#244 The Door March 2013

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March 2013 No. 244

Reporting from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire www.oxford.anglican.org

Royal Maundy comes to Cathedral

Inside Prayer Diary

By Jo Duckles

THE QUEEN will be handing out Maundy Money to pensioners from Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire next month.

Every year the Monarch visits a UK cathedral or abbey to give out Maundy coins to elderly people in recognition of their service to their community and church.

This year’s visit, on Thursday 28 March will be the first time she has visited Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford for the annual ceremony. Buckingham Palace will invite 87 men and 87 women from the Diocese (in line with the Queen’s age) to receive the special coins.

The Rt Revd Colin Fletcher, the Bishop of Dorchester, said: “It’s very exciting and a great honour for the city and the Cathedral but it is a particular honour for the 87 men and 87 women who will be receiving the Maundy money during the presentation. It is in recognition of everything they do for their church and communities, although they are only a tiny proportion of the people who give so much in our Diocese.

“This is the first time that the Queen has come to our Cathedral for this purpose during her reign so it is a huge honour for the Cathedral, the Diocese, the city and the Thames Valley as a whole.

“Each of the recipients will be accompanied by a companion

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The Queen hands out Maundy money to the elderly at York Minster in 2012. Photo: York Minster

on the day. Sadly no tickets are available to the general public as the seating has to be rearranged in the Cathedral to allow Her Majesty to move around to give the purses to the recipients.”

Annette Jackson, 84, a retired LLM in the Hambleden Valley was one of 86 women and 86 men who were selected to go to York Minster last Maundy Thursday,

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to receive the traditional money from the Queen. The service was a particularly special one for the Jubilee Year, with representatives from each of the Church of England’s 43 dioceses attending the event at the famous minster.

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“absolutely terrified”. She said: “At first I said no and I had to be persuaded to go. I felt that there were so many other people who are far more worthy than me, but I was persuaded and I took my husband and my son.

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The Kingdom of welcome

ncreasingly, churches and retreat centres all over the world are using icons of the Old Testament Holy Trinity, writes the Rt Revd Alan Wilson. Their most popular form was written by Andrei Rublev sometime between 1408 and 1425 but icons are a living tradition, some say an expression of the incarnation among us.

My favourite contemporary version is at Alton Abbey, written by Dom Anselm Shobrook OSB. It shows three angels sharing a fellowship meal at the Oaks of Mamre, a story told in Genesis chapter 18.

For Christians the Old Testament scene is a type of the Holy Trinity, Father Son and Holy Spirit. God exists in a perfect unity of love, expressed in three persons. The angels gathering around a table express the promise God made to Abraham, prefiguring the Eucharistic meal that binds us all together. Disciples are not just believers united in a common cause or bound together by their traditions, but people with a share in the life of God himself.

Other icons of the Old Testament Trinity depict Abraham and Sarah as hosts, sometimes even their households.

The Alton one is purely and simply about God, framed only by symbols of worship and creation, Shechem on the left, and the green oak of Mamre on the right. Above all, this icon stresses the equality of the three persons.

Unlike Rublev’s angels, they wear the same coloured robes and their staffs are identical. They point to each other, the table, and the rest of the world, respectively. The only visible difference is the way the central angel’s wings arch over the whole scene, but this slightly unusual way of depicting the subject can be found in the ancient tradition, in the

Thought for the Month

By David Winter ‘Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.’

John 19:25 he Gospel narratives of Holy Week and Easter are full of memorable visual images - Jesus in the ‘garden of tears’, Peter in the court of the High Priest, Pilate washing his hands, the stone rolled away from the empty tomb.

But the most moving for me is the one so simply described by John in the verse above. Four women stood on a rocky outcrop near Jerusalem at the scene of a triple execution, among them the mother of one of the condemned men.

Strangely, John never once in his Gospel mentions the name of the mother of Jesus. Possibly it was out of delicacy or respect - no one knows.

She is the first woman identified here.

Alongside her were two other Marys, one ‘the wife of Clopas’, and the other Mary Magdalene.

The fourth woman was her sister,

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Reflection person praying with the icon, who is drawn in and becomes part of the circle of love. The bowl is round, and if you stand back from the icon the angels’ wings make a shape rather like a chalice — another reminder of the Eucharist.

Most radically, in Rublev’s icon the bowl contains sacrificial meat, but in this particular icon, the bowl is empty.

Abraham and Sarah are off stage.

‘A relationship predicated on equality is playful... genuinely hospitable.’

work of Rublev’s teacher, Theophanes the Greek.

What does the icon teach us? For a start, that the fundamental social order is equality, not hierarchy. A relationship predicated on equality is

playful, engaging, genuinely hospitable.

It allows each person in it true freedom and the whole is more than the sum of the parts. This equality is profoundly inclusive. The group is circular, with an honoured place at the front for the

The meal is brought by you, the viewer, as you pray with the icon. The Kingdom, then, is an inherently social experience, a place of welcome for all.

Welcome, however, is only a beginning.

Full inclusion is about allowing strangers to find a meaningful place within the community as they are. It does not judge people, or manipulate them. It does not impose upon them its own agendas.

God loves us as we are, draws us in to share his life, and thus we are changed from glory to glory as he loves us far too much for us not to be transformed into his likeness. This icon shows us that equality and inclusion are not only social virtues, but reflect the life of God himself. All God’s promises are “yes” and “Amen” in Jesus Christ.

The icon brings us a large vision of humanity and the incarnation in which all are equally valued, loved, accepted, and challenged. This is the core of the gospel with no ifs or buts.

The Rt Revd Alan Wilson is the Bishop of Buckingham. Picture: The Old Testament Prefiguring of the Trinity by Dom Anselm Shobrook O.S.B. Photo by Yvonne Bell.

The Four Women possibly, scholars think from other references in the Gospels, Salome, wife of Zebedee and mother of James and John. The group was completed by a lone male, John the ‘beloved disciple‘, who may therefore have been a cousin of Jesus, and who was shortly to be entrusted by him with the care of his mother in the future.

Visually the scene was stark: three crosses, a barren hill-top and three men dying a slow and agonising death, watched by the soldiers who were charged to carry out the executions.

Huddled near one of the crosses were these five witnesses, shocked and silent as the grim process went ahead.

‘...three crosses, a barren hill-top and three men dying a slow and agonising death.’

It is impossible to comprehend what Mary the mother of Jesus must have been experiencing at that moment.

She stood beside her son, still a young man, being put to a cruel death on a trumped-up charge, vilified by bystanders and even by one of the thieves who hung beside him.

Above his head was the strange accusation, ‘Jesus of Nazareth, king of the Jews’. Thirty years ago she had been told by the angel Gabriel that her child would be called ‘the Son of God’, and that he would bring in a kingdom that would have ‘no end’ (Luke 1:32,33).

What had gone wrong?

Not only that. He was her son - not simply the prophet from Galilee but the little baby she had held in her arms, the boy she had tucked into his bed at night, the young man who had worked in the carpenter’s shed at their home.

How could it end like this? Catholic devotion talks of the ‘seven sorrows of Mary’, and they were grievous indeed.

Eventually Jesus died and his body was taken down and buried in a rich man’s tomb. The women dispersed. The next day was the Sabbath, certainly the most sombre one of their lives. On the next day, Sunday, strange and barely credible things occurred. The tomb was found empty. One of those four women, Mary Magdalene, encountered Jesus, apparently risen from death, in the garden by the tomb. Mary the wife of Clopas (surely the same ‘Cleopas’ as Luke identifies on the road to Emmaus) also saw him, mysteriously revealed ‘in the breaking of the bread’.

