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October 1999 No 106

Diocese of Oxford Reporter n Berkshire. Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

The DOOR bursts into colour!

oyce's 'Golden Galloper' roundabout was the colourful backdrop for a sermon by the Bishop of Buckingham, the Right Revd Mike Hill (main picture), during the annual Witney Feast service on 12 September.This year's service formed part of the first 'mission weekend' in Witney Churches Together's year long millennium mission,Y2000. Bishop Mike also preached at a 6pm service at St Mary's attended by Christians from all the churches in Witney before processing to the fairground for an open air Songs of Praise. More than 500 people joined in the hymn singing accompanied , at a galloping pace' by a steam organ.Among those on the

roundabout with the Bishop was the town's deputy mayor, Mrs Louise Chapman, and the Sergeant at Arms of the Showman's Guild (pictured top right with Bishop Mike).Witney Team Rector, the Revd Cameron Butland led the intercessions which included prayers for the fairground community. Bishop Mike, who said he had never preached on a roundabout before, told the story of Blondin who pushed a wheelbarrow across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Before setting off he asked his manager 'Do you think I can do it?'. 'Yes' said the manager. 'Well get in the wheelbarrow' said Blondin. Saying yes to God means trusting him with our lives, Bishop Mike said.

After ten years The DOOR has shed its monochrome image. In future the front, back and centre pages will be in full colour.There will be no additional cost to the Diocese. We hope that our existing readers will enjoy the change.We hope too that our more colourful look will encourage new readers and strengthen the Church's mission in Berkshire, Bucks and Oxford-shire. Christine Zwart Editor

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_ Popular joint RC and Anglican !school threatened with closure

news in brief 'What does society expect from business in the third millenniwn?' is the theme of a One World Week Question Time at St Andrew's Priestwood, Bracknell on 20 October at 8pm. The panel will include: John Foley ofWaitrose Ltd. a member of the Ethical Trading Group.

he fut u r e of St Augustin e's, a suc c es sful joint Roman Catholic and Church of England Upper School in Oxford, is under threat to the dismay of many of its pupils and their parents, the staff and the governors.

If Oxfordshire County Council goes ahead with its proposal to move from a three tier to a two tier school system, the Roman of Archdioc ese C atholic Birmingham would prefer to have a Roman C a tholic sec ondary school in place of St Augustine's. The Roman C atholic Archdiocese of Birmingham says that their purpose-is to provide Catholic eduation for Catholic children in C atholic schools where possible. This ceased to be possible 15 years ago but they consider that the proposed changes in the Oxford school system would make a Catholic school viable again. St Augustine's opened as a combined school 15 years ago, one of only seven joint RC-CE schools in the country, after a merger bet w een St Edmund Campion RC school and Cowley St John C of E Upper School. Sin c e then it h�s gone from st rength to strength and a recent OFSTED report comment ed favourably on its teaching and its sense of community. The school has a current roll of 622 students and the admis sion policy allow s for t wo Catholic places for one Anglican one. For the benefit of RC stu dents mass is said at the school on holy days of obligation, an

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RC chaplain visits once a week and all religious education is taught by specialist RC teachers. At the same time the school also supports the Oxford Diocese's youth events and there are Christian acts of worship. Mrs Elizabeth Gilpin, the school's first Anglican head said 'It is a joy to see young people of differ ent faiths working happily together and gaining under st anding of each other's viewpo�nts'. Catholics connected with the school are also unhappy with the proposal. Onagh Godfrey, a Catholic on the governing body said:' The setting up of a joint RC/CE school has demonstrated how Christians can work c on struc tively and effectively for the good of the pupils. There is an openness and trust between staff, c lergy and governors. To revert to a Catholic school seems neither practical nor visionary'. 'The Oxford Dioc ese would prefer St Augustine's to contin ue as a jointly managed school but realistically acknowledges that ifits Catholic partner wish es to withdraw from the arrangement there is little it can do to prevent it, and thus St Augustine's becomes de fac to unviabl e ,' said C anon Tony Williamson, Diocesan Director of Education (Schools). Over 25,000 people who came to the Bucks County Show at Weedon near Aylesbury on 2 September were invited back to the show ground next June to take part in Pentcost 2000. The Revd Murdoch MacKenzie, Ecumenical Moderator of Milton Keynes and Jean Peck handed out hundreds of invitations to what may prove to be the Country's biggest millennium event.

Diocese runs schools' millennium competition

The Diocese invites Church schools to produce a book or folder of children's work entitled 'My Dream for the Next Century' on the life or teaching of Christ and responses to it. There will be t wo first prizes of £750 paid to an artist who will work with the school to produce a symbol for the entrance reflecting either the millennium or an aspect of the school's Church foundation. Ten runner up prizes of £150 will be paid to a stained glass artist who will work with the children to create a design for a small glass panel for the school entrance. Entry is free; forms from the Revd David Barton at Church House by 22 October.

Pilgrimage on target for the Diocese

The Pilgrimage against Poverty left Iona on 15 August. It is due to arrive in London on 17 October, the UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty. There will be a service at St Martin in-the-Fields,Trafalgar Square at 3pm (all are welcome). The pilgrims will be in the Oxford Diocese between 7 and 15 October. The full progamme was in the September DOOR on page 4 but Slough's arrangements were not included, They are as follows: Slough Thursday 14 October: 4.30pm welcome St Peter's, Chalvey; evening, 8pm, lecture and discussion with Fiona MacTaggart, MP at Kingsway URC Church, Church Street. Slough. Friday 15 October pilgrims leave from St Peter's, Chalvey 9am.

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October 10 is World Mental Health Day. A resource leaflet, 'Mental Health Promotion and the Christian Church' is available from: Mental Health Programme, HEA, Trevelyan House, 30 Great Peter St, London SW1P 2HW' On Sunday 10 October Buckinghamshire's newest Local Ecumenical Partnership will be officially created when the Anglican and Methodist churches, which stand opposite each other in Marlow Bottom, formally join.

Is Rebecca painting our oldest yew tree?

The Bible Society's free resource pack for Bible Sunday 1999, 'Horizon of Hope', will include Hope 2000 for young people. The pack, which offers ideas for worship and a children's pro gramme is available from Beth Fox at the Bible Society: 01793 41$100.

Do you know of an older yew tree? On I 0 October representatives from 350 parishes will attend the Conservation Trust Service at Dorchester Abbey to collect their millennium yew trees grown from cuttings from trees which date back to the time of Christ's birth. On the cover of the service sheet will be a painting by Rebecca Hinds from Dorchester (above), of a 1400 year old yew tree at lffley near Oxford believed to be the oldest yew tree in the Diocese. If you know of an older one please tell Canon Derek Palmer on O 1295 26820 I . ·

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Our cricketers are the 'team of the nineties' The Oxford Diocesan cricket team proved itself to be the clergy 'team of the nineties' by winning the Church Times Cup, the national interdiocesan cricket competition, for the seventh time in 11 years. In the final at Southgate in London, on 2 September Oxford beat Bath and Wells convincing ly by 104 runs. Among the spectators was the Bishop of Buckingham, a for mer Oxford player. With Oxford winning the toss and deciding to bat in perfect conditions, Bath and Wells did well to restrict Oxford's powerful batting line-up to 219 for 6 from their 50 overs. Top scorer and man of the match was Hugh White who was spectacularly caught and bowled by former Oxford captain, John Samways for 96. Accurate bowling and tight fielding put pressure on the Batl1

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and Wells batsmen who were all out for 115 in the 46th over. All the Oxford bowlers bowled well with Vaughan Robert's off-spin claiming four wickets. Two days later, Hugh White, Andrew Wingfield Digby, Tim Bradshaw and Ed Newell were also members of the National Church ofEngland Oergy Xl who defeated a Baptist Union of Great Britain Xl at the MCC ground at Shenley, Hertfordshire. Chasing a total of over 300, the Baptists managed to reach120 having at one stage been out for 4 following a devastating opening spell by former Dorset captain, Wingfield Digby. During the winter the Oxford team are planning a tour to our link Diocese of Kimberly and Kuruman in South Africa. As well as playing cricket the team will be involved in ministry and will work to strengthen links between the dioceses.

