Tonight we said a cheery farewell to the Markets' very own Listening Vicars with a special farewell tea in Cafe Cenno.
Also known as the 'vicars with the snickers' and the 'revs with the eggs', Andrew Hall and Ian Rutherford have been paying regular visits to Durham Indoor Market over the last academic year,
providing a valuable listening ear to stallholders and making many friends!
Many have found their input really valuable, helping to relieve the stresses and strains that many retailers are feeling in the current financial climate.
Yet as well as keeping us supplied with delicious treats at both Christmas and Easter, they've also spent time creating unique films of traders reading the Psalms of Ascents, which you can catch here: http://goo.gl/eGT7c.
Both Andrew and Ian are ordinands from St John's College's Cranmer Hall, and this summer, they are are graduating, fully fledged, to embark on new lives in spiritual ministry - Andrew within the Church of England and Ian as a methodist minister.
Fortunately we have not lost our pastoral care altogether... Susan Hill and Chris Jameson-Gates from St Nicholas' Church in the Market Place and Neil Collin from St John's College have kindly agreed to take up the baton and no doubt we will see them around the Market very soon.
Left to right: Neil, Susan and Chris from St Nic's, Markets MD Colin Wilkes, Ian and Andrew and a plate of scones! :-)
We'd like to thank Ian and Andrew for all their input this last year. All the very best in your new lives, good luck and God bless, and hope to see you back here very soon.
Also known as the 'vicars with the snickers' and the 'revs with the eggs', Andrew Hall and Ian Rutherford have been paying regular visits to Durham Indoor Market over the last academic year,Many have found their input really valuable, helping to relieve the stresses and strains that many retailers are feeling in the current financial climate.
Yet as well as keeping us supplied with delicious treats at both Christmas and Easter, they've also spent time creating unique films of traders reading the Psalms of Ascents, which you can catch here: http://goo.gl/eGT7c.
Never has a project captured our retailers in quite this way... Much fun was had by all! :-)
Both Andrew and Ian are ordinands from St John's College's Cranmer Hall, and this summer, they are are graduating, fully fledged, to embark on new lives in spiritual ministry - Andrew within the Church of England and Ian as a methodist minister.
Fortunately we have not lost our pastoral care altogether... Susan Hill and Chris Jameson-Gates from St Nicholas' Church in the Market Place and Neil Collin from St John's College have kindly agreed to take up the baton and no doubt we will see them around the Market very soon.
Left to right: Neil, Susan and Chris from St Nic's, Markets MD Colin Wilkes, Ian and Andrew and a plate of scones! :-)
We'd like to thank Ian and Andrew for all their input this last year. All the very best in your new lives, good luck and God bless, and hope to see you back here very soon.
'May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields,
and until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.'
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.'
- A Gaelic blessing.
thank you for your kind words, be assured of our ongoing prayers for the listening service and we promise to visit when we can.
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