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St Luke’s Magazine
September 2016 ÂŁ1
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Stedham with Iping
As you are all aware, Reverend Trish is soon to become Rector of Stedham with Iping in addition to St Luke’s Linch and St Luke’s Milland. We are looking forward to including news and information from Stedham Parish in due course. We have published all the Services for St James Stedham and St Mary Iping
Forthcoming services at St Lukes Milland: Over the next few months we have a number of special and joint Benefice services for your diaries: On the 18th September our ser vice will be followed by drink s and refreshments to celebrate Ted Maslen-Jones’ long contribution to the choir, now that he has decided to join those of us in the pews who need help with our contribution to the hymns. 25th September will be Evensong at 5.00pm Sunday 2nd October will be Harvest Festival service, followed by the Harvest lunch (see separ ate details in this magazine). On the 16th October we celebr ate St Luke’s Tide with a BENEFICE SERVICE at Linch at 10.30 30th October will be a BENEFICE SERVICE at Milland for Chr istian Aid.
A date for your diary..
October 1 - Clean up at Iping Marsh graveyard. More details in the pewsheet nearer the time
www.stlukesbenefice.co.uk St Luke’s Benefice website is now up and running. All services for the whole of the Benefice have been added to the Calendar section. If there are any changes to the services made after the magazine has gone to print - they will appear on the website calendar. It will always be up to date. If you have been unable to attend church for any reason, you will find the pewsheet for previous Sundays with information including details of readings for the coming week on the website. Please let Alison know details of any upcoming church events and she will put them on the website
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From the Rector… The last will be first and the first will be last. On the first of September I will be made Priest-in-Charge of Iping and Stedham, continuing to be Rector of Milland and Linch. We will then become a united benefice of four churches, probably at the beginning of the new year. Which means I will be Rector of Iping with Stedham, Linch with Iping Marsh and Milland. A bit of a mouthful… And who will be first in the list? So if anyone has any ideas for a new benefice name please let me know. The PCCs have been thinking this over but we haven’t yet come up with anything that’s really grabbed us. Though someone did think we should use the first initial of each Parish and came up with SLIM… far too much pressure to live up to that name. As I was writing this we have just had our Wednesday Eucharist Service and the reading was Matthew 20: 1-16, about the generous landowner who paid his workers the same whether they were first to go out and work or whether they were last. It looks unfair in our eyes as the men who worked just an hour at the end of the day got paid the same as those who worked a full day. The passage ends “The last will be first and the first will be last.” Does this help with who goes first in the list? Probably not, however, it does help us realise that it makes no difference to be first or last, we are all treated the same by God. And we must do our best to treat each other as equals. Of course we have all been enjoying the Olympics and it is about being the best getting the gold being first. But also we can see humility. Fiji won their first ever gold medal in the Rugby, they will never come first on the medal table but they have come first in the Rugby and that is good enough. Good enough for the nation of Fiji to call a day’s national holiday. How wonderful that one gold medal can mean so much, whereas, we as a nation want to get as many medals as we can to be first on the medal table. Nothing wrong with that but it’s just a little example of how last can be first depending on one’s outlook. The coming together as a new benefice is an exciting time, yes it means hard
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DIARY DATES SEPTEMBER Sun
4
12.30pm
Linch BBQ
Linch
Sat
10
Ride and Stride
Sat
17
Presentation by Ben and
Bettesworth Room
Katherine Sun
18
Reverend Jeyapaul to preach at all services
Weds 21 Sat
24
Linch PCC 11am
Tuxlith AGM
Tuxlith
Graveyard clean up
Iping Marsh
OCTOBER Sat
1 9.30am
Decorating the Church for the Harvest Festival Service Milland
Sun
2
Harvest Lunch
MAGAZINE DEADLINE 20th November 2016 All copy please to stlukesbenefice@aol.com contact Alison Ireland on 01428 713392 The magazine will be in the Church on the first Sunday of the month.
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St Luke’s Milland 200 Club This month’s winners
1st Betty Way 2nd Julia Hughes 3rd Margaret Dowell Please contact Julian Wells if you would like to join the 200 club.
