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Christ Church, Alum Bay New Road,
Totland Bay, PO39 0ES
www.christchurchtotland.org.uk
@christchurchtotland2017
25p
Christ Church
Totland Bay
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Music lovers at Christ Church were treated to two memorable
evenings in the space of just 4 days.
On Saturday 9 June, under the
baton of Jonathan Willcocks,
organist Peter King and with five
visiting soloists, the Orpheus
Singers gave a polished perform-
ance of the Poulenc Gloria and the
Mozart Mass in C minor.
Visits and recitals from Dr Ian Tracey are always a delight, and his
performance on Tuesday 12 June was no exception. The evening was
made more special by Ian’s dedication of the whole event to the
memory of Joan Gregson, our church organist for many years. Ian’s
introductions to the pieces, all selected with Joan in mind, showed
great empathy and deep respect for her memory. John Gregson
(Joan’s son) was unfortunately unable to be there, but he sent his
good wishes and said “Mum was very fond of Ian; I’ve a couple of
lovely photos of them together”.
James writes: We are grateful to all who took part in and helped with both concerts at Christ Church. After meeting expenses, a total of approximately £300 was raised for church funds.
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MINISTER REVD. JAMES COOK
The Vicarage, Alum Bay New Road
Totland Bay PO39 0ES
minister@ christchurchtotland.org.uk
Tel: 01983 759091
CHURCH ADMINISTRATOR
DENIS GOSDEN Christ Church,
Alum Bay New Road, Totland Bay, PO39 0ES
admin@ christchurchtotland.org.uk
Tel: 07582 861966
CHURCH WARDENS
PETER BYATT
churchwarden1@ christchurchtotland.org.uk
GEOFF KIRK
churchwarden2@ christchurchtotland.org.uk
Items for the September magazine
by 13 August please.
Items for weekly notices by
Thursday evenings please.
NEW SERVICE TIME
With effect from
Thursday 5 July
the midweek service
of Holy Communion
will take place at
10 am every Thursday
instead of at 9.30 am
EDITOR’S NOTE
This is my first attempt at editing the Church Magazine and I am on a steep
learning curve! I apologise for any
omissions, oversights or inaccuracies
appearing in this issue. JANE WALTON
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The Jottings of James, July 2018:
The Jottings of James, July 2018: ‘Way Out’
The expressions we use in everyday conversation reveal something about
our personality and, dare I say, our age. Those of my children’s and grand-
children’s generations, for example, will express pleasure and approval by
exclaiming ‘cool!’, an expression that was never part of my regular vocabu-
lary! One expression that was widely used in my youth, and which is some-
times still heard today is ‘way out’, meaning exceptional or unconventional.
One spoke of a ‘way out’ hairstyle or a ‘way out’ taste in music. The term
carried for me a sense of daring, of adventure and of new possibilities.
Many of us enjoyed the recent flower festival in All Saints’ Church, Freshwa-
ter, with beautiful arrangements by members of the West Wight Floral Arts
Society around the Biblical theme of ‘Exodus’, a word derived from the
Greek for ‘Way Out’. The flower arrangers drew their inspiration from some
of the earliest books of the Bible that tell the story of the Children of Israel
taking the ‘Way Out’ from a life of slavery in Egypt to a life of freedom in
their ‘Promised Land’. It is a story of daring, adventure and new possibilities.
It had begun hundreds of years earlier, in the Book of Genesis, when the
family of Jacob, renamed Israel because he had ‘struggled with
God’ (Genesis 32.28), had been welcomed into Egypt as refugees. Time and
circumstances had changed, however and the descendants of these people
were no longer well-treated. They needed to move on.
In the books of the Bible that follow immediately from Genesis – particularly
Exodus, Numbers and Joshua – and in the flower displays, we encounter
numerous events that together make up the story of the Exodus, the ‘Way
Out’. I often feel sorry for the ancient Egyptians, who paid a high price for
obstructing others’ ‘Way Out’. In wonderfully imaginative ways in the
Flower Festival, we saw the plagues of flies, locusts, darkness and more that
the Egyptians suffered. Through high-standing banks of blue flowers, we
were able to escape with the fleeing Israelites though the ‘Red Sea’ of the
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chancel. With them too, we were able to sense God’s protection in floral
pillars of cloud and fire and his provision for our daily needs as food like
flowers was showered from above in the nave. God’s holiness and his pres-
ence with us were portrayed in flowers, particularly around the images of
the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant. It was a joy to be reminded by
flowers of the sheer goodness of God.
