The Eight O’Clock
News August 2018
8 am Service, Christ Church, Kenilworth 021-797-6332
In Hiding ‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate’ (Carl Jung). I.o.w., until we become vulnerable and acknowledge our fears, we will be limited by them. On some level we are all facing fear. We may hide behind masks and appear fully functional but in so doing fail to live authentically. Hiding is hard work. To maintain a constant façade requires effort. How do we in community discard our masks, make ourselves vulnerable and reach out to others who are still in hiding? We fear because we dilute our trust in God and then rob ourselves of peace and joy. Let’s pray that God will help us become aware of how our masks look; recognize the costs of wearing a mask and how that affects relationship; realize that the mask we wear is not our real self; commit to take it off and drop the act; take action and begin to live authentically. The most exciting and precious realization is that none of the above has to be accomplished on our own. By God’s mercy and grace, He will day by day help us grow into our perfect selves. But still we are human and vulnerable and some may say, it is even not easy trusting Him because we may fear disappointment… Jessica Kastner in her book ‘Hiding from the Kids in My Prayer Closet’, shares with us her Top 5 Scriptures that Banish Fear: Deuteronomy 31:8: ‘He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged’. She says when facing a situation or emotional challenge, ‘Really envision God saying this. He is on your side, no matter who leaves after promising forever. When friends, family members or co-workers disappoint you’. Romans 8:28: ‘And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose’. Combat fear by believing He will turn your situation around for good, simply because He has a wonderful purpose for your life, which blunders cannot hinder. August 2018 Eight O’Clock News
Isaiah 43:1: ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine’. God actually commands us not to fear or worry. The phrase ‘fear not’ is used 80 times in the Bible, most likely because He knows that the enemy uses fear to decrease our hope and limit our victories. By focusing on Him and how He considers us prized, redeemed ones, our focus naturally shifts from fear to faith. 1 John 4:18: ‘Perfect Love Casts Out All Fear’. Jessica recalls how her youngest child asked her, ‘How could love fight fear, Mom?’ She says she was kind of stumped as this verse is rather vague or difficult even for adults to grasp. When she thought about it— God’s love has made her less fearful because it is simpler than we realize. God is Love. Perfect Love. The closer we come to Him, the less power fear has over us. Psalm 18:2: ‘The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer’. I love the way the Jessica puts this: ‘Choosing a favourite psalm is like deciding on a favourite ice cream flavour’. In using the Psalms we speak the words over the cause of our fear. God is our HIDING PLACE. For David this meant sitting in a cave praying whilst trained warriors bypassed him. For us, it’s more like sitting in the car during lunch break with worship music blasting, refusing fear and praising instead. We weren’t saved and redeemed only to limp through life riddled with fear and anxiety. God can only be our rock if we let Him. As Corrie Ten Boom wrote: ‘The centre of His will is my only safety’. - Cheryl Anderson
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Britha & David Padkin Although they both grew up elsewhere, Cape Town has been
Explosion 3 (EE3). After that they were with His People for about twelve years, where David started and ran the large Christian bookshop in the Goodwood church. After leaving His People, they had a good few years at CHS. They then joined Christ Embassy Church, a Nigerian-based Christian community, where they particularly enjoyed the excellent teaching and vibrant singing. After many years, it was time again to move on and they started churchhunting all over again… One day last November they arrived at CCK’s 8am service, where Britha was delighted to find that she knew all the hymns. She says that she must always have been ‘an Anglican at heart’. They feel at home with our age group, love the communion service and in particular Rob’s scripture-based teaching. Singing carols at CCK, notably at Easter, and the warmth and enthusiasm of the Christmas services further inclined them to stay with us, especially when they found that Rob is a ‘Lord of the Rings’ fan too! The final decider was Rob and Sue’s welcome at the new members’ tea and now they are well on the way to feeling at home here. They are already 8 O’ Clock regulars and were particularly moved by CCK’s Ascension Day service. Profoundly-knowledgeable Christians, they strongly believe in the importance of home group bible-study. They have been part of the recent Alpha Prayer Team and look forward to a closer engagement with the broader CCK community.
