FREE AM DDIM TEULU ASAPH Esgobaeth Llanelwy Diocese of St Asaph Awst/Medi August/September 2016 Deanery of St. Asaph Estuary & Mo untain Abe Rhos rco Deanery of rlands nwy Denbigh Mold Re-drawing the dioceseBorde Dyffryn Clwyd Alyn m a Mission Area shaped St AsaphWrexh Offa Maelor Deanery of Penllyn & Edeyrnion Ail-lunio’rTanat esgobaeth Ffurf ArdalVyrnwy Genhadaeth Llanelwy Deanery of Caereinion Pool Also inside: Cedewain Hefyd y tu mewn: The first LGBT chaplaincy Y gaplaniaeth LHDT gyntaf God in the trees Duw yn y goedwig Note from the editor Welcome to your new look Teulu some of the questions that are being Asaph! raised about how Mission Areas will operate – and I hope that this I hope that the changes to the look will be the beginning of a regular of the magazine will make it easier question and answer feature about for you to navigate your way round it. Mission Areas. Please send me your I’m Karen Maurice, and I edit Teulu questions to get the ball rolling. Asaph - I’d be very interested to hear your views about the magazine. However, Teulu Asaph is not just about the big changes or issues, comments, questions, suggestions, There’s a lot going on in the diocese but is also a way of communicating articles and photographs! at the moment with 2020 Vision, what we’re doing in our churches the move to Mission Areas and and communities – a chance to encouraging Shared Ministry. Teulu share new ideas, unusual events or Asaph is the ideal way to keep you different opportunities. up to date with what’s happening. I hope you enjoy this issue, and [email protected] In this issue there are answers to I look forward to getting your 07918 133420 4 In this issue 3 A week is a long time in politics 4 Re-drawing the map – how Mission Areas are shaping up 6 Having a heart for the homeless 7 News / Newyddion 11 8 Encouraging everyone to discover their Ministry 10 A church for all 11 God in the forest 14 12 The gift of education 13 Schools / Ysgolion 13 Resources / Adnoddau 14 Your News/Eich Newyddion chi 16 16 Pedal Power for Blind Veterans UK © Teulu Asaph is edited by Karen Maurice, designed by Jeff Lewis (Space on White Ltd) and printed by PWS Print Limited. The deadline for the October/November edition is September, 5. Please send copy and high quality images to [email protected] for inclusion. While we welcome all contributions, unfortunately we are not able to print everything. 2 | Teulu Asaph A week is a long time in politics At the end of June, we had a whatever their racial or ethnic or tywysogion, mewn unrhyw un na all striking example of just that religious origin. To do anything less waredu’ meddir yn Salm 143. Ar ôl is to fail Jesus Christ. wythnos fel honno, efallai y byddwn truth famously remarked by ninnau o’r un farn â’r Salmydd. the former Prime Minister Our nation has voted to leave the Mae’r cyfan yn ddos o realiti i ni. Yn Harold Wilson. With the vote EU (and by implication to reduce gyntaf, pwy ydyn ni wir yn ymddiried to leave the European Union, immigration). But let us never leave ynddo wrth edrych tua’r dyfodol? the pound fell, economic behind our values of inclusion, Mae’r ysgrythurau’n ein galw ni i diversity, hospitality; of protection for ymddiried yn Nuw, a dyma lle dylid planning was plunged into the most vulnerable, and of mercy, for sefydlu ein hyder. uncertainty, and the leadership fear of losing our very souls. of both the main political Yn ail, dylem weddïo am ddoethineb parties was thrown up in the Bishop Gregory i’r rhai a elwir i arwain, a gofyn i air. Dduw ar iddyn nhw weithio gyda’i gilydd er lles pawb ac ymgorffori The Bible, while acknowledging gwerthoedd Teyrnas Dduw: trugaredd, the impact of politics, takes a very ffyddlondeb, gostyngeiddrwydd a sceptical line on earthly power. ‘Do gwirionedd. Ond rhaid i ni hefyd gynnig not put your trust in princes, in human ein tystiolaeth ein hunain. Waeth beth beings, who cannot save.’ says Ps am wleidyddiaeth, rwy’n gobeithio 143. After a week like that, we may y gallwn fod yn unedig wrth wneud be minded to agree. safiad yn erbyn un o’r pethau hyllaf a ddaeth i’r amlwg yn y refferendwm: It all calls for a reality check. First, ofni dieithriaid, senoffobia. in whom do we really trust for the future? The scriptures call us to trust Cymerodd rhai pobl y bleidlais fel cyfle God, and this is where our confidence i fynegi casineb hiliol, gan ymosod ar should be founded. Second, we y rhai a amddiffynnodd gynhwysiant should pray for wisdom for those hiliol. Mae rhai yn ein hesgobaeth ni called to leadership and ask God that ein hunain eisoes wedi cael eu cam- they work together for the