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February 1998 No 89 Diocese of Oxford Reporter Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire p

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Mike Hill is to be the next Bishop of Buckingham.

Superglue for marriages: National Marriage Week February 8-16 Pages 8&9

The Archdeacon of Berkshire will be consecrated Bishop of Buckingham in Southwark Cathedral on March 19 The new Bishop of Buckingham is to be the Venerable Michael Hill, at present Archdeacon of Berkshire.

He will be consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Southwark Cathedral on March 19.

Mike Hill was born in Manchester in 1949. However, he is no stranger to Buckinghamshire. Following curacies in Croydon and Slough, he became Priest-in-charge and, in 1983, Rector of Chesham Bois. Six years later he was appointed Rural Dean of Amersham. He was appointed Archdeacon of Berkshire in 1992.

He is married to Anthea and they have five children: Naomi (21), Charis(18), Nicholas(17), Alexa(14) . and Eleanor(11). 'Family life isvery important to me and to be the kind of person who gives proper attention to my wife and family is important as a model for my colleagues,' he said.

On the evangelical wing of the Church, one of Mike Hill's priorities has been mission, particularly to those beyond the Church. He was for a time UK and European chairman of the Willow Creek Association which is committed to

making God more relevant to non- he wanted to build up churches churchgoers. He has also written a .with a commitment to prayer, study book called Reaching the and fasting which will produce Unchurched and another about dis- Christians who are more like Christ'. cipleship for new Christians.

In an article for The DOOR last year he wrote about the importance of focussing on transformed lives rather than on 'endless committees and dated structures': 'The privilege and challenge of Christian discipleship is to co-operate with God in building His Kingdom. The best evidence for the life-transforming activity of the Holy Spirit is local Christian communities within which such transformation is evident for all to see'.

Mike Hill also spoke of the 'awesome task' of following Cohn Bennetts who is moving on to be Bishop of Coventry. 'I am grateful to him for the wicket he has prepared for me to bat on', he said. It was an excellent choice of words. The next The appointment was announced Bishop of Buckingham once played from No 10 Downing Street on for the Diocesan cricket team. He is December 16. At a press conference a man who keeps his eye very firmat St Mary's, Aylesbury, Mike Hill ly on the ball. said that he intended to take the New Archdeacons in Bucks and historic role of the Bishop as a 'teacher of faith' seriously and that Berkshire turn to page 3.

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PLUS Diocesan leadership shake-up Page 3 The man who loves to preach Page 5 Education: Christian values make a difference Page 7 Bishop Richard on the Millennium Pages 10 & 15 Remembering the Titanic Page 16 Books to help you grieve Page 17

Thame aims high with Alpha St Mary's Church, Thame has decided to run the Alpha course continuously until the Millennium as part of their vision for '2,000 disciples for the year 2000'. Alpha, the course in Christian basics developed by Nicky Gumbel of Holy Trinity, Brompton in London, was given a trial run at St Mary's Sunday evening services. Now that everyone in the congregation is familiar with the course, it will run three times a year for the next two years. Alpha will be held on Thursday evenings at the Thame Barns Centre near the church. Course administrator Derek Witchell said, We believe God has called us to this work and that he will be faithful in bringing forward people who are searching for the truth.'

(For more on the Millennium turn to page 10)

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THE DOOR FEBRUARY 1998

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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, RG 13 2JG Telephone 01635 552820

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Bishop of Buckingham The Right Revd Cohn Bennetts Sheridan, Grimms Hill, Great Missenden, HP 16 913D Telephone 01494 862173

Archdeacon The Venerable John Morrison, 60Wendover Road,Aylesbury, HP2 I 91-W Telephone 01296 423269

OXFORDSHIRE Bishop of Dorchester The Right Revd Dr Anthony Russell, Holmby House, Sibford Ferris, Banbury, OX IS 5RG Telephone 0 1295 78 05 83

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Information Overload Can you identify with Penny Keens? She complains that far from making her life easier, a super-abundance of reports, meetings and 'vision statements' is causing mental anguish.

HELP! Are any other on March 19th: who will parishes and deaneries have the time?). The refout there - not to men- erences all include a tion individuals - feeling clause 'to report back' crushed by the weight of by' a certain date and, if paper emanating from no reply is received, General and Diocesan someone telephones or writes to extol the virtues Synods?

In Autumn 1997 of his or her special Reuter Business interest Milton Keynes Information published the results of an indepen- Deanery Synod had a good dent, preseninternaIn my view tation tional on Youth survey a Part in that sugby Penny Keens summer gested 1997. I 'an excess of information is don't know that any strangling business and parish took it up - all causing personnel to suf- were busy with the Five fer mental anguish and Marks of Mission. The Deanery looked at Seeds physical illness'.

I am suffering mental of Hope in October, parishanguish. Since November es also have the Proposed 1994, Seeds of Hope, The New Parish Share Five Marks of Mission, Scheme and the Review Working as One Body, of Synodical Government Staying in the City, Youth a to respond to early this Part, At Home with other year.

According to the Faiths, the Review of Synodical Government, Reuter survey, the consethe of and the Proposed New quences Parish Share Scheme information glut include have been referred to time-wasting, delaying PCCs and Deanery important business deciSynods for consideration. sions, distraction from Mission in Work and job responsibilities, Economic Life will arrive stress, job dis-satisfaction any day now, Issues of and even illness and the Human Sexuality lurks breakdown of personal round the corner, (and I relationships.

There are two consesee in The DOOR that deaneries are invited to quences of our own mount a 'not Bognor' day ecclesiastical informa-

Bishop Frank at York Minster Frank Weston, the former Archdeacon of Oxford, was consecrated Bishop of Knaresborough at York Minster on December 3, 1997. Bishop Frank, who is pictured above with the Bishop of Ripon, the Right Revd David Young, said the consecration was 'wonderful.' Among the gifts presented to the Bishop and his wife Penny at a farewell party in Church House were a pair of candle holders with glass shades which will be ideal for the chapel they are building in one of the cellars of their new home in Leeds (another cellar will be used for Photograph Yorkshire Evening Post storing wine!)

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Researchers at the Dale University Medical Centre, North Carolina in the USA, claim to have discovered a link between religious observance and a healthy immune system. In a randomly-selected group of 1,727 elderly adults, it was found that 60% of those who went to church were only half as likely as the rest to have weak immune systems.

Dr Harold Koenig of the Medical Centre, said, 'People who have a strong faith and go to church are less depressed and less stressed.'

Our thanks to Derek Martin of Medmenham for bringing this story to our attention. It first appeared in The Times.

tion glut, I suggest. First there is insufficient time or energy to do more than briefly look at the Reports, in spite of the fact that considerable effort and money has been spent on their production. What happened to the Seven Propositions, Family Life, Good News in our Time, Vision and

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FEBRUARY 1998 THE DOOR

New Year's Honours

Diocese's leadership shake-up is complete Twenty six years after David Goldie and Norman Russell were ordained together in Bristol, they will be installed as Archdeacons together at Christ Church Cathedral on May 2.

The news came on January 12 following one of the biggest ever shake-ups of the Oxford Diocese's leading clergy. Canon David Goldie, Borough Dean of Milton Keynes is to be Archdeacon of Buckingham while Canon Norman Russell, Rector of Gerrards Cross and Rural Dean of Amersham will take over as Archdeacon of Berkshire. Canon Goldie replaces John Morrison who will be installed as Archdeacon of Oxford on April 4 and Norman Russell takes over from Mike Hill who will be the next Bishop of Buckingham (see front page story).

David Goldie David Goldie was born in Glasgow and it was in Scotland that he had his first taste of ecumenical ministry - 'unity in diversity' - which has been one of his driving passions. For nine years he served as a mission priest in Irvine New Town where the Anglican congregation 'shared' the Presbyterian church. In 1992, he and his wife, Rosemary and their three daughters moved to Milton Keynes where he became city centre chaplain and later Vicar of Christ the Cornerstone. One of the new Vicar's central tasks was the co-ordination of the building of the new City Church, the first purpose-built ecumenical church in Britain.

Canon Goldie has been chairman of the House of Clergy of the Diocesan Synod for six years and he is a member of General Synod. 'I am really thrilled to be

asked to do this new work: it means I can remain in Bucks and come to love more of it', he said adding, 'I am looking forward very much to working with the new Bishop of Buckingham: I am pleased that he is nearly as new as me'.

Norman Russell Norman Russell was born and brought up in Northern Ireland.

He came to Cambridge to read mechanical sciences and then economics with a view to a career in international banking.

Instead he went to the London College of Divinity to prepare for ordination.

Four happy years in Bristol were followed by a half-time post at Christ-Church Cockfosters and the other half at Middlesex Polytechnic chaplaincy where his colleagues included a Dutch Benedictine monk. He first came to Berkshire in 1977 as Rector of Harwell with Chilton.

Canon Russell's wife, Vicki, is a teacher whose late father was in the Polish Airforce. He escaped to Britain and arrived penniless, eventually commanding an RAF bomber squadron.

The Russells have two sons.

Timothy (17) who is still at school and Edward (21) who is at King's College, London and lives at the Salmon Youth centre in Bermondsey where he is a youth leader.

Though Norman Russell's Gerrards Cross congregation is one of 'the most privileged in the country', he has communicated to them his own

Our neighbours in Madagascar Women's World Day of Prayer The Christian women of Madagascar have written the service for the Women's World Day of Prayer on March 6 on the theme: 'Who is my neighbour?'

Madagascar is a large island with 12.5 million people of Asian. Indonesian and African origin. Set in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa, the island has a tropical climate and a unique flora and fauna which includes over 1,000 species of orchid. The ring tailed lemur is perhaps its best-known indigenous animal. Despite the island's beauty, however, 55% of the people live below the poverty line.

In the introduction to their service, the women of Madagascar explain that they have a special word 'Fihavanana' to describe the bond that extends beyond immediate family and through all their relationships.

They say that Christ is at work in their country.

Pope previews Oxford Choir's CD The 30-voice choir of Lincoln College, Oxford has brought out a recording of music celebrating the Virgin Mary. Called Magnificat: the Life of the Blessed Virgin Many it was recorded in Exeter College Chapel and includes music for from four centuries and eight countries including Bruckner, Rachmaninov and GOrecki.

On a tour of Italy last summer, the choir was

presented to Pope John Paul lion the steps of St Peter's in Rome and sang GOrecki's Totus tuus sum, Maria, which was composed ten years previously to celebrate the Pope's return to Poland.

The recording is available price £13.99 for a CD; £8.50 for a cassette, from the Steward's Office, Lincoln College, Oxford OXI 3DR. Tel: 01865 279815.

Please tell The DOOR about it The DOOR is produced by a part-time staff of two.

We entirely depend on our readers for news stories.

So do tell us when something exciting happens in your parish on 01865 208227 or 208226. Please send us your parish magazines too.

The new archdeacons David Goldie (above) is going to Bucks and Norman Russell to Berkshire

Two officers in the Diocese have been recognised in the 1998 New Year's Honours List. The architect Alan Frost, who is the Oxford Diocesan Bells' Adviser, has been made an LVO (Lieutenant of the Victorian Order), in recognition of his role as the architect in charge of the recent restoration of Windsor Castle.