And finally, in a devastating yet wonderful moment, Mary the mother of Jesus must have met her risen Son in the Upper Room. We are told nothing of that meeting - wisely, perhaps, for mere words could not describe the emotions involved. But we know she was there, because Luke tells us (Acts 1:14). Doubtless Salome was also there, among the ‘certain women’ described as being present.

‘.the shocking but glorious truth of death and resurrection.’

Four women, witnesses of the two most significant events in the story of the world’s salvation, the death of Jesus and his resurrection. But of the four it is surely the mother who experienced most powerfully the shocking but glorious truth of death and resurrection.

Canon David Winter is a former Diocesan Advisor on evangelism, former BBC head of religious affairs, a broadcaster and the author of many books. See www. davidwinter-author.co.uk

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New servery and loo for Chinnor

Crowd gathers for ‘IF’ launch

From left, reps from WDS Building Contractors; donors, Rugby Benevolent Fund, SODC with Bishop Colin, Pat Hayward and the Revd John Kinchin-Smith. Photo: St Andrew’s, Chinnor

DESPITE freezing weather the Bishop of Dorchester, the Rt Revd Colin Fletcher joined the congregation of St Andrew’s Chinnor for the official dedication of the new church servery and loo.

The fully accessible toilet and new servery has been in use since December 2012. But the special service recently marked the official opening of the new facilities.

Unfortunately due to the snow and cold weather many of the elderly congregation as well as representatives from the various organisations who had helped towards the funding of the facilities, could not attend.

Bishop Colin stressed the importance of modern

facilities to help with the aspiration to make the church more welcoming for all. He went on to speak about the life of St Andrew’s and how he had been the welcoming figure in the disciples. He encouraged the congregation to be more welcoming and engaging in the community.

Pat Hayward, one of the church wardens, said: “It has taken a long time and a lot of hard work but these new facilities are now ready and will make the church much more functional for the whole community and make the building more versatile.

The servery is in keeping with the church and is made from beautiful oak.”

THE Bishop of Reading, the Rt Revd Andrew Proud, the Mayor, Jenny Rynn and MP Alok Sharma officially launched the ‘Enough Food For Everyone - IF’ campaign at St Laurence’s Church last month.

A crowd of people gathered as students from Leighton Park School played an especially composed tune for the local launch of the national, multi-agency campaign.

The idea behind IF is that the world produces enough food for everyone, but not everyone has enough food. It is estimated that almost 900 million people, about one in eight human beings on our planet, suffer from chronic hunger. IF brings together more than 100 charities and faith groups (including the Church of England) and is asking for change in four areas, some directly related to food production and distribution and some where the general improvements made could help improve people’s access to food as well.

At the same time, the Oxford Diocese’s Food Matters campaign was launched in an event at New Road Baptist Church in Oxford.

For a full report on the launch of Food Matters turn to page 13.

Pictured above is the crowd at St Laurence’s Reading celebrating the launch of IF. Photo by KT Bruce.

£900,000 needed to restore Bucks ‘Cathedral in the Fields’

By Jo Duckles

MUSKET holes believed to be from a siege by Cromwell’s Army are peppered across the door of All Saints, Hillesden.

While the Revd Ros Roberts, the vicar, says there is no absolute proof of how the holes came to be there, it is generally thought they are from the Civil War in the 17th century. In the Hillesden entry in England’s Thousand Best Churches by Simon Jenkins this is repeated as a fact.

Jenkins also describes All Saints as one of the most important examples of perpendicular Gothic architecture. It is famous for its link with Sir George Gilbert Scott, who says it fired his enthusiasm for the Gothic.

Now as well as being a place of interest for historians and a place of worship, the church is the only meeting place in the Buckinghamshire village. But it urgently needs to raise £95,000 for immediate, vital work. The long-term project has been split into phases and the rest of the money is to be raised through various community fundraising events, grants and donations.

The church has already secured some funding from the Bucks Historic Churches Trust and is hoping to get an English

Heritage grant towards the work.

Ros says: “This is an interesting building from lots of perspectives; the architecture, the history, the stained glass windows and as a community building. We have worship here every Sunday.”

The PCC and congregation is working to develop the historic building and resource as a place of prayer and pilgrimage for visitors and groups. They are also hoping to find ways for local schools to use it as a teaching resource.

“Both of the east windows are severely damaged and will fall out if we have another winter of bad frost. The stone work, especially the pinnacles on the East Round Tower were so bad we had to take it off for safety.

If we are not able to make the essential holding and phase one repairs, which will cost £250,000 this year, the church could in the future be declared unsafe at great loss to the community.”

Cromwell’s Army destroyed most of the stained glass windows, which were replaced by plain glass, but one window remains in the east wall of the South Transept, which depicts eight scenes from the life of St Nicholas. The Rt Revd Alan Wilson, the Bishop of Buckingham, says this is one

IN BRIEF An Ark fit for Noah

EARLY years children at Stoke Goldington CE First School have recreated the biblical story of Noah’s Ark by building their very own version of the big, animalbearing boat.

The ten ‘Busy Bees’ made a huge version of Noah’s Ark using large boxes and cardboard items.

They worked together to paint and decorate the item and then had great fun recreating the story by introducing a wide variety of animals into the ark ‘two by two’ as the story details.

Fundraising books

A LENT booklet in aid of Rosie’s Rainbow Fund, in memory of Rosie Mayling, who died 10 years ago aged 11 is available.

The fund aims to provide family and children’s facilities at hospitals in the Diocese. The book, published by the Terriers Church in High Wycombe is called What did they think they were doing and is an attempt to enter imaginatively into the minds of the Jewish authorities in Jerusalem, of Pontius Pilate, and of Judas Iscariot. The book costs £2.50 (including postage) and can be ordered by post from St Francis Vicarage, Terriers, High Wycombe HP13 5AB, or by e-mail from terrierschurch@ gmail.com.

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of his favourite stained glass windows and even used it as the image on his Christmas card one year.

Originally the Denton family owned a manor house next to the church, but that was burned down following a siege by the Parliamentarians. The site of the house is now a deer park and the door to All Saints is believed to have originally been the door to the house.

The other side of the church looks out over miles and miles of fields. “It is called the Cathedral in the Fields because it is in the middle of some fields and it looks like a cathedral,” said Ros. Another feature that Ros was keen to point out was a choir

of angels, on the roof of the chapel, complete with musical instruments. Once the more essential restoration work is completed, Ros is keen to see the angels, which still bear the remnants of their original blue and gold paint, fully restored too.

“People like angels and we have thought about running an adopt-an-angel scheme to raise funds.”

If you would like to make a donation to All Saints, contact Lenborough Vicarage 01280 813162 or send cheques to Hillesden PCC c/o 2 Sandhurst Drive Buckingham MK18 1DT with a note stating it is for the restoration fund.

A TRUST to support funding for music at All Saints, Marlow has been set up.

The church has a choir of men and boys, a girls’ choir and an adult choir. Director of Music and Chairman of the Trust, Clem Virgo, said: “Support from the top and an able director of music with drive and charisma are essential pre-requisites for success. We have those in place but they are not enough.

Adequate funding is vital too.”

For more details of how to help go to www.asmmusictrust. org.uk or email chairman@ asmusictrust.org.

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News IN BRIEF Farewell to the Pope

THE Rt Revd Colin Fletcher has wished Pope Benedict well following the surprise announcement of his retirement.

Bishop Colin said: “Like many others I was very surprised to hear of Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to stand down at the end of this month. We should all give thanks for his ministry over the past eight years. In the Church of England we will all be thinking of our Roman Catholic brothers and sisters during this time of uncertainty and transition, and I’d urge Anglicans to pray with them for the Cardinals who are charged with choosing his successor.