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Salt on the menu at jubilee Kirchentag 'You are the Salt of the Earth' That was the message which over 100,000 Christians heard in Stuttgart between 16 and 20 June. In music and mime, in lectures, workshops and Bible studies, in the carved blocks of rock salt which decorated many of the venues and in the great mountain of salt in the Schlossplatz, the main square of the city, salt was on the menu of the 28th Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag, the great twoyearly Church assembly of the German Protestant Churches.

Diocesan contingent Among these vast crowds from different lands and different Christian traditions, there were a dozen from the the Diocese of Oxford. Most of them were Anglicans, but there was a contingent from the URC/Methodist shared church in Buckingham. Some, like Martha George from Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes, were attending this great ecumenical gathering for the first time. Others, like Brenda Matthews from the parish of Terriers, High Wycombe, were well on the way to being old hands. For all who were in Stuttgart the Kirchentag offered endless possibilities. Some spent their time with the great teachers like Hans Kung, who held a crowd of thousands in his hand as he lec-

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tured in the open air. Others were there for the music, whether it was renaissance brass, or Lutheran chorales, or Taizé, or rock. Others spent their time in the vast exhibition halls catching up on the latest ideas in bio-ethics, or human rights issues or inter-faith relations.

Support for Jubilee 2000 The Kirchentag began in the aftermath of the Second World War, as Christians in Germany began to rebuild their society. An important part of its purpose was to prevent the separation between Christian faith and political (in the broadest sense) engagement which had been so skilfully exploited by the Nazis. This year the Kirchentag celebrated its own golden Jubilee by raising a huge crowd to proclaim that other Jubilee which is so much in the news. As 50,000 gathered in Cologne to form a human chain in protest at the slavery imposed on whole nations by unrepayable debt, 10,000 flooded into the centre of Stuttgart to add their voices to the call for debt cancellation. How wondered Dorothee Solle, as she addressed the rally, how can we say the Lord's Prayer today without lying? For in the German version we ask to be forgiven our debts as we forgive our debtors. It is such encounters between clearminded theological thinking and everyday reality which make the Kirchentag the stimulating event that it is. The next one will be in Frankfurt am Main from 13th-17th June 2001. All will be welcome. Tony Dickinson The Revd Tony Dickinson is Priest in charge of St Francis, Terriers, Ecumenical Officer for the Bucks Archdeaconry and European contact for the Diocese.

The contribution of an exceptional man avid Pean was Secretary of the Board of

Finance for 17 years from 1965 to 1982, a period of profound change in the organ-

isation and financing of the Church of England. After a distinguished war record David qualified as a chartered acc-ountant, and then joined the Colonial Service in Kenya, first in the Treasury and latterly in the Ministry of Agriculture, where he was invited to stay on after independence. When he returned to the U.K. in 1965, he joined the Diocese as treasurer, and No. 2 to Alan Pink, who was of the 'old school'. David's first remit was to reorganise the diocese's account-ing systems. He quickly impressed those in authority and when Mr Pink's job was split, David became Secretary of the Board of Finance while Mr Pink remained in charge of Diocesan Trustees. Lunch-hour backgammon! David Pean was to prove an outstandingly able and successful Board of Finance Secretary. His first challenge was pastoral reorganisation, following the introduction of the Pastoral Measure in 1968. David and Michael O'Connor, the Pastoral Secretary, worked closely together, their cooperation cemented by their lunch-hour games of backgammon.As his grandson recalls, David was a mean player! Their efforts placed the Oxford Diocese, and the Archdeaconry of Buckinghamshire in particular, at the forefront in implementing this Measure, seen essentially as pastoral but one also bringing much-needed financial benefits at a time of increasing financial difficulty. The late seventies were a time of dramatic increases in Parish Shares because suddenly the increase in income from the Church Commissioners could not keep pace with the rapid rise in inflation. Between 1978 and 1981 the Parish Share tripled from £650,000 to £1.9 million, with annual increases of up 68%. It was essential to reassure parishes faced with these increases that their money was being carefully spent; David was instrumental in developing a more informative style of diocesan accounts, detailing where the money came from and how it was used.These served as the basis for presentations at the Board of Finance, at Synod and in a series of roadshows to individual deaneries. It was of course essential in these circumstances to make the best possible use of the resources of the diocese, and David made an important contribution to bringing in many

necessary changes. At that time the diocese had many beautiful but very large vicarages, prohibitively expensive to maintain, but loved by their villages and their vicar. In the face of the financial stringency, many had to be sold, although this was often resented. In spite of these difficulties, with rigorous and acute financial management Oxford's stipends rose to be second highest in the country and parishes continued to pay over 96% of their Parish Share. In 1976 the Endowments and Glebe Measure handed to dioceses the management of glebe land. David worked closely with George Hammond to rationalise and diversify this portfolio of mainly small parcels of agricultural land. It is a measure of the success of their actions that the glebe account now provides over Llmillion a year towards the cost of stipends. Such a time of change and difficulty naturally caused tensions and indeed open disputes. David retained the professionalism and detachment of a first class civil servant, both in the major issues and in the hundreds of often complex minor issues in the parishes which are the daily fare of any Board of Finance Secretary. He was both firm and genial, with a delightful, quizzical and often acerbic sense of humour. He disliked pretension and pomposity arrd enjoyed putting them down, making him unpopular with some. Toward the end of his term of office David was afflicted by rheumatoid arthritis which mercifully eased after his retirement and move to Chichester, and he enjoyed several years of active life before his wife's death in 1996, and the onset of a crippling blood disorder, darkened his final years. Much loved family man David was, above all, a family man. He was wholly devoted to Hester, his childhood sweetheart, and to Jennifer and Anna, their daughters, and their respective families. Jean Rivers at Church House remembers him remarking that 'the best thing in the world is a grand-daughter flinging her arms around your neck' and his elder grandson spoke movingly at his funeral of how he had been a stimulating and much loved grandfather and friend to all of them. The Diocese has good cause to be grateful for the contribution of such an exceptional man and those of us who attended his funeral were proud to be able to say thank you for all that he achieved for us.

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didn't feel that I had that much of a childhood. I was abused mentally, physically and sexually, because of this I didn't really trust anyone. I became withdrawn and just didn't know who I was.! was a confused, very sensitive, lonely little girl. I did have friends but I didn't feel like I belonged or fitted in with anyone. It didn't matter what type of people I was talking to, I was always on the outside looking in. Inside me though, deep down was a yearning for self-discovery, a need to feel whole.

the service and who was there to answer all my questions? Sam! I came to realise that Sam too was a gift from God. When I needed someone to listen, she was there, When I needed answers, she was there. When I needed guidance she was there. I have been so blessed, God has supplied me with all the people I needed at the right time. The Alpha course I went on was such perfect timing because my quest to find out more had been awakened. Odet (one of the co-leaders) has been great. The Lord gave me a mirror image of myself, but she had the Lord I didn't. One of my many excuses was being a single parent 'How can I say I don't believe in sex before marriage and then have Kyle walk in?' Well, Odet could do it so could I. Odet has been great; reassuring me and teaching me. I

Although I had always been aware of God's presence I never felt that I had an opportunity to learn about Him, then I met Sam. I used to go to worship down at the 'Mish' on a Thursday; it was good and I did learn a lot. The one thing that was really cleared up was the rumour that Christians lead a boring life. At the Wish' there were a wide variety of different Christians and none were boring, none hit me around the head with the Bible to knock some sense into me and not one of them tried to brainwash me. The trouble was I was a teenager and I wanted to belong and although I believed in God that would have meant good clean pure fun and I wanted excitement in the form of alcohol, clubbing, sex and a few drugs.