common drin neu wedi dioddef ymosodiad good and embody the values of Mae wythnos yn oherwydd iddyn nhw gael eu gweld fel tramorwyr, ymyrwyr, a dieithriaid. God’s Kingdom: mercy, faithfulness, amser hir ym myd humility and truth. But we must also offer our own witness. Regardless gwleidyddiaeth Fel Cristnogion sy’n credu yn of politics, I hope that we can be lletygarwch Duw, yr un sy’n ein derbyn ni fel y derbyniodd y tad y mab united in taking a stand against one Ddiwedd mis Mehefin, afradlon, mae gennym ddyletswydd of the ugliest things to raise its head cawsom enghraifft drawiadol in the referendum: fear of strangers, i ymladd yn erbyn hiliaeth a rhagfarn, xenophobia. o wirionedd y dywediad i sefyll dros bob aelod o’n cymuned enwog hwn o eiddo’r cyn- beth bynnag yw eu tarddiad hiliol neu There were people who took the Brif Weinidog, Harold ethnig neu grefyddol. Mae gwneud unrhyw beth llai na hynny’n gyfystyr â vote as an opportunity to express Wilson. Gyda’r bleidlais i siomi Iesu Grist. racial hatred, and attack those who adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd, defended racial inclusion. There have already been those in our own gostyngodd gwerth y bunt, Mae ein cenedl wedi pleidleisio dros diocese abused or attacked because suddodd cynllunio economaidd adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd (a thrwy they were seen as foreigners, i ansicrwydd, ac roedd oblygiad, i leihau mewnfudo). Ond gadewch i ni beidio byth â gadael interlopers, and strangers. arweinyddiaeth y prif bleidiau ein gwerthoedd y tu ôl i ni, sef gwleidyddol yn y fantol. As Christians who believe in the cynhwysiant, amrywiaeth, lletygarwch; hospitality of God, the one who diogelwch ar gyfer y mwyaf bregus, a Mae’r Beibl, gan gydnabod effaith receives us like the father received thrugaredd, rhag ofn colli ein heneidiau gwleidyddiaeth, yn cynnwys llinell the prodigal son, we have a duty to o ddifrif. sy’n amheus iawn o bŵer daearol. fight racism and prejudice, to stand ‘Peidiwch ag ymddiried mewn up for all members of our community Esgob Gregory www.stasaph.churchinwales.org.uk Teulu Asaph | 3 Re-drawing the map – how Mission Areas are shaping up A significant and important to date at the first opportunity and agreement between the churches decision affecting everyone in asked Bishop Gregory to provide in the MA for its day to day running. the Teulu Asaph was reached answers to questions he gets The document should be agreed during June’s meeting of frequently asked: and completed through consultation with both laity and clergy. the Standing Committee of the Diocesan Conference. What is a Mission Area What will happen to my Members voted to accept (MA)? Church? plans to make Mission Areas It is a group of mutually supportive the new fundamental unit of It will work with other churches in churches working together for the Mission Area. Everyone will the diocese. This is more a common purpose. Individual be invited to build teams across than just a name change. parishes will be united and merged the MA. Clergy and licensed The move to Mission Areas to form one parish known as the ministers will be licenced to the MA acknowledges the role that Mission Area (MA). The newly and not individual churches. This created MA will share each church’s each of us has in mission and Shared Ministry Team (SMT) will responsibility to its local community. ministry. be available to serve your Church, For example, anybody in a MA can although you’ll still have a specific be baptised, married and buried in We are half way on our journey nominated ‘Vicar’. You’ll be asked any church in the MA, subject to the to 2020. During an extraordinary to add your weight to mission – normal requirements. general meeting of the Standing witnessing to God’s love in the Committee in 2012, the world. recommendations of the Harries Review were prioritised for the Each church within a MA may diocese and the creation of Mission appoint its own church committee Areas was voted the single most to be responsible for matters of important proposal. This mandate local concern. It will elect two sub- from the membership is being carried wardens, a treasurer who will act on out and the framework to underpin the finance sub-committee of the this change is now agreed. MA and will have the opportunity to send a representative to the Part 2 of the 2020 Vision Toolkit is buildings sub-committee of the MA. being prepared to guide churches How is this happening? and Mission Areas through the Other key words and phrases you spiritual, legal and financial The Diocesan Registrar has drawn will begin to hear: processes.