Dr Brian Smith CBE, who is Chairman of the Oxford Diocesan Buildings Committee, has received a knighthood for his contributions to industry. He is currently Chairman of Cable and Wireless and the British Airports Authority and also non-executive chairman of Hydron Ltd. Dr Smith is a member of the congregation of St Mary the Virgin, Hurley.

College chaplain leaps for Uganda

news in brief The new King's Head Centre in Aylesbury is welcoming a group of Russian Christians on February 24. At 7pm they will describe their drug rehabilitation work in St Petersburg. For more information about the evening which includes a video and a buffet ring 01296 334590.

St Andrew's Bookshop is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its St Clement's shop in Oxford on February 15 with a service at 1030am at Si Clement's Church conducted by the Revd Bruce Gillingham.

Disability charity Leonard Cheshire is celebrating its Golden Jubilee with TEAbility - the idea is to raise money by holding tea parties any time until November. The person to raise the most will be treated to tea at the Ritz, a west end show and two nights B&B at St James Court Hotel. Details on 0171 828 1822.

Atrocious weather two years running has left the Greenbelt Christian festival in serious financial difficulties. Supporters and the 'Greenbelt Angels' have kept it afloat but another £70,000 is needed urgently if the festival is to survive. Please pray for the Greenbelt Board and about giving financial help. All being well, the next Greenbelt is at Deene Park, Corby from August 28-31. Tel: 0151 651 1335.

The chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, the Revd Canon Trevor Williams, is making a sponsored parachute jump this month to enthusiasm for social issues raise funds for an expediSt Luke's Church in Cowley Road, Oxford, and they were one of the first tion to Uganda. built in the 1930s for workers at the parishes to fund a full-time Trevor Williams is taking Morris car factory, will be converted into youth leader. six undergraduates to a new County Record Office for His heart, he says, is in mis- Kigezi, on the borders of Oxfordshire Archives, thanks to a sion and pastoral care. 'I see a Rwanda and Zaire, for six Heritage Lottery Fund award of major part of my new role as weeks this summer to help £2,246,000. helping clergy and parishes to build a village health clinic Spring Harvest is at Minehead and find ways round those obstacles for the Ugandan charity Skegness for three weeks from April 4-19. which frustrate Christian mis- African International Speakers this year will include the Revd sion. Equally important will be Christian Ministry (AICM).

Steve and Mrs Janet Gaukroger from the pastoral care of the clergy The money raised will go Goldhill Baptist Church and Jude and their families which I will towards building materials, Levermore, youth worker and Reader local labour and travel share with Bishop Dominic.' from Ducklington. Details 01825 769111. expenses.

Besides health care, AICM's Mike Hill's farewell service will be at The Anglican Missionary Society USPG other projects include adult St Mary's. Reading on March II at has teamed up with auctioneers Phillips literacy classes, vocational Bpm.All are welcome. Contributions to raise money for its work. USPG supto a collection for him should be training for young people porters can take their antiques into any sent to Bishop Dominic's address and an orphanage for chilPhillips auction house for a free valua(see page 2) for the attention of his dren of AIDs victims. tion and advice. Phillips - and hopefully secretary, Rita Holden. Cheques Trevor Williams, who is 59, their lucky customers! - will donate a should be made out to 'the Bishop said, 'If you can see your percentage of their earnings to the chariof Reading's discretionary fund'. way to supporting us in a ty. Look out for an Antiques Appeal Day less foolin the Diocese. hardy manner, we Beat the Bounds and Help the Aged with would be a sponsored event this Ascensiontide. very grateAsk for a Beating the Bounds Information ful!'

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The Archbishops' initiative said. Springboard has carfor evangelism, Spring- ned out over 900 events in board, has moved its the UK and abroad from headquarters from street evangelism to major Canterbury to Abingdon. initiatives like the Cathedral The new offices in Old prayer pilgrimage which, in Station Yard in the town cen- 1993, took in 42 cathedrals tre were officially opened including Christ Church, on December 5. Afterwards Oxford. a reception was held at the However, the Cathedral Guildhall. Visitors included visit is not Springboard's the Right Revd Cohn only link with the Oxford Bennetts, the Bishop of Diocese. In 1994 they led Buckingham, one of Thames Valley Alive, a giant An opportunity for you to...

Springboard's chairmen ecumenical mission held • discover more about Christian belief and the Bishop of Reading, simultaneously in 12 areas • explore the Bible and its message today the Right Revd Dominic in and around Reading. For Walker who said 'If Springboard it was a pilot • study at home, at your own pace.

Springboard can encourage project which has been ordinary people to gossip repated in Cardiff. ,Pamm. the Gospel, that will be an Abingdon was initially selected for Springboard's enormous help'.

A choice of 26 Units in: Christian Living, Biblical Studies, It was in 1992 that new headquarters because Christian Belief, Church and Society Springboard was launched, of its central position. 'The and Ecumenism, 'The fact that it is an initia- welcome from the Abingdon Each Unit is accredited by the Open University tive of the Archbishops of Churches has been overStudy Materials can also be used by local groups Canterbury and York has whelming' says Martin opened many doors for Cavender. 'An evaluation of Apply now to begin in April 1998 Springboard and underlined Springboard projects in its the importance the first five years showed that Send now for desoils of the thndien S$us Piopmn. to: Archbishops attach to evan- nearly half of those asked The Theology Office, Westminster College gelism and mission', said valued the way we work FREEPOST, Oxford, 0X2 9BR Martin Cavender, the across the denominations Phone: 01865 253371 Z, Administrative Director, more than anything else.

Fax: 01865 201197 'Springboard is not funded This is the way they work in Westminster College by the Church or by parish- Abingdon. By the grace of A college of Higher Education es but by individuals and God we find ourselves in a in Oxford trusts with a heart for evan- place which is already workgelism. It comes as a gift and ing the way Springboard ,e,,,9, rcg, J ,otoosm W,,tm, Cdt,g, o,,, —,o oo'o oo osçy R,e.,d o 309672 a servant to the Church', he loves to work' he concluded.

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Bishop Anthony goes to market Maidenhead Deanery learns The Bishop of Dorchester, the Rt Revd Dr Anthony Russell, visited meat markets in Banbury and Smithfield in London recently to express both concern and solidarity for the farming community following a ban on the sale of beef on the bone The Bishop, who lives near Banbury to working practices imposed under and comes from a local farming the Common Agricultural Policy, family, is aware that the Church is the continuing uncertainty about very often the only caring structure BSE will further undermine the left in many rural areas, and has an family farm. With bankruptcy and important role to play in support- a high suicide rate already affecting the industry, the bishop believes we ing the farming community.

'Farming is the principal eco- could see a way of life irrevocably nomic activity of rural life. Its altered, with management of the activities still shape much of what countryside left to large corporate we see and enjoy in the country- agri-businesses in future.

The Bishop was formerly Director side,' said the Bishop. 'The Church is concerned for farmers and their of the rural chaplaincy centre at families at this difficult time, and the Royal Showground. He visited we want to offer our support for the markets in the company of the Director of the Rural Stress them in this crisis.'

Dr Russell is worried that the Information Network, the Revd Nick ban on selling beef on the bone may Read and members of the Churches' be the final Straw for many farmers. Farming Forum in Oxfordshire.

Already under stress from falling prices, and the widespread changes See also From the Bishop page 10.

When the press were in the dog-house Newspaper accounts of the November General Synod may have caused you to wonder whether members had taken leave of their senses altogether. They led the Secretary General to make a statement expressing members' anger at the damaging distortion of the reports.

how to make Muslim friends A deanery grant is enabling people in the Maidenhead Deanery to take part in a course on Islam. The money, which represents 2% of their deanery share, was made available to deaneries by Diocesan Synod for new projects which involve either outreach or youth work.

The course is called 'The Cross and the Crescent'. It offers a unique insight into the culture and beliefs of Muslim people, and has been devised by Norman and Denise Critchell of the Salem Project. The Critchells, who live in Slough and have many Muslim friends, believe that it is not possible to share our Christian beliefs unless we understand and respect the cultural traditions of Islam.

And it may come as a surprise to many Christians to find that Jesus and the Virgin Mary feature in the Koran.

Delegates who have already taken part in the course found it very enlightening: 'It opened our eyes' and 'Very enjoyable' were typical comments; while one primary school teacher, who thought she was already well versed in Islam, said the course had made a major difference in her work.

Maidenhead Deanery will next be holding the Cross and Crescent Course from April 30 and from May 8. Church members in the Maidenhead Deanery interested in taking part should contact Peter Lee on 01628 823438.

would be appointed subject to the agreement of the Synod. The Church Commissioners had consisted of 95 trustees, and the Turnbull Report had recommended there should be 15, but the compromise was 33 members, including the senior members of the Government as before to represent the interests of Parliament to whom the Church Commissioners are responsible.

There was some anxiety about centralisation of power in the hands of the new Council, but it was stressed that we must trust the Archbishops, and the Council would have a majority of elected as opposed

to appointed members. The Measure will come back for final approval in February.

Secondly, we received the report of the Bridge Commission into Synodical Government. This recommended that deanery synods should no longer be a tier in the synodical pyramid, and that General Synod should be reduced in size by about a third, with the special constituencies of deans and provosts, archdeacons, and universities, being abolished. It was clear from the start that the Report was deeply unpopular, though a proposal to sink it there and then was defeated. It will now be considered in Dioceses and Deaneries.

The Lichfield Diocesan Motion asked for consideration of ethical guidelines relating to human fertilisation. Synod decided that IVF should not be used in a casual manner, but agreed that while marriage was the ideal context for the procreation and rearing of children, those who are married in all but name should not be denied the procedure.

Finally,Synod was asked to consider the position of asylum seekers. The attention of the government was drawn to the 55,000

General Synod Report

Unity with Methodists Synod debated our response to an invitation by the Methodists to renew tallcs about union between our two churches. We recalled the damaging failure of talks in 1969 and 1972 and agreed that this time there should be a more cautious approach, recognising the very considerable difficulties that divided the two churches. Formal conversations will soon be opened.

Church structures The revision of the draft National Institutions Measure, to set up the Archbishops Council, and to alter the membership and powers of the Church Commissioners means that the Archbishops' Council is likely now to consist of 19 members, ten of whom would be elected by the Houses of Bishops, Clergy, and Laity respectively and the other nine

Liturgy revision An increasing amount of the Synod's agenda is taken up with liturgy as we approach the year 2000 when the ASB will cease to be authorised. It is intended that mostly it will be a 'light revision'; but there is a need to recognise the limitations of the major revision carried out in the 1960s in the light of experience and cultural changes.

The process of revision is in the hands of the Liturgical Commission, though Synod is entitled to make suggestions, and most of our time was spent on approving the initiation services, and consideration of the Eucharist. When completed, the services will be produced in a 'family of volumes' under the title Common Worship, and will be available both in print as books and on CDROM for computers.

Common Worship will contain both BCP and the Alternate Services in the same volume, but will have only lectionary references rather than setting out the Holy Communion readings in full.

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To those of us who are without a home, give justice and a voice for justice.

