#119 February 2001 by Diocese of Oxford

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Dare to share?, There was a new atmosphere at Synod. People didn't just talk about the principles and values of evangelisation, they began to practice them the new name for the Diocese of Oxford's principles, priorities and values for evangelisation, was the theme running right through the first meeting of the newly elected Diocesan Synod in High Wycombe in November. A more informal style, with group discussion and a shared lunch, helped members to experience the shared life in Christ amid the legal business, which included endorsing the Sharing Life document. Out of our 29 Deaneries, 23 had responded by the summer to the consultation paper A Strategy for Evangelisaion 2000-2010, said Canon Simon Brown, the new Synod Vice-chairman. These next ten years after the Decade of Evangelism should be a matter of mission, not just maintenance, for all our parishes. There is no 'quick fix' that will solve the problems of the decline in Church attendance, Canon Chris Neal, Diocesan Director of Evangelisation, told Synod. We need to build community where we can accept each other, and work together as the body of Christ, equipping each other for servant leadership. We 'SHARING LIFE',

should allow our worship to be 'touched by the transformation of God', rather than 'buying into the consumerism of the age', and we should remember that we are a pilIT FELT LIKE NEW START 'It was so good for Diocesan Synod not only to discuss 'Sharing Life' but to put its new culture into practice.The 'top table' was swept away and immediately removed barriers, physical and social. The Deanery group discussions encouraged every synod member to contribute to the process, not just those who are articulate. Sharing our food table together was a potent symbol of the early Church, a vibrant Gospel and inclusion in community. In this atmosphere one could genuinely believe that, the Church is making a new start.' a visitor at Synod

grim Church. 'God is always on the move, and calls us to move with him,' he said. There were lively discussions in Deanery groups about how to turn the responses to the evanglisation consultation paper into concrete actions; the suggestions were collated and circulated

to members afterwards. The Sharing Life leaflet will now go to members of PCCs, Boards and Councils as a summary of Diocesan policy. Bishop Richard said that he was setting up an implementation committee which would ensure that the Sharing Life strategy would be taken into every aspect of the life of the Oxford Diocese.

Convention enthm Around 220 parishes had responded to the preliminary leaflet about a Diocesan in High Convention Wycombe in 2002, giving ideas for speakers and activities and sending money, said Alan Wilson, Chairman of the Planning Group. Nearly £20,000 had been received from parishes, making it feasible to go ahead and Synod voted with enthusiasm that it should do so. It will not be a fully residential conference like Bognor, but will probably offer a range of events targeted at specific groups and a chance for all to share progress on Sharing Life. Report by Clare Wenham

See also New People page 3 Sharing Life full text page 10 & 11 From the Bishop page 8

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Christians in the Oxfordshire town of Witney followed the success of their June March for Jesus with a free street breakfast on 16 December. Outside the main Post Office (left to right) Stephanie (10) and Ruth Gittelson (8) and Rosanna Purkiss (5) can't wait to sample their hot dogs. A big turn out of helpers from all the churches shared out breakfasts, distributed balloons, sang carols, and gave information on Christmas services.

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0 31io Change for One World USPG Steps Fourth! Jo Saunders, Diocesan Officer for Social Responsibility, reports on the celebratory service for the Revd Canon Christopher Hall

In recognition of his service to the Oxford Diocese, Christopher Hall was appointed an Honourary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral. His installation took place on 14 December at a service presided over by the Bishop of Oxford. Pictured above is Canon Christopher Hall with his wife Viviane, son Robin and daughter-in-law Dorothy. Photo Frank Blackwell

NEARLY 200 people gathered. in Dorchester Abbey on the evening of the 30 November to celebrate the ministry of the Revd Canon Christopher Hall, who is retiring as the Coordinator of Christian Concern for One World (CCOW) at the end of the year. The Bishop of Oxford presided at A Holy Communion service which had an ecumenical flavour. At the offertory members of CCOW carried symbols of the group's work to the altar with objects from various countries around the world from chains for the Jubilee 2000 Campaign, bananas and baby milk through to the bread and wine offered by Christopher and his wife Viviane. The atmosphere of the service was warm and informal and reflected Christopher's commitment to co-operation and participation at all levels. Christopher's successor, Ruth Parkyn, will be welcomed at a service of 'induction and blessing' at Christ Church, Stantonbury Campus, Milton Keynes on 2 February at 6.30pm.

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At the end of his first year as Diocesan Evangelisation Officer Chris Neal tells the Editor vtrj he is so excited aheut Sharing Life CHRIS you have been in your

role as Diocesan Director of Evangelisation for just a year. As you reflect on that year what are the highlights and what are the key issues? Chris: My first reaction is one of thankfulness. It has been a privilege to meet so many different people in such varied situations, and yet to find that there is a common desire on the part of individuals and groups to find what God's Spirit is saying to His Church in these days.

Does that surprise you? Chris: No - I think there is a growing recognition that simply 'doing church' as we have always done it is no longer connecting with the culture and society in which we are living. Some people find that very hard to cope with, but many more recognise God may well be calling us into something new. The other thread which has run through my work of the past year is that there are many expressing real hope and expectation - and that must be a mark of vibrant Christian community. The whole biblical record is of God's people living

with risk and vulnerability, and yet discovering they could put their faith in God who was with them and never abandoned them. This seems to me to be supremely modelled in the cross of Jesus. Despite all the evidence Jesus trusted His Father even to the point of death (and let us not forget it was a real agonising death), and discovered, by faith and trust, that there was resurrection and new life beyond death. I believe that in our individual discipleship and wherever Christians gather in community we need to express an exuberant willingness to lose ourselves in God's purposes.

How does all this connect with 'Sharing Life'? Do you feel excited about it? Chris: The simple answer is yes, I feel very excited about 'Sharing Life'. I actually believe it will be a very significant moment for the life of the church in this part of God's world. I believe that the 'Sharing life' document is the result of a process which involved many different people in different ways; it is though, important to see it as part of a process. If we say that the inte-

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gral part of our calling is to be a pilgrim people, then I believe that 'Sharing Life' is an important step on the journey which God's Spirit is showing to us. Second, I believe Diocesan Synod's unanimous and enthusiastic endorsement of the document was a defining moment. I believe we shall see it, in the course of time, as the point when we committed ourselves to the risk of seeking God's Spirit to be and then to 'do' church in new ways.

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Chris: Yes! I think the key to 'Sharing Life' is to recognise it is not a call to frenzied activity and programmes in a desperate bid to stem the tide of cultural and social challenges. Rather, it is a call to discover the values by which we seek to work out what it means to be a disciple in the 21st century, and how we seek to be church which reflects God's kingdom, and live as community working out those Kingdom values.

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Tower captains honoured John Butler had been tower captain of St Andrew's Bradfield, in Berkshire, for 60 years when he was given a MBE in the New Years Honours list for services to bell-ringing in Bradfield. He is 95 years old and has been ringing bells in the parish for about 75 years. In 2000, Walter Hillary, of Crowthorne, completed a total of 25 years as

Tower Captain of the band of bellringers at St. Michael's Church, Sandhurst. He was presented with an engraved bell, commemorating this achievement, by the present Tower Captain, Janet Minhennick. During the 25 years, he has maintained the operation of the bells and has also regularly wound the church clock mechanism.

One last word Chris? Prayer, we will only discover these values, see the vision, and live by the priorities when we commit ourselves to prayer.

If you would like to: a) commit yourself in praying for evangelisation throughout the diocese and receive a Prayer NETWORK card to aid informed prayer. b) Attend the 'Sharing Life' Building the Church in the Work Place Day Conference on Saturday 24 March, 945am 4pm at St Mary's Church, Thame (cost £10 includes lunch) Contact Katrina on 01844 216097, emaul:katrina@strnars.psa-online.com

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\ews Action on Rural White Paper 3sho os at 3roakfast THE LONG awaited rural

white paper was published on 28 November. A summary was circulated in January to incumbents and curates in the Oxford Diocese by the Revd Glyn Evans, Diocesan Rural and Regional Officer. With it went a leaflet outlining the references to churches in the Paper. In addition the Arthur Rank Centre has produced a helpful response which will enable parishes to prepare an action plan in response to the issues raised by the White Paper. The full white Paper is available on the web site http://www.detr.gov.uk 'It has to be said that many of the proposals in the RWP are yet to be realised such as

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the proposal to reduce VAT on Church buildings to 5%, and the proposed Community Development Fund of ÂŁlSm which churches will be able to apply to for project development, and the consultation process which will look at the responsibilities of parish councils. 'So it is important to await further announcements!' said Glyn Evans. Glyn Evans, is happy to be invited to parishes and deaneries to discuss the issues raised by the RWR Contact him on 01608 674313 or glynevans@goldserve.net

God speed the plough Some rural churches celebrated Plough Sunday in January. Glyn Evans says:

A taste of Double o Heaven in Botley and Cumnor The visible sign was the blue Kings Community Church bus

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Polly Vacher from St Peter's Church Drayton near Abingdon set out on 12 January on the 'Ultimate Adventure' to fly her Piper Dakota G-FRGN solo around the world. She will cover 24,000 miles and cross 17 countries during the flight to raise money for flying scholarships for disabled people. On Sunday 7 January, Polly and her 'chief supporter', her husband Peter, (pictured with the Reverend Dorothy Derrick and the Reverend Theresa Scott) were sent out with a blessing from St Peter's. The church's name is painted on the plane's wings along with those of other sponsors and Polly is taking a letter of greeting to Anglican Provinces along the way. There is more about Polly's flight on

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which drew inquisitive children inside, but very few adults. But inside homes and halls snacks or meals provided relaxing settings for personal testimonies; a presentation on and Christianity' 'Art entranced, while a session on 'Genetics and the Future' initiated lively questions. Public figures told private stories, and showed God 'loving us and getting his hands dirty.' The results of our Double o Heaven mission? Only God really knows, but, we have new links with the Springboard team and stronger links between our churches; new faces in church and some ,more confident' Christians' wanting to explore their faith; new links between the church and our community, but many lives still untouched. It was exhausting but exhilarating and all thanks to that first 'yes' to God's vision for us. Rosemary Peirce

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'Prayers for the success of the ploughing are essential this year. Thousands of acres of land are still unploughed because of the floods and the agricultural crisis continues to bite deep with over 23,000 jobs lost in farming last year.'

A video Help is at hand about support for farmers, recently produced by the Rural Stress Information Network, is being shown at a conference on Rural Stress in East Berkshire on 1 February. It is available for loan from Glyn Evans on 01608 674313. Glyn Evans has a new address The Diocesan Rural and Regional officer, the Revd Glyn Evans lives at the same place but the address is new: Juxon House, Little Compton Moreton-in Marsh GL56 OSE.

Give teachers a break says Danny Sullivan The Diocese is losing able and experienced head teachers who feel the need to retire early from the profession, says the Diocesan Director of Education, Danny Sullivan. Young teachers after five or six years in the profession and often because they are settling down with partners, become concerned about the overwhelming demands teaching makes on their whole lives often at the expense of family life. Primary teachers are particularly affected because they can't benefit from 'non contact' lesson preparation time outside the classroom. A letter written to David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, on behalf of the Diocesan Board of Education highlighted these problems. 'It is a challenging experience for our Board to hear from able and successful head teachers just how overwhelmed they feel by the heavy demands and expectations laid upon them,' the letter says.

2000 the programme committee of the Network for Anglicans in Mission and Evangselism (NAME) met for breakfast and Communion at the home of the Bishop of Oxford and his wife. Pictured (left to right) are Canon Dr Chris Sugden (Executive Secretary of NAME), Bishop Robert Duncan (Pittsburgh), Archbishop Donald Mtetemela (Tanzania), Bishop Richard Harries, Dr Jo Harries, Bishop French ChangPhoto by Frank Blackwell Him (Seychelles), and Bishop David Evans.

