News from the between the Humber and the Tees

October 2015

Bishop Alison: Cleveland Matters

The Rt Revd Alison White, Bishop of what it is that we want to Hull, will be giving the second communicate. Anglicans are very Cleveland Matters talk on good at being nice to people and Wednesday 21st October at 7pm at expecting them to guess why! We All Saints church, Helmsley. Bishop are part of God’s story – let’s be Alison will be speaking about more aware of that story, and how “Telling God’s Story”. we tell it to other people.”

Bishop Alison said, “My talk in No tickets are needed for Bishop Helmsley will be about who we are as Alison’s talk on Wednesday 21st people of God, and how we October, and all are welcome to communicate that. We attend. The talk will be preceded by communicate things about God all Evensong at 6pm and refreshments the time, but I’d like to encourage us at 6.30pm. to be a bit more deliberate about

1 Mystery Plays return to

York Minster is a treasure house of Christian faith expressed through the arts and craft. The 15th century great East window is currently being conserved and by March 2016 the stonework and much of the glass conservation will be complete. The window tells the story of the history and destiny of humanity, and in May 2016 we are bringing the York Mystery Plays back into York Minster.

The plays were created shortly before the East window and, like the work of the glaziers, tell the biblical story from creation to the last judgement. Both glass and art were treasured teaching aids in the century before the availability of the Bible in English Lights production in Museum or in a printed form. The plays were Gardens in 2012 or indeed the originally staged by the city’s craft Minster Millennium production in guilds, with each taking 2000. responsibility to stage a play whose narrative best reflected their own Our plans for the 2016 production specialism or mystery. So the are ambitious. Mike Poulton, Shipwrights staged The Flood, the returning from Broadway, has Butchers took on The Crucifixion. updated the script he edited for 2000, the Minster’s own Richard The plays were banned at the Shephard reprises his role as music Reformation but re-emerged 400 director, and we have recruited years later with a staging in 1951 as Phillip Breen as Artistic Director and York’s contribution to the Festival of Max Jones as Designer who have Britain re-establishing the York collaborated at Theatr Clwyd, and tradition. The plays are still assumed the RSC and are in global demand. to belong to the people of York and Nicola Corp who has long experience they have contributed their time, of managing complex major events energy and skill to a range and for TV has already joined us as variety of productions. Many of you Producer. There will be just one will have experienced the wagon professional. The rest is over to you. plays, or the Theatre Royal/Riding

2 So can you help to make this • Actors (of all ages) and production? The question comes • Mystery Makers (to work back with a warning. If you want to take stage and front of house) part the commitment will be considerable. We open, as was But there are also opportunities for: traditional, on the feast of Corpus • Sponsors (to top up the funding… Christi: Thursday 26th May. We we are nearly there but not quite) close on Thursday 30th June. We will welcome an audience of over 40,000, And we will soon be recruiting: many of whom will have little • An audience (the Box Office understanding of Christianity. This is opens in January). our chance to work with world class artists and to be part of a community If you would like to know more do committed to telling our story of email [email protected] faith. or phone 01904 557200, or visit www.yorkminster.org/mysteryplays2016. If you are able to make that commitment York Minster is now The Very Revd Vivienne Faull, recruiting: Exploring Reader Ministry

You are invited to find out more about Reader ministry in the and to reflect on whether God is calling you to this ministry in his church, On Saturday 24th October from 10am to 12noon at The Trinity Centre, North Ormesby.

There will be guidance about the selection process and training requirements, a presentation on Reader Ministry, oportunity to talk to Readers who are currently in training, and space to pray & Reflect

Readers are public, licensed ministers who play a full part in nurturing the people of God, both within and outside the church. Through For further information please teaching and preaching, pastoral contact: Wendy Shaw, PA to the work and in worship, they help Warden and YSOM Administrator, people to make connections between [email protected]. the Christian faith and daily life.

