The magazine of Holy Trinity Parish Church Sutton Coldfield
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From the Editors ...
...to Trinity The beady-eyed among you will note that I am edi ng two issues of Trinity together, having followed 2 edited by Louise. This is because Louise has been through a somewhat complicated pregnancy expec ng iden cal twins, whom I am delighted to say arrived midDecember. They were somewhat early, (as planned by the medical team) but this meant Louise now needs a bit of me to cope with three children, two of whom are s ll very small….! We congratulate her and Chris and send our love to them and Daniel who is being a very sensible big brother. Louise has even found me to write about the twins (page 4). In this issue we look to Lent and Easter, and we also have a fascina ng account of the work of one of our local doctors spending a year in Kurdistan (page 16) followed by a moving le-er from the local Islamic Centre in the wake of the a-acks in Paris in January. May you walk the way of Christ’s Passion during Lent and feel the power of the risen Christ
Contents: John Routh writes
2 Through a glass darkly 3 The Chubb twins 4 Youth Matters 7 Parish profile re-visited 8 Book corner 9 Experience Easter 15 A doctor in Kurdistan 16 Friends’ update 18 A chorister remembers 20 From the registers 22 Sutton Cancer Support centre 23 Re-ordering information 23 Trinity arrangements 24 Bible verse 24 Editors: Stella 329 2101 s_thebridge@yahoo.com
Louise 240 6366 louisejharden@hotmail.com
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John Routh writes … High Noon and the Cross Have you ever noticed how similar many stories about relationships are? A couple meet and gradually get closer to each other, they appear to be in love. But when everything is going well, and you think the happy ending is just around the corner, a crisis hits. One of the couple does something the other cannot come to terms with, and they separate. But then, circumstance throws them together, and they find that ... actually they are right for each other. And, of course, they live happily ever after. The crisis is essential to the story. The couple have thought they understood each other, were committed to each other; but it’s been based on assumptions not reality. The crisis opens their eyes, destroys their preconceived ideas. It’s only later, with the false assumptions cast aside that they can truly understand who the other one is. How about an example? Take the film, ‘High Noon’. Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly are newlyweds, about to leave town for a new life elsewhere. Cooper is a marshal; some outlaws he has previously brought to justice are returning to the town for revenge. Kelly wants the pair to leave town before they arrive; Cooper will not run, and, abandoned by the rest of the town, must stand against them alone. Kelly threatens to leave alone – and it looks as though the new marriage is over already. Cooper, of course, wins the showdown with the outlaws. Kelly has stayed, though very unwillingly. Cooper casts aside the marshal’s badge, ready now to start the new life. And, with their new, more informed understanding of each other, the newly-weds head off into the distance for what we assume will be a long life together. They could have fled the town before the outlaws had arrived, but Cooper wouldn’t have been denying the person he really was, and Kelly would not have understood him fully. The couple’s future would have been built on shaky ground. After the crisis though, they both know where they stand – a proper future can be built.
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As we make our way through Lent, drawing closer to Holy Week and Easter when we re-live the critical moments of his life, I can’t help but see the Page in the same way. relationship between Jesus and his followers Jesus spends three years moving amongst the population, building
up a following of disciples. They all develop their own understanding of him – who he is, what he is about. And none of them has got it right, not even those who have grown closest to him. They have all misunderstood. Jesus refuses to submit to the world’s assumptions about him, and Holy Week builds until the crisis is met head-on on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. He wants no crown, but accepts arrest, trial, crucifixion, and death. The disciples desert him – he is not what they had hoped for, not what they had believed him to be. But it isn’t over. Having gone through the crisis, on Easter Sunday the disciples wake to discover a new truth about Jesus – finally they have got the point, understood who he really is. Only now, awake to that new understanding, that genuine well-founded relationship with Jesus, can they move forward in faith. From that perspective it seems to me that the death and resurrection of Christ are not about any price that God requires to be paid for our redemption, but about the change the crisis of death and resurrection forces us to face – in ourselves, and our understanding of who this man really is.