To those of us who are housed give a homeless spirit that will not be at rest until all have their rightful place in God's new community. Amen Homelessness Sunday is organised by the Churches National Housing Coalition and the Catholic Housing Aid Society. On February 1, you are asked to pray for all who are homeless and all who work with them.

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I had been brought up to love God but it wasn't newly married and the children were being born. We until I was 11 that I really came to understand have some lovely friends from that time. what the cross was all about. My brothers and I I first spoke at the Keswick Convention in 1971 and were at a Scripture Union camp in Branscombe in have been asked back every year since. Keswick is not Devon. At one of the evening meetings the speaker evangelistic. It's a meeting for Christians to give them was explaining that Jesus had died on the cross and time to think and pray. Missionaries who enjoyed it that he had died for us and in our place, and the offer would go back to the mission field and as a result I of our salvation and eternal well-being came as a have been invited to preach all over the world. result of that. I remember saying to myself very clearly I don't enjoy the travelling around. You are constantly as I sat in that tent, 'Why have I never seen that packing and unpacking and you hardly rub shoulders before? I'd been taught it and brought up with it but with anyone who is not a Christian. But I love the I'd never grasped it, and it was then, I think, that I preaching. I could do it till the cows come home. That became a Christian. really was my motivation for getting ordained.

I went into the army already thinking about ordinaWhen you retire the day is very unhurried, so tion and while I was in Italy I approached the Director Margaret and I always have an unhurried time to read of Service Ordination Candidates who became, the Bible together in the morning. Even when the strangely enough, the Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge children were small, we read at the breakfast table which was the college I went to. and prayed and as they grew up we encouraged them I owe a lot to the first vicar I had at Christ Church, to join in.

Weston-Super-Mare - the Revd Richard Coates. He was A wonderful way to die an Irishman from Dublin who was twice superintendent of the Irish Church Mission and a great expert in This time last year (December 11) I was having a cardiac arrest and I can honestly say it was a horrible doctrinal matters. More particularly, he was the sort experience. I began to feel faint and sort of collapse of man who could tell me off roundly when I did something wrong, but it only made us better friends. - and the 'screen' went white. And then I was miles away - but it's nothing to be afraid of. I said to Every Thursday after parish Bible study - this was Margaret - poor Margaret, what she went through - I before I was married - we would stand on the street said, you know darling, that's a very easy way to die. I corner and put the world to rights for hours. wouldn't want a painful death because I am a funk as I have happy memories of the church in Cheltenham far as pain is concerned, but to die in hospital that which was a tiny little wooden hut on a vast, vast way would be wonderful. housing estate. That was the busiest time. We were I understand that everybody who is seriously ill finds it very difficult to pray. I had a chat with the hospital Canon Keith Weston, who is now retired, was educhaplain about it and she said, 'Don't worry about cated at Merchant Taylors School, London and that. You get better and we'll do the praying.' baptised, confirmed and married at Emmanuel But what I found so valuable, and like pure gold were Church, Northwood. He served in the Royal the things which had been part and parcel of my Artillery from 1944 -49 in Italy and Palestine. On churchmanship, - words which are so easy to run off his return he trained for the ministry at Trinity the tongue, but say exactly what you ought to be sayHall and Ridley Hall, Cambridge and served in ing. For example: 'Lighten our darkness, we beseech Weston-super-Mare, Cheltenham and Clevedon thee 0 Lord: and . . . defend us from all perils and danbefore becoming Rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford 1964gers of this night,' and I remember thinking, gosh, am 1985. He was a member of General Synod for ten I going to be here in the morning? years, and Director of Ordinands in the Diocese of I think one of the difficulties of being an old person Norwich 1985-1991. Keith Weston has been a even when you have been a Christian all your life, is speaker at the Keswick Convention from 1971 and that you do begin to entertain doubts. It is as though its Chairman for three years until 1996. Overseas Satan keeps these nasty temptations for people in the conventions have taken him to Egypt,-Kenya, India, end. I can't say I had that in hospital. It was rather the Chile, Australia and Japan. Keith and Margaret reverse. Two days after my cardiac arrest I met the girl married in 1954 and have four children - Stephen who'd used the defibrillator and naughtily I said to (Vicar of Chipping Norton), Paul (Vice Principal of her, 'Ali, you're the girl who kept me out of heaven!' It Oak Hill College), Ruth (vicar's wife in Streatham) was an unkind thing to say really, but that was how I and Mary (Deputy Head in Oxford) - and seven felt - do you know, I could have been in heaven! grandchildren.

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Learning for l ife Whether they live in Paris, Washington or Oxford, parents are discontented with the education system, says the Revd David Barton, Senior Schools Adviser for the Diocesan Board of Education. Schools which draw their values from the Christian gospel have something important to offer our society

cannot neglect the professionalism implied by the link between school and Diocese.

Together we are engaged in something vitally important: helping to shape the attitudes and viewpoints of children and young people, so that, as individuals within a community they begin to realise something of their own giftedness, and their potential as children of God. There are 279 church schools in the Diocese. They need the support of our prayers. But we should all be proud of them too for the significant work that they do.

Education, education, education. Mantra of the elec- itself. It was hard to do anything about the racism we tion campaign, constant debating point for met on the streets, but we could do something in the politicians, and, rather more down-to-earth, focus of school. And for us the reason for doing so was a powanxiety for many parents. A friend, travelling in erful one: each of us is made in the image of God. America and Europe recently discovered a similar Racism was, and is, an offence that cannot be toleratstory there. It seems that western society as a whole ed. Our subsequent policy and practice grew from is alternately anxious about and discontented with this. The county school not far away also faced a simiits education system. lar problem. They began from a more secular stand There are many aspects to this anxiety, but the one point, though I don't think our final policies looked that will most concern the churches will centre round very different. But it mattered that our beginnings values, and the passing on, from one generation to• were from different places. another, of crucial bits of knowledge about our There is nothing easy about being an institution Christian inheritance. which attempts to set up values that are, as those How can we, as adults, convey to children and were, counter to those in the community outside. young people - whether they are from a Christian Running schools, for heads and governors, is hard family or not - the central ideas of the Christian faith, enough. Running a church school in a society such as and the conduct and attitudes that we believe to be of ours is sometimes very difficult. such crucial importance? Part of the answer to this The Diocesan Board of Education is responsible for lies in the home, part in the parish church, but some supporting such schools. On behalf of the Diocese its of the answer lies within the education system, and officers offer a range of services: governor training, within the schools that are closely associated with the advice to governors on appointments, management Church by their foundation - the church schools.

- advice, training in RE and the leading of worship, crucial advice about buildings. Through it all the pastoral Children at North Hinksey Primary School and the Church schools are popular care of heads and teachers is a significant and vital 'stained glass window' they made after a visit to their Within the state maintained system church schools task. If we are to continue to have church schools we local church, St Lawrence's still retain certain privileges. Their worship can be conducted in accordance with the Christian faith. In aided schools the religious education (RE) can also be determined by the governors. In aided schools the Totals Secondary Primary church has a majority on the governing body, in conCounty* County* CE Total RC CE RC trolled schools the church is in a minority, but 39 1 5 Bracknell 7 2 24 nevertheless an important influence.

47 Reading 4 31 8 4 In recent years-church schools have proved to be 42 Slo-ugh 2 2 4 25 1 8 .popular with parents. They seem to have done-well in West all the performance table measurements that regular78 Berkshire 31 10 3 34 ly fill our newspapers. Many parents aspire for their Windsor & children to have the values they see at the heart of the 60 Maidenhead 21 21 3.5 0.5 10 4 church school. But it is important to be clear that64 Wokingham 15 9 2 37 1 church schools are not 'better' than the county schools with whom they are partners.

Buckinghamshire 233 29 What matters about a church school is that it 61 134 1 1 7 should be able to draw inspiration for its values from Milton Keynes the Christian gospel. Values are implicit in every 90 1 7 8 4 70 school, whatever its foundation. For the community of 282 4.5 2.5 38 Oxfordshire 118 15 104 children and teachers in a church school there is, either overtly or implicitly, a reference back to the 935 12 7 124 Totals 267 45 480 Christian faith for understanding the way in which they, as a community, should operate.

The number of pupils in the 279 Church of England schools in the Diocese is 47,000, which is 18% of the A number of years ago, when I was the head of a total of 263,000 pupils in schools. The list above includes two Anglican/Roman Catholic Ecumenical multi-cultural church school in London, we found schools (in Oxford and Windsor). ourselves facing a growing number of incidents of * The County column includes all schools which are neither Church of England nor Roman Catholic. racism both in the community and within the school

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Hope through change

Student scheme puts marriage to the test

The CCBI Lent course for 1998 of Christian people who believe in God; those who — actively believe in God CHURCHES and in Christ — ie faith TCETHER rather than intellect, and In ENGLAND those who carry out the The Lent course prepared mission of Christ in the for 1998 by the Council world.

'Then we looked at of Churches for Britain and Ireland reflects on each other's churches hope as a Christian and noted the difficulresource. The hope that ties: such as when Christ Christ offers for the pre- was no longer at the censent life as well as for the tre of the assembly, it did future is something to not hold on to its young share with those people or it became inward-looking.' amongst whom we live.

Hope in '98 It's good to get The CCBI course for 1998 together Lent is a good time to Hope in a Time of Change meet Christians of other will again draw together Christiansasofthey different traditions. John Fox, lay traditions work chairman of the Woodstock Deanery, through the five weeks spent Lent last year in of study: Hope through the company of local Change; Hope through Christians from Baptist, Discipline; Hope through Methodist, Anglican and Christ; Hope through Roman Catholic church- Tears and Hope through es: 'We talked about what Vision.

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Roadshow for church computer users Exhibitors at the Church Computers Roadshow at Diocesan Church House, which runs from 2-9pm on March 6 and 9am-3pm on March 7, will offer advice on music publishing, church administration software, desktop publishing

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Clemency Fox induces the Students Exploring Marriage Initiative which is being piloted in the Banbury area

opportunity to interact with adults who are prepared to take the time to share their experiences.

Is Marriage Outmoded?

Nowadays doubts are often expressed as to whether Christian marriage is outmoded or unnecessarily restricting. Young people share these doubts, even though they often do not have enough information with which to form realistic judgements. With the help of the couples taking part and through their own questions, they will have the opportunity to discover something of the love and commitment which contribute to a Christian marriage.

The Students Exploring Marriage Initiative is a new venture which will enable young people to research the question: is Christian marriage relevant to our society today?

As they face the transition to adulthood, young people are often confused, with little knowledge of what marriage and parenting can involve and lacking the

and web site composition not to mention the Bible online. The Data Protection Register will remind church administrators that they should be registered if they hold personal data on computer and a supporting programme of lectures will help everyone from the complete beginner to the seasoned user get more from their systems.

On Unemployment Sunday on February 22, churches are invited to join Church Action on Poverty in prayers for the unemployed and the future of work. Packs price £1.50 are available from the organisation's offices in Manchester, telephone: 0161236 9321.

Married couples invited to join in The scheme was first tested in Kent last year. Now two local steering groups have been set up, one in Kent and one in north Oxfordshire. The Oxfordshire Steering Group would welcome enquiries from local couples who believe they are in a Christian marriage and are interested in taking part in the project.

