TRINITY CHURCH HONLEY Newsletter November 2016
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Trinity Church (Methodist-URC) Moorbottom Honley HD9 6DN
Trinity Church November 2016 Minister / Organiser
Vestibule Stewards
Church Stewards
Flowers
Coffee team Pat Waite +
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Kath Beetlestone
Linda & Stephen Craven
Margaret Sheppard Pam Redfearn
Kathryn Butters
Ann Hirst Rachel Boothroyd
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WW1 Hospital Memorial Service
Jean Wood Di Harris
Glenys Pallister Pat Waite
Noreen Brooke
Barbara Leach Joyce Draper
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Rev Richard Thompson will lead a Taize service– an opportunity for quiet meditation and prayer Rev Helen Roberts 0930 Holy Communion Wendy Peach 20** Bob & Jane Armitage Anne Meadows Abigail Fieldsend Margaret Armitage 1030 Service includes baptism Maureen Burley Alan Fawcett Margaret Armitage Jean Wood 27 1030 Brian Williams Flower Fund John Murray Penny Winterbottom Audrey Hawkswell
What we say, and what we don’t say. by Rev Helen Roberts I have been thinking lately about what we talk about and what we don’t. We have different ranges of subjects with different people – comment on the weather with a stranger at the bus stop, deep heart to hearts with a close friend, or technical answers to the doctor. We notice the new things and ask about changes – I have lost some of the excess weight lately and that has provoked lots of conversations, and have found it really easy to be telling people about the plan I am following, quite the diet evangelist! And then there are our favourite topics – you know, that thing you can bore for Britain about if given a chance to build up speed, and the favourites of others that make your eyes glaze over! We often end up saving those subjects for when we are with likeminded others, or else the conversation is like playing tennis alone. But alongside the things we talk about, there are the things we don’t talk about. Sometimes it is because they are difficult or very painful things, I write in a week when parliament heard stories from members who have lost children at or near birth, challenging the silence. Other tough things in life are gradually getting more spoken about including Mental Health, At the Methodist Mission in Lord St, Huddersfield there will be two evenings discussing mental ill health: Nov 1st on the personal aspects of mental health and Nov 8th looking at the issues as a wider society. Whilst those of us who came to the ‘Coping with death’ café time mid-October had some really good and helpful conversations. And sometimes we don’t talk about things because they are so normal we don’t feel the need to mention them. That silence might be about some of the most mundane things in life or some of the most profound things, including our faith, the things where we struggle to find words to do justice to the depth of the experience, but trying to speak is important. We may be better at breaking the silence about the reminder that it is bin day, than the reminder that someone is special, precious and loved. We can assume people know, but everyone is richer from hearing it, and I think it is good for the one doing the telling too. So what do you talk about – and what do you find it hard to discuss? Who do you talk to about the big issues in life? And when did you last actually tell people that you love them? Day
**Junior Church – on the third Sunday of the month * 13th November. A service to commemorate the opening of Honley Auxiliary Hospital on 1st November 1916. Peter Marshall will talk about its history Pictured– the hospital plaque which is on the west transept wall.
Date Events in November 8
Tuesday Fellowship in The Arthurs’ Room at 2.30. Speaker Jane Weaver, of SIFT (A Christian charity- Seed International Fund Trust) ‘Sowing seeds of hope in Nicaragua’ . All welcome. More info at http://www.seed-trust.com
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Holmfirth Methodist Leisure Group Meet at Meltham Methodist church at 1100 for walk, picnic lunch and talk
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Honley Civic Society / Trinity Church walk. Starts Trinity at 2.15. Circular walk to Honley Woods, led by Bert Neary.