“In common with Christians across the world I wish Pope Benedict well on his retirement as he continues to serve God in a life of prayer.”

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A MASS setting produced by a composer who enjoys regular slots on popular television and radio shows is available for use across the Oxford Diocese.

David Thorne’s work was first broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1966 when he was just 15 and the organist at Exeter Cathedral. Since then he has composed pieces for schools, and worked on musicals and a huge array of different programmes. His CV reads like a list of all of the BBC’s main religious shows, especially the Sunday morning service broadcasts. He will be playing the organ on the Songs of Praise to be broadcast on Easter Sunday. He has even composed music for the BBC’s The One Show.

The Diocesan Mass Setting is a choral setting for the Eucharistic liturgy available to be used in churches across Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. It is the Trinity Mass, David says, and follows the Mass of St Thomas, which was commissioned in 1995 by David Stancliffe, the recently retired Bishop of Salisbury, when he was Provost of Portsmouth. It was written to encourage the congregation to join in as well as showing off the talents of a church choir. It is now used all over the world.

The Trinity Mass was composed in 2009 and has been adopted by the Diocese of Oxford as our own mass setting. It has melodic parts that are accessible for a congregation to sing, as well as parts specifically for particular choir members.

David says: “I put the Trinity Mass together because I had sprained my hand which meant I couldn’t play properly for three months and I thought I would use my time profitably. That is how it came to be written. It seemed like a good time to do a sequel to the Mass of St Thomas.”

He says he still has people asking for the copyright to the Mass of St Thomas and felt he was able to offer his talents to the worship of the Church. “The Mass of St Thomas has been going for more than 25 years. Music is uplifting and I’m a great lover of hymns.”

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THE work of the Milton Keynes Mission Partnership has been moving on since the arrival of the first Director of Ecumenical Mission, Canon John Robertson.

John was previously a vicar and area dean in Oxfordshire and was involved in commissioning the ‘Building Better Neighbourhoods’ research from Coventry University into the work of faith groups in Oxfordshire.

“We believe that the Church is as relevant today in community issues as it was in Jesus’s day and examples of its engagement can be seen in all parts of our national life,” says John.

“Whether it’s serving the homeless, feeding the hungry, helping the poor or engaging cross-culturally with our neighbours from other faiths, the Church has a role to play; and my job is to help co-ordinate and support such work in Milton Keynes and surrounding areas.”

Highlights of John’s first year have included preparing for a Nigerian

congregation to join with churches in the Watling Valley, joining youth worker Rob Winn to reach out to needy young people in the town and support a new church plant, St Mark’s, which has attracted people in their 20s.

Chair of the trustees for the Mission Partnership, Alison Drury, said: “The city is already benefiting hugely from an active Mission Partnership and community, but there is so much more to do. I would urge the churches, many of which do so much already to serve their communities, to talk with John at the Mission Partnership office so that we can all move forward together.”

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March prayer diary The following is for guidance only, please feel free to adapt to local conditions and, if you wish, produce your own deanery prayer diaries.

“Go therefore and make Disciples of all nations. Baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 28.19 Pray to the Father through the Son in the power of the Spirit for: FRIDAY 1: St David’s Day. Henley Deanery. Kevin Davies Lady Sally Horton and and Brian Turner for spiritual insight into God’s heart for Henley area. For the plans to grow churches. For the necessary human and financial resources. For clergy and churchwardens to be bold and imaginative in sharing the good news.

SATURDAY 2: The Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Holy Land led by Bishop John. Goring and Streatley with South Stoke. Mark Blamey, Elizabeth Dowding, Luci Heyn and Ian Wallace.

For ‘operation Sat Nav’ a month of Mission from St Thomas and for St Mary’s and St Andrew’s as they improve physical access and usage of the buildings. Schools: Goring (VA) and Streatley (VC).

MONDAY 4: Henley-on-Thames Holy Trinity. Duncan Carter and Michael Forsdike.

The appointment of a Head Teacher at Holy Trinity Controlled School and for ‘Little Chimes’ working with young families.

TUESDAY 5: Henley-on-Thames with Remenham. Martyn Griffiths. The continuing Friday Study Groups, for visitors and tourists and the Ministry of Welcome.

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WEDNESDAY 6: The Langtree Team Ministry. Kevin Davies, Linda Smith, Angela Butler, David Addison, Angela Linton, Claire Alcock and Brian Turner. Schools: Checkendon (VA) and Stoke Row (VA). Building works at Checkendon. A good response to the English Heritage application. Community outreach at Whitchurch from the newly refurbished Old Stables building. Messy Church at Woodcote that God will touch the hearts of all who attend. Collaboration between St John’s Stoke Row and Stoke Row (VA) School resulting in church reordering for school use. For the lay led all-age worship services at North Stoke, and Whitchurch Hill. For the wonderful creativity in Arts, Music, and Drama, that is the hallmark of church life at St Mary’s, Ipsden.

Confirmation at St Helen and St Catherine’s School. Bishop Henry Scriven. Confirmation at Swanbourne House School & Mursley. Bishop Alan.

THURSDAY 7: Nuffield and Nettlebed with Bix, Highmore, Pishill and Rotherfield Greys. Brendan Bailey and Andrea Williams. Messy Church and it’s contacts with young families in the area; the Lent study course.

FRIDAY 8: Rotherfield Peppard & Kidmore End & Sonning Common.

Graham Foulis Brown and Morris Clegg. The appointment of a new House for Duty priest and the appointment of Head teachers for both Kidmore End (VA) School and Peppard (VC) School.

SATURDAY 9: Shiplake with Dunsden and Harpsden. Paul Bradish. That the new disciples and pilgrims from the recent Alpha Course find a home within the church and that worshippers, parishioners and the wider community respond generously to the Planned

Giving Campaign now underway. Shiplake (VA) School.

MONDAY 11: Cowley Deanery. Bruce Gillingham, Andy Gosler, Rachel Edwards, Trevor Jones. The ongoing impact of the recent Cowley Deanery Synod where “The Cowley Deanery Earthing Faith” environmental adventure was launched. The planning of the joint meeting of the Oxford and Cowley Deanery Synods in June. The theme will be “Good News for the Poor”. DAC Meeting and the churches for whom the DAC has recently approved repairs, alterations or developments.

The Good News for Young People Events continue this week.

TUESDAY 12: Cowley Deanery. Extraparochial ministers serving in the Cowley Deanery Jonathan Herapath, Jackie Jones, Tessa Kuin Lawton, Philip Sutton, Robin Ward and Margaret Whipp also for Roger Burne the Deanery Ecumenical representative.

Confirmation at Abingdon School. Bishop Bill Down.

WEDNESDAY 13: Blackbird Leys. (Local Ecumenical Project) Heather Carter, Adam Stevenson (Methodist) Pamela Baker and Roger Burne (returning from Sabbatical on Easter Day). For the follow up of the community production of ‘Joseph’ and for ‘Fun Church’ for Baptismal Families. Department of Mission meeting.

THURSDAY 14: Cowley. Howard Thornton, Skye Denno, Gordon Hickson and Richard Chand. The Church at Cowley as it seeks to discern God’s way forward. St Christopher, St Francis and St James (VC) Schools.

Confirmation at Pipers Corner School. Bishop Alan. Confirmation for Sonning Deanery at St Sebastian’s Wokingham, Bishop Andrew.

FRIDAY15: Cowley St John. Adam Romanis, Matt Rees, Benjamin Williams, Janet Proudman and Philip Clayton. The Lent programme and candidates for Baptism & Confirmation together with the work on new Spirituality Centre project being conducted by Matt Rees.