Britha and David’s home since the mid-1970s. Towards the end of last year, this warm and engaging couple finally arrived at CCK and have decided to make it their spiritual home. Britha grew up in Durban and went to university in ’Maritzburg. Her father was a vet and a good amateur artist. Her mother and grandmother were Christian believers in the national Israel message of the Scriptures, so she grew up studying the Bible regularly. In 1973, while teaching at a girls’ school, she committed her life to Jesus and strangely enough, some of her pupils immediately picked up that she had changed in some mysterious way and asked her if she was a Christian! David grew up in Kitwe on the Zambian Copper Belt and says that his family were atheists. He came to Durban for his first spell at university and dreamed of becoming an architect, but it didn’t work out. He moved to Cape Town and started work in Simonstown, finishing his B.Com. through UNISA. He and Britha met here when she came to study at UCT. Britha had been very briefly and unhappily married in KZN, but since she and David wanted to be married before God and in church she had first to convince Archbishop Russell that the failure of her first marriage was not her fault. Articulate and persuasive then as now, she succeeded, using 1 Cor. 7:15 to support her case! They were married in March 1977 and have lived happily in Cape Town ever since. David moved from Marine Oil Refiners into the insurance business while Britha was a full-time teacher for many years. She soon realised that many teachers lacked essential reading and study skills, especially in poorer communities and a recent report, showing that 80% of Grade Fours either can’t read, or can read but can’t understand what they are reading, proves that this problem is still very much with us. Britha works from home and has developed R.E.A.D FAST - Sara Pienaar reading and study skills programmes for teachers so that they can pass on these essential skills to their pupils but she needs to find Wrong Number funding. She hopes to offer the programme in all eleven official I was trying to telephone a particularly important number but languages one day. She also offers speed-reading and couldn’t seem to get through no matter how carefully I pressed comprehension Workshops for adults in the corporate sector and the numbers. Graduate Schools of Business. One of the several attempts was a voice recording to leave a They have no children, but have some remarkable interests and their house is packed full of intriguing objects. Chief among these message, but the number was one digit out, and I’m sure I didn’t are the rock specimens they have collected from all over southern dial it. A while later, my ’phone rang, and an unknown gentleman said Africa and also from Brazil. They lived rough and adventurously he’d just picked up all my calls. He said he’d just come back from on these expeditions, often camping out at the mines. They have hospital. sold the best part of their collection but have kept some beautiful quartzite and other rocks. Also on display are Britha’s delicate and When I told him I was glad he was back from hospital, he told me he’s 82 years old, lives alone, has the Big C, and will be going evocative landscape paintings of the rugged and arid scenery of back for a medical check in three months’ time. Namaqualand and Namibia, where they went mineral-hunting. When I asked if I could pray for him he said he appreciates every She has certainly inherited her father’s talent. She usually paints prayer. I affirmed that he knew Jesus and prayed for him. from the photographs she has taken on site and her preferred Wrong number? I don’t think so. medium is watercolour, in which she was trained by the late Phil - Britha Padkin Cloete. She would love to spend more time painting, but for now she is concentrating on her reading skills programme. In their Prayer spare time, David and Britha love watching various programmes on the internet, and although they no longer have any pets, they * We must begin to believe that God, in the encourage the squirrels to come to be fed. Their ‘journey’ to CCK has been a long one with many twists and mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring turns. They first attended services at St John’s Wynberg. Later they moved to St James Church Kenilworth, where David trained its power down to earth. - Andrew Murray as a counsellor and they were both involved in Evangelism * Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer August 2018 Eight O’Clock News
is the greater work.
- Oswald Chambers
The Fairest Cape
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Hope. Finally, in Chapter 9, we sail northward past Cape Point to Smitswinkel Bay, where we reach the road again to drive to Simon’s Town, Fish Hoek, Kalk Bay and Muizenberg, ending our Great Trek on Boyes Drive with fine views across False Bay to Cape Hangklip and Cape Point.
