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Don't forget to sign up for Jubilee
24 November 2011
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Bishop Colin is inviting churches to take part in a large-scale Churches Festival in 2012 to coincide with the national celebrations of H.M The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee at the end of May and in early June.
"The Jubilee Churches Festival 2012 will build on the many successful aspects of the Cotswold Churches Festival which took place earlier this year," he writes.
"However, whereas the Cotswold event was deliberately geographically-limited, we are hoping that the Jubilee Churches Festival will capture the imagination of churches across the whole Diocese. One of the key features of the Cotswold Festival was that of the over 110 churches that took part, 30 per cent of these were from our sister churches, which gave the whole event an ecumenical dynamic showing churches working together in their communities. We sincerely hope that through your efforts and those of your sister churches from other denominations in your area, this will be repeated for the Jubilee event."
As with the Cotswold Festival, there is a new website for the event,www.jubileechurchesfestival.org. "The website contains lots of information and guidance designed to assist churches wishing to take part," says Bishop Colin.
The site provides information about the three ‘national events’ which are scheduled – the Big Lunch, the Jubilee Beacons and the National Service of Celebration.
The primary purpose of the website, however, is to encourage churches to register their interest.
"At this stage, you do not have to have finalised every detail of your event plans to register your participation in the Festival through the site," he says.
"You can just use the site to put your church ‘on the map’ – figuratively and literally – and you can add and amend details of the events that you are going to stage at almost any stage up to the start of the Festival, once all the details have been agreed with your PCC and other interested parties including, in particular, your Parish or Town Council. If you intend to take part, however, we would ask you to register by the end of February 2012 at the latest, so that we can include your church in the official Festival programme which will be produced and distributed closer to the event.""
Bishop Colin is keen to stress that it is up to to local churches to decide how best to mark the Jubilee. "It is up to the discretion of each and every church to decide on its own level of participation in the event – and, of course, even whether they wish to be involved in the event at all, especially as we fully appreciate that with the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2012 is scheduled to be a very busy year.
"Every contribution to the Festival, big and small, will be greatly – but equally – welcome, and if you do not feel able to take part because of other commitments on your time and budgets, this will be fully understood."
For more information, contact the Festival Coordinator, David Gambier, at Inspiring Experience Travel
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, and I am sure that he will be able to help you with useful advice.