St Mary and St John (VA) School.

SATURDAY 16: Headington Quarry. Tim Stead, James Stickings, Peter Boulton-Lea, Deidre Twycross & Jon Bowden. Wisdom and peace in our church and local communities in the exploration into adapting the church building for contemporary needs. Courage and enthusiasm in continuing the development of a fresh expression in Wood Farm. “The Event” a monthly “happening” with food, craft, story and song for local people giving thanks for the first time contacts with many local families.

Diocesan Synod. Confirmation at Tudor Hall School. Bishop Peter Nott.

MONDAY 18: Headington St Andrew.

Darren McFarland. The appointment of a new Head at St Andrew’s (VC) Primary School and the development of music in Sunday Liturgy.

TUESDAY 19: Headington St Mary.

Maggie Thorne and John Chesworth. The redevelopment plans for the church. The work with young people in both church and schools through RE Inspired. For The Street Prayers project knocking on doors and offering prayer.

The Curacies Conference taking place today.

hour vigil to be led by John Paton, Precentor of Christchurch Cathedral.

THURSDAY 21: Justin Welby as he is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury. Glebe and Buildings Committee meeting.

FRIDAY 22: Iffley. Andrew McKearney, Sarah Northall, and Sarah McKearney. The work of the ecumenical partnership on Rosehill and community action. The launching of a new creative website.

SATURDAY 23: Littlemore. Margreet Armitstead, Teresa Morgan and Thomas Albinson. Please give thanks for a sense of calling in the congregation, with prayers that more may find the Holy Spirit stirring their hearts to explore their faith. That we might realise our vision that under God’s guidance we might make the church building a truly sacred centre for the whole community. That God will raise up the right project manager.

The John Henry Newman (VA) Primary School and the Oxford Academy.

MONDAY 25: Marston and Elsfield.Tony Price, Alison Price, David Cranston and Robert Bruce. For the Parish Weekend in March; for the new organist, and recruitment of new choir members. New plans for outreach to men and for ‘Coffee Pot’.

TUESDAY 26: New Marston. Elaine Bardwell, Alison Salvesen. The preparations and plans to run an outreach course for Holy Week. Oxford St Michael’s (VA) School.

Blessing of the Oils at Christchurch Cathedral.

WEDNESDAY 27: Oxford St Clements.

Bruce Gillingham, Jonathan Brant, Clint McVea, Toby Garfitt, Theresa Gray & Ken Howson. The ongoing deepening of the discipleship of the congregation brought through the Lent Courses. “God’s challenge in our world” looking at the experience of Jesus in temptation and also “What can the Monastery say to Modernity” looking at the book by Richard Foster “Money, Sex and Power”.

The cross-cultural witness in the diverse communities in East Oxford and especially as new connections are made with other fellowships who worship in different languages, eg Yoruba, Mandarin and Farsi. Board of Education Meeting.

THURSDAY 28: Maundy Thursday.

Her Majesty the Queen as she distributes Maundy Money at Christ Church Cathedral.

FRIDAY 29: Good Friday. The ways we will remember the crucifixion of our Lord.

SATURDAY 30: Sandford on Thames.

Robert Morgan, Liz Shatford and Brian Andrews. A building up of the ministry team and for a new self-supporting Priest to come forward to serve. Confirmation Reading Minster. Bishop Andrew: Confirmation Aylesbury Deanery: Bishop Alan. Confirmation at Christ Church: Bishop John.

WEDNESDAY 20: Highfield. James Cocke.

Peter Boulton-Lee, James Larminie and Eve Vause. The planning of the Good Friday three

SUNDAY 3: Lent 3 - Confirmation at Heathfield School.

Bishop John Bone.

SUNDAYS

SUNDAY 10: Lent 4 - Mothering Sunday Confirmation at Radley College. Bishop Andrew. Confirmation in Wycombe Deanery.

Bishop Alan.

SUNDAY 17: Lent 5 - Confirmation at St Aldate’s Oxford. Bishop Graham Dow. Confirmation Ray Valley Benefice. Bishop Colin.

SUNDAY 24: Palm Sunday - Confirmation Milton Keynes LEP. Bishop Alan.

SUNDAY 31: Easter Day - The witness of the Church on this great day throughout the world. May we proclaim with joy our faith in the resurrection of Jesus and live his risen life in every aspect of our corporate and personal lives.

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Who let the dads out?

Tony Sharp on a national initiative for dads that will be highlighted in a conference for the Oxford Diocese this month.

“W

ho Let The Dads Out? connects the church with men in their communities like no other initiative I have seen. It’s a ‘catalyst outreach’ not just a one-off gimmick or methodology. It builds relationships with fathers and their children and offers support, both practical and spiritual. What a valuable resource to the Church in a time when men in our communities have little or no understanding of what it means to be a follower of Jesus.” These are the words of the Reverend Chris Duffett, father of three and president of the Baptist Union. So what is it that has got Chris so excited?

It all began at Hoole Baptist Church (HBC), Chester in 2003, when the church ran their first dads and toddlers session on the Saturday morning before Mothering Sunday. A staggering 20 dads turned up for that first session with their children in the 0 - 4 age range.

Today HBC still runs a Who Let The Dads Out? group once a month for dads with infant school age children (called School’s Out, Dad’s About, SODA, which runs once a month on a Monday evening), a weekly dads’ social football session and regular dad parenting

courses.

The national initiative was established in 2008 to help share the ideas with churches nationwide and in 2012, HBC asked Bible Reading Fellowship (BRF) to take on the national role: to inspire, equip and support churches to develop projects which will give fathers, male carers and their children the opportunity to spend time together, have fun and engage with the Church.

‘None of us had made icing before or knew what consistency it was supposed to have.’

I worship at HBC where I run the SODA group, and I am also working for BRF to promote the initiative. I’m excited to be able to share the vision for Who Let The Dads Out? with the Oxford Diocese. We have seen great organic growth across all denominations, and whenever we have been able to target a specific area that has usually resulted in a good number of new groups. For example, we targeted Manchester in 2011 and there are now 12 groups in the city and surrounding areas like Bolton and Stockport. We have over 80 groups registered, lots of established groups in South and Central England, with more registering each month, and

I firmly believe that the model will be right for many churches in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckingahmshire too.

Administrator; Email: katie.chadwick@brf.org.uk Tel: 01235 858247.

Photos taken by Paul Smith.

Tony Sharp and BRF Chief Executive, Richard Fisher, will be speaking on Who Let The Dads Out? at Diocesan Church House, Oxford on Wednesday 13 March, 2pm to 4pm.

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From tentative beginnings: Swindon

“T

hey came back! Our 2nd meeting was always going to be make-or-break time. If no one came back we’d know we’d done something seriously wrong at our launch event. With that fear in the back of our minds we put the bacon on and laid out the toys. We were going ambitious this time with a biscuit decorating craft activity. This posed a significant challenge as none of us had made icing before or knew what consistency it was supposed to have. We mixed it to look a bit like plaster and figured that would work! The good news is that when we opened the doors people did come, and we met a number of new people too! Lots of fun, fantastic feedback, lots of play and a few sticky children covered in blue icing! We’re suckers for punishment as we agreed to do an extended Christmas special in the hope that while we looked after the children, the ladies would do all our Christmas shopping for us!”

Chris Priddy, Upper Stratton Baptist Church.

