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Day 1
Area
leaders
Day 2
Youth
work
Day 3
Lay
workers
and
Training
Day 4
Work &
Prisons
Day 5
Homelessness
Day 6
Religious
Orders
Day 7
Hospital
s
Day 8
Local
area
Leaders,
The
Minster
Day 9
Outreac
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York Diocese: Archbishop Sentamu, Archdeacon Sarah Bullock. Middlesbrough RC Diocese
Bishop Terence Patrick Drainey, Dean Canon Alan Sheridan. York & Hull Methodist District
Stephen Burgess (Chairman). URC Synod Kevin Watson. Baptist Union Graham Ensor.
Salvation Army Divisional Commander Lt Col John Hassard. Religious Society of Friends
Clerks of York Area Meeting Robin Wilson & Helen Snelson. Greek Orthodox Church
Archimandrite. Pastoral oversight, guidance & support of local churches, the Churches'
ongoing work & witness & the renewal of the church in the City.
Church work with children & young people: Anglican, Quaker (Bootham & the Mount) &
Roman Catholic (All Saints) schools in the City; school Chaplains; the YoYo Trust Tony
Bower, Malc Clark, Andy Barthow, Jenny Dring, Louise Feather, Debbie Phillips, Claire
Barker, Alison Metheringham & Carol Carter; Youth With A Mission (YWAM) York: Nic &
Marion Barella, Jennifer Page, Lisa Cuellar, Jane Holloway, Basil & Karen Taylor, Gonzalo
Santillan, Jolene Louter & from February 2014 Levi Maurer, Ashley Ausbrook & Annie
Boyum; the Archdeaconry Youth & Children’s Adviser Nigel Chapman; Church Lads &
Church Girls Brigade Andrew Stubbs; York Christian Youth Holidays Tim Blackburn, Kidzklub
at Acomb & Huntington Kate Denney; Archbishop of York Youth Trust Dann Finn, Julia
Robertson, Mandy Potter; Christian Unions in schools, colleges & universities, Paul Oatridge
UCCF.
Day 10
Readers, Local Preachers, Catechists & other lay ministers, giving thanks for the support
they give to local churches. Training courses for lay people. Men & women being called by
God to deeper service. Church administrators. Director of Training, Mission & Ministry
Gavin Wakefield. Archbishop’s Director of Training for Missional Ministry, Roger Simpson.
Ecumenical Officer for the Diocese of Middlesbrough Timothy Bywater. Ecumenical Officer
for the Archdeaconry of York Andrew Clements. Ecumenical Officer for York & Hull Mehodist
District Chris Humble. York Diocesan Director of Ordinands & Vocations Advisor David Mann.
York Archdeaconry Training Adviser & Diocesan Clergy CMD Adviser Terry Joyce.
The industrial & commercial life of the city & the farming community in the surrounding
area. York Community Chaplaincy, Chaplaincy volunteers, Retail Chaplains. Street Angels.
Railway Mission Stephen Sorby (Chaplain). The unemployed & redundant. The prisoners &
staff at Full Sutton Prison & Askham Grange Open Prison (The Chaplaincy teams Ray Coates,
Jane Clay, John Lumley at Askham Grange & Susanne Jukes, Gillian Eweis at Full Sutton).
Farm Crisis Network.
The homeless, Arc Light Jeremy Jones, Carecent Nicky Gladstone, 'Safe & Sound' & the
caring ministry of the Salvation Army.
Day 13
NE
Members of Religious Orders: Order of the Holy Paraclete Sr Linda & Sr Janette at York
Minster, Sr Alison & Sr Erika at Bishopthorpe Palace, Congregation of Jesus at The Bar
Convent, Blossom Street Mother Superior; St Bede’s Pastoral Centre, Blossom Street Sister
Cecilia (Director), Poor Clares at Askham Bryan, Carmelite Friars at Heslington Very Rev Fr
Tony Lester (Prior & University Chaplain), Fr. Pat O'Keeffe, Bro. Ged Walsh, Carmelite
Projects Worker Johan Bergström-Allen, Discalced Carmelite Nuns at Thicket Priory Sr Ann
(Mother Superior), Corpus Christi Carmelite Sisters in Lawrence Street Srs Mary-Gregory,
Ann & Joan, Sisters of Mercy in Lawrence Street, Orthodox. Spurriergate Pastoral Centre &
its staff. Retired clergy, the experience & wisdom they bring to the ministry.