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Bridging the gap with the media A new interactive Christian news website is being developed in the Oxford Diocese by the Churches Media Trust (CMT) working alongside the Churches' Advisory Council for Local Broadcasting (CACLB). It will work like a newsroom with churches feeding stories to the website for accessing by the media. 'Churches can't expect to be taken seriously unless they are prepared to make time to understand what drives the media today,' said the new chairman of CMT, former radio presenter Gill Poole who is also area representative for CMS. 'More positively, church and media both need help understanding what can be achieved when we act in harmony. That is where CMT can help,' she says. Gill, who took up the reins in her new volunteer role in December alongside a small management support team., has been a Trustee since CMT began. 'I keep finding churches and media don't understand each other at all,' she says, 'but it needn't be like that. We don't need to stay in our defensive trenches, eyeing each other across the abyss of suspicion and waiting for the next stinging salvo to be launched.' She paid tribute to Mark Rudall who recently concluded six months as development worker for CMT 'We are thrilled with this vision for a new kind of website that came out of Mark's work' Gill Poole said. Enquiries about Churches Media Trust should be made via the Anglican Diocesan Communications Office, Diocesan Church House, North Hinksey, Oxford 0X2 ONB 01865 208224 or email to markarudall.freeserve.co.uk

Inspire: young people and worship On Saturday 3 March Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe will resound to the worship of 'Inspire' from 9.30 to 4pm. It's an all day collection of workshops to encourage up to 250 young people to express themselves in worship whatever their church tradition or style of worship.To find out more contact Andrew Gear, Diocesan Youth Advisor 01865 208253 or visit the Oxford Diocesan website

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NEW FACES was elected chairman of the House of Laity at the Diocesan Synod on 25 November. Penny, who has been a member of Diocesan Synod since 1976 and has also been a member of General Synod, is deanery Lay chairman of Milton Keynes. She lives with her husband Peter in Stony Stratford where she is a member of St Mary and St Giles Church. The couple have two grown up daughters. Penny brings to her new role an unusual qualification. As a lay person she completed what is now called the St Albans and Oxford Ministry course. She is a popular figure in Diocesan Synod. Her ability to speak out with common sense and courage on difficult subjects and to pour oil on troubled waters bodes well for her chairmanship. She ended her election address with the words: 'I love the Oxford Diocese and am proud to have been asked to stand for election as lay chairman'. The Bishop of Oxford paid a warm tribute to the retiring lay chairman, Dr Philip Giddings who has been in post since the 1980's. Penny Keens also acknowledged his enormous contribution to the life of the Diocese. Philip has been re-elected as vicechairman of the House of Laity of the General Synod and remains a member of the Archbishops' Council. PENELOPE KEENS

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St Birinus Pilgrimage The Preacher at this year's St Birinus Pilgrimage Service on 8 July will be the Most Revd Vincent Nicols, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham. Full details of this year's Pilgrimage will be sent out in the next Diocesan mailing.

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ARCHDEACONRY OF BUCKINGHAM Bishop of Buckingham The Rt Revd Mike Hill, Sheridan, Grimms Hill, Great Missenden, Bucks HP16 9BD Tel: 01494 862173. Fax: 01494 890508. E-mail: bishopbucks@oxford.anglican.org Archdeacon The Venerable David Goldie, 60 Wendover Road, Aylesbury, Bucks H P21 9LW Tel: 01296 423269. Fax: 01296 397324. E-mail: archdbuc@oxford.anglican.org

For further information and an application form please contact: Mrs Elaine Bowman, Personnel Administrator, Diocesan Church House, North Hinksey, Oxford 0X2 ONB Tel: 01865 208201 F<: 01865 790470 Email: personnel@dch.oxford.anglican.org

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Answering the call to youth work and many use this time as a rite of exit from the church. 'We recognise that each parish cannot afford a full-time youth worker. The working party therefore feel that a deanery approach may be a way to approach the problem,' says Janet Collins, chairman of the project group. They also hope to involve other denominations, she said. Funds are available to support a research-based appointment up to 12 months. The objectives include investigating how best the parishes might work more closely togethet and working out a job description for a full-time deanery based youth worker. The volunteer will receive an allowance and will be supported by mentors. Accomodation could also be available. For details contact Mrs Janet Collins on 01608 737515.

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Michael's, Sandhurst meant the removal of a carpet from the chancel and the discovery of the original Victorian floor Martin Conway is the new tiles, which the congregation Chairman of the Diocesan agreed should remain uncovBoard of Social Responsibility ered. This left the stone step by (BSR) in succession to the the Communion rail bare and Revd Professor Christopher so Margaret Lee, a church Rowland. Born in Liverpool r member, decided to make a in 1935 and educated in kneeler in three sections to Scotland and Cambridge, stretch the full length of the 15 foot rail using the patterns of the tiles in her design. She started work in May 1998 hoping the kneelers would be ready for the Christmas Day 2000 services and they were. The cost of the materials was only £250, but she cannot put a value on the time spent working the 300,000 stitches, as it was a labour of love.

Martin brings to the BSR an unusual breadth of experience at home and overseas. He has worked for the Student Christian Movement and from 1974 to 1983 was Assistant General Secretary for the British Council of Churches with responsibility for unity, mission and renewal. After a short spell on the staff of Ripon College, Cuddesdon teaching 'Social Context Ministry', Martin Conway became President of the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, a group of mostly church related adult education colleges with a wide range of programmes, among them • the world leader in education into Christian-Muslim relations. He retired to Oxford in 1997 where he continues to write and to pursue his special interest in China and to be involved with the World Council of Churches. He has recently become Chairman of the Oxfordshire Council for Volutitary Action. Martin is married to Ruth, a technology teacher, and they have three grown up children and five grandchildren. 'I am glad to accept the Bishop's invitation in order to combine something of my international experience with responsibility for the communities among whom I now live', said Martin Conway.

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RULES your church (including impleabout the Faculty Jurisdiction come menting the into force on 1 Q uinquennial January 2001. The Report recomgood news is that mendation) you the new rules are need first to consimpler and clearer, sult with By John Rees Joint Diocesan and the forms are Registrar of the colour-coded. The Advisory Oxford Diocese bad news is that Committee; if you still have to fill you are undertaking major work, especially them in. As you know, any work if it involved re-ordering, it is which needs to be done to your best to put your proposals, church needs to be authorised even in very early outline form, either by the Chancellor of the to the DAC sooner rather than Diocese or by one of the later. I shall also be very happy archdeacons. There are only a to discuss the process at a early very few exceptions to this stage, if that will help. In any emergency, whether it general rule. The new rules were prompted is masonry falling through the by the Newman Report, com- roof, a boiler blowing up, or missioned by the Government broken stained glass winsome years ago. In conse- dows, the Chancellor is quence, you will find that they always willing to assist by require greater involvement of telephone, and frequently will the conservation bodies grant a Faculty within a few (English Heritage, the minutes, subject to certain Victorian Society and others) conditions being fulfilled. in the case of church buildings I shall be writing to incumthat are listed Grade I or Grade bents and churchwardens at 11*. Across the board, they also some length in the New Year, require a longer period of pub- but meanwhile do not hesitate lic notice (28 days instead of to contact myself, Frank 14). Both of these changes, I Robson or Lucy Scott in our am afraid, will slow down the office if you have a problem or process. As before, if you are a question. Our telephone proposing to do any work to number is 01865 297200. NEW

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IS GOD calling you to serve young people in a beautiful part of our Diocese? If so Chipping Norton Deanery want to hear from you. They hope to appoint an enthusiastic gap year volunteer or equivalent to head up a research programme into the type of youth work the Church needs in the 21st Century in their mainly rural deanery. The initiative has come from parishes in towns like Chipping Norton and Charlbury and also from small villages. The Deanery Training Group has been given the go ahead for the project and it is hoped that the right person can start work by September. Those already working with young people feel strongly that the Church needs to focus much more on its youth work. Reaching the 12 to 13 year olds seems to be a watershed

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Windsor not in decline HUNDREDS packed into St

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Bede Gerrard wants to meet you AN ENCOURAGING number of people braved a wet November

evening to gather in Christ Church Cathedral for the commissioning of Bede Gerrard as the new Churches Together in Oxfordshire's County Ecumenical Officer. At the annual general meeting of CTO the Revd Dr Susan Durber (St Columba's URC, Oxford), was elected as the new chairman of the Council. Bede presented his hopes for his future work, above all that he will be able to build up connetions between people in their local churches and organisations, and those at county or national level. Can you help him to do this? He would like invitations to your Local Ecumenical Project or Churches Together or to your church or event, so that he can get to know people across the county. Contact him at St Columba's URC, Alfred Street, Oxford OX1 4EH or 01865-864805; email bede.gerrard@care4free.net. More CTO news on their website wAw.communigate.co.uk/oxford/churchinoxon

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Interview... THE SPRINGBOARD for Martin's coming to faith was the realisation, in the middle of a supper par'ty, that he had to make his mind up about Christianity. This was the beginning of a new life in which the solicitor and Diocesan Registrar became director of the Archbishops' evangelism project. Now based in Abingdon, he sees evangelism not so much as taking God into the world as helping people to discover God, already there. He is married to Cesca and they have a daughter and two sons.

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MY FATHER was Ceneral Manager of the Bristol Cooperative society and we lived over the co-op in a village near Bristol. My parents scrimped and saved to educate their five sons of whom they were very proud. We were a loving family but going to church was very low on the agenda. After school I went straight into a legal practice in Bath. For some years I was very unhappy about not having gone to university, but now see that the jigsaw fits only when I look back. At 23 I got married and then joined a firm of solicitors in Wells for six months as a locum. I stayed with that firm for 21 years. It contained a specialism in Ecclesiastical Law, which after three years of partnership, I reluctantly took up. 'I came to Christ through the Church structures' In a way I came to Christ through the Church structures, because when I accepted the post of Diocesan Registrar in Bath and Wells Diocese, I knew that I wasn't a committed Christian. In fact I wouldn't have understood that phrase. I confessed to the Bishop that I attended church only three times a year, but I suspect he knew I would get infected! Sure enough after nine years of being Diocesan Registrar, I decided I had to make my mind up about Christianity. My big brother had committed suicide and I had seen my children born; but most important of all was the fact

that I was surrounded by people who shone - young and old, men and women, clergy and laity, people who had something that I wanted, real peace and gentleness, a sense of wholeness, of Shalom. Nobody asked 'Are you saved?' but years later I discovered that many people had been praying for me. That evening my life came to a fresh beginning God finally brought me to a moment one evening in December 1984, when a clergyman and his wife came to supper. We were talking about something quite different during the meal when I had a vision of a prison cell in which I was sitting. I thought I was going mad, and said, 'something's happening to me will you please help me'. Then this lovely elderly priest just took a prayer book out of his pocket and began praying from it. I don't know what he prayed. I just know that in his prayers I stood up and walked out of the prison door. Cardinal Newman, said 'Fear not that your life will come to an end, fear rather that it will never come to a beginning.' That evening my life came to a fresh beginning, which I know will be worked out for the rest of my life. There is a question which goes 'Do you know what makes God smile?' to which the answer is 'telling him your future plans'! At the time I was busy telling him about how much I loved being a lawyer and a

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Bac <grounc He lovec the T to the enc outc o we? Stephanie Bullock, Chaplain at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital Trust writes about the spiritual needs of older people. Are these needs being adequately met or do many old people feel lonely and unloved?

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getting older and there are more and more old people about. Do we get more lovely the older we get, and do people love us more as we get older? Would that were true. indeed it may be as well to add The Elderly to the list of people who need to be specially looked after. We know already that we are to care for the poor, the blind, the lame, the strangers, the prisoners and captives ... In Bible days, whether before or after Christ, there was no great need to add the elderly to the list because young and old were all cared for within the family. Nowadays, old people usually find themselves either living on their own, perhaps in their own home, or in made-to-measure accommodation with warden supervision, or else they are in residential homes and nursing homes. If elderly people are sick or are terminally ill, then NHS or Hospice provision includes chaplains who

are appointed to respond to spiritual needs. Not everyone, however, has access to such care. For the truth is our society is geared to do something about bodily care, but the needs of the spirit, and ways of responding to the whole person who is ageing, are often not available. Elderly people sometimes feel lonely, and wonder if they any longer have any value for themselves or anyone else. Is there any purpose in living and does God care for them any more? Institutions with chaplains are one thing, but how are the wider spiritual and religious needs of people living in other places to be met? Certainly prayers and the sacraments will be important for some people and need to be provided, particularly for ex-churchgoers who have become house bound, but there is also a need for sensitive pastoral care, for people of faith just to call and be there, listening and responding to the needs of the elderly person.

Readers will have their own experience of old people who have not had their spiritual needs properly looked after, and of others whose needs have been adequately met. There will be people out there, maybe recently retired church people and others who would like to help, if only they were provided with some organisation and support, even training, to carry out the task. A meeting is being planned to discuss these issues at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford. If you are interested and wantmore information, do get in touch with one of the following: Stuart Brand,

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Take a look in your trolley! says Amanda Berlan, an Oxford University post graduate student MARTIN LUTHER KING once said: before you even finish your break-

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Oxford church celebrates Stainer By Dr Nigel Hall, Senior Research Fellow in Modern History at Mansfield College, University of Oxford of Sir John Stainer is synonymous with The Crucifixion, the ever-popular Passiontide choral work composed in 1887. But Stainer made other far-reaching contributions to our musical heritage. In commemoration, of John Stainer's death one hundred years ago on 31 March, Sir John's own parish church of St Cross, Oxford, is holding a month long festival of concerts and talks to celebrate the work of this great Anglican musician, who introduced profound improvements to church music. As Organist and Choirmaster at St. Paul's Cathedral (18721888) he transformed the choir into a professional entity, sowing the seeds of our modern Cathedral musical tradition. As professor of music at Oxford in the 1890s he modernised the THE NAME

St. Cross Church, Oxford, with Sir John Stainer inset.

