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I know what it takes to clear the time to get away together. Thank you for your com-mitment and to those who have helped make it possible for you to be here. Welcometo the Salisbury Diocesan Clergy Conference!
Christian ministry is about God. The title ‘God – Renewing Hope’ emerged inconversations following on from ‘Let Us Talk’. The Bishops took “Renewing Hope” astheir theme: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so thatyou may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15.13).Christian hope is distinguished from optimism, which is an extrapolation from the present, assum-ing the best possible outcomes. Hope, in contrast, is God’s breaking through. The Resurrection ofJesus Christ gave the disciples hope because it transformed their experience and expectations (Luke24.1-49). Hope is the expression of faith (Romans 8.24-25).
Thanks to the planning group we have a fabulous programme. We can hope for an interesting, en-joyable, stretching and rewarding conference. In the end it is about God – Renewing Hope.
+Nicholas Sarum
Timetable and Venues
General
Meals
Meals are served in the Chatsworth
and Haddon Dining Rooms.
Tea and Coffee
Tea and coffee during breaks are
served in the Butterley Corridor.
Monday
2.00-3.15 pm
Arrival and Registration
Reception, Main House
Refreshments will be available.
3.30-4.00 pm
Welcome and Opening Prayers
Derbyshire Hall
4.00-5.30 pm
First Keynote Address
Derbyshire Hall
David Ford: ‘God’.
Followed by plenary reflection.
5.45-6.45 pm
Archdeaconry Receptions
Dorset: Haddon Dining Room
Sarum: Terrace
Sherborne: Main Lounge
Wiltshire: Garden Hall
6.45 pm
Evening Meal
8.00-9.00 pm
‘What I Know Now That I Wish
I’d Known Then’
Main Conference Hall
An audience with Bishop James
Jones.
9.30 pm
Late Evening Worship
Celtic Prayer: The Chapel
Informal Praise: Orchard Hall
Unled, multi-sensory, reflective worship:
Butterley Hall 1
The bar will be open from 8.00-
11.00 pm.
Tuesday
7.15 am
The Eucharist
The Chapel
8.00 am
Morning Prayer
Derbyshire Hall
8.30 am
Breakfast
9.30-9.45 am
Setting the Scene
Derbyshire Hall
9.45-10.45 am
Second Keynote Address
Derbyshire Hall
Loretta Minghella: ‘God and
Justice’.
11.00-11.30 am
Morning Coffee
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11.45 am - 12.45 pm
Space For Reflection
See venue list on page 7
1.00 pm
Lunch
2.15-3.30 pm
Time Out and Workshops
See venue list on page 6
3.45-4.15 pm
Afternoon Tea
4.30-5.45 pm
First Bible Study
Derbyshire Hall
Paula Gooder: ‘A Comforting
Hope’ on Isaiah 40:1-11.
Followed by Evening Worship.
6.45 pm
Evening Meal
8.00-9.00 pm
An interview with James Wood
Main Conference Hall
Writer and co-creator of ‘Rev.’
Followed by scenes from ‘Rev.’
9.30 pm
Late Evening Worship
Night prayer using The Rosary: The
Chapel
Informal Praise: Orchard Hall
Unled, multi-sensory, reflective worship:
Butterley Hall 1
The bar will be open from 6.00-
6.45 pm and 8.00-11.00 pm.
Wednesday
7.15 am
The Eucharist
The Chapel
8.00 am
Morning Prayer
Derbyshire Hall
8.30 am
Breakfast
9.30-9.45 am
Setting the Scene
Derbyshire Hall
9.45-10.45 am
Third Keynote Address
Derbyshire Hall
Ian McGilchrist: ‘God and the
Brain’.
11.00-11.30 am
Morning Coffee
11.45 am - 12.45 pm
Space For Reflection
See venue list on page 7
1.00 pm
Lunch
2.15-3.30 pm
Time Out and Workshops
See venue list on page 6
3.45-4.15 pm
Afternoon Tea
4.30-5.45 pm
Second Bible Study
Derbyshire Hall
Paula Gooder: ‘A Living Hope’ on
1 Peter 1:1-12.
Followed by Evening Worship.
6.45 pm
Evening Meal
8.00-9.00 pm
‘A Curate’s Egg’
Main Conference Hall
An evening of entertainment with
John Archer.
9.30-10.00 pm
Late Evening Worship
Prayer from the Iona Community: The
Chapel
Informal Praise: Orchard Hall
Unled, multi-sensory, reflective worship:
Butterley Hall 1
The bar will be open from 6.00-
6.45 pm and 8.00-11.00 pm.
Thursday
8.00 am
Morning Prayer
Derbyshire Hall
8.30-9.15 am
Breakfast
9.30-9.45 am
Setting the Scene
Derbyshire Hall
9.45-10.30 am
Third Bible Study
Derbyshire Hall
Paula Gooder: ‘A Resurrection
Hope’ on John 11:1-27.