York Hospital Local Ecumenical Partnership, York Nuffield Hospital, The Retreat, Bootham
Park Hospital & St Leonard’s Hospice. All staff involved in healthcare. The teams of
Chaplains Martin Doe, Anne Vaughan, Andrew Foster, Pat O’Keeffe & the volunteer
Chaplaincy ward visitors (NHS Trust), Chris Cullwick, Bronwen Gray (The Retreat), Sharon
Whittington, Maurice Staton (The Hospice). Those who abuse drugs & alcohol. A ministry
proclaiming healing & wholeness through Jesus.
The Anglican Rural Dean Terence McDonagh; the Roman Catholic Dean; The Methodist
Superintendent Minister Phillip Turner. Churches Together in York & local area groups of
churches. Church synods & committees & wisdom in their members. York Minster – Dean
Vivienne Faull, Residentiary Canon Peter Moger, Chapter Steward Kathryn Blacker, Canon
Chancellor Christopher Collingwood, Canon Pastor Michael Smith & its members of staff &
the large ecumenical team of volunteers. The visitors & tourists who come to the City.
The work of One Voice York David Casswell, Graham Hutchinson; Christian Aid & CAFOD;
Family Matters York - staff & volunteers; guarding & enriching home & family life; Alpha
North Christian Selvaratnam; The Besom Project (Administrator Rob Ainsworth), YCH Group,
Exodus Project Liz Ransford; US Philip Cousins; Healing on the Streets; Street Angels; The
Genesis Project; In the Father’s Hand; Feed the Minds, The Gideons, Friends International York Ingvild Hovda, Helen Callow.
N inner
Day 11
N outer
Day 12
NE inner
Day 14
E inner
Day 15
E
Day 16
E
Day 17
SE
Day 18
S-SE
Day 19
Central
Huntington, Earswick & New Earswick: All Saints' & St Andrew's Ian Birkinshaw, Phil
Carman, James Simister (Youth & Children's Leader), Joan Sargent (Lay Pastor) & Rachael
Garland (Parish Assistant); Huntington Methodist Church David Godfrey, William Swires
(Pastoral Assistant); Christ the Light Church Charles & Cath Walters, Amy (Youth Worker);
The Vine Apostolic Church Simon Bower, Mike Southcombe; New Earswick Methodist Church
Francis Nabieu; New Earswick Quaker Meeting David Roberts; St Paulinus RC Kevin Trehy.
Haxby: St Mary & Wigginton:St Nicholas Kathryn Jackson & Paul Jackson; Haxby &
Wigginton Methodist Church Philip Turner, Kim Gabbitas (Children & Family Worker); St
Margaret Clitherow RC Kevin Trehy.
Trinity Methodist Church David Godfrey; The Ark Church (meeting at Trinity Methodist)
Stephen Redman; The Groves: St Thomas & St Maurice Alistair Rycroft & the team; St
Anne's Orthodox Monastery (Ecumenical Patriarchate) Father Stephen; Orthodox
Patriarchate of Antioch worshiping in the chapel of York St John University; The Salvation
Army Majors Andrew & Sheila Dunkinson. York St John University Lukas Njenga, Chris
Cullwick (Chaplain). York Institute for Community Theology Richard Andrew. York City
Church meeting at Temple Hall on York St John Campus Peter Roderick; Acorn Christian
Fellowship.
Strensall: St Mary Martin Harrison, Judith Palmer; Strensall Methodist Church Leslie Newton;
Farlington, St Leonard, Marton, St Mary, Sheriff Hutton, St Helen & the Holy Cross,
Stillington, St Nicholas, Sutton on the Forest, All Hallows Chris Ellis; The Benefice of Harton Bossall, Buttercrambe, Howsham, Crambe, Flaxton, Foston, Gate Helmsley, Sand Hutton,
Upper Helmsley, Whitwell on the Hill Sister Margaret Ann; Sheriff Hutton Methodist Elizabeth
Cushion, Stockton on the Forest Methodist Chris Humble; Thornton Le Clay Methodist Church
Leslie Newton, William Swires (Pastoral Assistant); Strensall Methodist Church David
Godfrey, Strensall Garrison Church, Stockton on the Forest: Holy Trinity & Holtby: Holy
Trinity: Warthill: Nicholas Bird, Mary Willetts, Terry Joyce. Stockton Hall Secure Hospital
Christopher Coates (Chaplain).
