Esgobaeth LLANDAF Diocese of LLANDAFF YR EGLWYS YNG NGHYMRU | THE CHURCH IN WALES Summer 2018 Meet this year’s deacons Inside Focus on chaplaincy Making a difference to the homeless NEWS Building the future – Followtell this linkus to the what survey: https://llandaff.churchinwales.org.uk/diocesan-strategic-vision/ you think Since Bishop June’s arrival in Llandaff and schools over the next five years. events in your local deanery where you last July, she has visited all corners of And now we are asking for your can respond in person. the Diocese talking to parish members, responses to the plan. Bishop June The consultation runs until 9 July. schools and clergy colleagues to is really keen that everyone has the Everyone is welcome to respond understand how communities are faring opportunity to contribute to the vision whether they are a member of a church and what the opportunities are that lie and that we get it right. Is it ambitious or not. Answers are confidential. ahead for the church. A Ministry Task enough? Can you see it working? The vision reminds us that as the Group has also been working behind The draft plan and ten questions Church in Wales we sustain a Christian the scenes consulting specifically on can be found online by following this presence in every single community. ministry questions. link: https://llandaff.churchinwales. Now is the chance to make a difference Using all the information gathered, a org.uk/diocesan-strategic-vision/ Or together. So let us know what you draft strategic vision and plan has been alternatively you can receive a hard think. Go online now and complete the formed which outlines the work and copy in English or Welsh. Call 01656 survey. Help build our church’s future. direction of the Diocese and its parishes 868868. Also look out for consultation Still time to book Faculties are changing! Places are still available for Llandaff Over the next few months faculty most major works, a more streamlined Diocese’s Festival of Prayer Day which applications within the Church in process has been introduced for is being held this year at St Teilo’s Wales will move online. The Diocese of routine maintenance or minor like-for- Church in Wales High School, Cardiff on Llandaff goes live in June 2018. like repairs (called List A applications) Saturday, July 14, from 10am to 4.30pm. The new Online Faculty System will and straightforward works (eg. Now in its third year, the day allow registered applicants (petitioners) replacing a boiler) that have little or provides ‘taster’ workshops in many to complete their faculty applications no impact on the historic fabric of the different prayer techniques and spiritual online and to upload the supporting church or churchyard (called List B traditions. The keynote address will be documentation (plans, photographs, applications). given by Bishop June. etc) to go with them. Applications Training will be taking place For more information and to book do not have to be completed in one in the diocese over the next few visit www.FestivalofPrayer.co.uk or call go and any information entered into weeks with registration and user the Revd Moira Spence 01685 881960. the online forms can be saved and guidance now available at: https:// The day costs £25 and includes lunch returned to later. More importantly, it churchheritagecymru.org.uk/help. For and tea/coffee. will allow you to track the progress of those with limited internet access or • Places are also available on the your application at any time. lack of IT equipment, a “hot desk” will next 10-month long Exploring Spiritual The new Online Faculty System be made available at the Diocesan Awareness course held monthly on will also simplify the faculty process. Office which is open Monday – Friday, Saturdays, starting October 13. It costs Although you will still need a faculty for 10am-3pm. £115 and application forms and further details can be obtained from tybara@ btintnernet.com or 01656 881960. Caption competition Thank you for all your entries to the caption competition. Remember the picture (left) from the last edition? First place went to Briony Davies of the Diocesan Office, Coychurch for Ever wondered, “what would Yoda do”… Please send in your captions for this photograph to Alison Young, Croeso, Llandaff Diocese, The Court, Coychurch, Bridgend, CF35 5HF or by email to [email protected] © Christian Aid 2 | CROESO Summer 2018 NEWS How is mission and ministry to be shaped to a changing city centre? Is it embarrassing to admit that I’ve fallen The wonderous Principality Stadium has Deanery already seek to do it with great in love with Cardiff? I wouldn’t dream put Cardiff on the visual sporting map. integrity and energy. But we also have to of having a favourite place within the However, one of my personal