GLENFIELD METHODIST CHURCH December 2018/January 2019 1 3 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 19 20 22 22 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 30 31 32 33 34 36/7 38+ 44 47 48 Contents Minister’s Letter…………………………………………………….. Church News ……………………………………………………….. A Plea from Church Council ……………………………………….. Harvest Seed Challenge …………………………………………….. Christmas Services …………………………………………………. Christian Aid ………………………………………………………... Gift Service …………………………………………………………. The Diary …………………………………………………………… Treasurer’s report ……………….…………………………………... Words & Music For Christmas ……………………………………... Ladies’ Fellowship ………………………………………………….. Open Door …………………………………………………………... In Appreciation ……………………………………………………... Kingfisher Chorale Christmas Concert ……………………………... The Loo Roll which helps save the planet ………………………….. Sunday Club ………...………………………………………………. Operation Christmas Child 2018 …………………………………… The man who married Mary ………………………………………... 20-20 Finance report (October 2018) ……………………………. 20-20 Dial - a - breakfast …………………………………………… 20-20 Fund Raising ………………………………………………… 20-20 Vision Project ………………………………………………... Glenfield Gardeners’ Association ………………………………….. Drama Group next production ……………………………………… Glenfield WI ………………………………………………………... Thanks ………………………………………………………………. Don’t Be Alone On Christmas Day ………………………………… News from St. Peter’s ………………………………………………. Christmas 1914 ……………………………………………………... Crossword …………………………………………………………... Bible Bites, Mouse Makes…………………………………………... Word search, Games Page, Puzzles Answers ………………...…….. Rotas………………………………………………………………… Preaching Plan ………………………………………………………. Our Regular Church Activities ……………………………………... Glenfield Methodist Church Newsletter
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Most of you will be unaware of the situation we’re in regarding job vacancies within Glenfield Methodist Church. The Church Council, usually, are the people who are presented with this sort of information but the details need to be broadcast to the entire church membership so that we can all think seriously about taking up the challenge of getting involved in different areas of service within the church community. Below is a list of the many and varied opportunities for you to consider :- Church Council Congregation Rep. Talk to Anne Fenton Coffee Rota (Saturdays and Sundays) Talk to Irene Arthur Coordinator(s) for Christmas Market 2019 Talk to Celia Davis or Linda York Door Stewards Talk to Barbara Coombes GDPR Data Mapping Talk to Anne Fenton Sunday Club Helpers Talk to Jane Sowler or Linda York Secretary for Church Council Talk to Rev. Steve Clark or Anne Fenton Secretary for Pastoral Team Talk to Rev. Steve Clark Secretary for Property Team Talk to Mike Chester
Vestry stewards Talk to Eddie Hasman Please pray that people will be called to take on rolls to ensure us to fulfil our Mission Statement of being a Welcoming, Worshipping, Caring and Praying, Giving and Growing Church
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Harvest Seed Challenge for the 20-20 Vision Project
You may remember that during our Harvest Festival service in September, I launched the ‘Harvest Seed Challenge.’ Taking inspiration
from the parable of the bags of gold in Matthew 25.14 to 30 (also known as the parable of the talents), we were all invited to take up the challenge of using our gifts, talents & creativity to raise funds for our exciting 20-20 Vision Project (which is to redevelop and enhance our building to make it fit-for-purpose for the future).
The idea is that anyone from the GMC church family who is willing to take part will be given £10 ‘seed money’ as a starter, with the challenge to be creative in multiplying the money over the next several months. We have until Easter Sunday (21 April) 2019 to work on this. The hope was that everyone would be able to take part; it doesn’t have to be difficult, and hopefully will be fun and something to enjoy doing.
Some members of Sunday Club have embraced the idea with great enthusiasm, and a number of the 20-20 Vision Project team have also taken up the challenge. However, I have to say that the overall number of people who have so far decided to take part has been disappointingly low. I would really encourage you to seriously consider getting involved. You could always join with a friend to do something. It could be as simple as using the money to buy ingredients for a coffee morning, then inviting friends and neighbours round.
There is still plenty of time to get involved. If you would like to take up the challenge, pick up an information leaflet from the vestry at church, complete the response and hand it to Sue Clark, who will be happy to give you £10. In supporting the 20-20 Vision Project we are investing in the future of God’s mission and the call to serve our local community. As someone once said, ‘we are in this together!’
