Edited by Revd Rob Marshall and Sarah Fisher
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Sunday 25 October Last after Trinity
Monday 26 October Alfred, king and scholar (899), Cedd, abbot and bishop (664)
This week is also One World Week (October 21 – 28), an interfaith, intercultural celebration of unity. http://www.oneworldweek.org/v2/
Bishop Steven will be undertaking the latest of his initial deanery visits tomorrow when he spends time in the Laughton deanery.
This Friday 23 October 9.30 – 12 noon
Hatfield Travis Infant and Nursery School: Doncaster
Cost: £45; Visit the website for more details www.sheffield.anglican.org/education/downloads.php
Contact: heather.morris@sheffield.anglican.org
Ann Pettifor, Executive Director of Advocacy International and Operation Noah, and member
of the Green New Deal Group will take a hard but hopeful look at the economical issues involved in climate change during tomorrow’s lecture (21 October) http://www.sheffield.anglican.org/FaithAndJusticeEnvironment.htm
The Reverend Lydia Margaret Wells, Vicar of All Saints, Intake: to be Vicar of St Peter and St Oswald, Sheffield
Bishop Steven has appointed Revd. Philip Roderick, founder of the Quiet Garden Movement and Contemplative Fire, as Bishops’ Advisor in Spirituality and Chaplain to Whirlow Grange. The post is half time and Philip will continue with his role of leader of Contemplative Fire. Philip succeeds Revd. Nick Helm and will be licensed to his new roles by the Bishop of Sheffield in the chapel of Whirlow Grange on Sunday 7 February 2010 at 16.00.
http://www.contemplativefire.org/
University of Sheffield Biblical Studies department “survives”:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/octoberweb-only/141-41.0.html
Thousands at risk of heart disease and diabetes in Yorkshire:
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Thousands-at-risk-of-diabetes.5744811.jp
Growing education divide in region’s cities:
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Growing-education-divide-in-region39s.5744648.jp
Lack of male teachers sparks concern:
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Lack-of-male-primary-teachers.5745276.jp
Kids celebrated at Barnsley in Bloom ceremony:
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Ceremony-for-Bloom-awards.5745283.jp
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The Archbishop of Canterbury offers his annual message to Hindu communities for the festival of Diwali. Full text: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2569
Churches - please remember to return your dates for Christmas Services to Sheffield@media33.co.uk so we can promote them in the wider community
JCI Yorkshire (Junior Chamber International) will celebrate their 55th Regional Awards Dinner, a black-tie event on Saturday 31 October 2009.
http://www.sheffield-cathedral.co.uk/
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Sheffield Cathedral, in partnership with other ecumenical youth leaders in the city, is putting on an event for young people 14 - 18 years as a spiritual alternative during Fright Night (25 October). The Cathedral will be open for young people to use prayer ‘stations’ and take part in workshop events. The event is open to groups, and to those in town as part of the city’s concurrent Fright Night event.
25 October 17.00 - 22.00 Sheffield Cathedral, Church Street, Sheffield
0114 263 6066 paul.shackerley@sheffield-cathedral.org.uk
www.sheffield-cathedral.org.uk
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NB The Resources Centre will be closed on Tuesday 3rd November.
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This is now available. A book of meditations for the Advent period, costing £4.99 (discount for bulk orders). Proceeds to the student bursary and college development funds.
For prospective students. Includes lunch.
0115 968 3203 admissions@stjohns-nottm.ac.uk - http://www.stjohns-nottm.ac.uk
A 30-hour workshop held at Offa House, Coventry Diocesan Conference and Retreat Centre in Warwickshire. Cost £95. Dates for forthcoming workshops: 27 - 28 October 2009, 8 - 9 June 2010, 5 - 6 October 2010.
Katrina Sealey: 024 7685 3073 / 024 7669 6460 katrinas@rase.org.uk
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An annual Ecumenical event to be held on Tuesday 17 November 2009. This year we introduce a resource: “A Box full of Ideas” - this box contains prayers, materials for creative prayer, ideas on how to pray for schools during a Sunday service / meeting, and all-age prayer. The box and contents cost £4. If you want one you can contact one of the collection points and arrange a time for collection and payment. Details to be found on the front page of the diocesan website. Any questions please contact Sue Brown on 0114 2875947 www.sheffield.anglican.org
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An interactive and fun day to help you reconnect your work to your deepest convictions and begin to integrate a down-to-earth theology into your frontline work.
9.45 - 15.30 Wednesday 3 February 2010. £20 per person including lunch, to be paid on the day. St George’s Centre, Great George Street, Leeds, LS1 3BR
Ruth Smith 0113 350 8070 rsmith@livability.org.uk
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19 November - 13.30 to 16.30 Whirlow Grange Conference Centre, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield. 23 November – 18.30 to 21.00 Church House, 95-99 Effingham Street,
Rotherham S65 1BL. 24 November – 13.30pm to 16.30pm St Peter’s Community Hall, Warmsworth Road, Doncaster DN4 0TW Please respond by Friday 13 November 2009.
kathryn.dixon@sheffield.anglican.org
Diocese of Wakefield
To develop and deliver a giving programme. Applicants should be confident with presenting ‘giving’ within the context of the Church of England. Must have excellent communication skills and a creative and enthusiastic approach, with the ability to enable, equip and engage others. The post-holder should be a communicant member of the Church of England or a full member of a church within the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. http://www.wakefield.anglican.org/events/vacancies.htm#ChurchHouse
Closing date Friday 23 October.
SAVE (Sheffield Agencies for the Vulnerable and Excluded) is initiating a short-term night shelter scheme for up to four rough sleepers per night for the months of January and February 2010. We need volunteers willing to help on either a regular or a one-off basis, from 21.30 to 07.30, on various nights to make hot drinks, provide a listening ear if requested and possibly even get some sleep (!). In addition, drivers are needed to bring guests to and from the city centre. Training provided.
Ruth Grayson 230 5171 / 07899 044853 assocsave@onetel.com
We ask you to pray this week (15 - 21 October) for people from the following occupations; Health workers and haircutters, domestic workers, care assistants and others in similar work.
The Occupational Prayer Cycle, which runs week by week, covers nearly all occupations over the course of the year. It is produced by South Yorkshire Workplace Chaplaincy, and more information can be found on their website at http://www.sywc.org.uk/opc/
The Chaplaincy supports the idea of a 'living wage' for people in low paid occupations such as these. It promotes a living wage when opportunities arise.
“No man can do what he is called to do in life unless he can learn to forget his ego and act as an instrument of God.” – WH Auden
Friday 23 October 9.30 – 12 noon
Hatfield Travis Infant and Nursery School: Doncaster
Cost: £45; Visit the website for more details www.sheffield.anglican.org/education/downloads.php
Contact: heather.morris@sheffield.anglican.org
We will be praying each night for prisons and prisoners in Doncaster as follows:
17 November 3pm St John the Baptist Wadworth, 18 November 7pm St Katherine Loversall,
19 November 7pm St John the Baptist Wadworth, 20 November 7pm St Katherine Loversall
21 November 7pm St John the Baptist Wadworth, 22 November 7pm St Katherine Loversall
http://wadworthloversallchurches.org.uk/index.htm