Clergy Mailing - November 2014 Contents 1. Nifty Notes 2. Ministry Vacancies 3. Youth Confirmation flyer Niftynotes news & information from the Diocese www.southwell.anglican.org NOVEMBER 2014 Compiled by Nicola Mellors email: [email protected] Sharing the glad tidings as Make a date we count down to Christmas for 2015 The Diocesan Communications he countdown to Christmas Starts Sunday at the Department is producing a Christmas has well and beginning of December. calendar for 2015, full of Ttruly begun, with only a information about the work of few weeks to go to that It is also offering a range of other the Church in Southwell and wonderful, hectic, ‘we’ll never customisable posters for churches Nottingham. get everything done’ time of year. to advertise events, with themes Amid the excitement, the season that include Christingle, carols by It will be illustrated with pictures offers Christians a great candlelight, toy services and taken around the Diocese – from opportunity to invite people to children’s nativity plays. car shows to visits by former church to introduce them to the Premiership footballers – and real joy and meaning of The Christmas Starts with Christ will contain a full list of useful Christmas. logo is available to be dates. used free of charge on festive Bishop Richard Inwood has written a piece for the calendar in which he describes the “privilege of coming out of Continued on page 4 material, and In this month’s issue: organisers are encouraging 2 News in brief churches to use it in original and 4 Events & information imaginative ways. The Free resources are being offered campaigners also run a national 5 Prayer Diary to churches to help with this, advertising campaign during among them material from the December and are inviting 9 Training Courses Christmas Starts with Christ donations from individuals and 11 What’s On campaign, which is offering a congregations to fund this. poster to those planning a Continued on page 12 12 Comings & Goings 2 November 14 News in brief. News in brief. News in brief. News in brief. Samworth Church Academy is Calendar ‘School of the Year’ countdown to better baby clinic amworth Church Academy has been awarded ‘School of the Year’ at the Chamber of Commerce Awards 2014. The The Meaningful Chocolate SMansfield school faced South Nottinghamshire Academy, South Company is hoping to equip a Wolds Academy and Sutton Community Academy ATT Trust in their baby clinic in Kenya by category. donating £10,000 from sales of its 2014 Real Advent Calendar. Vice Principal Ian James and teacher Rebecca Jephson represented the Academy at the awards ceremony. Mr James said: “We would not However, it is not just the have won this award were it not for our fantastic staff, governors and charitable donation that makes sponsors at the academy. The Real Advent Calendar unique. Behind its first giant “With their continued support the future for Mansfield’s fantastic window is a 32-page Christmas young people is most definitely bright. We are very thankful to all the story-activity booklet, designed businesses who have given their time to help our students prepare for to be used every day in Advent. their future lives as well as possible.” The booklet gives more detail about the Christmas story and Rebecca Jephson said the Academy had strong ties with the business has seven Advent challenges. community and used their expertise to inform students about business The calendar also comes with 25 and work life. She said: “We are over the moon to have won this Fairtrade Belgian chocolates and award and to have been recognised by the Chamber of Commerce for a line of the Christmas story our efforts in engaging businesses in education and in preparing our behind each of the foiled students for their lives beyond school. windows. “We would like to thank all of the business leaders that help to guide our students and gratefully acknowledge that this award recognises their efforts too.” The Real Advent Calendar costs £3.99. Churches, schools and groups can buy direct from The Meaningful Chocolate Company and take advantage of a free delivery offer. Retailers stocking include larger Tesco stores, Traidcraft, Eden, Shared Earth, CLC and a number of cathedrals. Photo: Vice Principal Ian James, Susan Salter (sponsor) and Details can be found at Rebecca Jephson. www.realadvent.co.uk Niftynotes 3 News in brief. News in brief. News in brief. News in brief. Dianne’s story in Archbishop’s Will Aid solicitors new book of Hope booking up fast November is Will Aid month, ope is the subject of the and to get your Will drawn up Archbishop of York’s new by a local solicitor in return for Hbook, and a chapter has a voluntary donation to charity been contributed by Southwell & you need to make an Nottingham Diocese’s Equality appointment now. and Diversity Officer, Dianne Skerritt. Don't forget, during Will Aid month participating solicitors ‘John