Moments of uncertainty in Dorset

“D

uring Lent I had to send an email to our regular Dads to let them know I wasn’t sure if Who Let The Dads Out? would restart. I got the following reply from one of our regular Dads: ‘Thanks for letting me know. Sorry to hear that it is still unknown if it will restart, I am not an active church goer and it was my children’s only interaction with the church which they enjoyed.(Oh and I love the bacon rolls too, thanks.) I want them to grow up understanding the important part that the church plays in the local community and that nice people do give up their time freely for others,(something even I had forgotten until I attended WLTDO? and saw for myself) even if you choose not to attend prayer it is still part of what makes the community a nice place to live. I hope the powers that be will see that things like this may be the only time many children (and their Dads) interact with the church and it helps give them an insight into Christianity and what it stands for without it getting forced on them. Thank you for all your effort. It is appreciated.” We restarted and continue to this day.” Gary Tyler, St Mary’s, Ferndown.

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RESH, imaginative thinking about living as Christians in the 21st century will be the central theme of a series of conferences in the Oxford Diocese next year, writes Sarah Meyrick.

Over the past three years we have focused on a different priority of the Living Faith in the Diocese of Oxford. Starting with ‘Sustaining the Sacred Centre’ in 2010, we moved on to ‘Making Disciples’ in 2011 and ‘Making a Difference in the World’ in 2012.

During 2013, there will be an emphasis on ‘Creating Vibrant Christian Communities’.

Throughout that time the Door has reported on real stories of what Living Faith means to Christians on a grass roots level in the parishes.

Next year comes ‘Shaping Confident Collaborative Leadership’ and the wrapping up of the first five-year period of our Living Faith vision .

With this in mind, Bishop John has asked that 2014 be a year of conferences for the Diocese. There will be a series of gatherings for clergy, lay ministers and the whole church family across the diocese, reflecting the calling that different people have within the life of our Church.

“The theme of our conferences will be ‘imagine’,” says the Revd Dr Michael Beasley, Director of Mission, who is co-ordinating the conference planning.

“The thinking is that at the end of the first five years of the ‘Living Faith’ vision, this will help our diocese reflect on all that we’ve learnt and achieved during this time, and discern our way forward.

“The conferences will be a time to think afresh about the challenges and opportunities of living as Christians at the start of the 21st century, imagining what it would be like to live primarily not according to the way of the world, but according to the

‘The theme of our conferences will be imagine’ life of God’s kingdom.

“My hope is that they will offer an opportunity to think what it would be like to put our faith in a God who restores, sustains, transforms and heals us and who empowers everyone in our churches to live out their faith in the world. The events will be the chance to listen and respond to a God who calls us to an imagination that is not of scarcity, but of abundance.”

Planning the conferences is a collaborative affair. Conversations have already taken place with Bishop’s Council and with Bishop’s Staff. As well as Michael, on the planning group are Bishop John, Canon Angela Tilby (Diocesan Canon and Continuing Ministerial Development Adviser); Ed Newell (Sub Dean, Christ Church; until March 2013); the Revd Dr Amanda Bloor (Bishop’s Chaplain); Maranda St John Nicolle (Partnership for World Mission); the Revd Andrew Blyth (Rector of Holy Trinity, Aylesbury); Sarah Meyrick (Director of Communications); Anne Taylor (Area Adviser for Licensed Lay Ministry, West Berkshire); the Revd David Wilbraham (Chaplain to the Thames Valley Police).

A YEAR OF CONFERENCES FOR THE FIRST CONFERENCE is a gathering for the clergy, from 24-27 March 2014, which will take place at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick in Derbyshire.

Four impressive keynote speakers have already been booked: the Rt Revd Victoria Matthews, Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand; the Revd Canon Dr Sam Wells, Rector of St Martin-in-the-Fields; and the Revd Professor Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Theology at Oxford University.

Bible studies will be led by the Revd Dr Graham Tomlin, Principal of St Paul’s Theological Centre and Dean of St Mellitus College.

Each day of the conference will include a pattern of worship and Bible study, a substantive address, opportunities to reflect on that address in a number of different ways (such as ‘buzz groups’, through art and craft, or in silence) and space for recreation and prayer.

“To attract the best possible keynote speakers for the clergy conference, we’ve had to start the planning in good time and I’m absolutely delighted that these speakers have accepted the invitation to join us,” says Michael.

“We also plan to invite members of one of the religious communities based in our diocese to offer a place for space and prayer throughout the conference.”

There will also be a programme of evening events, which will include interviews of the speakers by Bishop John, and other forms of entertainment. Suggestions for this are welcome.

THE SECOND CONFERENCE is for licensed lay ministers and runs from 27-29 June 2014 at Oxford Brookes University.

Planning for this is in the hands of members of the licensed lay minister community under the leadership of the Revd Dr Phillip Tovey, Deputy Warden of Readers and the Area Advisers for Licensed Lay Ministry.

“There’s still a lot of work to be done on the LLM conference,” says Michael. “But the exciting news is that Professor David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and an LLM himself, has expressed interest in being the keynote speaker for the LLM conference.”

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R THE DIOCESE OF OXFORD How much will attending the conferences cost?

Bishop’s Council have set aside funding for the conferences in the 2013 and 2014 diocesan budgets.

As a result: • Attendance at the clergy conference will be charged at £100 per person.

• Attendance at the LLM conference will be charged at £40 per person.

• Attendance at the conference for the whole church family will be free of charge. theme of ‘imagination’ with special Sunday services in their home churches, using specially created resources.

“Our hope is that every church in the diocese will be able to imagine on this Sunday how we can move forward together into the future in hope.”

Picture by Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga.

THE THIRD CONFERENCE is a weekend of events for the whole church family which will take place in Oxford from 19-21 September 2014.

The plans include a proposed youth ‘allnighter’ to be held, if possible, in Christ Church Cathedral on the Friday night, and a series of events on the Saturday, all within easy walking distance of Oxford city centre.

“We’re planning to bring together a wide range of speakers, talking on a broad range of issues in venues across the city of Oxford,” says Michael.

“Our hope is that speakers and the organizers of events will be drawn mostly from the wealth of talent that exists within our diocese. We shall be approaching a range of venues across the city to ask them to host events – all within easy reach of the Park and Ride drop off points.” The

“We still need to think more about this, but suggestions of topics that might be addressed during the day so far include imagination and the media, climate science, economics, children, science, education, identity, forgiveness… the list goes on! What we want now is readers’ ideas for interesting topics and potential speakers.

The hope is that the day will end with a celebration open-air Eucharist for the whole diocese presided over by Bishop John or just possibly the new Archbishop of Canterbury.

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‘We’re planning to bring together a wide range of speakers’ planning group hopes to make the most of Oxford’s unique history and amenities, bringing together some exciting and interesting pairings of speakers with venues.

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Smaller groups bringing in others may be formed to look at particular areas as the need arises.

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The Doorpost Courses, training, conferences and workshops in March 2013.

The Doorpost is a free service for churches to advertise their events and is designed to be hung on church noticeboards. Please send your events to doorpost@oxford.anglican.org or by post to Church House. The deadline for the next issue is Friday 1 March 2013.

FRIDAY 1 MARCH OXFORD: T he Unicorn Group meet at 1 Canterbury Road at 12:30pm.

Speaker: Revd Dr Marcus Braybrooke ‘Who Killed Jesus?’. All welcome. Email ellislynda@sky.com for details.

BLETCHLEY: The Women’s World Day of Prayer service for the Churches Together in Bletchley will be at 10.30am at St Thomas Aquinas RC Church, Sycamore Avenue. Email tantiani@tiscali. co.uk for details.

SATURDAY 2 MARCH EARLEY, READING: B erkshire Brass concert in aid of Church Missionary Society’s work with Anna Sims in Peru will take place at Earley St Peter’s Church at 7.30pm. Tickets £8 (£6 concs, £2 under 15s). Phone 0118 966 8575 for details.