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Through a Glass Darkly— .Covenants and promises There’s quite a lot in the readings up to and including Easter about covenants. A covenant is more than a promise. It is, in this case at any rate, a contract of love akin to a marriage. As with a marriage, if one party breaks the covenant that is not necessarily the end. The other side can forgive and the rela onship can be rebuilt, many mes if necessary. That is what happened with God’s covenant with humanity. He never broke it of course, for he is forever faithful and loving to us. Humanity, however, let him down at every turn. We do not need to believe the Garden of Eden story literally to realise that the people of the earth whom God created to have a rela onship with him kept on rebelling against him and going their own way. However God kept on trying different ideas to try and make his contract with us work : perhaps he should start with a very good man like Noah, or a na on grown from a very good man like Abraham? But there were always those who, like us, thought that they knew best and did not follow God’s way – or not all the me anyway.
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Then God thought up a totally new idea. He would come into the world himself, show people how life should be lived and, if necessary, die to pay the price for the world’s sins. We, if we wish, can be part of this new covenant if we are prepared to accept God’s giC and follow the way of Jesus. The Church that grew up in his name has tried for over two thousand years to keep the contract. It has failed many mes, as we all do, but it struggles on trying to see God’s light, to live by it and to be a beacon to others. This is why our Church re-ordering is so important. It is our a-empt, in our own me, to keep the covenant with God and to be a light to all people. That is why, if we are serious about our rela onship with God, we must support the campaign in every way we can. Jean Schneider
The Chubb Twins We first found out that we were expecting a brother or sister for our son Daniel just before the Dixons’ weekend away in June last year. The cat was almost out of the bag when I was unable to partake of a buggy ride, although a number of eagle-eyed congregation members took note! I began to show very quickly and had more pronounced pregnancy symptoms than with our first child Daniel, leading my mum to joke that perhaps it could be twins. But we never thought for a second that she would be right. The day of the 12 week scan arrived, and Chris and I were delighted to see our healthy baby on the screen. Suddenly, a second head appeared, causing Chris to leap up in alarm with a shout. The sonographer said “Didn’t you realise it was twins!” She had mistakenly thought that this was our second scan and immediately apologised. Our initial shock turned to fear when the sonographer began to frown. She was unable to find a dividing membrane between the two babies, indicating that it would be a high risk pregnancy. Several further scans (including one by the consultant, Cathy Rhodes, wife of Matthew the vicar at St Peters) revealed that the twins were monochorionic, monoamniotic (‘MoMo’), meaning that they share the same placenta and amniotic sac. The condition is rare, occurring in around one in 35,000 to one in 65,000 pregnancies. It is high risk due to the close proximity of the two umbilical cords in the amniotic sac, with cord entanglement or compression highly likely, threatening the babies’ oxygen and food supply. Page
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Despite the rarity of the condition, there is a specialist based at Birmingham Women’s Hospital who agreed to take on our case. I was immediately referred for fortnightly scans and warned of the real chance that a pregnancy like this could end suddenly and spontaneously (statistics are vague but survival rates are put at 50/50). No treatment is available other than continual monitoring (I have since discovered that some NHS trusts recommend selective abortion of one baby, thank goodness this was not put to us). Of the few MoMo twins born successfully in the UK, 85% are girls, as boys are less likely to survive. As lovely as it would have been to have two more Daniels, our prayers were answered when we discovered we were expecting girls. We continued to have regular scans, and miraculously, both babies continued to grow with the blood flow through the cords remaining strong. Unfortunately, due to the additional hormones from carrying twins, I developed gestational diabetes, resulting in a further weekly trip to the hospital. Additionally I had to be admitted to hospital at 28 weeks for a course of steroid injections to strengthen the twins’ lungs to prepare for early delivery, which is inevitable with MoMo twins, due to the risks becoming greater as the pregnancy progresses. However, every week that passed without incident felt like a blessing. When we reached 32 weeks, our consultant began to get a little nervous. The babies were both active and moving around (risking entanglement) and another set of MoMo twins that she had delivered the previous week had just been born in the nick of time. When the babies reached 4lb (or so it was thought) and two neonatal cots became available at 32 weeks and 6 days, it was decided that the babies were safer out than in. MoMo twins cannot be delivered naturally due to the cord entanglement and hence the girls were delivered by caesarean section on Thursday 11 December. Lily arrived first, weighing 4lb 3oz and Charlotte a minute later weighing just 3lb 14oz. Both girls cried straight away, which were the best sounds I have ever heard and will ever hear. The girls were whisked straight away to the neonatal intensive care unit with me just catching a glimpse of them as they were wheeled past. Chris followed so that he could ensure the babies were okay. It was very difficult to be on my own in the recovery ward whilst all the other new mums held their babies, not knowing how my own were doing. However when Chris returned he had Polaroid photos of each baby that were thoughtfully taken by the nurses on the unit. ...continued on page 18