John Rogers was schooled
GEOLOGICAL ADVENTURES IN THE FAIREST CAPE: UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF ITS SCENERY is aimed primarily at the leaders of geological outings, students of Geology and Civil-Engineering at tertiary institutions in the Western Cape and the exploding numbers of active people exploring the Fairest Cape by car, coach, bicycle or on foot. In addition, Geography teachers are now including Geology in their curricula, so that the schoolchildren of the province would also benefit greatly. The book is subdivided into nine chapters. In Chapter 1 we journey to Cape Town by air and by rail from the northeast, whereas in Chapter 2 we arrive by road from the east. Chapter 3, with fine geological detail, takes us SW by road from the Orange River through the Karoo and the Cape Fold Belt along the N1. The N7, in Chapter 4, leads us southward from Namaqualand, past the Cedarberg and across the Swartland to the Mother City. Shifting to the West Coast, in Chapter 5, we travel southward from Lambert’s Bay to St Helena Bay, Langebaanweg and Bloubergstrand. A more complex, but educational, route is followed in Chapter 6, from Gansbaai, westward along the coast to Hermanus, Kleinmond and Betty’s Bay. Changing course to northward, we then follow the picturesque Clarence Drive to Gordon’s Bay, before swinging westward again, to Swartklip and Muizenberg. The route now heads northward to Ou Kaapse Weg and Rhodes Memorial to head west to Kloof Nek and then east to Devil’s Peak along Tafelberg Road. Returning to the Lower Cable Station, we ascend Table Mountain and hike eastward to Maclear’s Beacon on the summit. In Chapter 7 we sail across Table Bay to Robben Island and on our return drive beside Table Bay to Bloubergstrand. In Chapter 8 we drive southward along the spectacular, swellexposed Atlantic coastline from the Waterfront to Hout Bay, Kommetjie, Scarborough, Cape Point and the Cape of Good August 2018 Eight O’Clock News
on Jurassic limestones in England, amongst Pleistocene, ice-streamlined drumlins in Northern Ireland and on the Triassic sandstones and mudstones of the northern Free State in South Africa. After a year in the South African Navy, he won an Anglo-American scholarship to study Geology at the University of Cape Town (UCT), his MSc and PhD theses being in the field of marine geology of Southern Africa. He then worked for the Council for Geoscience within an ambitious programme, via multiple boreholes, to determine the stratigraphy, sedimentology and geohydrology of Cenozoic sediments from Cape Town northward to Lambert’s Bay. He returned to UCT to carry out deep-sea research on manganese nodules of Southern Africa, some of his research cruises being on vessels from Germany, France and Russia. Latterly he was deeply involved in lecturing sedimentology and marine geology to Geology students and general geology to Civil-Engineering students. The teaching involved numerous field-trips across the Western Cape and an annual fieldwork camp in the Laingsburg District, working with other UCT colleagues. Since 2003, he has been a Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa. He retired from UCT at the end of 2009. A founder member of the Western Cape Branch of the Geological Society of South Africa, he currently serves on the branch’s GeoHeritage Subcommittee. He and his wife live in Newlands in Cape Town. They have two adult children, both rural doctors, and four grandchildren. One family lives on Archaean granites near the Kruger National Park and the other on the Lebombo rhyolites of KwaZulu-Natal. - Published by GCS : Council for Geoscience in Pretoria [Available from johnrogers1944@gmail.com or GCS, Bellville. Price R350]
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Barry John Burns Wood
Product vs Community
1943—2018
Aka Mike’s Musings on Sunday’s sermon
After a long battle with
cancer our dear friend and colleague Barry passed away on Monday, 23rd July. There will be a memorial service in the Volmoed Chapel on Friday 3rd August at 10.30am. In 1982 the Lord gave Barry a specific vision of a beautiful, unspoilt place where people who were hurting could go to be loved, comforted and renewed. Unbeknown to Barry, Bernhard also had a vision the same year and he mentioned it to the people at his house church. Then a God co-incidence happened! A mutual friend of Barry’s was also in Bernhard’s house church and she heard about the vision from the two men and suggested they get together and share. They were destined to meet! Barry came to visit and shared his vision and Bernhard also shared and they realised their visions were the same. They were called to establish a beautiful peaceful place of healing where our Lord would bring wholeness to broken people. As Barry was leaving he said to Bernhard that it would need someone in the hospitality industry and he asked Bernhard what he did— Bernhard replied, ‘I ran a Hotel!’ That began the long relationship between the two founding Trustees of Volmoed. It was a busy time of sharing and praying for the unfolding of the vision, searching for the right property, finding the finances, and forming a Trust and writing the Trust Deed. It was a big step in faith... In April 1986 the property Volmoed became the realisation of the vision. Barry believed that to Volmoed, would be drawn individuals in need of healing, church groups and community organizations seeking reconciliation and God’s way of peace. He said ‘with a deeply committed, caring community at its heart, Volmoed would offer a unique experience of love in action. I believe very humbly and very sincerely that it’s one of God’s answers for South Africa at this time’. Barry was a man of God and was entrusted with God’s ministry of healing. We can all agree that Barry can rest in peace knowing that his vision and work of prayer and healing was established on Volmoed. When he retired from Parish work Molly and Barry moved to Volmoed and he became the resident Chaplain. He was kept busy with counselling, his work at the Overstrand Hospice and his inner healing ministry. Barry soaked Volmoed and people in prayer daily. He believed in Angels and asked God to place them standing hand in hand around the boundary of Volmoed. We give grateful thanks for all he did. Rest in peace Barry—you will be sorely missed.
