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For further information about Confirmation services, or to enquire about Confirmation, please contact the parish directly.

Guidance for Liturgy for Confirmation Services for clergy can be downloaded here.
The Revd Rachel Gouldthorpe is also happy to provide guidance.  

The Confirmation return form for clergy to complete is available for download in word format. This is a new version to be used from 2024 onwards.

Confirmation Service Prayer

Eternal God,

Stir up in us the gifts of your Spirit for the service of your gospel, that we – so blessed by your grace – may  discern your call in our lives and respond courageously and obediently, bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit in ministries of rich variety. Take us and use us, to love and serve others in the power of the Holy Spirit and in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen

 

Note: This Prayer may be used within the Intercessions or as a Post-Communion Prayer or at any other suitable point in the service.

The Bishops request that it be included in all Confirmation Services through the year as we, as a diocese, reflect on our calling as individual disciples and as the Body of Christ sharing in the mission and ministry of God.

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Visit the Mothers' Union Diocese of Derby webpage

 

Midday Prayer

Held at Derby Cathedral each Friday

 

Contact

Emily Brailsford 

Telephone: 07731 342447

 #GiveUpSlavery

The Clewer Initiative’s Lent challenge introduces one industry a week that is touched by slavery- with challenges, each based around a different aspect of modern slavery. For example one week asks you to see whether your favourite tea is ethically sourced, and another prompts you to investigate where the minerals in your phone come from. The aims of the campaign are to raise awareness of modern slavery, and encourage people to think more deeply about the purchasing decisions they make.

https://www.theclewerinitiative.org/news/2018/1/23/this-lent-we-are-asking-you-to-give-up-slavery

 
 
#LiveLent - Let Your Light Shine
 
The Church of England Lent course takes you on a six week discipleship journey in 2018 through the Gospel of John, exploring what it means to be a witness.  For each day from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day there is a short reading, a pause for reflection and prayer, and an idea for a simple action that will enable the light of Jesus to shine through our everyday lives.  #LiveLent – Let Your Light Shine is written by John Kiddle (author of the best-selling #GodWithUs) in association with Thy Kingdom Come, the global prayer movement that invites Christians around the world to pray for more people to come to know Jesus. 
 
 
 
All Things Are Possible
The USPG Lent course for 2018 looks at how Anglican Churches around the world are supporting global development.  It has a focus on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which replaced the Millennium Development Goals.  In particular, USPG have been inspired by the growing understanding among governments, the UN and other actors that faith-based organisations have a key role to play in global development.
 
 
40 Stories of Hope
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland have partnered with Hope for a Lent course which is based on the book 40 Stories of Hope.  There are weekly downloads for individual reflection and group discussion, plus the 40 Stories of Hope book for those who prefer daily study during Lent.  The stories within the course and book give a unique insight into prison life and point to the hope we can find as followers of Jesus.
 
 
 
Lent Bible Reflections: Giving Thanks Send a Cow reflect on the organisation’s small beginnings in the UK 30 years ago and its current work with the marginalised in rural Africa. The course seeks to inspire people as to how God can use each of us and equip us for his calling; and reflect on what God has to say to you today through his word.  The reflections can be used individually or as part of a group and there are questions to contemplate at the end of each section.
 
 
 
Making All Things New 
Embrace the Middle East offer a six-session guide revisiting beloved Bible passages and bringing to life God’s passion for bringing about new beginnings. Each session also includes prayers, a ‘fresh look’ reflection and simple practical actions you can take to help change the lives of the vulnerable in the Middle East.  There are also stories told by Embrace’s Christian partners in the Middle East who are working to make things new in powerfully redemptive ways.
 
 
 
Feast or Famine: How the Gospel Challenges Austerity - An Ekklesia Lent Course for Groups and Individuals
This is a five-week Lent course for groups and individuals. Based on the core gospel theme of feast versus famine, it looks at the practical issues of austerity versus plenty in modern Britain. In the way of Christ people grow together through sharing, and are divided by hoarding. By renewing understanding of what this means for individuals, churches and communities can transform the way they respond to the impact of austerity both locally and globally
 
 
 
Living Faith: Cover to Cover Lent Study Guide
Over six studies, Krish Kandiah looks at the final words of Jesus on the cross, as recorded in the Gospels. Seeing each of these sayings as a unique invitation to connect with God, he invites participants to discover another level of living faith and hear and respond to Jesus' gracious words which welcome us: to forgiveness, to service, to hope, to adoption, to empathy and to trust.
 

