Shottesbrooke and White Waltham Parish Magazine Page 1 The Associate The Parsonage, School Road Vicar’s Letter West End, Waltham St Lawrence. Telephone 0118 934 4841 Dear Friends, Christmas will soon be upon us! At the place where I work part-time in Oxford, we will be having a Christmas party a couple of weeks or so before 25 th December. But this will be a party with a difference! I work at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS), and we have over 100 research students registered with us, from 20 or more different countries. They are all committed Christians, doing research to equip the Christian church for mission and outreach today, in their culture and context. OCMS is a very vibrant place to be. So our Christmas party will embrace a wide range of cultures: I expect people will be there from the UK, Tonga, India, Kenya, Uganda, Malaysia, the USA, and South Korea – to name but a few! In terms of food – essential to any party! – the basis of the meal will be traditional British turkey, with roast potatoes and all the trimmings. If you think about it, this is a bit odd. Why would people from Tonga, India and Kenya celebrate Christmas in British style? How many of us will be celebrating Christmas in the style of some other culture than our own? THIS MAGAZINE Published bi-monthly, six times a year. Delivered free to all homes in White Waltham, Shottesbrooke and Woodlands Park. Freely available at church services. Given to all families at White Waltham School. Articles for the next edition should be sent to: [email protected]by 12th January 2011 The magazines will be available by the last Sunday of the month
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Shottesbrooke and White Waltham Parish Magazine Page 1
The Associate The Parsonage, School Road Vicar’s Letter West End, Waltham St Lawrence.
Telephone 0118 934 4841 Dear Friends,
Christmas will soon be upon us! At the place where I work part-time in
Oxford, we will be having a Christmas party a couple of weeks or so
before 25th December. But this will be a party with a difference! I
work at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS), and we have
over 100 research students registered with us, from 20 or more different
countries. They are all committed Christians, doing research to equip
the Christian church for mission and outreach today, in their culture and
context. OCMS is a very vibrant place to be. So our Christmas party
will embrace a wide range of cultures: I expect people will be there
from the UK, Tonga, India, Kenya, Uganda, Malaysia, the USA, and
South Korea – to name but a few!
In terms of food – essential to any party! – the basis of the meal will be
traditional British turkey, with roast potatoes and all the trimmings. If
you think about it, this is a bit odd. Why would people from Tonga,
India and Kenya celebrate Christmas in British style?
How many of us will be celebrating Christmas in the style of some
by 12th January 2011 The magazines will be available by the last Sunday of the month
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Now obviously our students are not coerced or forced to do this against
their will (!). They gladly choose to come and celebrate in this way
(e.g. enjoying roast turkey). But why? Well, I think the answer is a
very profound and important one. As Christians move out in mission to
new and different cultures and contexts – to proclaim the good news of
Jesus Christ and to show his love to those around them – they realise
that they must adapt to the culture to which they move. If a Korean
man travels to Kenya to share the Christian message – as my friend
Joshua has done – he needs to learn the local language and customs.
It’s not much use preaching in Nairobi in his native tongue! And so our
OCMS students from abroad live out this same principle whilst they are
based in Oxford. If the UK Christmas involves turkey, then adapt and
enjoy it!
But there’s more to the OCMS Christmas party than roast turkey!
Another wonderful feature of this celebration is that the host country
food (Christmas pudding and brandy butter, etc) will be supplemented
with contributions from Malaysia, South Korea and so on. It will be a
very varied feast! So here is another lesson for us all. The British way
of celebrating the birth of Christ is not the only way of celebrating. It’s
lovely that we live in a world with such a variety of cultures, languages
and traditions. No one culture needs to dominate the rest. Each culture
has its own validity (so long as it doesn’t go against God’s
commandments, of course).
And in this way the multi-faceted OCMS Christmas party points us to
the best lesson of all: Jesus Christ came to this earth to save and rescue
people from every culture and every country. How do you respond to
him?
Andy Hartropp
Associate Vicar
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Christmas Concert
Cox Green School Band
St Mary’s Church
White Waltham
Monday 13th December 2010
7.30pm
Adults £3.00. Children £1.50.
For Tickets & Information Contact Andrea Greenwood
Telephone Number 01628 822532
Qigong and Tai Chi Soft Chinese Exercises for Health &
Relaxation
Qigong and Tai Chi have been practiced
in China for thousands of years
It is suitable for people of all ages and
abilities
Weekly Classes:-
Mondays from 10am - 11.30am
White Waltham Parish Hall. For more information contact:
Jennifer Maskell-Packer (01628) 823774
Member of Chinese Internal Arts Association and the British
Council for Chinese Martial Arts.