- Volmoed Trust
Prayer We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
- Oswald Chambers There is no other activity in life so important as that of prayer. Every other activity depends upon prayer for its best efficiency. - M.E. Andross August 2018 Eight O’Clock News
In the computer world
today we get diffferent systems to run our devices—computers, tablets and cellphones. These range from Windows (needs to be bought) to Android (paid for indirectly). There is also Linux which is defined as ‘a family of free and open-source software operating systems’ (Wikipedia). The main point is that Linux is not a product you buy and get paid-for support but a community that is there to help you—it is free. Listerning to Rob on Sunday (29 July) got me thinking of the parallels with church. We should not think of church as a product to sell where for a monthly payment you get support. Rather it is a community you join that is willing to help you while you make voluntary contributions to keep the community going. So church is running on the Linux Community operating system (bugs and all) and not the polished Windows Product. It is not a Please join (buy into) our church (product) but a you are welcome into our community. I am sure the pivate jetsetting white suit and gold wrist-watch brigade will not agree? Comment? - Mike Kunz
Psalm 121 Ek slat my twee oge op, my kyk vang die verste kop: waavanaf sal my hulp nou kom? My hulp is vannie Jirre, van Hom: Hy't nou die jimmel en Prieska gekom maak. Sonner lat jou voete klipperse raak, is Hy skoene agterrie skaap. Hy dink nooit nie eers oor slaap. Sontyd is Hy hoed op jou kop, innie nag hou Hy gevaarlikeit dop. Hy's mos nou da om jou op te pas: jou siel hou Hy tissen jou ribbes vas. Gan jy nou in of gan jy nou yt: Hy's oor jou vi ewig en vi altyd.
- Hans du Plessis’ translation into Griekwa Afrikaans - Sent in by Ronnie Morgan
Mathematics ! 0
I hate maths tests because all through the chapter it’s like really easy then you think you’ve got it and then the test is like— IF I THROW A TRIANGLE OUT OF THE CAR AND THE CAR IS GOING 10 KM/H AND WIND RESISTANCE IS A THING THAT EXISTS. HOW MANY CUPCAKES CAN PEDRO BUY WITH ONE HUMAN SOUL ? - Source unknown
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What a Journey ! It is the final morning of my 3-month pilgrimage. I have woken
earlier than I expected, and it wasn't long before I thought of you. Why? Because we have taken this journey together. I have been favoured with not having to walk this road in an insulated bubble, but with friends such as you, with whom I have been able to share lots of things—and converse in words or in our spirits. As there is not much time before I must pack my bags I am going to devote this letter to trying to explain what 'pilgrimage' has been for me. One person—the oldest person I know—asked me this before I left home, because she had heard that it can be lifechanging. In responding I am going to share with you some quotes that I have picked up along the way (not only on this trip) which now shine down on me like a Picadilly Circus. My first comment is that this has not been a 'religious' or 'churchy' experience in the usual sense. ‘God comes to us disguised as our life.’ (Paula D'Arcy). ‘A pilgrimage is a metaphor for life, your journey on earth in miniature. Lessons learned and transformations become part of who you are…’ (Pilgrim's Guide, Canterbury Cathedral). ‘Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.’ (CS Lewis). ‘The centre of me is always searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfigured and infinite—the beatific vision—God, ... it fills every passion that I have—it is the actual spring of life within me.’ (Betrand Russell). ‘The pilgrim's instinct is deep set in the human heart. It is indeed an affair of the heart rather than the head.’ (Evelyn Waugh). As you would have gathered from my letters, my entire journey has been driven from my heart—touching the hearts of others as we have explored our lives together, usually in more depth than ever. I have been increasingly drawn by God's love for me, for all people and for all of his creation. I have had my heart expanded beyond anything I have ever known, I have fallen into love, been given people to love, and been presented with a huge spinnaker to catch the winds of God's love and propel me forwards. Yesterday I was prayed for on three occasions, and was left with an image of a huge, shiny, dark blue racing yacht in full sail with a gigantic spinnaker. Jesus is on board and in charge; I am His crew and completely unafraid (not my natural condition on the sea!); and I expect one or two others to join us. I think I know where we're going, but I may be wrong, or thinking too small. ‘Is not the allpowerful God the pilot and sailor of our boat? Leave it to him. He himself guides our journey as he wills.’ (St. Brendan). I have also realised how important it is to stay in the boat—that is where the adventure is—and to not go overboard trying to explore other things. It is the journey, not any destinations or trophies, that counts. I have been astonished at all that has happened on this trip, not only within me but within many whom I have encountered. ‘Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.’ (Henry Miller). ‘There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle’. (Albert Einstein). From one of my most inspiring mentors, Jack Cook, I learned to ‘Expect a miracle!’ and then ‘Act as if…’. I do wonder how it will be when I get back to Cape Town and my little room! I have no doubt whatever that some things will never be the same. ‘You arrive where you started and know the place for the first time.’ TS Eliot. With love, appreciation and anticipation August 2018 Eight O’Clock News
