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D.XIQXW] John Morrison swaps his archdeaconry

The next Archdeacon of Oxford is to be The Venerable John Morrison, currently Archdeacon of Buckingham.

He succeeds the Venerable Frank Weston who will be consecrated Bishop of Knaresborough on December 3.

The announcement comes hard on the heels of the news of the Bishop of Buckingham's departure for Coventry next spring. However John Morrison will not leave his present post until the next Bishop of Buckingham has been appointed. 'Be assured that we will not leave Bucks unattended and uncared for', he says.

'Obviously after 16 years it will be an enormous wrench to leave Bucks.

However, going to the Oxford Archdeaconry is an exciting prospect.

It is not often that you get recycled at my age', John Morrison says.

He already has strong links with Oxford. From 1968 to 1974 he was

Chaplain of Lincoln College where he still coaches rowing. After curacies in Birmingham and at St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford, he became Vicar of Basildon (Berkshire) and Rural Dean of Bradfield. In 1982 he was appointed Vicar and Rural Dean of Aylesbury and in 1990 Archdeacon of Buckingham.

Finance and communication have been his special interests in his wider work for the Diocese. He is chairman of the Diocesan Communications Committee and of Oxford Diocesan Publications. He is also a member of the Planning and Budget sub-committee.

John is married to Angela and they have three children, Dominic (27), Philippa (25) and Nicholas (23). He is a liveryman of the worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers and a member of the prestigious Leander Rowing Club.

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November 1997 No 87 Diocese of Oxford Reporter Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

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Let the People Sing: a festival of Church Choirs Pages 10 & 11

A Volume of Vergers: Southern Province Guild gathers at Christ Church Cathedral Page 5

'We will not be afraid, even if the earth is shaken and mountains fall,' (Ps 46). The Good News Bible Page 8 celebrates 21 years.

The summer trickle of entrants to the St Albans and Methodist Church as a preparation for ordination. Most Oxford Ministry Course turned into an autumn flood of will go into the non-stipendiary or the new local non42 people. Pictured (above) at the start of the new term stipendiary ministry, but some will go on to paid fullby Frank Blackwell, they include two nuns, a lecturer in time ministry. At a time when the general trend for the history of art, several school teachers and three vocations is downwards, the Director of the Ministry clergy wives. Their average age is 45. The Ministry Course, the Revd Dr Mike Butterworth is delighted. 'As Course is a part-time one recognised by the Church of recently as August we thought we would be lucky to get England, the United Reformed Church and the 30, but suddenly they came spurting through', he says.

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The Asda store in Lower Earley, which held a Harvest Festival last September, is planning a Carol service for December 21 from 9.15 to 945am. The idea for the Harvest Festival came from Asda head office which wanted to help people 'reconnect with the soil' and understand that the food on the shelves has to be grown, harvested and transported.'It's interesting that they saw a Harvest Festival as a way of making that connection,' says the Revd Simon Howard, priest-in-. charge of Trinity Church, next-door to the store and one of five local churches involved. About 250 people came to the service including 25 Asda executives and at least 20 local people who do not normally attend church. Asda staff said they appreciated the chance to worship before starting work. 'Of course we would prefer it if supermarkets did not open on Sundays,' said Simon Howard, 'but there was a real sense of worship taking place even with the TV cameras there'.

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Remembering children with AIDS

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are children and it is estimated that nine million children have lost their mothers to AIDS. This year the Oxfordshire Churches Red Ribbon Group has put together some ideas for worship which are available from the BSR at Church House. The Group is also arranging an ecumenical service on December I in St Giles Church in Oxford.

A Prayer by Jonathan, who is living with AIDS: Grant me faithfulness, restore us to health, to life, to love of one another: and on that day, that Wonderful Day, banish AIDS far from us for ever.

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Bishops and Archdeacons THE BISHOP OF OXFORD The Right Revd Richard Harries Diocesan Church House, North Hinksey, Oxford, OX2 ONB Telephone 01865 208200

BERKSHIRE Bishop of Reading The Right Revd Dominic Walker Bishop's House,Tidmarsh Lane,Tidmarsh, Reading RG8 8HA Telephone 0 1189 841216

Archdeacon The Venerable Michael Hill Foxglove House, Love Lane, Donnington, Newbury, RGI3 2JG Telephone 01635 552820

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Bishop of Buckingham The Right Revd Cohn Bennetts Sheridan, Grimms Hill, Great Missenden, HP 16 9BD Telephone 01494 862173

Archdeacon The Venerable John Morrison, 60Wendover Road,Aylesbury, HP2 I 9LW Telephone 01296 423269

OXFORDSHIRE Bishop of Dorchester The Right Revd Dr Anthony Russell, Hoimby House, Sibford Ferris, Banbury, OX IS 5RG Telephone 01295 78 05 83

Archdeacon The Venerable Frank Weston, Christ Church, Oxford, OXI lDPTelephone 01865 276185

e ' So s ang am Orc estra and St Andrew's Bookshops got together on September 13 to celebrate their birthdays - the Orchestra is 25; the Bookshop 40.

Despite disappointing weather over 1,000 people gathered at Berkshire College of Agriculture to enjoy the music and eat their picnics. See also page 20.

Photographs: Keith Ellis.

We must keep alive our choral tradition The tradition of fine choral music, ably performed, is an unique contribution that the Church of England has made to the history of Christian worship. The experience of having the soul uplifted to the beautiful sounds of a good choir singing a full choral service in churches and cathedrals can be truly inspirational. As devotees of more modern worship songs have also discovered, music can sometimes touch the depths of our being in a way that nothing else can.

Maintaining a choral tradition in our parish churches is, however, no easy matter. The supply of good choral directors is not as plentiful as it once was, and the pressure and expectations of school

work make sufficient rehearsal time a real problem for junior choir members. The lure of mini-rugby, football clubs and supermarket employment are also strong. In

in my view Frank Hillebrand addition evening services have, in many areas, fallen in popularity due to a combination of Toldark effect' perceived dangers of being out at night, and the general pressures of life today.

At All Saints, High Wycombe we have the blessing of a good choral tradition, a very fine organ and a glorious medieval building with an excellent acoustic. However, until 1996, at our monthly Choral Eucharists and

Choral Evensongs the congregation were usually outnumbered by the choir!

Taking courage in both hands, and 'borrowing' a theme from Christ Church Cathedral's 1995 summer lectures, a series of sermons on the theme 'Intriguing Texts from the Bible' was arranged for Choral Evensong. In 1997 we followed that by inviting preachers from BBC Radio's 'Thought for the Day'. These were well publicised in the locality and the Church Times, and we also produced a special service leaflet which was simple for all to follow.

The result has been quite amazing: attendance often well over 100, and a number of new people brought to faith.

Perhaps our experience might encourage others to

revive choral services. Not all churches will have the musical resources of High Wycombe, but perhaps a country group of churches, or a deanery, could put together a choir for just one month and arrange an accompanying sermon series? All are, of course, welcome to drive into the centre of High Wycombe and join us at 6.30pm on the third Sunday for Choral Evensong, or on the first Sunday for the Choral Eucharist when the spirit of St Cecilia still lives!

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Deaneries discuss new share scheme Consultations are under way for a new Parish Share Allocation Scheme to operate from the year 2000. An eight-page booklet has been sent to Deaneries, PCC Treasurers and Secretaries inviting their reactions. Tert- y Landsbert, Secretary of the Diocesan Board of Finance, explains: 'This proposed scheme works in two stages: Allocations to Deaneries

These will be done using information available publicly. This will remove the subjectivity which currently exists. In summary the Electoral Roll total for the deanery (averaged over three years) will be multiplied by the average personal income for the area covered by the deanery. This latter figure is worked out from national Census figures and the annual Family Expenditure Survey.

Combining these figures will give a figure for the relative prosperity of each deanery adjusted for its size. The result is a measure for each deanery which, when totalled for the Diocese, gives a percentage of the total for each deanery. This figure is then used

Millennium Roadshow Churches Together in England is launching its 'Millennium Agenda' with a series of roadshows around Britain on the theme of 'A New Start'.

There are three main strands: care for the poor including the cancellation of world debt; housing, homelessness, unemployment and care for the environment in Britain; and 'A New Start with God' which aims to address the deep-felt need for a new spiritual direction for our nation and churches, The New Start theme has been agreed by all the major denominations in England, together with the Evangelical Alliance and many smaller church groups. Details from Revd Stephen Lynas, the Churches' Millennium Officer, on 0171 222 9011.

Jubilee 2000 explained Local representatives from international development agencies including Brian Davies of Cafod and Wendy Tyndale of Christian Aid, met in Abingdon recently to discuss the Jubilee 2000 campaign which could release $lOObillion of debt relief for 52 of the world's poorest countries. Key speakers included Dewi Hughes of Tear Fund who set out the theology and background to the campaign. Jubilee 2000 is, explained in The Debt Cutter's Handbook available price £3.50 from Jubilee 2000 Coalition, P0 Box 100, London SEI 7RT.

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to allocate the share to deaneries.

Deaneries to Benefices and Parishes

The proposals retain the existing arrangements which encourage deanery synods to allocate the share in any way that is acceptable to the benefices and parishes in it.