3 From Collection to Offering: Encouraging Generous Giving As part of our Diocesan commitment to becoming Generous Churches Making and Nurturing Disciples, we’re holding three sessions on "From Collection To Offering - Encouraging Generous Giving", to help your church address giving, stewardship and generosity. We are pleased to welcome John Preston, the National Stewardship Officer as our guest speaker at these three events.

Whether you are a Vicar, Curate, Reader, Treasurer, Churchwarden, PCC member, or involved in Church Leadership in any other way there will be something here for you.

Topics will include:

• Teaching and preaching about generosity Ways to encourage church members reflect the generosity of God

• Beyond the collection plate Additional ways of growing income

• Reimagining the offertory Practical ideas about moving from • Monday 16 November at St collection to offering Barnabas Church, Linthorpe, 7.30-9.30pm • The Gift Aid treasure hunt Ways of maximising Gift Aid • Tuesday 17 November at St Nicholas’ Church, Beverley, 10am The sessions take place on: - 12noon

• Monday 16 November at Stockton To book a free place contact David on the Forest Village Hall, 2.30pm Butterfield on 01904 557278 or - 4.30pm [email protected].

4 Christmas Starts... already!

Although it’s still a few months churches in these areas clubbed away, it’s time to start thinking together and paid £77.50 each, the about Christmas. Christmas is a Christmas Starts With Christ radio great opportunity for churches to ads could be broadcast 75 times (72 engage with their communities. The spots for Capital) evenly rotated vast majority of our friends, family across all the days and evenings from and neighbours will be celebrating 11th to 25th December inclusive. Christmas in some way, so it’s a natural time to invite people to • Capital FM Yorkshire East – covers church and help them understand a Hull, York & Selby. Needs 36 bit more about the story of Jesus. churches paying £77.50 each to cover advertising. To that end, Christmas Starts With Christ is a great way your church can • Star Radio – covers Northallerton communicate with people in your & Thirsk. Needs 4 churches parish(es) to help them understand paying £77.50 each to cover more about the real meaning of advertising. Christmas. • Yorkshire Coast Radio – covers Christmas Starts With Christ is a Bridlington, Scarborough & national, ecumenical advertising Whitby. Needs 16 churches campaign helping churches put the paying £77.50 each to cover story of Christ’s birth at the heart of advertising. Christmas. There are free posters, church packs, web banners and If your church could afford to do videos that your church can use to this, please talk to your Deanery or reach out to people in your area, all Churches Together colleagues to see available from the website if they could join in. If you would www.christmasstartswithchrist.com. like more information, or if you would like Peter to talk about the This year, we’re also encouraging benefits of the radio campaign, churches to club together to buy please contact Peter via email: radio advertising space for the [email protected] or call him Christmas Starts With Christ radio at home on 01262 416266 or on ads. J Peter Wilson of the Christian 08448 112 610. Broadcasting Council (who lives in Bridlington) has worked out that the Eleanor Course, following three stations reach the Communications Officer most 15 – 34 year olds in our Diocese with 47% to 60% of them listening to these three stations. If

5 History Workshop

If your church attracts visitors or tourists, you are invited to a History Workshop at St Helen and the Holy Cross, Sheriff Hutton, on Saturday 3rd October from 10am to 4pm.

Roy Thompson, our Diocesan Tourism Officer, will be demonstrating how the church reaches out to visitors, allowing them to discover 900 years of development of the parish and the church building through the architecture and artifacts.

There will be optional workshop sessions on family history Please register your interest by memorials, plate, churchyard, emailing [email protected] stained glass and furnishings. The or telephone 01347 878644. The whole day will give your church a cost is £5 including drinks, but template for tourism-related please bring your own lunch. interpretation of their history.

Dementia Inclusive Churches

St Peter’s Norton invites you to a inclusive services, and supporting Dementia Inclusive Churches carers. training day on S aturday10th October. Creative Congregations will be delivered by the two directors of This one-day event by Brightshadow Brightshadow, a Christian social is for anyone who is part of a church enterprise with over 6 years and wants to enable people with experience of working creatively with dementia and their carers to be part people with dementia to improve of a worshipping community. wellbeing.