The Grubb Institute, which is providing professional support for the project, will train an adviser for each student group to ensure that the couples are given proper support before and after the question and answer sessions and to encourage the students involved to take responsibility for the running of the groups and for raising the questions they want to pursue.

Couples interested in taking part in the project are invited to attend a meeting on February 12, from 7.30-9pm at Banbury School, Ruskin Road, Banbury.

To book a place please contact Clemency Fox, Chairman, Oxfordshire Steering Group, tel/fax: 01865 722668, or Justin Tomkins at The Grubb Institute, tel: 0171 278 8061.

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BA6 8DH Tel. 01458 831112

Somerset

Registered Charity No. 224866

RETREATS AT ABBEY HOUSE Feb 13-15 Feb 23-27 Feb 20-22

THE CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO POVERTY. Sr Pal CSF and Helen Stanton VENTURE INTO ST JOHN'S GOSPEL. Canon Geoffrey Barton MEDITATIONS AND MENUS FOR HOLY WEEK. Jim Cotter

Details and full programme available from:

The Warden, DAVID HILL on receipt of SAE. Abbey House exists to provide spore for prover and spiritual ,rfresho,ent

find the

Breathing Space you need...

Stockton Retreat Centre

retreats, short breaks, counselling, conferences and craft workshops in beautiful surroundings

COURT FARM, STOCKTON ON TEME, WORCESTER WR6 WT Tel, 01S84 881607. htlp/wa.Mlsr.coMlack*ot Stockton posdes welco,ne respite and a Chatty (No. 1025546) of The bk*teny Tout

COMMUNITY OF ST DENYS

Director/Warden: Rev. Trevor R Blackshaw

HEALING SERVICES: are held twice weekly Monday 7,30 pm Thursday 10.00 am

Teaching courses are also available at certain times of the year.

Further detail, from: The Secretary, The Old Rectory, Crowhurst, Battle, East Sussex TN33 9AD Tel: 01424 830204.

The Ammerdown Centre, Radstock, Bath, BA3 SSW. Tel: (01761) 433709 Fax: (01761) 433094 Are you looking for time and space?

Come and be away from the telephone and day to day pressures to walk, read or simply be, in the heart of the Somerset countryside. For further details ask for our 'Quiet Spaces' leaflet.

1998 programme of courses available, including Religion & Justice - Bruce Kent, Calligraphy, Dreams Workshop, Circle Dance, Enneagram, Holidays and much more.

SHEPHERDS DENE Shepherds Dene is a Diocesan Retreat House and

Apply to: Retreat Secretary, St Drops Retrial Centre, Church Street, %li,rminslre, IlIlta BAI2 8F0.

Tel. 01985 214824 Si tieec,Iletreut Centre has, run pnsruuinie ot Retreats for ,ear. In ustditio., the t,,di, idaatt1 C,uided Retreats ,re u t,rr'onat sp'efrect oF the F.,er,e, of St. tgn.Iins. Quiet toys and 'octet, Jt,t at, run ,t,u I,r ,rruntrd and there dolt, u,sttat,k' for tsr t9')tl . t,h'ast osatont ISa ttntreut Serrntary foe dulidis,

1998 "After the journey to God, there is journey in God".

Retreat for Lest - Canon Cyril Ashton.

March 13-I5 "The journey and the journey's end." Retreat for beginners - Tins Lamb & Joanne Adams.

"Divine Dance of Low": Exploring God's Love for us.

May 15-17 - Canon Clans Cotlngwnod.

"Music & Prayer" . Jeremy Plummer TOSSF May 23 June 5-7 "Harp & Soul- : Learn the Harp the easy way, and meditate on the Psalms. . James Maybuty & Robert Langton.

For further details & booking torn, apply to: The Administrator/Warden Registered Charity No. 236939 A retreat existing to provide for your spiritual needs.

February 13-15

THE DYKE Christian Holiday/Conference Centre Norfolk - THE DYKE Sheringham is situated two minutes from sea and shops, has its own car park and pulling green. All bedrooms have lea/coffee making facilities and some rooms are en suite. home cooking and a warm welcome are assured.

The house is double glazed and centrally heated and open all year with special offers for mid-week or weekend breaks Out of season.

For information contact Dee tiodge

The Dyke, 5 St Nicholas Place, Sheringham, Norfolk NR26 8LF Tel: (0 1263) 822053

Green Pastures

Christian Centre of Healing • Ideal for personal ex group retreats and holidays Skilled Christian counselling, • Healing services open to all, (residential or non residential) • Excellent facilities, many ensuile rooms set in beautiful landscaped gardens. Swimming pool.

Send for Brochure or ring to:The Director (Dept OX), 17 Burton Road, Poole, BH13 6DT. Tel: 01202 764776 A Registered Charity No 1025546 to provide a Christian Healing Centre

SOCIETY OF RETREAT CONDUCTORS STACKLANDS RETREAT HOUSE West Kingsdown, Kent TN15 6AN (01474) 852247

We are an Anglican Centre for the giving of retreats according to the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyala.

Open & Group Retreats - preached or individually guided - are listed in the current programme which is available from the Administrator.

(Registered Charity No 246045)

CORNWALL

Registered Charity

June 201h - 241h OPEN RETREAT - led by ReF Drioltn Turner (based on pray erbook)

Convent of St John Baptist Hatch Lane, Windsor, Berks 514 3QR Telephone: 01753 868602 Fax Number: 01753 869989

Come and stay in an atmosphere of peace for rest, prayer, renewal and love. Meet with Jesus to receive afresh His healing touch in the contest of daily worship and ministry of the word.

February 261h - 28th WALK INTO QUIETNESS WITH GOD - Sisters Team June 81h - 121h OPEN RETREAT - led by Bishop Anselta Genders

CLEWER SPIRITUALITY CENTRE

THE OLD RECTORY CROWHURST

Conference Centre in rural TS'nedale convenient for Hexham. Corbridge, Durham, Roman Wall country

Leadership

Trelowarren is an ancient manor house in the heart

SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS Brochures available from:

holidays, residential or day meetings and conferences.

Enquiries to the Warden, David 8ennell

01765-689559

It is an ideal venue for parish or group retreats,

Shepherds :e,te Retreat House and Conference Centre Riding Mill, Northumberland NE44 6AF

Tel. 01434 682242 Fax. 01434 682582

of beautiful country where Christians of all denominations can come for a time 'away from it all' in Church groups, families or individually - heating

Mr S. Laugher, Jasmine Cottage, HEALEY, RIPON, H04 4LH

and the Borders.

A place set apart

services - conferences - retreats etc. Ministers on sabbatical especially welcome. Here you can find physical and spiritual refreshment and a listening ear.

Worship held daily in the House Chapel.

SAE please to Avril Rogers

Brochures Crocus Rest Ministry for Christian ministers and leaders are available. , t,.. ('turily So tit46tti4 I,, Please request by telephu;Lig p,os v',,u,.os.x w,,t.et.is

01889-582650.

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Trelowarcen Fellowship, Mawgan, Helston, Cornwall TRI2 6AlJ

01326221 366 Reg Charity No. 269444 Exists to promote the healing of the church

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comment from The Bishop of Dorchester God Bless the Plough Immediately after Epiphany comes Plough Sunday when traditionally those who work on the land come to church as the priest blesses the parish plough at the beginning of the spring cultivations, with the words 'God speed the plough'. Changes in the farming year and the design of ploughs (which no longer fit down the aisle) have made certain aspects of this ancient service anachronistic but it remains, along with Rogation, Lammas and Harvest, one of the four farming festivals. But will the farming community be in any mood for such a celebration?

Recent visits to Smithfield and Banbury Markets, together with a number of local farming groups have made me aware of the extent to which the farming community feels that it is an embattled, distressed group of people whose work is neither valued nor understood by the wider society.

Part of the problem is that we live in an urban nation, with urban understandings and values.The world of growing crops, of finishing and slaughtering animals is totally alien to most people and even the connection between farming, as food production, and food bought from the supermarket shelf has been broken in the minds of many. Attitudes towards the countryside and farming are shaped by the immensely powerful conservation and animal rights organisations (there are over 3,000 registered animal welfare charities) and by the way in which the environment is treated in schools and in the media.

Farm incomes in the last year have dropped between 37% and 47% as commodity prices have in some areas dropped by one third in a few months. It is no wonder that numerically there are more suicides in the farming community than any other occupational group.

The individual farmer finds himself caught up in the midst of far-reaching changes, of which the BSE tragedy is only a part.Today, he faces a configuration of circumstances which in a matter of months may have made his farm uneconomic and his family's future uncertain.

On Plough Sunday many farmers will come to church. But how can the Church support and help the farming community? We are fortunate to have Agricultural Chaplains and Rural Officers in each Archdeaconry to keep us sensitive to the issues of the countryside in general, and the farming community in particular. In addition the Revd Nick Read (Charlbury) has been seconded from the NFU to work at the Arthur Rank Centre as the National Organiser of the Rural Stress and Information Network which co-ordinates the work of the county-based organisations which seek to provide support for farmers in distress.

Farmers have repeatedly said how much it means to them to hear their work remembered in the intercessions of the Church, and we need to add our voice to those who are stressing the seriousness of the present situation facing the farming community and not collude in the widespread demonisation of farmers.

,Anthony Oxon

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1998

The Millennium — a time of personal meaning and public hope The Bishop of Oxford, the Right Revd Richard Harries, has called on the Government to ensure that the Christian message is not marginalised in the Millennium celebrations. 'The Millennium is after all, first and foremost a celebration of the birth of Christ,' he said.The Bishop expanded on his vision and gave details of the plans for some Millennium events in the Oxford Diocese, in his address to the new Diocesan Synod

God takes time seriously. He creates it and he himself has come amongst usas a creature of time. So from the earliest days of the Church there was a movement to sanctify time, to make the whole cycle of the year reflect some aspect of Christian truth. As Christians we take time and the possibilities which time affords seriously. So we are not ashamed to celebrate two thousand years of the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. God chose to work

these issues argue that the HIPC is too slow and too rigorous in its criteria.

The sorry, tragic tale of Third World debt is a familiar one. Many of the poorest countries in the world have to pay

his purpose not from on high but from within the matrix and flux of human history. For two thousand years the Word made flesh has, through his Holy Spirit, been at work in our history.

If the birth of Christ is foremost in our minds in the year 2000, closely associated is the theme of jubilee. This was one of the leading ideas of the Pope's excellent epistle Tertio Millennio Adveniente which he published in 1994.

Building on the Israelite custom of the sabbatical year, during which the earth was left fallow and slaves set free, the concept of the Jubilee year was promulgated. Every 50 years each Israelite was meant to regain possession of his ancestral land, if he happened to have sold it or lost it by falling into slavery. In short, Jubilee was meant to restore the original creation, in which the goods of the earth which belong ultimately to God were shared fairly between all human beings. It is probably to the concept of Jubilee that Jesus referred when he preached in the synagogue at Nazareth at the opening of his ministry.