Many deaneries have worked out their own scheme for sharing and these are expected to continue. However, some deaneries may feel the need to change so examples of other deaneries' practices will be shared, together with suggested procedures where there is a formal appeal within the deanery.

The Bishop of Oxford, in the foreword, commends the proposal as clear, simple and objective.

Parishes are asked to comment to Deanery Standing Committees by the end of 1997 and Deaneries to the Diocese by March 31, 1998.

The Diocesan Synod will consider the reactions. If the go-ahead is given, the new scheme could start in AD2000, but it is likely that there will be a transitional period so that deaneries can adjust and maintain payment during the changeover.'

Livingstone in Oxford In November and December 1857 David Livingstone spoke at Oxford and Cambridge and challenged the universities: 'to carry out the work which I have begun.' His words quickly led to the founding of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) The 140th anniversary of Livingstone's speeches is being marked by a series of events from November 20 - 26 organised

by USPG. A priest from Malawi will be the main speaker. The Revd James Tengatenga is a lecturer in theology and church history at the University of Malawi with considerable knowledge of UMCA and its involvement with the abolition of slavery in Central Africa.

The main anniversary event will be a service in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford at 4pm on November 23 when the preacher will be James Tengatenga. It will be attended by the Lord Mayor of Oxford and by representatives of the University, the Diocese and the churches of Central Africa.

Understanding the Diana Phenomenon Church leaders are being offered at least two opportunities to explore the meaning of the huge outpouring of emotion that followed the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. On November 1 a one-day workshop from 10am-4pm at St Peter's Church Hall, Earley. Reading is led by Fr David Rossdale, Vicar of Holy Trinity. Cookham and Dr David McDonald, family therapist and Christian. To book (€5) contact Judi Shepherd on 0118 926 1451.

On December 2 from 10am-4pm at St Andrew's Church, Hatters Lane, High Wycombe, the Dean of Westminster, the Very Revd Dr Wesley Carr, will be leading an event which is mainly for CoE clergy, although Readers and clergy of other denominations will be welcome.

Participants are asked to send in a short account with their applicatins of no more than 200 words describing their experiences as parish clergy in the week following Diana's death.

These will be mailed to all participants before the day. To book a place, please send a cheque for £10 made payable to ODBF to Canon Keith Lamdin, Church House, North Hinksey, Oxford 0X2 ONB.

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World AIDS Day on December 1 is being marked at St Marys, Aylesbury at 6pm with a short service, a procession and release of balloons. Also at the Chapel at Wycombe Hospital. Details from the chaplain, Judy Green on 01494 425072.

From November 28 to December 1 there will be a stall in the Octagon. High Wycombe distributing red ribbons and offering advice about HIV and AIDs.

Lambeth advisers visit Oxford Young people from seven different countries including Ghana, South Korea and Japan. visited Church House in Oxford earlier this year as part of the International Anglican Youth Network Gathering.

The seven (shown above with local youth leaders) were part of a group of 150 who had come to the UK for two weeks to explore some of the key issues which will feature at the 1998 Lambeth Conference and to experience life in a different culture. After a wry wet introduction to England for an open air Eucharist at the Greenbelt Festival, the group split up to spend time In different dioceses before coming together again to meet Dr George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bognor alternatives?

Following the news that the 1998 Diocesan Conference had to be cancelled when Butlin's announced it was closing three of its holiday camps, including Southcoast World in Bognor Regis, the site of the 1995 Conference, the Planning Group is asking deaneries to put forward suggestions for a series of events in 1998.

Acknowledging the 'unique contribution' the 1995 Conference had made to the life of the Diocese, Canon Simon Brown, chairman of the Planning Group, said: 'We have tried to look into every alternative suggestion made to us from hiring a P&O Ferry off-season, to facilities suggested by the British Association of Conference Organisers, but none were suitable for our purposes.'

Long-term plans include the possibility of establishing a National Christian Conference Centre which would appeal to other Christian groups like Greenbelt and Spring Harvest. The Planning Group would also like to hold the next event during a holiday period so that children, young people and families could take part.

'For 1998 a suggestion was floated that we should invite every deanery to mount a one-day event during the period we had planned to be in Bognor next March,' said Simon Brown. Deaneries prepared to be responsible for organising their own event should contact Simon Brown on 01628 604173.

Suppers to help runaways The Children's Society is inviting you to take part in the largest ever candlelit supup per in the first week of December to help raise money for runaway children.

The Society, which runs three of the four refuges in this country for runaways, says over 43,000 children and young people run away every year. If you would like to help, please order a pack which includes invitations, instructions on where to send donations, and recipes from celebrity cooks Yehudi Menuhin and Claire Rayner. Contact Veronica Beaumont on 01494 510734 (Oxfordshire); Diana Bailey on 0118 958 3724 (Berkshire) and in Buckinghamshire Eric Nicholson on 01494 785500.

Chinese flavour to Racial Justice Sunday The All Saints' Ascot Heath Racial Justice Team marked Racial Justice Sunday on September 14 at a service addressed by Robert Tang from the Chinese Church in London. The service was followed by a Chinese buffet in the church hail.

On the same day, the Diocesan Race Group held a service at SS Mary and John in Cowley, Oxford. Speaker Prebendary Theo Samuel praised the efforts made in this country by the Church to confront the issue of racial justice and by Government in framing anti-discrimination laws, but he said much remained to be done. Music was provided by the Asian Christian Fellowship.

The Revd Grantley Finalayson, formerly team vicar of the West Slough Team Ministry, has been appointed Race Relations Officer in the Gloucester Diocese.

Koinonia, the group set up three years ago to link Christian groups within Oxford University, is hosting on November 18 at 8pm in the University Church, a debate on homosexuality and Christianity with the Revd Richard Kicker of LGCM, the Revd David Holloway of Reform, Margaret Hebblethwaite, and undergraduate Gideon Burrows.

WATCH - Women and the Church has organised a Eucharist at 8pm at the University Church in Oxford to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the vote to ordain women to the priesthood of the Church of England. Details: Christina Rees 01763 848822.

The 1998 Lent course published by the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland is available price £1.50 from CCBI, Inter-Church House, 35-41 Lower Marsh, London SF1 7RL. The thoughtprovoking course on the theme of Hope in a Time of Change looks at five different contexts for hope including discipline, Christ and tears.

A Christmas video called Outside Inn featuring evangelist J John is available from Tear Fund at £9.95. It is designed to be used either as part of a Christmas carol service or in home groups, and takes the viewer from Bethlehem to Cochabamba in Bolivia to visit a street girls project. This fresh look at Christmas comes with prayer cards and a 16-page service booklet which includes a drama sketch by Oxford writer and Christian thinker Nick Page.

Head teachers, governors and members of the Diocesan Board of Education met at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford on October 9 for the annual Cathedral Service for Church Schools. The preacher was Professor Richard Pring, Professor of Education at Oxford University and school governor.

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Making friends with people of other faiths

Remembrance Sunday, November 9 OLD SOLDIER

Time to say goodbye The Venerable Frank Weston

An A booklet called Introduction to Dialogue aims to help church members learn from the example of Jesus how to make relationships with people of different cultures and ethnic origins.

It has been produced by the Salem Project in Slough, part of the sector ministry team of the Burnham and Slough deaneries. The Project-is run

by Norman and Denise Critchell to build friendships across the barriers of race, culture and religion.

You turn out on Armistice Day to stand by the cross in the November cold, to hear another old soldier say, 'They grow not old...'.

And jubilant boys roar past on motorbikes and shock the congregation that honours the noisy village boys of your lost generation.

Patience Tuckwell Patience Tuckwell is a published poet and an educational therapist. She lives at Appleton near Oxford.

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'Although there is a great debate in Christian circles as to just what the word dialogue means, we believe that many wish to form relationships with their neighbours from other faith groups. Yet there are barriers which prevent this becoming a reality. Dialogue is at the heart of Christian tradition,' the Critchells say.

There is so much that I may never know Of withering decline into the dark; Of failing light that dims the brilliant day Of frequencies that keep dawn-chorus dumb And early cuckoo listened for in vain.

I shall not know The turned-in selfishness of hard old age Bounded by mumbled food, by bed and chair, The world reduced to what is mine and me My spirit paralysed and wits awry.

But I shall see With painter's eyes the seasons' colour change With poet's eyes the meaning of the dawn.

My garden will be brighter under rain My skies more glowing in the winter sun My flowers and fruit more fragrant in the dusk My senses more alive to loveliness.

Copies of An Introduction to Dialogue (suggested price £1) are available from Norman and Denise Critchell, the Salem Project, 91 Goodman Park, Slough S12 5N5.

Has your church got tourist potential?

If your church is keen to encourage tourists but doesn't know how to go about it, then Glyn Evans, the Rural Chaplain for Oxfordshire, and Gwen Yeomans from the Arthur Rank Centre would like to hear from you.

They have brought together a working party of experts and enthusiasts to work with a handful of churches with tourist potential. It is hoped that these churches will then be willing to pass on their experience to other churches and chapels in the county.The project is ecumenical and if you think your church fits the bill contact GwenYeomans at:The Arthur Rank Centre, National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh Park, Warwicks CY8 2LZ.