Steve
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Glenfield Methodist Church
Christmas & New Year Services 2018/19
Sunday 2nd December
(Advent 1) 10.15am Gift Service All Age Worship led by Rev. Steve Clark
Sunday 9th December
(Advent 2) 10.15am Rev.Richard Jackson
4pm Short service following Janet’s 80th
Birthday celebrations
Sunday 16th December
(Advent 3) 10.15am Paulette Furborough
6.30 pm Rev. Robert Kasema
Sunday 23rd December
(Advent 4) 10.15am Sunday Club Nativity Service
6.30 pm Candlelit Carol Service
Monday Christmas Eve 4.00 pm Christingle led by
11.30 pm Midnight Service led by Rev. Steve Clark
Tuesday Christmas Day
10.15 am Christmas day Celebration
led by Andy Jobling
Sunday 30th December
10:15am Alison Whitmore
(No evening service)
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Christian Aid - Where we work – Z to A (Continued)
Christian Aid in Kenya
Christian Aid has been working in Kenya since 1997, building and managing strategic partnerships with local civil society agencies,
the government, public authorities, the private sector, churches, and religious organisations, with common values in poverty eradication. We currently work with over 15 partners across seven counties, mainly in arid and semi-arid lands. Our work focuses on community health, climate resilience and inclusive markets. We support poor and marginalised communities to anticipate, organise, adapt, respond to, and cope with, climate change and related disasters. Our work helps communities take advantage of opportunities and work with their local government. Our aims We aim to see communities become thriving and resilient by achieving three objectives from our global strategy partnership for change: The right to essential services - access to health and education services among others. Improving household incomes and livelihoods through inclusive
markets development work and fostering resilience of livelihoods to risks such as climate change.
Mainstreaming gender and inclusion across everything
we do. We aim to ensure women, people living with physical and mental impairment, elderly people, sexual minorities, and other marginalised groups enjoy their right to essential services
and to economic well-being. We believe that unjust power relations are at the centre of poverty, so we aim ensure communities are able to understand and exercise their rights to health services, engage in inclusive markets, and be resilient
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to climate change-related risks. Kenya’s 2010 constitution provides for devolution of public functions to counties, respect for human rights and freedoms, gender equity, and active citizenship. These serve as key anchors for our work with stakeholders at county and national level. In Kenya we work on... Climate change
We support climate financing at local levels, ensuring communities can access finance through bottom-up planning and prioritisation. We also work in partnership with the Kenya Meteorological Department to support access to climate information services, to help communities make informed decisions. Inclusive markets
Christian Aid Kenya is taking a lead role in facilitating systemic market transformation in key sectors that affect the livelihoods of poor communities. We use participatory approaches to market development, to unlock potential in our core priority value chains - beekeeping, cereals and vegetables. Disaster risk reduction and emergencies
We are at the front line in responding to emergencies in the northern Kenya. We are here for the long term and our work includes preparing communities, institutions and partners to cope with, and avert, future disasters. We focus on 'shifting power' to local institutions and communities for the most effective humanitarian response. Accountability
Accountability and transparency are key principles in all our projects and operations. We are continuing to improve our practices in downward accountability (being accountable to the people we aim to help), systems for information sharing, and complaints handling.
