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BARKING AREA NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2020 Issue 49 Barking Area Newsletter January 2020 January 2020 COMING EVENTS The Centre of Church Multiplication and the London Diocese are launching a pilot programme in 2020 called The Estates Course . The working title was previously the Commissioned Estates Leaders Course. The course is designed for those who live in or come from social housing estates, delivering an interactive and relevant teaching programme including biblical, leadership and evangelism studies. The aim is to train and commission estates leaders who will be sent back to their churches to take on positions of leadership in their neighbourhoods or sent out to plant new worshipping communities. The Estates Course will run on the second Saturday of every month from January 2020 until June 2021 at St Barnabas North London. Visit our website for more information We would like to invite anyone in your network who you think would benefit from this course. It would be wonderful if you could share this information with your networks and contacts, where appropriate. Booking online here, alternatively please see in appendix paper booking forms. Please send these either by email to [email protected] or post to: Ash Chafe, Christ Church, 3 High Oaks, St Albans, AL3 6DJ A PDF advert link here so that you can print or share. Please see Helen Shannon’s social media accounts for adverts and the most up-to-date information and please share posts with your own social network accounts. ----------------- Chelmsford Diocesan Estate Churches Network Conference You are invited to our conference 25 th March 2020 at St John’s Church Broadway, Stratford Londo E15 1NG. See page 7 for more information Caring for yourself and others Come and learn how to look after other people better and look after yourself better this Saturday 25 January 2020 at St Matthias Canning Town, Kimberley Road, London E16 4NT at 10am. Click here to book. Change the lives of Vulnerable Women Volunteer as a maternity mate. Come to our Open Day, meet the team and find out more about how you can begin changing the lives. Date: Thursday 23rd January 2020 Venue: Room US2.04, UEL University Square, 1 Salway Place Stratford, E15 1NF Time: 10:30am to 12:30pm We provide accredited training (OCN Level 3) to enable volunteers to support women through pregnancy, childbirth and the early weeks of family life in the boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest. Please click here to reserve a place and we can add your name to our guest list. If you have any more questions please contact [email protected] or telephone 0749 653 1895. Website here The Estates Course
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BARKING AREA NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2020 Issue 49
Barking Area
Newsletter January 2020
January 2020
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High COMING EVENTS
The Centre of Church Multiplication and the London Diocese are launching a pilot programme in 2020 called The Estates Course . The working title was previously the Commissioned Estates Leaders Course.
The course is designed for those who live in or come from social housing estates, delivering an interactive and relevant teaching programme including biblical, leadership and evangelism studies. The aim is to train and commission estates leaders who will be sent back to their churches to take on positions of leadership in their neighbourhoods or sent out to plant new worshipping communities. The Estates Course will run on the second Saturday of every month from January 2020 until June 2021 at St Barnabas North London. Visit our website for more information We would like to invite anyone in your network who you think would benefit from this course. It would be wonderful if you could share this information with your networks and contacts, where appropriate.
Booking online here, alternatively please see in appendix paper booking forms. Please send these either by email to [email protected] or post to:
Ash Chafe, Christ Church, 3 High Oaks, St Albans, AL3 6DJ
A PDF advert link here so that you can print or share.
Please see Helen Shannon’s social media accounts for adverts and the most up-to-date information and please share posts with your own social network accounts.
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Chelmsford Diocesan Estate Churches Network Conference
You are invited to our conference 25th
March 2020 at St John’s Church Broadway, Stratford Londo E15 1NG. See page 7 for more information
Caring for yourself and others Come and learn how to look after other people better and look after yourself better this Saturday 25 January 2020 at St Matthias Canning Town, Kimberley Road, London E16 4NT at 10am. Click here to book.
Change the lives of Vulnerable Women Volunteer as a maternity mate. Come to our Open Day, meet the team and find out more about how you can begin changing the lives. Date: Thursday 23rd January 2020 Venue: Room US2.04, UEL University Square, 1 Salway Place Stratford, E15 1NF Time: 10:30am to 12:30pm
We provide accredited training (OCN Level 3) to enable volunteers to support women through pregnancy, childbirth and the early weeks of family life in the boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest. Please click here to reserve a place and we can add your name to our guest list. If you have any more questions please contact [email protected] or telephone 0749 653 1895. Website here
The Estates Course
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The challenges of Serious Youth Violence has not ceased or decreased for the number of homicides on the streets of London committed by young people exceeds last year’s figure. We continue to be the church reaching out to our communities and witnessing to them because we believe that the solution lies within the gospel. We the church have the solution.
