2007
Welcome to the website of the Yorkshire Churches on Show
10, 11 & 12 July: Yorkshire Churches on Show
In the Church Pavilion at the
Great Yorkshire Showground
. The theme in 2007 is 'Bridging the Gap' – signs of hope in
a broken world '. The displays and activities helped visitors
explore how reconciliation is brought about in our lives and world.
The key text upon which these ideas are developed is 2 Corinthians
5.18: “God has done it all. He sent Christ to make peace between himself
and us, and has given us the work of making peace between himself and
others.”
Familiar
images from everyday life in the community, as well as larger world news
events, are expected focus on tensions and challenges encountered in
our world, contrasted and set alongside images that demonstrate reconciling
love and signs of hope, taken from both the church and wider community.
A Prayer
Pool and a Bridge of Hands created by the many visitors illustrated
shared concerns and hopes
.
Where are the broken places? What is the response of the
Church? How does God respond to this brokenness? What's going
on at corporate level, at individual level?
The displays at the YCoS 2007 demonstrate Christian responsibility, bridging the gap in ourworld. Signs of Hope will include responses to rural and industrial collapse and pain.
The Prayer Pool drew many requests for God's intervention and comfort, and a Bridge of Hands was created with the desires of visitors for reconciliation, shared concerns and hopes
Midday prayers were led by the Mothers' Union (pages
1
&
2
, pdf 340kb each) the Catholic church (
Canticle of the Creatures
, pdf 358kb) and
the Free Church. This litany each day included the response 'Father
forgive':
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. In our rural
life we ask forgiveness, remembering these things:
Family feuds which generate years of pain down the generations
Abuse of creation, leaving scars caused by greed
Suffering caused to animals, through neglect or bad practice
Taking for granted the food we eat and those who produced
it
Buying cheap food and ignoring those who are paid ever
less
Being indifferent to those who work the land in all weathers
Ignoring those who work for very little, or have no work
Forgetting the rural homeless and those in hidden rural
poverty
Not hearing the pain of those who suffer.
The pride which leads us to trust in opurselves and not
in God. Be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another
as God in christ has forgiven you. Amen
(Based on the Litany of Reconciliation, said daily at
noon in
Coventry Cathedral
)
You can take a look at some of the comments that people made by
clicking here....Comments
Last year saw the launch of the
campaign to support local farming - with corresponding
impacts on global Fair Trade initiatives - on the Tuesday of the GYS;
background paper '
Fair and Free
' (pdf 74kb) available on this website.
Yorkshire Church on Show is supported by the Anglican Dioceses of Bradford, Ripon and Leeds, Sheffield, Wakefield and York, along with the Baptist Union, Quaker Outreach in Yorkshire, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds, the Salvation Army and the Methodist Districts of Darlington, Leeds, West Yorkshire and York and Hull.
2007
Last updated October 8, 2007
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