Everything suddenly looked different

God was trying to contact me I decided that I would take a year out after school, then go back and do my 'A' levels. During that year out I fell pregnant; me and my partner split up and it was then that I started to think seriously about my life. Suddenly out of the blue I dialled Sam's number. At the time I didn't really know why because although we had built up a friendship all my other friends were going their own way. Now I can say that the Lord made me 'phone her. 'He' was trying to make contact with me. He had been for my whole life, the message was just beginning to get through. I met up with Sam for lunch and she told me about Lemon Juice (a play group) she was involved with. She asked me along and this meant that I would meet up with Sam again every week. When I had my son Kyle it was just so amazing. After it dawned on me that I was actually a mum it also began to dawn on me that he was far too good too wonderful and far too beautiful to be just a creation of mine and his dad's. He was a gift to me from God. I had to get him blessed; I had to say thank you Lord for giving me this precious life. I know he is a gift from Him and I had to let my family acknowledge that too. Guess who helped me with

soon realised I was crying about my past and the fact that I couldn't deny God was there had triggered it. He was in me, the Lord finally found a way into my hard heart and I still ran from him. The next two or three weeks were torture. My conscience wouldn't rest, I was depressed. I had started to go to a Gospel Church just before Christmas and at this time they changed their services from afternoon to morning. Anyway with the church changing times it ment I could either go to work or church so I used my job as an excuse for not becoming a Christian, for not spending time with God. But the Lord soon put me straight. All the many reasons I had for running he showed me that they were just mere excuses. So one Sunday I went to church. I didn't want to be there but I was compelled to go. I was so down and when I'm down I don't like to be around people, especially happy people. It was good but I went home feeling empty. I didn't have what they had. I got home and put my Sunday dinner in. Kyle was asleep. The Lord was nagging, he had blown all my excuses by telling me to look at Corinthians 10 the night before. That removed my last excuse. So I was trapped. I felt so bad about my past and so very sorry, I needed to repent because Ijust couldn't bear to go forward. By 4 o'clock I couldn't take it any more.

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Vi c ky believe God gave her to me to teach me, and as we talk we just realise how much we have in common. The Lord is so good, he talks to us and through us. When I needed confirmation on some things he showed me, he confirmed them through Odet. After the Alpha course I knew that God was there and he had guided me to him but like a blind fool I still carried on by myself. It wasn't long before I went into a depression I heard voices saying; 'What have you done with your life?' I began to regret what I had done, what I had said and continued to do. I even came home one day when everything had been great and burst into tears. I

I knew I needed to pray but I didn't really know what I was going to pray but I knew it was going to be personal. I went and I talked to Pat and then we prayed. I can't remember what was said or what I said, all I know is that Ijust went dizzy, the room was spinning and Ijust felt weird! Oh the relief after prayer was amazing, Ijust felt peace and then I felt this joy. I do remember saying to Pat 'Oh I feel so happy I could kiss you' but I didn't. Anyway I suddenly remembered I had left my dinner in the oven hours ago and I started to panic. I thought of hard blackened potatoes and black smoke billowing out but when I opened the oven door the roast was perfect. It was the tastiest dinner I've had in my life. The next day I was walking round and thanking God for everything. Everything looked different. I can't explain how it looked different, it just did. That evening Odet came round for the start of Alpha 2. I turned to her and said 'but I'm not a Christian yet', and Odet said in an authoritative voice 'Yes you are'. It was then that I realised why everyone had been congratulating me, and that was why everything looked different. My excitement comes from life from God. Discovering who he is and who I am. The longing to find me will be over because God will reveal the real me, the me he planned me to be. I long to do his works, but the excitement comes not from not knowing what he has planned but from knowing that what ever I will be chosen to do will glorify his name. I am on a great road of discovery. I AM BORN AGAIN! I have new life, renewed vision, an anointing, a great almighty God and I can now say I am ALIVE. Thank you Lord.

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y story began not long after my marriage, with rows which simply baffled me. If I ever tried afterwards to sort things out, I was bashed again for making him feel bad. Men apparently often act like that to disorientate their victims, denying it all, acting sweet one day and vicious the next. I was bashed, but I was not the sort of wife one sees on sleazy television plays. I am highly educated, I have had numerous professional jobs, and have even been a diplomat, representing this country abroad. I suppose his mascu-

Unhealthy 81*61ence Domestic violence occurs in as many as one in four marriages.This means that in your church this Sunday there will be some women — and perhaps a man — who are being secretly attacked by partners who promised to love them.We hope that this feature will encourage churches to break this unhealthy silence.

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Has the Church colluded by keeping quiet about it? emarkably domestic violence overtook everything else on the agenda to become the principal concern of the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women both nationally and internationally. Of course it is not just a 'women's issue' but central to the well-being of families. The Baptist Union, Methodists, Roman Catholics and the Church of Scotland have all done research and produced reports including advice about how clergy and laity should respond to domestic violence. Until now our Church has remained silent, neither condemning nor challenging it and, by silence, colluding in it. Domestic violence is a painful, uncomfortable subject we would all rather avoid. It is often silently condoned or seen as no one else's business. Although it has happened throughout history the status of women has now changed. Today violence is seen as a completely unacceptable way of dealing with the conflict and disagreements occurring in all personal relationships. But still an enormous number of women and children, across all sections of society, live with pain and loneliness and fear of violence in their homes from someone they have loved and trusted.

'Some women die at the hands of those who have promised in a Christian ceremony to love and honour them.'

Hands to End Violence against Women The roots of violence in individuals may lie in their own experience of being abused, witnessing it at home or being beaten at school. Sometimes men are less articulate and less mature than their partners and know no other release for their feelings of powerlessness and inferiority. As boys, many men have been brainwashed into

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Home is where the Hurt is by Rosie Nixon Women victims of physical and mental abuse (only 1% are men), feel embarrassed and ashamed and do not expect to be believed. They often feel guilty and responsible. In my experience very many women, including those who are church members, have very low selfesteem. It takes enormous courage for such women to admit to anyone what they are suffering. This may be especially true if the family is respected in the community.

So what can we do? • We can bring the subject into the open, accepting that it does not just happen to women 'out there' but to women we know, in our church and community. • We can offer support to anyone we know who is being abused. • We can make sure that information about where to get help is available in every church. • We can support Women's Aid and others who provide refuges. • We can also challenge the patriarchal attitudes in the Church that still treat women as inferior. • Most importantly, we can teach our sons that violence is never justified and our daughters never to accept it.

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unless he admitted what he was doing. The cruellest thing he ever did was not physical violence, but a dreadful threat. When I told him I could stand no more, and would tell our vicar of his violence, he told me he had already told the vicar and others in our village that I was very unstable, and had threatened all sorts of insane things, including telling the vicar such lies as this. He said that my revelations were to be the signal for the vicar and the PCC to have me certified. I was not sure whether he would succeed, but I was sure he would try. He was certain they would all believe him instead of me. And I was afraid he might be right. After all, he was an upright member of the FCC, a school governor, a member of the golf club and all the rest. So I stuck out more years of silent despair, until we had to move house to an area where he was not yet a pillar of the community.Then I began to tell people, and I was amazed when they believed me. So thoroughly had he destroyed my confidence, that I fully expected total disbelief. Eventually, after many years I got away, taking my children with me, but his vindictiveness never stopped.What is more, his maintenance payments disappeared, leaving me first on benefits until I dragged together some scrapsof self-respect and got work. I am lonely and dreadfully overworked. I have no pension to look forward to, and the experiences I have gone through have prevented me from making new relationships. I am back to being a very strong person, but I bear terrible mental scars,

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Take courage and go! I found that it took courage to leave my husband, especially with the feeling that I was letting God down by doing so. Since going through this ordeal I have met up with stories of 'wonderful' Christians who have become martyrs to bad marriages. Very few evangelical Christians seem capable of affirming my actions. However, I believe that God is now able to use me much more effectively as a free woman than when I was a crushed hostage forced to do and say things that were not me. I do not believe that God wants anyone to live a life of fear and subjugation when there is a way out. My advice to anyone living in such a life is TAKE COURAGE. FORGET THE GUILTTRIP AND GO.

Gwen, Arnersham

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would like to put in a word for the very prevalent, though much less acknowledged instances of emotional abuse which can leave the victim with emotional black eyes and bruises'. These can be even more debilitating and destructive because the victim, and indeed the perpetrator, may be unaware for years that abuse is actually taking place.This certainly happened in my own case, leading to a loss of selfesteem and confidence which has taken years of agony and confusion to get through before therapeutic counselling began finally to set it right, I recently picked up the book, Domestic Violence by Helen L. Conway and was astonished to see my own situation clearly depicted in the 'Duluth Wheel', a diagrammatic presentation of the

behaviour which constitutes abuse.Just a few of these, probably never witnessed by other family members, are: putting her down; making her think she's crazy; making her feel guilty; making light of the abuse and not taking her concerns about it seriously; saying the abuse didn't happen; saying she caused it. With the help of my therapist I am becoming more able subtly to change my demeanour so as not to validate 'the game'. I can better see the perpetrator as feeling insecure and operating from a need to control. I am also aware of my own role as 'victim'.