Dates of Church meetings below. If you wish to raise anything relating to a meeting due to take place, please contact the Chair or Secretary. If you feel called to offer to help as secretary/note taker at the Pastoral or Property meeting’s, please speak to Rev Steve Clark. Church Council - next meeting to be informed (2019) Chair, Rev Steve Clark; Secretary, Anne Fenton General Church Meeting - next meeting April 2019 Chair, Rev Steve Clark; Secretary, Anne Fenton Finance - meets once per year, in August Chair, Rev Steve Clark; Secretary, Norman Clayton Pastoral - no meeting date set Chair, Rev Steve Clark; we are trying to recruit a secretary Property – next meeting 12 February 2019 Chair, Mike Chester; we are trying to recruit a secretary Quarterly Communications (QCM) formerly Leadership Team – next meeting 15 January 2019, at the home of Anne Fenton Chair, Rev Steve Clark; Secretary, Anne Fenton; other members are Mike Chester, Geoff Clarke, Jane Sowler, Wally York & Senior Steward Worship & Discipleship (W&D) – next meeting 10 December 2018, at the home of Wally & Linda York Chair, Rev Steve Clark; Secretary & Congregational Representative, Alison Asher 20-20 Vision meetings are taking place each month at the moment, and the steering group consists of: Sue Clark, Trevor Davies, Steve Clark, Geoff Clarke, Liz Clarke, Norman Clayton, Andrew Paul, Jane Sowler, Peter Sowler, Mary Squires, Melanie Wright. Wally York, Barbara Coombes & Siew Hoon Brewin are included as minute archivist and treasurer. Other people are drafted into the meetings as and when. Churches Together Children & Youth - next meeting to be arranged Secretary, Alison Blane December 2018 20-20 Vision – Tuesday 4 December, 3pm W&D - Monday 10 December (at the home of the Wally & Linda York) January 2019 QCM – 15 January (at the home of Anne Fenton)
Treasurer’s Report — October 2018
Weekly & monthly offerings amounted to £2,994 in October including gift-aid. This goes towards our Circuit Assessment of £3,333 per month. In addition £545 was raised in October for Samaritan’s Purse, as part of the Shoebox appeal for Operation Christmas Child. The charity of the month in November has been Crisis (at Christmas) and our charity of the month for December is our charity of the year – Cancer Research (UK).
Samaritan’s Purse ‘Operation Christmas Child’ has been charity of the month for October. The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to show God's love in a tangible way to children in need around the world, and together with the local church worldwide, to share the good news of Jesus
Christ.
Crisis has been our ‘charity of the month’ for November, supporting ‘Crisis at Christmas’. For nine days over Christmas, Crisis is a safe haven for someone who is homeless. Food, fresh clothes, a haircut and shower; companionship and professional advice are all provided.
Cancer Research UK is our ‘Charity of the Year’, and is December’s charity too. They are the largest independent funder of cancer research in the world. They support the best scientists, doctors
and nurses to discover new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer across the world, and rely entirely on donations to make it happen
Geoff Clarke
GMC Treasurer
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Alison Blane &
Liz Clarke Invite you to an evening of
Tuesday 18th December 2018
7pm – 9pm
Seasonal refreshments
will be served in the interval
No tickets or pre-booking
Donations to our 20-20 Vision Project
If you’d like to take part please contact
Alison by 2nd December
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The speaker at our 9th October meeting, who was accompanied by her dog, was from Leicester Animal Aid, a charity based in Huncote. Their aim is to re-home the lost and abandoned animals in their care. Thanks to a recent substantial legacy, they have been able to extend their premises and open a small café. Visitors are very welcome. They also have ascheme whereby they take in pets when their owners are unable to look after them for a time, such as going into hospital. Members donated a good amount of pet food. On October 23rd, Rosemary Nash-Smith told us about the work of the RNLI. The lifeboats are buit, run and maintained entirely by public donations and crews give their services free of charge. Jean bravely agreed to wear a full crew member’s uniform - we could hardly recognise her when dressed in it. Our next meetings are :- Dec. 11th Christmas Celebration
Elizabeth Riding - Christmas in Bethlehem Followed by Festive Tea. Hostesses: The Committee Jan. 22nd Our Annual Beetle Drive Hostesses: Beryl, Jean H and Doreen S. Our thoughts and prayers are with all our members who are un-able to be with us due to age or illness.
Shirley Hill
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Open Door
After a glorious summer “Open Door”
continues to flourish on the first Sunday
afternoon each month. However, our
December meeting has always coincided with
the Christmas Carol Service so this year we will
have two meetings in December – the usual one
on the first Sunday (2nd December at 3pm) –
and another on 23rd December when we will
start at 4pm with a “Christmassy” tea followed by the Carol
Service later.
Please note these dates in your diaries.
Our first meeting in 2019 will be Sunday 3rd February (weather
permitting).
We welcomed Ruth to our September meeting following the
death of her beloved husband Bryan. Our condolences go to
Ruth and her family and hope she will continue to join us. A
little premature, but a “Merry Christmas” and a Happy and
Healthy New Year to you all.
Audrey/Grace
In Appreciation
Thank you so much for the lovely bouquet of
flowers which I found on my porch on 22nd October,
I was delighted to be a recipient. This unexpected
gift cheered me up and made me smile. I think that
the weekly distribution of our altar flowers are a
My order: ____ roll(s) Name ………………………………………………………..
Phone number……………………………………..
