2013 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

74 COLLEGE NEWS I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
formerly been for an ordinand, so that he has been able to assist with the taking of
services and other activities this year. The practicalities of setting up and clearing away
for services have been ably handled by a fine team of Chapel Secretaries (who act rather
like sidespersons in a parish) consisting of James Lofthouse (who sadly leaves us this
year), Alex Kite, Jon Sanders, Sarah Woods, Izabela Kujawiak, Tim Waghorn, and
Tim Gray, under the supervision of the two Chapel Clerks, Hanna Weibye and Sarah
Dane. Hanna deserves particular mention as she steps down this year, after being a Clerk
or Secretary almost continuously since 2003. Our ordinands’ funds currently support six
students in training for ministry in the Church of England who live at Westcott House
and Ridley Hall while taking courses through the College, two of whom,
Olivia Maxfield-Coote and Ruben Angelici, have assisted in the life of the Chapel this
year. This makes us one of the key colleges for training ordinands in Cambridge.
So much of our worship is tremendously enriched by our very talented choirs who
continue to go from strength to strength. Our Director of Chapel Music, Mark Williams,
writes elsewhere about their activities, but I would like to acknowledge here his constant
support in the regular life of the Chapel and continual vision to encourage the choirs to
do new and exciting things, such as the extraordinary collaboration with the charity
Songbound in Mumbai this year. Over the Christmas vacation I also had the pleasure of
accompanying the choirs on their tour of the West coast of the United States, singing for
various concerts and services in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco. The restored Sutton
organ, blessed by the Bishop of Chelmsford in the Easter term in the presence of the
benefactor who so generously enabled its restoration, is a wonderful addition to our
ensemble of instruments in Chapel.
This year, in addition to the many weddings of former and current students and staff,
has also seen the baptism of two staff children (Ted Spragg and Lucie Thulborn) as well
as the child of a graduate student (Florence Stone). Regular collections at services
enabled us to raise over £3000 for our chosen charities: the Children’s Society, FLACK
(who work with homeless people in Cambridge), the Salmon Youth Centre, the Jesus
College Ethiopia foundation which supports children with disabilities in Ethiopia,
the Church Urban Fund, and Songbound. In all these many and varied ways I hope the
Chapel continues to be faithful to the vision of the College’s founders, to be a centre of
Christian worship and teaching reaching out in service to every member of this College
community and beyond.
Members of the College community gather for the first Evensong of Michaelmas term