- Gerry Adlard
What I like about Anglicans—and CCK That great Anglican and Poet
Laureate (1972 – 1984) Sir John Betjeman remarked, with many others, that the glory of the Anglican Church was and is that it combines and includes so many Christians of widely differing approaches to their shared belief. Whether what used to be called ‘Low Church’, colonised today by ‘happy-clapping, guitar-playing Evangelicals’ or the more anonymous, centerist ‘Broad Church’, never too confident about their actual Anglican affiliation or the ‘High Church’, derided as home to incense-favouring, would-be Catholics locked into ritual— the Anglican Church is Mother to all these souls. Rather in the style of a barn-yard hen abstractedly trying to keep all her chicks more or less aligned. At CCK, Helen and I go happily from the richness of the ‘8.00am Sung Eucharist—with Sermon’, as those old church notice boards used to announce—through the warmth and accessibility of the Family Service to the Spirit-filled challenge of the informally structured evening worship. We enjoy and benefit from them all, believing that the three styles presented answer to the specific needs of the different congregants. However, one wonders in another sense, whether the ‘all things to all men and women’ recipe of the Anglican church actually works as well as it might. Do projection screens, drum kit and the high decibel levels of the songs and worship crowd unsettle the conformist early birds of the 8.00am service? To what extent does the traditional Anglican setting—stained-glass windows, vestments, and ‘the Voice that breathed o’er Eden’ thundering from the organ—actually do it for the earnest, searching youth of today? Or do all the faux Gothic bits and pieces put them off? With our new emphasis on ‘Mission’, ‘Emerge’, ‘House Churches’ and ’CCK Scattered’, is there really any point in observing any or all of traditional Anglicanism? Even the majestic Evensong at St George’s Cathedral, with its superbly sung anthem, slowly ascending incense and specially printed service sheet, is attended by only a handful of parishioners. Is there, in fact, still reason for Anglicans to ‘do church’ in the old, time-honoured way? Whether one’s parish prefers chairs to pews, hymns to songs, genuflecting, or raising one’s arms in praise—do any of these variations on a theme actually matter? To know and love the Lord is the essential point of our belief and how that is to be shown within our Christian community ie at church services is of secondary importance. For me, the subtle allure of Anglicanism is its tolerance and gentle acceptance of the variety of styles adopted by its adherents. The Archbishop smilingly abandons his mitre and crosier on his visits to CCK— after all, part of a parish only ‘In Association with’ the Cathedral. Christenings occur routinely throughout our church, other than where full-immersion baptisms are preferred. Some Anglican priests fancy wearing a biretta and a pectoral cross, other pastors favour jeans and a casual shirt. Remember the occasion when the evangelically-minded Bruce Evans, then St John’s Parish Rector, first appeared at evensong in full regalia as Bishop of Port Elizabeth? It was quite a ‘translation’, one filling the enormous congregation with joy, but underscoring Anglicanism’s essential capacity for difference.
- Neil Veitch
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Wedding of the Year Lynn Pedersen arrived at CCK on the arm of her brother-in-law, Shaun Rhodes, on 14 July to be married to David Beyer. Bishop Eric Pike conducted the service. A small choir from St Martin’s, Bergvliet, sang to God, Lynn, David and the congregation. Friends and family gathered from near and far to share the day with Lynn and David and a joyous time was had by all. Lynn’s sister-in-law, Linda Pedersen read the lesson. The Rev Rachel Mash prayed and the legal documents
were dealt with by David’s son-in-law, the Rev Terry Lester, Rector of Christ Church, Constantia. Lynn’s sister, Solange Rhodes, made a witty speech at the reception. Refreshments in Callow House after the service was a wonderful time of catching up with friendships established over many years. May God grant Lynn and David Beyer many happy years together and in His service.