St Lawrence Clive Jackson, Bernadette Burbridge; Elim Pentecostal Church (meeting at
Archbishop Holgate’s School) Graham Hutchinson. Charli Martin (pastoral worker) & Rachel
Huke-Danter (Youth & Children worker); Melbourne Terrace Methodist Church Francis
Nabieu; St George's RC Canon Alan Sheridan; Polish RC Congregation meeting at St
George’s; Calvary Chapel & Bible School David Sylvester; Polish Pentecostal Congregation
meeting at Calvary Chapel.
Tang Hall: St Hilda Paul Wordsworth, Olive Wordsworth; St George's Methodist Church Ian
Hill; York Community Church, Simon Rennie, Vanessa McWilliam (Church Worker); St
Aelred's RC Fr Bill Serplus; Osbaldwick: St Thomas & Murton: St James Andrew Clements,
Jack Booth.
Heworth: Holy Trinity & St. Wulstan Michael Woodmansey, Kate Russell; Christ Church Paul
Deo; Heworth Methodist Church Ian Hill; Seventh Day Adventist; Living Word Church James
Topliss, Matthew Staples. Dunnington Local Ecumenical Partnership: St Nicholas Nick Bird,
Terry Joyce, Malcolm Smith & Judith Hewitt; Dunnington Methodist Church with Stockton as
a class Chris Humble; Stamford Bridge Methodist Chris Humble; Stamford Bridge Group of
parishes Fran Wakefield, Gavin Wakefield; Wilberfoss: St John the Baptist;
Heslington Local Ecumenical Partnership: St Paul, Jan Nobel, Rory Dalgleish; University
Chaplains Fr Tony Lester (RC), Rory Dalgleish (Methodist), Rowan Williams (Anglican),
Graham Hutchinson (Pentecostal) & Christian students. The Korean Church meeting at
Heslington Church. Everlasting Father's Arena congregation of The Redeemed Christian
Church of God meeting Tang Hall Community Centre Aderemi Adelugba; Woodlands
Resource & Respite Care Centre Father Bill Serplus (Chaplain).
Fulford: St Oswald Terence McDonough; Wheldrake: St Helen, Elvington: Holy Trinity,
Thorganby: St Helen, Sutton upon Derwent, East Cottingwith: St Mary Ian Kitchen, Peter
Burgess; Naburn: St Matthew Richard Kirkman; Stillingfleet LEP (St Helen’s Anglican &
Stillingfleet Methodist) Richard Kirkman & Chris Humble.
York City Centre Churches of All Saints Pavement with St Crux, St Denys, St Martins with St
Helen & St Olaves Jane Nattrass, David Simpson, Brian Harris, Sue Rushton, Malcolm
Grundy, Derek Earisand Peter Jones; Central Methodist Church Chris Humble; Friargate
Quaker Meeting; All Saints North Street Andrew Horsman. UNITED York meeting at The
Spurriergate Centre on Sunday evenings Dave & Shelley Shore.
Day 20
Central
Day 21
Central
Holy Trinity, Micklegate Jane Nattrass, Eric Robinson; St Mary, Bishophill Junior: Andrew
Stoker, Geoffrey Peters, David Efird; The Greek Orthodox worshipping at St Mary's: David
Carnelley; York Baptist Church Gary Patchen, John Green; The Rock Church; St Columba’s
Alison Micklem; New Hope Ministry (Portuguese speaking) meeting at York Baptist & St
Columba’s; Ethiopian Orthodox Church of the Holy Redeemer meeting at St Columba’s.
The St Michael le Belfrey: Matthew Porter, Benjamin Doolan, Jim Roberts & Gregory
Downes; Christian Selvaratnam & G2 (meeting at Burnholme school); Lee Kirkby, Adam
Norton (Youth & Children's team) & Liv Davis (Children & Families Worker); St Wilfrid's RC
Richard Duffield; St Andrew's Evangelical Church; York Vineyard (meeting at St Olave’s
school & Bar 1331) Jonathan & Nicki Abbey.
Day 22
N
Central
The Chinese Church meeting at St Helen’s Church; St Peter’s, St Olave’s & Clifton PrePreparatory Schools, Daniel Jones & John Dodsworth (Chaplains); the Members of
Parliament serving the City, & members of the City of York Council; Trinity Church York
meeting in the Hilton Hotel, Tower St Matthew Roberts; Kingdom Life Tabernacle, York (The
Redeemed Christian Church of God) Sowole Adejumobi meeting at Park Inn, North Street.