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From the St Luke’s Milland Church Wardens Summer has arrived at last and we really hope you have been enjoying the lovely weather during August. This is usually a relatively quiet time for the church and this year was no exception. The main event was the Back to Church Benefice Service on Tuxlith Green on 31st July. Whilst there was a good turnout of regulars from both parishes, the response from people who have used the church in recent years for their own special events was disappointing. One can only keep trying, and Trish sets us a wonderful example in this, but sometimes people need to be reminded of the maxim "use it or lose it". By the time you read this, Trish will have been licensed as Priest in Charge of Stedham with Iping, with the creation of a United Benefice likely to follow in the autumn. This is of course excellent news for the long term future, but plans have had to be made for some alteration of service times as Trish cannot be everywhere at once. Milland is very fortunate in having it's Sunday services regularly at 11am and the plan is for this to continue, with the possible exception of the 4th Sundays, when we may sometimes have Evensong, especially in the Summer months and Trish will be able to take most of our services. This is subject to confirmation and on 5th Sundays there will be one Benefice service at alternate churches. In September we very much look forward to having Rev. Jeyapaul as the guest preacher on Sunday19th. Lynne & Michael
Wednesday Eucharist 8.45am Bettesworth Room This takes place on most Wednesdays. Please check the weekly pew sheet for the latest details
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Jottings from the St Luke’s Milland PCC Meeting on 22nd August.
1. The PCC discussed the new United Benefice of Milland, Linch and Stedham and Iping, which will consist of three Parishes and four churches, Stedham and Iping already being a single Parish. Trish will be Licensed as Priest in Charge at Stedham and Iping at the beginning of September and, we anticipate that it will be in early 2017 that she is made Rector of all the churches in the new Benefice. The PCC also reviewed and agreed the Sunday service schedule for the new Benefice which can been seen on the St .Lukes Benefice web site (stlukesbenefice.co.uk). 2. Churchyard: the PCC will seek approval from the Archdeacon of Horsham to replace the Leylandii trees between the new graveyard and Tuxlith green with a low beech hedge, it is hoped to do this in the autumn. The Douglas fir in the same area is also damaged and needs to be removed before it falls down. The repairs need to the metal fencing and cleaning of benches were also discussed. 3. Church Fabric: the major issue at present is the replacement of the damaged and flaking coping (ridge) tiles which looks as if it could cost over £40,000; quotations are now being sought and grants will be applied for as current funds are only sufficient for half this amount; but this will all take some time during which the existing protective scaffolding must stay in place and is costing almost £50 per week. It is not until we start lifting tiles that we shall know the full extent of repairs required to the roof. 4. In addition, work to a doorway is being undertaken by Brian Porter in the Bell Tower and a number of the windows require repair and TLC and funds for this work also needs to be considered. 5. John Dawes stated that he would be retiring from the PCC and Fabric Committee at the 2017 APCM. Trish thanked John for his contribution over many years and this was endorsed by the entire PCC. 6. Safeguarding: the parish’s safeguarding policy is displayed inside the church and will be reviewed at each PCC meeting following the Diocesan guidelines which were circulated. 7. The church has been approached by a West Sussex film production company regarding using St Lukes Milland and Tuxlith chapel for some filming of a childrens’ science fiction film, unfortunately Tuxlith Chapel will be having repairs carried out to its roof with contractors and scaffolding on site at the time of the proposed filming so Trish is waiting to hear if the production company wish to proceed. Dates for filming are currently 6th-8th October and fees would be £400 per day (Tuxlith roof repairs are for several weeks from Sept 12th).
www.stlukesbenefice.co.uk 8. The PCC agreed that Baptisms, when requested, should be held within the normal Sunday morning service and that the Common Worship form of matins was more appropriate than BCP format. 9. A proposed ‘Allocation List of Responsibilities’ was reviewed (and will be posted in the church), which highlighted the declining number of volunteers, especially for setting up the church for services. The costs of cleaning were also highlighted, and Elizabeth Cartwright will approach a number of people to see if a cleaning rota from within the congregation could be established. 10. Sheila Pim reported on the Rake School Leavers Service on 22nd June which had gone extremely well; and Trish confirmed that the class services would recommence at the church in the new term. Sheila also reported Nicky Rhodes had left the school at the end of last term and that she had given her a small decorated cross on behalf of the church. 11. The Treasurer reported on the funds raised at recent events; John Dawes’s son had raised £1980 at the LIBDA bike ride; the Rural fair cake stall had raised £282.50 for each church, the ‘Sanctuary Tent’ had broken even from donations and Sheila and Madeline Oram had raised £180 (£90 for each church) from sale of left over items. £310 had been received in the collection (with Gift Aid) on Back to Church Sunday which the PCC agreed to donate to ‘Voices in Exile’. 12. The PCC agreed that the Harvest collection, along with the Gift Aid would be donated to the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal (the churches being supported in West Africa). 13. It was also confirmed that the mats from the porch had probably been stolen and it was agreed that they be replaced with a large mat marked “Welcome to St Lukes Milland”.