The writer wants to remain anonymous but would like to hear of self-help groups for this kind of 'invisible' abuse. If you write via The DOOR address on page 2, marking the envelope 'invisible', we will send it on to her.

How does your church measure up? ow do we read the painful stories on these pages? women goes unreported, or if reported, unheeded With sympathy? Anger? Disbelief? Judgement? or dealt with inadequately. Such violence may take Domestic violence is a difficult issue for churcha variety of forms: physical, mental, sexual, psychoes which so often stress the importance of marriage and logical, even spiritual or moral. It may involve physfamily, and find it uncomfortable to accept that domesical assault and injury, sexual abuse and rape, tic violence is a fact of life, even within the Christian persistent verbal abuse, emotional blackmail or community. Indeed, it may be even more difficult to social and financial deprivation, or any combinaacknowledge the problem in a Christian community tion of these. It can occur in any close adult relathat preaches forgiveness, patient submission to suffertionship and render the home a place of pain, fear, ing, and, in some churches, female subordination. degradation and isolation rather than a place of For this is not just about violence, but about gender. security, love and self-fulfilment which we believe Nearly three-quarters of the victims of domestic vioto be God's plan for our dwelling places. lence are women, and the vast majority of assailants are men.* It's not that men are, by nature, brutal, or that The Presidents urge all churches in Britain and women somehow 'ask for it'. Yet for many centuries it Ireland to: was accepted almost as natural that men ought to keep • declare that violence against women in all its their women under control. Think of the old saying, 'A forms is morally wrong and totally unacceptable in woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat society and in the Church; them, the better they be'. Or in past Christian tradition, • break the silence over domestic violence; the Council of Toledo stating: 'A husband is bound to 'work towards making the churches safe places chastise his wife moderately, unless he be a cleric, in where abused women can find sanctuary and ,rhich case he may chastise her harder.' informed help; 'It's not like that today', we want to say, yet there are develop procedures which enable complaints about abuse and harassment within the Church to many thousands of women, like those represented here, suffering behind closed doors, blaming themselves, be dealt with promptly and fairly; dreading lest they trigger an attack, too ashamed to • urge local churches and communities to act in admit what is happening, afraid to break away. Surely support of women's refuges and in solidarity with their plight represents a real challenge to Christians to victims of violence. take action? Thankfully, in the last few years, churches have at last been recognising domestic violence as a This is certainly a challenge. How does this Diocese, or serious issue, and in November 1998, the Presidents of your local church, measure up? Anne Borrowdale the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland issued this statement: Dr Anne Borrowdale is a freelance writer and theological educator. It is a sad fact that the most dangerous place for a Her latest book was a novel 'Messiahs don't fly' (Ashton Pickering woman is not in the streets or on the road of our Publications, 1999). 'Distorted Images' (out of print, SI'CK 1991) was nations but in the home. Much violence against

The 1998 British Crime Survey, which measures people's actual experience of being victims of crime, rather than the crimes recorded officially by the police.

about relations between the sexes and covered domestic violence. She is also a tutor on the StAlban's and Oxford Ministry Course.

Someone to get in touch with if you need some help ALWAYS RING 999 IF YOU FEEL IN PHYSICAL DANGER Broken Rites Support and advice for separated/ divorced clergy or wives of all denominations and understanding of reasons formarriage marriage breakdown including domestic violence. 01298 73997. Elderly Abuse Response Line If you know of an older person being abused in anyway: 0181 679 7074. Oxfordshire Women's Aid Confidential advice and assistance with any problem related to domestic violence. Ring: 01865 791416. Refuge 24-hour national crisis line - support, advice and refuge details for women facing domestic violence. 0990 995 443. Sahara supports and accommodates Asian women and children who have been abused. Contact via Reading Samaritans: 0118 926 6333. The Samaritans National helpline 0345 909090. Look in the phone book for your local branch. Victim Support National Helpline 0845 303 0900. Look in phone books for local VS Supports victims including of domcsticviolence Women's Aid Federation 45,000 women and children stay in their 214 refuges each year. Support advice and emergency accomnsoda non for women and children suffering from domestic vtolence National helpline 0345 023468 Reading! Newbury 0118 954003 Aylesbury 01296 436827; Milton Keynes: 01908 271900; Oxford 01865 791416. FOR MEN Everyman Helpline offering support and counselling programme for men who want to stop being violent : 0171 737 6747. MALE Helpline for male victims of domestic violence: 0181 644 9914.

If you want to find out more It doesn't Happen Here and Breaking the Silence: First Steps for the Local Church leaflets published jointly by the Community Learning Network and The Baptist Union of Great Britain provide information and practical suggestions about domestic violence and useful contacts. Packs often £5 (includes p and p) from: Baptist House, P0 Box 44,129 Broadway, Didcot, Oxon OXII 8RT.

Domestic Violence: Mothers' Union Information and Discussion Paper (1997) Leaflet with concise background information, excellent practical suggestions for ways churches can help. Some MU branches produce starter packs for women in local refuges who arrive with no possessions. Ring Primrose Gallimore 01525 240302. Domestic Violence: Picking up the Pieces by H L Conway (Lion) Hands to End Violence against Women 'A resource for Theological Education' published by Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada, adapted 1995 by Women's Inter-Church Council of Britain, 27 Tavistock Square, London WC1Il 914H .Tel: 0171 387 8413. Available from this address for £5. Background essays, activities for study days, personal stories, bibliography, most useful list of dos and don'ts if you are helping a victim of domestic violence. Home is where the Hurt is: Domestic Violence and the Church's Response by Rose Nixon (Grove Booklets Pastoral Series, no 58, £1.95 from Grove Books Ltd, Ridley Hall, Cambridge CB3 9HU. An excellent hook written by a woman priest from Bristol. It includes the 'Duluth wheel', theological insight and ways you can help. Out of the Shadows: The Manchester Mosaic (CCIII, 1998, edited by Jean Mayland). Text and pictures, from a mosaic of squares painted and embroidered by women in north west group for Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women, to bring domestic violence out of the shadows. £9.95 plus 15% p and p from CCBI, Lower Marsh Road, London SF1 7RL. Opening Doors: a directory for victims of crime produced by Thames Valley Partnership. Every church leader should have a copy. Phone numbers, information, section on domestic violence. Available from Thames Valley Partnership, Old Police Station, Chinisor Road, Thame, Oxon 0X9 3LN. Telephone: 01844 212274.

Out of the Shadows: Christianity and Violence against women in Scotland report of a project undertaken under the auspices of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues, Edinburgh University and

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The Bishop of Dorchester Agricultural meltdown? 'If you eat food you are involved in farming' proclaims an American car sticker. Food, its safety, its production and the consequent impacts on the environment are issues that have risen to the top of the political agenda. There are many serious and important issues and the church has both a prophetic and a pastoral role in these areas. At the same time this year has seen a crisis in farming which many are now comparing with the 1930s and using expressions like 'farming in freefall' and 'agricultural meltdown'. This year it is predicted that farm incomes will fall by 60% and a leading bank suggests that 25% of all farms are insolvent. Farm families face despair The evidence of this crisis is all around us as valueless calves are delivered to Carla Lane's doorstep or abandoned in Welsh telephone boxes. The recent Oxfordshire Farming Survey revealed that 45% of farmers will retire within the next ten years and half have no family successor. Entries to agricultural colleges are down by 27%.The bleak truth is that the next generation have already decided that there is no future in farming. The GM debate is of profound importance; a debate as much about whether we trust science and scientists as it is about the future of food production. But the real crisis is down on the farm where farm families face uncertainty and despair. The depths of the crisis can be judged from the fact that Famers Weekly recently carried an editorial about the rising number of suicides, and it is believed that in one county there have been 24 farmer suicides this year. The Church is the largest organisation active in every rural community. Its day to day ministry in rural areas allows it to speak authentically about what is happening to farmers and their families. As farmers cope as best they can with the many dimensions of this crisis, they need the support and prayers of the Church which has had a long and close involvement with their life and work. + Anthony Dorchester

Diocesan appointments Revd John Andrews. Rector of Kingham w. Churchill, Daylesford and Sarsden, retires 31 October; Revd Michael Burns, City Centre Chaplain, Milton Keynes to be Priest in

charge, Church of King Charles the Martyr, South Mimms, St Alban's Diocese; Revd Sally Davies, Assistant Curate, Chalfont St Peter, to be Chaplain the Greenwich Foundation for the Royal Naval College, London Diocese; Revd Greg Downes, Assistant Curate Haziemere to be Chaplain to HMP and YOI Pucklechurch, Bristol Diocese; Revd Philip Hunt. former Chaplain to the Deaf, died on August 12: Revd Jane Knowles, Curate, St Mary's, Wargrave, to be Priest in Charge of Ramsden, Finstock and Fawler, Leafield, Wychwood and Wilcote; Revd Canon Judith Rees, Priest in charge, Great 1-lorwood, Rural Dean and Director of Cottesloe Christian Training Scheme retires 31 October.