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lifetime. The festival will open with a choral workshop on 'The Crucifixion' on 3 March (See also the DOORPost) and conclude with a professional performance of the same work by Magdalen College Choir on 31 March. In between will be organ and choral recitals, lectures on Victorian history and music, talks on women in Victorian England, an operatic evening, and presentations on Victorian hymns and church music. All events will take place at St Cross Church. For more information,

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The Fair Trade mark was developed by leading agencies such as Oxfam and Christian Aid in the early nineties to harness trade in the fight to reduce world poverty. The concept is simple and effective. Organisations which have adopted the Fair Trade logo such as Oxfam and CafeDirect, give third world farmers a fair wage for their work, and encourage them to invest in health and education projects in their communities. Raw products are brought directly from the growers (thus cutting out greedy middlemen) who receive prompt payment and have regular contracts. These schemes are also valuable from an environmental point of view as an increasing number of Fair Trade products are organic, and regular checks ensure that the standards of the Soil Association are met. The purpose of my trip to Ghana was to find out what sort of impact these schemes were having at the village level. I am a second year Ph.D. student in social anthropology. My thesis is on the growth of the Fair Trade movement in this country and whether it is a worthwhile tool for poverty reduction in the Third World. I was very relieved to hear from the farmers that Kuapa Kokoo, the Ghanaian Fair Trade co-operative for cocoa-growers, was not cheating them, and that they stand out as a people-oriented and ethnically sound local institution. They co-ordinate and run many local projects and even subsidise the cost of rubber boots and roofing sheets, which the farmers could not normally afford, but desperately need.

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Don Brewin, Director of SOMA UK introduces 'Community Transformation', a Work of God attracting attention from Christians throughout the world. seriousness of the situation those who have which faces us. shared in our conMany more prosultation now people gramme over the FROM THE realise that we last year as we can't simply go sought to devise a BISHOP OF on as before. strategy for evanOXFORD This is reflected All gelisation. in particular in responses were the third of the read and taken principles set out in the into account and, I hope, in Sharing Life leaflet. Thirdly, one way or another, reflected Sharing Life is not just about in the outcome. As you will see from this edition of The words. It is about the distincDOOR the Diocesan Synod tiveness and quality of the life overwhelmingly endorsed our we share with one another Sharing Life programme and which we draw from which sets out the principles Christ. As human beings we all want priorities and values which Life, not mere existence meawill shape and direct our life sured out in coffee spoons but in the years ahead. Life with a capital L. This is This is of course not meant to replace, but to complement true life, authentic life, when and reinforce what so many we are fully and richly alive. It parishes are doing already. is nothing less than the giving There are however three and receiving of love which points of difference from what belongs to the heart of the has happened before. First, it Godhead, which is incarnate is our intention that Sharing in Jesus Christ and which Life should be taken into through his Holy Spirit comes every aspect of Diocesan life, to characterise our life with not just individual parishes. one another and our service of We will expect those being the wider community. Please pray for God's blessappointed to new positions in the Diocese, those hoping to ing on what we are seeking to be ordained, and parishes do in his name. With every looking for new ministers and good wish in Christ. forms of ministry to share and work with our vision for a renewed Church. Secondly, there is now a much more The full text of Sharing Life is on widely shared sense of the pages 10 and 11. THANK YOU to all

figures increasing, families falling apart, church attendance dropping, more and more violence - but does it have to be so? There are communities which challenge this trend; where the Gospel has spread beyond the churches to the society around; communities in different parts of the world which have experienced something of the kingdom of God, which Jesus talked about but we have rarely seen. This is 'Community called Transformation' - a work of God attracting attention from Christians throughout the world.

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A table for all to share On Wednesday 6 December the Oxford Methodist Circuit and the Black and White Christian Partnership invited people to meet the Reverend Inderjit Bhogal, the President of the Methodist Conference at Cowley Road Methodist Church. Indejit is a disciple of Jesus Christ with roots in Sikhism. He challenges the Church and the political establishment to respect all people. Christ invites all to eat at his table A Bible study on the story of the Canaanite woman graphically illustrated how 'those who are different from us' are rejected and yet how much they can teach about faith. Listening to others is listening to Christ; sharing a meal with strangers is sharing a meal with Him. So 'keep on cooking!' Richard Chand and the Asian Christian Fellowship sang to the large multi-cultural crowd over food. The evening was an inspiration to meet the challenge to be Christ's disciples. Indejit's concern for asylum seekers and his anger at the present system was evident in his answer to questions and during his official visit the next day to Campsfield Immigration Detention Centre. Nigel Gilson The Revd Nigel Gilson is a

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features of these communities. We were then challenged by the video 'Transformations' (available from Sentinel Ministries UK, tel. 020 8992 1234), which tells the story of four such communities - and we wondered 'why are none of these Christian leaders linked with any of the historic denominations?'

Many Christians have had a personal experience of the Holy Spirit - renewing prayer, worship and love for others. Congregations have experienced the Spirit - bringing a new vitality which has attracted others. Unfortunately, these experiences of renewal have often become inwardlooking and stagnated. Churches, once vibrating with life, are now half empty, living on past memories. What is renewal for, unless it also reaches out beyond individual Christians and congregations into the community? Jesus died for the world; but unless the Christian message is making a difference, not just to believers but to society, it is not 'good news'. Where it is impacting communities, they begin to experience transformation. SOMA - 'Sharing of Ministries Abroad' - is a mission agency focussing on the renewal of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Since our foundation 20 years ago we have rejoiced to see the Holy Spirit blessing individuals and congregations in the SO or more countries in which we have worked. When we heard of this new work of the Spirit, the leadership of SOMA International met folk involved in these first stages of community transformation, and George Otis Jr and others who had discerned common

sacrifice ambition, and stay where they are as long as the Lord might call? Are people willing to join in prayer, and cry out to the Lord over the desperate plight of their communities, until He hears and answers? He also noted several factors which hinder the Gospel from taking root in a community: • idolatry - where people give honour to something other than the true God; • immorality - centres of sinful behaviour; or where family life has broken down; • violence - wherever there has been past conflict; or where aggression is the first response to provocation, not the last; • nhumanity - wherever one group of people thinks they are more important than another; • broken promises, to God or to other people - in the present, but more importantly in the past - which cause even the land to be infected with sin.

What are the challenges?

The Ascension, a painting by the artist Nicholas Mynheer who lives in Oxfordshire.

We decided to hold an international Consultation in Cape Town in October 2000, bringing together around 250 Anglican leaders to hear of this work of the Holy Spirit, and share together what we believe the Lord is saying to the Anglican Communion on this issue. We have circulated the results of the discernment process to Anglican leaders, and pray that they will take notice.

Common factors George Otis Jr has visited many communities where transformation has begun, and noted two common factors: persevering leadership amongst the pastors; and united and persistent prayer amongst the people. Are church leaders willing to

First, we need to ask 'Why is the Gospel flourishing more in some places than others?' What has happened in my community, which makes it harder for the church to grow strong? Secondly, we can ask 'Are we willing to do what it takes to attract the transforming presence of God?' Are we willing to commit ourselves to stay where we are as long as God wants, whatever the sacrifice? Are we willing to come together to call out to the Lord, to repent of what we and our forefathers have done, and to go on praying until breakthrough comes? In any community there are those who have a vision for the coming of the Kingdom beyond their own church, who share God's anguish for the state of society, and are willing to sacrifice anything to see it transformed. These folk are often unrecognised, but held in curious respect by those who do not go to church. These are the ones who stay on when others

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Suggestions for action • Find those who share a vision for community transformation, and pray with them for your community. • Read Informed Intercession by George Otis Jr, or Releasing Heaven on Earth by Alistair Petrie. • Pray for the archbishops and bishops of the Anglican Communion, as they receive the joint statement from the Cape Town Consultation. • Discuss where in your own area the Gospel is flourishing and where it is not, ask 'why?' • Come to the SOMA Prayer Conference from 22 to 24 May at Wycliffe Centre, High Wycombe or the Sentinel UK Conference planned for July, to find out more. • Look out for other events, as SOMA works with other agencies to spread the word. The Revd Don Brewin is full-time director of SOMA UK and a former Rural Dean of Aylesbury.

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Communion DO YOU know Service in the name of your Speaker's House. MP? Do you People of different pray for him or denominations her, and for the foster inter-depenpeers - especially dence, acknowlwhen Parliament edging the One is grappling with God who holds particularly diffiby them together in cult problems? Through the Penny Keens unity. Cross-party repMilton Keynes resentatives from Christian the Palace of Council I Westminster and received an invitation from the Westminster others employed there read, Christian prayed and sang. Dr Elaine Parliamentary Fellowship to the National Storkey addressed us on the Prayer Breakfast on 28/29 theme of unity and the Lord November 2000. Started in Mackay of Clashfern read the the mid 1980s, largely closing prayer before we through the interest of the raised our voices to sing then Speaker, George 'Thine be the glory.' The closing event was hosted Thomas, the Prayer Breakfast was initially supported by by a cross party group of six friends of MPs, and friends of Christian MPs, one an Ulster friends. To mark the millenni- Unionist. They said how stirum the Christian Fellowship prised MPs were to see two decided to invite people from members of the group, a the different strands of God's Labour Minister and a Church through ecumenical Conservative Whip, talk to bodies all over the UK, with each other! As the group has the theme of unity 'How love- grown close - with families ly it is, how pleasant, for visiting each others' conGod's people to live together stituencies for weekends they have come to understand in harmony'. (Psalm 133 v 1) The doors at the Queen and appreciate the problems Elizabeth II Conference of their different areas - parCentre opened at 7am after a ticularly Ulster - from a much ',service the night before at St better perspective. Members Margaret's Westminster. We of the group trust each other were seated at 60 tables of ten and are able to admit mistakes and served with a full English to each other which could breakfast. Simon Hughes MP ruin them if they got out! All the speakers asked us to welcomed us, 'we don't have the Speaker here, nor the State commit ourselves to pray day Opening today, but we do by day for what is happening have the King of Kings with in Westminster and for our us'. He said that throughout own MPs. I have to admit that the hectic days in Parliament although I knew my MP was there runs a strong thread of Phyllis Starkey I had never faith. Christian MPs, mem- specifically prayed for her. bers of the House of Lords Now I am a reformed character. and colleagues who work throughout the Houses of Penelope Keens is the new lay Westminster, meet together in chairman of the Oxford Diocesan groups and sometimes for a Synod - see page 3

Debate on Sanction to Iraq INTERESTING as Prudence Dailey's impressions of the General Synod meeting were (DOOR, Dec 2000), it would have been of even more interest if she had reported the outcome of some of the debates, in particular, the debate on sanctions against Iraq. It is a cause for concern that fewer than half of the members of Synod were interested enough to attend the debate on sanctions, and I disagree with her view that church members should not debate an issue unless they are experts in the field. Obviously members wishing to contribute to the debate should acquaint themselves with the pros and cons of the matter, but it is surely not necessary for them to be experts in order to express concern about actions which result in a high civilian death toll, especially among children. Many well informed people, including two former UN Humanitarian Coordinators have spoken against sanctions in their present form, and there are now indications that the UK government is prepared to consider switching from a blanket ban that has exceptions, to sanctions that target the regime more effectively, and specify a narrow band of prohibited goods, mainly weapons. The debate on Third World debt is a complex one, but this has not deterred church members from voicing their concerns by means of the Jubilee 2000 campaign. This campaign has been very successful in getting politicians and financial institutions to take the necessary steps to alleviate the problems of the

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derided under the dread word 'fundamentalist'! Curiously, the proclamation of such a primitive message on the day of Pentecost caused about three thousand persons to be cut to the heart in repentance and believe in Christ, whereas the far more enlightened version of the Christian faith commonly found in the Church of England at the start of the second millennium has seen a further plummeting of the number of regular attenders at Sunday worship in parish churches, down a further 23% to 980,000 in the ten years to 1998. These figures were discussed at the July Synod.

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LATTEN DALES QUIETLY SITUATED ON THE NORTH EDGE OF THE LAKELAND NATIONAL PARK. LATTENDALES IS A GUEST HOUSE OF THE FRIENDS FELLOWSHIP OF HEALING.

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TRANSFORMATIONAL INSIGHTS INTO Retreats for 2001 include Pilgrimage Week with visit to lona, "Pentecost Retreat" with David Winter, Marriage Refreshment and Craft and Painting Retreats. Further information, including full retreat programme for 2001, available from The Warden, The College, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae KA28 0/-IF

Fellowship, Parmoor - an oasis of

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Tuckedaueyina quiet zrillage among the Cotsould Hills, NyntpsJleld is situated midaunty tetwec'n Stroud and Durs/cy. Frcrrn Cctzley Peak there is a magnjfcent view of the Setxrrn tailley, while the prehistoric burial gmunds in Nympsfield are urougse. Idea) for Retreats, Quiet Days, Group Work, Conferences.

the spirit of ecumenism Parmoor welcomes those of all denominations and none, for quiet days, day and

* A first class reputation 5 A magnificent country house in a 12 acre private estate -Seasonal outdoor heated swimming pool Excellent cuisine and friendly service * Well equipped conference halt We hold conferences for groups ranging from missionary organisations to churches to local businesses.