And if deceitful pain should make me doubt The glory and the goodness of the world, Yet at my back Will be that blackened, age-old piece of wood Whose arms can keep me when I fail or fall, And I shall see One who was there before And knew it all.

Ann Chenevix Trench Ann wrote this poem a few weeks before she died in May. It was read at her funeral by one of her grandchildren and we have been given permission to use it by her husband, John. The September DOOR also included

poems. 'In the stillness of the quiet place' appeared on the One World Week page, but without a credit line for which we opologise. another ofAnn's

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Farewell service, party and presentation at Dorchester Abbey on November 21 at 7.30pm.

To contribute to his farewell gifts, cheques should be made out to 'The Archdeacon's presentation account' and sent to the Bishop of Dorchester, Hoimby House, Sibford Ferris, Banbury, Oxon 0X15 5RG. The Right Revd Cohn Bennetts The Venerable John Morrison

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Farewell service, party and presentation at St Mary's, Aylesbury at 7.30pm.

To contribute to their leaving presents send cheques to the Revd Andrew Cain, the Bishop's Chaplain at Diocesan Church House, North Hinksey, Oxford 0X2 ONB made out to 'The ODBF Administered Fund Account' and clearly marked 'Bishop of Buckingham' or 'Archdeacon of Buckingham'.

All welcome at both events.

It was a vicar's tea party with a difference when the Rural Dean of Abingdon, the Revd Leighton Thomas was given the use of an empty warehouse on the MiltonPark trading estate to enterthin children from Milton and Sutton Courtenay.

There was a bouncy castle, indoor cricket, a tug of war and loads and loads of jelly and ice cream.

Reading churches make women's dreams come true The Churches in Reading Women's Centre celeits fifth brated anniversary on October 15 with the news that it had been granted charitable status and a visit from the Bishop, reports Margaret Brown.

Bishop's visit

Bishop Dominic came to confirm the appointment of the new chaplain, the Revd Alison Beever, vicar of St Catherine of Siena.

Outgoing chaplain, the Revd Tom Stuckey of Wesley Road Methodist Church, said 'Please invite me back - particularly at meal-times!'

The Centre struggled financially at first, but thanks to the efforts of its organisers, especially Sheila Goldsmith, the word has spread that on and Tuesdays Wednesdays there is a place for women to go if

they want company, jobseeking skills, help with the benefits system, or a good lunch for 50p. 'It is a place where women can relax, be themselves and be accepted - a very special place.' said one of the members.

The Borough Council and local firms donated computers and a printer, and last year the Centre secured the use of three rooms nearby.

Theology can be fun A journal, a book review, a taped interview or even a sermon will now be taken into account by the moderators of Oxford University's Certificate in Christian Theological Studies. The Certificate is awarded through the Diocese's Christian Training Programmes after two years local study, four weekends and a three hour exam. From this autumn, the qualification is also being offered through the Diocese of Oxford's portfolio scheme.

For further details contact the Revd Chris Baker, Diocesan Liaison Officer for the Certificate on 01908 662092/233638 or your local Christian Training Programme Director (list on back of September DOOR).

Christmas cards

The day's success was the fulfilment of the dream of Jan Hearn, a part-time administrator at SS John and Steven, who will be teaching three of the women basic computer skills as part of her City and Guilds Teaching Certificate. Designing Christmas cards was to be their first exercise.

Peasant Mass A Nicaraguan peasant mass is due to be held at Blackfriars Priory, Oxford on October 22 to celebrate One World Week. The speaker is Wendy Tyndale of Christian Aid. On October 18 there was a One World Fair at Oxford Town Hall.

The Centre would be delighted to hear of any similar ventures. dontact them on 0118 9576390.

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Christ Church Cathedral hosts vergers rally for the first time For the first time the Southern Province of the Guild of Vergers was held in Christ Church Cathedral. On October 2 one hundred vergers from all over England met in Oxford.They included members of the Oxford Diocese Branch whose president is the Bishop of Oxford. He was the preacher at a noon service whose theme was St Francis of Assisi.The Bishop of Reading attended an evening Eucharist.

Vergers, whether salaried or voluntary, continue to play an important part in the life of the church. In these days of fewer clergy there is an urgent need for a man or woman on the spot. But vergers are much more than caretakers.They prepare the church for services including weddings, baptisms and funerals and in cathedrals and larger churches have a ceremonial role.

A recent survey showed that in the Diocese of Oxford up to 600 people are performing some kind of verger duty. And the cloth cap image of the Dad's Army' verger is far from the truth. Nowadays young men and women are considering verger ministry as a profession: a five-year part-time home study course leads to the award of a Diploma in Vergership.

A volume of vergers! Frank Blackwell photographed the official photographer as she posed the group with the Bishop of Oxford (seated centre) after the noon service at Christ Church.

Michael Golby is one of four vergers at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. He has the specific title of sacristan which means he is responsible for the care of linen and vestments, the ordering of candles, wine, wafers and other requisites and cleaning.

He was born in Canada in 1940 but ten years later came to England with his family via Australia and New Zealand settling eventually in Guildford. He now lives in High Wycombe. By profession he is an insurance broker and still combines consultancy work with his full-time job as a verger. Michael has been married to Betty for 36 years and they have two daughters.

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I love the early morning duty in the Cathedral when there is nobody about. It is unique because of its position within a college. I am not an academic so at times .1 struggle to relate to that side of things.

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I see my role as a supportive one. You need people to do the practical things to enable those who have the ability to do the preaching. Visitors come to Christ Church from all over the world and the verger is often the person that people will gravitate towards if they want help.

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parade, she said 'Can you come with me and support me'. That was the start of my reintroduction back into a positive involvement in church life. It's now very important for me.

There has been no life-changing moment of conversion but a major turning point came in 1989. The then Vicar of St John's, High Wycombe, Paul Bayes, asked me if I knew where Burundi was. He had been invited to lead a SOMA (Sharing of Ministries Abroad) team there and he asked me to be the co-ordinator.

Two things really worried me: one was mosquitoes and the other was giving a testimony but I agreed to go. I thought that having looked after the preparations and the itinerary, my job would be finished.

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Then in 1993 I went with SOMA to Nigeria.

Again I was involved with all the administration but our preparations were fraught with troubles because of a coup.

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My African experiences are very important to me. We have got so cluttered up and it's nice to go back to basics and start living our lives as God wants us to do. I am very reserved and I know that I only coped with it all with God's help. If I needed a proof of God's existence, I found it in Africa. Ijust know now that there is a God. I would have loved to have lived at the time of Christ because I feel so close to him. I can be very independent and sometimes pig-headed, but if he had said 'follow me', I think I would have done it.

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Oxford St Augustine's is one of only nine joint RC/ Anglican comprehensive aided schools in the country. It aims to combine the traditional Anglican concern for the local community with the Roman Catholic one of nurturing students in their faith. The school is served by two chaplains and has links with many churches in the area

The school was formed 13 years ago by the amalgamation of a Church of England and a Roman Catholic school on the former Catholic site in the pleasant village of Iffley on the edge of Oxford.

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Sister and brother, Regina and John Lally celebrate some splendid exam results.

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Clergy and lay appointments Revd Christine Allsopp, Team Vicar, St Paul's, Bracknell Team Ministry, to be Team Rector Designate, Bourne Valley; Revd Dr David Andrews from the Salisbury Diocese to be Priestin-Charge, White Waltham and Shottsbrooke; Revd Alison Duff, Associate Priest, All Saints.

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My eyes were wide as I saw the reflection of myself stare back from the window. I saw that it was the reflection of the Clown within emerging for a moment of comfort. I saw the Clown smile warmly at me as rain lashed the roof of the prison van. I closed my eyes and prayed for strength to endure.'

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Prisoners' Week 16-22 November 1997

Alpha goes to prison Part of the success of the Alpha course is 'the meal' and it's no exception at HMP Woodhill near Milton Keynes where the second Alpha course has just begun and each Saturday morning a group of inmates meet for bacon butties and Christian basics.

The Alpha course, already running in hundreds of churches, is now being successfully introduced into prisons around the country.

Writing in the Prison Fellowship newsletter, Janet Sanson of the Milton Keynes Prison Fellowship. said: 'The first Alpha session was attended by twelve men when the PF team tried to create a relaxed atmosphere aided by several breaks and the chapel provision of bacon butties. As the weeks went on, the

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numbers reduced due to transfers, releases, and lock-ups, but we felt that the Lord made sure that the men he wanted there were there .... The last but one session included a birthday celebration (more bacon butties) and will be remembered as a session in which we discussed temptation and evil. We sat in a circle, bound together by God's love'.

Alpha in Prisons wins Ecclesiastical award 'Alpha in Prisons' has been given £125,000 to develop its work. The money has been awarded I Allchurches Trust Ltd, the holding company of Ecclesiastical Insurance who each year distribute a number of charitable grants. The money will be used to promote Alpha in prisons and to develop the contact with prisoners after their release.

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comment from The Archdeacon of Oxford The Editor has asked me for a 'brief farewell or something' before I join the Diocese of Ripon.

So generously phrased an invitation cannot be refused and I must begin by saying a simple 'thank you' to the hundreds of people who have helped to make my fifteen years as Archdeacon of Oxford such a rich and happy experience. Many of you have written to wish me well.