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Like many employers, the Oxford Diocesan Board of Finance has agreed to adopt an 'equal opportunities' policy. Here Jo Saunders, the Diocesan Social Responsibility Officer, explains some of the issues behind it

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quality does not mean that all people are alike but that all should be treated in a way that does not undermine their dignity, self worth and quality of life. Most people say they support this principle but we have great difficulty putting it into practice. Understandings of their 'place in soci-

Ageism is very common. Advertising may be worded in a way that deters mature people from applying and the perceptions or insecurities of young managers can make them reluctant to employ older people.

ety still mean that some people limit their aspirations while others almost automatically move into positions of power. Progress has been slow and grudging.

A question of justice

The first equal opportunities legislation was the 1965 Race Relations Act, but it only related to behaviour in public places. It was weak and difficult to enforce. In 1968 it was extended to housing, education, goods and services. In 1970 the Equal Pay Act provided equal pay for men and women but it took five years to enforce. In 1975 and 1976 the Equal Opportunities and Race Equality Commissions were set up. The 1996 Disability Discrimination Act, which applies to organisations with more than 15 employees, does not include a Commission but an advisory body which has few 'teeth'. In 1998 there was the Human Rights Act, and the 'Fairness at Work' Bill has recently been passed. There is currently no legislation on age, sexuality or religion, except in Northern Ireland. Many involved in equal opportunities believe there should be a single Equal Rights Act with a strong Commission to deal with all sorts of discrimination.

Forms of discrimination Discrimination appears in two forms, direct and indirect. Direct discrimination may be less common than in the past because of the legislation. Indirect discrimination persists. For instance height requirements for security staff may largely exclude women and Asian men, and lack of training provision for part-timers may unfairly affect women. Discrimination statutes define employment as a personal contract. So, in the case where a company employs a firm rather than individual to do work, if the firm's employee is discriminated against by the company, the employee has no redress.

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may contribute. There is a tendency to want to appoint 'someone like us'. In relation to gender, many women work in part time jobs which are an extension of domestic, service roles. They are disadvantaged by exclusion from 'the old boy network', by gaps in employment when employers are looking for a career pattern, assumptions about their domestic commitment. These things apply to some men but are less thought of at interview. There is the language of 'the girls in the office', stereotyping so that assertive women are 'bossy', and 'male' cultures and ways of working are seen as the norm. Like women, people from minority ethnic groups experience the 'glass ceiling' - where promotion seems possible but never happens - and issues about education, mobility and culture. Some of the excuses given for not employing them include concerns that they will be isolated in the company, or that their accent is hard to understand. For people with disabilities there may be false perceptions about their intelligence and a concern about their ability to cope, when in reality it is the non dis-

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Equality of opportunity is a justice issue. To imply that half of humanity because of their gender, or three quarters of humanity because of their skin colour, are not valued by God as creatures made in His image, is to deny the Gospel. For those of us working in secular organisations the imperative is reinforced by the legislation, and we must in all conscience commit ourselves to it, however much it may go against the traditional culture or working practice. For those of us working for in a church setting it can be more difficult. There is still one battle to be fought gaining recognition for the value, of equal opportunities in the Church. It is all too easy for Christians to say rather than do the right thing. This article is a summary of a talk given byjo Saunders at a meeting of OXIM (Oxford Industrial Mission).

The Oxford Diocese has agreed to adopt a policy statement on equal opportunities, which will apply to employees at the Board of Finance, but its principles and practices will be recommended to parishes and other church organisations in the Diocese to implement as appropriate. A code of practice will be drawn up and the process will be monitored and evaluated at every stage. The policy covers discrimination on grounds of sex, race and disability as the law demands, and on additional grounds including age and marital status. The statement includes the following: 'We declare

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'I was a stranger and you welcomed me' Congratulations to Abdul Majeed ('Asylum granted', September DOOR) in successfully appealing for refugee status with the help of his church. And congratulations to The DOOR for the positive and human tone of this brief report, as well as the inclusion of a couple of other pieces taking up the theme of racial justice. It contrasts refreshingly with much of the media attention devoted to asylum seekers, which often fuels the idea that we are being overwhelmed by cunning foreign migrants, intent only on getting their hands on what is rightfully ours. Of course people come to this country for various reasons, and it may not be easy to disentangle their motives, or to address the political issues raised by their presence. But we are in danger of forgetting that these are first and foremost people created and loved by God. If we are too quick to turn away from their needs, we will also lose the stories and gifts which they have to share. As ethnic conflicts continue to wreak havoc in the world, and as public debate about race relations descends into suspicion and stereotyping, will the Church have the courage to swim against the tide? And will Christ (who as a child was himself a refugee in Egypt) one day be, able to say to us, 'I was a stranger and you welcomed me'? Daniel Rutland, Oxford

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The commonest objection to the Jubilee 2000 campaign seems to be that there is no satisfactory way of ensuring that the money will not be squandered on arms or embezzled by dictators. This seems to be the most arrogant paternalism. Surely it is on all fours with so many churchmen's one-time argument that to make the Scriptures freely available to the common people in their own tongues would lead to all sorts of heresies? Of course, they were

ate a stable and prosperous Europe; it's not almsgiving but an act of justice and common sense. Jennifer Swift, Oxford Jubilee 2000 Coalition

Thank you everyone who wrote on the subject right: all sorts of heresies did emerge but so did a great many more very salutary reformations, both outside and within the established Church. These Third World debts were all repaid many years ago. What it is now proposed to cancel is simply the monstrous interest which has built up over those years. Certainly every effort should be made to avoid abuse. But surely those who should be the most enthusiastic about the cancellation are those who believe in the market? If you want to build up markets you need people who are healthy enough, wealthy enough and well-educated enough to shop in those markets. To deprive two thirds of the world's population of the opportunity to enter the market, simply because there are a few rogues around, seems to me nothing short of perverse. I'm not a sentimental ignoramus. I have spent more than 40 years abroad, and well over half of that is sub-Saharan Africa, mostly in public service. Yes, Africa has its Robert Maxwells and its Slobodan Milosevics. But it also has as many good and caring and dedicated people as any 'western' country Why can't we give them a chance? Hubert Allen, Marston -

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Mr Goldberg wanted to know if banks would suffer losses if the unpayable debts of the world's poorest countries were cancelled. The answer is no, because these countries owe very little money to commercial banks; instead, their debts are owed almost exclusively to governments or multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Second, he wondered about the size of the losses that would be incurred if our govern-

ment cancelled these debts. He notes that most poor-country debt owed to Britain is owed to the Export Credit Guarantees Department (ECGD), and claims that there would be less money available for general government spending if the ECGD spent what it has set aside as provision for default on these debts. But this could not happen, since the money that has been Set aside is ring-fenced for that purpose and cannot be used for anything else. It is true that because the World Bank and IMF have not made adequate provision for losses there would be some expenses to taxpayers in rich countries, but these would be modest compared to other spending. For example, Britain's share of a complete cancellation of the debts of the eighteen poorest nations in the world would amount to £750 million— less than the cost of the Millennium Dome. Third, he asked if debt cancellation wasn't really just another form of alms to the poor. Again, the answer is no. The point is that there is no international bankrupcy law, so there is no limit to what creditor nations can demand from poor debtor nations. To take just one example, the rich nations are insisting that Mozambique spend 20% of its export earnings on foreign debt repayments—more than the 15% which the Versailles Treaty imposed on Germany, with disastrous consequences not only for Germany but for the whole world. (After World War II, the Allies wisely decided to limit German reparations to 3.5% of export revenue.) Jubilee 2000 is simply calling for the poorest countries in the world today to receive similar treatment. Cancelling debts today will help create a more stable and prosperous world, just as writing off Germany's debts helped to cre-

of Jubilee 2000. No more letters for the moment thank you Editor -

Fings ain't what they used to be Your picture captioned 'Flying bishop ordains in Headington' (September issue) brought to mind the phrase 'things ain't what they used to be'. The Bishop of Ebbsfleet is shown sporting a more unusual type of episcopal headgear and is recumbent on the floor, apparently having been slain in the Spirit. Things have obviously become more charismatic at St Andrew's, Headington since my last visit. Revd Jonathan Page, Littlemore

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Bishop Michael flies in to ordain in Headington

The Bishop of Ebbsfteet (the Flying Bishop), the Right Revd Michael Houghton, was at the Parish Church of St Andrew, Old Headington for an ordination on July 10. From left to right are: Father Charles Card-Reynolds ordained priest; Father James Wilkinson ordained deacon; the Bishop; Father Marcus Stewart ordained priest.