Please return your order form and payment (cash, or cheque
payable to S Clark) to Sue Clark (tel. 0116 2870356). We may be able to offer help with local delivery of larger orders. Thank you to all of those who have already supported my loo roll challenge. Please continue to do so, whether it is buying a whole box, or a roll occasionally, it all helps to save on plastic, save trees, provide toilets for those who don't have them at all, and raise money for the new toilets at GMC. Many Thanks Sue
Sunday Club
On the first Sunday in November Sunday Club’s senior group
(six of them and two leaders) took their last look for a while at
Mark’s Gospel. Over the past few months we, and all the
Sunday Club have explored three chapters in detail, with
themes that have been relevant today – hypocrisy, authenticity,
the power of words and difficult issues and how we deal with
them as Christians.
In the senior group we focused on the question asked of Jesus,
“Out of all the commandments, which one is the most
important?”. Jesus’ answer in a few words presents not only the
joy of following him, but
also the enormous
challenge to discipleship:
“The most important one
says: ‘People of Israel, you
have only one Lord and
God. You must love him
with all your heart, soul,
mind, and strength. ‘ The
second most important
commandment says: ‘Love
others as much as you love yourself.’ No other commandment is
more important than these.” (Mark 12. 29-31)
I can remember a time when Methodist congregations used
either the hymn book or our service books and quite often
would rehearse the commandments as part of worship,
including the new commandment of Jesus “that you love one
another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one
another”
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Our group explored what it meant to love God with all our
heart, soul, mind and strength.
We then placed these four symbols on the floor to represent
those aspects of who we are and they
were challenged to go and pick one up
and say, “To love God with all my
heart means …” and several of them
were able to respond to the challenge
and in their own words finish the
sentence as it applied to them and the
symbol they had chosen – very
encouraging. Is this something you
could do?
Our youngsters made this poster
which is displayed in the church
lounge.
Our 7-11’s talked about the importance of passing things on and
how God wants us to pass on these two great commandments.
We made these
beautiful heart sun
catcher pictures to
act as a daily
reminder to ‘love
God and your
neighbour’.
We now turn to
Luke’s Gospel in
Sunday Club and, of course, will be looking ahead to our
Christmas celebrations.
Peter Sowler
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OPERATION CHRISTMAS
CHILD 2018 Thanks to everyone who contributed in any
way towards this year’s Samaritan’s Purse
Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Appeal.
Your donations of individual items, full shoe
boxes, hand knitted hats, scarves and gloves,
empty shoe boxes, covering the shoe boxes,
taking them to The Big Shed and financial support, all together came
to a total of 105 boxes and £545 - a figure that more than covered
the cost of transporting of our boxes.
An inspired example of what can be done when we all work together!
May God bless the children who will be receiving these gifts.
Linda & Wally
The man who married Mary
The traditional Nativity scene on our Christmas cards has Mary with
the Holy Babe. Around her are the shepherds and Magi. We may also
see stable animals, angels and a star! While Joseph is often included,
his presence seems to be of minor importance. After all, we praise God
for Jesus with our familiar Christmas carols, mentioning angels,
shepherds, Wise men and Mary but the name of Joseph is absent! Why
is Joseph given a low profile? For he is a man to be remembered.
Joseph was a resident of Nazareth. He worked as a carpenter and his
skills would have included making furniture, repairing buildings and
crafting agricultural tools. Although Joseph had an honourable
profession, he would not have been a man of great wealth.
The gospel writers Matthew and Luke give Joseph a few brief
mentions. After the birth of Jesus, Joseph and Mary go to the temple in
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Jerusalem to dedicate the Baby to God. Afterwards, they flee into
Egypt to escape the wrath of Herod and much later return to Nazareth.
Twelve years later, Mary and Joseph go with Jesus to Jerusalem for the
Passover feast. Here they lose Jesus, and find Him in the Temple
talking with religious leaders!
Apart from these verses, the New Testament is silent about the rest of
Joseph’s life. However, we do know that Joseph was father to other
children by Mary. His four sons are named and they had at least two
daughters. (See Matthew 13:55)
And we also know that Joseph was someone who quietly and humbly
took on the awesome role in caring for the early life of the Son of God.
Joseph would have taught Jesus many things – not just the skills of a
labourer, but the lore of the countryside which was evident in our
Lord’s teaching. Jesus grew up within a loving family and described
God as ‘Father’, knowing also the good fatherly qualities of Joseph.