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Youth Matters Now that I am leaving late youth and entering early middle age (Ha ha) I find it much harder to thread a needle. Usually I can’t even see the hole let alone get any cotton through it. Even with a needle threader I struggle. So imagine my amazement when I went to Birmingham Library to see an exhibition of tiny, intricate sculptures created by local sculptor Willard Wigan all of which was so minute that they fitted inside the eye of one of the needles I find it so hard to thread! One or two were sitting on one of his eye lashes. It was mind blowing. You could see the needle lying there and I could not really even see the eye, but look through the microscope and there were beautiful, detailed sculptures; some made of gold, some of nylon bag ties and the like. There was the Last Supper where 13 characters were sat round the meal table; all with different expressions on their faces. There was Cinderella with her ugly sisters; Usain Bolt; the Taj Mahal and many others, including my favourite; the hummingbird. If you didn’t know it was true then you wouldn’t believe it. Willard was not a success at school and regularly bunked off from the age of 5. He used to build houses for ants and seeing his skill his Mum encouraged him to create smaller and smaller sculptures, saying ‘the smaller you go, the bigger your name will be.’ To make his sculptures, Willard has to slow his heartbeat down and only work on his pieces between heartbeats. He uses things like a tiny hair from his face as paintbrushes. He says quite clearly that there is no such thing as nothing; nothing does not exist. Quite true of course; anything, however tiny is something and in its own way is something big even if it is so small it can’t really be seen with the naked eye. Isn’t that amazing? So maybe everything we do or say counts even if it seems really small and insignificant. In God’s economy maybe it is very big. And each of us from the tiniest baby to the oldest person in the world, from the most powerless person to a world leader, has a massive amount to contribute. In God’s eye everything counts. Susie Walker More info by Willard Wigan on: http://www.ted.com/talks/willard_wigan_hold_your_breath_for_micro_sculpt ure?language=en
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Parish profile re-visited As promised (threatened?) here is the profile of Brian Dixon and family from 1985! 30 years on, daughter Nicola and husband Nick, and the three Revell grandsons (James, Ben and George) are also heavily involved in the life of our church.
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Book Corner
Conscious of the mantra—never mix religion and poli cs—I am now going to tell you about a book award for books in the poli cal arena! The winners of the Poli cal Book Awards for 2015 were announced recently. This is not a list for the faint-hearted. There are numerous categories and the winners are as follows: •
Political Book of the Year: Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain by academics Matthew Goodwin and Robert Ford, published by Routledge. The judges agreed that Revolt on the Right is 'a ground-breaking book which provides essential and enjoyable reading for anyone who wants to understand the shifts in modern politics.'
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Debut Political Book of the Year: City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).
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Political Biography of the Year: Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by John Campbell (Jonathan Cape)
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Polemic of the Year: An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians? by Geoffrey Robertson QC (Biteback Publishing).
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Political History Book of the Year: Modernity Britain Book Two: A Shake of the Dice (1959-62) by David Kynaston (Bloomsbury)
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International Affairs Book of the Year: Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat by Helen McCarthy (Bloomsbury)
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Practical Politics Book of the Year: The 'Too Difficult' Box: The Big Issues Politicians Can't Crack by Charles Clarke MP (Biteback Publishing)
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The Political Humour and Satire Book of the Year: The Coalition Book by Michael Rowson (SelfMadeHero)
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Political Fiction Book of the Year: Acts of Omission by Terry Stiastny (John Murray)
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Lifetime Achievement Award in Political Writing was presented to journalist, broadcaster and author Andrew Marr.