10.45-11.15 am
Morning Coffee
11.30 am - 12.45 pm
Closing Eucharist
The Chapel
1.00 pm
Lunch
Marketplace Stalls
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Christian Aid
Working to support sustainable
development and civil society, stop
poverty, and provide disaster relief
in South America, the Caribbean,
the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Young Vocations
The Church of England wants
to encourage every young person
thinking about ordained ministry.
The Young Vocations Champions
are available to talk about the Call
Waiting initiative and encouraging
young people to think about God’s
call in their lives.
M4M (Mission For Ministry)
Supporting and sharing best
practice around the diocese.
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A Comforting Hope
Isaiah 40:1-11
Comfort, O comfort my people,
says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that she has served her term,
that her penalty is paid,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.
A voice cries out:
‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
Then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all people shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.’
A voice says, ‘Cry out!’
And I said, ‘What shall I cry?’
All people are grass,
their constancy is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower fades,
when the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
surely the people are grass.
The grass withers, the flower fades;
but the word of our God will stand for ever.
Get you up to a high mountain,
O Zion, herald of good tidings;
lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings,
lift it up, do not fear;
say to the cities of Judah,
‘Here is your God!’
See, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd;
he will gather the lambs in his arms,
and carry them in his bosom,
and gently lead the mother sheep.
A Living Hope
1 Peter 1:1-12
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who have been
chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified
by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be
sprinkled with his blood:
May grace and peace be yours in abundance.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new
birth into a living hope through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance
that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept
in heaven for you, who are being protected by the
power of God through faith for a salvation ready to
be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, even
if now for a little while you have had to suffer various
trials, so that the genuineness of your faith—being
more precious than gold that, though perishable,
is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise
and glory and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Although you have not seen him, you love him; and
even though you do not see him now, you believe in
him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
for you are receiving the outcome of your faith, the
salvation of your souls.
Concerning this salvation, the prophets who
prophesied of the grace that was to be yours
made careful search and inquiry, inquiring about
the person or time that the Spirit of Christ within
them indicated, when it testified in advance to the
sufferings destined for Christ and the subsequent
glory. It was revealed to them that they were serving
not themselves but you, in regard to the things that
have now been announced to you through those who
brought you good news by the Holy Spirit sent from
heaven—things into which angels long to look!
Bible Readings
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A Resurrection Hope
John 11:1-27
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the
village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the
one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped
his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So
the sisters sent a message to Jesus, ‘Lord, he whom
you love is ill.’ But when Jesus heard it, he said,
‘This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for
God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified
through it.’ Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha
and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that
Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place
where he was.
Then after this he said to the disciples, ‘Let us go to
Judea again.’ The disciples said to him, ‘Rabbi, the
Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you
going there again?’ Jesus answered, ‘Are there not
twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the
day do not stumble, because they see the light of this
world. But those who walk at night stumble, because
the light is not in them.’ After saying this, he told
them, ‘Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am
going there to awaken him.’ The disciples said to him,
‘Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right.’ Jesus,
however, had been speaking about his death, but they
thought that he was referring merely to sleep. Then
Jesus told them plainly, ‘Lazarus is dead. For your sake
I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But
let us go to him.’ Thomas, who was called the Twin,
said to his fellow-disciples, ‘Let us also go, that we
may die with him.’
When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already
been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was
near Jerusalem, some two miles away, and many of the
Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them
about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus
was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed
at home. Martha said to Jesus, ‘Lord, if you had been
here, my brother would not have died. But even now
I know that God will give you whatever you ask of
him.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise again.’
Martha said to him, ‘I know that he will rise again in
the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I
am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in
me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who
lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe
this?’ She said to him, ‘Yes, Lord, I believe that you
are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into
the world.’
The New Revised Standard Version (Anglicized Edition), copyright 1989, 1995 by the
Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the
United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Marketplace Stalls
Please visit our stallholders, who
are mostly in the Butterley Hall -
their support helps us run the best
possible conference.
Sarum College Bookshop
Located in the Writing Room in the
Main House.
The established independent
bookshop at the heart of Salisbury.
Supplying a wide range of
theological and liturgy titles.
St John’s College, Nottingham
A C of E Theological College in
the open evangelical tradition.
Thornton’s Chocolate
A British chocolate company
established in 1911.
Peter Chalk Clergy Taxation
Service and Financial Services
Specialists in taxation for clergy.
Let us take away the strain of your
yearly tax return completion.
Croft Design Clerical Vestments
and Church Goods
Church garments, embroidered
vestments, robes, devotional items
and icons from Shropshire.
SOMA
Anglican short term mission agency
which sends teams at the invitation
of a bishop to lead conferences for
clergy and lay people.
Archdeacon of Sarum
Individually hand painted icons.
Ecclesiastical Insurance
An insurance company offering
home, church, heritage and charity
insurance as well as financial
products for individuals and
organisations.
Mothers Union
An international Christian
organisation that seeks to support
families world wide.
John The Pot
Tuesday lunchtime and afternoon only.
Local potter, digs his own clay,
specialises in chalice and paten sets.
John’s pottery can be visited by
arrangement.