Hungry for Change

Church Urban Fund’s Lent course focuses on food poverty, one of the most obvious signs of disparity in our society in recent years.  It looks at the injustice, failure of generosity and distribution behind food poverty and asks whether the situation is a product of wrong human choices or a lack of God’s provision- these sorts of questions will foster healthy debate over the five-week course.

https://www.cuf.org.uk/lent-course-2018?bblinkid=79356344&bbemailid=6907773&bbejrid=524503866

Broken. A six week study course for Lent, Canon Dr Paula Gooder, Director of Mission Learning & Development Birmingham Diocese

The TV series, Broken, written by Jimmy McGovern and starring Sean Bean is set in an estate parish somewhere in the UK. The church used at the centre of the series is in Liverpool but the series never explicitly states that this is where the narrative is set. The series focuses on the life and ministry Father Michael Kerrigan, a Roman Catholic, priest who, despite past trauma and anxiety about his own inadequacies, attempts to bring the light of Christ into the lives of the people amongst whom he ministers. The series portrays real life at its most gritty and unvarnished, and in doing so raises many questions along the way about how to live faithfully when life is very hard.

This course arose out of numerous conversations I had with people after the series aired. So many people commented that they thought it would make an excellent Lent or study course that I thought it would be interesting to have a go. I have shaped the course around the principles of the series itself – which raises far more questions than it ever answers. The idea of the course is to provide the space for people to pick up the questions raised in the series and to explore how they might want to answer them. 

Please click on the link below to download the sessions, leaders' notes and a list of helplines as the series contains disturbing story lines.

http://www.cofebirmingham.com/news/2018/01/23/broken-six-week-study-course-lent/

 

Nothing More and Nothing Less: A Lent Course based on the film I, Daniel Blake

The film I, Daniel Blake covers themes of oppression, compassion and radical response by telling the story of two people's struggles with an oppressive and dehumanising benefits system. This is a five-week Lent study, suitable for groups or individuals, that encourages readers to consider the stories of the film and how Christians may be called to respond. Chapters cover such topics as Compassion in the Darkness and the Suffering Servant. The book includes scene timings for key scenes, discussion points, meditations and suggested prayers.

https://www.aslanchristianbooks.com/nothing-more-and-nothing-less-a-lent-course-based-on-the-film-i-daniel-blake-9780232533446/

 

Not A Tame Lion 

This is a Lent course based on the Bible and related scenes and characters from the Narnia films The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian and the C S Lewis bio-pic Shadowlands.  There are five group discussion sessions exploring themes of suffering, God’s absence and the gift of the present in Christ.  Personal meditations and further studies exploring the deeper meaning of the films with reference to heaven, judgement, and the force of evil are also included.

https://chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780232527001/not-a-tame-lion

 

A Beautiful Friendship  This course is based on the film classic Casablanca, which provides a great basis for discussion of themes of sacrifice, repentance, suffering, loss and hope at Lent. Its wartime setting provides additional poignancy for study at a time of continued armed conflict around the world as well as the centenary remembrance of the first world war. Miranda and Not Going Out writer Paul Kerensa makes an intriguing departure from his comedy writing, preparing this moving book with his wife, Zoe Young. It is designed to be studied by groups or individuals alongside the DVD of Casablanca. The book includes leaders' notes, timings for film clips, discussion-starters, reflections and prayers.

https://chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780232531404/beautiful-friendship   

 

Finding a Voice This is a new and original Lent course by Hilary Brand which takes the film, The King's Speech, as a starting point, and explores the ways in which fear holds us back and examines how we, like Bertie, can face and overcome our fears and begin to find our authentic voice.  The course is based around five weekly group sessions which each include extracts from the film, group discussion questions, exercises and meditations. There are also short introductory and follow up chapters, with related Bible passages, for individual reading each week. Also included is a suggested follow up session, along with full notes for leaders.

https://chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780232528930/finding-a-voice 

 

Another Story Must Begin This Lent course based on the film, the novel and the stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. Through discussion of some of the themes and principal characters of this epic narrative, the course explores the grace of God and our own fallen state and opportunity for redemption, and helps us to reassess what we can do with our lives and for those around us.  The course is based around five weekly group sessions: Fantine and Cosette, the Bishop of Digne, Jean Valjean, Javert and Redemption and Salvation.  Each session includes watching scenes from the Oscar-winning movie (with timing references for the DVD), and questions and reflections for group discussion. Each session also includes introductory reading, notes for leaders, related Bible passages and suggested closing prayers.

https://chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780232530278/another-story-must-begin

 

