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Celebrating Older People :

In October 2009 over 300 people from across the county attended a joyful service celebrating older people at Southwell Minster. This linked in with the UK and International Older Persons Day on 1st October and various special events around the county organised by the wider voluntary and public sectors.  This year there will be three special services around the county on 1st October.  It is hoped that like last year those working at district and local levels in the public and voluntary sectors, as well as church and faith community groups would join one of  these celebrations.
Gedling    1st October   2pm, St James’ Porchester, Deanery of Gedling
Rushcliffe 1st October  4pm, St Andrew’s  Langar, Deanery of East Bingham
Newark and Sherwood              
1st October  2pm, Christ Church Newark, Deanery of Newark and Southwell
More specific information will be available early in September. For general information about this initiative please contact the Revd David McCoulough, Director for Partnerships and Mission - davidmcc@southwell.anglican.org  tel: 01636 817987

Hope Nottingham Launch Event 14th October 2010 :

Afternoon Leaders Event and Evening Launch for All.
Through Hope 08 God blessed the unity of many churches as they reached out to show God’s love to local communities in word and deed.
Hope initiatives have developed and grown leading to the establishment of Hope Nottingham as a mission enterprise enabling Christians to unite to serve those in need and bring people to Christ across the whole city and beyond. This has “coincided” with the national launch of Hope Together...like Hope 08, but bigger and longer, from 2011-2014.
Roy Crowne, Director of Hope Together and Steve Clifford, Chief Executive of Evangelical Alliance will lead a historic event to launch this united mission for the whole city. Look out for details in the next few weeks on www.hopetogether.org.uk and www.hopenottingham.org.uk

14th October 2010 at St. James Porchester.

As you may be aware, Garth Hewitt is the Director of the Amos Trust, which works with Peace Activists in Palestine / Israel, Street Children in South Africa, Dalits in India and Rural Communities in Nicaragua.   Their website - www.amostrust.org will give more detailed information.

Garth's tour will be celebrating 25 years of Amos's work and will include songs and pictures of all of their work, but in particular their work with peace activists in both Palestine and Israel. Tickets for the concert will be available from the beginning of September from us at the email or address below and mobile - 07940 548 832, priced £7 or £5 for concessions. If you want any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us. click here for poster

John & Jane Henson
6 Ganton Close
Nottingham   NG3 3ET
(0115) 952 1802   Mobile: 07940 548 832

National Stewardship Conference :

for advisers takes place in Leicestershire this year and there is an opportunity for those who are interested to attend for single days at a reduced cost. Perhaps you could consider this for anyone who is interested in taking a deeper look at issues connected with stewardship or external grant applications.

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Alpha Regional Training Day :

Southwell, 25th September 9.30am-3.30pm
Leading Small Groups, Pastoral Care and Model Prayer Ministry
Contact Nigel Adams, Nottinghamshire Alpha Adviser for further details, nigel@hopenottingham.org.uk Tel: 0115 854 5889

Back to Church Sunday 2010 – Sunday 26th September :

Last year the event was adopted by almost every diocese in the country, as well as other denominations and churches overseas, including New Zealand and Australia. In this diocese more than 100 churches took part and we would like to build on that figure this year to see more churches taking up this opportunity for welcome, which benefits from a national profile. Statistics gathered nationally showed that  53,000 people came back to church in 2009 as a result of BTCS.
Back to Church Sunday 2010 has new resources, a new look and some new ways of ordering packs which can be done on line via the website. The deadline for ordering packs is June15th. To order now click on this link:  http://www.backtochurch.co.uk/page/3010/Registration++Order+Form
Any questions contact Rachel Farmer tel 10636 817218  mobile 077 121 96381 or email: rachel@southwell.anglican.org

Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults :

FREE Introductory Training:
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Faith and the Future of the Countryside :

is the title of a major rural conference being held in November 2010 at Swanwick. The conference will mark the twentieth anniversary of the 'Faith in the Countryside' report.  The Report was published in 1990 and was the result of the work of the Archbishops’ Commission on Rural Areas (ACORA), chaired by Lord James Prior.  The Commission had 21 members and 12 key funders.  Their report looked at theology, rural context and rural church.  There were 148 recommendations, of which 100 were addressed to the church.  Of 47 main recommendations, 18 were about the rural context and 29 were about the church.  Details of the conference are on  www.rural20.org

Derek Hollis Adviser on Rural Affairs to the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham.

Prayer Exhibition :

A unique exhibition on prayer is currently on at the University of Nottingham Lakeside art gallery.  South African James Webb has recorded over 40 prayers from 22 different Nottingham faith groups, and you can hear them in a unique installation until 8th August. Featuring voices of some of the Chaplaincy teams at both Nottingham Universities plus Canon Christina Baxter and a number of christian churches and leaders from various traditions across Nottingham.