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A small retreat house in Corwev, North Wales, hi former, eighteenth century Almshouses at the foot of the Berwyn Mountains. The house is quiet and hidden, but easy to find by road or public transport. There is good, home cooked food, central heating and the beds are comlortablet We offer private or individually guided retreats (including 30 day lgnatiav exercises by arrangement), or just a place to rest, think arid pray. This is a sinai house and so we are able to be flexible and can often f',t someone in at short notice. final groups are also welcomed for a day or kinger. We else welcome those who come on holiday. Corwen is a good centre for exploring North Wales. Phone/Fan 04490 412i99 E -rod colagygrcm@+alk2i.00rn Cxii our wabalin at waao.00isgygrom.co.ok

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Contact: The Warden, Parmoor, Nr Frieth, Henley-on-Thames RG9 6NN

Tel: 01494 881037 St John's Convent Kiln Green, Reading GlO 9XP 0118 940 2964 fax 0118 940 6448 The Centre has self-contained self catering accommodation, 2 x 1 bedroorned flats, 2 x 3-4 bedded cottages (1 with wheelchair access) 1, X 7 bedroomed cottage. Retreat accommodation for Priests, Religious and those having a sabbatical, or just needing a quiet rest or holiday in peaceful private grounds. Set in 14 acres with easy access to trains and the airport. Contact Sr Veronica

and the full use of our facilities.

SHELL COTTAGE

For a free colour brochure and a Diary of Events for 2001

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Situated a few yards from the water's edge in a beautiful Cornish fishing cove, Shell Cottage provides an idyllic

Apply to: The Retreat Secretary, Our Lady's Homestead, Nympsfield, Stonehouse, Cloy. GLIO 31Y

Tel. 01453 8641228 Fax. 01453 861331

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Pilgrim Hall, Easons Green, Uckfield, East Sussex

sabbatical breaks, quiet days or simply

St Mary's School Ascot St Marys Road. Ascot SL5 9JF 01344 627524. Fax: 01344 873608

space for much needed rest and prayer. Although principally catering for these in the ordained ministry, Shell Cottage is a place where all Christians can come for physical and spiritual refreshment.

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Shell Cottage, Penberth, St. Buryan,

Coventry Diocesan Retreat & Conference Centre A place of Renewal and Peace in Beautiful Countryside for Retreat, Training Conference, or Holiday

Plus all are invited to our 2001 Spring & Summer Programme including Weekend: 30 March - 1 April

nr Penzance, Cornwall TR19

01736 810659 Rooms

2 single 2 twin, large communal room suitable for 18 people for quiet days, study groups, etc., small prayer oratory. Ideal for cell groups or small groups of up to six. Individual retreatants welcome. Regular led quiet days thoughout the year. Contact: Bridge Hugh-Jones

Internet: http://www.st-mays-ascot.co.uk Boasts 120 single rooms which are normally available for 2 weeks during the Easter break and 8 weeks during the summer July to August. A chapel is available for Mass and quiet reflection. There is a special conference room available as well as smaller seminar rooms for group work. Catering provided, indoor swimming pool, tennis courts, extensive grounds.

contact:

Mr Michael McEvoy for for details on (01344) 627524

Open Lent Retreat

'As the deer With Rev Andrew Dc Smet

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Weekend: Friday 18 - Sunday 20 May

Swarthmoor Hall Ulveston

Excellent conference facilities at

Open Weekend Retreat

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LAI2 OJQ Tel: 01229 583204 Fax: 01229 583283

'Fools for Christ in Life and Worship' With Angela Ashwin l,t

Weekend : Fri 25 - Monday 28 May

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37 HUNTER STREET, LONDON WC IN iBJ TEL. 0207 837 0654 FAX. 0207 837 1229

Guided walks, visit to Cotswolds plus worship at Coventry Cathedral Thurs 26 July - Tuesday 31 July

Individually Guided Retreat Retreat for 2 days, 3 days, or 5 days With Rev Andrew Dc Smet, Jessie Spreadbury and Tina Lamb Weekend : Fri 3 - Sun 5 August

Summer Retreat 'Listening to His Silence' With John Skinner 7 Days : Thurs 23 - Thurs 30 August

Painting and Prayer Retreat Chaplain: Canon Peter Ball Tutor: Audrey Cooper There is also a Full Programme of Quiet days

FA3L 0207 799 1464

Friendly, warm, 'home away from home' atmosphere, smart, clean and reasonably priced B&B. Tea and coffee making facilities in all rooms. Full catering facilities available. Near to Main Line and Underground Stations. We can cater for all your Conference or Seminar needs up to 35 at Vandon and 15 at Cambria. Full overhead projector and flip chart facilities.

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Built circa 1586, this Dade Ii' listed Hall is a centre for retreat programmes, day-workshops and self-catering holidays in beautiful South Lakelaird. Visitors enjoy our peaceful gardens and wild Cower m*adow. The Hall itself holds one at the finest caiecsuons of 17th Century furniture in the North West, and is associated with the early Quaker movement. Holiday accommodation is in two tiuss in the Hail, and one (wheel-chair friendly) in the Fell Baro.These can be used as one whole unit of 16 beds, or separately as three self-catering units of 5(c1), 5(+1) and 4 bed spuces. Meeting and semiter moms include historic mows in the Hall, and a meeting and dining area for 30 people. OHti slide proieccor,TV5 and VCR, available.

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available on request Full details and our 2001 Programme Contact: Offa House, OfIchurvh, Leamington Spa CV33 9AS Tel: 01926 423309

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Ynys Enili (Bardsey Island)

12-19 May - Island Dream (TOt) Ecology, observation, poetry, art, photography and more

26 May-2 June - Seeing Salvation F02) A retreat week led by the Bishop of Bangor

2-9 June - A Step Into Health Cr03) A team of therapist offer self growth and healing

16-23 June - Wales In The Celtic World (T04) A journey of discovery - history and culture - yesterday and today

30 June -' July- Circles of Celtic Spirituality (rOs) Ajourney of the soul - art, music, Celtic worship and body awareness u-iS August. Wales In The Celtic World (y06) Ajourney of discovery - history and culture - yesterday and today

The Eden Centre 252 Kingston Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW119JO Tel: 020 8977 4034 (formerly St Paul's Retreat Centre) fax 020 8977 7747

e-mail teddington@welcomelOO.freeserve.co.uk Has 17 single rooms and is A C/Ecumenical. The Centre is available for quiet days, private and directed

retreats and group bookings. We offer ongoing spiritual direction, counselling and therapy. Self-catering facilities available. Contact: The Secretary. Margaret Breen March 16-18 Daring to Let Go: gently befriending the grieving process March-April 30-1 Dreams and the Spiritual Journey.

April 2-9 Preached Retreat.

27-29 From Fragmentation To Integration: insights and understanding of Psychosynthesis for spiritual and personal growth. May 21-28 Preached Retreat, June 5-14 Directed Retreat. 22-24 Savouring the Celtic Flavour: healing the split

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June-July 25-2 Preached Retreat.

July 13-15 Journey to The Self: encountering God at the heart of our uniqueness.

23-27 Women In Eden: low cost holiday for women needing Sabbath rest. September 4-13 Directed Retreat: choose any 3-8 days within this time. 17-24 Preached Retreat. October 5-7 Befriending My Creative Self. 9-16 Preached Retreat. November 5-12 Preached Retreat.

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is the forgotten holy island of

the North West coast of Wales. Visitors have the chance to return to the simplicity of 19th Century living, staying in comfortable farmhouse lit by candlelight, where crystal clear water is gathered from a mountain spring and twilight lasts for four hours. If you are searching for a sense of deep inner peace, then join us on one of our exceptional retreats on the Isle of Twenty Thousand Saints, a place set apart from the frenzy and rush of the modem world. Houses are also available for those wishing to stay independently. For a brochure call: (44) 01758 730740 or E-mail: enlli@aol.com The Bardsey Island Trust, Coed Anna, Nanhoron, Pwllheli, Gwynedd LL53 8PR

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Experience the tranquillity of this beautiful old cottage within the grounds of Rlngsfleld Hall Residential Country Centre Available all the year round for holidays short breaks and retreat Sleeps 6-9 (14 for youth groups) 14 acres of varied grounds and gardens, chapel and cloistered garden Resort beaches, deserted dunes, heaths, the breads, water sports, walks and more - all near at hand Caravan also available The Hal) sleeps 4110 mostly dormitories for catered-for larger groups(selfcatering when available)

CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTRE .37 yeas noporrmce hosing groups. • row 25-120 guess in dorrr.tores plus adiac.ni tamilyleaders roens. •showers and bathrooms throughout •repuiaion In, excellent and ame mod aid frerdly stall •onsie ucturiles including go.kairs, indoor healed samrrning peal, kayaking anvauli course, nenel runway, bathetbali. rocthall. ten-anal rrrany corn •rirnriirig coin with TV/slice, OHP, white board and tip chart, ovine, coli,e bar arth Tuck and GiO shops: Pod Ffoorrr with Icon operated taNes. •local uuthoniy chocked and guest safely pararreuni. •nchod and church groups find Gaines excellent value. Prices Iron £20 per day inciusse 01 iood and achilles. • within east react, of West Midland lab, Park, Black Country Mu in, Cad" s Wont Sea Life Cons,. I'oribndge etc Wnia In, into in: Graham or Ban Woods, OCYC, Whithourne. Worcester WOe 51450, phonic 01886421212 or tan. 518u6-822042 e-mail: intn@gaines.cys.co.uk and w.bsitn . www.gsIn*a-cyc.w.uk Charity No. 1057267

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Let us pray to God our licensed lay worker - Norman Critchell; licensed lay ministers Father for: - Alison Hassall, Beryl Walters,

Let hooe keeo you joul; n trOLJOe stand firm, a

persist in prayer. Contribute to the needs of God's people, and

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1 The Oxford Diocesan Prayer Diary is edited by Graham Canning Please cut this section and use it to pray for the needs of the Diocese.

Thursday lst Burnham and Slough Deanery. For all their parishes and teams as they share their concerns and visions in discovering richer ways of working together, and for those with particular responsibility for formulating and communicating the deanery pastoral plan, and for the work of Kingsway connections and the sector ministry team. For the area dean - Simon Brown; synod lay chairman - Janet Piggott; deanery youth worker - Jo Williams; licensed lay minister Michael Cockson. Friday 2nd THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE (CANDLEMAS) Christchurch Cathedral. For the Dean, John Drury, and Chapter and all those who support them in their work. For all who visit the Cathedral, especially those from overseas. Saturday 3rd Burnham Team Ministry: clergy - Simon Brown, Alan Dibden, TomHewson, Mervyn Eden Farnham Royal with Hedgerley, Farnham Common: clergy Philip Roberts, Stanley Bedwell, Gordon Briggs. THE FOURTH SUNDAY BEFORE LENT Sunday 4th Those who work in the emergency services, especially our local fire fighters and ambulance staff, and those dealing with flooding and snow, and those who grit and clear our roads. Monday 5th Iver St Peter, Richings Park: clergy - Brian Skinner, Tony Holmes, Alan Bignell; licensed lay minister Brian Griffiths. Iver Heath: clergy - David Reynish; licensed lay minister - John Mitchell. Langley Marish Team Ministry: clergy - Jeremy Hurst, Ian Gooding, Christopher Hanson. Tuesday 6th Riverside Team Ministry: clergy - Bill Knight, Robert Spicer, Peter Abrahams, Carylle Deamei Paul Reynolds, John Harper; full time youth worker - Michael Volland;

John Hazelden, Rhoda Hazelden. Wednesday 7th Slough: clergy Mike Cotterell; lay workers Wilson Sill, Rebecca Sill; licensed lay ministers - Bill Birmingham, Richard Cholawo, Jim Dashper.. Stoke Poges St Giles; Stoke Poges St.Andrew's Church Centre: clergy - Harty Latham; licensed lay minister - Richard Rooley. Thursday 8th Upton-cumChalvey Team Ministry: St

Once in a 1000 years''.'..' At 12.30 on 6 January Gerry Hanson of Iver Heath read the final words of the Book of Revelation and so ended a marathon of 24 hours and 30 minutes reading out loud all 27 Books of the New Testament. To date he. has raised £6000 to be divided between St Margaret's Iver Heath Parish Centre appeal and Helen House Hospice, Oxford. Nearly 50 people were in church to hear Gerry read the final book (see picture) and his 'Once in a Thousand years' biblethon is certainly a Diocesan first and probaly a world first too. You are asked to pray for lver Heath on 5 February.

Andrew Methodist; Ledgers Road Methodist; Kingsway United Reform; clergy - David Miell, Derek West, Allen Walker, Alan Coldwells, Roger McAvoy, John Newton. Friday 9th West Slough Team am mm em ,'n,, iiii 5,,,,, ,ss

www.diopuh.co.uk For all your Christian books, music and gifts Community of All Hallows Anglican (open for all) Ditchingbam, Btmguy NR35 2DT Tel: 01986 892749 We run Retreat Centres for group bookings and Retreat Houses for individual bookings. We offer week, weekend and midweek breaks. A choice of full board or selfcatering. We also offer a programme of retreats throughout the year. Midweek Ro.clttrtionc A registered charity

The Way Christian Ministries invite you to Kilcreggan House, Kilcreggan on the Rosneath Peninsula, Argyll. One hour from Glasgow, surrounded by magnificent mountains and sea. Accommodation for 1 t 100; B&B or full-board in our Georgian House or log cabins. Four Conference facilities.