The next PCC Meeting will be on Wednesday 2nd November at the church.
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From the St Luke’s Linch Church Wardens VERBENA – Genus of summer and autumn flowering biennial and perennials, some of which are semi-evergreen. VERBENA BONARIENSIS – Perennial with basal clump of dark green leaves. Upright wiry stems carry tufts of tiny purplish-blue flowers in summer and autumn. (See photo on back page) This is the beauty which has seeded itself around the door and behind Mrs Tull’s bench and is managing to survive despite attempts to remove it in the churchyard spring-clean. Hopefully, we will be able to enjoy it more now we are all aware of it! The churchyard clear-up was as long ago as May and, although we don’t have another date for Linch at present, we are aiming to meet at Iping Marsh on Saturday 1st October. That may seem a long time ahead but we thought you would want to put the date in your diary now. Also looking forward, we will be holding our Harvest Festival on Sunday 2nd October. The produce received at the Church will be going to the Lunch Club at The Peak Centre in Liphook as usual. The service will be followed by a Harvest Lunch in the church. More details to come. We have enjoyed a wonderful summer with many outside events and the next one on the horizon is the famous Linch barbecue which is of course a Benefice event and is to be held in the churchyard on Sunday 4th September. We look forward to a jolly time and to meeting and making new friends from Stedham and Iping. On the 10th September, we will be visited by cyclists and/or walkers involved in the Ride & Stride event so, if you are in the church that day for whatever reason, do give them a warm welcome. Rev. Trish has recently officiated at two weddings at Linch and we would like to send both Frances and Tom and Katie and Alex our best wishes for a long and happy marriage and look forward to welcoming them back to church if they are visiting the area in the future. By the way, in case you were wondering, the carpet in the chancel was taken up before the Battle of the Somme memorial service to avoid it sustaining candle wax injury. That has exposed the pretty tiling but the carpet will probably be reinstated for the winter months – a cosier feel? Carol and David
Notes from Linch PCC
Linch PCC met on Jul 18th and the timing meant they could not be published in last month’s magazine. However, they are available for reading on the website.
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St Luke’s Milland Harvest Festival
On the morning of Saturday October 1, we shall be decorating the church for our Harvest Festival service the following day. We should be most grateful for any contributions of flowers, fruit or vegetables, which may be left in the church on the Friday afternoon or brought along on Saturday morning as near 9.30am as possible. All produce will be distributed locally after the service. The Harvest collection, along with the Gift Aid would be donated to the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal (the churches being supported in West Africa)
St Luke’s Linch Harvest Festival
All produce given at the St Luke’s Linch Harvest Festival service will be given to the Lunch Club at the Peak Centre in Liphook.
Benefice Harvest “Bring and Share” Lunch OCTOBER 2
LINCH CHURCH More details nearer the time in the pewsheet or from Mary Gallagher Don’t forget, you will also need to bring your own cutlery and crockery.