As some will recall, my first real exposure to this Diocese was as leader of the team of fifteen 'Partners in Mission' who visited us in the early autumn of 1981 .Within a year I had been asked back to take up my present post. Now as I leave, I find myself in the chair of the Diocesan Council for Partnership in World Mission.This is an official council of our Diocesan Synod, not just an interest group, and I believe it has an influence far greater than its tiny annual budget would suggest.

I think I have always seen myself as a'partner in mission'.When I was preparing for ordination forty years ago the cry was,'Come north, young man!' So I went as a curate to a small industrial town in south Lancashire.Then, before coming here, I spent ten years training men and women for mission and six training ordinands in Scotland. Now the cry is, 'Come north, old man!' and it has seemed right to respond.

So I suggest to my fellow clergy that 'partner in mission' is a suitable title for those who must be regularly moving on at the behest of the sending God. In that spirit I look forward to this last phase of my active ministry and, as one whose work has brought him into contact with dozens, if not hundreds of bishops, I am beginning to think I shall enjoy being one. I shall particularly relish the Lambeth Conference of 1998, with all the opportunities for reunions with former partners and introductions to new ones.

Frank Weston The Venerable Frank Weston is to be the next Bishop of Knaresbo rough. He leaves the Oxford Diocese at the end of the year and there will be a farewell service at Dorchester Abbey on November 21 at 730pm. All are welcome.

Diocesan Sunday Prayer Diary November 9 (Remembrance Sunday) Deanery of Bicester and Islip; the parish of St Alban's, Kimberley and Kuruman (K and K) ; those who work in the armed forces and the defence industries; November 16 (Prisoners Sunday) Deanery of Reading; Parish of St Michael's, Batiharos. K and K; prison chaplains, prisoners and all who work in prisons November 23 The work of the Diocesan Registry - Frank Robson and John Rees; those who work in the legal system - police, judges, barristers, solicitors, magistrates; November 30 (First Sunday in Advent) Deanery of Wendover; Johnson Jesudoss, Ecumenical Peace and Justice Worker in Milton Keynes; Parish of St Mary's, Barkly West, K and K; those who work in publishing.

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On Advent Sunday a new lectionary comes into use after 20 years of the Alternative Service Book. With its emphasis on the Christian seasons and its return to a richer more evocative language, the lectionary could be a major evangelistic tool says Christopher Irvine The Alternative Service Book, 1980, officially comes to the end of its designated life in the year 2000. But why change?

There is nothing particularly magical about that date, but after twenty years the services contained in that book have become familiar and its limitations and inadequacies apparent. The fact is that the material in the book was compiled during a great flurry of liturgical revision which took place during the 1970's. Since then, liturgical scholarship has advanced, and there is now a greater appreciation of the variety and depth of the Church's historic liturgical traditions. This has given us a greater confidence in recovering a richer vocabulary to use in our corporate worship. So, when the new services come into use we shall find a more resonant language of prayer and a richer provision than we have had with the Alternative Service Book.

Move from themes to seasons The first major liturgical change we will face is the new calendar, lectionary and collects, which is authorised for use from Advent Sunday. The major difference between the new provision and the Alternative Service Book is the move away from a thematic approach in both prayers and choice of scripture readings. Each Sunday, feast, and saint's day is provided with a collect prayer, more often than not reflecting the mood of the particular season of the Christian year, and a post-communion prayer. The purpose of the collect is literally to 'collect' the prayers of the individual worshippers in order that they might approach God as one body in the act of corporate worship, rather than to introduce a particular theme. Those familiar with the Book of Common Prayer will recognise that most of the new collects are in fact a reworking of the old BCP collects. For some, this will be a welcome recovery of Anglican tradition, for others a retrograde step. Either way, it will be evident that the language is richer, and more evocative, and that the season, rather than any predetermined theme is the controlling factor in composition and selection.

The new calendar gives full expression to the rhythm of the Christian year. This is undoubtedly a great gain, in that with the unfolding of the Christian year the full story of salvation is told. The year consists of basically two cycles, the Christmas cycle and the Easter cycle. The first begins with Advent, a time of preparation with its mood of sober expectation, and after Christmas runs through the Sundays of the Epiphany with their episodic revela-

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Unfolding the salvation story For in the power df the Spirit, the church is enabled to become the community of the resurrection, equipped to witness to God's new creation. So, we enter, as it were, an open season after Trinity Sunday with a greater freedom of choice of readings to reflect the particular concerns of the local church in the task of mission.

The new lectionary provides readings for three services for each Sunday of the year, and as you have probably guessed, these readings are selected to reflect the unfolding Christian year.

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vice (the main Sunday morning service) are drawn from the Revised Common Lectionary, an ecumenical lectionary already used by the Methodist Church, the Church of Scotland, and a good number of other provinces of the Anglican Communion, whose parent was the three year Sunday mass lectionary of the Roman Catholic Church.

Provision is also made for a second service, in many churches this will be the Sunday evening service, and for a third Sunday service, a celebration of the Word, like Mattins, or perhaps a family service. In the three-year lectionary for the principal service, each year follows one of the three Synoptic Gospels.

(Matthew. Mark, and Luke), with John's Gospel being judiciously used particularly over the Christmas and Easter seasons.

Letting the Gospels speak This approach allows each Gospel to speak for itself, rather than serving a particular theme. During the seasons the Old Testament reading invariably corresponds to the Gospel passage, sometimes complementing, sometimes contrasting with it. The connection between the two is often expressed in the choice of psalm, whereas the New Testament reading tends to run on a separate track. This may sound complicated, but the overall aim of this lectionary is to allow the various voices of the Bible to inform the mood of each season of the Christian year.

No lectionary is perfect, and the real test is its effect, how it is heard in the round of the Church's worship. If the new lectionary helps to capture the fullness of the Christian year, then it will be a major evangelistic tool. But the word is not just for telling, foiç if we ourselves are open to the full rehearsal of the Christian story, then Christ may be formed in us, and God's word made flesh in our own time.

Christopher Irvine is Vicar of Cowley St John and Chairman of the new Diocesan Liturgical Committee.

Resources The new Lectionary is available now: Worship through the Christian Year edited by Diana Mume and Hamish Bruce (National Society/Church House Publishing, £13.95).

Jenny Hyson, the Diocesan Children's Adviser, has contributed to this attractive all-age resource book for year C of the three -year cycle.

Full of ideas for family worship.

The Christian Year Calendar, Lectionaty and Collects (L15); Collects for Sundays and Festivals (E15); Advent 1997 to Advent 1998 (L4.95) are available separately from Church House Publishing. The first provides authorised texts and resources and the third shows which prayers and readings to use.

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The environment is important, but only God can save us I was very glad to see Tim Cooper's article in The DOOR (October) with its call to all Christians to take green issues seriously. I think two further points need to be made. Tim Cooper says: 'Christianity. . . instilled negative attitudes to nature throughout the Western world.' This view is superficially plausible, but it is not hard to think of instances of environmental degradation in which Christianity could not have played any part. The destruction of forest in the Mediterranean basin, long before the birth of Christ, is a good example.

Secondly, it is worth pointing out, that from a Christian perspective, green concerns cannot lead to salvation. Our environmental good works may be very worthy, but it is God alone through Christ who can save us.

Yours sincerely Stefan Sidorowicz, Reading

Church cannot rewrite scripture Just because I express an opinion with which the Revd Graeme Rainey (October letters) disagrees, he has no right to call my opinions offensive. Mr Rainey all too easily brushes aside holy scripture just because he finds it incompatible with his views.

There is no doubt that homosexual practices are contrary to holy scripture.

Any amount of emotional verbiage will not alter this rule of our Church.

We all have personal inclinations, but it does not mean we can exercise them in the name of personal liberty.

The Christian religion, having laid down rules by which Christians should live, cannot be expected to change these rules to accommodate those who persist in breaking them.

Our Church expects someone who sins to repent and sin no more. If holy scripture is to be adjusted to suit everybody's personal inclinations, why

letters to the editor have a Church in the first place?

Yours sincerely Richard Lawson, Maidenhead

DOOR readers are not being told the whole story

implies they have no right to expect their Diocesan press to take the affairs of the General Synod more seriously.

The second weakness in Simon Brown's advice is that he completely overlooks the role which his column could have played in accentuating the matters of particular relevance to readers in this Diocese. However excellent the coverage in other papers, the point is that The DOOR prints more copies than the Church Times. Unless something is very awry that means only a small proportion of Anglicans in the Oxford Diocese have read a church-based report of its proceedings. The personal gloss supplied by a clearly far from unbiased editor of The DOOR on Issues in Human Sexuality does not suffice as a report of the debate itself. For example, are readers aware that a 75% majority was obtained in support of the resolution calling for discussions at all levels of Church life on the bishops' report? The DOOR could help its readers by being more informative. It should also take stock of what such a massive majority means for the Diocese. We hope both will accept they have a crucial role to play in respecting the wishes of the great majority of the General Synod.

Yours sincerely Revd Richard Kirker, general secretary, Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement

If the purpose of a Diocesan newspaper is to inform its readers, the advice from Canon Simon Brown (September) to use the 'Church press' for a full account of the last General Synod is curious. It presupposes that the really interested will look to the Church Times, for instance, if they want to know what happens at meetings of the Church's highest governing body. Worryingly it

I read Bob Saunder's analysis of the 'Post-Christian society' (September) with irritation. His portrait of the 'adherent' of this society is generalised and superficial.