Since the Pope's Encyclical, the campaign called Jubilee 2000 has got going in the most remarkable way. Initiated by two lay people, it is now being taken up in a major way by all churches and aid agencies. The concept is a simple one, to remit the unsustainable debt of the poorest countries in the world by the year 2000. I do not believe that this is simply an idle dream. There is already an initiative in the treasuries of the world called the Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, which sets out some steps towards the Jubilee 2000 goal. But those who know most about

also to face the failures of our Christian history, praying for forgiveness and renewal.

I think especially of the long teaching of contempt for Judaism resulting in persecution and pogroms, preparing the ground for the anti-semitism of the 19th and 20th centuries which culminated in the terrible Shoah. Clearly

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more in interest each year than they spend on the total of their education, health and welfare programmes. In order that the debt can be serviced very stringent conditions are laid down which, as always, bear most heavily upon the poorest people in the country. Jubilee 2000 is not utopian. It is not directed at all debt but only the unsustainable debt of the poorest countries in the world. It has been said rightly that this movement is the equivalent in our time to the great campaign to abolish slavery in the 19th century. I know that everyone within this Diocese will want to give it the fullest possible support, not only to a major public campaign but also in more private ways if we are able to have influence with those who shape the economic and political structures of the world in which we live.

The Millennium will be a time to celebrate the birth of Christ, a time to express his love in a concern for the poorest people in the world and a time

there can be no celebration of jubilee without profound regret for the sins and tragedies of the past and a new spirit of constructive engagement with those who differ from us and urgent prayer for the renewal of our life in charity. With this in mind the Archbishop's Millennium Advisory Group has brought out a statement called 'The Millennium and other faiths' which seeks to ally the fears which have been expressed by some members of other faiths about the Millennium celebrations.

In this Diocese we have decided not to have a major Diocesan service in the Cathedral. The reason is that we wish celebrations to be both local and ecumenical. Our hope is that Christians in each locality will first of all engage

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with the secular authorities and secular organisations in order to bring a Christian influence to bear. It is obviously right that such celebrations should be as ecumenical as possible.

Beyond the local, responsibility for organising Jubilee events as far as the churches are concerned rests with the three County Ecumenical bodies, Churches Together in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. In some places the plans are already well advanced. For example the churches in Buckinghamshire are planning a big event on Sunday, June11, Pentecost 2000, and have already booked the Buckinghamshire Show Ground for this purpose.

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Pam Rhodes — in need of conversion?

The interview with Pam Rhodes (December DOOR) included a popular, but very mistaken idea of what it is to be a Christian. Pam says she had no Damascus Road experience (and implied she didn't need one) 'because I have never seriously doubted that there was a• God and that he was personal to me'. She concluded that her faith 'has been simply part of my life from the start'.

Whatever Pam might have experienced at the hands of insensitive 'born-again' Christians, I think they were probably only trying to help her. Most of them had probably thought they were Christians all their lives too - until they were really born of the Spirit and could testify to the difference. We surely cannot set aside Jesus' warning to Nicodemus and say, oh well, it's different for me.

I'm sure both Nicodemus and St Paul believed in God and prayed more than any of us, but they still needed that radical spiritual birth before they could be Christians, in the biblical meaning of the name.

The very first sin that many of us will have had to repent of is the idea that we don't need any heavy 'conversion' because we are 'basically alright' or have 'always believed,' This kind of thinking is really saying that either Jesus' death was unnecessary or that it provided some kind of blanket justification of everyone. But saving faith involves understanding the simple Gospel and an appropriate response to its claims. One of its claims is that we are all lost sinners deserving eternal punishment. It seems to me that the above popular notions cannot be accommodated within an appropriate response to such a Gospel.

Alan Bourne, Drayton.

In support of the Monarchy May I congratulate you on The DOOR which I find very interesting. I appreciated a letter in the November 97 issue

letters to the editor from E Palfry (Monarchy sealed its own fate). Now it is being challenged I must write in support.

I was born during the reign of George V and he and each succeeding monarch have served God and their people with dedication, living Christian lives, conforming to the standards found in the formularies of the established Church of England.

This, in my view, is the one vital characteristic for our monarch. May our present Quén live many more years. I think she is wonderful. I feel deeply saddened by the lower and lower standards of society during the last decades. No, I am not a saint, but I do seek God's help day by day and He is always ready to bless His children whom He loves.

Dorothy Meadows, Milton Keynes

are available to their parishioners to help clear the air and forward the cause of the Church in this field of uncertainty.

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tolerance may prove difficult to sustain if Islam is to remain faithful to itself. Witness the 'tolerance' that many of our brothers and sisters suffer under in many Islamic nations.

The Revd Simon Walker, Christ Church, Abingdon

Call for accountability at Church House

Re David Haylett's 'In My View' (Dec 97): in making comparisons within and without the Diocese, it is important to consider all the types of giving in addiThe Creed should be amended tion to covenanted gifts. In most What is a Creed for? I suggest that it is churches there is regular giving by intended to define the basic essentials cheque, collections and CM vouchers. of the Church's belief. If this is so, sure- Also there is usually significant giving ly it is high time that reference in the to various missions etc which is sent Creed to the Virgin birth should not via the church and is usually termed as merely be amended, but should be giving to restricted funds. Of course deleted altogether? there is also much direct personal givJohn Clark-Maxwell ing by individual church members.

With the increasing Diocesan costs falling upon the parishes, it will be Islamophobia is a myth essential for Church House to provide I did not feel that the Editor's report enhanced information about its spendon the danger of collusion with ing in a way that is easily understood Islamophobia (p4, Dec 97) should go by the average parish member, thereby unanswered. The Runnymede Trust avoiding the danger of the parish share which has worked on this issue is being seen as a tax or levy and all that Not just for women apparently suggesting that Muslims that implies.

It was surprising to read in December's are stereotyped in the media as violent Brian Strand (Chartered Accountant) DOOR that the Oxford Diocesan and that it is the responsibility of the Aylesbury President of the Mothers' Union felt Church to challenge such prejudice that passing Resolution B somehow and bias when it occurs. negated women's ministry. We are all My concern is twofold: first whether The Green Church called to some form of ministry, which such 'Islamophobia' is really the domi- I read Stefan Sidorowicz's letter in the in this case means service, both men nant attitude it is made out to be.

November DOOR about green issues. and women equally.

Whilst it is sadly the case that Muslims Jesus instructed us to care for each Barbara Teague seems to have fallen for are 'murdered and beaten up on the other so Christians should be conthe idea that 'ministry' means 'prieststreets of Britain' it is less clear cerned when pollution is causing hood', and that only some are called. It whether this is a fact of religious or people to suffer. In Britain 10,000 peois nothing to do with being valued, or racial violence. Certainly such inciple a year die prematurely from not being valued. dents in and around Milwall in 1993-4 breathing problems caused or exacerJohn Mitchell, High Wycombe when I was doing youth work among bated by traffic problems. One in seven local Muslim boys had to do with hous- children now has asthma. Diesel fumes ing problems and the colour of skin, damage the delicate lung linings makbut not religion.

Get your facts straight ing them less able to cope with dust Reading Issues in Human Sexuality has Second, I too share the hope of a socimites and other irritants. convinced me that complaints from ety in which all religious heritages Humans are not independent of the both sides do our bishops a great dismay be protected and upheld. I am less environment and if that fails we all go service: portraying them as weak, convinced that Islam as a system condown with it. In caring for the environignorant and hypocritical, and unable ceives of such a pluralism as desirable. ment we are also caring for people. to lead the Church in its time of need.

Islam is fundamentally a territorial details on how to work for a greener The depth of their discussion and religion which is stable only if it has Church are available from the lucidity of their recommendations claimed the right of establishment.

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What we believe is expressed in what we do; faith and works cannot be separated from one another. This is one of the central themes of the Epistle ofJames.

So pastoral care is central to what the Church is about because it expresses what our faith really is.

How we express our love towards people who are in need, both within and outside the Church is very much an expression of how well we express the Gospel. Jesus said that when we feed the hungry and welcome the stranger, we are feeding and welcoming the Lord himself.

God. Each experience of caring however brief or inconclusive will be recognised as part of a whole. Avoiding too high an expectation of themselves, pastoral carers will see their work in an awareness of the whole work of God. Thus, their work will be their privilege and their prayer.'

It is a two-way process

Like prayer, pastoral care is a two-way process. One of the real benefits of caring for others is what we receive in return, though this may not have been our original intention. Mother Theresa of Calcutta once said that the West was really a 'third world' spiritually. We are so protected by our material benefits that we don't always realise that we have spiritual needs. It is often only when we involve ourselves in caring for others, that we realise how very much they are giving us. We recognise in them ourselves striving to care, to

understand and to grow. Sometimes it is through a personal loss or crisis that we get involved in a particular organisation.

What can I do to help?

Most groups for helping others in the Diocese have been formed because one concerned person meets another and asks: 'What can I do to help?' The work grows through interested and caring persons giving their time and help doing what they do best. Some help on the 'front line'; others in supporting roles. Working together they form the body of a group, which is also part of Christ's body, the Church.

Caring for the carers is also an important part of any good pastoral care scheme. Emotionally and spiritually we are only as good as our supply lines. It is of vital importance that people who offer care to others are themselves receiving support.

Without that care, there is a danger that they will become overworked and unable to give nurture to others.

The groups described here have been born out of a desire to care for people with particular difficulties.

Jesus tailored his response to specific needs and each person who approached him, saw the loving hand of God in what he did. Pastoral care is an extension of that same incarnate love of the living God at work now. It enables us to see the Holy expressed through the practical. I feel when we stand before the judgement seat of Christ, we will be judged according to how we car&1 for others. It is as important as that.

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Pastoral care is the total provision which we make for the support and nurture of people within the world in which we live. I can think of no better way to express what pastoral care is than to quote from the booklet put out by the working party of Diocesan Advisers in Pastoral Care and Counselling called Standards of Practice in Pastoral Care: 'The human race can only survive because people care. Caring is the necessary attribute which makes possible the survival of the infant, the forming of groups, and the life of societies and nations. The caring response within humanity is part of the image of the God who so orders the creation. The conscious acceptance of a pastoral care role is a conscious acceptance that the carers know themselves to be engaged in the responsiveness of

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Margaret Two years ago, Penelope Weston, the wife of the coming out of ihat I found it very difficult to meet people then Archdeacon of Oxford, started a group called Person again, and this is where a scheme like TANDEM comes in. to Person, because she felt that the Church had a part to I see it as having people involved who are aware of those play in reaching out to people isolated by mental distress. sorts of things and who are prepared to meet regularly to Jon and I were involved. Her vision was of a network of - do ordinary things like going to the cinema or for a cofbefriending schemes across the Diocese. The TANDEM fee or whatever. It's about meeting people where they are scheme will be started modestly as a pilot project in and being alongside them. This to me is crucial.

Oxford City, with links with one or two churches. It will be evaluated to provide a model for future initiatives in Margaret Befriending is not about being a professional, other parts of the Diocese. Further outreach will depend but you do need mental health awareness. People who on getting more funding. Complementing the excellent would like to be volunteers will be interviewed because work undertaken by Archway during the past 15 years, regular commitment and the right approach is essential.

