Truro Diocese

Summer Ladies Event
2015-07-25 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Light and Life Church Centre, 6 Water-Ma Trout, Helston, TR13 0LW, United Kingdom
A summer ladies event will be held on Saturday 25 July at the Light and Life Church Centre, Helston from 7.30pm.
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Discover Launceston Priory!
2015-07-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Launceston St Thomas the Apostle Church, Riverside , Launceston, PL15 8DH, United Kingdom
Saturday 25 July from 10am until 4pm at the Launceston Priory, St Thomas.
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Landevennec Youth Pilgrimage
2015-07-23 - 2015-07-27 | Cornwall
Booking forms are now available for the youth pilgrimage to Landevennec which will be held from 23 July until 27 July. Bishop Tim and Steve Wild are inviting interested young people to join them on this pilgrimage to this Benedictine Abbey in Brittany.
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Falmouth Filling Station
2015-07-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Penmorvah Manor Hotel, Budock Water, Falmouth , TR11 5ED, United Kingdom
A new way of exploring the Christian faith has come to the Falmouth at the Penmorvah Manor Hotel, Budock Water in the form of a ‘Filling Station’ meeting.
This is a new form of worship designed for people who feel a spiritual need for God but may feel that for some reason, they can’t come to church. It has been found that The Filling Station will fulfil their needs.
These are a new cafe-style Christian celebrations which take place in venues such as village halls, converted barns, hotels & cafes across the country. They are relaxed and informal gatherings on a week day evening and give a different style of Christian experience.
The Filling Station movement was founded in a village in Wiltshire in 2006 and the new Falmouth Area Filling Station is the 52nd Filling Station to be set up across the UK, France, South Africa, Canada and Switzerland; it is the first in Cornwall. Many leaders from a variety of Christian communities including Falmouth, are excited about what they bring to an area. Over 2,500 people attend a Filling Station gathering somewhere each month.
The Falmouth Area Filling Station will take place on the 3rd Monday of a month, starting at 7.30pm. The gatherings will include celebration, learning about being a Christian, personal experience, reflection and discussion as well as high quality refreshments and fellowship. The meetings are free and open to all.
Charles Neate, of the team hosting the meetings, said ‘In a culture more familiar with cafes than Gothic church buildings, we are presenting the central core of our Christian faith in a manner, and unusual location that will appeal to a lot of people outside the traditional church’.
For more information contact Mr Charles Neate on: 01326 372742 or visit: thefillingstation.org.uk and look for the ‘Falmouth’ web page.

CMED Course- Liturgical Rules, Why We Need Them
2015-07-20 17:45 - 21:00 | Epiphany House, Truro, TR1 3DR, United Kingdom
with Revd Lesley Walker
Writing in the Forward to the book Liturgy, Order and Law John Hapgood says:
“Worship uniquely expresses the mind of the church and encapsulates its doctrine.”
In reality the doctrine and teaching of the Church of England is enshrined in the Book of Common Prayer, the 39 Articles of Religion and the Ordinal. It is for this reason that those who are involved in the planning and leading of worship need to have some understanding of liturgical law.
There will always be those who question the need for any rules or control and there will inevitably be parishes where little attention is paid to them. As the Church of England has developed its new liturgies and has encouraged more informal worship aimed at appealing to the young and the un-churched the need for clear guidelines has become even more important. There needs to be an increased awareness amongst those responsible for maintaining and ordering the worshipping life of the Church. In turn as those responsible for planning and leading worship we do need to have an understanding of the legal frameworks we are required to work by, what they are and why they are there. This is important not only to safeguard the Church of England but also to protect worshippers from those clergy and parishes who seek to set themselves apart from our common heritage and tradition.
The aim of this session is not to be prescriptive but to help us to embrace the worship we hold in common while celebrating the diversity that is possible within today’s Church of England.
Lesley has been Rector of the Meneage Benefice since 2007. Her interest in liturgy began as a Curate and has continued throughout her ministry. She was secretary to Hereford Diocesan Liturgical Committee for 10 years and has been involved in training clergy, ordinands, Readers and Lay Worship Leaders in both Hereford and Canterbury. She has recently been involved in the setting up of a Liturgical Committee for this diocese.
Note: This event is a joint CMED/IME Phase 2 (curates) session.
5.45pm Light buffet Refreshments, 6.30pm Start, 9pm Finish.
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CMED Course- The History and Practice Of The Celtic Christian Church
2015-07-20 10:00 - 15:30 | Epiphany House, Truro, TR1 3DR, United Kingdom
with Revd Canon Pat Robson MBE
Soon after Rome withdrew its troops in 410AD Britain was invaded by large numbers of displaced peoples from Europe. Many Britons fled ahead of the invasion to hide in the valleys of Wales or to make a new home in NW Gaul. The Brits became a refugee people, anxious about the safety of their families, desperate to find land where they could settle in peace and determined to keep their Christian faith alive. Over the next 200 years, while the British Church was cut off from the mainstream church in Europe, it developed some unique customs and beliefs that are still held dear by the British people to this day.
Pat is a retired priest and teacher.
10am Coffee, 10.30am Start, 3.30pm Finish.
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Strawberry Fayre Saturday
2015-07-18 14:30 - 17:00 | St Erme Church, St Hermes, Eglos Road , St Erme, TR4 9BW, United Kingdom
Strawberry Fayre Saturday, July 18, St Erme Church, 2.30pm.
Strawberries and cream, Teas, Bring and Buy, Historic map, Displays and work by village school. Trips up the tower: £1 for adults and free for children. Teddy parachute competition: bring your own bears, adults too!
(No unaccompanied children please)