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Best Book on World War One: The World's War by David Olusoga (Head of Zeus)
I was struck by just how wide-ranging the term ‘political’ can be. A history of World War One might not seem to be political, yet maybe the
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stance is controversial? Is all history of war poli cal? Maybe. Similarly with the story of the Armenian genocide. It is good that such a diverse range of issues—contemporary and historical, is explored. Is all the history we learn poli cal? Are you watching the serialisa on of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall? [I’m s ll puzzling over how they reduced two doorstep-sized books into six episodes yet stretched The Hobbit to three films –but I digress.] The story of Thomas Cromwell is a fascina ng history of poli cs in the court of Henry VIII and of key relevance to us in the in the history of religion in this country with the separa on from Rome and the new Church of (in) England. So poli cs is constantly bound up with religion, and I am quite tempted by some of these poli cal books. Are you?
If you want to see more informa on and the full shortlist for each category, look on the website at: h-p://www.poli calbookawards.com/ You also get to see all the judges for each category, including one Andrew Mitchell!
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Experience Easter! Good Friday 3rd April 2015 Activities for all the family • Taste the Last Supper • Visit the Tomb • Make your own Cross • Easter Eggs and lots more! Drop in any time from 11.30am till 1pm Free entry!
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Pauline Manfield writes: “Joanne Meran is a Consultant Paediatrician at Good Hope Hospital. She has taken a year’s sabbatical and her original plan was to go to Kurdistan to set up a children’s hospital there. Unfortunately, the IS attacks interrupted these plans and she is now working in a refugee camp. Joanne is an Iraqi Kurd and a Muslim.”
This is an email received by Pauline on 27th December 2014 which conveys the reality of Joanne’s situation and some touching thoughts on inter-faith dialogue.
I am still in Kurdistan and had a very nice Christmas by my standards of course. I had no presents, no turkey, no close family members with me and not even a day off. However, I spent it with the refugees in their cold, humid and unhygienic camps. The Christian communities in Kurdistan decided this year that they will not have a Christmas celebration. This is because so many of them and many other religious minorities lost family members and they are living in very difficult conditions. They also took that decision in solidarity with the families of Kurdish Peshmerga who died fighting the IS (Islamic state) groups. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, like the other days, we continued running clinics in the refugee camps. During Christmas day we were running a clinic for a camp which contained mainly Yazidi, but some Christians too from a small town near Mousel called Baasheeqa. While we were running the clinic we heard some music outside. It was actually "Jingle bells" in Kurdish! We went out and found a group of Kurdish Peshmerga (all Muslims) dressed up as Father Christmas and brought warm clothes and small heaters for the refugees and all from the camp and outside the camp (Muslim, Yazidi, Christians and other religious groups as there are so many in Kurdistan). Everyone started singing "Jingle bells" and other Christmas rhymes. There were around 150,000 -200,000 Christians in Kurdistan. However, following the influx of refugees there are now an estimated 650,000 - 750,000 of them. This is really wonderful. The Kurds are in general tolerant, forgiving and accepting of diversities. But at the end of the day the majority are Muslims so having higher number of Christians in the society is really wonderful. Page
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The Christians are in general much more open-minded, so the society will progress more forward socially, and it also brings Jesus’ ideas of forgiveness and peacefulness even more to the society. I hope it will become a role model for the Middle East not just in terms of living with each other but to love, defend each other and share the pains of each other. It made me very happy seeing in the clinic afterward many Yazidi and Christian children holding Christmas presents brought to them by Muslims dressed up as Father Christmas. The refugees are still in devastating conditions of course. In this region with 3 million there are around 800,000 Syrian refugees and 1.6 million internal refugees, mainly Yazidi and Christians from other parts of Iraq which are under IS control until now, so as you could imagine it is very difficult to provide good services to them but they are provided with the best available. Pauline was away from early January and submitted this before the sad incidents in Paris. Following the huge media coverage it was wonderful to read the following in our weekly news sheet in church: A letter from Sutton Coldfield Islamic Centre to Churches Together in Central Sutton Coldfield Dear Friends, As people of faith we would like to add our outright condemnation on the horrific attacks last week in Paris. We are deeply saddened with loss of lives and feel ashamed that it was perpetuated in the name of religion and its beloved Prophet. We don’t understand why people are doing these acts of barbarism and blaming religion. We condemn these atrocities and so do our families, friends, fellow Muslims and the community. Sanctity of human life and respect for all faiths and its Prophets should be preserved at all times. We hope that you will pass this on to your congregations that we stand with you and the community in condemnation of these and similar despicable crimes. We sincerely hope that peace, hope and understanding prevail among communities. With kind regards and peace.