TANDEM's aim is to train and support ordinary people, We are currently planning the training course and there who may be church members, to enable them to reach will be opportunities to tap into other relevant training out to people who are battling with mental distress, programmes. It's more a matter of learning quite a bit about mental health and then pushing it to the back of Jon Befriending is a bit of a buzz word. It means different your mind. It's also about not being too worried if somethings to different people. What we envisage is a kind of one is hearing voices or having troubling thoughts but partnership between people which is mutual, just accepting that this is something the other person has to deal with and that he or she has an enormous Margaret This emphasis on equal partnership is vital. In amount to give back in return. All of us go through penTANDEM, a volunteer will be put in touch with someone ods of depression, anxiety or vulnerability when we need seeking our support to help them to find ways of becom- to lean on other people. Volunteers will need to know ing integrated into the kind of social activity that would what to do if someone was in a really stressed situation best suit them. I also have this vision of not just a one to and about how the mental health system works. There one service, although that is important, but also of will be back-up from the central Oxford community menfriendly, informal groups. The idea of Church should not tal health team as well as our support and training. be thrown at people for whom it would be unacceptable but, of course, links with church groups offer varied Jon Bowden is studying theology on the StAlban's and Oxford opportunities for joining in community life.

Ministry Course and is a member of SS Mary and John Church.

Margaret Coombs trained as a mental health social worker and is Jon The most important thing is contact. When I was married to a Vicar. If you would like to find out more about TANexperiencing depression and was very low, I had very lit- DEM, ring Margaret Coombs on 01865 724343 orJo Saunders tle contact with anyone and very little to say. When I was 01865 208213.

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Standing up for family life

Social changes in attitudes to marriage and family life have had an unsettling effect on many people. The Diocesan Family Life and Marriage Education (FLAME) group works to support and Sustain education in family life, marriage and the whole range of human relationships.

Here in the Diocese of Oxford, FLAME offers training in parenting skills. We can provide courses for parents of 0-five-year olds, five-12year olds and teenagers. There are also courses on sex education and on parent assertiveness - very valuable! The aim is to help parents develop secure, loving relationships with their children, with an emphasis on listening and encouragement.

The training programmes also include the needs of parents and children for space and strategies for dealing with conflict. These courses are used widely throughout Britain and are highly recommended by bodies such as the Health Visitors Association.

There are training courses available in marriage preparation and renewal. We also have an excellent programme for step families called 'Learning to Step Together'.

In all it - does, FLAME seeks to affirm people in their wish to strengthen their relationships and to help them to grow and understand the stresses of life. We would be happy to provide a speaker to talk about FLAME. For more information please contact Heather Llewellyn on 01491 680718 or Jo Saunders, Social Responsibility Officer on 01865 208213.

See more about FLAME's support for marriage on page 9.

All is not well in the countryside Nick Read writes about how the Church is responding to a hidden problem

Rural Idyll or'prison?

'How blest is he who leads a country life, unvexed with anxious cares and void of strife.' Dryden's words are, for

many, the prevailing image of rural England, and not without cause.

Living in the countryside can be extremely restful and is the chosen lifestyle of many. However, this image of rurality only serves to mask the very real stress and depression felt by a significant minority of country people at some period of their lives. The Rural Stress Information Network (RSIN) is a national charity which is establishing a support matrix for those in rural communities who feel distressed and even suicidal. A recent caller to the Network who farmed a county council smallholding

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Nearly 5,000 people kill themselves every year. However, the Church has often chosen to ignore this difficult subject. Its last report on the subject was 'Ought suicide to be a crime?' published as long ago as 1959.

SASH, the Diocesan group concerned with issues of Suicide and Self Harm, came into being following a Continuing Ministerial Education workshop in October 1995. The workshop was led by Chris Tadman-Robins, a non-stipendiary priest at Burford in Oxfordshire, soon after he had been awarded a Westminster College higher degree in theology with a thesis which focused on suicide and the Christian response. A small group under the chairmanship of the Revd Ivor Cornish was formed as a result of the workshop.

The SASH group see their main tasks as: 1)To encourage theological thought about suicide. Is it in fact always wrong? What does the Bible have to say on the subject and what are the relevant Christian insights?

2) To support people affected by suicide - those faced with taking the funeral of a person who has committed suicide, who need prayers which are suitable and sensitive to the occasion, and those who are responsible for the pastoral care of the bereaved.

3) To encourage awareness of the possibility of suicide especially in those groups who are particularly at risk. Members of SASH have worked in Oxford Colleges and in schools and are available to preach or talk to deanery or other groups.

SASH will be running a training day for FOCUS (se above) in April, and on March 1 will be involved with the Pastoral Resources Exhibition at D,iocesan Church House. We are al in touch with other groups in he Diocese concerned with pastor care. \ Ivor Cornish The Revd Ivor Cornish i\ an NSM in Hawridge, Bucks. He caA be contacted about SASH on 01296 630345.

remarked that 'this farm feels like a prison, without the barbed wire'. In danger of bankruptcy, and thereby losing both his business and his home, this young man was in a severely depressed condition.

Farmers are categorised as a 'high risk group': they have a suicide rate which is twice the average for men of comparable age. Vets are three and half times more likely to commit suicide than other men. But there are other groups of people living in rural communities who face pressures such as isolation. These include mothers with young children, the elderly, teenagers, the unemployed and people from ethnic minorities. Those suffering from stress aren't present in large numbers - which ironically is part of the problem - if they were then they would be acknowledged and something could be done to help. One of the critical factors is access to reasonably priced and convenient public transport. Although statistics show

that employment is rising in rural areas thiough industries such as tourism and the development of information technology, the same statistics rarely indicate that tourism is poorly paid and seasonal, and that high-tech jobs are normally unsuitable for those made redundant from agriculture and forestry. Women in particular often have very limited choices of employment. Much of the deprivation in rural communities is masked by the surrounding wealth.

To whom, therefore, can people turn when they feel lonely, isolated or simply depressed? Certainly the Church remains one of the few national organisations with a commitment to rural, as well as urban, communities. It can make a difference, and RSIN is part of the Church's response to the hiddenness of rural stress. For further details contact Nick Read at the Arthur Rank Centre (Tel: 01203 412 916) See also From the Bishop page 10

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Openness to God's Word January 23 Is being open to the Spirit the same thing as being open to the Word?

Does God know the future? January 30 Guest lecturer: Paul Helm, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, King's College, London

Gifts versus Fruits of the Spirit February 6 Are they the same? Equally important? Equally available?

Christian Counselling and Modem Psychology February 13 Some Christians believe Christian counselling is wrong if it applies principles of modern psychology. Is it?

HALF TERM BREAK February 20 'Folk Religion' February 27 What is it? Where can it be found? Is it good?

The Ministry of Healing Today March 6 Is there real healing available today that does not have a medical or scientific explanation?

Biblical Meditation March 13 Guest Lecturer: Campbell McAlpine, author of The Practice of Biblical Meditation

Do we make God's Promises happen? March 20 If God gives his word, do we sit still or make sure it happens?

Offices in the Church March 27 Are there Apostles today? What are Deacons? Pastors? The Significance of Palm Sunday April 3 Foretold in the Old Testament, referred to in all the Gospels, why does this day matter?

Sessions run from 16 January -3 April. 7.00- 830pm.

They are open to all who feel they would benefit from practical study of the Bible. A charge of ÂŁ10 is made if you wish to take the course study notes - which are collected week by week as you arrive - but yiu are quite welcome to come along free of charge. Notes and tapes are available by post, contact the Chapel for details. Light refrrshmenrs are available from 6 00-6 45pm (Summer term begins Friday May 1st) For further details complete the coupon below and send it to: School of Theology, Westminster Chapel, Buckingham Gate London, SW1E 6BS. Tel: 0171 834 1731 Fax: 0171 931 8600 Westminster Chapel is near Victoria (10 minutes walk) and SiJamess Park (4 minutes walk) Underground stations. It is also accessible via bus 1 routes 11,24,211 & 507. Parking is free nearby from 630pm J

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16 . local news Couple who drowned together on the Titanic remembered in Longcot On a dark night in April, 1912 the SS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Women and children were first into the boats but Lilian Carter, the wife of an East End Vicar, the Revd Ernest Carter, refused' to be parted from her husband. The couple were among the 1600 people who drowned that night.

In loving memory of ERNEST COURTENAY CARTER

Born 17th February 1858 and Vicar of St Jude's, Whitechapel from November 1898 to April 1912 and of LILIAN his wife daughter of Thomas Hughes the author of 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'. Born 3rd March 1867 who after 14 years of self sacrifice in the cause of religion and humanity in this parish met death when the SS Titanic foundered in the Atlantic after collision with an Iceberg on the 15th April 1912.

'Lovely and pleasant in their lives in death they were not divided.'

She refusing to leave him when offered a place in a boat.

Longcot in the Vale of the White Horse is far from the sea but there is a brass memorial plate (see above) to them in St Mary's Parish Church. A second 'plate explains that the memorial was originally in St Jude's, \'Vhitechapel but when the church was demolished, it was transferred to Longcot where Mrs Carter's uncle, John Hughes, had been the vicar. Incidentally her father, Thomas Hughes, was the author of

Tom Brown's School Days. The Revd Jim Payne, an NSM in Uffington, kindly sent us this information which is taken from an article he wrote some years ago. The memorial attracts many visitors, he says.

C E'Teddy'Vogel 1906— 1997

The Revd I Whitechurch writer of thrillers A detective thriller, Murder in the College is the last place you would expect to find an account of a meeting of the Diocesan Advisory Committee, but the author, Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch, was not only a popular novelist but a clergyman who spent much of his ministry in this Diocese. Born in 1868, he was educated and trained for ordination in Chichester before becoming Assistant Curate at Aston Clinton, Senior Curate at St Luke's, Maidenhead, Vicar of Blewbury and, in 1914, Vicar of Aylesbury. Finally he was appointed Rector of Hartwell with Stone and made an honorary Canon of Christ Church before he retired to Bognor Regis where he died in 1933. He wrote amusingly of the clergy, particularly the cathedral clergy, and one series of books is associated with the Berkshire Downs.

The Canon in Residence ran to 18 editions, but many of his 24 novels and two religious books are hard to come by, including his autobiography Concerning Himself (1909). The Very Revd Henry Stapleton, the Dean of Carlisle, urgently needs a copy of it and of the theological books in order to complete his research into Canon Lorenzo Whitechurch. Can anyone help him please? If so contact The Dean at: The Deanery, Carlisle, CA3 8TZ. It is an intriguing story. Could it be that V L Whitechurch is an unsung Diocesan hero?

Diocesan 1998 Year Beak The 1998 Year Book is out For the first time it includes Email addresses and a Diocesan Resource section with direct dial phone numbers to different departments. For a copy send £6 (postage included) to Mrs Elaine Bowman at Diocesan Church House. Cheques to 'Oxford Diocesan Publications Ltd'.

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Lessons in Witney on how to catch, your man 'Let us be fishers of men and not keepers of aquariums' a Saint once said. But the vast majority of churchgoers are women.

So how to win men for Christ and how to involve Christian men in that process is an urgent concern. In Witney Deanery they are determined to find the secret of evangelising men. Witney Deanery Development and Training Group are running a special weekend (May 1 to 3) on 'Reaching Men with the Good News of the Christian Faith' at St John's.