Sensing the goodness of God moves us to worship the One who created us,
who redeems us from the slavery of sin and who daily sustains us by his
Spirit. The place of music in our worship of God was shown so well in flow-
ers, for they can be delicate and yet bold, vibrant yet modest, and some-
times with natural trumpets! Our worship of God is not only in song and
prayer; it is also in action – action that in various ways secures for others
and ourselves a route into a ‘Promised Land’. Sometimes there are battles
to be fought against those who stand in the path of God-inspired progress,
and we saw this even in the flowers depicting the dramatic Fall of Jericho.
Dropping, almost unnoticed, down the wall of Jericho was a crimson cord –
a sign that those who were trusting in it would, by God’s grace, escape de-
struction. (To find out how the cord came to be there, read Joshua 2.1-21.)
As you and I seek ways out – ways out from whatever oppresses us into
whatever God’s ‘Promised Land’ may mean for us – do we possess a
‘crimson cord’ that is our protection again disaster? When the going gets
tough, when life is extra hard, perhaps through ill-health, loss of a role in
society, or the breakdown of a relationship, what is the ‘crimson cord’ in
which we place our hope? Together with my fellow clergy and ministers in
the parishes of Freshwater, Yarmouth and Totland, I would commend to you
the ‘crimson cord’ of one who described himself as the ‘Way’, our Lord Je-
sus Christ. May we trust in the one whose love and provision for us all is
revealed in the crimson of his cross and of whom we are reminded, Sunday
by Sunday, in the crimson of Holy Communion. Through faith in him, may
we find our Exodus, our ‘Way Out’.
Yours in following the Way, James
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1 July - Worship for All
15 July - Junior Church
29 July - Junior Church
JUNIOR CHURCH
Christ Church Totland Bay
Children, come and listen to Bible
stories, play games, sing songs
and get messy with crafts at 11am:
We look forward to welcoming you Junior Church will take a break in August
and resume in September
For info, call Suzanne on 759091
TABLE TOP SALE
SATURDAYS
28 JULY AND
25 AUGUST
TOTLAND CHURCH HALL
9.00 - 12 noon
Tables £3 (no charge for charities)
contact Margaret on 755533
or Lesley on 717347 in aid of the Christ
Church Mission Fund - helping people at home and abroad.
St. Saviour’s Holy Family Centre
Weston Lane, Totland, PO39 0HE
2pm—4.30
Wednesday 18 July
SINGING WITH JANE Wednesday 15 August
WHY LIFE STORIES MATTER
and CHOOSING A CARE HOME
Afternoon Tea
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THE VENERABLE PETER SUTTON ARCHDEACON OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT
The Venerable Peter Sutton retires from his post as Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight this summer. Everyone is invited to a farewell service at All Saints; Church, Ryde at 7 pm on 16 July. Donations to the retirement gift for Peter and his wife Pippa may be passed to the Diocese of Portsmouth directly, or via our PCC Treasurer, Lesley Kirk. We will miss Archdeacon Peter, and are grateful for his wise counsel and good-humoured support over the years. We wish him well.
HELP NEEDED
CHURCHES TOGETHER FUN DAY
ON COLWELL COMMON
SATURDAY AFTERNOON 1 SEPTEMBER
All offers of help gratefully received. Please contact CTWW reps Margaret Byatt (755533) or Jackie Holdaway (643961)
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Services and Lectionary Readings - JULY 2018
Sunday 1 Trinity 5
11am Worship for All
Lam 3.22-33, 2 Cor 8.7 to end, Mark 5. 21 to end 6pm Holy Communion (CW) at St Agnes’ Church
Thursday 5
10 am (please note new time) Holy Communion (BCP) Amos 7.10 to end, Matthew 9. 1-8 11 am Prayer Meeting
Sunday 8 Trinity 6
11 am Morning Prayer
Ezek 2.1-5, 2 Cor 12.2-10, Mark 6.1-13
6 pm Sung Evensong at St Agnes, Freshwater Bay
Thursday 12
10 am Holy Communion (CW) Hosea 11.1, 3-4, 8-9, Matthew 10.7-15 11 am Prayer Meeting
Sunday 15 Trinity 7
11 am Holy Communion (CW)
Amos 7.7-15, Ephes 1.3-14, Mark 6.14-29
6 pm Evensong at St Peter and St Paul, Mottistone
Thursday 19
10 am Holy Communion (BCP)
Isaiah 26.7-9, 16-19, Matthew 11.28 to end
11 am Prayer Meeting
Sunday 22 Mary Magdelene
11 am Morning Prayer Song of Songs 3.1-4, 2 Cor 5.14-17, John 20.1-2, 11-18 5 pm CTWW Open Air Service in Yarmouth
Thursday 26
10 am Holy Communion (CW) Jeremiah 2.1-3, 7-8, 12-13, Matthew 13.10-17 7.30 pm Prayers for the Parishes (Freshwater, Yarmouth and Totland Bay) at Christ Church
Sunday 29 Trinity 9
11 am Holy Communion (CW) 2 Kings 4, 42 to end, Ephesians 3.14 to end, John 6.1-21 * Evening worship to be announced *
Please note that individual preachers may choose to use alternative readings on occasion Where a 3rd reading is shown, this will be read by the preacher.