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Five British harvest traditions
Discover the history behind the bringing in of the harvest, from straw dolls for good luck to a gift of salmon for the vicar. 1. In the UK the harvest festival, also known as the harvest home, is traditionally celebrated on the Sunday nearest the harvest moon. This is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox (22 or 23 September). Normally falling towards the end of September, or early October, the harvest festival is the closest thing we have to a day of thanksgiving. Although today we can plan a fixed day for this celebration, in the past the harvest festival differed, based on when all the crops had been brought in. The whole community, including children, needed to help right up until the end, as lives depended on the success of the harvest. 2. Harvest celebrations pre-date Christianity, but it has always been seen as a very spiritual time to give thanks for the year’s crop. Symbolic corn dolls, made out of the last sheath of the harvest, were placed on banquet tables when parishes had their huge feasts. The doll was then kept until the spring to ensure the continuation of a good crop next year. This custom began with Saxon farmers, who believed the last sheath contained the spirit of the corn. They would sacrifice this corn along with a hare – normally one hiding in the crop although later there was no sacrifice and model hares were made out of straw instead. This then led to the making of corn dolls, which were hung up in farmhouses, and which were supposed to represent the goddess of the grain. 3. The word harvest normally makes us think of agriculture, but many harvest celebrations exist around the country that celebrate another type of reaping. There are about 24 festivals that give thanks for the fishing seasons. In October, in Billingsgate, London, there’s the Harvest of the Sea Thanksgiving, where fish and netting decorate the church. These festivals arose in many fishing towns and villages, where the locals depend largely on fishing for a living. A tradition in North Shields, during the Blessing of the Salmon Fishery, is to give the first salmon catch to the vicar. 4. Lammas day or Lughnasadh is the day to celebrate bread! On the 1st August locals were encouraged to take a loaf to the service to celebrate the first reaping of the crops. It’s the first wheat harvest festival of the year and celebrates the continuing summer, along with the beginnings of the first crop. It originated as a pagan festival, and the Celts celebrated the God of Lugh on this day. It was only later it became a festival for the harvest, and although it’s no longer very well known, some Christian and pagan communities still celebrate it. 5. From the first harvest celebration, to the last – St Michael’s Mass, on the 29thSeptember, celebrates the end of the productive season. Also known as Michaelmas, it signifies a time when all the harvest should have been brought in. Its beginnings can be traced to the 5th century when the cult of St Michael spread to Western Christianity. During the Middle Ages it was celebrated as a huge religious feast, and the harvest traditions grew from there. Fairs with market stalls and games, and churches decorated autumnal and gold, sprung up around this festive time. People also ate geese on this day, said to bring financial protection for the next year.
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Thought for the Month
by William Alcock
The new ladybird books Most if not all of us are familiar with the ladybird books which we probably encountered in the sixties, either as children or young parents. These small books, with their simple format of text on the left-hand page and a colour picture on the right, covering a wide range of subjects, have found their way into countless homes. They were, for the most part, remarkably accurate, authoritative and wholesome. In the past few years an entirely new series has appeared outwardly resembling the old books. But a glance at the titles suggests that the contents may strike a different note. To take three, "The Husband", "The Wife", and intriguingly, "The Midlife Crisis", these do not seem at first sight to be titles for children's books, and a peep inside the covers tends to confirm this. The readership is surely aimed at grown-ups, and it soon becomes clear that the viewpoint has moved on a long way from any Christian standpoint. Overall the tone of the books reflects much contemporary belief that life is based mainly on individual rights, coupled with self-fulfilment, indeed self gratification. The three books mentioned above clearly involve much about marriage and relationships, and it is no surprise to find these are regarded more as a matter of personal convenience to the individuals concerned than with loyalty, mutual trust, and love. For example, we find in "The Midlife Crisis" that Phil does not regret leaving his wife and that Cathy (whose youngest has just left home) has started an affair with the man at the cooker showroom. Indeed any reference to a true bond between husband and wife is hard to find in the books mentioned. In "The Husband" where Nerys and Ross are depicted in hospital after the arrival of their baby, we are told that " Ross is looking at the nurses. Husbands like nurses". In the round, love and commitment between husbands and wives is not a keynote of family life as presented in this new series of ladybird books. It has to be said however, that this tallies well with contemporary life as we know it today, and as such is no doubt realistic; but whether dissemination of this very self centred approach to marriage relationships is good and wholesome, especially in the guise of books hitherto associated with children's reading is questionable. A clue to the viewpoint which lies behind these books may be detectable in the following quote from a reasonably up-to-date systematic working title social policy in a changing world which explains the aim and object of our lives thus:" the journey of life as an individual experience; we are born alone and we shall go to the grave alone. In between there is the journey of life, a journey that we share with others but a journey in which we do not lose our sense that we are also distant (from each other)". A very bleak view surely of human life and one which seems to omit much of what is best in it, for example love, loyalty, mutual trust, and faith. We are a long way from Jesus when he said" thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself".