Summer Concert
2015-07-17 19:00 - 20:30 | St Mary Magdalene Church, Church Square, Taunton, TA1 1SA, United Kingdom
‘Celebrate the Seasons’ a summer concert will be held on Friday 17 July from 7pm at St Mary Magdalene Church.
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An Introduction to Open the Book
2015-07-16 10:00 - 13:00 | St Olaf’s Church Hall, Poughill, EX23 98P, United Kingdom
Thursday 16 July
St Olaf’s Church Hall, Poughill
10am – 1pm

Reconciliation and Conflict Preview Course
2015-07-15 10:30 - 16:30 | Belmont Chapel, Western Way , Exeter , EX1 2DB, United Kingdom
Acorn has a new course on conflict and reconciliation specifically aimed at churches. A preview day course will be held on Wednesday 15 July at the Belmont Chapel, Exeter from 10.30am until 4.30pm.
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Flower Festival
2015-07-15 10:00 - 2015-07-19 16:00 | St Paul’s Church, Church Road, Charlestown, PL25 3NS, United Kingdom
St Paul’s Church, Charlestown will hold their flower festival from Wednesday 15 July until Sunday 19 July.
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Taize Service
2015-07-12 18:00 - 19:30 | St Endellion
Taize Service at St Endellion Church from 6pm.

Barbara Brown Taylor
2015-07-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Truro Methodist Church, 18 Union Place, Truro, TR1 1EP, United Kingdom
Barbara Brown Taylor author, of books such as ‘Learning to walk in the Dark’ and ‘An Altar in the World‘, will be at Truro Methodist Hall on 11 July from 7pm.
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Loveny Male Voice Choir Concert
2015-07-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Lanivet Parish Church, Rectory Road , Lanivet , PL30 5NA, United Kingdom
Lanivet Church invite you to a concert on Saturday, July 11. Loveny Male Voice Choir with guests Millpool Chorale will be performing from 7pm. Tickets are £7 including refreshments and are available from Jim & Maureen Lloyd on 01208 832373. There is wheelchair access available.

St Breoke Flower Festival
2015-07-10 - 2015-07-12 | St Breoke Church, Wadebridge, PL27 7JS, United Kingdom
This summer from 10 July to 12 July St Breoke church is holding a flower festival to celebrate 50 years since their flood. The church will be a riot of colour as they follow the theme of Noah.
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CMED Course- Working With And In Teams
2015-07-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Judge’s Dining Room, Shire House, Mount Folly, Bodmin, PL31 2DQ, United Kingdom
with Revd Canon Keith Lamdin
Emerging themes of ministry and leadership in parishes these days always put teamwork at the centre. Sometimes this is thought of as teams of priests working together, stipendiary and self supporting, of clergy and licensed lay ministers, or clergy and elected wardens and members of PCCs, and sometimes to include all those in the parish who exercise leadership – lay visitors, house group leaders, youth and children’s leaders.
This day will explore:

a model of team work promoted by Patrick Lencioni, known as the 5 dysfunctions of a team, including a film of a talk he gave several years ago to a church audience.
A theology of collaboration, suggested by people such as Robin Greenwood and Stephen Pickard.
The range of skills that are needed in every team to ensure that it actually produces something. These are ideas developed by Belbin