The Mystery of Everything This Lent course by Hilary Brand takes the award-winning film about Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything, as its starting point. The course explores ways in which the mysteries of the universe and of everyday life - and the acceptance that we have more questions than answers - can reinvigorate our faith and spiritual journey. The course is based around five weekly group sessions entitled: the experience of wonder, the enigma of weakness, the complexity of relationships, the encounter with frailty and the hope beyond brokenness.  Each session includes an extract from the film, group discussion questions and a meditation. There are also short introductory and follow up chapters for individual reading each week, and a chapter of Bible passages for further daily reading. The book supplies full notes for group course leaders.

https://chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780232532081/mystery-of-everything

 

Say it to God: In Search of Prayer: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2018

This book provides encouragement to all those who feel the need to refresh how they pray. It looks at prayer as having the trust and belief that God is truly interested in everything that happens to us and wants to hear about it. The book leads the reader into the theological aspects of prayer and how it relates to Christ, to the Holy Spirit and to the Church. This is done without using complex theological concepts but simply through scriptural quotations. Chapters are kept brief intentionally to make the book suitable for daily reading over the Lenten period. With a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Say it to God demonstrates that the everyday, even the most mundane of tasks and situations, can be applied in deepening our practice of prayer.

https://www.aslanchristianbooks.com/say-it-to-god-in-search-of-prayer-the-archbishop-of-canterburys-lent-book-2018-9781472941756/

 

The Bumper Book of Resources: Lent, including Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday and Mothering Sunday (Volume 6)
 
Kevin Mayhew Drawing together material from a wide range of sources, this book is an excellent resource for anyone seeking help with prayers, services, sermon ideas and illustrative material, for general and all age worship.

 

The Children’s Society provide The Story of Lent, prayers and reflections

https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what-you-can-do/your-church/pray-worship-reflect/worship/lent 

 

Christian Aid have daily Count Your Blessings reflections for both adults and children.

https://www.christianaid.org.uk/lent-easter/lent-calendar 

 

Life Balance

21st century living is hectic. Getting the right 'life balance' between rest, work and play seems almost impossible. In five interactive sessions, Life Balance aims to help groups explores: How to build Sabbath time into the crazy pressures of everyday life. How 'Sabbath attitudes' can transform the way we spend our time. Each session contains enough material for a 90-minute session and includes guidelines for group study, with full background notes for leaders, interactive activities, questions for discussion and multimedia ideas, and ideas for practical action.

https://chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780715142776/life-balance

Several people have asked ‘How do I reduce the file size of my picture to upload it on to the Strategic Buildings Review Database?’

One very simple way is to us on-line software such as www.picresize.com

If you haven’t used this type of program before, I have prepared an instructional video for you, which you can watch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF_PZvrwXqQ

I have chosen this software as it is very straight forward to use.  There are, however, other resizing apps and programs available.

All the best, and get uploading!

You can download the excel file here

Your Deanery Administrators said it would be useful to have a preparation checklist, so that the responsible person(s) in each parish can pull together information and documentation before attempting to update the data - I hope this will help. 

Data Entry Check List


What is the Parish Giving Scheme?

The Parish Giving Scheme (PGS) is a direct debit system set up to help parishes in the Diocese of Derby encourage and grow regular donations and is offered to all churches in the diocese free of charge.

Donations can be made on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis by Direct Debit online, on the phone, or using a PGS gift form.

PGS manages the donation process to ensure all donations are delivered quickly and safely to the parish, and will process the gift aid on those donations meaning the parish receives regular gift aid payments each month.

A unique feature of the scheme is the option for the donor to commit in principle to increase their gift annually in line with inflation.

Whilst this is a voluntary decision, it is one that could potentially have a huge impact on the life and future of the church by tackling static giving.

See also: Giving and Generosity

Parish Giving Scheme Key Benefits

The Parish Giving Scheme is a modern and efficient way of managing planned giving to your church. Tried and tested, this scheme will:

  • Improve cash flow through the efficient reclaiming of Gift Aid
  • Overcome static giving with the option of donations automatically uplifted by inflation each year
  • Offer an opportunity for parishes to re-engage people in thinking about their own level of financial generosity
  • Reduce the time your Treasurer and Gift Aid Secretairies need to spend on administration

How does the Parish Giving Scheme work?

The Parish Giving Scheme (PGS) enables a planned giver to donate to any parish registered with the scheme. Donations can be made on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis. They are collected by Direct Debit on the first day of the month. The donations are then passed on to the specific parish by the tenth of the month. The Gift Aid is then remitted to the parish once the PGS office has received the money from HMRC. The timing of the Gift Aid payment will accordingly vary each month. 