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I finally got to meet my babies later that evening when I was wheeled down on the bed. They looked so tiny and vulnerable in their incubators covered in tubes and wires. Both babies were slightly jaundiced and needed oxygen, with Charlotte suffering a punctured lung from the strain of having to breathe whilst so tiny. However, thanks to the incredible team at the Women’s, both babies quickly improved, with me being able to finally enjoy double cuddles when they were five days old. Both babies took time to begin tolerating their feeds and lost quite a bit of weight. Once they were strong enough, they were transferred to the special care baby unit at Good Hope where gradually they began to grow. Four weeks on they are now safely home and are filling out a little, although they still have some catching up to do! Both Chris and I are incredibly grateful to our church family for the love, support and prayers that we have received during this time. We give thanks to God for answering our prayers and sending us these two wonderful blessings.
Louise Chubb See photos on inside back cover
Friends of Holy Trinity Su"on Coldfield Our second concert season con nues, with great concerts so far. The Night Watch gave us a range of early music on exo c instruments in February, and Lichfield Gospel Choir will perform for us in March. If you missed out on these, do sign up as a Friend to ensure you receive regular updates on all our ac vi es. Join us online via www.htsc.org.uk (press the Friends’ symbol on the screen to reach our page) or ring the Trinity Centre on 0121 321 1144 for an applica on form. Lichfield Gospel Choir Sat 14th March 7.30pm Page
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An enquiry from a Holy Trinity Chorister of the 1960s prompted a detailed account of the life of the Choir at that time. Here are some extracts…. Singing in the choir with Harold Gray at the helm was one of the best and most privileged times in my life. At one point in the mid sixties, five of my family sang in it. Two of my brothers, one of whom went on to take up a choristership at Worcester Cathedral, my mother and my sister. I remember George Bullock. He was quite old and I used to ask him how he managed to get his shoes so shiny. We didn’t really mix with the men. They used the vestry in the church whilst we ‘ladies’ were over at Church House. Besides, they never took any notice of us children. I can remember John Betts whose marriage we sang for, and I think I remember Bill and Jo Court [I asked her about the Courts—ed] Donald Alldrick was deputy Director of Music and Mr. Francis Aldrich took the probationers through learning to sing psalms etc. Andrina Alldrick, Mr. Alldrick’s daughter, also sang with us in the choir as did Lorna Williams, Cheryl and Susan Coakes. We moved to Sutton in 1960. Canon Boggon was then the Rector followed by Canon Rose who was still there when we had to move to Bishop’s Stortford. Charles Stannard was a curate. We spent virtually the whole of Sunday in church. Sometimes we had to be at the family service too for parade. Two of my brothers were cubs; my sister and I were Brownies until I got rusticated and joined the Guides later. My father, meanwhile, acted in a performance of “The Crucible”. He was also District Commissioner for the Scouts. In rehearsal Miss Howard sat behind the adult sopranos and always sported a pencil behind her ear. She was actually a very good alto and very reliable. In church I sat in the first space of the front choir stall on the organ side. Miss Howard sat directly behind me and often she would prod my head hard with her out-stretched forefinger. We’d be sitting lowering our heads below the top of the stalls whilst we whispered to each other. Suddenly, from nowhere one received a hard thump on the head. Once when I was passing notes to Lorna Williams, Mr. Gray actually walked round from the organ, bowed toward the altar and confiscated the notes. I am so very sad to hear of Molly Howard’s death. She really was a true headmistress and one of those characters we may never see again. Had I known, I would have come to her funeral. Page