Carterton. It will be led by the Revd Daniel Cozens (pictured above) best known as the organiser of the 'Walk for a Thousand Men' when people in different areas spend some weeks walking together sharing their faith. He is preparing for 'Walk Kent'.

During Saturday there will be training in reaching out with Christian faith, and in the evening groups will go into local pubs to practice what they have learnt. On Friday at 8pm, Daniel Cozens will speak about outreach to men. It will be an open meeting for anyone interested in this important ministry. Details from Sister Penny Horseman. Her telephone /fax is 01993 776625.

DOOR 1998 delivery dates The DOOR will be delivered to deanery drop-off points on the following dates: February 20 March March 27 April April 24 May May 29 June June 26 July NoAugust DOOR August 28 September September 25 October October 23 November November 27 December We are sorry that there were delivery problems in some areas in October and November 1997.

Clayton Transport are doing their best to ensure that these do not recur.

CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY FOR ALL THE FAMILY

The Place Situated in Tiverton, Blundelfs School is the venue for this relaxing holiday. The school is surrounded by acres of beautifully kept grounds and offers uperb recreational activities.

choice. All those published by Eden Press will receive a copy of Kenneth Stevens excellent new book, Poetry: How to get Published, How to get Paid.

If you would like to be part of this exciting and charitable venture, please send your entries to: Ruth Byars, DOOR Easter Project, Eden Press, The Malthouse, Llangollen LL20 8HS. Entries should arrive no later than 31st January 1998.

If you would like to speak to Ruth Byars, please feel free to phone on

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Eden Press, the new Christian imprint of Penhaligon Page Limited is searching for talented Christian writers who want to share their beliefs, hopes and thoughts, through the medium of poetry, with their fellow Christians.

A collection of poetry in an Easter theme is being put together for publication in 1998 and your entries are invited. We can accept up to three poems which should be no longer than 30 lines. Your poetry can be written in any style but must be written with an Easter theme.

A prize of £50.00 will be awarded to the author of the best poem, and a donation of £200.00 will be sent to the charity of the winners

(01978) 869109.

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The Revd Charles Edward Vogel, died on December 7 at Ellesborough Manor, the home for retired clergy near Wendover. He had a distinguished career as a school master and taught at Shrewsbury before he was appointed to the staff of his old school, UCS in north London where he eventually became headmaster of the junior branch. Early in the 1940's 'Teddy' was senior master at UCS and president of the Boat club. I was lucky enough to be in two forms in which he taught Latin. Greek and Divinity. One day I asked him why Christians evangelised. 'It's natural: replied Teddy 'to want to share joys.' His integrity and faith were invariably inspiring.After retiring, he spent a year in reading and travel before preparing for ordination. His first appointment was as Curate at Little Missenden and then he joined the Ridgeway Group Team Ministry. He lived happily with his sister, Ria, at Kingston Lisle where they are both buried. 'The Two Worlds and other sermons were published in 1987. In his foreword the Archbishop of Canterbury admired the way Teddy, as a schoolmaster, had first won the affection of generations of boys, staff and parents before becoming a much loved country parson. Eleven years earlier he had casually remarked that he was 90.1 insisted that L e was only 80. 'You're right but what are ten years among so many?' It is unlikely that he had made a genuine mistake; more probably he was pulling my leg. His charm, wit and wisdom were cherished by all who knew him.

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Lots of fun, excellent food and good fellowship feature strongly in a programme of Bible teaching, elebrations and leisure activities waIving Saltmines Band Audacity, the Theatre Company, Steve Fenning, John Price and Derek Page, plus many more.

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Christian Alliance Centre, 2 Secker Street, Waterloo SEI 8UF has completed its major upgrading programme to accommodate its 121 residents in single and double, self-catering

accommodation.

The spacious Study Room, Music Room, recreational area with Pool, Table Tennis, Darts and a Gymnasium is still proving very popular with residents.

Vending

machines plus a token operated laundry system contributes to the inner and the outer person's health and enjoyment!

Our location on the South Bank makes .a 10 minute walk to. the various theatres, cinemas and other attractions an easy expense on the pocket with the Waterloo Main Line and Tube Station, buses and taxis only 4 minutes away.

Local shopping precincts Entirely supported by voluntary gifts of food, clothing, host major supermarkets money and prayer. and other stores The WE NEED YOUR HELP ALL YEAR ROUND Strand is a 12 minute Warden: Mr Tony Miller - walk across Waterloo Bridge.

Minister: Revd Richard Chapple The CAC is a residential 212 Whhlechapel Read, London El 1BJ Centre catering especially Tel. 0171 247 8280 Fax. 0171 371 5762 for young people between A Registered Charity Number 227905 to provide respite and homes for the Homeless of East London the ages of 18 and 30 years and provides accommodation for up to three years' duration. The Centre was established for the specific purpose of providing safe and affordable accommHow would you like to spend the night sleeping on this Ad? odation for young people Thousands of homeless people do precisely that. coming to London for the There are many reasons for each person: many are mentalfirst time and, after 21 ly ill. Others have alcohol or drug problems. Some simply years, it is doing just that and more! cannot Cope.

CAC functions within a There are no set rules to being homeless.

That's where The Passage can help. The Passage is more Christian environment and the Prayer Room and than a Day Centre. it's home for hundreds of 'roofless peoresident initiatives like ple each day. the Genesis Science .and We give them food, clothing and a shower. We can offer Natural History project is the 'n help: Advice, Counselling, Medical Care plus a Job a popular feature with CIL b are just some of the services preparing the way for our residents.

Cable Television, Internet rep yttlement work. and E-Mail facilities are In addition, we also operate an Emergency Night Shelter offered and Pastoral and accommodating 50 people, 365 days a year. professional counselling Ye we have to rely on your help to continue. services are available.

WHITECHAPEL MISSION

FOR THE HOMELESS AND ROOTLESS OF EAST LONDON

Who'll be sleeping on this Ad tonight?

Every homeless person we help costs an average of £5 each

dab. With many hundreds in our care, it's a thought worth sleeping on.

Contact the Deputy Manager, Mr Morton Johnston, for further

Please be generous, send your donations to:

details.

Sr Bridle Dowd DC, The Passage Day Centre, Department TO, St Vincent's, Carlisle Place, London SWIP 1NL TeIrphone enquiries to: 0171 828 4183 Pier se send me more information about The Passage

PROVIDENCE ROW

The pilgrimage is an excellent way for all those active people who want to do something positive and tangible for those in need."

For information on the pilgrimage please contact: Alex Green Marketing & Communications Officer, The Depaul Trust - I St Vincent Street, London WIM 3HD. Tel. 0171 935 0111 Fax. 0171 935 6561.

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A rr gistered charity existing to care for hoc eless people.

St Mungo's

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take people off the street, we find room for their best friend too. We make it our policy not to turn anyone away from our hostels if it can be avoided. Being in St Mungo's means a clean, warm bed in a safe haven.

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And once we accept people we do all we can to rehabilitate, retrain and resettle them. In providing accommodation for over 1000 people a night St Mungo's has set itself very high standards-indeed.

Will you help us to maintain those standards? We'd be grateful and so would homeless people in London, not

I would like to support St Mango's work with homeless people in London or please debit my

and I enclose a cheue/po fort,

LIVERPOOL CITY MISSION

so many ways you can help us continue this

Reaching into the inner-City.

Seeking to meet both practical and spiritual needs via Industrial Chaplaincies, working among the poor and homeless.

/ enclose a donation for your work..

Please debit my Mastercard LJ Visa U CharityCard J (tick) Amount £

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SI. Mtngo's, Fr.ipoil. Root,, 14, AtomIc Hoes., 14 RoCkisy Aoa4, Lends. Wit OOJ

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afford, with the coupon below.

work. Donations and enquiries to: Sister Winefride at: Providence Row, 50 Crispin Street, London El 6HQ Tel. 0171 375 0020

Re istered Charity No 287297

Last night on the street

to mention their dogs. Please send whatever you cn

back to settled living through access to acccommodation, training and long-term support.

There are

THE DEPUTY MANAGER, Mn MORTON JOHNSTON ON 0171450 4998

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Since 1860 we have been helping people find a way

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• Self-catering accommodation for young people between 18 & 30 yrs • Double and single rooms • TV rooms, SKY television. gymnasium, 24-hour reception service, good security, senior staff member always on duty, resident participation, prayer room, study room, laundry, vending machines, music practice room, counseiling/Pastorial service • Cheapest rates in the very centre of London • Alsy ideal for UK young people coming to London for the first time • Happy atmosphere and telephone in all rooms.

Rates and other information on request, apply to.

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Building on our long tradition of a Christian and professional response to the homeless and dispossesed.

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some of the most needy people in our society with the SVP performing 1.5 million home visits a year in England & Wales to families and individuals in material and other need. Together they provide housing for young homeless people, the basics for the impoverished, holidays for the disadvantaged, food centres, support for the isolated and people with disabilities throughout the country.

(Registered Charity 207454)

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Please mako cheques payable to The Passage

The St Vincent de Paul Society, in partnership with The Depaul Trust, are planning a very special event. On May 2nd 1998 a journey in the footsteps of St Vincent will begin. The journey starts in London, then on to Paris for the pilgrimage to begin. The walkers will go from Dax, along the spectacular Pyrenean ridge, to Roncevaux on the frontier between France and Spain.

At the end of the walk thg pilgrims will attend a celebratory mass at St Lazare, St Vincent's final resting place.

We are looking for 100 pilgrims who are prepared to take up the challenge to walk 20 KM a day for five days and in doing so raise money for the important works of the SVP and the Depaul Trust.

As well as being a great adventure this will be a spiritual journey for all those who take part...

This journey's end will mean the SVP and the Depaul Trust can use the money raised to help people begin their own journey towards a more hopeful future.

Jim O'Connor - National President of the initiatives St Vincent de Paul Society said: "The pigrimage in the footsteps of St Vincent is a great opportunity to promote the important work and raise much needed funds for both the SVP and The Depaul Trust.

"The charities work with

THE CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE HOUSE ASSOCIATION LTD. THE CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE CENTRE 2 SECKER STREET, WATERLOO SE! 8UF

please tick if you prefer us not to pass on your details to other charities

for further details

Date: Cheques khould be made payable to Providence Row

Mission of Caring on Skidrow Thr Simon Community is a registered charity

Please send me further information about the work Providence Row

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We aim to work with those who are unable to acc t existing help, and for whom no other _-

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PLEASE BE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS PEOPLE

of homelessness. ,' We can send you the following information and resources free:

BOOKS No, 'ixed Abode

Our History by Anton Wallich-Clifford

Car sg on Skidrow

Our Philosophy and practice by A Wall ich-Clifford A collection of Street histories by Neil

The Untouchables

Ansell Homelessness in

Sch sis

Overview 1994 Stre t Cafe resource pack 199

Postcards (packs of 10

for fl) tonations of food, blankets and underwear

2-10 May, 1998

Church Housing Trust is a charity offering security, independence, rehabilitation and support for homeless people of all ages. Your true Christian friendship can transform the lives of homeless people.