OXFORD: C orrymeela weekend (2 -3 March) at Wesley Memorial Church. ‘Faith and Identity - Embracing Difference’. Email corryoxon@gmail.com for details.

SUNDAY 3 MARCH DORCHESTER ABBEY: The Tree of Life exhibition of paintings by Caroline Meynell is on until 20 March. Also talks on 3, 10 and 17 March at 6pm. Phone 01865 340007 or www.dorchesterabbey.org.uk for details.

WEDNESDAY 6 MARCH LONG WITTENHAM: Come along to a Lent Soup lunch at The Vicarage, High Street from 12 noon - 2pm. Phone 01865 407249/407382 for details.

WHITLEY: St Agnes Church Spring concert by Reading concert singers at 7.30pm. Cost £8 (£4 under 16s). Details from 0118 942 5290.

THURSDAY 7 MARCH OXFORD: L unchtime talk at St Giles’ Church at 12.30pm. ‘Living the Ignation Way in everyday life’. Email info@ocsg. uk.net for details.

SATURDAY 9 MARCH HIGH WYCOMBE: The St Matthew Passion by J S Bach will be performed by the Chiltern Camerata’s concert at All

Saints’ Parish Church at 6.30pm. Tickets £12 (under 8s free). Phone 01494 883112 or email richard.morbey@gmail. com for details.

SUNDAY 10 MARCH TILEHURST: St Michael’s Church are holding a non-Eucharistic family service for Mothering Sunday for children to go along to with their parents and carers at 9.30am.

WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH LITTLE WITTENHAM: C ome along to a Lent Soup lunch at The Manor from 12 noon - 2pm (park behind the church).

Phone 01865 407249/407382 for details.

THURSDAY 14 MARCH OXFORD: The Retired Clergy Association meeting at Christ Church Cathedral. ‘Translating the results of research from university to the commercial world’ with Dr Tim Cook at 10.30am. Meet in the Priory Room at 10.15am for coffee. Details 01865 761476.

FRIDAY 15 MARCH

by Chopin played by Osman Tack at St Helen’s Church at 4pm. No charge.

Email susan.scott21@btinternet.com

TUESDAY 19 MARCH AMERSHAM: M illennium lecture ‘On not being C S Lewis: The imaginative task of Apologetics’ at St Michael and All Angels. Begins at 8pm. Tickets £10 (£7 concs).

WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH BURCOT: Come along to a Lent Soup lunch at Burcot Farm OX14 3DL from 12 noon - 2pm. Phone 01865 407249/407382 for details.

SATURDAY 23 MARCH EARLEY, READING: Come and sing Stainer’s ‘Crucifixion’ at St Peter’s Church. Singers £15 (conc £10, students and children £5). This includes all day refreshments and music.

Registration 10.30am. Performance begins at 5.30pm (cost £5). Email readingchorale@gmail.com or phone 07946 620560 for details.

25, 26 and 27 March

CHALGROVE: E ast Tennessee State University’s ‘12 Times a Lady’ at St Mary’s Church at 7.30pm. Free admission.

Phone 01865 400402 or email cb@ charlesbaker.org for details.

FINCHAMPSTEAD: ‘Working Wood’ a series of interactive prayer stations for Holy Week at St James Church from 8pm ending with Compline at 9.15pm on 25, 26 and 27 March. Phone 0118 9328679 for details.

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WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH

GREAT MISSENDEN: ‘ The Life and Voyages of Captain Cook’ - An illustrated talk, with drama, at Oldham Hall, Church Street at 7.30pm. £8 on the door (includes a drink). Email avd@davis.f9.co. uk for details.

TILEHURST: St Mary Magdalen Church are holding concert by the Reading concert singers at 7.30pm. Details 0118 942 5290.

JERICHO, OXFORD: Earthing our prayer day at Barnabas Church will introduce you to ways of praying. Begins at 10.30am. Phone 01865 728603 or email mne@talktalk.net to reserve your place.

SUNDAY 17 MARCH BICESTER: Orchestral concert - Trinity Camerata at St Edburg’s Church at 3.45pm. Tickets £10 on the door.

ABINGDON: Concert of piano music

TURVILLE: Hambleden Valley, near Henley. Healing service with laying on of hands and anointing at Holy Communion at 10.15am. Details 01491 571231.

GOOD FRIDAY 29 MARCH

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WHITLEY: St Agnes Church are holding concert by the Reading concert singers at 7.30pm. Details 0118 942 5290.

HEADINGTON: Three hour Good Friday service at All Saints’, Highfield, Lime Walk at 12 noon. Preacher: Revd John Paton (Precentor at Christ Church Cathedral).

Courses and special events DEMENTIA: EXPLORING THE MYTHS AND OFFERING HOPE - A workshop from 10am - 12 noon at Christ the Cornerstone, Milton Keynes on 2 March. An opportunity to explore together what dementia is and perhaps to discover new ways of approaching it. Email erosemarygoldie@live.co.uk for details.

GROWING CHURCH THROUGH SOCIAL ACTION: A morning forum on Urban Mission and Ministry on 7 March

from 10am - 1pm at Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford. Phone 01865 208213 or email alison.webster@oxford.anglican.org for details and to book your place.

HOLY LISTENING - THE MINISTRY OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION: Find out more about Spiritual Direction. To be held on 12 March from 10am - 12 noon and 8pm - 10pm at St John’s Church, Crowthorne. Phone 01344 772578 for details.

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This Spi-Dir (Spiritual Direction Network) day will offer opportunities to reflect on personal experience of the discernment process, and will explore and practise individual and group discernment. Open to all. It will take place on 14 March from 10.30am - 4pm at Carmelite Priory, Boars Hill, Oxford. Cost £20. Email jeni. hobbs@oxford.anglican.org for details and booking form.

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oy Lambourne has been a farmer in Marsh Gibbon for his whole life, farming land that was previously farmed by his father, grandfather, and great grandfather, going back generations. He explained how climate change, population growth and global businesses mean 21st century food production is out of the hands of the primary producer and governed by large, international conglomerates.

He reminded the congregation that nearly half of food produced is wasted, with one third never reaching the shops because it is the wrong shape or is marked in some way.

“Agriculture has seemingly lost its significance – less than two per cent of the population are farmers. We are in danger of going far beond the earth’s resources as we meet the demand for food. I have often sat down to dinner and everything has been produced by myself and that is very satisfying. I consider myself fortunate to have spent my life as I have done. I have never been for a job interview, never done a CV or been employed but I have never been out of work and I have lived and worked in God’s creation.

“To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under Heaven.”

Ruth Valerio is an activist who writes Bible Studies for Tearfund, said: “Food is my theology, it speaks about me and about what I believe. In my early years I was proud of a chicken that I had bought because it was so cheap. I felt I was stewarding my money well.

“I would buy packets of casserole and everything was cooked with two vegetables. Fast forward 18 years down the line and the way that it looks is very different. There have been three main changes.

“I have vastly reduced the meat that I eat. We are not vegetarians but we have made a real effort to reduce our meat consumption and eat a broader range of

vegetables.

“I try to produce, grow, and rear as much of my own food as possible. There has been a lot for me to learn. I am part of a big co-operative, keep chickens and have an allotment with friends, so it’s been a wonderful adventure.

“I try to eat my food in as unprocessed a form as possible. Food is my theology because if I say I believe in God the maker of heaven and earth I want to eat in a way that reflects that.

“Food is a gift, something that has been given to us by God.” For more on Ruth see ruthvalerio.net.

