middlesbrough for day trips, to places like the North York Moors and the Bowes Museum. www.ysom.org.uk The ethos of Feast of Fun is to 'make our communities safer, stronger, and happier for so many children ...and there’s more! and their families each summer'. togethermc.org.uk 8 1 ment to mission, a proven readiness to tive Archdeacon of York since 2013. My To the Saints of the Diocese of York work with ecumenical and community prayer is that what Yorkshire has taught partners in building up community, and her, she will be enabled to pass onto beginning to The Archdeacon of the a fine mind and warm heart firmly other faithful people. Sarah, may you happen. East Riding, Andy Broom, grounded in a deep Christian faith. I continually stir up the Holy Spirit who If that doesn’t look forward to working closely with Sa- lives in you. You go to Shrewsbury with writes: deserve a cup rah as a colleague and sister bishop.” all our love and prayers.” of tea and a jammy dodger, Archbishop Sentamu said, “Sarah is Sarah will be consecrated as bishop by Refreshment Break I don’t know deeply committed to serving local the Archbishop of Canterbury at St what does! communities, serving local people and Paul’s Cathedral on 3 July and will The national will be sharing the good news of Jesus begin her role in Shrewsbury shortly af- I sometimes think our church, like our church caught Christ with all whom she encounters. terwards. world, runs on its refreshment breaks. our vision and She has been a hardworking and effec- www.lichfield.anglican.org awarded us £3 million. Led by the If I can stick with this until eleven team of Richard White, John Lee and o’clock I’ll have a coffee, or we’ll Ben Walker, most of the full-time 20s- stop for our packup when we get to 40s ministers have been appointed the top of the hill. Maybe it’s the cold and some are already at work. The bottle of water at the end of the first award has been made from the Former Teesside Vicar to be Bishop of Norwich marathon that’s keeping me going ‘Growth Fund’ to support a parish to get there. who applied for help to make their A former Teesside Vicar has been ap- “A theme of God’s Part of the pleasure of that drink or vision work. Under the banner pointed the 72nd Bishop of Norwich fol- calling in my life is that that biscuit is the looking back at ‘Multiply’, we’re starting to see lowing the retirement of the Right Rever- each new chapter has where we’ve been and what we’ve training days, a website of resources, end Graham James. been to a new and achieved; and at the same time we inspiring videos, and across the unexpected place. top up our fluids, our vitamins and our diocese the vision for building New The Rt Revd Graham Usher, 48, is cur- The Diocese of Nor- sugars ready for the next effort, Worshipping Communities with a rently the Bishop of Dudley in the Dio- refreshed and – we hope – wich is equally a new focus on those in their 20s, 30s and cese of Worcester. Prior to this he was reinvigorated for the next part of the 40s is catching on. and unexpected Rector of Hexham in Northumberland challenge. place for me, and what a wonderful Even the best refreshment break has from 2004 to 2014, following his time as privilege it is to be called to serve here.” And that’s where we are on our an end. The journey so far has gone Vicar of Holy Trinity, North Ormesby, journey of ‘Reaching Those We pretty well and we thank God for all Middlesbrough in the Diocese of York, Bishop Graham is married to Rachel, a Currently Don’t’ for the Gospel – one his blessings but now it’s time to wash from 1999 to 2004. His first post after or- GP, and they have two teenage chil- of the three goals we adopted as a our mug, brush off the crumbs and Diocese three years ago. We’ve get on with the really exciting bit of dination in York Minster was as Curate dren. He studied ecological science at prayed, debated and researched, being Generous Churches, Making of Nunthorpe from 1996 to 1999, and he the University of Edinburgh and theolo- consulted and discussed, voted and and Nurturing Disciples. has also spent time living and working in gy at Corpus Christi College, Cam- approved funding applications, and Ghana, Africa. bridge, before training for ministry at now, half way through 2019, we are Westcott House, Cambridge. in a position to see our plans to reach Andy Broom On his appointment, Graham said, those in their 20s to their 40s www.dioceseofnorwich.org 2 7 Archdeacon of York to be Bishop of Shrewsbury Appointing the next Archbishop of York The Venerable Sarah Bullock, Archdea- to have been invited to become the con of York, is to be the new Area Bish- Bishop of Shrewsbury. I’m looking for- Faithful God, op of Shrewsbury in the Diocese of Lich- ward to really getting to know the com- you guide your people field. munities of this area and those who live, and raise up leaders in every generation. work and worship here. Sarah will join the Area Bishops of Wol- We seek the person you are calling to be Archbishop of York. verhampton and Stafford in an episco- “I’m passionate about the Christian By your Spirit, give to all those involved in the appointment pal team led by the Bishop of Lichfield. faith and journeying with people to dis- good counsel, holy insight and sound judgement. She will oversee churches, ministers and cover and share the love, joy and hope communities in North Shropshire, includ- that Jesus offers to everyone. I look for- Keep the person you are calling under the shadow of your wing, ing Shrewsbury, ward to supporting and teach us all to trust in the guidance which is yours alone, and the northern the churches, through Jesus Christ our Lord. part of Telford. schools, colleges Amen. and communities Ordained 26 years of this area as we ago in the Diocese ________________________________________________________________________ share the good of Manchester, news of God’s Sarah became love, which brings Play your part… Archdeacon of transformation, York in 2013 and hope and renew- What are the issues with which a new Archbishop should usefully engage has worked in a at diocesan, regional, national and international levels? al." largely rural area What qualities, skills, or leadership characteristics in Archbishop Sentamu’s which includes Sarah is married to ministry have helped you to grow in faith and/or to express that faith in market towns, the Peter, a physicist, day to day life? deep rural com- and they have What qualities, skills or leadership characteristics will his successor require so munities of the one son, Joseph, that church and community life can be helped to flourish? Vale of York and who is currently What particular characteristics, qualities or skills will the new Archbishop the edges of the studying for a PhD need to fulfil the diocesan responsibilities given the regional, national and Yorkshire Wolds as at the University of international aspects of the role? well as the City of Durham. Are there any other important points that you would like the Vacancy in York. While Arch- The Bishop of Lichfield, the Right Revd See Committee to know? deacon she has also learned to drive a Dr Michael Ipgrave, said: “I am delight- tractor, operated a milking parlour, led ed that Sarah has accepted our invita- Write to Canon Peter Warry (Secretary to the Vacancy in See Committee) by a Carol Service in a cowshed at Ask- tion to be nominated for this post.