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he St Alban's and Oxford Ministry Course has again produced a bumper crop of Michaelmas ordinands, too many in fact for us to include their individual photographs. However, Frank Blackwell photographed them together at their summer school at the London Bible College. They will be ordained deacon by the Bishop of Oxford at Christ Church Cathedral,, Oxford in two batches on Saturday, 2 October at 5.30pm when the preacher will be Canon John Fuller, Team Rector of the Wheatley Team Ministry and on Sunday, 3 October at 10.30am when the preacher will be the Revd Christopher Turner, NSM at Hook Norton with Great Rollright dswerford and Wigginton. Please pray for them and for those who are to be priested

1.Steve Hayes is married to Rosemary and works as chaplain at Kingham Hill School in the Kingham Benefice. He has three daughters, Sarah, Jessica and Amy, all of'whom are at school, 'but none so foolish as to be at the same one!' Steve teaches maths, runs a senior boarding house with his wife, and coaches football and cricket. 'Termtime is busy!' 2. Charlie Vere Nicoll, aged 44, lives in Ashampstead, Berks, with his wife Mandie and two stepchildren Katie and Freddie, aged 19 and 18. A solicitor by profession., Charlie has been in the business world for the last 20 years, and most recently with the Regal Hotel Group plc. He will be serving his title in the United Benefice of Basildon, Ashampstead and Aldworth, where he has lived for the last 15 years. 3. Angela Thompson is married to Robin and they have three children, Marcus (27), engaged to Amanda, Julian (24) and Stephanie (13). They lived abroad for seven years and then were delighted to make their home in Bucks. For the last three years Angela has been training for ministry on SAOMC, supported by Chalfont St Giles parish church. She is very pleased to be serving her title there after ordination. 4. Katie Jones lives at Radley College, near Abingdon, where her husband is a house master. Together with their children Max (12) and Rebecca (10), they have an extended family of 78 boys who keep them fully occupied. She loves music-making and is looking forward to serving her title as an NSM at All Saints', Sutton Courtenay and SS Peter and Paul, Appleford. 5. Harold Lowndes, 68, lives in Haversham, Milton Keynes, with his wife, Joan. their daughter Karen lives in Roade with her husband Steve and the two grandsons. Their son Chris, married to Pauline, lives near Basingstoke. After a working life in science and technology, Harold will serve in the Lamp group of four village churches. 6. Gill Rowell became a Christian in 1986 in Preston, Lancs, after reading Norman Warren's journey into Life. and soon afterwards moved to Chesham, Bucks. After studying theology at London Bible College, she works with Novi Most International, a mission agency serving the fledgling evangelical church in Bosnia. Her work includes co-ordinating summer camps for traumatised young people in Bosnia. She ia also writing a book about Ruth from a postmodern perspective. She has been married to James for 22 years and they have two daughters, Phoebe (16) and Rachael (14). She will be curate in the parishes of The Lee, Hawridge, Cholesbury and St Leonards, in Bucks. 7.Lynda Alcock looks forward to serving as an

OLM in the Oxfordshire benefice of Shires' Edge. She and her husband John have lived in Great Bourton, one of the five parishes of the benefice, for almost 30 years. They have three children, Christopher, Louise and Amelia. 8. John Underwood (OLM) is married with three grown-up children, Rebecca, Martin and Alan, and has two lovely grandchildren. He has been working in the IT industry in various capacities for the past 34 years and is currently working full-time for the charity Open Doors with Brother Andrew. He looks forward 'with a sense of great anticipation' to serving the people of the parish of Eynsham as anOLM 9. Roger Aston and his wife Jane are both local teachers and worship with the church at Cassington (where Roger will continue to serve when ordained). They have three grown-up children and are enjoying their first grandchild. In his 'spare' time Roger plays guitar and leads worship at youth camps and events. 10.David Dewick lives at Monks Risborough and will be serving his title at Bledlow, part of the Risborough Team Ministry.. He is married to Ann and is a retired civil servant. They have two married daughters, one in north Buckinghamshire and the other in Germany, both of whom have two children. 11.David Crosby and his wife Jennifer moved to Newbury from Yorkshire in 1983. In September this year he joined Glaxo Wellcome as an internal consultant. As well as being a non-stipendiary curate at St George the Martyr, Newbury,. he will be the Newbury Deanery Ecumenical Officer. 12.Richard Nunn and his wife Janet have lived in Maidenhead for 18 years. After a career in the computer industry, Richard now works part-time at a local college. They have two grown-up children, Timothy and Amanda, and two grandchildren, Nico and Talia. Richard is a keen golfer and enjoys walking holidays. He will serve his title as NSM at St Luke's Maidenhead.

ia Brian Ford, a mathematician by education, is the founding managing director of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) and is actively involved internationally in the scientific computing software community.. He is married to Gill with children Vanessa, Henry and Julian, who is married to Lavinia, and grandchildren Kate and Beth. He enjoys living in the village of Ramsden, acting as the unofficial chaplain of the local pub. 4

14.Carylle Deamer has been 37 years; they have two sons ai then. She is looking forward ti in Datchet, which is part of thi and is an area she has known 15. Sally Welch will be servin Team Ministry of Abingdon, b Nicolas' Church. She will also 1 lain at Dalton Barracks. 'Toget] husband Jeremy and three chi] much looking forward to beco church life in Abingdon' she s 16.Catherine Blundell will b 37th birthday. She is married bank manager and also a Read two children, Jessica (10) and J looking foward to serving her 1 St Mark, Maidenhead. 17.Judy Rose and her husban almost all their married lives i moving there in 1973.. Chris h aging the landscape and forest and Judy has been a teacher ar Milton Keynes Christian Coun their own business. They have then, Rachel and Duncan. 18 Val Reveley retired early fr joining SAOMC. She is now 'pr daughter Bethany, aged two, v part-time for her daughter Sus optician. Her son, James, is a p Diocese. She is looking forwar Olney, following in the footstej Newton and Thomas Scott! 19. Josephine Williams will s Francis of Assisi, Terriers, High teacher and counsellor, wife ol

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At SS Peter and Paul Buckingham on Sunday 3 October at 10.30 am. the Bishop of Buckingham will ordain: Vivien Baldwin (West Buckingham Benefice); Christine Brewster (Bierton, AylesburyTeam Ministry); John Elliott (Bedgrove); Peter Lymbery (Soulbury); Liz Norman (Amersham with Coleshill);john Race (Haddenham); Nancy Wallace ('v'Vorminghall etc) The preacher will be Canon David Rossdale, Vicar of

Cookham and Rural Dean of Maidenhead. At the Minster Church of St Mary, Reading, on Sunday 3rd October at 10.00 a.m. the Bishop of Reading will ordain: Mary Gun- (Easthampstead); Charlotte Hetherington (Stratfield Mortimer etc.); Charmian Manship (Abingdon, St Helen); Honor Margaret (CSMV, Wantage);Anthony Kemp (Wokingham,All Saints); Anthony Lynn (Stanford-in-the Vale). The Preacher will be the Right Revd. Timothy Bavin, OSB.

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ch will be serving her title in the y of Abingdon, based mainly at St ch. She will also be officiating chapiBarracks. 'Together with my my and three children I am very forward to becoming part of the Abingdon' she says.