Tel/Fax: 01436 842318 Mob: 07775 966880

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• A christian holiday and conference centre situated in the heart of Norfolk, within easy reach of a host of interesting place, • Enjoy country house using in the Main Hall or rural life in the converted stable buildings grouped around the cobbled courtyard of Dolphin court. • Choice of accommodation on full-board or self-catering basis for groups 25-125 people, • ACC Recognised Foundation Counselling Course to be held on 1316 November 2000. Fully inclusive price of £187.50 per person. Day rates available on request. • Contact: Peter Carroll, Iettoe Hall, Shipdham, Thetford, Norfolk lP25 7SA. Tel: 01362 820717. Fee: 01362 820877

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Ministry, North Slough Local Ecuemnical Partnership: clergy - John Nicholson, Ruth Gostelow, Catherine Dyei; Sean Healy, Joe Williams, Nick Plant, Aruella Palmer, Christ Collinge; licensed lay ministers - Bob Saunders, Connie Shaw. Wexham: clergy - George Farmer; licensed lay minister Peter Toms. 10th Newbury Saturday Deanery. For the deanery pastoral committee and synod which met very recently, as they seek to find the way forward towards a creative and visionary deanery plan. For unity, collaboration and empowerment. For the area dean - David Cook; synod lay chairman - Christ Watts. THE THIRD SUNDAY BEFORE LENT.-Education Sunday Sunday 11th For the Diocesan Board of Education: chairman Jeremy Hurst; secretary and director of schools - Danny Sullivan. For the children in our local schools, students and all who are being educated including those in adult education and on training courses. For our local teachers, school heads and governors, and all involved in education. Monday 12th Beedon and Peasemore with West llsley and Farnborough: clergy - Antonia Cretney, Timothy Astin; licensed lay minister - Denise Brown. Brightwalton with Catmore, Leckhampstead, Chadleworth and Fawley; clergy - Adam Smith. Tuesday 13th Bucklebury, Marlston. Chapel, Upper Bucklebury: clergy - vacancy; licensed lay minister - David Sammon.Chieveley with Winterbourne and Oare: clergy - Cohn Scott- Dempster. Wednesday 14th Eastbury with East Garstone: clergy — William Stewart. Greenham: clergy John Clarke; licensed lay minister - Brian Jones. Thursday 15th Hermitage Team Ministry: clergy - John Coombs, Allan Sanders, Martin Warren; licensed lay ministers Richard Betts, James Penglase, 5,5,

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John Davies. Friday 16th Hungerford with Denford Newtown: clergy Andrew Sawyer. Kintbury with Avington: clergy - Debby Plummer; licensed lay ministers — Geoff Maddox, Matthew Cookson. Saturday 17th Lambourn: clergy — William Stewart. Newbury Team .Ministry: clergy - David Cook, Lorelie Farmer, Richard Miller, Bernard Dagnall, John Lewis, John Masters, John Wall, Rita Ball, David Crosby, Vernon Smith; full time youth worker - Ian Macdonald; licensed lay ministers — Michael Kerry, Elizabeth Pook. THE SECOND SUNDAY BEFORE LENT Sunday 18th Those who work in mines and quarries, especially those in our local sand and gravel pits, and those who mine the coals and minerals used to make the goods we enjoy. Monday 19th Shaw cum Donnington: clergy - Brian Taylor; licensed lay minister Michael Painter. Thatcham Team Ministry, Dunston Park (L.E.P.); clergy Tom Moffatt, Moira Astin, Martin Robbins, Timothy Astin, Marion Fontaine. Tuesday 20th Welford with Wickham and Great Shefford, Boxford and Stockcross: clergy - Nigel Sands. West Woodham with Enborne, Hamstead Marshall, Inkpen and Combe: clergy - Julie Ramsbottom, Charles Pakenham. Wednesday 21 Diocesan Board of Finance: chairman John Yaxley; vice chairman Chris Burley. For our treasurers and stewardship recorders and all the members of our P.C.C.s. Thursday 22nd Diocesan Buildings Committee chairman - Brian Smith. For our Diocesan Glebe Committee: chairman Elizabeth Higgs. For our churchwardens and all who hold office in our churches. Friday 22nd Deddington Deanery. Giving thanks for their deanery youth project: for their youth workers - Rob Tumilty, Emma Kimberlee and

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The centre boasts . . . 27 single, 3 twin, RC ecumenical. Apply to the Secretary, lURs can be provided for at the same times as the preached retreats advertised below. April 7.14 l-loiy Week Preached Retreat. F, Robert K.agoa MAIr May 17-24 Preached Retreat, Friguatiss Kelly OFM 17-24 Massage Retreat. Sr Jean Kirkpatrick RSCJ July 17-24 Preached Retreat. Fr G Stones MAfr September 3-it IOR, Fr F Creaven SI, Sr Dympes Higgins FMM & Sr Margaret Taylor FMM 3-t Massage Retreat, Sr Jean Kirkpatrick RSCJ *December Nor part thereof) 1-8 Advent Preached Retreat. Fr Gerard Mackent SM 1-8 Massage Retreat Sr Jean Kirkpatrick RSCJ

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THE SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE LENT Unemployment Sunday Sunday 25th Those known to us who have been made redundant or have no work. For those who work in unemployment or benefit offices, and those who are helping people find work and are creating jobs. Monday 26th Banbury - St Francis, St Hugh, St Leonard, St Mary, St.Paul and St Paul's House: clergy — John Hancock, David Jackson, Tony Adams, Bruce Walles, David Ineson, Bill Townsend, Chris Knight, Kay Johnston, Malcolm Johnston; licensed lay ministers - Mary Jackson, Dennis Smith. Tuesday 27th Shires' EdgeClaydon, Cropredy, Great Millington, Bourton, Wardington: clergy - Peter Atkinson, Lynda Alcock. Deddington with Barford, Clifton and Hampton: clergy Hugh White, David Nicol. Wednesday 28th ASH WEDNESDAY Ironstone, Drayton, Horley, Hornton, Hartwell, Shenington, Alkerton, Wroxton, Bonlcrote: dergy - Jeffrey Chard, Henry Ormerod, Pamela Smith, David Addley; licensed lay ministers John Straw. Wykeham, Broughton, Epwell, Shutford, Sibford, Swaldiffe, Tadmartin: clergy - Timothy Wimbush, Keith Walklate.

me, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord' Enjoy the Highland experience as part of your Sabbatical in Scotland. Our very popular, seven week Spiritual Renewal and Ministry Course is just what many people are seeking today. The ideal place for rest, relaxation and renewal.

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Sarah Warless. For their synod discussing the life and future development of the deanery and for the establishment of a local training programme. For newly appointed Jill Barker (Horton hospital chaplaincy) and Hugh White (Deddington). For the rural dean - John Holbrook; synod lay chairman - Steve Corsby. Saturday 24th Adderbury, Milton: clergy - John Holbrook; licensed lay ministers - Audrey Bailey, Basil Briggs. Bloxham with Milcombe and South Newington: clergy John Stroyan, David Childs; licensed lay minister - David Exham.Bodicote: clergy - Ben Phillips; licensed lay ministers Bryan Gardner, George Walker.

Discernment of Spirits Course 12 - 16 February 2001 Counsel linglHealInglSpintua! Direction Course 12-23 March 2001 Celtic Spirituality Course 24 -30 July 2001 Various retreats on the theme of Healing & Spirituality of True SelfEsteem are being offered. Our web site at www.kinnoull.org contains lots more information and you can book online. Or contact us directly for further details

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overcome that infinite difference, to bring about a real equality, and to "make himself understood'? This is God's quandary. Kierkegaard returns to the king. How can the king love the maiden without deceiving her? Elevating her suddenly would produce a "tumultuous joy" that would blind them both. The other possibility is for the king to show himself to the maiden "in all the pomp of his power", covering her in glory "and making her forget worshipful herself in admiration". This might satisfy the maiden, Kierkegaard believes, but "it would not satisfy the king". After all, he does not desire his own "glorification" but hers. The conclusion the philosopher reaches is that love must "alter itself". Real love desires "equality with the beloved". God's all-powerful love can achieve what the king's cannot. The king may put on the cloak of a beggar, but it will only "flutter loosely about him" and quickly betray his identity to the maiden. The Son of God, however, can and has put on a "servant form" that is, "no mere outer garment".

Kierkegaard has mediated on Si Paul's wonderful hymn about Christ, who "being first in the form of God, look the form of a servant and emptied himself" in the incarnation (Phil. 2:6-8). So far from his humanity being only a cloak that fluttered loosely around him, the Son of God came among us as a tiny baby crying Out for his mother's milk and needing to be carried, fed, clothed, washed and rocked to sleep. What the humble maiden Mary had to do for the incarnate Son of God reveals just how far his self-abasing love could reach in order to be "understood" by us. Kierkegaard dwelt on the challenge which faced God, of overcoming the infinite distance between the divine existence and the human world. The baby in Mary's arms and the body on the cross show us how far the divine love would go in "altering itself". My friend's question, "What did the incarnation do to God?" is answered by that baby and that body.

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'Now I can enjoy the Communion service with my family and feel part of the church family too'

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With faith and hope and some trepidation, and after careful preparation, 17 unconfirmed children at a Maidenhead church received Holy Communion IT WAS with a lot of faith, some hope and perhaps just a little trepidation that seventeen young members of St Peter's and St Mark's Church, Furze Plait took part in a special Holy Communion service held at St Peter's church recently. The service, conducted by the vicar of St Peter's. the Revd Dr Lee Rayfleld allowed the youngsters to receive the bread and wine at the Communion table along with their parents and other members of the church. However for nine year old Heidi Goldsmith of Cromwell Road, Maidenhead it was a double celebration as she was also baptised by Dr Rayfleld before receiving Communion with her parents, Howard and Jane Goldsmith. This type of service is a change from normal procedures by Anglican Churches and was the first of its kind held at Furze Plait. Special permission was required from the Bishop of Reading, the Right Reverend Dominic Walker, before it could take place. Previously, someone could not receive Holy Communion until

they had been confirmed. In recent years this has changed and a declaration by the House of Bishops has authorised that anyone who has been baptised may, after receiving guidance and preparation, receive

Communion as well as their views on other Christian issues. The sessions over a six week period were led by husband and wife lay ministers, Pat and Brian Rose and assisted by Julie Hopkins, a member of St Peter's

ideas into words and drawings. Using these together with extracts from newspaper and magazine articles they made a wall frieze that was put into St Peter's Church before the service. Taking part in the service wasnine year old Vicky Binns of Castle Drive who said: 'Now I can enjoy the Communion Service with my own family and feel part of the whole church family.' If any families in Furze Platt would like to be included in a similar event in the future contact Pat or Brian Rose on 01628 674830.

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Communion. It is hoped that by doing so , it will give them help and understanding to enable them to be confirmed at some future time in their life. For the young people at Furze Plait, all aged between five and 13 years, this meant taking part in weekly sessions of preparatory talks and discussions. These included understanding the construction and reason for Holy

ministry team. Pat Rose said: 'The children were divided into age groups but we tried to avoid making it too much like school. Our aim was that it should be relevant to each age with an underlying theme of love and understanding.' During the preparation sessions the youngsters were encouraged to talk about their own beliefs and to put their thoughts and

A number of parishes in the Diocese have now taken the step of allowing children to share the bread and wine with the rest of the congregation at Communion. This allows children to be welcomed more fully into the worshipping life of the church and gives them a great sense of belonging. If you would like information about admitting children to Communion before Confirmation or a copy of the Diocesan policy document We Welcome You . .' contact Jenny Hyson the Diocesan Children's Advisor on 01865 208255.

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Reading was so profoundly affected by a book he had read that he walked all night to London to meet the author, arriving at 8.00am. The man was John Cennick, born in Reading in 1718, and the by Clare book was George Whitefield's Journal. Cennick and Whitefleld became firm friends and Cennick joined him and the Wesleys in preaching and teaching around the country. It was in this period that Cennick wrote a number of hymns, published as Sacred Hymns for the Children of God in 1741. When he was about 16 he had been overcome by a longing to lead a good life, but also by a deep sense of guilt which he had tried for a long time to overcome by fasting and selfdenial. In desperation he went into a church to pray, and suddenly was overwhelmed with a joyful awareness of God's mercy: 'I believed there was mercy for me.. I heard the voice of Jesus saying, "I am thy salvation".' His hymn 'Jesus, my all' (quoted in part

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ONE Caribbean Island has very strong links with the Oxford Dicce but is probably unheard of by most members of the Diocese. That island is Anguilla at the north east corner of the arc of islands that stretches around from Cuba to Trinidad off the coast of South America. It measures l3bythree miles and has a population of 10,000 people. Many Anguillans have settled in Slough, and are faithful Anglicans and Methodists. Many more have come to the United Kingdom as visitors and have been to Slough or have relatives there.

population attends church, either Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Pentecostal or Seventh Day Adventist The island's resident priest is Errol Brooks, who was recently created Bishop of the North Caribbean and Aruba. Though he travels incessantly around his island studded dieo, he resolutely retains his base in St Mary's Anguilla to keep his ministry rooted in the parish. His wife, Rosena, a schools advisog is completing a London University research degree. It is a miracle of history, that the descendants of people who endured such ruthless exploitation from the Atlantic slave

The S 3irit 01 2001 A bus bringing the good news and free food, a road-side crib, top marks for a Church school - 2000 ended in the Oxford Diocese on a high note full of promise for the new millennium

Bishop Errol Brooks is determined to remain a parish priest. He is pictured with his wife

Pictures clockwise from top left) • The Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Rev Richard Harries, lends a hand to Karen Wyatt at her new flat in Banbury Foyer, provided by Banbury Homes, a Christian housing association.