The day will include sessions on The cost of the event is £25, for dementia awareness and spirituality, further information please contact making churches and services Revd Rachel Hirst 01653 699222 dementia-friendly, ideas to plan [email protected]. activities and specific dementia-

6 Prom Praise

Prom Praise, on Saturday 3rd Beverley Trotman October at 7.30pm at York Barbican, After many years as lead singer in is a wonderful mix of sacred and gospel choirs, dynamic gospel artist concert music, a unique and joyful Beverley rose to fame when she fusion of performance with worship, reached the finals of The X-Factor, combining the spirit of “Songs of thrilling viewers with her rendition Praise” with the enthusiasm of the of Nina Simone’s ‘Feeling Good’. world-famous “Last Night of the Proms”. Giles Fowler Trumpeter Giles is an exceptional Co-hosted by Archbishop Sentamu, artist who has joined the Orchestra York’s Prom Praise is a feast of as soloist on many occasions and has orchestral, solo and choral items, been featured on several recordings. with great opportunities for the For this concert, Giles will be playing audience to join in to sing some the lively virtuoso showpiece, Arban’s favourite hymns and worship songs. Carnival of Venice.

Artists taking part include: Prom Praise York Choir All Souls Orchestra Singers from all around the area will Famous worldwide for a unique voice lead the PromPraise audience in in music, the orchestra returns to song. York Barbican with their flagship event. Ticket prices: £22.50, £19 & £17, including souvenir programme. To Noël Tredinnick book your tickets call 0844 854 2727 The energetic principal conductor visit www.yorkbarbican.co.uk or in and artistic director of the All Souls person at York Barbican. Orchestra.

7 Harthill Deanery goes to Tribfest

Churchgoers from twenty-seven known worship songs. This was churches around the Driffield area followed by the Simon and abandoned their usual services on Garfunkel tribute band and a picnic Sunday 23rd August to head to in the Walled Garden at Sledmere Tribfest. House.

Harthill Deanery took centre stage at “The service was led by the Rev Brian Tribfest, the UK’s biggest tribute Lees and the Rev Jacki Tonkin spoke band music festival, to hold their on the well-known passage about outdoor Sunday service in the ‘Wearing the whole armour of God’. grounds of Sledmere House. Not only was this a unique Pat Fletcher of Harthill Deanery said, opportunity to worship whilst “This was the second year that this surrounded by wonderful highly successful event was held, countryside, but it was also a chance with churches throughout the to share our faith with others. A Deanery joining together to celebrate simply wonderful day. communion. Not only did the sun shine but the Revelation Band from Thank you to all those involved and Hutton Cranswick played and the especially to the Tribfest organisers Waggoners Community Singers lead who, once again, allowed this service the congregation in some well- to go ahead.”

8 Repair and Retreat at Wydale

What do you do if you have a spare IT work, administration and more. few days in the middle of August? Highlights included the total Well of course you come to Wydale sweeping of the tennis court (and re- Hall and help to maintain the staining all the wood around it), the Diocesan Retreat and Conference creation of a new garden which Centre! Well at least that’s what 55 involved very skilled building work brave souls did from 12-16 August. and dry stone walling and the sorting out of the basement including the Volunteers raged in age from 4 to ritual late-night burning by the late 70s. Some had never been to General Manager of 30 years of Wydale before and some had been accounts (after checking with the coming since the late 1950s. All Finance Manager of course!) shared one thing in common – a willingness to serve and to be part of We have been totally amazed and the community at Wydale and to humbled by what happened at work at bringing back to life some of Retreat and Repair. From the outset the areas of the hall which have been we had been keen to catch up on looking a bit sad of late. maintenance and to utilise the enormous voluntary skillset which is Each day started with Morning to be found in churches across the Prayer at 0830 which most people Diocese (and beyond) but we had no came to (getting increasingly bleary idea that we would get so much eyed as the week progressed). Then done! But beyond the practical work after breakfast (Chef Robert’s we have built community. Wydale is porridge was, as ever, a great striving to be A Prayerful Community favourite) we spent time worshiping Renewing the Church’s Mission and together before working from 10am Retreat and Repair has provided to 1pm. The afternoons were free tangible evidence that this is and in the evenings the Wydale bar beginning to happen. The was open and we had a series of fun community at Wydale is growing! nights – a quiz, the mandatory viewing of ‘Bake-Off’, a film showing (‘Paddington’ which we all loved) We hope to run Retreat and Repair and we had a night of worship, again in 2016 and are always happy celebration and prayer ministry led to welcome individual volunteers for by the Revd Ben Doolan from York. days or weekends at any time. If you We had prayer stations in the small would like to be involved do contact chapel all week. us – 01723 859270, [email protected] The work consisted of hundreds (literally) of jobs: painting, cleaning, Mark Rance, General Manager varnishing, sorting, weeding, tree chopping, sweeping, brass cleaning,