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Everwelcome Club (Over 60s) Christian Smith House, Heywood Avenue, Woodlands Park
2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. alternate Wednesdays Contact: Jennifer Glennie,19 Burcot Gardens, Maidenhead, SL6 7UR.
Telephone: 01628 626939.
The club restarted on the 1st September.Various matters were discussed about
our future plans for next year 2011.
The General Knowledge Quiz was won by Ann & Myrtle.
On September 15th Mrs Dorothy Kemp a former Mayor of Windsor &
Maidenhead Council came and gave us a very interesting talk about her year
in office.There were many Photographs and her Medal for service. Jenny was
in charge of the meeting as Albert and Myself were holidaying in Scotland.
On 13th October Mrs Joan Hobson told us how the club was started as she was
a founder member.The club was the inspiration of the Shottesbrooke
Needlework Guild of which Joan was Chairwoman and Mrs Val Batt-Rawden
was Secretary. So it is with great pleasure to say that the Everwelcome Club
started on 12th September 1962. Thanks go to the Guild and 48years later we
are still active.
Our outing a drive through Windsor Great Park with a stop at the Windsor
Farm Shop and a welcome cup of tea was enjoyed by members.
By the time you read this we will have had our AGM. I would like to say a big
Thank You especially to Jennifer for all her help during the past year and wish
everybody a Happy Christmas and New Year. I look forward to the 26th
January 2011 with the new Programme.
Future Plans
December 1st Xmas Lunch at Maidenhead Golf Course will be enjoyed
by 35 members.
January 26th Club Resumes
Ursula McAndrew.
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Cox Green Townswomen’s Guild Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7.45 p.m.
at Cox Green Community Centre
For further information please contact the Secretary, Jean Chant, 17 Stratford Gardens, Cox Green, Maidenhead, Berks, SL6 3DT
Tel: 01628 639583
Our trip to Salisbury Cathedral and Sir Edward Heath’s House on October
12th was a really wonderful day. Lovely sunshine enabled us to see his house
and wander round his garden at leisure.
Our Programme for December – January is as follows:-
December 16th Christmas Social.
January 20th Pampering Evening.
Friday December 10th
Some of our members will be attending a carol concert in aid of the National
Rheumatoid Arthritis Society at All Saints Church Boyn Hill Road from 7 -
9pm.The admission charge of £10.00p (£6.00p for concessions and Children)
will include a glass of wine and a mince pie.
Saturday December 11th
Carol Concert (Federation) at St Peters Church Marlow at 11.00am
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Arts & Crafts, Card Games, Walk & Pub Lunches continue.
For further details contact me on 01628 639583.
Jean Chant.
Found
One Pair of Children’s first Shoes along the Waltham Road. Can be collected
from Woodlands Park Village Centre. Telephone Jan on 01628 823964
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Project Rainbow is White Waltham church’s building project which will construct purpose built accommodation for the church’s children’s and young people’s activities.
Throughout October and November members of our congregation worked on Project Rainbow’s 10-10-10 initiative. They used their skills and talents to raise money for the project by offering products and services to friends, relatives and members of their local communities. We would like to thank everyone who supported Project Rainbow’s 10-10-10 initiative. Go to our website for the latest news on 10-10-10.
Now available is our first Project Rainbow Quiz Sheet – a cryptic quiz to challenge you and your friends over the festive season! You can download the quiz sheet from the Project Rainbow website or pick up a copy from the Church or the village Centre. Just do your very best with the quiz and return it to The Vicarage by the end of January. There is no charge but we are asking for a donation for each quiz sheet and suggest about £1.
Coming up on Friday 21st January is an Antiques Evening with
Bonhams of Henley. For information and for tickets contact Jane on 0118 934 3704 or Bridget on 01628 670338. For more details see page 11 or the Project Rainbow website.
On Sunday 13th February there is a concert at White Waltham Church
from 4pm. Entry is by donation on the door and includes refreshments which will be served in the interval. The concert features musicians Peter Dodsworth, Neil Pennock and Jennifer Miles. For more information see page 29 or the Project Rainbow website.
If you would like to give to Project Rainbow there are giving packs available from the Church, The Vicarage and Woodlands Park Village Centre. You can also give online via our website.
For more information visit the Project Rainbow
website www.projectrainbow.org.uk
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Different Like You
I went to our local Post Shop to send some letters and was given Christmas stamps for each letter. How fast each year goes by. As I write, Guy Fawkes is tomorrow (why on earth do kiwis celebrate this? I have never understood!). And Christmas will be here again very soon.
You’ll realise that we celebrate Christmas in summer time but we still send cards with robins, snow sleighs etc., on them. How little these symbols have to do with Christmas itself.
