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WELCOME When I was young I always wanted to know God’s guidance, who should I marry, what should I do with my life. In some ways as we grow up this becomes harder. We get set in patterns and life crowds in. Of late I have been asking God where he wants us to go with ICS? We can do what we have been doing and that is good and part of faithfully serving. But, what is He saying to us in 2017? I have a growing sense that He is saying: ‘Now is the time to do new things, to stretch out, to be the frontier organisation I created you to be’. I am excited by the glimpses I get of what this will look like, it gives me a sense of anticipation for the future.

As you read this ICS news I hope you enjoy the way we have arranged the stories about student ministry. As I visit various locations I have been impressed with the support, engagement and outreach to students; these are stories we easily miss when we focus on chaplaincy ministry. This edition allows you to see a common theme and a bigger picture around Europe and beyond.

Lastly, I would draw your attention the adventure David Wilson is embarking on to raise funds for ICS. David has been a friend of ICS for many years and an active seasonal chaplain. Perhaps you would like to sponsor him?

As you read the magazine I hope you find it informative about what has been, but more importantly you join us in prayer for what will be.

Grace and Peace.

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Registered charity no: 1072584; a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales no: 3630342 Intercontinental Church Society (ICS) is an Anglican mission agency. Founded in 1823, we have worked in most parts of the world, ministering and reaching out to people from many nationalities and backgrounds. From the early days we have planted churches in mainland Europe where our work is still strong but also in and around the Mediterranean, North Africa, the South Atlantic and South America. English language ministry has a strategic part to play, alongside national churches, in outreach as increasing numbers for whom English is a second language, attend English-speaking churches.

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DEVOTIONAL

by Rev’d Canon Debbie Flach

NO TO NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS You may well have sighed by now but please don’t stop reading just yet as there is a good reason not make New Year resolutions.

I used to spend New Year’s Eve working my way through the things I wanted to do better or to start the next day. ‘Tomorrow, I will go out for a run in the morning; I will use my bicycle instead of the car for short journeys.’ You will have guessed that I do neither. We tend to make resolutions to improve our health. Sometimes we have had a health scare or know someone who has, so we resolve to do better. We know that they are good resolutions and will help us, but we don’t keep them. We are simply rather lazy and they lose importance as the weeks roll on.

What about spiritual resolutions? Do we ever make those? We know that they are vital to our spiritual health and yet we are very often as spiritually lazy as we are about other good ideas.

We are to take care of ourselves as beings inhabited by the Holy Spirit, for God himself is with us. 1 Corinthians 6:19 reminds us that from the moment we responded to God’s call of Love, we are not our own, we have been bought at a great price; therefore we are to honour God with our mind, body and spirit.

that God is King over all, even us. It means that we really do need to make and keep our spiritual resolutions as they have not only immediate, but eternal value.

Whatever it is that God is calling you to do; throughout 2017, step out in the Master’s footsteps. He is the only One that makes any sense in your life; serve Him with all your heart.

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Handing over ownership of decisions and direction for our lives comes hard as it has to be done on a daily basis. Of course we are competent, gifted people, but the competence and gifting comes from God whom we honour by acknowledging

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Debbie Flach

A conversation between ICS churches working with Students

‘As I travel around from North Africa to Amsterdam certain themes appear. Student ministry is one such. In locations far and wide students find their way into our churches, are disciples and then prepared for the next step. Some find faith for the first time, others reconnect. I am impressed by the creativity, energy and importance of this ministry, hence wanting to bring it to your attention. I hope you enjoy this snap shot.’

Richard Bromley

Please explain what student ministry is like in your church Holy Trinity, Utrecht Erik Heemskerk, Student Ministry Coordinator In our church we have a diverse and ever changing group of international students.

