November 2015 CathedralCathedral NewsNews 2 FROM THE DEAN Our Purpose To serve Jesus Chris as a vibrant community of worship and mission enriching the City, the Diocese and further afield. Our Values Hospitality Faithfulness Wholeness 3 MISSION Shoe Box Appeal In early December* we will be working in The Broadway to fill shoe boxes with gifts for disadvantaged children within the Bradford district, working with local charities including the Cinderella Club who celebrate their 125th anniversary this year. The boxes needed to be wrapped in Broadway Shopping Centre paper and then filled with gifts. Can you help? We need: On Thursday 5 November the long awaited new shopping centre will open. • Volunteers to assist with planning. Here at the Cathedral we have been • Donations of small gifts for young working with the Centre Manager and boys and girls, teenage boys and girls, Administrator over the last few months and toiletries. and we are delighted to announce two • Volunteers to help on the day to exciting projects. wrap boxes and fill with gifts. Contemplation Room If you know of any families in need, The Broadway have asked the Cathedral please let the Cathedral Office have if we could take the lead on providing a their details. Christian presence in the Contemplation * This will be on either 5 or 12 December, Room throughout the working week, to please look out for further details on the act as welcomers and to offer prayer if weekly pew sheets. requested. This is a huge undertaking so we have been working with the Prayer For further information, please speak to for Bradford Network to invite other Canon Mandy or Sandra Howard. churches to be involved. If you would be interested in be part of Toddler Group this valuable ministry, maybe committing The Communityworks Toddler group to a regular slot once a week or month* meets every Friday in the Parish Room. then please contact Canon Mandy. Starting at 9.30am and running through until 11.00pm it is full of fantastic toys, Alternatively you may have ideas or ways games and crafts whilst at the same to help administer the scheme. time always ensuring that parents and *The sessions are likely to be from 9 to carers get a break with a hot drink and 12noon, 12 to 2pm, 2 to 5pm and 5 to biscuits. It is open to everyone from the 7pm daily. This amounts to about 150 local community, so please do encourage sessions a month. We have 13 volunteers anyone to come along for whom it already from other churches across the would be a blessing. City - please prayerfully consider joining the For more details please speak to Gill Davis. team. 4 MISSION Capacity to help and support individuals and provide practical assistance for their daily needs, covering emergencies as well as making them feel welcome members of a local community. All this is done through a variety of ways designed to appeal to and to address the needs of the differing sections and interests of the community: The Anchor Project • Monday lunch club for older people Based at St Clement’s Church, Barkerend Road • Tiddlywinks parents and toddlers one morning a week in term time The Anchor Project is a local • Spotlight English conversation for organisation which has been and is beginners one afternoon a week in currently being supported in the term time Bradford Cathedral’s Mission Giving programme. The Project has been • Cookery Club on Thursday mornings – running for about twelve years. open to anyone who wants to cook and eat! A small handful of dedicated and hard- • Gardening Club (and competition) working staff strive to ‘create a space’ along with small environmental where people from many and diverse projects in BD3 (including beekeeping backgrounds, ages and experiences can and selling honey!) come together to share their lives and stories of faith. It is a place where they The various aims include centring on a can be supported in all aspects – body, person’s well-being both mental and mind and spirit. physical and assisting those not from the Bradford area to get to know the There is, additionally: Bradford District. A series of booklets Much work in empowering people to provide added inspiration and ideas. take pride in the local environment and It is overall a very welcoming, friendly restore it to its former glory. and inspiring place. Canon Precentor As the process for appointing a new Canon Precentor continues, we ask for your prayers for guidance and discernment. Father, you have promised to guide us when we are truly humble and dependent upon you. You have promised to give wisdom generously to those who feel their lack of it. We come to you as your children asking for a Father’s wise prompting as we discern the person to appoint as Residentiary Canon. Lead us in the right path, so that the life of the Cathedral may bring glory and honour to you. Through Jesus Christ our Lord: Amen 5 MISSION Christmas gifts for Prayer Requests and Abigail residents Pastoral Communication A number of people have said they You are welcome to approach the would like to know in good time for Prayer Circle directly via Alex McLelland Christmas the sort of gifts that Abigail or Sue McWhinney, to ask them to pray residents would like. We have had a new for you, and they will ask you the same idea this year, which is gift vouchers. questions as above. Please note, the Abigail Christmas vouchers will be on group always treat such requests, and sale from Maggie Peel in November and requests for prayer at Healing Eucharists December. You buy the vouchers and held on the third Sunday morning of the give them to your friends for Christmas. month, with the utmost confidentiality, They have the pleasure of knowing that and do not pass on details to anyone they have helped someone in real need else in the congregation or elsewhere. at Christmas, while our residents receive If you have any questions, please feel free the actual gift! There are four sorts of to talk to Canon Mandy, Alex, or Sue. vouchers available: £10 for a bed for the Please note, the group always treat such night, £10 for mobile phone vouchers requests, and requests for prayer at (so that asylum seekers can speak to Healing Eucharists held on the third families abroad and pursue their asylum Sunday morning of the month, with the cases), £5 for luxury toiletries and £5 for utmost confidentiality, and do not pass meat, which are things they are unable on details to anyone else in the to afford themselves. congregation or elsewhere. Monday Fellowship Monday 9 November at 2.00pm This month we are asking you to bring along a favourite object … something that has a particular meaning for you, or If you prefer to give something wrapped, perhaps an ‘old favourite’ from your then we suggest toiletries, chocolates bookshelf which has a special place in and treats. Please leave them on the your heart. chairs in the gallery at the back of the Cathedral, and for toiletries, please write These meetings always seem to have a on them whether they are suitable for special kind of fellowship and I do hope men or women. you will be able to be with us. As usual, Although it's only November, may I wish refreshments will be served. It will also you a very Happy Christmas in advance, be an opportunity to discuss the and thank you for bringing a bit of luxury Christmas ‘Get-Together’ in December, into the lives of people to whom it really and also the 2016 sessions. will mean a great deal. Maggie Please join us - you will be most welcome. 6 MISSION or contact Hanna on 07833 450482 or via [email protected]. Another way to support Inn Churches is to donate some home comforts. • Bedding items required are duvets, blankets and sleeping bags. • Clothing: warm socks, hats, gloves Inn Churches is a wonderful Bradford- and scarves. based charity which the Cathedral has • Toiletries for men and women supported since its inception seven years ago. From December to March, Inn • Non-perishable foods: for breakfasts Churches provides overnight and main meals. accommodation plus evening meal and These gifts can be delivered to Inn breakfast for homeless guests – men and Churches HQ at 36-38 Chapel Street, women of all ages and from all walks of Little Germany, BD1 … or left at the life who have fallen on hard times. Many back of the Cathedral. churches and chapels around the city are able to offer their buildings for a week, Throughout the year Juli and Hanna who and in total hundreds of volunteers give work for Inn Churches are making their time setting up, preparing, cooking preparations in the background which and serving food and washing up; or enable Inn Churches to spring to life chatting, listening, doing activities and again each December. They actively games with the guests. A team also pursue pathways to enable guests to sleeps there to ensure the wellbeing of access services to assist them into the guests. independent living, and find contacts which will benefit them on their journey Are YOU inspired to be part of this through life. From the warmth of our important work? homes this winter, let us PRAY for all the If you could volunteer to help for a few organisers, volunteers and guests, that hours, or if you’d like to help financially, there may be enriching encounters and find out more at www.innchurches.co.uk, blessings for all.