In the Christmas story, Joseph is placed into a situation that brought
him misunderstanding and suspicion. But Joseph remained faithful in
the knowledge that as long as God had spoken, the opinion of others
mattered little. Before Jesus began His ministry it is believed that
Joseph died. It is likely Jesus took on many of His father’s
responsibilities before He left home.
In the eyes of the world, Joseph was a nobody. He was not a man of
valour, fame and fortune. But he was the one who had parental
responsibility for the greatest person who has ever lived!
It is sad that we often equate ordinariness with ineffectiveness. Down
the ages, God has used many ordinary people to accomplish great
things. God continues to use ordinary people. Like Joseph, we need to
know that doing God’s will is the most important thing in life. May
we, this Christmas, respond to God’s call to us and please Him in all
Joel’s Band for their concert which raised £210 (including
gift aid).
Ladies Fellowship for donating £50 towards 20-20.
Wally, Linda and Celia for the great Quiz Night & Supper
which raised £716 (after costs and gift-aid).
Everyone who has continued to contribute generously with
their prayers, old £1 coins, loose change, money, time and
talents to the 20-20 project.
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Fund Raising
As we look towards the end of the year and back to our Gift Day on that snowy day in March, we can see that we have been able to make considerable strides in our fundraising for 20-20 Vision. The Quiz Night in October raised a fabulous £712, and our thanks go to Wally, Linda & Celia and their helpers. The Charity Fashion Show was a fun evening which raised £673.60; a lot of hard work but worth the effort, and thanks to all involved. Those of us who are the coordinators want to express to you, the members and friends in Glenfield Methodist Church our thanks for your love, ideas, generosity, support and hard work. At the time of writing we are a few days away from welcoming the Coalville Male Voice Choir who are to give a concert supporting our fundraising. Elsewhere you will read that the Christmas market is not raising money for 20-20 but for General Church Funds. We have been including it in our list of events as we originally planned that the amount raised would be split between the two causes. However, Church Funds are in need of a boost and a recent Church Council agreed to this change of plan. December brings us The Kingfisher Chorale Concert, a Celebratory Tea (to mark Janet Kirk’s 80th birthday) and Alison’s Christmas ‘Words & Music’ event. We agreed at the Steering Group to have a month off (January 2019) and we want to arrange some fun events for February so please keep watching out for news of events. Please pray for the whole 20-20 Vision project and please come forward with ideas. Not ideas for us to do, but ideas that we could help you with.
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20-20 Vision Project
What a delight our young people are at
Glenfield Methodist Church. We are thrilled at
their enthusiasm for the 20-20 project. They
have not only spoken about it, but a good number of them
have also taken up the Harvest Seed Challenge to raise
money themselves for the project. Please support them by
buying their products. This reminds each one of us that the
building passes on to future generations, and it is important
that we are faithful in our care of it for generations to come.
Of course, church is really the people of God and the project
is giving us many opportunities to spend more time getting
to know each other and building up relationships. There are
also many opportunities to invite others to join us as we
share together in the building. Christmas is a great time for
this.
Please keep talking to us and praying for the project.