They have varying backgrounds, duration of stay and some have only recently become Christian, while others grew up in the faith. We try to nurture spiritual growth and friendship, but also to offer a home to international students who might be lonely or miss spiritual depth when studying in a strange city. We have a broad variety of activities, the core activity being a bi-weekly student bible study (with the coming months being about the Nicene Creed), a movie night and morning prayer and breakfast on Tuesdays. Every year we organise an Alpha course to reach out to students in the city. In the last couple of months, people also took initiative for other social activities to meet each other like having dinner and game nights. In this same way we recently organised a New Year’s Dinner.

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Christ Church, Lille Revd Canon Debbie Flach We welcome students from each continent who arrive in Lille from mid-August until May or June each year. Some of them come for just one semester, others for the academic year and a few who come for two or more years, depending on their studies.

They are all post-graduate students and some with a very high level of achievement behind them already. The larger percentage of those attending worship come for our Sunday evening Praise and Prayer which is followed by a free meal; and around 25% attend worship in the morning. Our aim is to provide a place of welcome, hospitality and friendship. We work on helping them grow spiritually, be challenged, use their gifts and of course, make friends. They go back to so many countries of the world with a greater understanding of their faith and our challenge and encouragement to make a difference for God where they are.

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Lyon Anglican Church Revd Ben Harding The student ministry in our church is relatively small. We have a handful of students who join us for a short period of time and then they go. So it is a bit of a scramble to get to know them quickly, help them to find their place in the community and then say goodbye to them.

Eighteen months ago I started working with Alan Taylor who is the international coordinator for Fusion. We put together a student day, hosted in Lyon together with a number of different church leaders. One of the people who was part of the organising team was the chaplain of the Catholic University which has about 10,000 students of which 2,000 internationals. Together with him we hosted an Alpha course in the University. During Freshers’ week I estimate that 60/70 students came to the first Alpha evening which was phenomenal.

At the following meetings 20/25 students turned up.

I think if we had a team in place we could have been more fruitful. It was the second time we had done this and are getting better and better, however, we suffer from a lack of boots on the ground.

Interestingly two Norwegian students from the Église Réformée, one of our partner churches, picked up leading the Alpha course together with us.

Holy Trinity, Algiers Revd Gus Ketola The students who attend our Friday communion services receive scholarships from their home countries. Many come here to read medicine, engineering or to become interpreters between English and French. Given the restrictions on us as Christians we’re not allowed to visit them in their dormitories. Our relations with them are mainly related to their church attendance. They are encouraged to develop their own Christian groups where they live. Marliese has started helping them in German because a few of them are interested in continuing their studies at a higher level in Germany once they’ve completed their studies here.

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St. Michael’s, Paris Carolyne Powell, Ministry Coordinator Every year St. Michael’s welcomes students from all over the world, studying across Paris whether on a gap year, an exchange program or working as interns. We have two key elements to our student ministry: a weekly evening Bible-study (FOCUS), starting with a simple meal, themes vary and we also include mature Christians from our congregation as guest speakers. We also run a Sunday hospitality ministry (Celebrate!) for students and young graduates to eat out together in local budget-friendly places and to welcome newcomers who arrive throughout the year. St. Michael’s is seen as a warm and safe place where students can meet like-minded people who share the same language and often times, with whom they also share the same practical struggles of university or day-to-day life in France.

St. Martha and St. Mary’s, Leuven Revd Canon Prof Jack McDonald M&Ms has been a student chaplaincy since it began as a daughter church of All Saints’ Waterloo in 1997. This isn’t surprising given the overwhelming presence in the city of the great university KU Leuven, the largest university in Benelux and a member of LERU, Europe’s ultraelite universities. Leuven has been a centre of Christian learning since 1425, and is perhaps best known for being where Erasmus taught.

We also have ETF Leuven, Belgium’s State Protestant-Evangelical university, in the city.

Between them, KUL and ETF provide almost all our congregation, and all our worship and activities are designed to present an open face to students. I’m particularly proud of our monthly ‘dynamic worship’ and of our philosophy café (begun in 2011 by Jeremy Heuslein and still going strong), which present the Christian faith in ways radically different from traditional church services.