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The Shopper’s Prayer
Lord… when the stores call out my name,
help me not to play the game. Remind me what I have at home, the ‘bargains’ I already own! When ‘open open’ fills my ears, replace them with my chequebook fears. Protect me, Lord, from senseless greed, For simple things are all I need. Author unknown
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SERVICES FOR SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 4 September Linch 11.00 am Readings Sidesmen
15th Sunday after Trinity Benefice Service; Family Communion Jeremiah 18: 1 – 11; Philemon 1 – 21; Luke 14: 25 - 33 Madeleine Oram and Greg Carter Followed by the annual BBQ
No Service at Milland, Stedham or Iping SUNDAY 11 September 16th Sunday after Trinity Stedham 9.30am Parish Eucharist followed by refreshments Officiant: Canon Nigel Nicholson Linch
Milland
9.30 am Readings Sidesmen
Holy Communion Jeremiah 4:11 – 12, 22 – 28; 1 Timothy 1: 12 – 17; Luke 15: 1 - 10 James Caulfeild and Mary Turton
11.00am Lessons Sidesman Readers
Matins Jeremiah 4:11 – 12, 22 – 28; Luke 15: 1 - 10 Julia Hughes Julian Wells and Flick Langley
SUNDAY 18 September 17th Sunday after Trinity Stedham 9.30am All age Eucharist followed by refreshments Officiant: Reverend Anthony Smyth
Linch
9.30 am Readings Sidesmen
Matins Jeremiah 8: 18 – 9: 1; 1 Timothy 2: 1 – 7; Luke 16: 1 - 13 Lorraine Grocott and William Alcock
Reverend Jeyapaul will be preaching at this service Milland
11.00am Lessons
Holy Communion Jeremiah 8: 18 – 9: 1; 1 Timothy 2: 1 – 7; Luke 16: 1 - 13 Sidesman Bob Ireland Readers Janet Price and Maureen Keel Reverend Jeyapaul will be preaching at this service
Iping
11am
Matins Officiant:
Jan Sayers
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SUNDAY 25 September 18th Sunday after Trinity Stedham 9.30am Harvest Service followed by refreshments Officiant: Reverend Bill Johnston Linch
9.30 am Readings Sidesmen
Milland
5.00 p.m. Lessons Sidesman Readers
Holy Communion Jeremiah 32: 1 – 3a, 6 – 15; 1 Timothy 6: 6 – 19; Luke 16: 19 - end Lesley Aylwin and Margaret Young Baptism of Jack Appleton during this service Evensong at Tuxlith for St Michael and all Angels Revelations 12: 7 – 12; Matthew 18: 1 - 10 Harry Scott Leslie Lloyd and Harry Scott
SUNDAY 2 October Harvest; 19th Sunday after Trinity Linch 9.30 am Holy Communion Readings Lamentations 1: 1 – 6; 2 Timothy 1: 1 – 14; Luke 17: 5 - 10 Sidesmen Mary and Joe Gallagher and David Angela Milland
11.00am Lessons Sidesman Readers
Iping
Harvest Service Lamentations 1: 1 – 6; 2 Timothy 1: 1 – 14; Luke 17: 5 - 10 Michael Cartwright Janet Farnes and Michael Cartwright
11am Matins Officiant:Jan Sayers
The SMILE
We have had a suggestion for a new name for our church magazine. We are now including the Stedham Services in the magazine and will gradually be including more news from Stedham with Iping. The new benefice will no longer be “St Luke’s Benefice” and the magazine name of St Luke’s will need to change. The SMILE stands for Stedham, Milland, Iping, Linch Edition. What do you think? Any new name will have to be approved by both PCC’s and churchwardens. Please let them know what your thoughts are.
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The soldier who became a martyr
The city of St Albans in Hertfordshire is today home to thousands of London commuters. Its history is as a thriving market town and its magnificent abbey cathedral is world famous. Nearby are the remains of the town the Romans knew as Verulamium - an important stopping-off point on Watling Street, the road to the north. Sometime during the Roman occupation, before Christianity was adopted as the official religion of the empire, Christians suffered much cruel persecution. Alban, or Albanus, is said to have been a Roman soldier who sheltered a Christian priest in his home. He was so struck by the priest’s faith and godliness that he asked to be instructed in the faith and to be baptised. When soldiers came to arrest the priest, Alban put on the priest’s cloak, hid his face and allowed himself to be taken. When the local governor realised the deception, he instructed Alban to worship the pagan gods. Alban refused, though he knew that to defy the governor and deny the pagan gods meant certain death. Alban was taken in chains to the place of execution, but on the way he had to cross a river. His way was blocked by the crowds who had come to witness his end. He prayed that the river would dry up so that he could cross quickly to his martyrdom and his prayer was miraculously answered.