Here is what the process looks like. based on an example gift of £50 a month:

 PGS Cycle

 

Managing inflation

One of the biggest challenges faced by many of our churches is that of 'static giving'. Churches like every organisation and household, are affected by inflation, eroding the value of your gifts. The Parish Giving Scheme makes it easy for doners to agree, in principle, to increase their donation in line with inflation each year. 

 

Encourage Giving and Generosity in your parish

As well as the benefits listed above, the introduction of such a scheme offers a clear and excellent opportunity to engage people in thinking about leveles of financial generosity.

We are recommending that a Church commits to a stewardship initiative when they join the Parish Giving Scheme.

 

Parish Giving Scheme resources

Hard copies of all the materials below - plus the PGS Donor Direct Debit Gift Form, Parish Registration Form and PGS Token are available from:

Steve Johnson
Living Generously Advisor
steve.johnson@derby.anglican.org
07359 067631.

 

For Donors: 

For Church Leaders:

 

Other Resources

 The Diocese of Liverpool "Giving in Grace" programme: www.givingingrace.org
An enormous resource for encouraging giving and stewardship. Alongside practical tools for reviewing giving, it includes theological reflections, preaching notes and Bible studies. 

The Church of England's Parish Resources Website: www.parishresources.org.uk
Access to a wealth of practical resources to support the life and work of parishes. 

Encouraging Giving and Stewardship: www.parishresources.org.uk/giving
Preaching and teaching on giving and stewardship; re-imagining the offertory, moving from 'collection' to 'offering', and helping to generate a sense of joyful offering in responce to God's generosity; and parish-based programmes to review giving and encouraging stewardship (including the parish Funding programme, Giving in Grace, a Simple Giving Programme for Smaller Churches, and Giving for Life).

Gift Aid: www.parishresources.org.uk/giftaid/
Factsheets about Gift Aid, the government scheme that allows parishes to relaim the tax paid on donations, including the Small Donations Scheme. 

The Church Legacy website: www.churchlegacy.org.uk
Information about how to encourage individuals to remember the Church in their wills. Parishes receive over 5,000 legacies each year - gifts to finance mission projects, maintain beautiful church buildings and grow faithful communities. These gifts make a real difference to the future work of the Church - as regular giving often concentrates on maintaining the existing mission and ministry.

 

For further information, please contact:

Steve Johnson, Living Generously Advisor,
steve.johnson@derby.anglican.org 
07359 067631.

Simply put, the review will report on what buildings we have, where they are, what state they are in and are they enabling the mission and ministry needs of the church, in the communities in which they sit.

Why are we having one?

In the words of the Chair of the DAC – ‘for our buildings to be an asset and not a burden we need to understand, manage and fully incorporate our property portfolio (Church buildings, halls, centres, etc.) into our Diocesan mission planning’.  The Diocese is taking its lead from the nation churches Buildings Review Group; follow this link for Scope & Context

How will parishes be involved?

Almost all the buildings across the Diocese are either owned or managed locally with the Parochial Church Council holding the responsibility for their care.  PCCs know their buildings best and understand their significance and their maintenance needs; what facilities they have and the uses to which they are put.  The best outcomes for your Parish and community are very much in your gift.  There will initially be a lot of information and data that the Review Group will need to pull together – some to complete a partial picture we already have and some that will paint a broader picture.

The Review Group is already in conversation with Deaneries looking at how we can minimise the impact and provide as much assistance as possible to enable parish engagement.

What will it produce?

The Strategic Buildings Review aims to deliver several positive outcomes for Parishes, Deaneries and the Diocese.

  • A better understanding of what we have and what we need
  • Options for sustainable ways forward in every parish
  • Updated heritage and ‘church near you’ records
  • Identification of ‘significant churches’ to become resource centres for mission
  • Refocused tools and other resources to support parishes in making their buildings fit for mission

So, what next?

The data collection phase is the foundation of the review and will happen over the next 6 months.  After that we envisage the following stages, culminating in a report for consideration by Diocesan Synod in Spring 2019

  1. The statistics: their accessibility and use
  2. Identifying the role and status of churches – categories
  3. Developing options and models for change – case studies
  4. Developing practical tools and other resources to support maintenance, insurance, faculties, fund raising and clergy training – developing resource
  5. Action Planning including Deanery Development Plans

Consultation will enable each stage to progress, but don’t wait to be asked – if you want information or clarification on where the review is up to or would like to make a positive suggestion or other contribution, then you can contact the core group on the following email: DDSBReview@gmail.com

Diocesan Synod ran an initial session in March, the output of which has been written up and has been informing some early discussions about Parish thinking regarding buildings and mission. Click here to download this report

Becky Clarke, Director of Cathedrals & Church Buildings Division, spoke at Synod Click here for her presentation

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