Rosena (right) and Chris Sugden's daughter, Judith

The west of Anguilla, mainly Anglican, is served by three churches, St Mary's (pictured below) in the centre, St Andrew's in Island (originally Ireland) Harbour , first populated by shipwrecked Irish sailors, and St Augustine's East End. The latter is a beautiful church with wonderful coloured glass set in the East Wall donated by St Mary's, Slough. The Anglican Church came to the West Indies in 1825 as a prelude to the abolition of slavery, realised in 1834 and celebrated every year on the first Sunday of August The celebrations take the form of sailing races,o competinons and a carnival. The Methodists came at about the same time, and last year celebrated 175 years of their first church building, built by the slaves themselves. A large proportion of the

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'Brian Elks has crafted an historically accurate tale of the explosive Tudor era, from Henry Vifi to Elizabeth I, that charts the rise of John Williams, Lord of Thame, alongside a vivid reconstruction of life in Oxfordshire in the period 1525 to 1559. Strong willed and unbending Kings and Queens rule and as always clever, self-seeking men rise up to serve them, while ordinary people are caught up in the maelstrom.' Published in paperback on quality paper, 360pp. Price - £10 including postage and packing, delivery within 21 days of order, please make cheques payable to Brian Elks.

• Cheques totalling over £3,200 were presented to five worthy causes, by the organisers of 'Spirit of 20001 a Pentecost event on Ascot Racecourse which made a surplus.

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• Great Missenden C of E Combined School was classified as an 'excellent primary school' in its OFSTED report. 'The Church plays an important social and pastoral role as well as providing spiritual support,' the report also said.

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Wormingha II, lckf ord,Oakley a ey and Shabb,ngton Four rural parishes 10 miles from Oxford, 50 miles from London with excellent localschools and communications by road, rail and bus. Modern house with good-sized garden. ' Mixed population from farmers to commuters with unusually high proportion of young families. We want a priest in charge who is committed to prayer, and teach and shared ministry, flexible in believes in ministry to the whole community, who will also play a part in the deanery to enable people to express faith in daily life and work. PROFILE AND APPLICATION FORM FROM:

Archdeacon of Buckingham, CO Wendover Roan, Aylesbury 11 9LW Closing date 20th February 2001

'You will be my witnesses' Acts 1:8 DURING this month we corn

memorate two Christian mar tyrs One, Polycarp lived in the early days of the Church and died in 155AD, having been baptised, it would seem era 86 years earlier, 1' L when the Gospels were being compiled. The other, ni uwum was Archbishop of Uganda and was killed, almost certainly on the orders of Idi Amin, in a suspicious road crash in 1977. we remember Luwum on 17 February and Polycarp six days later, on the 23rd. Only six days separate them in the Church calendar, but almost the entire expanse of Christian history in the record books. Yet in an important sense they are united. Both are 'martyrs'. Both died as a direct conse-

David Winter

THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH quence of being faithful to Christ and his Gospel. In New Testament terms, they were true 'witnesses' , to Christ, because 'mar' is the Greek word for witness. In those early days of the Church Christians needed to be clear that faithful witness to him might well, and often did, put one's very life at jeopardy. , in the ordinary sense of the word, is someone Canon David Winter isa former Diocesan Director of Evangelism,a author of oroadcaster d na Y books including Message for the Millennium (BRF).

who bears testimony to write what they have personally seen or heard. Hearsay is not from awitness wiess in a court of law. He or she is in the witness box to say simply and clearly what they know to be rue from f personal expe rience. The difference between then and now, between there and here, is that such a simple testimony cost people like Polycarp and Janani Luwum - and all the company of the martyrs their lives. Generally, our own witness to Christ seldom costs us much more than a little mild ribbing or momentary embarrassment. Which makes our reluctance to be his witness either a culpable act of cowardice or evidence of the insecurity of our own faith - either way, hardly fitted to stand alongside them in the fellowship of the Faith.

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established Quaker inspired club, offers B&B in quiet, secure, comfortable surroundings. Centrally located in Bloomsbury, facilities include secluded garden and reading room. Ideal for persons travelling alone. 21 Bedford Place, London WC1B 5JJ

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Near Lisieux in beautiful quiet countryside, faerrn house available for retreats, holidays, Alpha weekends and small cnnferences. Groups, families and individuals welcnsrre. Catered for; self-catering; bent & breakfast, ideal stop-over for those travelling swath. Contact Bill & Jan Gordon, Bdthatsie Christian Centre LeVal legnu, 14140 HEURTEVENT e 0033231320902 Also available; coirnforeable family borne, south of Dieppe, I hour from Paris in quiet village. Sleeps 6, Self catering only

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Cottesioe Christian Training Programme Thurs 1, 15 Feb 'Journey'

Hamhill Centre of Christian Healing 5-9 Feb 'Learning to Prayer

(follows Peter France's journey from his childhood in the Yorkshire mining village of Clifton, through rejection of Christianity to his baptism into the Greek Orthodox Church) 26 Poplars Road, Buckingham 8pm. Leader Roger James. Book asap, cost £8 Wed 7, 14 Feb Marriage and Society, looking at what the Church may offer couples to gain reasonable expectations of marriage. The Winslow Centre, Winslow Leaders: Rosemary and Tony Whalley. Book asap, cost £12 Details (01525) 375109 Mon 12 Feb Annual lecture 'Longing for the Kingdom: reflections on the Lord's Prayer at St Peter and St Paul Buckingham, speaker Canon John Fenton, cost £4.

Counsel' - this is an advanced course for those who have attended previous courses. 10 Feb The first of two training days when the problems of Managing Addictions will be looked at with Paul Roberts 23-25 Feb 'Moving in the Power of the Holy Spirit' a Refreshment weekend with Professor Roy Peacock teaching and ministering. Details from the Revd Paul Springate (01285) 850283

Mon 5, 19, 26 Feb new

Testament Themes: mark (Gospel of Jesus Christ; Mission & Ministry; Passion and Resurrection) Tutor: John Lewis. Book asap cost £12 For more details contact Mrs Julia Lau cottesloectp@waitrose.com Perspectives on the world Christian movement Term 1 Jan 30 - March 6 Term 2 April 22 - May 29

Tuesdays, 7pm - 10pm Two terms and books - £95 One term and books £70 Single evening £8 Perspectives is a 12 week course. Instead of starting with ourselves and gradually working outwards, the new course provides a glQbal view of the .rn,,,,s,,.,

7 Feb 'Pointing the Way Developing Local Solutions to Rural Problems' Green Park Aston Clinton 10- 2pm. This event will provide an opportunity both for those affected by or helping to alleviate rural isolation in their community to hear about a wide range of projects that have already been developed. To book please contact Penny Maylin on (01296) 421036 or email bcii@bucks-comm-action.org.uk STEM 10 Feb 'Gospel and Culture'

lOam - 4pm, venue to be arranged. Tutor - Revd Peter Ballantine. Details Juliet Ralph (0186S)208282 Stewardship Training Evangelism and Ministry 19 Feb, 5 and 26 March

'Beginnings in Portfolio' from 7.30— 9.30pm at St Nicholas Small Church Hall, Sutcliffe Ave, Earley, Reading £5, tutor Revd Philip Tovey. 26 Feb 5, 12, 19,26 March

'Prayer' from 7.30 - 9.30pm at Diocesan Church House, North I-InI,, flvf(,rgl f1 5 iiitimrRpvd

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Conference Centre, Hoddesdon. Churches in South East Asia are dynamic and growing fast, come and find out their secrets. Speakers include: Canon Chye Ann Soh, South East Regional Director CMS, Rev. Nick Deane who worked in Korea for 12 years with OMF. Organised by the East central Region of the Church Mission Society. For booking forms please contact Jane Fulford (0118) 969 5039. The Oxford Christ' an Institute for Counselling 30 March All the Ways of Prayer. An OCIC Retreat Day, exploring art, emotion, imagination and silence in prayer. Led by Giles Charrington and Lynne Booker lOam - 4pm. Stanton House, Stanton St John £20 including lunch. Details: Sonia Cooper (01865) 777755 counsellingocic.org.uk Stainer's Crucifixion from scratch Sat 3 Mar A sing along of

'Crucifixion' in St Cross Church, St Cross Road,

Conferences Music 24 March Join over 600 men

St Christopher's Hospice 22 Feb Conducting funerals

Eastern promise God's prom 2 - 4 March High Leigh

February 2001

Men Alive for God

dren between the ages of S and 9 years old. Theme - Spring. Details: (01895) 270730 sally@gwkiver.demon.org.uk

and caring for the bereaved. Workshop for clergy and lay readers, looking at the dynamics stresses and values of this work. Cost £70 Details: Maggie Johnson 020 8778 9252

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for an anointed day of friendship, power and vision! 11am - 10pm Spinney Hill Theatre, Northampton. Admission and meals free Details from Jesus Fellowship (01327) 349991

Woman's World Day of Prayer Services on Friday 2 March

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Marriage in the 21st Century Some 90% of 16-24 year olds hope to marry and have a family. How can the church help these people to form strong and lasting marriages? The charity Anglican Marriage Encounter offers two types of weekend as a resource to the church and community. The engaged Encounter weekend enables couples, whether they have been married for a few or many years, the time and space to get in touch again with their love for each other and to find new vision and skills to go on growing in their relationship. Both weekends are held in retreat houses or hotels around the country and are free with donations towards future weekends invited. The weekends have been reviewed and revised recently in the light of the needs of couples in the 21st century. Anglican Marriage Encounter has been working in this field for over twenty years in this country and is part of a worldwide movement of support marriage. 'Our relationship was transformed by our weekend fifteen years ago', say David and Liz Percival, Publicity Couple for Marriage Encounter. 'Marriage can be full of ups and downs, but we certainly feel better equipped

Work and Worth?' 19 Feb Unemployment and

the Future of Work - A New Agenda? London Diocesan House, London. A day conference led by Bishop David Sheppard. Cost £20 waged, £10 unwaged (includes a copy of the Unemployment Sunday report) Details from Wyn Goggins, Unemployment Sunday, Church Action on Poverty, central Buildings, Oldham Street, Manchester, Ml 1JT Wendover Choral Society 14 Jan 2001 - New Season

starts, all rehearsals at St Annes Church Hall, Wendover, Bucks 7.45pm on Thursdays.

Quiet Gardens 8 Feb 'The Glory of the

Garden (Kipling)'. A day led by the Revd Canon Alan Coidwells, Honorary Assistant Priest in the Upton-cumChalvey Team Ministry 10am 3pm. 15 Feb Treasuring the Word 22 Feb 'Consider the Delightfulness of God' Praying with Julian of Norwich, we shall reflect on the God of creation and our response to His

Oxford Central

Wesley Memorial Church, new Inn Hall Street 2pm. Speaker the Revd Beverley Hall Oxford North

Littlemore celebrates Newman's bi-centenary A new composition by Arvo Part (above left) to commemorate the 200th annlversary.of the birth of John Henry Newman (above right) Wed 21 Feb is the 200th birth-

day of that most remarkable Oxford poet, theologian, spiritual writer and controversialist John Henry Newman. During the most crucial period of his life, Newman was Vicar of Littlemore. It was here he withdrew to take stock after having been attacked by the establishment of the day. It was here that he experimented with starting a religious community, and it was here, most crucially, that he took that momentous step of converting to Roman Catholicism. Newman has given much to the Church of England as well as to the Roman Catholic Church. To celebrate the bi-centenary of his birth the Vicar of Littlemore has commissioned a new composition by Arvo Part setting to music Newman's most famous

(Quoted in a sermon by newman entitled 'Wisdom and Innocence', preached in Littlemore on 19 February 184 8). This 'Littlemore Tractus' will be first performed in Littlemore by the choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields on Wed 21 February at 7pm during a Holy Eucharist presided over by the Bishop of Oxford, Bishop Richard Harries. The preacher on this occasion will be Dr Petà Dunstan of the University of Cambridge. Arvo Part himself will have rehearsed the choir and will be present at this event. To reserve a seat for the world premier of the 'Littlemore Tractus', please write to Sue Aldridge, 12 Dugeon Drive, Littlemore, Oxford 0X4. Other performances of the 'Littlemore Tractus' can be heard at Choral Evensong, Magdalen College, Oxford on Sun 25 Feb at 6pm. and during Choral Evensong at Oriel College, Oxford on Sun 24 February at 6pm. A BBC World Service recording of the world premiere will be

St Margaret's Church, Victoria Road 12.15pm. Speaker Georgie Simpson Oxford South

St Matthews Church 2pm. Speaker - Mrs Ann Lee Botley/Cumnor

Our Lady of the Rosary Church 10.30am. Speaker - Mrs Eve Lockett Kennington

Kennington Methodist Church 2.30pm. Speaker - Mrs Jan Grimwood. Littlemore and Cowley