As a body we stand stronger together and it is with this in mind that Ascension Trust Synergy continues to press on with the aim of bringing synergy to the work which is taking place around us by individuals and groups within the church and wider society.
The Synergy Network (SN) is a coalition of churches and para-church organisations committed to tackling serious youth violence (SYV). The SN works with key organisations through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which captures the essence of its relationship - focusing on roles, responsibilities, governance, accountability, best practice and financial arrangements. To date, this includes the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI), the Diocese of Southwark and London City Mission. The
MOU also provides guidelines for other organisations that may wish to join SN.
Its modus operandi is to:
• Raise awareness among churches, para-church groups and individual (Christians) of serious youth violence and encourage them to work together to address this issue.
• Resource those with a desire to engage in activities to combat SYV by encouraging conversations between churches and
practitioners.
• Help the Church speak with one voice on this issue as well as facilitate links between them and Government, civil society organisations and others.leaders and those working with young people. We need them there on 22nd February 2020 to hear and to network. We also need church leaders to be present to hear and network and look forward to seeing a number of you on the day.
Some of you may have already seen that the Mayor of London and Google, in partnership with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), have launched a Shared Endeavour Fund. This is in response to the London Bridge terror attack, recent spate of racist graffiti and rise in homophobic, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents, and will offer grants to local organisations to provide services and education to Counter-Extremism.
This £800,000 fund, with £400,000 provided by both the Mayor of London and Google, will allow groups to bid for grants of up to £50,000. Sadiq Khan has said that the money will be invested in “local communities and grassroots groups”, because “evidence
shows they are best placed to counter hate, intolerance and extremism”
More details about the launch can be found in this news article.
To apply for this exciting funding opportunity please click here.
Please note the deadline for applications is 10pm on Sunday 22nd March 2020.
Funding opportunity: Mayor of
London/Google shared endeavour fund
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BARKING AREA CHILDREN & YOUTH
A Theology of Childhood 11 Feb The next manna session is Wondering and Questioning: A Theology of Childhood and Childhood Spirituality is 11th February at Chelmsford Salvation Army, 6.30-9.30pm .For more information and to book in visit mannaministrytraining.co.uk. These sessions are CPD accredited
CSI Easter Resource for Schools CSI is a complete resource for your local primary schools to explore the Easter Story in an interactive way. Find all the details here
Youth Synod If you have any 11-18 year olds in your church who might be interested in joining youth synod then please get in touch with Emma Anderton This is a great opportunity to contribute to the issues discussed at Diocesan Synod through the youth synod forum.
Diocesan-wide Youth Event Saturday 7th March 2020, 2-8pm at the Diocesan Offices (53 New Street, Chelmsford, CM1 1AT) with food
Click here for more information
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Harlow Archdeaconry Learning Hub 2020
Opportunities for Lay Learning
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Worship Leader Vacancy
St. Chad's Church, Chadwell Heath is a vibrant church near Romford, growing in Christ for Christ.
We have an exciting opportunity for a committed Christian, with the ability to read music and with demonstrable musical expertise, who is called by God to use that gift in the service of worship in a church environment.
This will predominantly be at our 10.45am service on a Sunday, leading a congregation of around 200 people.
To apply please contact our church office for an application pack:Post: St Chad’s Church Office, Eric Road, Chadwell Heath, Essex, RM6 6JH. Tel: 020 8597 807
St John’s Church Stratford seeks an Organist/Keyboard player. This is a permanent appointment. The person appointed needs to be a committed Christian with a vision for sung worship. Music is
important to our ministry. We average 12 pieces of varied music in a Morning Holy Communion service.
The person appointed will need to work with our Choir Director, Ministry Team, and Worship Leaders to ensure the best possible music for Sunday Services. We need a person who is competent Organist to get the best out of our 3 manual, Grade 2 listed, Hill Norman and Beard Organ. The person appointed will also need to play keyboard in our worship band, comprising guitars, bass, drums, woodwind, and lead vocals from one or more of our worship leaders. We tend to play Hillsongs/New Wine music, not always new, with an emphasis on what is actually singable. Our style is Rock and Roll, rather than folk.
The person appointed will need to play for Sunday mornings, (music practice is 10am for 11am Service) and Sunday evenings Music practice 5:45 for 6:30 Service). There are VERY rare midweek band practices.