Spotted in KZN by Jim and Felicity de Necker: ‘Don’t judge others just cos they sin differently to you ! Matthew 7:3: Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? August 2018 Eight O’Clock News
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Lean Hard
Bonhoeffer: On Stupidity
Child of my Love lean hard
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good
And let me feel the pressure of thy care. I know thy burden, child; I shaped it, Poised in mine own hand, made no proportions In its weight to thine unaided strength; For even as I laid it on, I said, 'I shall be near, and while she leans on Me This burden shall be mine not hers; So shall I keep my Child within the circling arms Of mine own love.' Here lay it down nor fear To impose it on a shoulder which upholds The government of worlds. Yet closer come, Thou art not near enough; I would embrace thy care So I might feel my Child reposing on my breast. Thou lovest Me? I know it. Doubt not then, But loving Me, lean hard. - Rev Octavius Winslow, 1808-1878 Thanks to Darryl Trimming for finding the author !
than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenceless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgement simply need not be believed—in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical—and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) On Stupidity–Letters and Papers from Prison - Sent in by Jim de Necker
This magnificent Leopard photograph, by Wildlife Photographer, Ursula Celliers, was sent in by Margie Hare. She and Willie are on safari, far, far away, in the bundu.
Some of the congregation have been intrigued to see our MIC, Rob Taylor, drumming recently—but it all started back at Theological College in the early 80s … - Sent in by Sue Taylor
Telephoning the Editor May I please speak to Ev and No-one Els? I must commend you on a magnificent production of July's edition. For the first time I read several articles and not just the one that first attracted me and found them most interesting. It seems you've done a lot right! Keep up the good work! Peter Wilkinson August 2018 Eight O’Clock News
LR Knost ‘Life doesn't always get better, but you do. You get stronger. You get wiser. You get softer. With tattered wings you rise and the world watches in wonder at the breathtaking beauty of a human who survived life.’ - Sent in by Geka Flegg
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Open letter to UCT students on the death of Prof Bongani Mayosi Many CCK members have links with UCT and have been deeply saddened by Prof Mayosi’s death. The following link, written by a parent of a former student, gives a perspective into the effects of depression. [Sent in by Cheryl Anderson] https://www.news24.com/Columnists/GuestColumn/open-letter-to-uct-students-on-the-death-of-prof-mayosi-20180730
Church & Mission Mission cannot be something separate from or added to the essence of the Church. The essential nature of the local congregation is, in and of itself, mission, or else the congregation is not really the Church. Charles Van Engen
The church exists, in other words, for what we sometimes call ‘mission’: to announce to the world that Jesus is its Lord. N. T. Wright
The Church exists by mission, just as fire exists by burning.
Emil Brunner
The church is missionary by nature because God has sent it on a mission in the world under the leading of the Holy Spirit. It is to bear witness to God's redemptive reign. Just as God is a missionary God, so the church is to be a missionary church. Craig Van Gelder
Source unknown. Sent in by Alison KemptonJones
The Trinity and Mission: The Father sends the Son The Father and Son send the Holy Spirit The Father, Son and Holy Spirit send the Church. - Rob Taylor, Sermon 29/7/18 August 2018 Eight O’Clock News
His Spirit Will Guide Us Until We Die How great is the Lord, how deserving of all praise. He is present among the people of God; beautiful—cleansed from all guilt and shame. The community of Christ is spread across the globe, the whole earth rejoices to see them! They are holy and without fault; the people of Christ, the Great King! God’s Spirit resides with them, He is their secure defender. When the nations united, when they resolved together, they recognised Your presence and were astounded; they fled in terror. They were gripped with dismay and writhed in pain like a woman in labour. The power of Your love destroyed their false arguments, shattering their rebellious thoughts. We have heard of the glory of Your presence, but now we have experienced it for ourselves— the presence of Christ with the angels of heaven, amongst the people of God, whom God has established for eternity. Pause As the temple of Your Holy Spirit, we welcome You, to meditate on Father’s unconditional love! Jesus as Your name deserves, You will be praised to the ends of the earth. Your love has brought freedom. Let the people of God rejoice. Let all communities be glad because of Your freedom and justice. Carefully consider my faithful servants, see how they have obeyed me, bringing freedom and hope to future generations. For this is what Christ is like. He is our God for all eternity, and his Spirit will guide us until we die. - Based on Psalm 48 [Mike Winfield] Editorial Team Tel/e-mail Ev Els
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