I value our Christian tradition - profound passages in the Bible, the

Monarchy sealed its own fate Bishop Richard says (October) that 'The monarch is still able, somehow, to symbolise the fact that we belong together as fellow citizens'. He may well be right. But he goes on to say, 'There seem to be forces at work, or people, intent on destabilising the monarchy'.

In what world does our Bishop live? My world includes the former Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Fraser. He has said that he has now changed from support of the monarchy to support for republicanism 'because of the behaviour of the young royals'.

It is important for Bishop Richard to take on board that Charles Windsor is the senior of the young royals. If that man's behaviour had been anything like his mother's, who would doubt that the monarchy would be safe for another generation?

Yours sincerely E Palfrey, Cookham

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unsurpassed grace of our Book of Common Prayer, the music that enhances the mystical side of our faith.

But I am also prepared to question established notions of the truth.

The truth is special partly because it is elusive. Those who believe they can come closer to it by intelligent use of their education and knowledge should not be dismissed as 'pick-'.n-mix' dabblers. On the contrary, creative thinkers, of whom Newton (the creator of 'certainties') was one, lead the way to future wisdom and knowledge.

One of the problems with the Church is that although God has continued to inspire spiritually receptive people, noone has dared admit any new writings into the scriptures since the days of the early church, so the Word of God, as officially recorded on paper, dried up centuries ago. While respecting our Bible, we modern Christians should be careful not to cling to a simplistic and fossilised 'truth' but should have the courage to aim for new levels of understanding. Then we can speak out and give society a moral lead.

Yours sincerely Rachel Beckett, Aylesbury

Giving thanks for animals I attended an excellent service of Thanksgiving and Intercession for Animals at St Michael at the Northgate in Oxford on October 12. Similar services are held up and down the country during October in remembrance of St Francis of Assisi. Anyone interested in holding such a service may contact Animal Christian Concern, P0 Box 70, Horsforth, Leeds LSI8 5UX. Also, ideas for services for Conservation Sunday are available from A Rocha Trust, 3 Hooper Street, Cambridge CBI 2NZ. I hope more churches will follow Oxford's lead in animal care and environmental stewardship.

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Patrick Salisbury looks at the current state of church music The Pope recently invited Bob Dylan to perform some of his favourite songs at the Vatican. He subsequently used Dylan's evocative song 'Blowin' in the wind' to illustrate a sermon to young people about the Holy Spirit, Elton John's Candle in the wind' at the funeral service of Diana, Princess of Wales, was another example of how a simple but deeply-felt song can encapsulate the feelings of millions.

Of course, there are some who would see limited aesthetic merit in either of these songs. Such people would say that the emotions expressed in them are superficial. Is it fair or possible to make a comparison between Elton John's 'Candle in the wind' and say, Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus? Yet each can in its own way profoundly rove a wide variety of listeners.

Growing secularisation This dilemma was one of many faced by members of the Archbishops' Commission on Church Music while we were meeting between 1988 and 1992. The two previous Commissions on Church Music, in 1922 and 1948 respectively, had been set up in the aftermath of two devastating world wars; for each, there was a sincere desire to protect the 'old order'. In contrast, the Commission set up by Archbishops Runcie and Habgood in 1988 was convened after 40 years of relative peace, accompanied by a growing secularisation of society. Our task was to identify what was still essential from the past heritage of church music yet, at the same time, to take into account the vast social, political, artistic and technological revolutions that had taken place during the postwar years. In the process, amongst many other conclusions, we came to realise that popular music (like some folk music) could, in certain circumstances, serve as a channel for religious feelings and must therefore be acceptable for use in worship. With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to

see why, at the launch of our report, In Tune with Heaven, the press took such gleeful delight in seizing on this one particular issue and subjecting it sensational reporting.

Those who actually took the trouble to read our report will know that we did not advocate an unadulterated diet of pop-style music in our churches and cathedrals. The word 'tambourine' did not actually appear in the report! All our eventual recommendations were made in the light of (a) the outcome of a survey carried out in a balanced sample of parishes (b) written evidence invited from organisations and members of the public (c) testimony given orally to the Commission by experts and (d) many visits made to both traditional and innovatory services. ,Broader repertoire It was no surprise to learn that cathedral music was doing better than ever, that some theological colleges were too hard-pressed for music in worship to figure largely its their syllabuses, that singing in state schools-was on the wane, that choirs in many churches were dwindling in numbers and that their repertoire was becoming increasingly moribund.

We recommended an enhanced role for the Royal School of Music in the ordering of the Church's affairs vis a vis music for worship and also that the dioceses should provide more help on this subject to parishes in need. We highlighted the need for better opportunities for training future leaders in church music, advocated a better deal for girls and recognised the value of music groups of various kinds.

We also encouraged a broadening of the repertoire, the use of worship

songs. Taizé chants, responsorial psalms. lona Community music and even occasional silence! We insisted that there was still an important place for the four-part choir and reasserted the value of the traditional repository of hymns which, as Canon Saward has said 'give shape and content to the Christian faith'. Many of these proposals have already been implemented.

To return to the dilemma which I posed at the start of this article. I think I can best state the Commission's position over what music is 'meet and proper' for use in divine worship as follows. Modern forms of musical expression, if an accepted part of the experience of a majority of members of a congregation, must surely be eligible for incorporation into worship. That which is totally alien to a majority of the congregation would be better avoided but there is no reason why different styles of music should not be introduced to suit particular contexts.

Music is a gift from God Nothing should impede music from continuing to be the 'handmaid of religion'. For music is a rare gift from God. To quote from the Report. 'as we offer the other gifts of creation to him in worship, so we offer and use this one. It is a gift which communicates chiefly in the area of human emotion, as well as being immensely satisfying to the intellect'. The Christian has a duty to worship God and music that conforms to these 'ultimate criteria' should play a crucial role in the conduct of that worship.

Patrick Salisbury was Secretary to the Archbishops' Commission on Church Music 1988-1992. He is Director of Music at Sutton Courtenay Church.

Music reaches out from Cornerstone Church Willen Hospice choir joined in a worldwide performance of the the Hallelujah chorus on October 18 to raise money for hospices. They were singing at the Church of Christ the Cornerstone, Milton Keynes. The programme included excerpts frusri the Messiah and popular music played by the Aylesbury Youth Big Band and international violinist, Peter Fisher. Pictured are members of the Cornerstone Chamber Choir and Orchestra in rehearsal for the 1994 Hallelujah for Hospices with their director, Adrian Boynton. On Sunday, 23 November at 8pm, the orchestra and choir will take part in a Brahms Centenary Concert including the German Requiem and on 13 December at noon, shoppers can take a break for their 'Christmas Cracker', a programme of music and readings. 'Our music ministry is an important way of reaching out to the community, Adrian Boynton says.

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The Trust has been founded to support Wanda's ministry which is aimed at 'letting the people sing'. Chairman of the trustees is Canon David Winter. The Trust's patron is the Bishop of Oxford who says: 'Wanda was the musical director of our Diocesan Conference at Bognor in 1995. She built up a large choir and orchestra which contributed very significantly to the success of the conference as a whole'.

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Wanda believes that the worst thing a small church can do is to try to sound like a cathedral. 'That has a special role and a special sound. It is better to do music that is simple and to do it really well', she says.

'If there is one thing that a congregation can do to improve their music and worship, it is to open up their vision and realise you don't have to be just traditional or just modern. We are limiting God if we say only one style of music should be used in church', says Wanda Adams.

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'We encourage people to explore the role of music within worship'

Singers from around the Diocese came together for the annual Royal School of Music Festival of Church Choirs at Dorchester Abbey on October 11. They are pictured above with Ralph Aliwood, Precentor and Director of Music at Eton College who directed them as they practiced music by Bach, Dyson and Grayston which they later sang at Evensong in the Abbey.

Photo: Frank Blackwell

Bishops Choristers Award goes from strength to strength.

I am glad to report that the Bishops Chorister Award Scheme has had another very good year. Fifty choristers have successfully passed the examination and will be presented to the Bishop to receive their awards in the Cathedral at Evensong on 22 November. My congratulations to them all.

The list of successful choristers is on page 18.

We have been running at this level of awards for several years now and this is a good indication that the scheme is seen as a valuable contribution to the musical life of our churches in the Diocese. Choristers come from a wide variety of churches to take the exam and represent some of the very talented musicians singing God's praises in our churches week by week.

The award requires a very high standard particularly in sight-singing and musical interpretation. It also encourages confidence and leadership, qualities most useful in the development of a competent and useful addition to any congregation.

Whether the musical content in our services is simple or elaborate, ancient or modern, the execution must always be to the highest standard. The work required to attain this goal is very much the aim of the scheme.

Hugh Brocklehurst, Awards Secretary To find out more about the Award, whether you be priest, choirmaster, chorister (young or old) or chorister's parent please write to me at 13 Pretoria Rd, High Wycombe, HPI3 6QWand I will send details of the syllabus by return.

From grateful letters, recently received: "I am enjoying my piano course more than ever" "Kiavar really is a wonderful way to lean, to play" "I can now read music -for the first time in 78 years!"