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What are the issues for you and the church?

Holy Trinity, Utrecht Our diversity can have its consequences for our student ministry. By focusing on the Nicene Creed we hope to get through as many issues people struggle with as possible, like growth in personal faith, the problem of suffering and what role angels play in this world.

Christ Church, Lille We have been without an International Student Worker for several years and the loss is enormous. We need someone to be the focus point, to create social events and be the first point of pastoral care. We are also well aware of the need to spiritually feed and challenge through high quality preaching.

St. Michael’s, Paris Students usually come for a short time (a few months to up to a year). Many of them have never taken part in a Bible study, let alone been involved in church life before. We see how their time in St. Michael’s is a strategic time for discipleship and growth—and when they are ready to be more involved and serve more, they leave!

Holy Trinity, Algiers Developing relations with the students is important. Our present church council is made up almost entirely of students and so this is one way that I do this. This needs to develop further.

St. Martha and St. Mary’s, Leuven Everyone drones on these days about Europe being a ‘post-Christian society’, where belief and discipleship in Jesus Christ are doomed, where the Christian gospel cannot be defended intellectually and where the least bad Christian scenario is to hide away in small, faithful communities.

What rubbish! I think the very opposite is true: young, clever, insightful, engaged people are attracted to the Gospel if it is presented in ways that mean something to them, if they are not judged or patronised, and if they can find a spiritual home in a real community of friendship and support.

We need to find even better ways of presenting our faith to them, because the materialist alternatives are ruinous and corrosive to their personal development.

Lyon Anglican Church I think that it is hard to build a team of people to receive the new students because students do not arrive until September/October. So we struggled last year to put together a student team but we realised that there were so few students actually in town at the preparation time of May/June to receive the students in September. So you are almost receiving students and trying to build a team at the same time, there is no one and then, they are here.

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‘Many students have never taken part in a Bible study, let alone been involved in church life before...their time is a strategic time for discipleship and growth’

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How would you like to develop the ministry?

Utrecht We would like to continue building a stable group of friends that is open and welcoming to anyone that has interest in discussing the Bible, the Christian faith or seeks friendship. At the same time, we want to offer people a place where they can get inspired to love God and their neighbours more deeply.

Algiers Development of this ministry is limited due to the conditions in which we work. They have their own student fellowship which meets regularly after the Friday communion service. We hope this develops especially since my warden, who is a family man and not a student, will be leaving in a few months. He has been one of their leaders.

Lille With or without a Student Worker we are working to improve everything we offer at Christ Church and also to encourage the students to invest the little spare time they have in sharing their gifts and abilities with us. We would like to respond to their need of a Saturday early evening place to hang out, but currently lack the ability to do so as we are all stretched very thin. God is at work and we are trying to keep up!

St Marc’s, Grenoble At St. Marc’s, Grenoble Tim leads the student ministry this year. He is French, of Protestant origin and is taking a year off university to serve the Lord, he also works for a Christian radio and a charitable Catholic organisation.

He writes: ‘In church we have around twenty students. Every Thursday we encourage them to come to an evening where we share a good meal (made by the Chaplain or the Assistant Chaplain). Then we have a bible study and pray together until half past ten. This year we started to study the book of Acts, one chapter every week and between eight to fifteen people come regularly.’

Paris Eighteen months ago we paused our Sunday evening service that was attended by mostly by students. One of the positive outcomes is the lively intergenerational mix of members during our morning services.

We are currently seeking the Lord’s will in finding the best pattern for our Sunday services.

Leuven Having a parish with a good profile in the universities here, with a full-time chaplain, ordinand and CEMES intern, is already a good start! We’ll have to see what happens after Brexit: if increasing numbers of UK students take advantage of KUL and ETF’s ultra-cheap fees, the English-speaking character of our ministry will make more sense. Otherwise, the obvious shift would be to become a Dutch-speaking parish. I’m unashamedly optimistic about the future which God is preparing for us.