St Mary and St Nicholas 2.30pm Headington

St Andrews Church, Old Headington 10.30am. Speaker the Revd Jean King Marston

St Nicholas Church 2pm. Speaker - Rosemary Green. Ark-T Centre+Gailery

Wednesdays 1pm Communion service, everyone welcome. Saturday mornings lOam - 12 noon Ark-T Café, Cowley Oxford BIC RADIO OXFORD 95.2

1 Bored' day £3.50 per child Oxford. More details from 10.30amto 12.30pmor Stephen Jones (01 86S) 202060 1.30pm to 3.30pm - to suit chil-

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FEBRUARY Fri 2 MILTON KEYNES Just

Supper, 7.30pm at Christ the Cornerstone. Bring food to share or monetary donation. Speaker at 8.30pm Hugh Boulter of CCOW. Sat 3 READING Organ recital, St Giles' Church, Cameo Consort 7.30pm Sun 4 and 11 BURFORD

Snowdrop Sunday at Burford Priory, proceeds will be shared with Burford Scouts. Details from Brother Anthony (01993) 823605 Sun 4 WINDSOR High Requiem Mass and Benediction Fauré at St Stephen's Church, Vaiisitait Road 6.30pm Wed 7 GREAT MILTON

South Oxon Rural Theology Group. All welcome 7.30pm 9pm at The Neighbours Hall. Subject for discussion "Why Live in the Countryside'? Details from Revd Glyn Evans (01608) 674313 glynevans@goldserve.net Wed 7 COLD ASH A Quiet Day with David Winter 'After the Gospels' lOam - 4pm £17.50. Details: Victoria Jameson (01865) 319704 Thurs 8 OXFORD 'Suffering and Christianity' Dr Paul Fiddes 12.30pm John Radcliffe Hospital, Lecture Theatre One. Details from the Chaplains (01865) 221732 (First lecture on 30 Jan, 'Suffering and Judaism' same time and place all welcome) Thurs 8 WING 'Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus' with David Hiscock at the Village Hall. Cot £4 proceeds to the

Children's Society

Sat 17 OXFORD RSCM

Fri 23 READING Organ

Fri 9 READING Organ recital,

Workshop - music for Easter and Whitsun at Magdalen College School, 2.- 4.30pm, directed by Grayston Ives. Affiliated choirs and friends please contact (01865) 863379 for details.

recital at St Mary's Church with Malcolm Stowell 12.15pm Fri 23 HOOK NORTON 'The Musicke Companye' present music for Lent, including Vivaldi and Bach 7.30pm at St Peter's Church. Tickets £7.50 available in advance from (01608) 737172 or on the door. Sat 24 OXFORD City of London Sinfonia at the Sheldonian Theatre including Grieg and Vaughan Williaisis, 7.3Opm. Tues 27 OLNEY Pancake races: children's races 10.30am, main race 11.55am street entertainment, finishes at Church for Shriving Service, with the singing of Olney hymns, including 'Amazing Grace'. This race is in its 53rd Year. For more info see Olney Church website.

St Mary's Church, with Cynthia Hall 12.15pm. Details (01525) 375109 Fri 9 WOLVERTON Being Ecumenical in Milton Keynes with Revd Murdoch MacKenzie 10 - 3pm at The Christian Foundation £2 (bring sandwiches) Sun 11 BLETCHLEY A

Celebration of Marriage with Thanksgiving and Renewal of vows, St Mary's Church 2.30pm. Details from Janet Lawrence 01908 377660 Sun 11 BENSON Recital in St Helen's Church with Violinist Sharon Warnes and Pianist Jeremy Boughton 7-.30pm,-6. Details from (01491) 836310. Sun 11 MAIDS MORETON

Healing service in St Edmund's Church at 6pm. Mon 12 BUCKINGHAM

Cottesloe Annual Lecture 'Longing for the Kingdom: reflections on the Lord's Prayer' with Canon John Fenton at St Peter and St Paul 8pm M. Wed 14 READING Organ recital in the Town Hall, Thomas Trotter 7.30pm Wed 14 TILEHURST St Mary Magdalen 7.30pm Valentine Concert, Reading Concert Singers in aid of Multiple Sclerosis Society. Programmes £4 (C3.50 concessions) Details: (0118) 942 5290. Sat 17 TURVEY ABBEY

Reflecting on the meaning of Lent through Icons with Sister Esther 10 -3pm £10 (concessions £S) Details (01908) 322533

Sun 18

SWYNCOMBE

Snowdrop Sunday 11am - 4.30pm including Choral service, lunch, tea and Choral Evensong at St Botolph's of the B481 between Watlington and Nettlebed. Tues 20 WOLVERTON A

pre-Lent lecture with Rt Revd Mike Hill, 7.30pm St Georges Church, donations at door. Wed 21 ADDERBURY

Church of England Children's Society Coffee morning in The Institute 10 - 12am Thur 22 OXFORD Oxford Archdeaconry Retired Clergy Association. Holy Communion followed by coffee and talk by the Bishop of Oxford. Details from Canon Roland Meredith (01993) 851142 Thur 22 NEWBURY Vocation Fellowship, St George's, Wash Common 8pm 'The Ministry of Reconciliation' with Bishop Dominic of Reading. Thur 22 OXFORD Council of Christians and Jews, Prof Alan Steinweis of the University of Nebraska will speak on 'The Americanization of the Holocaust' at the 'Friends' Meeting House, 43 St Giles 8pm. Fri 23 STEWKLEY A Quiet Day with Sister Hazel at Varden House, High Street South, 10 3pm £6. Details and booking (01525) 375109

The Door Post is a supplement to The Door and is published by Oxford Diocesan Publications Ltd.

Wed 28 CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL OXFORD Sung

Eucharist for Ash Wednesday 6pm.

Diocesan Renewal Fellowship with Russ Parker dealing with difficulties and problems related to the healing ministry. Details from David Bishop 01865 760099.

Lent Course 2001 cgad by ft ft4ctd Daxsn

Sat 17 & 31 THAME 'Holy

for Diocese of Oxford Russ Parker Director of Acorn Christian Foundation Richard Kane Director of National Marriage Week Collin Fletcher Bishop of Dorchester Ann Persson Director of 'The Spring' at Highmoor Hall

Unsuitable', live music, video, lame comedy and bar at Thame United Football Club Doors open at 7.30pm, £5 (4 concessions) Details from si.smith@talk21.com. Sun 18 PADBURY Deanery evensong at St Mary the Virgin, 6pm 'Cured but not Whole' with Canon Beau Stevenson Sun 25 BEACHAMPTON

Deanery evensong at The Assumption, 6pm 'The Ministry of Healing in the Parish' with the Revd Hugh Kent. Sat 31 HIGH WYCOMBE

HW Orpheus male Voice Choir Concert at All Saints Church at 7.30pm. Tickets £6 in aid of The Children's Society from June Stanton (01494) 527429.

MARCH Sun 4 WATER STRATFORD

Deanery evensong at St Giles, 6pm 'Health of Body, Mind and Spirit' with Dr David McDonald Sat 10 OXFORD The Botticelli Illustrations to Dante's 'Divine Comedy with John Stuart Allitt. S 10.30am 12noon. Details from Revd Dr Ann Shukman (01865) 310341 Sun 11 MAIDS MORETON

Deanery evensong at St Edmund, 6pm 'Shrinking the Gospel: Christianity and Psychotherapy' with Canon Christopher McKenna. Tues 13 THAME O,gford

The Door is published ten times a year (not August or January) and is distributed

Rerl Felb'thp Speak Chris Neal Director of Evangelism

The course March 5-April 5 Week I A Two Winged Bird can

fly: learning new patterns of being church in the 21st Century with Chris Neal Week 2 Reconciling people and healing places with Russ Parker Week 3 Jesus - the relational Son of God with Richard Kane Week 4 Practising servant leadership today with the Bishop of Dorchester Week 5 Who do you think you are? with Ann Persson The venues and dates

The

arc Issue Of will be ready for collection on

Communion, lOam Matins and Sermon; 11.15am Sung Eucharist; 6pm Evensong. Weekdays 7.15am Matins; 7.35am Holy Communion; 6pm Evensong (Thursdays or Major Feast Days 5.35pm Said Evensong and 6pm Sung Eucharist).

free of charge to churches in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

Bible Reading Fellowship

On 1 Dec BRF moved to new premises at Elsfield Hall in North Oxford. Our new contact details are: BRF, First Floor 15-17 Elsfield Way, Oxford OX2 8EP Further details from Karen Laister (01865) 319700 Retired Clergy Association

Canon and Mrs John Barton are moving to Sidcup, Kent in February. The Revd Michael Farthing has become the new Secretary of the Oxford Retired Clergy Association. His address is 32 Fallstaff Close, Eynsham, Oxon (01865) 883805. We are grateful to John for his work as our representative on the National RCA and to Joan for her work as Secretary of the Oxford Branch. Roland Meridith, Chairman.

St Johns, Carterton, Mondays

Interested in mental health

from 5 March - 2 April. Contact Roger Billings 01993 846996

Would you like to offer support to someone living with mental health problems? Tandem befriending scheme is a small, developing service which matches up volunteers with people who have become isolated through mental ill-health or distress. There are places still available on the training course starting on 1 March for people who would like to volunteer as befrienders. The course is 6 training sessions and covers basic mental health awareness. For details contact Val or Sally on (01865) 724225

St Nicholas, Newbury Tuesdays from 6 March -3 April.

Contact David Cook 01635 47018 Christ Church Cathedral Sundays 8am Holy

Notices

Christ Church, Abingdon, Wednesdays from 7 March

-4 April. Contact Tim Davis 01235 539172

Christ Church, Flackwell Heath Thursdays from 8 March

- 5 April. Contact Chris Bull 01628 522795. Ring the Revd David Bishop on 01865 760099 for more details about courses.Times are likely to be 8pm, but best to check locally.

Editorial address: The Door, Church House, North Hinksey, Oxford OX2 ONB.

Telephone: 01865 208227 Fax: 01865 790470 Email: door@oxford.anglican.org

-Christmas Blues Valentine's Day Dreads?

Have you been lonely over Christmas and the New Year - or perhaps wished there was a special friend or companion to share life's ups and downs with? Are you wishing there wasn't so much much promotion of Valentine's day because you won't be involved? If you feel at all like this then 'Friends First' could be just what you need. Established over a year ago it has a flourishing membership across the country and has enabled many Christians to meet new people and make new friendships. Friends First is run by Christians for Christians. Find out if it's a service you too could benefit from by contacting Katherine Gray who runs it on 0121 427 1286 or writing to her at P.O Box 8377, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9TE. Let your life be different this year. Palm Sunday -8 April

Do you use Palm Crosses in your Church or Community? If not we invite you to try ours. They are made in Nongoma, Zululand and are bookmark size. We invite a donation of £10 per 100 and they are available in multiples of SO. Donations last year enabled us to send £18,000 to Nongoma, this helped to support a local hospital appeal. Order forms available from: Palm Cross Administration Office, Emmanuel Church Weston Favell Centre, Northampton, NN3 8JR (01604) 401010

NORFOLK WALSINGHAM Comfortable well-equipped period cottage, sleeps 4. Central location - Friday market. Ideal pilgrimage and N. Norfolk Centre.

Tel: 01790 550581

OARSHAM EAST SUHOEK Holiday flat, sleeps 4. Quiet village. Electricity and linen supplied. Near coast & Minsmere.

IRELAND WEST CORK Bungalow on family farm, scenic coastal area, Irish Tourist Board Approved

OPEN ALL YEAR Brochure: 00353 2838269

CYPRUS FAMILY HOLIDAY Apts in Private GARDEN setting at LIMASSOL our SUNNIEST seaside city, 150 yrds to sandy BEACHES, WATER SPORTS, NIGHT LIFE, RESTAURANTS etc. From only £250 per week

Tel: 01120 060502

Tel: 014 2888 2424

PORTUGAL

'ieth-Ede,i

CAR VOIERO, ALGARVE Scenic coast & hills. Wheelchair access comfortable spacious privately owned 2 bedroom apartment, short walk amenities, sandy beaches, tennis, golf. Garden, shared pool. Lively village. Available All Year.

Tel: 01277 227979

West Parade, Llandudno North Wales LL30 2138 Lionel and Doreen Phillips Telephone 01492 877057 Guest House. Rated WTB Good home cooking & superb views. Mary rooms en-suite, all have odour TVs, Ideally suited for Church activities. We offer a wam wekoerne to groups of up to 45, as well as lnnnilies,

Christian

SCOTLAND GLENCLOVER

KYRENBA VILLA

ANGUS STB*** Holiday accommodation to let all year. Three bedrooms. Every comfort. Superb mountain scenery. Fishing, walking, Near nature reserve. Photograph and details.