The Revd Dr Mike Rainer works Monday to Friday as a public health researcher and on Sundays is an assistant curate at St Matthew’s, Oxford.

“About half the research is about food, school meals, food labelling, and food taxes. I do research that has direct bearing on government policy, sometimes it is directly funded by the Government, some has been funded by the British Heart Foudation.”

Mike says he writes sermons on food and posts them on his blog. “Something I do Monday to Sunday, at work and at church is of course, eat. At church I have bread and wine with fellow Christians and the occasional bring and share meal. Food is a pleasure that is also somewhat problematic. I eat too much and I don’t have an allotment.

I don’t grow my own food apart form a few herbs and I am partial to a Big Mac. I’m not a vegetarian. I also enjoy cooking for special occasions.

“Food is part of my work, it is the subject of my recreation and it is what keeps me alive by providing occasions for conversation and through the Eucharist it keeps me alive spiritually.”

However Mike pointed out that in the UK more than a billion people are obese.

Paul Valentin, the International Director of Christian Aid, gave a global perspective, stating that 868 million people in the world suffer from hunger.

“Does that figure really matter and does it express the level of individual suffering if you don’t know where your next meal is coming from?”

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He mentioned the absence of nutrients from children’s food and how Christian Aid is working together with other organisations on the ‘IF’ campaign, calling for an end to global hunger. So what does food mean to him as a person? Paul said he grew up in a loving family in Holland that never went short of food, eating seasonal vegetables, at a time 40 or 50 years ago when chicken was a luxury. He said he later learnt about olive oil from the late 1960s, when they went abroad for their holidays. “I can still hear my mother’s voice if I refused to finish a brussel sprout. We never took food for granted and always said grace before and after meals, which felt like a necessary ritual.

From an early age I was an avid gardener.

When I was eight or nine we had a school garden and my first harvest was of carrots, beans and beetroot.”

Paul studied topical agriculture with a view to going

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The spring resource provides a number of practical suggestions around ‘growing your own’. It could be giving out seeds or plants in church, working together to grow food in your own gardens, converting a patch of land around your church building or other shared space to grow food together, or sharing an allotment as a group.

The guide also includes a reflection and prayer exercise that could form the basis of a church service.

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into international development. “My first three-and-a-half years were in Africa, living amid subsistence farmers. One year the rains failed completely and people fell hungry. They got into debt with traders, women starved themselves to feed their children but the poor are incredibly resilient.”

He spent time in Kenya and the Philippines, living among tribal people who would make a meal of ants. “Many people would only eat once a day and there was very little you could do to increase the food supply.”

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An amusing look at Christian dating

By Jo Duckles

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T’S an often daunting and complex world. That is the way many people see the Christian singles scene with its various dances, speed dating and dating websites. Well done to HopefulGirl (the identity of the author is anonymous probably to protect the blokes she dates) for an accurate and sensitive portrayal of four years of ploughing through the Christian dating scene.

Based on a column from Woman Alive magazine, BRF have published this 156 page account of the highlights and cringe worthy low lights of a woman who has decided to commit herself to finding a Christian bloke.

It’s an easy, quick and amusing read.

You can picture the various blokes; Beardyman, Techiman, Dimpleman and Countryman, as they arise. Don’t be put off by the pink on the front cover and the lighthearted tone. This book deals with some serious issues in an amusing way. It’s great for anyone single, in their 30s who has first hand experience of this scene. I was struck by HopefulGirl’s sensitivity towards some of the more dodgy blokes she meets. If you are in that demographic you are likely to find this book replicating the conversations you have with your mates in the pub after church.

If you don’t fit that category, it may well help you understand that particular demographic better and understand how

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to treat single people more sensitively.

(Prolific match making is not always the best way forward.) HopefulGirl makes a really valid point about what she describes as the way churches ‘fetishise marriage and family life when it’s something many of the congregation will never experience.’

Later she makes more points about not assuming that a single person is desperate, or that they have loads of time to serve on committees, run the Sunday school etc – on one salary rather than two they often have to work harder to pay the bills. This slim book is perfect for a short haul flight or train journey. Don’t expect particularly deep descriptions that help you get to know the characters – these are caricatures of people we’ve all met at some point.

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Even better, there is still time to become an extra in the cast for the play, or if you own a donkey, to lend them your fourlegged friend to become part of the cast.

The idea for the evangelistic interchurch passion play was conceived during the annual Christian Aid walk in Abingdon in January 2012. It involves wardrobe masters from the town’s drama club, and inspiration for the script has been drawn from the Gospels and the famous play in Oberammergau – the world’s passion play centre.

So far £5,000 has been raised for the production that is expected to involve 40 people in the main choir, with another three school choirs involved.

The play takes place at 2pm on Palm Sunday (March 24th). Spectators are advised to arrive from 1.30pm onwards to acclimatise to the atmosphere in the Jerusalem street market that starts the show.

Director, Sam Pullen-Campbell, former Director of Drama at Radley College and a private drama tutor, said: “I love the idea of taking the Easter story outside of the church for people who may not be familiar with it to make up their own minds about it.”

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Letters & comment Comment Letters How about a little passion?

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am pretty unlikely to read Fifty Shades, but plenty are and I guess there’s always going to be a market for titillation, particularly during a recession. I don’t think anyone need appeal for more excitement there.

I do want to see more passion, in the Church, for the things Jesus was passionate about. I wrote this the day after the wonderful fourth Sunday of the Epiphany which gave us Luke’s account of Jesus in the synagogue in Nazareth.

A fourth theophany, after the magi, his baptism and the wedding at Cana. Why a fourth and why a theophany? Well, because it was Jesus who was reading that Isaiah scroll. So it was not just another party political manifesto: a wish list of forgettable policies that those hoping for power will have neither the energy, the muscle nor the time to put into action.

His words were not hollow, as ours often are. When he spoke, things happened. And when he spoke those words, full of the Spirit, it was intended to make a difference. The poor would hear good news, captives would find liberty, the blind would see again and the oppressed would be set free. It was so much more than a manifesto – it was first a statement, then an order and should be, for us, a clear direction of travel.

I think it is completely unacceptable that there are still so many poor, captive, blind, oppressed people in this world.

And completely unacceptable that we spend so much time as a Church, focused on our own survival politics, that we don’t get hot under the collar about them anymore. So I’d like to see a little more passion this year for these things Jesus was passionate about. If you’ve got a building project, put some time and/or money aside to help the poor. Try not to waste food – remember, leftover suppers are scrummy.

If you’ve got an overseas link, find out what you can do to help the poor there.

Put more resources into your food bank.

Fast during Lent. Make this a Lenten project. Really DO Christian Aid week this year. Audit your own parish to find where the poor are – wherever you are, rural, or urban, they might be invisible, but they’re there all right.

And maybe we’ll start looking more like a community he’d recognise; maybe we’d have a little more edge and a little more credibility, too. And maybe, just maybe, we could start to feel a little more confident as Christians and a little less defensive as a Church.

The Rt Revd Andrew Proud is the Bishop of Reading.

Letters to the editor are very welcome and should be sent either by email to jo.duckles@oxford.anglican.org or by post to Letters at the Door, Diocesan Church House, North Hinksey, Oxford. OX2 0NB. The Editor reserves the right to edit all submissions.

Take a courageous, prophetic stand

I was very pleased to see nearly a full page of letters in the February Door, and to read the letter from Julian Harford encouraging us all to make this a feature of future editions. It seems that the issue of women bishops inspired more letterwriters than usual – an issue of importance to members of the Anglican Church, and rightly so; but rather a puzzle to those outside it.