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Lyon I would love to set up a programme or internship. I would love to put someone on the ground who could work with me and the rest of the team from the church supporting student work as there are incredible evangelistic opportunities here in Lyon.

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CH U RCH OF ENG LAND MI NI ST RY E XPE RIE N CE S CH E M E

CEMES (Church of England Ministry Experience Scheme) offers placements in churches for anyone between the ages of 18 and 30, who is exploring a calling to ministry The scheme provides a means of testing God’s calling and is measured against the criteria for selection to ensure experience in all areas is gained. As well as reflection on practical experiences there is also some theological learning and a chance for personal reflection. In 2016, seventeen dioceses ran this scheme, each with its own flavour and nuances, including the Diocese in Europe—the 42nd diocese of the C of E. This year, three ICS chaplaincies are offering such placements: St. John and St. Philip, The Hague, Holy Trinity, Brussels and St. Mary and St. Martha, Leuven.

They introduce themselves here...

Joshua Peckett is discovering ministry in Brussels.

He writes: ‘As I came toward the end of my time at university, earlier this year, I had to decide what to do next. This is not always a straightforward question to answer for students who have spent three or more years cocooned in the eccentricities of a university city. However, for a couple of years I have been exploring a calling to ordained ministry in the Church, and the feeling of calling, nurtured by Christian life at university, had only grown stronger. But I felt I lacked a practical understanding of how ministry plays out living and working in a church community. That is where CEMES and Holy Trinity Brussels come in.

Here are some of the things I’ve done so far: I attended Archdeaconry Synod, where I got to see some of the business/financial meetings, an excellent lecture on religion in Britain and Europe by Professor Grace Davie, met clergy and laity from across Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, including from a diverse range of ministries, such as the Mission to Seafarers in Rotterdam, and ministry in the port at Antwerp.

Back in Brussels, I preach, lead intercessions and the Sunday evening service – mainly attended by people in their 20/30s. Often they work for international companies, for European Institutions or as journalists, which tends to mean they will not be living in Brussels for more than a few years before moving on to a new location. This makes Holy Trinity a place of stability and community for those with itinerant lives.

I have pastoral and educational sessions once a month, lead home group discussions, join sessions of ‘Theology on Tap’—discussing questions of faith in a local bar and work a couple of hours a week in the bishop’s office just down the road.

Amongst all this activity, the important aspect for me is that it helps me gain a deeper understanding of the meaning and outworking of ministry in our Church. Please pray for me and everyone exploring a vocation to ministry; that we may come to inhabit, as well as understand, the meaning of these words: ‘You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit–fruit that will last.’ John 15:16’

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Greetings from St. John and St. Philip, Den Haag!

My name is Fiona Hill and I hail from Yorkshire.

My internship started in September 2016 and will end in June this year. What is my role in The Hague? Perhaps the best way I can answer this question is to explain why I am here, what my aim is, and how I am trying to accomplish my aim.

In February last year, I formally started to explore what my vocation should be and if it lies in the Church of England. Late in the spring of 2016, a university chaplain recommended CEMES to me, so here I am! My aim is to discern in what area of ministry God is calling me to serve. So I am using these ten months to figure this out through practical experience and with the aid of pastoral and theological supervision.

Up to now, I have set up a young adults’ faith and fellowship group, I’m helping to organise the church weekend away in June and I help with administrative tasks, along with other bits and bobs. I am also involved with ministry on a Sunday: leading youth church, preaching, leading services, writing prayers and reading.

I am certainly enjoying my time in The Hague!

SJ&SP’s is a very welcoming church. With the support from the lovely people here and from friends and family back home, I know that through the ministry opportunities I have in front of me, I will be able to discern and affirm what/ who God is calling me to be. It is not without God that we are experiencing this incredible journey, so if you could remember us CEMES interns in your prayers, we would be most grateful!