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www.stlukesbenefice.co.uk But that is not quite the end of the story. The executioner was so impressed by Alban’s miracle that he refused to do his duty. He threw aside his sword and declared that he, too, was a Christian. A replacement headsman was summoned and the two men were beheaded together. The exact date of Alban’s death has been disputed by historians and the legend has undoubtedly been embroidered over time, but there is no doubt that the reputation of a brave martyr who challenged the Romans became a source of great inspiration to later generations. He has been hailed as the first British martyr and for centuries his relics drew pilgrims to the abbey in the city that now bears his name.
Answers to the Crossword Puzzle (at the back of the magazine) ACROSS: 8, Kiriath Jearim. 9, Toe. 10, Ill at ease. 11, Hated. 13, Miletus. 16, Started. 19, Micah. 22, Leviticus. 24, Eli. 25, Mary and Joseph. DOWN: 1, Sketch. 2, Priest. 3, Samizdat. 4, Shalom. 5, Wept. 6, Breast. 7, Embers. 12, Art. 14, Limassol. 15, UNA. 16, Salome. 17, Adverb. 18, Decade. 20, Clever. 21, Height. 23, Tear.
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CofE apps grow in popularity Church House Publishing has marked a new milestone in its Church of England apps programme, with over 200,000 first-time downloads. Many of those who download the apps are using them routinely as part of their prayer life. Use of the Daily Prayer app – shortlisted for App of the Year at the Premier Digital Awards – was up 300% in May 2016, with 12,500 monthly users – enough to fill St Paul’s Cathedral five times over. App downloads now account for around one in five Church House Publishing products. Apps like Reflections and Lectionary have moved from being novelties to being ‘normal’ for users. They allow instant, fuss-free access to resources for prayer and Bible study worship, wherever you are. The typical time spent on Daily Prayer is six minutes forty-two seconds. That is five times longer than the average for an app. Details of the full range of CUP apps are at: www.chpublishing.co.uk/apps
TRIP TO ST.PAUL'S CATHEDRAL LONDON. Bill Johnston is arranging a trip by bus to St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday 28th September. The cost of tr anspor t is in the region of £20 plus entr y fees. We hope to leave around 9-30 or 10-00 fr om Midhur st and return from London around 3-30pm. Of cour se you may want to do something else while in London and you are free to do so. If you would like to join us or want more details please contact Bill on 01428 741131
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Stef Reid – Christian paralympic athlete on her way to Rio
A woman whose courage and determination have got her to the top. Stef Reid is a paralympic athlete. She does long-jump and also sprints. In the 2008 Paralympics she won a bronze medal in the 200 metres and in 2012, a silver medal in the long jump. She has broken the world record for long-jump in the F44 (below the knee amputees) class several times. She had a life-changing accident in her teens as she describes: “I was in a boating accident when I was 16. The propellers caught me across my lower back. The water around me was blood red. I thought I had been cut in half. The next issue was that we were three hours away from a half-decent hospital. “I survived but unfortunately the leg was so mangled that it had to be amputated. So I was really thankful to be alive. But with my love for sport, I was absolutely devastated. The stuff that you love to do, you are told that you cannot do it any more. I don’t come from a Christian family but my parents sent me to a Christian school. We had Bible classes. I had a very good head knowledge of the Bible but it wasn’t a major part of my life. Everything changed when I was in the accident. I remember lying in the ambulance. I was scared because I knew in my heart that I wasn’t going to heaven. I did not know God. I had never asked Him what His plan was for my life. I remember praying for a second chance. It was a complete miracle that I survived the accident. I know that God had a hand in that. I also know that by me not dying, I still had a purpose here. There is a reason for me to be here and it completely changed my perspective. It changed me as a person and I committed my life to Him in the ambulance. Now, I look at things from the perspective of hope. I have always got hope. I think that is the biggest difference”. In September 2016 Stef will represent Britain in the Paralympics in Rio.
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The Road Less Travelled
Katerina Willson has suggested a new feature for the magazine with the above name. Katerina thought it would be a good idea for people to send in photo’s of churches “off the beaten track” that others could find and enjoy if they are in the near vicinity. The church which inspired this thought for Katerina is St Martyn's, Pen-yclawdd in Monmouthshire. Pen-y-clawdd is located about two miles east of Raglan and five miles southwest of Monmouth, on the road leading from Usk to Monmouth, to the east of the A449 The church is a Grade II listed building as of 1953. The churchyard contains a churchyard cross which is a Scheduled monument ('nationally important' archaeological site or historic building,
given protection against unauthorised change). The church consists of a chancel, nave, south porch
and a western tower with pyramidal stone roof. There is a stained glass east window. The register dates from 1727. The tower contains one bell, cast by Evans of Chepstow in 1793, with the inscription "Success to this City". A major restoration of the church was undertaken in 1885/86 and included the raising of the tower by about 8 feet (2.4 m) and the removal of chancel benches, the nave box pews and benches, and the twodecker pulpit and reading desk. A sepulchral slab, dated from the 14th Century, was discovered at this time.