"Klavar has given me many hours of pleasure, and my only regret is not having had the course much sooner"

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This national organisation was set Many of your invitations and up 12 years ago with a clear vision ideas come from our regular choir in mind. This includes the belief which meets every Monday - more that those who take part in local members are always welcome, espemusic ministries should be encour- cially if you are male! We sing in a aged in their faith and learn to variety of styles, both classical and view themselves as servants of their contemporary each year with precongregation, whilst seeking to sentations around the Diocese. We sing or play to the best of their abil- are also willing to work alongside ity. This means that planning, other organisations where it will rehearsing and taking part in wor- be of use for a particular event. ship should be undertaken Having a core group of singers after prayerfully. As an organisation, voice training, try out new therefore, we encourage people to resources, also means we can explore the role of music within respond to requests such as to bolworship, to become effective wor- ster the numbers at a local service, shipping communities by helping as we did recently for a harvest festhose involved to develop the tech- tival in Stone, Bucks. nical skills and expertise they need We are looking for people who through discussion and practical have specific experience and expertise to share and also for opportunities to be of service.

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A question o f Caring justice Prisoners' Week criminal field. has been an The week itself is annual event organised by a committee, consisting of Prison since 1975.

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It is also encouraging to know that from 16th to 22nd November churches throughout the country will be praying for prisoners, exoffenders, families, victims of crime and prison staff. Because it is Prisoners' Week.

And it is good to have such a focus.

But don't forget that they need our prayers throughout the year. Now there IS so much focus on crime and punishment in the media. We need to pray that government, politicians and those with influence base their decisions and policies on God's standards of justice and mercy.

The Prisoners' Week prayer leaflet (available from prison Fellowship) helps us to focus our prayers - there are prayers for each day of the week.

Prison Fellowship England and Wales bases its ministry on the foundation of prayer. Over 2,000 trained volunteers based in over 160 local prayer groups are equipped for service to prisoners, ex-offenders and their families. In prisons, they work closely with the prison chaplaincy teams helping with services, Bible studies and discussion groups.

They support families by providing transport to and from prison, baby-sitting and in many other practical ways. In particular, ex-offenders need the friendship of people in the community, Exoffenders who are Christians need the love and support of their local church, otherwise they can so easily feel totally rejected.

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THE DOOR NOVEMBER

Cards make money for charity

Harvest Festival at North Marston School

Tear Fund wants children to make their own Christmas cards and donate the proceeds to emergency relief and childcare projects.

Cards R Us, a 15-page resource pack, is full of ideas for making cards, sales hints, instructions on what to do with the money raised and information on the people being supported. Cards R Us is suitable for children aged from 7 upwards. The packs cost €2.50 each and are available from Tear Fund's Trading Unit on 0181 943 7700.

Christingle Anniversary

'In the Harvest Festival we did a sketch. I was Mark, the main character, and my name is Mark. All I had to do was say thank you to lots of people for my loaf of bread. Eventually we realised it is God we have to thank for everything. There are lots of combine harvesters in the fields at this time of year.' (see Marks pcti:a below)

As part of the national celebrations for RE week last month, North Marston Church of England First School held a Harvest Festival at their school. Some of the children who took part were: Thomas Kelly, Clayton Robinson, Anna Hussey (whose drawing is shown above), Lydia Quinn, Simon Coppack, Edward Aldermas, Thomas Jackson, Sam Beckett and Mark Smedley, all aged eight, and Arabella aged six who sang the Lord's Prayer with her friend Sarah.

The Children's Society is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the first Christingle service this year. In our Diocese, parishes are being invited to a special service at 4pm on November 29 at Dorchester Abbey.

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'I sang a solo in our Harvest Festival. I used a microphone. It was bruit I was really nervous. I never thought I could make itt Simon Coppack I loved it.'

'Lots and lots of senior citizens came to our Harvest Festival so we had to have lots and lots of baskets for them. I helped decorate the table with flowers. There were lots of vegetables and fruit in the baskets. In one of the baskets there was some chocolate.'

Lydia Quinn

Successful candidates for Bishop's Chorister Award, 1997 Junior Choristers

Elizabeth Ward (St James the Great, Radley); Victoria Lynn.

Hannah Kershaw (St Michael's, Steeple Claydon); Sarah Giblin, James Hockley (Christ Church, Reading); Joanna Whittaker (All Saints, Wokingham): Katherine Rutland, George Thomas, Harriet Whittaker (St Mary's, Henley on Thames): Alexander Higgons (St Andrew's, Chinnor): Janet Edwards ( St Mary and All Saints, Beaconsfield); Thomas Allen (St Mary's ,Thatcham); William Whistler, Jolyon Bird, Samuel Romp (St James', Finchampstead): Rebecca Danks, Tracy Carver, Joanna Smith, Michelle Hancock (St John the Baptist, Cookham Dean); Paul Williams (St Luke's, Maidenhead): Kingsley Robinson, Rebecca Robinson (St Laurence's, Winslow): Eleanor Charleston (St Francis' Terriers): Catherine Stacey, Sarah Caudle (SS Peter and Paul, Newport Pagnell); Euan Crawshaw (All Saints, Rotherfield Peppard).

Senior Choristers

Catherine Stewart (St Michael and All Angels, Lambourn); Hannah Jeffery (St Michael's, Steeple Claydon): Charlotte Willis (Christ Church, Reading); Patricia Major, Ann Harris, Joan Lewry (SS Peter and Paul, Olney); Helen Hawarth (St Andrew's. Chinnor); Sue Biggs (St Mary and All Saints, Beaconsfield): Nikki Langley, Barbara Haines, Mary Jowett (St Mary the Virgin, Witney); Louisa Knight (St John the Baptist, Cookham Dean): Jennifer Holiday, Elizabeth Long, Ann Bythway (St Laurence's, Winslow): Elizabeth Charleston (St Francis' Terriers); Loretta Ramsay, Sheila Hobkinson, Michael Russell, Jonathan Stacy, Peter Brant (SS Peter and Paul, Newport Pagnell): Graihagh Crawshaw, Anna Howles, Braddan Crawshaw (All Saints. Rotherfield Peppard) They will be presented to the Bishop of Oxford in the Cathedral at Evensong on 22 November.

(please see also pages 10 and 11)

Tewkesbury Abbey

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NOVEMBER Sat 1 OXFORD Study day on 'JI Packer, life thought and influence' at Wycliffe Hall. Speaker Dr Alister McGrath. 10-4pm. Cost €15 includes lunch. Details 01865 274200.

Sat I HOOK NORTON Christmas Craft Fair at St Peter's Church. Over 35 stalls and demonstrations: hot wax painting, spinning, glass painting, lace and candle making etc.

Details Jan Hughes 01608 737900.

Sat I DORQIESER Keston Institute open day in Dorchester Abbey l0am4pm with All Saints Day service lOam. Timothy Garton Ash onpostcommunist Europe and Moscow-based Larry Uzzell on new legislation that may restrict religious freedom in Russia. Tickets €7 (€8 on door, €3 students) tel 01865 311022.

Sat I WANTAGE Organ recital by David Saint 730pm at SS Peter & Paul. Tickets €4/2.50.

Sat I APPLEFORD Concert 730pm SS Peter and Paul with Portamente Singers. Tickets €5 inc refreshments.

Details 01235 848596.

Sat I OXFORD Visiting patients in hospital. day course lOam-I pm at St Luke's Hospital, Headington €5.

Contact Abingdon Christian Training Scheme 01865 736065.

Sun 2 CHALFONT ST GILES Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance 630PM in the Parish Church including the reading of names of loved ones and the lighting of candles.

Sun 2 READING Christ Church Choir concert 6pm. Faurê's Requiem and choral favourites. Full orchestra.

Mon 3 OXFORD Talk on Jubilee 2000 - the campaign to cancel the debt of the world's poorest countries - with Nick Buxton and Wendy Tyndale of Christian Aid. 8pm in the Old Library. Details University Church of St Mary the Virgin 01865 243806.

Tue 4 OXFORD Christians and Jews Scripture Reading Group meeting 8pm 193 Woodstock Rd. Future meetings on Nov 20 and Dec 4 at 5 Pheobe Court, Bainton Rd. l)etails01865 553379.

Wed 5 WOODSTOCK Lecture: William Morris and Kelmscott Manor w Don Chapman 730pm Oxfordshire County Museum SOp. Details 01993 812715.

Wed 5 MILTON KEYNES 'Be Still and Know' - a time to relax and explore through the senses, first of five Wodnsday morning sessions 10.30noon at The Well at Willen.€3,50 (€1.50) per session of €12 (€6) for five. Creche. Details 01908 662092.

Sat 5 OXFORD Coffee morning and bring and buy sale in aid of CMS at St Andrew's Linton Rd 1030am12pm. Speaker: Revd Alex Popescau on the Church in Romania.

Thu 6 OXFORD The Novel.

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Thu 6 EAST HANNEY Coffee morning for Don Bosco Hostel for street children in CapeTown. 10am-120m at War Memorial Hall.

Thu 6 OXFORD Change of speaker Dr Ron Bogosh of the Hebrew University and the Israel Geological Survey will talk on 'Rocks and Religion in Israel' 8pm at The Religious Society of Friends. 43 St Giles. Details 01865 553379.