9 What’s On

Fri 2 – Sun 4 Oct - Flower Festival speaker who will introduce and on the theme of "Creation", St Mary address a chosen subject before the Virgin Alne inviting conversation and discussion. Most sessions will include a time of Sat 3 Oct - Inspiring Children's prayer and space for personal Faith, Kings Church Beverley. A day reflection. of workshops with 2 keynote talks by Jon Steel, Children’s and Youth Work Sat 10 Oct - Winning Men, The Ark Adviser for East Riding Archdeaconry. Church, Monkgate, York. A one-day Workshops include Engaging conference with Christian Vision for Children in Reflective Prayer, Men in York on Saturday October Nurturing Faith and Open the Book. 10th from 10.30am - 3.30pm. This if Contact Cathy on 07913 378148. highly recommended if you want to consider how to reach out to men Sat 3 Oct - History Workshop, St with the Good News of Christ. Helen and the Holy Cross, Sheriff Details at: www.arkchurch.co.uk Hutton. See page 6. Sat 10 Oct - Something Familiar, Sat 3 Oct - In the Father's Hand, St The Stamford Bridge Singers, All Pauls, Holgate Road, York, 2pm – Saints Thornton-le-Dale, 7.00pm. A 4pm. Suitable for young people and mixture of sacred and secular music adults with learning disabilities and to include numbers by George complex needs, everyone is welcome Gershwin and Stephen Sondheim. to come, take part and enjoy being Tickets, costing £5 in aid of the All together with God. Saints Church music fund, can be bought from Joyce Helliwell 01751 Sat 3 Oct – Prom Praise, York. See 475783 or on the door. page 7. Sun 11 Oct 2015 - William Temple Sat 10 Oct - Dementia Inclusive Association, 'Living Together: What Churches Training Day, St Peters Do Muslims Believe?'. 7.30pm, by Norton. See page 6. Qari Muhammad Asim, MBE, Chief Imam, Leeds Makkah Masjid. For Sat 10 Oct - 'Conversations' A further details please contact Fruitful Life’, Tony Horsfall, Old Kingsley Boulton Malton Priory, 10.30 to 12pm. [email protected] or 'Conversations' is the title given to 01904 411535. Room SK037, Skell monthly gatherings at Old Malton Building, York St John University. Priory for exploration of different aspects of Christian Spirituality. Each session will be led by a visiting