Thank you to Katerina for sending in the photograph of St Martyn's and suggesting this feature. If you know of an interesting church that others might enjoy visiting, please send in your ©Copyright Philip Halling and pictures. We are happy to source information licensed for reuse about it if not much is known about it.
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Back to School - facing that first Day
No matter how old we are, we can probably remember our first day at school – being left at the door, meeting children we did not know, separated from the adults we did know and had trusted since the day we were born. But on the other hand, there was the excitement: a big step along the road of life, new friends to make, another adult to become important in our lives. Yes, quite a lot to handle when you’re rising five! And that’s what hundreds of thousands of children are going to experience this month. Parents may have prepared them for it, and they may in a slightly apprehensive way be looking forward to it, but it must feel to the five year old like a massive step into the unknown. Not much less is the anxiety of mum, who leaves her precious child, proudly resplendent in their new school uniform, in the Reception class-room. Will he or she suddenly panic, and cry for that familiar parental cuddle? Will they feel abandoned in an alien setting? Will they like the teacher? Of course we’ll be praying for them, and we know that like millions of others before them they will very probably eventually decide that their school-days were the best of their lives. But end of class can’t come soon enough for mum on that first day! How wonderful when they come running out, laughing and excited, clutching a piece of paper with some obscure crayon marks on it – written evidence of their first day’s education.
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September Crossword Across 8 Where the ark of the covenant was kept for 20 years (1 Samuel 7:1) (7,6) 9 One of the parts of the body on which blood and oil were put in the ritual cleansing from infectious skin diseases (Leviticus 14:14–17) (3) 10 Uncomfortable (3,2,4) 11‘Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have — ’ (Malachi 1:3) (5) 13 Where Paul said farewell to the elders of the church in Ephesus (Acts 20:17) (7) 16 ‘Jesus bent down and — to write on the ground with his finger’ (John 8:6) (7) 19 Prophet from Moresheth (Jeremiah 26:18) (5) 22 Comes between Exodus and Numbers (9) 24 and 2 Down ‘Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy ministered before the Lord under — the — ’ (1 Samuel 2:11) (3,6) 25 There was no room for them in the inn (Luke 2:7) (4,3,6) Down 1 Rough drawing (2 Kings 16:10) (6) 2 See 24 Across 3 Underground literature (including Christian books) circulated in the Soviet Union (8) 4 Lo, mash (anag.) (6) 5 The Bible’s shortest verse: ‘Jesus — ’ (John 11:35) (4) 6 ‘Can a mother forget the baby at her — and have no compassion on the child she has borne?’ (Isaiah 49:15) (6) 7 Can be seen in a dying fire (Psalm 102:3) (6) 12 ‘Send me, therefore, a man... experienced in the — of engraving, to work in Judah and Jerusalem’ (2 Chronicles 2:7) (3) 14 Second city of Cyprus (8) 15 United Nations Association (1,1,1) 16 One of the women who first heard that Jesus had risen from the dead (Mark 16:1) (6) 17 Braved (anag.) (6) 18 — of Evangelism, outreach initiative in the 1990s (6) 20 ‘Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and — in their own sight’ (Isaiah 5:21) (6) 21 ‘Neither — nor depth... will be able to separate us from the love of God’ (Romans 8:39) (6) 23 What Jesus shed in 5 Down (4)
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Church Notices that didn’t quite make it… A talk on drugs will be given at the next Mothers’ Union meeting. This will be followed by a Bring and Buy Sale. A sudden gust of wind took all who were at the ceremony by surprise. Hats were blown off and copies of the vicar’s speech and other rubbish were scattered over the site. The Rector is on holiday this month. Local clergy will be celebrating with us all the Sundays that he is away. Don’t allow anxiety to kill you. Let the church help. Don’t miss the Young Wives’ Victorian evening next month. It will be a fun night and some of the women will wear clothes.
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Children rolling up their sleeves to help Trish with the washing up during the family service and baptism at Linch' Back to Church Sunday
Verbena: See Linch Churchwardens Report