I believe your letters page (or pages!) could fuel equally committed debates on matters affecting everyone – the future of education and health care, for instance, welfare cuts, our government’s economic philosophy – and many others.

Shouldn’t our established Church have something to say to our secular leaders – well-thought-out, thoroughly debated, and committed? We might start with the moral issues of executions by Drone, without charge or trial, and with casualties to innocent bystanders – and prepare ourselves to take a courageous, prophetic stand.

David Paterson, Marston, Oxford.

Thanks goodness...

Thank goodness for David Croton (February letters) for his refreshingly open letter opposing women bishops. He clearly writes from his heart on a topic now too hard for us to resolve by theology (Should we be giving more weight to body, heart or mind considerations?). Too often the running has been made by those who have declared their support for one view but, perhaps in the interests of fairness, feel obliged to undertake advocacy on behalf of the other.

Such ambiguity does little for either direct rational discussion or heartfelt appeal, and risks discrediting one or even both of the views they seek to represent. So it is good to have someone speaking straightforwardly for themselves, which may be much more help in working out where we go.

Where we go may be affected by where we come from.

Taking an unrelated illustration from years ago, on fox hunting I found myself with a (somewhat uncomfortable) degree of emotional sympathy for those reluctant to let go of a centuries-old tradition: had hunting never ever existed, I cannot imagine anyone in our time proposing its introduction.

Also all credit to David for his diligence and confidence in prayer - an example to many of us. Prayer is as much listening as speaking, but however honest we are it can be hard to tell whose voice we are hearing. Prayer may yet help us find answers to our differences, but I admit to finding his conclusion less of a clincher given his letter’s implication that our bishops have not tried it properly, so my position remains with them. I admire his effort and sincerity. I also hope that building trust rather than procedural defences may help, as suggested in the excellent paper from the 7 February meeting of the House of Bishops.

Allan Whittow, Parish of The Lee Concord, Kings Ash.

Competition winners The winners of the competitions featured in the February issue are: Betty Course from Newport Pagnell; Mrs Herbert from Newbury and Gabi Smith From Milton Keynes. They have all won a copy of the Easter Activity Book.

The following have won a copy of Rowan Williams - His Legacy by Andrew Goddard: Beverley Cope from West Wycombe; Jennie Caddy from Bradfield Southend and James Cook from Wargrave.

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Pray for West Papua May I please urge fellow readers of the Door to pray for our Christian brothers and sisters in West Papua.

1 May 2013 marks a grim anniversary for West Papuans – 50 years of brutal and illegal occupation by Indonesia. If you have never heard of West Papua, you are not alone.

That’s exactly what the Indonesian regime and its stridently nationalistic military forces want. It’s why Indonesia bans foreign journalists and human rights groups – including the BBC and Amnesty International – from visiting West Papua. It’s why you will rarely hear reports in our news media of state-sponsored assassinations of peaceful West Papuan political activists who campaign for an independence referendum, or villages and churches burnt down by Indonesian soldiers or West Papuans imprisoned and tortured for 15 years just for raising the banned West Papuan independence flag.

Whilst the terrible plight of West Papuans under Indonesian rule is still sadly largely unknown in Britain, the Papuans have gained strength and hope from strong Christian voices speaking out on their behalf, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, our former Bishop of Oxford (Richard Harries) and leading Methodist Revd Leslie Griffiths. Our current Bishop John has also met with former political prisoners and West Papuan leader Benny Wenda who now lives in exile in Oxford.

Please add your voice on behalf of West Papua by visiting www.freewestpapua.org, writing to your MP, but above all try praying that our long-suffering West Papuan brothers and sisters will know God’s peace and justice ... soon.

Richard Samuelson, St Mary’s Church, Steeple Barton.

Correction to last month’s Comings and Goings The Revd John Durrant is to finish as Army Forces Chaplain in Didcot and he will become Vicar of the newly formed Vale Benefice not Wantage, as printed in February 2013 issue of the Door.

Comings and Goings:

Revd Dr Ed Newell will finish as Sub-Dean of Christ Cathedral; Revd Nicky Skipworth will be leaving her post as Team Vicar in High Wycombe; Revd Rod Cosh has taken up posts as Area Dean of Burnham and Slough and Assistant Curate of Datchet & Colnbrook; Revd Linda Green will take up additional post as Associate Area Dean of Deddington Deanery; Revd Alan Garratt will take up additional post as Area Dean of Aston and Cuddesdon; Revd Charles

Draper will take up additional post as Area Dean of Vale of White Horse; Revd Pam McKellen will finish as Area Dean of Abingdon; Revd Canon Stephen Weston will finish as Team Rector of Chipping Norton Benefice and Assistant Area Dean of Chipping Norton Deanery. The following have been given permission to officiate: Revd Christine Collinge; Revd Barry Olsen; Revd Bernard Metcalfe; Revd Brian Tims.

We recall with sadness the deaths of: Canon Robert Mason; Revd Beth Ann Spence; Canon Keith Weston.

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God in the life of...

When she trained Ellen Turtle was the youngest Licensed Lay Minister serving in the Diocese. The full-time mum talks to Jo Duckles about how the role keeps her sane.

knew that my faith would come out of it stronger.

“Evangelicalism didn’t ask too many questions and with philosophy and theology, there seemed to be a lot of questions all at once. It was a good time, even going through it there was a sense that this is part of the journey and that I would come out of the other side with help from friends.” Still going to church, Ellen was looking for God, but was not sure where to look.

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llen puts Bob the Builder on the television to keep her two-and-a-half-year-old son occupied as she chats to me.

She is currently a full-time mum as her husband Robert travels a lot for work, but since university has worked for recruitment agencies doing everything from working with prisoners on schemes to help them find work on release through to being a bid manager, writing sales documents, tenders and presentations.

“I have the luxury of staying home with Jonathan and my LLM role keeps me sane. If I didn’t have that I think I would have needed to have gone back to work part-time. I do the children’s work and the church were keen for that not to be marginalised. Having someone licensed looking after it gives it a bit more oomph.”

Her previous priest and curate at All Saints, Ascot suggested she look into LLM ministry and when she started training she was aware she was one of the youngest there. That was nine years ago and at 33 she still believes she is the youngest LLM serving in the Oxford Diocese.

‘God always shows up but sometimes he’s got to get me out of the way first.’

“When I started looking at what Licensed Lay Ministry might be about I tried a sermon. I did a series of lay people’s talks about how we find God in our lives at work. That was the first time

“...with philoposophy and theology there seemed to be a lot of questions all at once.”

Ellen is pictured at her licensing with Jonathan. photo by Roger Shrigley.

I had stood up to talk in church and I thought it was terrifying. It prompted me to keep on exploring. I got the chance to do a bit more preaching through Cursillo, which is a lay led movement. I got the chance to do some talks and things that encouraged me.”

Cursillo is a movement of the Church that emphasises the ministry of the laity alongside the clergy.

Ellen says she enjoys the preaching side of her ministry the most, despite moments of terror at 11pm on Saturday nights as she thinks about what she’s going to say the following morning.

“God always shows up but sometimes he’s got to get me out of the way first,”

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she says. Ellen is a lifelong Christian from a Baptist background. She grew up in Birmingham going to a ‘middle of the road’ church before moving to Singapore aged 10, where she had a very different experience in a charismatic Evangelical church.

As a teenager she ran Bible studies for younger people. “That gave me early exposure to teaching. It was great doing it in that kind of atmosphere,” she says.

Studying Philosophy and Theology at Durham University gave Ellen a different experience. “I felt the rug had been pulled from under my feet. I had a very strange phase at university where I wasn’t sure that I believed in God but I

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