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Title Leader Venue
A Hoping to Lead Like God Does Keith Lamdin Orchard Hall
B Vessels of Hope Sophie Hacker Tissington Room
C Towards a Just Economy Andrew Studdert-Kennedy Room 1 Derbyshire
D Hope for God’s Creation Mark Dowd Dove Room, Alan Booth
F Finding our Rootedness in Christ Ian Cowley Main Lounge, Main House
H Hope in a Busy Life Jean de Garis Sports Hall
I Ministry in Sudan and South Sudan
Ian Woodward, Andrew Poppe and
Jane Shaw
Room 4 Derbyshire
K The Church and the World Roman Stawski and Nicolas Pelcat Room 5 Derbyshire
N Hope Opening Our Eyes Jake Spicer Reading Room Main House
Q Embodying Hope Paula Gooder Derwent Room, Alan Booth
R Hopeful Change David Runcorn Room 7 Derbyshire
S Hope in the Future of the Church Keith Elford Room 2 Derbyshire
U Clergy Financial Planning Richard Whittingham Book Room, Main House
Golfers will gather at Reception at 1.30 p.m.
Title Leader Venue
A Hoping to Lead Like God Does Keith Lamdin Orchard Hall
B Vessels of Hope Sophie Hacker Tissington Room
D Hope for God’s Creation Mark Dowd Dove Room, Alan Booth
E Transformation Through Credit Unions Antony Macrow-Wood Room 1 Derbyshire
G Hope Through Mindfulness Peter Greenwood Main Lounge, Main House
J Ministry in Latvia Didzis Kreibergs and Intars Jonitis Room 6 Derbyshire
L Christians in the World Roman Stawski and Nicolas Pelcat Room 5 Derbyshire
M Hope in Education: Gospel Magic Howard Worsley Room 3 Derbyshire
N Hope Opening our Eyes Jake Spicer Reading Room Main House
Q Embodying Hope Paula Gooder Derwent Room, Alan Booth
R Hopeful Change David Runcorn Room 7 Derbyshire
S Hope in the Future of the Church Keith Elford Room 2 Derbyshire
T
Church Growth Research Programme
Findings
Kevin Norris Room 8 Derbyshire
Wednesday Workshop
Locations
Tuesday Workshop Locations
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Workshop & Reflection
Your allocated worskshops
& reflection space groups are
indicated on your lanyard.
Bar
Please note that there will be a
cash bar.
Internet
Wireless internet access is available
throughout the venue. A password
is not needed.
Meals
The management asks that you
gather for meals as soon as possible
after the indicated start time. There
will not be continuous service until
the end of mealtimes.
Chaplain
David Runcorn will be our resident
Chaplain for the Conference. If
you wish to meet with him for an
individual conversation please find
the list in Reception and mark a
suitable time. The meeting room
will be indicated on the sign up list.
Sporting Facilities
There are very good sporting
facilities at The Hayes, with five-
a-side, badminton and basketball
courts. You will need to have your
own equipment. We do need to
book in advance as it is in use
some of the time. Please ask at
Reception when you register or see
Tina Draycott at any time during
the Conference
Local Attractions
Local attractions include
Chatsworth House, the Midland
Railway Centre, Crich Tramway
Village and the magnificent scenery
of the Peak District.
If you are planning a trip out to
one of the local attractions, let Tina
Draycott know and she will do her
best to put you in touch with others
planning the same trip.
Newspapers
For those who ordered newspapers
in advance, these will be available
at Reception from 8.30am and
must to be paid for in cash when
collected.
Renewing Rhyme
Take a moment to compose
something that is loosely a ‘poem.’
It can be a limerick, haiku, a poem
with meter or free verse. It may
rhyme, or not; be serious, or funny,
or both; religious or secular. All we
ask is that it is your response to
some aspect the Clergy Conference.
There will be a box for submissions
at Reception and we would like
to share some of them during the
conference – so please indicate if
yours is not to be shared or is to
remain anonymous.
Busking it: Music to
Renew Hope
There is musical talent in oodles
among our clergy. Join us to sing or
play - solo or with others - classic,
folk, jazz, trad, pop or your style.
There will be a busking slot
each evening in The Vinery, a
comfortable seating area adjacent
to the bar. Please let us know if you
want to play and we will try to give
you a slot.
Real Life Twitter
The wall near the bar is the venue
for ‘Real Life Twitter’. Leave
cyberspace behind and use pens,
pencils, paper and post-its to give
your thoughts on the conference,
God, or the meaning of life. We’ll
grab some camera shots during the
Conference.
Conference Information
Reflection Group Locations
Title Venue Title Venue
Walk and Talk Assemble on Front Lawns Discussion Group B Room 4, Derbyshire
Spirit Level Butterley Room 1 Discussion Group C Room 5, Derbyshire
Journaling Derwent Room, Allen Booth Discussion Group D Room 6, Derbyshire
Blogging Main Lounge, Main House Seminar Group A Room 2, Derbyshire
Graffiti Wall and Display Tissington Room, Lakeside Seminar Group B Room 7, Derbyshire
Discussion Group A Room 1, Derbyshire Seminar Group C Room 8, Derbyshire