Occasional stand-ins are available. There are performance opportunities, and opportunities to expand St John’s musical activities, if
appropriate for the person appointed. There are very few weddings and 6-8 funerals per year. We offer a stipend of £3,000 per year, negotiable dependent on qualifications, experience etc. If
the person appointed wishes to teach pupils, we would offer free use of organ and pianos for lessons, agreed times - we particularly want to encourage young musicians. We promise a high level of appreciation, and the chance to be part of a friendly and mission-oriented church.
The person appointed would need to work according to St John’s Safeguarding policy.
For an application form, or an informal chat please contact: Rev David Richards 0208 503 1913. [email protected] Closing Date 03 February 2020
Session for PCC members February 22
nd 10-12pm (coffee served from 12pm)
St. John the Baptist Church, Epping, CM16 5DN
(accessible by tube and local bus services)
Topics will include:
PCC members as trustees and basic governance
responsibility
Recent changes to the Parish Representation
Rules
Preparing the Electoral Roll
Preparing for the APCM
Role of Church Warden
There will also be an opportunity for a general Q & A session
chaired by the Archdeacon of Harlow.
Please contact the Hub Co-ordinator if you are coming: [email protected] 01992 275802
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Hornchurch Passion Play... On the Green beside the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch, 7.30 pm on Good Friday, Easter Eve and Easter Day. It is free to attend and has a caste of a 100 local Christians. It has been presented every 5 years since 1995, so 2020 is Passion Play year in Hornchurch.
It is highly suitable to bring non-church folk to hear and see this life-changing story very professionally presented. It is something not to be missed.
ESTATES IN THE DIOC ESE
Estate Churches Network
Conference
You are invited to the Chelmsford Diocesan Estate Churches Network Conference
Wednesday 25th March 2020 St. John’s Church, Broadway,
Stratford, London E15 1NG
(5 Minutes walk from Stratford Station)
Coffee from 10am for a 10:30am start.
Lunch is not provided – please bring your own or buy locally.The Conference will end at 3:45pm
The event is FREE but people still need to register by sending an email to
Carol Richards at c.richards475 @ b tinternet.com
The conference is open to anyone in Chelmsford Diocese with an interest in ministry on Estates. It will be a chance to meet other people working in similar situations, to share experience and to hear about Church growth initiatives. Revd Andy Delemege will join us to keep us informed about the National Estate Churches Network.
There will be a small prize for the person who correctly identifies the most Estates in the diocese from the pictures on this page
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Are you thinking and praying about whether God may be leading you towards ordained ministry?
Come and be informed, resourced and supported on your vocational journey.
For the first time the Eastern Region is hosting a ME Vocations Conference supported by dioceses across the East of England for those of BAME heritage exploring ordained ministry.
We believe this week-end event will provide insight and inspiration to those who are discerning God’s call in their lives. The event will create a safe space where questions can be asked and the opportunity to talk to ordained BAME ministers about the joys and the challenges they have faced.
Enjoy fellowship and prayer with others exploring ordained vocations
Discuss hopes and fears one on one
Learn what studying theology is all about
Hear from trainee ministers, readers and others who have responded to God’s call
Speakers include:
Rt Revd Dr John Perumbalath (Bishop of Bradwell)
Revd Dr Sharon Prentis (Diocese of Birmingham)
Ven Elizabeth Adekunle (Archdeacon of Hackney) Diocese of London
And more...
Places are limited so book your ticket now.
Barking Area
Newsletter January 2020
Contact: Hillary Henry
Barking Area Newsletter Barking Lodge, Verulam Avenue London E17 8ES
EAST LONDON FINANCIAL INCLUSION FORUM
WHY? Because East London boroughs rank among the poorest according to the Indices of Multiple Deprivation
HOW? By holding quarterly meetings to examine the way in which financial exclusion affects local residents
Debt
Financial Capability/Wellbeing
Poverty
ccess to banking
Exclusion from mainstream financial services
Which will determine the best ways…….
To represent people who are financially excluded and raise awareness of the issues that face them with local services and local government
To improve access to money advice and financial capability resources and promote financial capability as part of the journey out of poverty.
If you are interested in joining this forum please contact: Nick Ward | Principal Welfare Officer oneSource Welfare Newham Dockside 1000 Dockside Road London E16 2QU t: 020 3373 4802
oneSource - working on behalf of Havering and Newham councils