10 Tues 13 Oct - Bible Forum - the Judges of Israel, at The Old Grammar Mon 19 Oct - Spirituality in the 3rd School, (next to the Alms Houses), Age, Wydale Hall. Led by Revd Dr Thornton Dale, 1.30pm to 3pm. Keith lbans, Group Director, About 3000 years ago, the land of Spirituality & Chaplaincy MHA. Israel was ruled by a succession of Contact 01723 859270 or judges, rather than kings. There were [email protected] 15 people who served as judges. Please try and read about them all Weds 21 Oct - Cleveland Matters before the day if you possibly can, in address by the Right Revd Alison Judges 3: 7 – 16: 31. For more White, All Saints, Helmsley. See page information please contact Revd Dr 1. J.M.White [email protected] Thurs 22 Oct - An Invitation To Thurs 15 Oct - An Invitation To Eucharistic Ministers in the Eucharistic Ministers in the Mowbray and Northern Ryedale Middlesborough and Stokesley Deaneries, St Peter and St Paul, Deaneries, The Ascension, Pickering, 7pm. An invitation from Middlesbrough, 7pm. An invitation the Rt Revd , Bishop of from the Rt Revd Paul Ferguson, Whitby, to join him in an evening of , to join him in an fellowship. Please RSVP: Mrs Julie evening of fellowship. The speaker is Elphee 01642 593273, the Revd . Please RSVP: [email protected] Mrs Julie Elphee 01642 593273, [email protected]. Thurs 22 Oct - The Sixteen: The Choral Pilgrimage 2015 at Holy Fri 16 – Sun 18 Oct - Retreat for Trinity Church, Hull, 7pm. In 2015 people living with ME and chronic The Sixteen takes a trip back to 16th- fatigue and their carers, Holy Rood century Spain and more specifically House. This informal retreat will be to one of the biggest, richest and a mixture of short talks with creative most cosmopolitan cities on earth - time looking at our continuing Seville. It was during this Spanish healing journey. Contact 01845 ‘golden age’ when arts and culture 522580 or flourished, that Francisco Guerrero [email protected]. and Alonso Lobo made their mark. Exquisite choral singing at its best in Sat 17 Oct - Table Top Sale, St an amazing acoustic setting. Tickets Martin-On-The-Hill, Scarborough, £16.00. For tickets and information 2pm - 4pm please visit holytrinityhull.com

Sun 18 Oct - Annual Pet Service, St Sat 24 Oct - Exploring Reader Martin-On-The-Hill, Albion Road Ministry, The Trinity Centre, North Scarborough, 2pm. Ormesby. See page 3.

11 On the move

The Revd Martin Trevor Faulkner, resigned to be Vicar of the West (Community Chaplain in the Trent Group in the Diocese of Benefice of Skegness in the Diocese Southwell and Nottingham. of Lincoln) has been appointed as Vicar of the Benefice of Withernsea The Revd Marian Gardner, (SSM with Owthorne, Garton-in- Priest in Charge), has resigned with Holderness with Grimston, Hilston, effect from 30 September 2015. Hollym, Holmpton, Roos and Tunstall. The Archbishop has granted Permission to Officiate to the The Revd Margaret Anne Jeavons, following: (Vicar of the Benefice of Sutton in Holderness, St Michael) has been The Revd Matthew Francis Holland appointed additionally as Priest-in- of Saltburn-by-the-Sea; formerly of Charge of the Benefice of Bilton in the Diocese of Portsmouth Holderness. The Revd Marion Wright of Scalby The Revd Philip White, (Priest in Charge of Cayton with Eastfield and The Revd Raymond John Brown of Priest in Charge of Scarborough St York; formerly of the Diocese of James with Holy Trinity), has Chelmsford.

The English Hymnal

St Wilfrid's, South Kilvington, has 36 copies of "The English Hymnal" books which are surplus to requirements. All are green bound and in a reasonable good condition, and are free to a good home (although contribution towards thc church’s refurbishment would be appreciated!). Please contact Terry Cussons, Churchwarden/ PCC secretary on 07514 096948 or 01845 523826.

Diocese of York News October 2015 Editor: Eleanor Course, Diocesan Communications Officer, Diocesan House, Aviator Court, Clifton Moor, York YO30 4WJ. Tel 01904 699530, Email [email protected]

Deadline to include items in the November issue is Monday 28 September. The Diocese of York News may be copied for use in Parish Magazines etc, and may be downloaded as a pdf file from www.dioceseofyork.org.uk. Contact Eleanor Course as above to receive an e-mailed download link for each new issue.

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