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Services and Lectionary Readings - AUGUST 2018
Thurs 2 10 am Holy Communion (BCP)
Jeremiah18.1-6, Matthew 13.47-53
11 am Prayer meeting
Sunday 5 Trinity 10
11am Worship for All
Exodus 16.2-4, 9-15, Ephesians 4.1-16, John 6.24-35 6pm Holy Communion (CW) at St Agnes’ Church
Thurs 9
10 am Holy Communion (CW)
Jeremiah 31.31-34, Matthew 16.13-23
11 am Prayer meeting
Sunday 12 Trinity 11
11am Morning Prayer (CW) 1 Kings 19.4-8, Ephesians 4.25-5.2, John 6.35, 41-51 6 pm Sung Evensong at St Agnes, Freshwater Bay
Thurs 16 10 am Holy Communion (BCP)
Ezekiel 12.1-12, Matthew 18.21-19.1
11 am Prayer Meeting
Sunday 19 Trinity 12
11 am Holy Communion (CW)
Proverbs 9.1-6, Ephesians 5.15-20, John 6.51-58
6 pm Evensong at St Peter and St Paul, Mottistone
Thurs 23
10 am Holy Communion (CW) Ezekiel 36.23-28, Matthew 22.1-14 7.30 pm Prayer for the Parishes (Freshwater, Yarmouth and Totland Bay) (venue tbc)
Sunday 26 Trinity 13
11 am Morning Prayer (CW) Joshua 24.1-2a, 14-18, Ephesians 6.10-20, John 6.56-69 4.30 pm CTWW Open Air Service at Freshwater Bay
Thurs 30
10 am Holy Communion (BCP) 1 Corinthians 1.1-9, Matthew 24.42 to end 11 am Prayer Meeting
Please note that individual preachers may choose to use alternative readings on occasion Where a 3rd reading is shown, this will be read by the preacher.
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JULY Sun 1 Jul Sun 8 Jul Sun 15 Jul Sun 22 Jul Sun 29 Jul
Flowers Phyl Betty Ann C Shirley Jackie
Church Unlocking and Locking
2-8 Jul Ros G
9-15 Jul Richard H
16-22 Jul Lorraine
23-29 Jul John
30 Jul - 5 Aug
Peter B
11 AM WFA CWMP CWHC CWMP CWHC
Sidesman Phyl
Ros G Ros G Phyl
Tom Margaret
Maureen E Tom
Peter Ros G
Bus Crew Tony Margaret Geoff Lesley Margaret
Greeter Margaret Dorinda Una/Barry Georgina Frances
PA System Tom Robin John Denis John
Children's Work
WFA Suzanne
Barry No Junior Church
Barry Gina
No Junior Church
Lesson
Readers WFA Team
Geoff Tony
Tonie Lizzie
Dorinda Robin
Eric Phyl
Intercessions WFA Team Peter Geoff John Geoff
HC Assistants Dorinda Robin
Denis John
Prayer
Ministry
Lucie Margaret
Robin H tbc
Ros G Tonie
Peter Ros H
Paul Suzanne
Stewards Lizzie Tom E
Maureen W Neil
Peter Eric
Maureen W Michelle
Lizzie Neil
Refreshments Betty
Anne H Ann C
Jackie H Gina
Martin Anne
Richard Lesley Phyl
Services Key: CW – Common Worship; HC – Holy Communion;
MP – Morning Prayer; WFA - Worship For All. If by any chance you are unable to help on your Sunday rota please
arrange a swap. In extremis, contact Peter Byatt (755533) or Geoff Kirk (717347).
