Partnerships Sharing Area
We are members of one Diocesan family accompanying each other on the same journey of renewal. As we move forward together we have the opportunity not only to develop our own partnerships but to contribute ideas and approaches that might be helpful to those in other areas too.
This section contains various ideas and approaches that we get to hear about from partnerships. However, we can only get to hear about them if you tell us, so please provide us with anything you feel might be suitable.
Continue to share your ideas and approaches through one of the following contacts:
Cleveland and South Durham: Andrew Gillingham
Newcastle and North Tyneside: Amy Cameron
Northumberland: Fiona Standfield
South Tyneside and Gateshead: Jeff Ledger
Sunderland and East Durham: Katherine Nugent
Latest Items:
Pontop Partnership – Confirmation Course
Bishop Robert confirmed 43 of the young people of the Pontop Partnership in a packed St. Patrick's Church, Consett, following on from their participation in the Partnership Confirmation Programme and we are about to launch a joint Programme for the whole Partnership for the third consecutive year. We mostly draw candidates from our local Catholic Secondary School, St. Bede's Catholic School and Sixth Form Centre, Lanchester, but anyone Year 9 or above from any school is welcome.
December 2019
Jesmond St. Mary – Confirmation Course
The Confirmation Course has begun with an excellent start and a large number attending. The first session was looking at Baptism and the second session held recently explored five key questions – How do I see God? How do I see the church? What is good and bad about the Church? Who do I belong to? What gifts do I have? The next session is on Sunday 8 December at St. Teresa’s Catholic Church, Heaton.
November 2019
Sharing Your Ideas
One year on from the establishment of the 18 Partnerships in our Diocese, it was felt to be timely to provide every Partnership with the opportunity to review the year. Each Partnership completed a short review and the responses make for a very rich source of information about what is going well and what are the main challenges going forward. A document has been produced as a compilation of the ideas and approaches that Partnerships offered in their responses. Entitled ‘Sharing your Ideas’, it is available here (pdf - word).
Archive:
2019:
Partnership name Date Topic John Ingram Juy 2019 Garden Party Finchale June 2019 Partnership Event at Ushaw Seaton Delavel June 2019 Partnership Mass Blackfriars June 2019 Pentecost Finchale June 2019 Open Afternoons Escomb June 2019 Day of Recollection St. Mary the Virgin May 2019 Partnership Day Blackfriars May 2019 Day for Readers and Eucharistic Ministers Blackfriars April 2019 Partnership Progress Report Blackfriars March 2019 Being the Prodigal Son Blackfriars March 2019 Space for Grace – Our Call to Holiness Jesmond St. Mary March 2019 Liturgy of Mercy Service
2018:
2017:
Partnership name Date Topic Blackfriars Sept 2017 Partnership early planning stages St. Mary the Virgin August 2017 Partnership early planning stages
Some Food For Thought
During our Forward Together in Hope journey we gathered from Parish Questionnaires some of the many ideas and activities that were put forward as examples that might be of interest to others. These were collated and published in June 2016 as a 20-page booklet under the title ‘Some Food for Thought’. It is made available again here (pdf - word) as a reminder of the approach and a resources that can be dipped into.