The Revd Canon Keith Lamdin was for 25 years the director of the Board for Stewardship, Training, Evangelism and Ministry in the diocese of Oxford, where he managed a team of 14 trainers and consultants. He led the development of a competency-based modular programme, validated by Oxford Brookes University, at undergraduate and post graduate levels. He taught on the Master’s leadership modules.
Now as the Principal of Sarum College in Salisbury he not only exercises a leadership role himself but also specialises in the professional development of clergy, working as a consultant to senior clergy as well as to senior managers in the field of health care, education and the voluntary sector. He has launched the MA programme in Christian approaches to Leadership and has been pioneering a programme for women leaders in the church. He has recently been commissioned to develop with Waverly Consultancy, a leadership programme for the House of Bishops. He also teaches on a senior leader programme on the Unconscious in Organisations for the Institute of Advanced Learning at Oxford University, and for the King’s Fund programme for senior Managers. He has shared in consultations and conferences in South Africa, Canada and the U.S.
Keith works with a systems approach to his work, enriched over the years by his association with the Grubb Institute having worked as a consultant member of staff on their international Group Relations Conferences. For a number of years he taught on the psychodynamic Counselling Course validated by Oxford Brookes and sponsored by Counselling, Consultancy Oxfordshire (CCO).
Recently he has co-authored a book on supervision skills for those who work with the newly ordained, and in 2012 SPCK published his latest book Finding Your Leadership Style.
10am Coffee, 10.30am Start, 4pm Finish.
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An Introduction to Open the Book
2015-07-08 13:00 - 16:00 | Callington Methodist Church, Haye Road , Callington, PL17 7JJ, United Kingdom
Wednesday 8 July
Callington Methodist Church
1 pm – 4 pm

Monastic Week
2015-07-07 - 2015-07-10 | The Community of the Resurrection, Stocksbank Road, Mirfield, WF14 0BN, United Kingdom
Monastic Week, a four day retreat, will be held at the Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield from 7 July until 10 July.
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CMED Course- Discipling Families From The Ground Up
2015-07-06 10:00 - 16:00 | Archdeacon’s House, 4 Park Drive, Truro, PL31 2QF, United Kingdom
with Shelley Porter
A day to explore a variety of ways in which we can begin to disciple the families in our parishes starting from where we and they are – from no or few families on the fringe, building on our relationships and achievements and then taking the next step! It is about discovering what the families ‘needs’ are, developing a flexible plan for the future and then implementing it!
Shelley Porter is the Discipleship Project Officer for the Diocese of Truro. She has worked for the Diocese for over 13 years and is passionate about churches engaging with families where they are… on the allotment, football field….!
10am Coffee, 10.30am Start, 4pm Finish.
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Disability Awareness
2015-07-05 | Cornwall
Disability Sunday takes place on 5 July this year. The Churches for All website has downloadable materials for anyone interested.
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Camborne Town Band
2015-07-04 19:30 - 21:00 | All Saints Church, Pendarves Street , Camborne , TR14 8DH, United Kingdom
As part of the 170 years celebrations at All Saints Church, Tuckingmill, Camborne Town Band will be in concert on Saturday 4 July from 7:30pm.
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Quiet Day
2015-07-04 10:00 - 16:00 | St Just in Roseland Churches, St Just in Roseland Churches, TR2 5JD, United Kingdom
Quiet Day – ‘Burning Encounters’ meeting with God by the fireside
Saturday 4 July from 10am until 4pm
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CMED Course- Doing Church Differently- Experiences From The Penlee Cluster
2015-07-02 10:00 - 16:00 | St Mary’s Church, Chapel Street , Penzance, TR18 4AQ, United Kingdom
with members of the Penlee Cluster
This day will be based at three different sites in the Penlee Cluster in Penwith, transport will be provided between the sites. This day will be divided into three parts:

Spaces in between: Creating a Quiet Garden;
Spaces in between: ways of worship and nurture in the Playzone;
E waves: video casts, prayer resources and a daily thought for the day.