CHRIST CHURCH ROTAS JULY 2018
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AUGUST Sun 5 Aug Sun 12 Aug Sun 19 Aug Sun 26 Aug
Flowers Selina Judith Gina Suzanne
Church Unlocking and Locking
6-12 Aug Geoff
13-19 Aug Ros G
20-26 Aug Richard H
27 Aug - 2 Sep John
11 AM WFA CWMP CWHC CWMP
Sidesman Phyl
Ros G Ros G Phyl
Tom Margaret
Maureen E Tom
Bus Crew Tony Margaret Tony Lesley
Greeter Margaret Dorinda Una/Barry Georgina
PA System Tom Robin John Denis
Children's Work
WFA tbc tbc tbc
Lesson
Readers WFA Team
Ros G Denis
Megan Tom
Roz W Phyl
Intercessions WFA Team Ros H Jane Barry
HC Assistants Barry Peter
Prayer Ministry Lucie
Margaret Robin H
tbc Ros G Tonie
Peter Ros H
Stewards Lizzie Tom E
Maureen W Michelle
Peter Eric
Maureen W Michelle
Refreshments Betty
Anne H Ann C
Jackie H Gina
Martin Jane
Lesley
Services Key: CW – Common Worship; HC – Holy Communion;
MP – Morning Prayer; WFA - Worship For All. If by any chance you are unable to help on your Sunday rota please
arrange a swap. In extremis, contact Peter Byatt (755533) or Geoff Kirk (717347).
CHRIST CHURCH ROTAS AUGUST 2018
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MADAGASCAR
Politically, the country is still in crisis; corruption is rife and there are regular armed robberies, kidnappings and murders in the capital city, Tana. Martin and Mary Barber’s work continues in the countryside, some 40 miles away, where it is relatively peaceful. With a regular influx of visitors and inspectors from the Polish Embassy (who provided a grant towards building costs) Mary and her team of helpers have been kept fully employed. Alongside this, Mary joined teachers from local primary schools for mock examinations. It is planned to ship another container to them in the late summer; offers of goods are welcome. For a full report on these and other matters, including photos, please see the latest bulletin on the Mission Notice Board, the church website, or request a copy from Eric Barber.
BURUNDI
Alison and Paul Guinness are currently in
Hertfordshire, following the birth on
4 June of Grace Geraldine
Ruhamah on 4 June.
She weighed in at over
10lbs. Alison had a
difficult time after the
birth, but she is now mak-ing good progress. They plan to return to Burundi,
taking their two small
children, Jeremy and Grace, with them, later in the summer. We thank God for Grace’s safe arrival and ask His blessing on the whole family, and for
continued healing for
Alison.
MISSION PRAYER MEETING First Monday of every month
10.30 am at 21 Hurst Point View
Totland
Next meetings: 2 July and 6 August
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What’s On in July and August JULY Sun 1
7 for 7.30 pm
CTWW Reflections at Freshwater Methodist Church, Led by Rod and Elizabeh O’Farrell—”Healing”
Wed 4 2 - 4 pm Memory Lane - page 12
Sat 7 10 am “Moving On!” Christian Discipleship course continues in the Vicarage
Sun 8 4 pm West Wight Churches Youth Project celebration and thanks to all supporters at WWSCC. All welcome.
Wed 11 11 am Holy Communion at Inglefield
Thur 12 11 am Holy Communion at Whitmore Court
Sat 14 10 am “Moving On!” Christian Discipleship course final session in the Vicarage
Sat 21 7 pm Proms in the Garden with IOW Wind Band—page 15
Sun 22 5 pm CTWW Open Air Service in Yarmouth
Thur 26 7.30 pm Prayers for the Parishes at Christ Church
Sat 28 9—11 Table Top Sale—page 6
Sat 28 7 pm City of London Choir—page 16
AUGUST Wed 1
2-4 pm Memory Lane—page 12
Sun 5 7 for 7.30 CTWW Reflections at Freshwater Methodist Church
Wed 8 11 am Holy Communion at Inglefield
Thur 9 11 am Holy Communion at Whitmore Court
Wed 15 2 pm Tea at the Towers, in aid of St James, Yarmouth
Thur 23 7.30 pm Prayers for the Parishes (venue tbc)
Fri 24 10.30am Coffee and Catch Up - page 6
Sat 25 9—11.30 Table Top Sale - page 6
Sun 26 4.30 pm CTWW Worship in the Open Air, by the Lifeboat Station, Freshwater Bay
Sat 1 Sep Afternoon CTWW Fun Day on Colwell Common — page 7
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Leaflet and booking form at back of church
… AND AT CHRIST CHURCH
Entry £5 includes glass of Pimms or soft alternative
Bring your own chairs and picnic
WHAT’S ON AT CARISBROOKE PRIORY
with the
ISLE OF WIGHT WIND BAND
in Christ Church Vicarage Garden
SATURDAY 21 JULY AT 7 pm
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One for the diary:
Saturday 20 October 2018 10 AM TO 6.30 PM
MUSIC WORKSHOP including music from “Les Miserables”
with visiting soloists and ending with a short performance
More details nearer the time
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