Hi, I am Annie Bolger and I am placed in my home parish of St. Martha and St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Leuven, Belgium.

Here, I am part of the chaplaincy staff which is uniquely positioned to support the globally diverse, 40,000-member student body of KU Leuven. As a parish, we launch every semester by welcoming new students at the university orientation day.

We continue to meet students through our Fresh Expressions group, ‘P-Cafe’. P-Cafe meets in a local student bar every Tuesday to discuss issues of philosophy, politics, current events and theology.

By holding the group in a cafe, we can invite those who might be uncomfortable in a church setting.

We have a steady attendance of students from a variety of backgrounds.

We enjoy a strong local ecumenical partnership with our Catholic neighbours in Leuven. Recently we devoted a Sunday to Advent celebration, meditation, and confession with our Catholic friends, concluding with a beautiful Anglican Carol Service. We also build ecumenical relationships through leading morning prayer in the KU Leuven theology faculty every Thursday.

In my role as intern, I take part in our Sunday liturgy, lead a home group, plan services and events, attend P-Cafe and morning prayer in the faculty. It is a privilege to join in these ministries and provide people with opportunities to connect with God and others.

Some challenges that we face in our context include the constant struggle to meet our budget, as any student ministry does. We also face a huge congregational turnover each semester (students move on!) which renders us vulnerable. These challenges call forth the best in the staff and PCC to work creatively, sacrificially and flexibly.

I’m grateful for the CEMES experience here at St. Martha and St. Mary’s because I am being stretched to ‘stand on the threshold’—to offer comfort and acceptance to others as they explore their journey of faith. These are gifts that I will carry with me into the future! << Annie is pictured far right

Roger Scoones has been a seasonal chaplain at St. Bernard’s, Wengen for many years. This year he very generously offered to be the chaplain at St. Peter’s, Zermatt for two weeks (27 Dec-10 Jan) before moving onto St. Bernard’s, Wengen. This was his first chaplaincy in Zermatt, here he compares both resorts and ministries.

How is it that you know Wengen and Zermatt so well?

I learnt to ski in Wengen in 1973, then went on to ski in Zermatt in 1976, where I first met the chaplain and his team. In 1978 I joined the Downhill Only Ski Club in Wengen, which kept me in touch with skiing for the future.

So much has changed in the world since the time St. Peter’s and St. Bernard’s were first built, what is the relevance for them in today’s world?

During the summer months in particular, the congregations in both resorts are strongly supported by tourists, indicating an ongoing appreciation of a ministry in English for everyone. Despite many attempts to gather support from English speakers in each place over the years, neither church has found it easy to establish a regular, local congregation or team of helpers for the visiting chaplains.

What makes Zermatt and Wengen different?

Zermatt is a large town with a resident population of more than 5,800, and an estimated tourist population of many thousands more with many more hotels compared to Wengen, which is still a mountain village with a resident population of 1,300, possessing one street of shops and only 20 hotels. Although both resorts are known as ‘car free’ neither can boast that they are any longer traffic free, with the introduction of electric vehicles.

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Zermatt’s English Church is rather hidden away, owing to years of urban development, whereas Wengen’s English church is still widely visible and easily accessible, from the centre of the village. Both resorts are still reached only by railway train.

Having been a chaplain for many years in Wengen, one knows so many people, both Swiss and English, that walking down the street is like walking down the street at home. It is a place of constant encounters and constant conversations, sometimes of a surprisingly spiritual kind. Zermatt on the other hand, is such a large town that the chaplain cannot expect to know or to meet and greet people in the same way. What is important though, is the ministry in and from the church, to visitors, who in both resorts, often find great interest and comfort in seeing the church door open. If the chaplain is there in person, to greet them, the impact can be striking.