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Saturdays particularly during the summer, were filled with weddings. We were paid half a crown for a ‘red carpet’ wedding and 2/- for a non ‘red carpet’. [we don’t have this distinction now!] The record number of weddings on a Saturday was three and we came home with 7/6d, much better than our 9d pocket money. The adults were paid 10/- per wedding. It was huge fun. We went carol singing at Christmas down one of the wealthiest roads in Sutton and ended up singing at peoples’ houses where we ‘pigged out’ on mince pies. We also sang on the wards at Good Hope Hospital every Christmas [see photo]. One Christmas we were joined by some of the CBSO choir and the orchestra for a performance of the Messiah. The first in a long line of Messiahs for me, I have never forgotten that magnificent occasion. My ‘crowning glory’ in the choir was singing Mendelssohn’s Hear my Prayer for the Remembrance Sunday service when the church was absolutely packed with all the forces including the police [no change there!]. It was the highlight of my time there. The following year I left to study piano and singing at Chetham’s. I was given a beautifully bound vocal score of the St. Matthew Passion duly inscribed and signed by Canon Rose, Mr. Gray, Mr Alldrick and Mr. Francis. It is a treasured possession and I use it often, cursing the more modern version of it. It was inscribed by Molly Howard!
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FROM THE REGISTERS ... Baptisms 21st December Cameron John Shearer Lucca John Louis Costa 11th January Steven Mark Davies Ann-Marie Clark 18th January Lydia May Medlicott 25th January Henry Michael Vaughan 1st February Matthew John Francis Langley
We welcome these children into new life with God, as part of our church family
Marriages 13th December William Rupert Wallace & Caroline Adelaide Hanson
19th December Matthew James Jukes & Jade Trunkfield
20th December Oliver Kevin Jaycock & Victoria Kathleen Tomkinson
22nd December Lee James Medlicott & Jennifer Ann Tipping
We wish these couples every blessing in their future together.
Funerals 2nd January 8th January 13th January 13th January 13th January 15th January 19th January 20th January 20th January 27th January 29th January 30th January 10th February
Eileen Lyndon Christopher Edgington Denise Alfreda Peach Denis Bernard Wilton Rawlins James McNaughton Margaret Campbell Jessie Shaw Joan Elsie Cooper William Gordon Jasper Pamela Susan Haslehurst Andrew William Griffiths Gerald William Hemming Kerby Muriel Ellen Ames
We remember all who have died and ask for God’s comfort to sustain all who arePage bereaved.
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Charity for 2015 The Cancer Support Centre—Su"on Coldfield Each year we support a different charity with our fundraising from social events and through collec ons taken at weddings. Where possible we look for a local group which is not reliant from funds from government or quasi-governmental funds. For 2015 we will support the Cancer Support Centre based within the St Giles Hospice building in Lindridge Road. The charity has been of tremendous benefit to cancer sufferers and their families, providing support, informa on and a range of complementary therapies. More informa on can be found on their website. h-p://www.su-oncancersupport.org/home
Holy Trinity Re-ordering Project Sutton Coldfield Don’t forget we have a Display board in church and also a 10 minute walkthrough on our website which shows the effects of our projected improvements for the interior of the church to make a more welcoming and accessible space. Further details on our website: www.htsc.org.uk Please help us and join the Fund-raising Campaign. Contact our Campaign office on 0121 355 3697 or e-mail: campaign@htsc.org.uk 23
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Charlotte Chubb (left) and Lily Chubb (right) See article on page 5
Andy Casserley and Ian Pittaway who entertained us with music (and stories) from the mediaeval and Renaissance eras on 7th February. Several audience members confessed they had not been sure if this might be a bit dry, but were delighted by it all. The range of instruments was amazing and Andy and Ian were so talented and informative. There were also moments of pure fun! Just a pity our heating remained mediaeval on a very
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