News from the Church of England between the Humber and the Tees June 2015 Hornsea church starts Job Club St Nicholas Church, Hornsea, has opened the town’s first Job Club. The Job Club will be run from the parish hall every Monday morning from 9am to 12.30pm. Job seekers from the town can receive coaching for interviews and help finding jobs online, and local jobs will be displayed on a vacancies board. The job club was started by the Revd Phil Lamb, vicar of St Nicholas Church (pictured with Yvonne people going hungry, and now we’re Hird) . Phil said, “Hornsea’s a big helping people who are unemployed. town, and there are new estates If we’re serious about loving our being built here all the time. But neighbour, we have to look at the there’s no support for people who areas where they are struggling and are unemployed here. If you’ve got do what we can to help. no job, you’ve got to find the money to travel to Beverley or Hull to go to “We’re not experts, so we’ll be a job centre. So we wanted to open a learning alongside the people who job club here to help Hornsea folk are coming to the job club, but we who are struggling to find work. believe we can make a difference. One of our volunteers, Yvonne Hird, “The church has to take a lead in has experience of job clubs and will helping people in need. Jesus teaches be running coaching for interviews us to love our neighbour, and that’s with people, to give job seekers more what we’re trying to do here. In 2011 confidence. Opening a job club is the church opened the first something that any church can do, if Foodbank in East Yorkshire, to help there’s a need in their community.” 1 The joy of good news for all Good news! My daughter’s had a have found in the love of Jesus. Its lovely baby! My friend is recovering fine to speak about the joy of the from his illness! At long last I’ve got gospel, but letting it affect how we a job I can enjoy! talk to others is another matter! Most of us still feel awkward When we have good news we are chatting about our faith even though ready to share it. We know that other it is very important to us. people will be interested and want to share our joy. This joy is the theme of So another way we are looking to Jesus’ teaching in St Luke’s Gospel help us all gain some confidence and chapter 15: the joy of the shepherd have some practical ideas is through who finds his lost sheep and brings it running a Leading your Church into home. The joy of the poor woman Growth conference in September. who finds her silver coin, lost from About 30 benefices from across the her meagre savings. The joy of a diocese have signed up, each sending father who welcomes home his lost a team of vicar and two lay people. son, prodigal son, and still loves the This isn’t a magic wand but son who never left home. experience in many places, including a few of our parishes, shows that the No wonder that Pope Francis called ideas proposed are achievable and his guidance on sharing the good can be adapted to your news of Jesus The Joy of the Gospel . circumstances. Over time churches Back in Lent clergy from across our can develop new ways of sharing the diocese joined with Roman Catholic good news about Jesus, the joy of the colleagues from the Diocese of gospel, and see others become Middlesbrough to learn from this disciples of Jesus. exciting and challenging book. Together we explored the Pope’s I believe this conference and what encouragement to be grateful as we will follow on is good news for us! remember what God has done for us And we can look forward to sharing in Jesus. We were challenged by the that joy with those we meet! Pope’s insistence that “God’s heart has a special place for the poor”. We The Revd Dr Gavin Wakefield, were sent out to be “Spirit-filled Director of Training for Missional evangelizers who work and pray”. As Ministry Francis puts it, “the primary reason for evangelizing is the love of Jesus which we have received”. Yet we know we are not always very good at sharing the good news we 2 Church Urban Fund promotes “frugal lunches” for Poverty Sunday The Church Urban Fund (CUF) is Church Urban Fund, working in encouraging parishes to take part in partnership with the Diocese of York. activities for Poverty Sunday. The project has been working across Middlesbrough for over 2 years and Local churches are being invited to is expanding it’s work into Redcar hold a Poverty Sunday Service and Cleveland. Working with local