Sue and Trevor
20-20 Vision Events
Date Time Event Organised by
Ongoing 7.30am-9am
Dial-a-Breakfast Judith Mead
Sat 8 December 2018 7.30pm Kingfisher Chorale Con-cert
Anne Fenton/ Maggie Osborne
Sun 9 December 2018 3pm Celebratory Tea (to mark Janet Kirk’s 80th birthday)
Janet/Celia/Linda
Tues 18 December 2018 Evening Christmas ‘Words & Mu-sic’
Alison & Liz
Sat 23 March 2019 Evening Concert in memory of Pearl Ives
Peter
Sat 6 April 2019 Evening Ladies Cooperative Choir Concert
Peter
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Glenfield Gardeners’ Association
Autumn becomes a quieter time for us gardeners but there is still a lot to be done in the garden. In October, there was one of the largest audiences of the Glenfield Gardeners’. They came to hear Stuart Dixon speak about how to look after your plot in the cooler months. Advice was given on what plants are best for autumn colour such as Asters and Heleniums and how one can manage other plants to extend their flowering period. Stuart was very knowledgeable and entertaining and all agreed that it was a very useful talk. The Glenfield Gardeners’ will celebrate the end of a very successful gardening year at our annual supper in November but talks will resume again on the 22nd of January. Sally Cunningham, a hugely entertaining speaker, will introduce us to edible flowers with a talk entitled “please do eat the daisies!” This will be interesting for both gardeners and cooks alike. More talks will follow on hanging baskets, vegetable growing and hostas, ferns and bamboos. Our meetings are open to all, friends and family. All are welcome. You do not have to be a member to attend. We meet on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Membership for the whole year is just £10 or you can pay £2 a meeting. If you’ve never been before, then please do bring this article along to one of the meetings to try us out for free. We would love to see you. Wishing everyone a wonderful, joyous and restful Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year from everyone at the Glenfield Gardeners’. Liz Douglas
Programme Secretary
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Glenfield W I
Members of the Glenfield WI held their Annual Meeting on 16th October 2018. Pat Dickinson read the minutes of the last Annual Meeting and Lucy Hilton informed the members that the same Auditors would be retained for a further year. Lucy presented the Financial Report in the absence of the Treasurer, Sheila Solly and also an estimated proposed budget for the coming year. Pat then read her Secretary’s Report and Lucy the President’s Report. All were proposed, seconded and unanimously agreed by those present. Lucy went on to thank her committee for their hard work over the previous twelve months and agreed to be President for a further year. She then presented her new committee to the meeting.
Lucy received a card and an arrangement of flowers as a thank
you from members for her efforts over the last year.
Glenfield W I meets on the third Tuesday of the month in
St. Peter’s Church Hall @ 7.30pm. Why not come as a
visitor one evening (for a nominal fee of £3.00). You will
receive a very warm welcome from the members.
Angie Bowers
We want to say thank you for all the thoughts and prayers over the last few months. My spinal operation was just over five weeks ago. I am progressing well and have been discharged by
the consultant.
Joyce had good news and she will be going to Glenfield in the
next few weeks for a heart valve operation.
Thanks Brian and Joyce Newth
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ON
From time to time I sail a little. I’ve been taught to navigate so far using charts and bearings and observations of landmarks. The next step up, which I hope to have time to study one day, is to learn to navigate by the stars. To use peculiar looking – and ancient – instruments like sextants and astrolabes to work out where I am and where I’m going. For now, I largely rely on GPS! Stars have always fascinated the human race. The oldest maps of the skies at night that we have date from three and a half millennia ago. They’ve been used not just to help us find our way but to define calendars, the very rhythm of our lives. We’ve looked to them not just for practical purposes but spiritual: some ancient civilisations worshipped them, some people even still search out their horoscope and believe their life and personality is shaped by them. I can’t believe that but even when it comes to modern space travel, we seem to feel that there is something to discover in them. We reach out to grasp it, to learn what wisdom they have, is there any direction they offer? At the first Christmas, following the stars led wise people to look back at this earth. Not to find some answers out there in the cosmos, but to see here on earth the mysterious and glorious revelation of an extraordinary God born as an ordinary baby. As we celebrate Christmas, maybe we all need to learn how to follow that star. To navigate our way through a complex and challenging world to find the wonderful gift of God’s Saviour
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News
From
St. Peter’s
born for us. To find our way to the truth that God has found his way to come to us.
Richard Trethewey
Rector of St Peter’s, Glenfield, and
All Saints, Newtown Linford
0116 287 1604
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Christmas 1914
On Christmas Day the guns stopped no bombs dropped no man hopped one legged back to the dug-out.
On Christmas day the birds sang the bells rang the only bang ball on boot as enemies played as friends.