Come and reflect on Mission shaped ministry and a few attempts at trying to do Church differently. These are not blue prints but honest attempts…failures and challenges too. Come and help us reflect, bring your experiences and insights along so that we can learn together.
The day will be lead by all the lay and clergy staff of the Cluster and will be interactive.
10am Coffee and Start, 4pm Finish.
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Blue Light Day
2015-07-01 10:00 - 14:30 | Royal Cornwall Showground, Wadebridge, PL27 7JE, United Kingdom
Blue Light Day will be held on Wednesday 1 July at the Royal Cornwall Showground, Wadebridge from 10am until 2.30pm.
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170 Years Come and Celebrate
2015-06-30 14:00 - 2015-07-07 18:00 | All Saints Church, Pendarves Street , Camborne , TR14 8DH, United Kingdom
170 Years Come and Celebrate at All Saints Church, Tuckingmill
A number of different events happening between 30 June and 7 July.
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CMED Course- Hearing God's Voice Through Selected Psalms
2015-06-29 10:00 - 16:00 | Epiphany House, Truro, TR1 3DR, United Kingdom
with Revd Howard Peskett
“Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a lamp to my path.”
A missionary friend in North Thailand, sensing a great darkness, felt the Lord give her Psalm 62. The next day she found her husband’s body and that of a friend on a lonely mountain track. The psalms are the church’s oldest hymn book. They have shone in dark ages, times of reformation, times of revival. They have strengthened housewives, soldiers, the sick, sailors, scholars, the housebound, poets, writers. Psalm 83 was read in the Czech parliament in August 1968 as Russian tanks rumbled through the streets. Psalm 27.1 is the motto of Oxford University. Psalm 127.1 is engraved on the foundation of the Eddystone Lighthouse. Bishop Ridley read Psalm 4.8 and slept well the night before he was burned. On 28th October 1885 Bishop Hannington, one of the first missionaries in Uganda, wrote in his diary, “I am quite broken down and brought low. Comforted by Psalm 27.” The next day he was hacked to pieces by the king’s soldiers. There are hundreds of other examples in Lord Ernle’s book, The Psalms in Human Life, published in 1909.
The habit of reading or singing the psalms in church has declined. If we attended the principal Sunday service every Sunday for three years, and read the psalm prescribed for that service from the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), at the end of those 153 Sundays we would only have read 47 complete psalms; parts of 41 other psalms; and 62 psalms would have been entirely omitted.
Unlike most song books, the Psalms contain songs for every mood. They are the heritage of the universal church, our birthright. On this study day, we will:

survey the whole book, to feel its shape and texture;
dig into five psalms, all ones unused by the RCL: a praise psalm; a lament; a dark psalm; a cry for justice and a Messianic psalm;
sing some psalm songs in various styles, location permitting;
listen for and to the voice of God through these songs, deepening our understanding of these songs as revelation from God through human experience.

Howard Peskett is a retired priest living in Penzance, formerly the Dean of the Discipleship Training Centre in Singapore; the Vice Principal of Trinity College Bristol; the Rural Dean of Penwith. He has spent a lifetime encouraging men and women, in Asia and in the UK, to believe that they can themselves discover the meaning and the wonder of the Bible as they seek to love and follow Christ.
10am Coffee, 10.30am Start, 4pm Finish.
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Prophetic Art Workshop
2015-06-27 10:00 - 17:00 | Holy Trinity Church, St Austell, PL25 4BH, United Kingdom
A Prophetic art & creative worship workshop will be held on Saturday 27 June at Holy Trinity Church, St Austell. Learn how to express your worship uniquely and creatively.
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Waymark Event
2015-06-27 10:00 - 13:00 | St Petrocs Church Bodmin, St Petroc, Bodmin, PL31 2DT, United Kingdom
‘Unfurling: shaping a peaceful way of life’, a morning retreat with a difference – an opportunity to focus on journeying UP with God. To be held on 27 June from 10am until 1pm at St Petroc’s Church Bodmin.
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The Leading Lights of Bude
2015-06-26 10:00 - 2015-06-27 17:00 | Cornwall
‘The Leading Lights of Bude’ will be held on 26 and 27 June at St Michael’s Church from 10am until 5pm.
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The Pilgrim's Progress
2015-06-25 19:15 - 21:00 | The Guildhall, Street-an-Pol, St Ives, TR26 2DS, United Kingdom
A modern adaptation of this novel comes to Cornwall on Thursday 25 June at The Guildhall, St Ives from 7.15pm.
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