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Tuesday Fellowship in The Arthurs’ Room at 2.30. Speaker Vanessa Stewart (Trustee and Volunteer Administration for the Huddersfield charity Christian African Relief Trust)
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Trinity Events in DECEMBER Saturday & Sunday 3rd & 4th– Christmas Tree Festival. / Tuesday 6th Pram Service at 11.00 am
Tuesday Fellowship hears about help for Romanian orphans. Report by Rachel Boothroyd
Wet walkers break for tea
Mr Eric Lee was the speaker at the Tuesday Fellowship meeting on October 11th. He described how he went to Romania in 1998 at which time there were 100,000 abandoned and disabled children kept in awful conditions in orphanages. A year later he was able to set up six homes for the charity 'Hope and Homes for Children' in Romania to provide care and education for orphaned children who then flourished in the new conditions. The Charity expanded its work and now there are fewer than nine thousand still in the orphanages. The meeting was chaired by Mrs. Margaret Sheppard ‘Hope and Homes for Children is an international charity working to ensure that all children have the chance to grow up in the love of a family. ‘Our vision is a world in which children no longer have to suffer institutional care ‘In Romania, the closure of the Floare de Colt orphanage alongside the work to close ten more institutions, means we found loving families for all the children who lived there. We are firmly on track to close every last orphanage in the country by 2022.’
Letters to the Editor. Please always put your address and the date on your letters. Our address is: Editor at trinity.news@ntlworld.com, or the back righthand pew, or 27 Moorside Rd, HD9 6HR.
The Flower Corner ♣ From Nora Hill, Southgate Honley. 24 September Thank you very much for the beautiful flowers that Sylvia brought for me after my surprise stay in Hospital. ♣ From Marjorie Woodhead, Meltham Road,. 2 Oct I would like to thank you all for your good wishes sent to me during my recent illness. Also for the beautiful flowers which really brightened up my day. Thank you once again. ♣ From Dorothy Bray, Marsh Gardens, 3 October To All at Trinity Church; It was a lovely surprise when Karen brought me the flowers on Sunday afternoon. Thank you so much for your kindness. Best wishes to everyone. ♣ From Pat Waite, Stonefleece Court, 18 October On Sunday 9th Oct, there was Sylvia on my doorstep with some beautiful flowers from Church. This gives me the opportunity to say thank you not just for the flowers but also to express our appreciation to Sylvia for her Sunday by Sunday distribution of flowers ♣ And a note from Flower Lady Eileen HirstThank you to everyone who has given flowers to the church and the flower fund during the past year. Thanks to all who have helped with arranging the flowers each week. And very many thanks to Sylvia Hallas who has taken the flowers to the sick and elderly after the service. The flower list for 2017 is now up in the lower hall. Anyone wishing to give flowers please put your name on the list.
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• When the three wise guys from the east side arrived they found Jesus was in the manager.
• Jesus was born because Mary had an immaculate contraption. • St. John the blacksmith dumped water on his head. • Jesus enunciated the golden rule, which says to do unto
We had a bit of a damp walk on October 11th from Brockholes but there was a good turn-out. Most of the party set out across the river and up Lancaster Lane over the fields to Deanhouse and then to return through the woods back to Brockholes. The remainder had a walk up to Thurstonland which was supposed to be ‘the short walk’ but they were not back when the main group got back. Apparently they had been invited for tea and cake by someone’s relative as they were passing and just couldn’t refuse! After lunch Kath gave an interesting talk about her career as a chemistry teacher and her work with the Hospital School in Wakefield. Hospital Schools were started in 1947 following a polio outbreak; later her work was more with young people who had complex problems, both of which meant they had to spend long periods in hospital.
Christmas Tree Festival 3rd and 4th December The Activities Committee is starting to prepare for our annual event. Any help would be appreciated so please come along Tuesday to Friday the week before (29th Nov to 1st Dec) from 9 to 11am and see how everything happens and how you can help! Ann Hirst
Great Honley Bake-off Abigail Fieldsend (Abi) was so inspired by helping Helen at the Harvest Festival service that she decided to find a recipe for brown bread rolls and make them herself. She actually added sugar, dried fruit and a sugar glaze on top because her dad has a sweet tooth! It was especially important to get the plaiting right. And now she wants to bake bread every weekend! The power of yeast has certainly gone a long way, thanks to Helen. JF
As it was writ in an elementary school test: • Solomon, one of David’s sons, had 300 wives and 700 porcupines. • When Mary heard she was the mother of Jesus, she sang
Report by Joan Vevers
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others before they do one to you. He also explained a man doth not live by sweat alone. It was a miricle when Jesus rose from the dead and managed to get the tombstone off the entrance. The people who followed the lord were called the 12 decibels. The epistles were the wives of the apostles. One of the oppossums was st. Matthew who was also a taxi man. St. Paul cavorted to Christianity, he preached holy acrimony, which is another name for marriage. Christians have only one spouse. This is called monotony.