favourites ask how we are going to shape ministry diocese, that would be like preferring is the Millennium Centre looking out and mission to a changing city centre. one of my children across the sea What of the 80,000 students at our three over the other. Every of Cardiff Bay nearby universities? Or other young parish and church where Wales has people who describe themselves as building has its own exported much ‘none’s’, those with no religious affiliation unique place in our life of its best to the but for whom the life of the city is a great and they all draw out world. My mother- lure? What about our relationship with something from my in-law started Wales’ national institutions from politics affections. Yet Cardiff work in the Cardiff to the media, remembering also the retail is not only the place docks at the age life of the city, and the homeless who our family is called to of 14 in 1943 and congregate there? live but it has a special so listening to Whatever answers we find to status in the life of her anecdotes this challenge, I’m sure it will involve Wales. I’ve long been partnerships, some with sister churches, Wales itself has a familiar with what some through interfaith relationships far more ambivalent a transformation and many with community or business relationship with © Huw Ryden that world has networks who desire to seek the welfare Cardiff. It’s seen as undergone during of our city. having a magnetic her lifetime. With the appointment of Sarah force which draws people and resources The lettering on the front of that Rowland Jones as Dean of St David’s, to itself and that can create a resentment cultural centre is like a hopeful beacon, we are now seeking new leadership for which sits alongside a jealous especially on a winter’s evening. ‘In our own iconic building in the city centre, admiration. The sheer bulk of population, These Stones Horizons St John’s Church. We national institutions and status as a Sing’ is a declaration will seek a priest who capital city is seen by many as having that art in all its forms “Is it embarrassing will not only cherish the bred a sense of superiority. I meet this in will open new worlds to admit that I’ve congregations which subtle but discernible ways, for instance, to us. ‘Creu Gwir Fel worship there but when a Provincial group was asked to fix Gwydr o Ffwrnais Awen’ fallen in love with someone who can be the location of a future meeting, I heard (Creating truth like Cardiff?” part of developing with someone say ‘anywhere but Cardiff’. glass from inspiration’s colleagues a strategic I assumed they were defending the furnace) similarly invites vision for mission in decision of venue against Cardiff being those who walk by or the whole city centre, the default destination. enter to seek truth through fresh insight. someone who can create truth from In recent years, I expect that Gwyneth Lewis’ poetry confidently inspiration’s furnace, that inspiration ambivalence has grown stronger as declares that in the public life of Cardiff being the church’s pledge to work for Cardiff has developed into an even people seek for truth, for what endures. the kingdom of God in Wales’ capital more attractive and economically Cardiff is made up of many parts city. vibrant centre with iconic landscapes and communities, almost all of them and buildings, giving the wider world in our diocese and therefore it is our new images of Wales. The Senedd is a responsibility to proclaim afresh the truth beautifully designed home for devolved of the gospel to this generation of Cardiff government and the Welsh Assembly. dwellers. Our churches in the Cardiff CROESO Summer 2018 | 3 NEWS How the sound of a historic churchThe organ unique sound has of an historic been church preserved organ is to be preserved forever for future generations thanks to a group of musicians from Cardiff. When Leon West, listener in different parts of the church.” “To think the sound is preserved in Leone Vuetivavalagi He added: “I had to play each note this way really is something special,” and Thomas on both keyboards, 140-odd in total, on added Leon. Westgård heard every single stop for around 12 seconds While planning permission has been the organ at St at a time, leaving enough silence in granted to Wales and West Housing Paul’s Church in between them to then capture any Association (WWHA) to convert part of Grangetown could natural reverb the church had. St Paul’s Church into 12 apartments, be removed as “The painstaking part was editing together with the development of two part of a housing them down in the studio into individual residential units within the grounds, no association’s plans to convert the church notes that we could then programme decision has yet been taken on the future into apartments they swung into action.