Fri 7 OXFORD Focus (Federation of Christian Caring and Counselling) Training day on pastoral care led by Elizabeth Sheddon 10am-2.30pm at Church House. North Hinksey. €15 all welcome. Contact Diedre Underwood 01734 599166/Doris Swinbank 01628 636469.

Fri 7 BLACKBIRD LEYS Christmas bazaar 10am-4pm at Holy Family Church.

Sat 8 BRILL Charities fair memorial Hall 10am-3pm. Christmas cards.

Sat8READING Parish of Earley St Peter's Grand Autumn Fayre in the Church Hall, Church Road lOam4pm. Coffee, lunches and teas.

Sat 8LANGLEYConcert of Schubert.

Poulenc etc by Hillingdon Girls Singers. St Mary's Church 730pm in aid of Thames Valley Hospice.

Tickets €3 (€2). For tickets send sae to: Hillingdon Music Services, Compass Arts Theatre, Glebe Ave. Ickenham, Middx UBIO 8PD. Sat 8 KIDLINGTON annual parish bazaar at St John Ambulance and Silver Band Halls,'High St lOam 3pm. Stalls, lunches, tea and coffee.

Sat 8 OXFORD Day conference at Westminster College: In Spirit and in Truth. Speaker Revd Dr John Newton -'As the Spirit Leads!' Also talks on the Toronto Blessing, Spirit and Life. Worship and Sacraments and Hymns and Songs. Fee €10.

Details: Penny Fowler 01865 247644 x 5366 or Phil Meadows 01865 247644 x 5271.

Sat 8 HARNHILL Introduction to wholeness - training day. Looking at our response to the past and present. Details: Harnhill Centre for Christian Healing 01285 850283.

Sat 8 SIJMMERTOWN World Mission Fair I0am-2pm Summertown Church Hall. Cakes, plants, books, bingo at 7pm.

Sat 8 WANTAGE Bazaar in parish church I0am-3pm. Chuch tower is open am. Refreshments all day.

Sun 9 THAME Services for Remembrance Sunday: 915am and 11amat St Mary's. Also 11am at War Memorial with Royal British Legion.

Mon 10 OXFORD Affirming Catholicism meeting at Magdalen College: 6pm Sung Eucharist, 7pm Buffet Supper, 8pm Speaker - the Revd Dr Jeffrey John on 'Affirming Anglicanism'. Advance booking necessary for supper. Details Fr Michael Piret 01865 276027.

Tue 11 OXFORD Women and the Church (WATCH) a eucharist to celebrate 5th anniversary of the vote to ordain women to the priesthood in CoE. 8pm University Church.

Tue II HIGHMOOR HALL An evening with Steve Chalke, pastor. preacher.

TV presenter 730pm. €6. To book: 01491 641167.

Thu 13 WANTAGE Betjeman Society Dinner 730pm at Charlton Parish

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All Saints' Christmas cards All Saints Church, Shorthampton has produced its own Christmas cards which are being sold to pay for the restoration of its unique 15th century wall paintings. The Christmas cards show Our Lady and the Infant Christ and the Miracle of the Clay Birds, as told in the apocryphal gospel of St Thomas. The cards cost £5.50 for 10 and are available from Ruth Fisher, BOX Cottage, 5 Park Street, Charibury Oxfordshire 0X7 3PS. Hall (cooked by the vicar!).

Sat 15 WILLEN On taking a funeral for lay ministers. €12.50/€6. Leader Revd Peter Faulkner. To book: Brenda Chappell, Milton Keynes Christian Training Commission.

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Sat 15 ASTON TYRROLD Quiet day led by Revd Keith Green for Music and Worship Foundation. Aston Tyrrold URC. Details 01865 454078.

Sat 15 WYCLIFFE CENTRE Literacy: learning for life open day at Wycliffe Centre, Horsleys Green (nr High Wycombe) 10am'4.30pm. €12 (cone (8) inc lunch and coffee. Details June Gibbs 01494 682206.

Sat 15 HAMBLEDEN Hambleden Concert Singers present Larry Adler and soloists of the City of Oxford Orchestra in an evening of American Music 730pm at St Mary's Church.

Tickets €20 from Mrs Allen, Hamblebrook House, Hambleden, Henely RG9 6RP. Tel: 01491 574652.

Cheques payable to Hambleden Concerts.

Sat 15 WANTAGE Duruflé Requiem etc 730pm at SS Peter & Paul in aid of Diana, Princess of Wales Fund.

Tickets €5/3.50.

SatlS BICESTER Christmas bazaar lIam-2pm in St Edburg's Church Hall.

Sun 16 READING Rockmass Eight, a feast of Christian music led by the Bishop of Reading, music by 'The Rock', 630pm St Bartholomew's Church.

Sun 16 CIIARLBURY Said Evensong 6pm and Taizé service by candlelight 630pm at St Mary's.

Refreshments after the service.

Mon 17 OXFORD Morning conference to prepare for next year's Women's World Day of Prayer by the women of Madagascar. Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall St tram -1230pm. Details: Ruth Drew 01865 735817 Tue 18 MILTON KEYNES Celebration

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of Healing - a service of thanksgiving at 8pm in the Church of Christ the Cornerstone led by Revd Murdoch MacKenzie Speaker: Revd James Woodward, bishop's advisor for health and social care in Diocese of Birmingham. Signed service.

Tue 18 OXFORD Debate on homosexuality with Revd Richard lUrker, secretary of Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement: Revd David Holloway, Reform: Margaret Hebblethwaite, journalist and Gideon Burrows. undergraduate.

8pm in the Old Library. Details University Church 01865 243806.

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Wed 19 OXFORD 'Finding Fulfilment' - a presentation of music, talk, poetry and drama 8pm at the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College. Details: New Life Outreach 01865 343655.

WedI9 BRACKNELL Willow Creek leadership seminar at The Kerith Centre. €22-35. Bill Hybels on the gift of teaching, leading volunteerintensive organisations etc. Details 01628 20602. e-mail: 01628 33433.

Fri 21 IVER A Gospel concert with Denise Lawrence and the Storeyville Tickle Trad Jazz Band. St Peter's Church, 8pm. Tickets 01753 652102.

Fri 21 HIGHMOOR HALL Learn how to rubber stanp and emboss your own Christmas Cards 10am-4pm €14. Details 01491 641167.

Sat 22 READING at St Bartholomenw's Church, Guat-A' Gigil, a concert in aid of Guatemalan street kids with 'Fresh Claim' and 'Eve and the Garden'.

Sat 22 APPLETON St Laurence's church bazaar in village hail.

Sat 22 WEMBLEY'First Pages', musical show with Gen Verde, the story of how a group of young people in wartime Italy rediscovered the Gospel. By the Focolare Movement.

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Sat 22 OXFORD Study day 'The

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Philokalia: A Living Tradition' with Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia.

1030am to 330pm, St Andrew's Church, Linton Rd. €6 (€3). No need to book. Details 01861 557905, Sat 22 OXFORD Auction of promises plus cabaret to raise funds for The Clive Project, which supports young people with dementia in Oxfordshire. At St Edward's School, Woodstock Rd 8pm. Tickets €5 from 01993 774080/01865 552983.

Sat 22 OXFORD Taking a Funeral study day with Revd Nick Fennemore 10am'3.3Opm Diocesan Church House €10. Contact Abingdon Christian Training Scheme 01865 736065.

Sun 23 OXFORD 'Out of Africa', a service to mark the 140th anniversary of David Livingstone's speech at Oxford Unviersity, 4pm University Church of St Mary the Virgin. High Street. Speaker: the Revd James Ntengatenga. University of Malawi.

Details 01993 705644.

Sun 23 BUCKLAND Experiencing God through Suffering. An informal fellowship with worship, music and prayer. 615pm at St Mary's. Details: 01367 870618.

Mon 24 BEACONSFIELD Full Gospel Business Men's Dinner at White Hart Hotel, Aylesbury End. 730pm.

To reserve place tel Graham Bladwin 01923 449402.

Wed 26 WANTAGE Healing mass, anointing, laying on of hands, prayers for the sick 8pm at SS Peter & Paul.

Thu 27 HIGHMOOR HALL Making an Advent Ring of fruits, nuts and candles. 7.9Opm. €15 inc cost of materials. Details 01491 641167.

Fri 28 FINGEST or Henley. Healing Service with laying on of hands and anointing at Holy Communion 1015am. Details 01491 638240.

Fri 28 HIGHMOOR HALL Christianity and Intellectual Integrity - with Revd Dr Michael Green. 7.30-9.30pm. €6. Details 01491 641167.

Sat 29 - Sun 30 THAME Advent Weekend events in aid of the Thame Barns Centre. Sat 29: 730pm Concert by Thame Concert band in St Mary's. Sat and Sun: Art Exhibition in Thame Barns Centre.

Sun 30: Advent Carol service with torch-lit procession 6pm from Christ Church, carols 630pm St Mary's.

Sat 29 WANTAGE Advent Day for children at SS Peter 8i Paul.

Sat 29 AYLESBURY Concert for

Advent by the Launton Handbell Ringers 730pm at St Peter's Church.