The Back Page Walter's story Bible Society supporter John Young tells a moving story of his father, Walter, who was a 25-year-old Post Office sorter in London when the world war broke out in 1914, and like so many young men, joined his works corps. He spent four wretched years in France and Belgium, fighting at the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele. Eventually, the Germans captured him and he was put to work in a Prussian coal mine. He later described this as 'the most miserable' time of his life. He said, 'Life in the dirtiest and most dangerous trenches was worse while it lasted, but there was always the relief to look forward to if one survived. But life for me at this mine seemed one long round of almost unbroken misery' Yet it was here that Walter felt God was speaking to him, saying his fellow prisoners of war were 'sheep without a shepherd'.
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So he asked a German officer for permission to hold a church service. It was granted, and a series of services, using Walter's little New Testament, was held in the ablutions room where the men washed on leaving the mine. Even today, Walter's New Testament falls open at Romans 12, which it is believed he used in these services. It reads, 'Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good... Let your hope keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles and pray at all times...Ask God to bless those who persecute you - yes, ask him to bless, not to curse.'
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Regular group meetings at Trinity Playgroup- Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri (morning) Contact- Carolynn Roberts 661024 Toddlers Group Tuesday morning Contact- Deborah Fawcett 663966 Drama Groups- Friday evening, Saturday morning Contact- Natalie Haigh 617468 / 07840 800 601 Brownies- Wednesday evening Contact- Ann Dove 665669 Bloodwise (previously called Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research group)– every 3rd Tuesday at 7.30pm.Contact Val Akroyd 662852
DECEMBER Newsletter Will be available on Sunday Nov 27th (DV) Contributions to Vera Stanley or John Murray (below) by Sunday November 13th
Booking a room at Trinity Church The Upper Room 9.5m x 7m.Capacity 60 seated. Kitchen facilities. Access by stairs only. £39 per 4 hr session The Arthurs’ Room Ground floor room 9m x 5.5m. Great for groups! Capacity 30 seated. Facilities for refreshments. Access for disabled. £45.00 per 4 hr session. Contact Karen Stannard 01484 664648. For weddings, baptisms, funerals, etc contact Rev Helen Roberts Tel 01484 305308
SOME TRINITY CHURCH CONTACTS From outside Huddersfield prefix UK area code 01484 Minister: Rev Helen Roberts, 7 Mullion Avenue, Honley HD9 6GN. Tel 305308 Secretary
Jane Armitage, 26 Lower Hall, Healey House, Netherton, HD4 7DG
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Treasurer
Hilary Turner, Rydal Mount, Mearhouse, New Mill, HD9 7EX
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Pastoral Team
Sylvia Hallas / Pam Redfearn / Joyce Draper
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Room Bookings / Activities Cttee Karen Stannard, 6a Marsh Gardens, Honley HD9 6AF
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Email addresses
Secretary: jaassociates@tiscali.co.uk, Newsletter: trinity.news@ntlworld.com
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(Editor) John Murray, 27 Moorside Road, Honley HD9 6HR. (Coordinator) Vera Stanley, 46 Stoney Lane, Honley HD9 6DY.
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Women’s Fellowship has become The Tuesday Fellowship For some time now the Women’s Fellowship has invited men to its meetings. At a recent ‘ideas meeting’ it was suggested that we change the name to ‘The Tuesday Fellowship’ so that it included men and women equally. The committee agreed to this. The new programme began last month. See p2 for events.