followed by a “frugal lunch” on 21 churches and Christian activists June, or on another date that suits, TMC has supported the development to raise funds for CUF. A “frugal of a variety of projects including lunch” involves replacing a normal Food Banks, support for asylum Sunday lunch with soup or another seekers and refugees, the Positive inexpensive meal, with the savings Pathways project supporting donated to the Church Urban Fund. homeless people and Hope 4 To download your free resources and Summer - summer activities for find out more visit vulnerable families and children. www.povertysunday.org.uk. Heather Black, Development Officer Paul Hackwood, CUF Executive with TMC said:“At a time when local Chair, said: “We believe this is an families and individuals are important time for churches to get struggling with the basic necessities involved. Great work is already being of food, warmth, shelter and done but the need is immense. The clothing, and many are experiencing more we can raise money, the more isolation and loneliness, the church lives are going to be transformed.” is actively responding in Christ’s name. It is often simple acts of In this Diocese, Together human kindness shared with love Middlesbrough and Cleveland that can bring hope and enable (TMC) is the local response of human flourishing.” 3 St Hilda’s Way A new 42 mile Whitby pilgrimage, St The route for the inaugural walk is: Hilda’s Way, is being launched on Day 1 - Sunday 28th June Sunday 28 June. St Hilda’s Way • 11.00 am – Service of Blessing at starts at Hinderwell and finishes at St Hilda's Well, Hinderwell Whitby Abbey, visiting eight • 12.00 noon – Picnic Lunch churches and chapels dedicated to St • 1.30 pm – Start of walk – Hilda, as well as two other churches Hinderwell to Scaling Dam named after St Hedda and St Mary. Day 2 – Monday 29th June At each location there is a special • 9.30 am – Meet at Scaling Dam focus on a different aspect of the Visitor Centre car park Saint's life, something to find in the • Walk – Scaling Dam to Danby church and the opportunity for Station to Danby Church reflection and meditation. Day 3 – Tuesday 30th June • 10.00 am – Meet at National On Sunday 28 June the Way will be Park Visitor Centre, Danby launched with a special service at St • Walk – Danby to Lealholm to Hilda's Holy Well at Hinderwell Glaisdale to Egton Bridge Church, led by the Rt Revd Paul Day 4 – Wednesday 1st July Ferguson, the Bishop of Whitby. • 9.30 am – Meet St Hedda's There is then a led pilgrimage and Church, Egton Bridge the first leg of the trail, from • Walk – Egton Bridget Mortuary Hinderwell to Scaling Dam, will be Chapel to Egton to Sleights walked that afternoon. The full walk Day 5 – Thursday 2nd July will be completed over the following • 9.30 am – Meet Sleights Railway five days, culminating on the cliff top Station at Whitby Abbey on Friday 3 July. • Walk – Sleights to Sneaton to Whitby Railway Station The idea for St Hilda’s Way came Day 6 – Friday 3rd July from the churches in Whitby, • 9.30 am – Meet Whitby Railway inspired by the icon of St Hilda Station written by Edith Reyntiens. Veteran • Walk a Church Town Trail to visit long-distance walkers the Revd St Hilda's RC Church, St Hilda's Nancy and John Eckersley, have lent Priory, St Hilda's CofE Church, St their assistance in devising the route Mary's Church, Whitby Abbey and writing the guidebook. All are welcome to join all or part of The guidebook has extracts from the the inaugural walk but please let Ordnance Survey OL27 map covering Revd Barry Pyke ( 01947 840249 or the route in short sections of [email protected]) know between two and six miles. Nancy before you come so we have an idea has taken most of the photos and of how many to expect. Further written the majority of the 'special detail at www.whitbydeanery.org or interest' content. John has devised www.johneckersley.wordpress.com/St the route. Hilda. 4 New Altar for Rievaulx Abbey On 4 June Archbishop Sentamu, accompanied by the Bishop of Whitby; the Roman Catholic Bishop of Middlesbrough; the Prior of Ampleforth and the Chair of the Methodist District of York and Hull, will dedicate the newly built high altar at Rievaulx Abbey. A member of our congregation, Chris Bryant, now sadly deceased, but a generous benefactor to this project and churches across the denominations in Helmsley, initiated the vision to return Rievaulx Abbey to being a living witness to the The service is at 7pm.