20. Marion Fontaine has lived and worked in Thatcham, Berkshire, since 1972; for 23 of those years she has been a community midwife. She has served St Mary's Church in many roles, the last eight as a reader (licensed lay minister), and in the midwife/reader role she has cared for many families. Her leisure activities include time with her family, her grandchildren, and gardening.

e Blundell will be ordained on her She is married to David, who is a r and also a Reader, and they have Jessica (10) and John (7). Catherine is rd to serving her title at St Peter with lenhead.

21 Wendy Callan's three years' training on the SAOMC and at the parish church of SS Peter and Paul, Botley, Oxford, were 'very enjoyable'. She has three daughters and works full-time in the English Language Teaching Division of Oxford University Press.

and her husband Chris have lived ir married lives in Milton Keynes, in 1973.. Chris has worked in mandscape and forestry of the new city been a teacher and administrator for s Christian Council. They now run siness. They have two grown-up chiland Duncan.

22. Rosie Heon's ordination in Christ Church is a far cry from Oregon, USA where she was born. She brought up three children, now grown up, and encouraged her husband Tom through his ordination training, before beginning her own training. Rosie is looking forward in her ministry to equipping others to be people of God wherever they are in life, and whatever they are doing. Currently living in Burnham, where Tom is a team vicar, Rosie will serve her title at St Andrew's, Hatters Lane, in High Wycombe.

ey retired early from teaching before 4C. She is now 'practising' on grandhany, aged two, while working her daughter Susan, an ophthalmic son, James, is a priest in the St Albans is looking forward to ministry in ing in the footsteps of curates John Thomas Scott! e Williams will serve her title at St sisi, Terriers, High Wycombe. She is a :ounsellor, wife of Phil, mother of

23 Elizabeth Oke lives in Mortimer, Reading and is married to Michael who is an NSM. They have two children, Nicola, 32, and David, 30, and two granddaughters, Jessica and Leala. Elizabeth has worked as pastoral care co-ordinator for her church, works part time as an accounts administrator and helps Michael with his electrical contracting business. She is looking forward to her ministry as an assistant curate in the benefice

At the Minster Church of St Mary, Reading, on Sunday 3rd October at 3.00 p.m. the Bishop of Reading will ordain to the Priesthood Maureen Devine (Reading, SSjohn & Stephen); Margaret Kingdon ('vVokingham, St Sebastian); Anthony Rogerson (Radley and Sunningwell); Jean Rothery (Purley); Roy Taylor (Hurley and Stubbings) The preacher will be the Right Revd Timothy Bavin, OSB.

Not in the photograph IindsayAdam was brought up in northwest London. She was a lawyer before studying theology at King's College, London, and Ripon College, Cuddesdon. She is married to Will and they have a seven-month daughter, Liberty. Lindsay counts cooking, singing and canon law amongst her pastimes and is looking forward to serving in the parish of Bampton with Clanfield in Oxfordshire. Helen Kendrick and her husband Christopher have lived and worshipped in Brill for the last nine years. Brought up in Oxfordshire, she studied religion with literature at Bristol University and then worked in publishing. While training on SAOMC she worked part-time for Sobell House Bereavement Service. Christopher is studying for his PhD at Oxford Brookes University and they are looking forward to moving to Watlington where Helen will serve as curate in the Icknield Benefice. Photograph and key. by Frank Blackwell We are also grateful to Yvonne Ryan, Secretary, the Council for Ministry, for collecting the information about our ordinands.

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his in depth biography of Bede Griffiths is not only meticulously researched but is also an engrossing read. Shirley Du Boulay sets the core of the story of Bede Griffiths' life in the profound experience he had as a 17-year old boy walking alone near the school playing fields: 'I remember now the feeling of awe which came over me. I felt inclined to kneel on the ground, as though I had been standing in the presence of an angel: and I hardly dared look on the face of the sky, because it seemed as though it was but a veil before the face of God.'

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Whilst Church history may locate Griffiths' profound influence as being his understanding of the relatedness between religions, Du Boulay shows that without an understanding of how he came to the ashram one has only a partial view of things. Griffiths' journey into Catholicism from his Anglican roots, his early life as a Benedictine monk and particularly how he disappointed his abbot who sent him to head the new community at Farnborough, are described with a real sense of discernment. Du Boulay's account of life at the ashram and of Griffiths' leadership and influence show real critical awareness. She is able to reflect that the ashram is a human community as well as a spiritual one and that people's humanity contributes to a

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18 . young door

t's been a hectic year for young people across the Diocese. In May there was the Archbishop of Canterbury's major national event for young adults, the Time of our Lives. At the end of June. the Diocesan youth camp, Yellow Braces returned with a programme of outdoor sports - canoeing, climbing, archery - led by Adventure Plus and an exxploration of the theme 'Get Lost?! the journey of faith'. In July, 20 young adults, led by Bishop Dominic, went on a pilgrimage to Taizé. (See their comments on this page). So many young people were challenged in their faith that another pilgrimage is planned for the year 2000. This final year of the millennium

Still time to book for MAD '99

MAD'99 takes place on 6 November from 800pm- 8.00am at Theale Green School, near Reading, the venue for last year's very successful event. There will be live bands, creative arts, workshops, worship, living chapels, a cyber cafe and lots of otheractivities to take young people through the night. Publicity will have been sent out to parishes by the time you read this article. Tickets will be £12, but again we are offering the special ticket and travel deal for £17. This includes coach travel to and from the event. Taking young people seriously

The last four years have seen a numbr of major initiatives aimed at encouraging the Church to take work with young people more seriously, the publication of Youth A Part being the most notable. The Bishops at Lambeth 1998 also passed a number of resolutions about attitudes towards young people. In this Diocese, a number of deaneries have been able to initiate youth projects thanks to the Deanery Development Grant system. However, the future is uncertain. There is a sense in which time is run-

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ning out if we seriously want to engage in work with young people. There are still too many places where the voices of young people are completely silent and their gift and abilities unrealised. The Church culture is now almost totally alien to most young people and we are mostly completely out of contact with young people outside the Church. However, there are examples in this Diocese and beyond of individual adults being willing to enter the world of young people in a serious attempt to come alongside them, to hear and to understand the world in which they are living, but the numbers are too few. They are the key to the future

Dean Borgman in the recent publication A Youthful Spirit summed it up as follows: 'Put quite simply and starkly, the Church is too busy and fearful to enter the culture of our young people, so we only work with those who come to us.' And yet, young people probably hold the key to the future of the Church. Because they are at the forefront of modern culture, they can be, as Pete Ward describes them, our guides and creative energy in the enterprise of the church engaging with modern culture. For me this sums up the challenge which faces me in my role as Diocesan Youth Adviser, and the whole Church, as we move into the next millennium. At

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One special feeling that struck me most was the sense of equality. We were there with 4000 other people from different cultures and countries and it didn't matter how you dressed, looked or where you were from. I will be staying in contact with the friends I have made and also thinking about Edward Armstrong Taizé next year. It is a place of hope and acceptance - to sit and look at 4000 plus young people from all over the world worshipping together in simplicity and gentleness means so much to me - that Christianity is alive today for the young.They will take in onwards. Revd Sheila Nunn, Co-leader IfTaizé doesn't see me again something drastic will have happened! Jenny Evans

And some anonymous comments What makes it extra special for me was the people in the group and the new fnends that I made.

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Nothing quite prepares you fc.'the reality of your first visit. That so many young people can come together and share ideas and experiences is fantastic; that they are from such varying backgrounds, with so many languages, leads to a deeply enriching experience.