Tickets €2.50 (concessions €1.50). details 01296 489493.

Sat 29 - Sun 30 OXFORD Communities in conflict- a multifaith symposium with Canon Vincent Strudwick, Dr Farhang Jahanpour, Dr Kamran Mofid, Rabbi Rachel Montagu etc. Cost from €82 residential to €32 non-residential with no meals. To book: University

of Oxford Dept for Continuing Education 01865 270380.

Sat 2901D WOLVERTON Christmas Fayre 10am'12.30pm Holy Trinity Church schoolroom. Cakes, tomboIa. refreshments.

Sat 29 HIGHMOOR HALL Scottish Dancing on St Andrew's Day €7. Take plate of finger food. 7. 30p in. €8.

Details 01491 641167.'

Sun 30 WANTAGE Advent Carol Service 6pm at SS Peter & Paul.

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Concert All Saint's Church 730pm with All Saints Singers and Orchestra inc Vaughan Williams, Purcell and Vivaldi. Tickets €4.50 (conc €4. family €10). Details 01235 848205/848238/848429,

DECEMBER. Tue 2, Tue 9 & Tue 16 HIGHMOOR HALL 'tOward Christmas: Taizé meditations, music and readings led by Ann Persson. 8pm: Free. Please book: 01491 641167.

Wed 3 WOODSTOCK Lecture: The Stonesfield Embroidery: its significance as a textile w Jill Draper.

730pm Oxfordshire County Museum SOp. Details 01993 812715.

Thu 4 OXFORD Diocesan Renewai Fellowship meeting at St Andrew's Church, Linton Rd w Revd Mark Stibbe. Details Revd David Bishop, 38 Sandfield Rd, Headington, Oxford 0X3 7RJ.

Thu 4 DIDCOT Navidad Nuestra - a nativity ballet with music by Argentinian composer Ramirez performed by Downland Dance. 730pm at the Catholic Church. Tickets €3/2.

Details Anita Rendel 01235 850131.

Also on Dec 5 at the Baptist Church and Sun Dec 7 at St Peter's Church.

Sat 6 READING Preaching from the Old Testament. Revd Dr Mike Butterworth. €7.50. To enrol: Roy Baxter, 159 Beech Lane, Earley.

Reading RG6 2QE. Sat 6 OXFORD Sing the Messiah.

Rehearsal at 4pm. Proceeds to Sobell House Hospice. Fee: €5. At St Andrew's, North Oxford 730pm.

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Foundation: 01865 730834/454078.

Sat 6 HIGHMOOR HALL See the King of Glory Come - an evening of dance set to Celtic Praise music with Springs Dance Co 730pm. €8. Details 01491 641167.

Sat 6 OXFORD A World of Christmasses: celebrating Christmas around the world llam.3.3Opm at SS Philip and James Church, Woodstock Rd. Food, Traidcraft goods, seminars, displays.

International carols 3.30'5pm.

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Churchhill Hospital, Oxford needs volunteer drivers with own cars.

Expenses paid. Details 01865 225868.

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Reading meets at St Laurence Church. 8pm on the first Monday of the month. All local altar servers welcome. Details: 0118 9598102.

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Church Notice board Bodicote goes for gold The Queen's Golden Wedding Anniversary is being in celebrated in Bodicote with an opportunity for married couples to recommit themselves to God and to one another.

There is a special service at St John the Baptist Church on Sunday. 23 November with wedding bells and 50 children and adults representing the different wedding anniversaries from paper through to gold.

Russia's 20th Century Martyrs Dorchester Abbey is the venue on November 1 for Keston Institute's annual open day (10am-4pm) when there will be a special service to commemorate the millions of 20th century Christian martyrs, many of whom died under communism.

And Lawrence Uzzell, Keston's Moscow representative, will speak about new legislation which may restrict religious freedom in Russia. Tickets £8 (E7 in advance). Tel: 01865 311022.

Bridge building through drama Greyfriars Church, Reading is building bridges with a one-woman show called 'Twelve' due to be presented at the Greyfriars Centre on 25 October. Through a series of monologues, actress and theology student Julie-Ann Hilton explores how 12 women are affected by an encounter with Jesus. She has even presented her show in a London night club.

And in Beaconsfield on 4 November the Saltmine Theatre Company are taking 'Keep Taking the Tablets' to the Beacon Centre, Holtspur. It's a comic revue inspired by the Ten Commandments and the audience is invited to eavesdrop on the residents of an average street where it all happens from quarrelling to murder.

40Yeaub of StAndrew's 'We are known as the 'busy shop'!' says Ernie Barnett, managing director of St Andrew's Bookshop in Great Missenden, which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary. 'There is never a boring moment especially on Saturdays when sometimes you wish you had ten pairs of hands!'

Ernie and his wife Margaret were already involved in the Christian book trade when, in 1973, they were invited to manage the shop which eventually became St Andrew's 'head office'. Today the 'busy shop' has eight outlets in the Oxford Diocese including Witney, Oxford, Maidenhead, Wolverton, Reading and Wokingham.

But the story of St Andrew's Bookshops actually begins in 1957 when Mrs Zettie Clark was waiting to see the chiropodist at 63 High Street, Great Missenden. She noticed how many people looked into the window as they passed and thought again of her dream to introduce people to Christ by selling Christian books. When she heard a sermon about 'St Andrew the Introducer' she was convinced her idea was right and St Andrew's

Great Missenden staff (from left): Tim Hogbin, Margaret Barnett, Cohn Russell, Ernie Barnett, Sheila Hammond, Jane Waldron and Steve Barnett

Bookshop was born with just £10 worth of Bibles on a table in the chiropodist's waiting room.

Today the annual turnover is £1.3million.

'St Andrew's is run as a business but we see it as a mission,' explains Ernie Barnett. 'We seek to further people's faith and to encourage churchgoers to read more books.' And the Barnetts are keen to point out that their wide range of titles will appeal to evangelical as much as high church congregations. Books, however, are not the only items on sale. Besides greeting cards, gifts, communion wine and wafers, and church stationery for every denomination. St Andrew's also has a substantial stock of contemporary-Christian music ranging from Live Worship at Spring Harvest to festival favourites Matt Redman, Delirious?, Iona, jars of Clay and Jaci Velasquez.

Tony Bronnimann, who is St Andrew's retail director based at the Maidenhead shop. says Christian music sales outstrip book sales in all their branches now. 'Kids today have no time to sit down and read a book, but they do have time for videos and CDs,' he said. 'Worship music is also very popular and we did some of our best business this year at Christian conferences and festivals such as Greenbelt and New Wine.'

Music may well be the route to the hearts of the next generation of St Andrew's customers, but there will always be a place for books. In this sort of business you can't afford to take anything for granted. After all, one of St Andrew's most popular titles is Gerard Hughes' book God of Surprises.

Mary Mags get a professional choir St Mary Magdalen's in Oxford loved music but had no choir of its own. So the church has resolved the problem by offering a home to Oxford's first professional adult church choir. It consists of eight voices drawn from an Oxford chamber choir, Voces Sacrae whose broadcasts and recordings have been widely acclaimed and whose administrator, Peter Parshall is already organist and music director at Mary Mags. He will also be the church choir's director of music while Judy Martin, director of Voces Sacrae, has taken up the new post of director of the choir at St Mary Magdalen.

COMING UP IN DECEMBER 'Loosen up Bishop', said the King, 'and don't look so serious. Anyone would think you wanted to bring religion into Christmas.' :'Yonder Peasant', Brian Mountford's new story for Christmas and much more will be in the -December DOOR out on 28 November.

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Better than ever: Ernie Barnett sells a Good News Bible to the shop's founder, Zettie Clark, on December I, 1978, the day the Great Missenden shop reopened after being gutted by fire

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David Winter's

In Handel's Messiah there is a typical and dramatic transition from 'The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come'..' to a solemn warning: 'But who may abide the day of his coming?' We should never ignore the 'buts' of Scripture!

In one sense, the prophet (Malachi) answers his own question: those who have been 'refined' and those who have been 'cleansed'. The first image is taken from the silversmith's workshop, where he burnt out the dross to leave the pure metal in his dish. The second was even nearer home, the laundry, where the 'fuller's soap' was employed 5 to remove stubborn stains. Only those who have been 'refined' and 'cleansed' are truly ready to meet the 'Lord whom they seek'.

(D When I was a choir-boy, long, long ago, it used to baffle me how we always began our services telling God how sin- -'4 ful we were, how sorry about it, and how grateful that he was willing to forgive us. Fair enough, I supposed. But 0 next week we were all back saying the same things again.

Didn't we ever get any better? The vicar explained to me that the nearer we come to God the more aware we are of how 'unclean' our lives are, and how much we need to be forgiven. It was a sign of taking God seriously.

I saw his point. If we believe that the Lord is coming to us, the proper response is to wash ourselves, to cleanse our hearts and minds. These words from Messiah make exactly that point. The proper preparation for meeting him (whether to celebrate his first coming, or prepare for his second), is a searching self-examination. That's what Advent is, not the 'run up to Christmas' but an opportunity for the refiner's fire- and the fuller's soap to do their work!

This article is based on an extra Ct from David Winter's book Forty Days with the Messiah (BRF, £5.99).