Sentamu’s Hope Stories’ won't charge you for writing a contains 20 personal stories of basic Will. Instead, they will hope and has just been published invite you to make a donation to by Darton Longman and Todd as a Will Aid's nine charities. The companion to his bestselling ‘Faith suggested voluntary donations Stories’ published last year. are £95 for a single Will, or Through these stories, we hear £150 for a pair of 'mirror' Wills. how hope that comes from knowing God has been made real even through the most difficult of circumstances, including terminal illness To find participating solicitors or life-changing injuries, bereavement, suicide attempts, debt, near you, go to rejection by their family, and addictions to drink and to drugs. They http://www.willaid.org.uk/will- explain how their Christian faith – often only discovered or makers. rediscovered in the very midst of their despair – has given them new It is recommended that you hope and the strength to turn their lives around. make an appointment as soon as possible, because solicitors' Will Dianne, who is also co-ordinator of The Rainbow Project - which Aid appointments diaries are supports people seeking refuge and asylum in the UK - has written a already filling up fast. Please chapter in the book is about seeing people’s different needs and don't miss out. conditions, but not treating them as ‘the other.’ She talks of her experiences growing up and how for many years she has worked as a For further information please social worker. Dianne shares the experience of a Congo lady seeking contact:- Steve Cumberland asylum in the UK – and how she responded to this. 01636 817245 [email protected] She says: “It’s an honour to be included in the Archbishop’s book, and I feel humbled and privileged that I can support people in life transition situations, moving from destitution to community cohesion. Often the only thing that people have left is their faith and hope. There is also a richness that is brought about by having diverse people offering their skills and abilities initially as volunteers.” As part of the publicity videos have been made and Dianne’s can be seen at http://bit.ly/hsdianne See more at: http://www.archbishopofyork.org/pages/hope-stories- 2014.html#sthash.Chlis6sv.dpuf 4 November 14 Events & information. Events & information. Events & informatio Temporary housing for asylum Notts County seekers with volunteer hosts Council – Grant HOST Nottingham provides Aid Programme temporary housing for destitute 2015-18 asylum seekers with volunteer hosts for up to three months. etails of the latest Grant HOST was set up because Aid strategy have just Nottingham had seen such a Dbeen released. increase in numbers of destitute Community and voluntary asylum seekers (people whose groups looking for financial asylum claims have been turned support will be able to apply to down and have had financial and Nottinghamshire County Council housing support taken away). It for Grant Aid funding from was set up by Nottingham Arimathea Trust, Nottingham and Notts Monday 13 October 2014. Refugee Forum, Refugee Action, Rainbow Project, British Red Cross and Himmah. Three year grants are available offering a minimum of £500 per Faith accessed HOST. She was from Eritrea, three months pregnant annum in financial support. and in poor health. She was offered a room by Sarah, who had hosted before and found it enriching. Within weeks the difference in her was Awards will be subject to annual clear. The security meant she had privacy, could relax and could review as part of the Council’s attend appointments with her midwife and solicitor. After three budget considerations. Priorities months of being hosted Faith was able to move out into shared include helping others to help accommodation provided by the government. Both Faith and her baby themselves, providing boy are now doing well but without Sarah's support, her life and that volunteering opportunities, of her baby would have been in extreme danger. tackling disadvantage etc. HOST have a short film called 'Destitution: Our Story' made by Applications close on Monday 1 asylum seekers with experience of destitution. HOST and NAT can December 2014. present this film and discuss it at any place that wishes to put it on. For further details visit If you are interested in volunteering with HOST or putting on the http://www.nottinghamshire. film, please contact us at [email protected], via the gov.uk/thecouncil/democracy/ website at hostnottingham.org.uk or on 07904852512. partnerships/voluntary- sector/grantaid2015-18/ Churches planning Continued from page 1 Christmas Craft retirement to act as Diocesan Fairs Bishop”. If you would like a stall of Other months look at our Church stained glass and jewellery at schools, Southwell Minster, the your Christmas Fair please work of chaplains, the Ministry contact Heather Sirrel, email: of Sport and finance/giving.