Day 23
S-SW
Dringhouses: St Edward the Confessor Martin Baldock & Letitia Chester, Emma Bagnall
(Youth Worker). Staff & students at York College Ian Cartwright, Fiona Raffell(Chaplains);
The University of Law.
Day 24
SW
inner
Day 25
SW
outer
Day 26
W inner
St Chad Derek Bailey, Sheila Fletcher, Sue Nightingale, Anne Paskett; St Clement Andrew
Stoker, Geoffrey Peters, David Efird; HOPE CENTRE (The Redeemed Christian Church of
God) meeting at Clement Hall Reuben Inwe, David Crookes, Michael Askew, Gary Everett;
Southlands Methodist Church Sue Swires, William Swires (Pastoral Assistant); York
Evangelical Church (meeting at Millthorpe School) Mark Troughton.
Christians in
Communication Emily Robson (Administrator) & all involved in religious broadcasting. .
Bishopthorpe LEP made up of Bishopthorpe: St Andrew & Acaster Malbis: Holy Trinity
Christopher Coates, Pam Mcnaughton & Bishopthorpe Methodist Church Julia Skitt; Mount
Pleasant Friendship Group.
Churches Together in Copmanthorpe LEP made up of
Copmanthorpe: St Giles Geoff Mumford & Copmanthorpe Methodist Church Julia Skitt, Ian
Cartwright; Askham Bryan: St Nicholas Geoff Mumford; Acaster Malbis Methodist Church
Julia Skitt; Askham Bryan College.
Holgate: St Paul’s John Lee, Ian Mayhew & Sam Tyndall (associate lay ministers) Lucy
Brencher (Youth Worker); English Martyrs RC Fr John Bane; Holgate Methodist Church Andy
Lindley; St Barnabas Ursula Simpson. Stewardship & right use of time, talents & money.
Day 27
W
Acomb: St Stephen & St Aidan Peter Horsley, Ned Lunn, Dan Baldwin (Youth Worker). Holy
Redeemer Tony Hand, James Harding; Acomb Moor, St James the Deacon Andrew Horsman;
West Thorpe Methodist Church Andy Lindley; Acomb & Lidgett Grove Methodist Churches
Andy Lindley, Ian Cartwright.
Day 28
W
Acomb: The Church of Our Lady Canon John Lumley & Deacon Peter Warren; Gateway
Church John Wilson, Caleb Ellwood, Joe & Jonny (Youth Workers), Christians Against Poverty
Jackie Adie; Acomb Baptist Church John Billingham; Acomb Society of Friends.
Day 29
W-NW
United Acomb (part of the United Global Network of Churches) meeting at Manor School Phil
& Rachel Martin; Poppleton: Upper: All Saints & Nether: St Everilda Jeremy Sylvester; Root
of Strong Tower York (The Redeemed Christian Church of God) meeting at Poppleton Road
Memorial Hall Yemi Oni; The United parish of Marston Moor (Bilbrough, Askham Richard,
Rufforth, Long Marston & Tockwith) Roy Shaw; The benefice of Rural Ainsty (Moor Monkton
& Hessay, Bilton-in-Ainsty, Healaugh, Wighill) vacancy; Poppleton, Rufforth & Hessay
Methodist Churches Susan Swires, William Swires (Pastoral Assistant). The Local Ecumenical
Partnership at Hessay.
Day 30
N-NW
outer
Day 31
St Joseph's RC Jerry Twomey; St Lukes, Burton Stone Lane Trevor Gant, Liz Carrington;
Clifton: St Philip & St James & Rawcliffe: St Mark David Casswell, Daniel Roe, Simon Jones
(Youth Worker); Clifton Methodist Church David Godfrey & Kim Gabbitas (Children & Family
Worker); Clifton Moor Church & Community Centre Francis Nabieu;
Praise & Thanksgiving! AMEN
CHURCHES TOGETHER IN YORK
www.churchestogetherinyork.org.uk
(The latest edition is available on our website.)
ECUMENICAL PRAYER DIARY
This paper is dated 20th December 2014
Amendments would be welcomed by
Elisa Main, 66 Yarburgh Way, Badger Hill, York YO10 5HG
Email:
elisamain@yahoo.co.uk