On Christmas Night as God cheered, men feared tomorrow becoming yesterday. God sighed: His son had died to be born again tomorrow. Pam Bolas 11.11.2018
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Across
1 ‘How long will you — your face from me?’ (Psalm 13:1) (4)
3 ‘Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the — he
bore’(Hebrews 13:13) (8)
9 Posh sin (anag.) (Romans 8:15) (7)
10 Solemn pledges (Matthew 5:33) (5)
11 Italian term for full orchestra (5)
12 ‘For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not — the cry
of the afflicted’ (Psalm 9:12) (6)
14 Prescience (1 Peter 1:2) (13)
17 Where a Hindu holy man lives (6)
19 ‘If he found any... who belonged to the Way, whether — —
women, he might take them as prisoners’ (Acts 9:3) (3,2)
22 Fragrance (2 Corinthians 2:15) (5)
23 Vine hen (anag.) (Jonah 1:2) (7)
24 Precious stone decorating the twelfth foundation of the New
Jerusalem (Revelation 21:20) (8)
25 ‘Will you keep to the old path that evil men have — ?’ (Job
22:15) (4)
Down
1 ‘Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with —
— ’ (Numbers 20:11) (3,5)
2 ‘You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, “ —
— murder”’ (Matthew 5:21) (2,3)
4 One of Paul’s many hardships endured as a servant of God (2
Corinthians 6:5) (13)
5 ‘We ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, — in-
wardly’ (Romans 8:23) (5)
6 Changed (Daniel 6:8) (7)
7 ‘My yoke is — and my burden is light’ (Matthew 11:30) (4)
8 Recoil (Revelation 12:11) (6)
13 ‘O Lord, you have — me and you know me’ (Psalm 139:1) (8)
15 ‘ — to me the joy of your salvation’ (Psalm 51:12) (7)
16 Express sorrow (Isaiah 16:7) (6)
18 ‘Then he said to Thomas, “ — out your hand and put it into
my side”’ (John 20:27) (5)
20 ‘God has said, “ — will I leave you; — Answers on page 40
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Word Search for December/January 2018/19
The nearly four weeks leading up to Christmas is Advent. It means ‘coming’. It refers to Jesus’ first coming as a baby, but it also looks forward to a day when Jesus is expected to return in triumph at his ‘second coming’ to establish perfect justice and a new order of peace. Originally Christians marked Advent as a time when they refrained from excessive eating and drink-ing. Then Christmas Day reintroduced them to the joys of feasting. Christmas celebrations lasted for twelve days, with gifts exchanged as a climax at Epiphany (6 January). Today, however, Advent is more likely to be associated with accelerat-ing festivity, with the days following Christmas something of an anti-climax until ‘twelfth night’, on which decorations are re-moved. Many Christians worldwide are trying to revive the spirit of Advent by setting aside time to pray and address global pov-erty. Words to find :-
Answers to the crossword on page 34 Answers to the wordsearch on page 38
Answers to the Sudokus on page 39
Easy Intermediate
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Glenfield Park W.I.
Meetings are held on the 1st Thursday in each
month in the
Memorial Hall, Stamford Street, Glenfield.
EMICS
Mystified. Well so were we. The acronym stands for East Midland Immediate Care Scheme. Still mystified. All was explained when Dr Tim Grey came as
a speaker to Glenfield Park WI. 33 years ago Tim moved to Rutland, having
worked in an A&E department in London. He thought there was a need for fast response to serious incidents by a doctor and put forward the idea.
However there was not a lot of support for this. The comment being "but
there are no motorways or dual carriageways in Rutland. The turning point
came when Tim was called out to a serious accident at midnight in winter.
The problem in Rutland is narrow roads which can become treacherous when
icy. From that small beginning the organisation has now grown to cover the whole of the East Midlands. In effect it's the air ambulance in a car. All this
of course takes money. There are now 26 doctors who are all volunteers and
are also GPs. They try to get to all incidents but occasionally the day job gets
in the way. To give you an idea of the costs, it takes £4000 to £6000 to just kit a doctor out. The kit is carried in the boot of the car, so no use of the car
for partners to do the shopping. All volunteers have to undergo trauma
training. As Tim pointed out it's a different kettle of fish working outside in often cramped areas to working in a well-lit hospital. Doctors also have to
undergo driver training which we found surprising but it was to learn how to
drive with a blue light. Drivers do surprising things trying to get out of the way. Tim was at pains to stress that they work as a team with the fire brigade
and the police who also do a wonderful job. A thoroughly inspiring talk and
presentation and we were full of admiration for all the volunteers who give
up their time.
During the past month apart from our normal craft sessions we enjoyed a
lunch at the Stamford Arms and indulged in a round of crazy golf. Good fun
Dates
December 5th Outing to Gates nursery with lunch December 6th Annual Meeting with faith supper and entertainment
December 18th Christmas lunch.
January 3rd Meeting
Sunday worship ‘Readers rota’
If you would like to occasionally read a lesson during morning or evening worship, please contact Eddie
Hasman who will add your name to the list of those willing to participate. Morning readers are usually
allocated one Sunday during each quarter; evening readers probably twice a quarter.You can email Eddie