NORTH CYPRUS

Tel: 01575 550216 Transport available

CONTACTS

Friendly locals. Low prices. Cracking priced Villas and Cottages. K.V.C. Freepost St. Albans AL3 51BR Phone/Fax:(01727) 863853 (24 hours)

01423 711491

Dolserau Hall Amidst Country House Hotel 99ar Mountains, Dolgellau LL4l sac Tninquil 5' Meadows food DI"rooers & Idyllic Warnsesse4wafcemes Spedal aenaksaeel9bie Scenery in FerCoIaejr&eeleee Tel: 01341 422522 Snowdonia wdsieeesesouak

Email: john.myers chvirgin.net

AA*** 70% Rosette. WTB Country Hotel

NIDDERDALE NORTH YORKSHIRE New traditional luxury apartment in owners grounds at Paterly Bridge. Easy reach of Harrogate, York and the Dales. Sleeps 214. B&B and short breaks. Brochure: Tel/Fax:

LEOGANG

CORNWALL

Traditional chalet Sleeps 12 B&B

CHIVERTON PARK Near St. Agnes

Ideal skiing, beginners, intermediate, advanced 5 mins from slopes

01784 423577 01344 621856

Luxury caravans on quiet park.

No club/disco. Pets

welcome

01872 560667

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SAN CLEMENTE

Exmoor National Park

SPAIN

Quiet attractive area. Easy parking En-suites Lovely home cooking SHORT BREAKS Come as guests lease as friends

OAKWOOD HOTEL Tel: tOl 323) 721900

Black Forest - Germany Holidays for every age group, dnrg your own lung or lynning in group outings and actvrtes. We can also help with tmvel arrangements and meet at airport. Len & Phyl Holder, Hess Barnabas, 0-79694 Uteeen'eld For details and brochure E-mail Lwn.Hoklsrer-nenline.de wwsy.haus-bamabas.vodenlere.de TellFax: 01227 363857

views. Beautiful sandy beach, picturesque fishing port marina. All amenities including golf, also bedroom flat, bosh available all year.

FRANCE Fully equipped mobile homes

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(UK)

FRANCE 01273 581 355 Two bedroom at Argetes-surmen, Mediterranean and three bedroom at St Jean de nsorsss Vendee

Two adjacent, refurbished, comfortable character cottages in Timberscombe. Sleeps 3/6. Pets welcome. Reasonable all-inclusive prices.

Tel: 01643 841193 E-mail m.p.uworkshop.ndo.co.vk

Pilgrimage

WINTER SUNSHINE

to Spain

Short or long term let apartment. Torrevieja (healthy & convenient Costa Blanca location), Reasonable terms.

Ajourney to Santiago de Compostela, along the Pilgrim Way. 18-26 April 2001. For details

Tel. 01926 338234

Tel. 01305 889229

by coach and on foot.

SCOTLAND Walking, fishing, outdoor

NORTH WALES 0 books WOO 3 Rout 2001. AA 4

Retreat and relax our lovely 17thC farmhouse. Eaceteif food, mountain views, to rispire the head. Star. Webmerre God. Good Hotel Gude Doomed. E-mail: raygear@fyiaat78.freeaerve.co.uk

Tel: 01341 423261 Website: weav.tybsat70ieeeaeeve.co.uk

FRANCE TAILOR-MADE MINI-BREAKS, South West France. - Golf, 4e4 rallies, quad bikes, flying, motor racing, gastronomic tours, cookery courses, hunting and art classes can also be arranged. Near thermal spa. Luxury accommodation.

FRANCE ROYAN West Coast of France 0208 500 3272 Two bedroom fully equipped mobile home. Pleasant 4-star pine forest site. Attractive area, walking distance to safe sandy beaches

Compass Christian Centre, Perthshire Tel: 01250 885209

KESWICK LAKE DISTRICT Self -Catering Holidays Former gentlemen's country residence restored to provide quality self-catering accommodation. Wonderful village/lakeshore location. 16 acres conservation grounds - panoramic views from £199 per week * Pets Welcome *

Tel: 011887 12211 Derwent Manor vy'vw.dc'rsvc'rot-m:inor.etu.uk

with good prices, choose

Hotel Anna Helsinki, Finland Tel: +358-9-816 621 www.hotelanrta.com

SOMERSET MINEHEAD GATEWAY TO EXMOOR.

Sunfield Hotel Family run, en-suite rooms with TV and tea making. For brochure phone

FINLAND Hotel Anna Tel: +358-9-018 021 www.hotelanna.com Small cosy centrally

EASTBOURNE FOR SHORT BREAKS Self contained first floor fiat in Eastbourne. Quiet, sunny, central near pier, promenade, bandstand theatres. Double bedroom, k/diner, bathroom, toilet. Additional small bedroom Opposite Ceylon Place Baptist Church Mrs Mace 01323 411669 Another flat also available

S. £195

Set in picturesque countryside Mid-Wales. All conoforts/modern conveniences in oldewortde atmosphere. Bargain out of season breaks available.

Tel: 01686 626438 wwsrueaetyeton,psnek,co,uk

4. 1O/lOth June 200l

Fairfields Hotel

weea.fleursdelees.com

Tel: 0033 555 840647 WESTION BRITTANY

North

For brochure ff0511131

Large secluded farmhouse surrounded by its acres of land, woods and meadows. From bedrooms

Yorkshire 2 collages on working sheep farm. Both sleep 6.

IRELAND 'MOUNT ZION'

£150-S

Itlp://m,lulmruIUil/ulHl Tel: 1411 5155 35 43 ITALY ROME CENTRE self catering aptn in royal villa, sleep 2/5; beautiful garden, private parking, children most welcome. Tel/owner 00431 712 5091t fax 715 4291 C-need

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Open all year.

£155 -£320 Tel. 01833 521 252 NORTHUMBERLAND Fenton Hill Farm 4 Lovely cottages in beautiful countryside, open fires, near Scottish borders and Lindisfarne, (deal for walking, cycling, or lust to retreat and relax.

Tel/Fax: 01668 216228

SPAIN

Ireland

WINTER SUNSHINE

WEST CORK

Short or long term let apartment. Torrevieja (healthy convenient Costa Blanca location). Reasonable terms.

Self-catering bungalow on family farm, scenic coastal area, Irish Tourist Board Approved

Tel: 01928 338234

Tel: 0035 328 31208

FRANCE: Artois-Picarilie L'anwen presbytere:

CUMBRIA

One hour from Boulogne. Large dormitory, three bedrooms. Refectory. bathrooms. Log tires/ch. B&B/SC.

Two

Tel: 0794 1574 875 or 01227 721 929

Static Caravan on farm, sleeps per night per week WALKING, CYCLING, NR LAKE DISTRICT YORKSHIRE DALES

£30 £130

E-mail: sallelec@compuserve.soesx

017683 52865

NORTHUMBERLAND ALN WICK Beautiful Northumberland coast with beaches, castle S golf nearby. 4 farm cottages, sleeps 4-6. Coal fires & central heating. Open All Year.

PEAK DISTRICT COTTAGE Village Location BONSALL Near Matlock, Sleeps 4-5.

Mrs Matson Dunstan Hilt, Alnwick, Northumberland

fdE66 37Q Tel: 01665 576481

Details:

01223 860353 orn.moir@btinfernet.com

NORFOLK THE WHITE HOUSE Bremerton, Norwich, Norfolk NR14 7DW Self-contained flat for 2-6 In charming C17 village house. Near river, 10 mins Norwich

£100 for 3 night be-wake 6160-300 feel week Sorry, NO SMOKING

1l: 01508 538673

CORNWALL Helston 11/2 miles. Delightful country hotel. rooms en-suite, country views, licensed, scrumptious food, nights BB/dinner per person THIRD NIGHT FREL

All

small

2 £80 STAY Tel: 01326 572 565

10 Day Pilgrimage Departing 22nd Sept 2001

SANTIAGO de COMPOSTELLA LUXURY COACH TRAVEL QUALITY HOTELS -1118 ACCOM.

3. 28 Mar/1st Apr. 2001

DORSET situated in picturesque National Trust Village overlooking the Bay. ETB••++ Highly Commended Corps d'elite Wine Award All rooms ensutte. Large Garden. Log Fires, Child Friendly SPRING BREAKS AVAILABLE

Cronkeerin, Ardara. Co Donegal

00 353 75 41842 B&B is beautiful location close to beaches, golf, horse riding, scenic walks and drives. Fellowship with Christian family.

Barnabas Trust

Holida Centres. ..

Beautiful Villas, Collages, Beach Apartments from £200 per week, including car him, with private or shored swimming pearls. New lovely beaches, usrgioitt locations. Personal, friendly service Telephone 0208 995 3515

ALGARVE

Liz BoId.eston 01239 841412

For more information contact PLASTOWS COACHES on 01865 872270

PISSOURI Best Location in Cyprus

Well equipped SIC Studio apartment in lovely holiday village. Shady areas plus pools, walks, tennis, petanque and golf on sow. Sea, shops. restaurants wehin '/i mile.

880 in lovely country house set in acre of garden. Glorious views, peaceful surroundings, good food, including borne hake bread. Close Is Cardigan Bay, Terfi Valley and coastal path, walking and bird watching.

Phone Amanda: 01932 841933 or Email Bob: waspwee@olie.pt

Fye urc amiy otlays ryou weeken.s C. U. housepartieo - retreats & camps - conferences Carroty Wood - Kent Frontier Centre - Northants Whithaugh Park - Scottish Borders Halls Green - Kent Climbing Camp - Sussex www.barnabas.org.uk Alan Smith - Barnabas Trust FREEPOST TN2186 Tonbridge Kent TN11 9BR Tel: 01732366766 Fax: 01732 366767 E-mail: stay@barnabas.org.uk

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Plmlie: 01125 518224 daytime

01125 518808 evenings and weekends

DIJRDLE DOOR DORSET Mobile home available in beautiful surroundings, unspoiled beaches, hill walks. Ideal for growing family Edgington

01582 763219 YORKSHIRE Quality Self-Catering

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3 0/N stops to and from resort of Naio

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Bournemouth, Cost £100.00 per person, dbb/coach Llandudno Landlubbers Cruise Cost £175.00 per person dbb/coach Llandudno Landlubbers Cruise Cost £175.00 per person ,dbb/coach Experience Ireland Cost £445.00 per person dbb/coach

PAPHOS AREA

BRITTANY

WALES N. PEMBRDKESHIRE

Tel: 0118 9266094

11929 451224

FRANCE Access to all coasts. Beautiful manoir owned by Christian couple, private 2 acre park. Sleeps 8 Tel: 0033 29624 0867 (until end Feb) Diane Tel: 0033 29621 5841 (from March)

ST DAVIDS Stone cottages sleep 2-18 (2/7 bedrooms). Peaceful setting near sandy beach and coast path. Enclosed, [awned gardens, games rooms, dishwashers, log fires, gas central heating. Pets welcome atone cottage. WTB Recommended.

Plastow's Coach Tours

STUDLAND BAY

DORDOGNE

PEMBROKESHIRE

We are currently running a few tours this year and have the following to offer, subject to availability:

2. 16/20th Mar. 2001

heart of Helsinki

FRANCE

Tel: 01245 322583

Tel Myra 017687 72772 fawsleyhouse@aol.com

1. 5/9th Feb. 2001

located hotel in the

1 & 2 bedroomed apartments. Close beach, pool, restaurants etc; Assistance flights & transfers

Tel. +4127 4813114

Small friendly guest house. Superb home cooking, B&B or GB & ED. Non-smoking. Excellent weekly terms and short breaks

BEAUTIFUL LISTED TUDOR COTTAGE

CYPRUS PROTARUS S KONNOS DAY

e-mail: bellalui@bluewin,ch

6 miles south of Shrewsbury. Heated indoor swimming pool. En suite or private (Whirlpool) bathroom, ground floor rooms. Excellent walking. Ample car parking. No smoking/pets. From £24 per person per night Midweek Bargain Breaks Tel 01743 874660

Character stone house. Panoramic views, private pool, S minutes from Beaulieu-surDordogne. Sleeps 6. ALSO AVAILABLE: Cottage. sleeps 4 & farmhouse, sleeps II

Christian Hotel*** with warm and family atmosphere settled in Craos-Montana, a very attractive winter resort. Great skiing area and many sport facilities for all ages!

LAKE DISTRICT KESWICK

Mrs Anne Oliphant Netherdale House, TIIFFIH, Aberdeenshire, AB53 4LE Tel/Fax: 01466 780249

Tel: 0033 562 083636

SWISS ALPS

SHROPSHIRE LUXURY B&B

Aberdeenshire Peaceful comfortable cottage sleeps per week including logo. Fishing, horse riding.

activities, skiing or relaxing. Self catering or serviced.

When you are looking for a cosy centrally located hotel

01643 703565

For tree brochure ring

Fax: 01784 423593

Friendly Christian family host luxury accommodation 10801 with spectacular Pacific Ocean views. 2 sinuses to beach. Close to valor amenities, half say between LA and Sen Dingo. An, Disneyland, GooDrich Missions, Hollywood, Seawonid, Universal Studios, Colt and Tennis. On ivsn so and relax. Tel: 061 949 389 8219 Fee: 941949369 0279 Email: samss@theeameshoust,cum Pease wit our web page at weoutheeamuohouse,con5, Fun, cane, nelvianion guaranteed

A beautiful elegant resort.

FRANCE Le Val-Andre, Brittany 01992 813310 Two bedroomed house, sea

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