Earlier this week we decided to drive out to a local beach with our dog. The weather was gloriously fine and there was very little wind. We arrived at Aramoana and started on a gentle walk the full length of the beach which reaches out into Otago Harbour. Across from us lies Taiaroa Head with its lighthouse and colony of breeding Royal Albatross. This is the only such colony in the world on the mainland so it is very special to all Dunedin residents . . . and many New Zealanders.
But we weren’t there for the albatrosses. As we walked slowly along, Heath, our Springer Spaniel was constantly wanting a stick to be thrown into the surf. He’d leap across the breaking waves (they were not too high!), find the stick and swim back with it for the next throw. He never seems to tire of swimming at the beach.
We reached the end of the beach and started back to where we’d parked the car and the light lunch and hot drinks we’d brought. It was idyllic and as we talked we each realised that the same thought had occurred to both of us. Liz loves to find beautiful and unusual sea shells and indeed, she did find a few. But the thought was that despite the fact that although there are literally millions of sea shells on this and so many other beaches, each one is different.
We all seem to know that no two snowflakes are identical and it is also true for blades of grass. The next day we were doing some shopping at a local supermarket which has the title of this newsletter as its marketing symbol at present. I suppose they are trying to indicate that they are as different from other supermarkets as we are from each other.
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It is true that each one who reads this is unique. Even so called identical twins differ from each other. Isn’t God amazing in His creation? He chooses to make these differences. Sadly, although different, we do share some similarities. We are all imperfect, we all do things, say things, that we’d rather not. Words we sincerely wish we’d left unsaid, things we wish we’d never done. But once said or done they can’t be taken back. These are the things that mean we fall short of God’s standards.
At Christmas time we recall the birth of the Christ child in Bethlehem over 2000 years ago. Many will know that, unlike you and me, he was born specifically to die. In fact, after a perfect life, to die to pay the price for those things we cannot undo or “unsay”.
This Christmas make it your plan to go to church, to hear afresh the wonderful story of those events, to sing the beautiful carols... but above all to realise that this babe grew to manhood and died for you and me, and to ask Him into your life. You’ll still be unique, still different from everybody else in the world, but you’ll be in God’s family with your eternal future safe and secure. Above all you’ll be different from everyone who has never taken that step, whose eternal future is bleak and away from God.
Have the happiest Christmas ever and a New Year which is prosperous according to God’s standards.
One teenager was talking to another, "I'm really concerned. My father slaves away at his job so I'll never want for anything, and down the years has set aside thousands of pounds so that I can go to college. And my mother spends every day washing and ironing and cleaning up after me. She even takes care of me when I'm sick." The other teenager said: “Sounds perfect – so what are you worried about?" The first teenager replied: "I'm afraid that one day they might try to escape."
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The Royal British Legion The Woodlands Park Branch held a Quiz Night with Fish and Chip Supper.
The evening went very well. We raised £116 for the on-going work that the branch provides serving and ex-serving men and women.
We would like to express our grateful thanks to those who donated raffle prizes: Seiko, Cornish Carpets, Raymond Thatcher, Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck Bray, and Waitrose.
A great night was had by all and we look forward to seeing you at our next event.
Look out for posters advertising it and watch this space in the Parish Magazine.
Simon Graves
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If You want to cause a fiasco, declare Santa Claus to be non-existent. A
few years ago the Rev. Lee Rayfield (Lee Rayfield not Lee Enfield!)
did just that and caused considerable consternation nationwide with the
exposure. Children were extremely distressed and the anguish amongst
parents can only be imagined. “He ought to be unfrocked!” said some.
It was only resolved when he climbed down saying “Don’t worry
kiddies, I was only joking.”
It was a great blow to me, when at the age of about 18, I had to finally
concede that Santa was a fiction. The pillow case I’d put out every
Christmas Eve had always been filled, the glass of sherry I’d left for the
kindly soul, emptied, and the carrot for his reindeer, taken, but it was
nothing but a delusion. I’d really believed he’d climbed down the
chimney with a great sack of toys, and in a few hours visited every
other child in the world, his transport being a sleigh drawn by reindeer.
He could do the impossible, something I never questioned. So it was all
a fantasy, a myth, to which I’d clung but very reluctantly had to
relinquish. Something very reassuring had to be dismissed.
Similarly, in parallel with the above, since early childhood, I’d
acknowledged God’s existence, through having trusted those who’d
assured me of his loving care. Following Sunday School I’d become a
habitual churchgoer, and prayed to him; so for over thirty years I
cherished my belief. I have spoken of my dismay when the myth of
Santa became apparent to me, but of my belief in God the converse
proved to be true. I cannot easily describe my elation at receiving
corroboration that my God was real. There can be nothing like hoping
something is the truth and the finding that it is — this is true revelation!
The bubble did not burst.
What had always been a loose hope of God’s existence had, in a very
brief time, become total conviction.