SUPPORT Please pray for our work and help with a donation so this work can grow. Please give your support, 'Church now, by returning the coupon to: Housing FRIENDS DEPARTMENT, CHURCH Trust

HOUSING TRUST, SUTHERLAND HOUSE, 70-78 WEST HENDON Charity No. 80290i BROADWAY, LONDON NW9 7BT. 1 r I would like to become 'a Friend to Homeless People.

Reg,

J Please accept my donation of £ J Please send me details of your work

would be gratefully received

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Name and Title

Reply to:

M Ewan Brown, Joint Community Leader The Simon Community, P0 Box 1187 London NWS 4HW Telephone: 0171 485 6639

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"Take a walk in the Pyrenees mountains and make other people feel better!"

• Pilgrimage starts and ends in Paris

• Only £200* plus minimum sponsorship

• Explore the birthplace of St Vincent de Paul

• Flights, food and accommodation included

* refundable to top fundraisers Call now: 0171 935 0111

• Walk along the spectacular Pyrenean ridge

SVP charity No. 1053992 The Depaul Trust Charity No. 802384 I am unable to take part in the pilgrimage, but would like to make a donation: Please find my donation of £ Ref: DOORO/97 Payable to "Depaul Footsteps account" Mr/Mrs/Ms Address Postcode Please send c/o The Depaul Trust, FREEPOST 19 L0N8424, LONDON W1E 5AL

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COUNSELLING COURSES Founded in 1988 as an evangelical, non-denominational independent school by parents and Tutor supported distance learning teachers concerned to provided educational Dip!oma in Clinical & Pastoral excellence in a Christian environment.

Cl) Counselling Skills (DipCPC) The School offers: Z ACC recognised A caring educational context. 1 0 Now with University accreditation (CATS) Provisions for children aged 4 2-13 Counselling: Theory, Psychology & Stress (plus a Nursery Class from 3 years) Free prospectus: No stamp required 0 Small class sizes. ~14 M nstitute of Counselling Places for children from Christian or non-Christian families.

Freepost D07HK1 ow wit CATS Realistic fees.

Glasgow Gi 4BR oint For further Information please contact the 0141 204 2230 School at Sandford Road, Littlemore, Oxford 4PU or telephone (01865) 395236 nJ

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ST MARY'S SCHOOL

Independent boarding and day school for 310 girls aged 11-18 • Strong academic tradition with the majority of girls going on to University • Various scholarships offered at 11+. 12+ and for sixth form entry • Great emphasis is placed on pastoral care and successful tutor system • Excellent facilities including modern well-equipped laboratories, computer centres, art studios, music schools and theatre • Comprehensive extra-curricular activities programme with special emphasis on music, art, drama and s1ssrt • Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme • Day places are available throughout the school

Telephone: 01249 857220 Facsimile: 01249 857207 St Mary's School has its own co-cducatii,nal day preparatory school for boys and girls aged 4-I1 years within its grounds • We aim to provide a happy environment in which boys and girls will learn the value of hard work and how to accept discipline and responsibility • Classes are small with a dedicated and well qualified staff • Children are thoroughly prepared for entrance examinations to Independent senior schools • The school has an impressive record of success in academic and musical scholarships Early registration is essential as some classes are already fuU for September 1998 and 1999

For prospectus please contact either schools office The school has charity Status no A309482 and exists for the education of children

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Ask several Christians what the word 'church' means for them and their answers may range from a building to the mystical Communion of Saints, a house

ferent experience and of church, but are such differences necessarily divisive? What motivates the continuing search for visible Christian unity? How can we develop the ecumenical life of our church to a worldlocal churches? wide ecclesiastical A study group based structure. on Churches Together We each have a difin North Oxford has

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NORTH FORELAND LODGE Independent Boarding and Day School for Senior Girls 11-18 years EDUCATING GIRLS SINCE 1844 CHURCH OF ENGLAND INDEPENDENT DAY, WEEKLY AND FULL BOARDING SCHOOL

SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED at It,, 12+,13. 61h Fun,, and Perfurttiing Art, Enaninaiiom: Saturday Iltt January, 1998 Saturday 7th February, 1998 Concessons for Anglican Clergy Telephone: 016117326C Fn: 01629 733956

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Small teaching groups n High academic standards Extensive modern facilities Excellent A-level and GCSE results A broad range of extra-curricular activities Entry at 11+, 12+, 13+ and Sixth Form Academic and Music Scholarships available for suitable candidates For farther informttmion. please contact:

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An independent Co-Educational day and boarding school situated on the border of Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire overlooking Chepstow Castle and Wye Valley

Our superb facilities are available for use by Church/ Youth groups and for company conferences.

St. John's is conveniently located within close proximity to the M4/M5 interchange and both Severn Bridges.

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SOME DATES NOW AVAILABLE FOR SUMMER 1988

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NEW Bible reading material for 1998 NEW A whole year's material in each book NEW NEW NEW • House group NEW material NEXA1 Bible • Sermon notes reading notes NEW International NEW' Bible Reading Association NEW Words for Today & Light for our Path £3.99 each

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Write today for details of membership to: ACT, 94A London Road, St Albans, Herts ALl 1 NX or phone: 01727 840298 Regtsted Charity No 295328 Company Limited by Guarantee: Registered No 2056400

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Choristers sing Choral Evensong on

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THE DOOR

What's your impression of the obliterate the picture postcard Philippines? I am sure paradise image the Philippines offers beaches and clear blue skies top travellers.

These people did not focus on your list. But when I went there last year with CMS I came face what they hadn't got, but on to face with the stark reality of sharing with us the little they did have. Sacrifice is the true poverty.

I discovered that by the age nature of generosity. Faith and of six, some Filipinos spend action were soldered together.

Part of our time was spent their days working as prostitutes. What became very real to working with the young people, me is that these facts are not including preparing a field for just something you read about - cultivation (the heat and hard these are real people, just like work made us really appreciate English weather!) and painting you and me.

Accompanied by a Christian the outside of a church with who was working in the slums, white wash - however the monI visited one of the squatter com- soon rain rendered this task munities of Manila. The stench futile as no sooner had we done of maturing urine and moulder- it than a typhoon came!

The overall aim was to see the ing rubbish was horrific. People, some of whom had lived there Philippines as the Filipinos do for ten years, lived in huts no and that was a privilege. The bigger than my bed at home. Yet impact I had on those people everywhere I went I was greeted may never be known, but the by smiling faces. For me memo- impact they had on me will ries of that day will always never be forgotten.

The 1998 Diocesan Children's Gift Days Foundation organises the National Junior Games in association with the British Sports Association for the Disabled. There games take the form of Have-A-Go ,sessions in a wide range of disability sports with coaching offered from elite athletes who act as role models. In addition the foundation organises a Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp to provide youngsters with disabilities an opportunity to be coached in a range of sports.

Rachel Hookway,of Goring who went to the Philippines with CMS, and Helen Lee from Reading who was working in Romania with World Horizons, were supported with bursaries from the Diocesan Youth Committee 1998 is the Foundation's Golden Jubilee and one of its. aims is to raise money to purchase sports wheelchairs for children. Each chair costs about ÂŁ1,500.

This is where this year's Children's Gift Days fits in as through the project pack 'Going for Gold' children in church groups and church schools can discover more about how children and young people with disabilities can enjoy and benefit from DISCOVER A NEW WORLD

sporting activities, and how many of them go on to take part in the Paralympics and set new world records! The money raised will go towards buying sports wheelchairs.

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Linked up to the world Welford and Wickham CE Primary School This attractive school was built in the 1860s to serve the villages of Welford and Wickham, about seven miles north west of Newbury.

The school is situated in Wickham and has 36 pupils on roll at present. It is a small school with only two classes.

However, the reputation and successes of the school have become internationally renowned since Mrs Sonia Crisp took over as headteacher about four years ago.

The OFSTED inspection in June 1996 recognised the school's many strengths.

One is the way staff develop pupils' standards of literacy, numeracy, and independent research skills through the use of computers. In fact Welford and Wickham is the first primary school in England to have children designing their own 'web pages' on the Internet. The children now see 'going on line' as part of their daily routine.: The school has achieved a global reputation through its Internet links and has attracted visitors from all over the world.

Many are astounded that such achievements are possible in a tiny school. Links have been set up with schools and individuals across the world which have led to pupil and staff exchanges with schools in Norway and France. They have been featured in a video about children's use of computers, soon to be released in aid of the NSPCC, on TV, radio and in the national press. There is no doubt that the children of this fine old school gain a great deal from their success. The knowledge that the world takes an interest in them builds their confidence and self esteem. Long may it continue.

Berinsfield Church welcomes Her Majesty

The Queen signs the visitors' book

(Above) The Queen receives a posy from Lloyd Woodington (aged four) watched by his parents and Dr Tim Hums.

(Top left) The Queen has tea with members of the Day Centre, the Silver Threads and the John Masefield Cheshire Home. (Below) With young servers from the church: Louise and Emily Hiles, Siobham Seeney and Paul Holden

On her arrival, the Queen and the Lord Lieutenant for Oxfordshire, Hugo Brunner are greeted by the Vicar, the Revd AndrewTawn, and Team Rector and Rural Dean, Canon John Crowe. (Below) A thank you card, signed by everyone present, was given to the Queen by Jan Hues, an ordinand from the church

November 27, 1997 will never be forgotten in SS Mary and Berm. Church in the Oxfordshire village of Berinsfield. 'Why is the Queen coming?' was everyone's reaction to the news of her visit. The answer came from Buckingham Palace: 'The village has been chosen because, although less affluent than some parts of South Oxfordshire, it is a dynamic community where there is clear vision and a sense of purpose'. After stops at the Health Centre, school and sports centre, the Queen arrived at the church, where she met members of the Anglican and Roman Catholic congregations, and representatives of community groups. 'The congregation is involved in many village organisations. The church was a natural focal point for the community to meet the Queen', said the Vicar, Andrew Tawn. 'She found time to talk to nearly everyone and to sit down for tea with some residents before she departed, Photographs by Frank Blackwell leaving behind many proud memories'.

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Th is is one of the deceptively simple sayings ofJesus. It doesn't mean that putting on the 'yoke' of Jesus involves lesser demands than, say, the law of Moses, nor that being his disciple is a bed of roses. After all, he has made it plain that following him involves 'taking up the cross daily' - and during Lent we become familiar with the call to 'deny ourselves'.

Yet his burden is 'light'. The Greek word used in the Gospels usually means 'kind'. The yoke of Jesus is light or kind because he would not load us with cruel or unnecessary burdens, and because - most crucially - the burden is to be shared, not carried on our own. Jesus does place responsibilities on his disciples. Of course he does. But he then offers to share them with us, if we 'come to him'.

And that is the heart of the matter. The burden we carry at his command was never meant to be a solo task!

Yet often we are reluctant to 'come to him' for help with it, as though this would in some way be an admission of personal failure. Many of us know this feeling from daily life - a task is causing us worry and anxiety, but to admit we need help would suggest we weren't 'up to it' in the first place.

'Come to me,' says Jesus, 'with your burden. Let's share it. That way it will seem light'.

Th is reflection is based on David Winter's book Forty Days with the Messiah (BRF, £5.99). Canon Winter is an assistant priest in the Hermitage Team Ministry.

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