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While each area is working out its own millennium programme, a number of events are common to all so this month let me just list them in order: October 10th Blessing and distribution of Yew Trees at Dorchester Abbey at 3pm.An order of service to be used when planting the tree will be available at this service. December 12th Suggested Sunday for commissioning those delivering candles or Bibles. December 19th Special millennium carol and Christingle services. December 24th Special suggestions for Christmas services. December 31st 'Evening Service for the start of the Third Millennium' some places are using this at 8.Opm January 1st. 2000 12 noon Suggested order of service based on the Lord's Prayer for all churches (Celebration 2000). Additional material for use at other times on this day January 2nd Act of dedication for individual churches and also material being used at the National Services. Material for services for 'The Name of Jesus'. January 18th to 25th Material for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - theme 'Blessed be God who has blessed us in Christ';' February 2nd Candlemas special services. February 14th Suggested Sunday for Launch of 'All Together Now' with CTBI special Musical Lent Course starting with combined Songs of Praise. April 2nd Mothering Sunday special services. May 14 to 20th Special services for Christian Aid Week June 10th Jesus Day ( March for Jesus in London) June 11th PENTECOST 2000. 'All Together in One Place' - Material for county, town or country united services. December 3rd Special Advent wreath services for the four Sundays. An essential tool for every parish is New Start Worship Book Two*. It contains material for all these events. I strongly recommend that every parish orders one at once! Derek Palmer 01295 268201

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Philip Cruttwell writes about an unusual experiment in Christian communal living in Milton Keynes

magme inviting a group of people over for a meal one day and they stay! In fact the new ecumenical community at The Well has now been together for two years, having decided In August 1997 'to stay'. Who are we? Well, our resident community at present is made up of seven adults and five children, all living in the former Priory at Willen on the outskirts of Milton Keynes. For us the story of the community began some four years ago with the decision of The Society of the Sacred Mission to move from The Priory. Rather than selling up, they generously agreed to support a new community and following many, many meetings the potential members agreed the basis for beginning a new communal life.

fragmentation are the norm and to be a resource for meetings, dialogue, creativity and hospitality for the wider community.

What is our vision? 'What do you do?' we are frequently asked. It would be wonderful to offer a clear vision statement, but in reality we struggle almost daily for a better understanding of our purpose. Perhaps the best we can offer at present is a two-fold challenge: to live as community in a world where individualism and

Is it really the good life? The reality of twelve people living together is full of both blessings and tensions, joys and misunderstandings, tranquillity and frantic activity. Although individuals and families have their own accommoccommo dation, the dining room and dation, lounge, where the Office is said each night) are shared. However, many visitors tell us that The Well is very peaceful, thereby creating an image of a well-ordered community life, and whilst we are delighted that visitors should enjoy some peace here, this is generally not the experience of those who live here! The varied family and work commitments of community members mean that a typical day at the The Well hardly exists, but a certain amount of structure is attempted and we meet for an evening meal, share domestic tasks, attend a weekly community meeting and daily evening prayers. We run guest accommodation and meeting rooms which are avail-

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CHURCH SILVER OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE AND HISTORICAL VALUE

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The Bitton Chalice is a superb facsimile of the 14thC original rediscovered some three hundred sears later at Exeter Cathedral. Bishop Bitton, a considerable benefactor of Exeter Cathedral, died in 1307 and was laid to rest in the presbyteet. During I 8thC repair work the grave was rediscovered and opened to reveal a sapphire ring, the remains of a wooden crosier and a silver pattern and chalice, still beautiful although thin and decayed by age. Spencers of Honiton, well known gold and silversmiths are expert in the reproduction of such ancient artefacts. Using tools dating back over 100 years, blended with skills and techniques a thousand years old, they present a fusion of craftsmanship at the highest level. Painstakingly, despite corrosion and damage inflicted by time, using photographs linked with the 19thc drawings, Spencers re-created the Bitton Chalice. Each finished piece is individually numbered and will carry the Millennium Hallmark of the Sheffield Assay Office commemorating the passing of 2.000 years since the birth of Christ.

Standard Chalice (105mm high) Standard Paten (135mm in diameter) Large Chalice (155mm high) Large Paten (180mm in diameter) V Ciborium (155mm high)

£395.00 £150.00 £650.00 £250.00 £825.00

10% of the purchase price is donated directly to Exeter Cathedral Funds We also undertake commissions, repairwork and valuations

of church silver. For further information please Contact John Spencer SPENCERS OF HONFFON 65 HIGH STREET, HONITON, DEVON EXI4 8PW Telephone: 01404 42776 www.jspencer.co.uk

Asylum seekers project Monday and Thursday are committed to our work with local asylum seekers. This brings community members, other volunteers and local authority staff together, on two projects, one based at The Well, the other at the YMCA Barn House in Milton Keynes city centre. What of the future? It seems that The Well should continue to be a place where the stranger is welcomed and valued. 'We also value the experience of living in community and being able to offer that experience to others' Chris Baker said. Thilip ispait-timegeneml business manager kr The Well and it also buiklinga marketing and web site design business. For details about The Well telephone: 01908242190, lIar 242187, e-mail 1130522714c4'compuselve.com

More about the photographs by Frank Blackwell The community are pictured left (I to r): David Bouda; Coralie Mansfield; the Revd Chris Baker (part-time acting chaplain at Campsfield House) with daughter, Florence and his wife, the Revd Dilly Baker (who is also Vicar of St Mary Magdalene Church) and son,Theo; Mary King; Philip Cruttwell.The other photos from the top show: apple picking time; the apples are made into an organic apple juice which David Bouda and Coralie Mansfield press in the kitchen; John Davis, treasurer of the community, consults one of the library' many books; Olivia Mansfield (left) and Florence Baker put the finishing touches to their collage; prayer in the Round Room.

*To order New Start Worship Book Two send a £12 cheque made out to The Bible Society to New Start do The Bible Society. Stonehill Green Swindon SN5 70G. The book includes a form to order the disk version for £2.50 from Worship Resources Millennium Office Church House, Gt Smith SL London SW P 3NZ). New Start Worship Book One is still available (L5).

THE BITTON CHALICE

able to individuals, churches, voluntary sector groups, local authority users and businesses and wc house an excellent theology library, much under-used! Creativity also abounds byway of workshops open to children and adults in painting, clay work, batik, and much else, plus workshops on spirituality and the environment and justice and place issues.

CHRISTIAN HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTRE

PILGRIM HALL A lovely old country house set on a beautiful twelve-acre private estate offers: * Ideal venue for leadership conferences. Church retreats or Alpha weekends * Comfortable & well-equipped conference facilities for up to 130 * Indoor & outdoor sports facilities * Leisurely walks in our grounds or in this area of natural beauty * Excellent reputation for good, appetising food * Day conferences also welcome We are always happy to discuss your individual requirements. Please also phone us for your copy of our Year 2000 Diary of Events and for any other information you may require.

ir 01825 840295 We are a! reading taking bookings for 2001 and our own holiday are extremely popular To avoid disappointment, please do not delay!

Pilgrimage on a bicycle

by guest writer; Mary Bupit

very September my husband and I have 'manned' the checkpoint at our church for the Historic Churches Sponsored Cycle Ride.This year, however, I fulfilled my long-standing ambition to cycle in the Ride myself. Before setting out, I looked in my Bible, for a suitable verse that I could carry in my thoughts with me.Time was short, so I decided just to open my Bible anywhere, and read the verse at the top of the page. My eyes fell on Isaiah 57:14: 'Then a voice was heard: build up a highway, build it and clear the track. Sweep away all that blocks my people's path.' I left Littlemore Church at 10.05 am and set off towards Rose Hill Methodist Church. From there I went via Tree Lane to Iffley St Mary's Church and then to South Oxford via Iffley Lock and Donnington Bridge: I found the Abingdon Road and South Oxford Baptist Chapel in Wytham Street and a little further on St John's Church.Then it was on to St Matthew's Church at Grandpont. I enquired there if the footbridge was still in use, and being told it was, I crossed the river to St Ebbe's Church where I found two sheets to sign, one for St Ebbe's and one for StAldate's Church (which was closed). I decided to avoid the busy City Centre, and headed for Christ Church Cathedral, which - to my surprise - was 'unmanned'. Perhaps they were having lunch! My next stop was St Mary the Virgin in the High Street and then I carefully cycled on in the midst of the traffic to St Clement's Church. Here I stopped, took off my coat and had a glass of water before making my way to the Cowley Road and the Wesley Hall Chapel and St Mary and St John. My next stop was the most interesting of all. Up a narrow lane away from the noise of the traffic was St Bartlemass Chapel. Built in 1126, it was originally known as the Leper Chapel and is still used for monthly Mass. but I had to leave the peace and quiet and rejoin the main road before turning off to visit StAlban's Church. Slowly I began to climb the long hill towards John Bunyan Chapel and then further on to St James' Church. By now I was feeling rather tired in the sudden heat until I suddenly realised that I had achieved my goal. I am glad I went. I wouldn't have missed it and thank you all my sponsors.

Mary Bulpit is a member of St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Littlemore. She has agreed that we may tell you that she is 78 years old and that she raised £150 in sponsorship for the Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust Congratulations to her and to all those who turned Out on IISeptember for the Historic Churches Bike Ride in Berkshire, Bucks and Oxfordshire.

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