Belief, surely has to depend on actual experience, but for the absolute
assurance that we are encountering the truth, documentary backup is
essential.
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I was enthralled, but was moved towards a necessary study of the Bible.
What I read affirmed things that I was already beginning to accept. It
became clear that to appreciate God and his ways, such study was
essential; this is comparable with the computer’s monitor, without
which we’d be utterly confused.
The Holy Bible told me more; those things I’d been hearing for decades
acquired a new significance for me because I’d become convinced of
their truth. Jesus, who hitherto had been a remote being, an exalted but
awesome ‘celebrity’, became someone I didn’t just ‘know of’ but had
actually come to know. The maker of the universe who’d come to earth,
had called me to him as a friend, and as a friend to me he laid down his
life - by dying on the cross he’d died for my sins, died in my place. I
knew that through faith in him I was being offered eternal life - the
Bible’s vital message, not just to me but to all who trust its words. It
becomes clear that we can trust the Bible, and in doing so we can trust
Him; he keeps his promises. And those essential passages, some so
familiar, are worth calling to mind; “…God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not
perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) “But God demonstrates
his love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
(Romans 5:8), and the fulfilment of those countless Old Testament
prophesies respecting the Lord Jesus – to be the son of God (Luke 1:
32) of his working miracles (Matthew 11:4-6), of his tenderness and
compassion (Matthew 12:15), and the intensity of his suffering (Luke
22:42-44), but above all, of his resurrection, necessary to the
forgiveness of sins (Luke 24:6,31,34).
I had heard for myself, Like those Samaritans in John 4:42 who said
“Now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is
the Saviour of the world.” I felt I’d met with something resembling
‘The Mountain Top Experience’ (Matthew 17:1-9).
Bob Packer
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Tales from the Bells
Firstly I’d like to congratulate Naomi Andrew who rang her first quarter peal inside. In the previous magazine I mentioned about Harvest and reaping the rewards of experience gained when learning to ring and becoming more competent.
A Quarter Peal was rung on Sunday 3rd October 2010 at White Waltham just before the Harvest Festival service.
1260 changes of Plain Bob Doubles in 44 minutes
1. Lesley A Graves 4. Derek R Smith
2. Naomi G Andrew* 5. Caroline S Andrew (Conductor)
3. Simon D Smith 6. Roger C Martin
Rung for Harvest Festival. * First inside, 2. To commemorate, 21 years to the day these bells were rung for the first time after being recast.
As you will see from above it shows who rang in the quarter peal and what method we rang and how long it took. Also who the conductor was, with most quarter peals they are rung to celebrate something and this is shown in the footnote. Hopefully we will be ringing more quarter peals before the end of the year.
By this time of the year the busy wedding season has finished (although we do have the odd wedding at the end or beginning of the year). So we now practice ringing for the forthcoming Christmas services and then the New Year.
It is at this time of year we recall a method called St Nicholas. This Saint is normally marked on the 6 December and is known to be the bringer of gifts. Therefore, we try to ring it during Christmas in celebration of Jesus’ birth. It is nice to ring as it is a change from some of the other methods we generally ring.
We will also be ringing out the old year of 2010 and ringing in the New Year of 2011 at the stroke of midnight. So, see if you can hear us if you are awake.
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We also have quite a few visiting ringers at this time of the year from other towers who like to ring the bells at both White Waltham and Shottesbrooke. They do this to gain more experience on different bells. Remember if you are interested in learning to ring we practice on Friday nights from 7.30pm till 9pm. Initial training is given at White Waltham. If your New Year’s resolution is to take up bell ringing, please phone or email me for more details. My details are at the back of the parish magazine.
The Bell Ringers of White Waltham and Shottesbrooke would like to wish you a Happy Christmas and New Year for 2011.
Lesley Graves, Tower Captain, White Waltham
Calling all Ladies of the Parish…… Would anyone be interested in the setting up of a new branch of the Women’s Institute in White Waltham?
If so, please contact me. My details are in the back of the Parish Magazine where you will find my telephone, address and e-mail address.
This is only to find out the initial expression of interest in the area. If enough women are interested we will go from there.
The web address to the National Website of the Women’s Institute is www.thewi.org.uk in case you would like to find out more about the W.I. Lesley Graves
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Please join us for a
TEA-TIME CONCERT The first half will feature international
Clarinettist Neil Pennock, graduate of the
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama,
accompanied by Peter Dodsworth on the piano.
And after the interval,
during which afternoon tea will be served,
Peter Dodsworth will perform on the Bassoon,
accompanied by Jennifer Miles on the Piano.
Both are graduates of the Royal Academy of Music.
Sunday 13th
February
White Waltham Church
4.00 pm
Entry by donation on the door
raising funds for
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