One should consider it to be a high calling, to be invited by ICS, to serve as chaplain, in either of these extraordinarily beautiful places, high up in the Swiss Alps, for just two weeks, in the summer or winter. As the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, said in an address to the ICS AGM in Lambeth Palace, ‘mission is about where God is!’ And God is certainly in Zermatt and Wengen, and it’s where we need to be too.’

Zermatt is an incredible place to be, surrounded, as it is, with magnificent mountains and peaks; an outstanding tourist resort in both the summer and winter seasons, besides some of the finest hotel and other accommodation in Swiss the Alps. The church’s history, and its significance to the Alpine Club, in particular, makes it a privilege to serve as chaplain at St. Peter’s, a beautiful Victorian building, lovingly maintained and modernised to meet today’s needs.

By contrast, Wengen’s little gem of a church is very much part of village life and the chaplain is universally recognised as being an actively engaged member of the community. The value of the ministry of the chaplain is equally highly regarded in both resorts. Continuity of ministry by individuals, taking on one or other of these chaplaincies undoubtedly brings a benefit and strength to that ministry.

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RETIRED IN PRAGUE KEEPING BUSY IN DRESDEN Ricky and Sybille Yates I am compiling this article on the same day as the ICS Prayer Diary asks prayer for the Prague Church Council seeking the right way forward for the chaplaincy following my retirement on 30 April 2017. It has been a fascinating congregation to serve for over eight years since Sybille and I came to Prague in September 2008.

The current Church Electoral Roll (CER) stands at sixty and is a fair reflection of the regular congregation. It is interesting in a number of respects. There are sixteen different nationalities, more men than women, one third do not have English as their first language and only 12.5% are aged over sixty. Quite a contrast to the average UK Anglican parish!

Looking back, about two-fifths of the CER were here when we arrived, the other three-fifths have joined since then. It does reflect a greater stability, helped by an increasing number of Czech married to English-speaking couples and their bilingual children. But as in many other European chaplaincies, I have had to cope with a high turnover of congregational members with people only being in Prague for one university term or a one, maybe two-year appointment.

However, one real joy has been not having responsibility for the building in which we worship— we borrow it from the main Czech Protestant Church (Lutheran/Presbyterian). Instead, it has enabled me to concentrate on what the Church really is—the people of God! Over five years ago, the Church Council, looking at ways in which we might grow numerically and spiritually, supported me in seeking to establish a congregation in Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic. We first held a service of Lessons and Carols there on Sunday 18 December 2011 and since then, a regular monthly Sunday evening service.

From Easter Sunday 2014, we have enjoyed the hospitality of the RC Jesuits in their ‘Upper Room’, which is an excellent worship space with a keyboard, effective heating in winter, kitchen and toilet facilities. There is a small, faithful, friendly core congregation but I have to confess that it has not grown in size as I hoped it would.

But at the beginning of 2016, I took on another responsibility in a different country, one I never dreamed of having. Soon after the Frauenkirche in Dresden was rebuilt and reconsecrated in October 2005, a monthly English-language Anglican service of Evening Prayer has been held there, in recognition of the strong links between the Frauenkirche and Coventry Cathedral through the Community of the Cross of Nails. Having previously been overseen by the Berlin Anglican Chaplaincy, responsibility has now been passed to me.

Therefore, for the past fourteen months, once a month I have officiated at services in two different countries. Prague, Czech Republic at 11.00 and Dresden, Germany at 18.00, with a two and a quarter hour train journey in between. What makes officiating at the Frauenkirche even more special for me is that I was born and educated in the city of Coventry. And on Sunday 19 March, as part of a series of evening sermons on the last words of Jesus on the cross, my text is ‘Father forgive’ Luke 23. 34, the words inscribed on the east wall of the ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral.

Whilst I shall retire from full-time ministry in the Czech Republic, I now have episcopal agreement to continue with responsibility for Dresden, also exploring the possibility of a second service being held there each month.

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