The Erringden Eagle Mytholmroyd & Cragg Vale News Sheet February 2018 Visit our website www.erringdenbenefice.org.uk If you are on Facebook why not join the group ‘Friends of the Erringden Benefice’? Welcome to St John‘ s & St Michael's we hope you enjoy being here and join with us after the service for a drink and a chat. Welcome to our new look Erringden Eagle. No longer just a list of events and rotas. Articles, jokes and information are all included in the new monthly addition of the Eagle. But best of all our intrepid, all knowing, wise dog Rosie is back with her Ramblings from the Vicarage. Good News for all those who like flower festivals. This Easter a smaller and shorter but none the less brilliant festival returns to St Michael’s. So make a note of the dates. Easter Sunday afternoon (1st April) and the Monday Bank Holiday (2nd). Further details to follow. Talking of Easter assuming the Pace Egg play is being performed in St Michael’s square on Good Friday (30th March) we will be serving Hot Cross Buns and refreshments to coincide with the event. Cycling fanatics will know that the Tour De Yorkshire passes through Mytholmroyd on Sunday 6th May. St Michael’s will be open for refreshments on the day. Enjoy the rest of the read. Alan
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The Erringden Eagle Mytholmroyd & Cragg Vale News Sheet February 2018
Visit our website www.erringdenbenefice.org.uk
If you are on Facebook why not join the group ‘Friends of the Erringden Benefice’?
Welcome to St John‘s & St Michael's we hope you enjoy being here and join with us after the service for a drink and a chat.
Welcome to our new look Erringden
Eagle. No longer just a list of events
and rotas. Articles, jokes and
information are all included in the
new monthly addition of the Eagle.
But best of all our intrepid, all
knowing, wise dog Rosie is back with
her Ramblings from the Vicarage.
Good News for all those who like
flower festivals. This Easter a
smaller and shorter but none the less
brilliant festival returns to St
Michael’s. So make a note of the
dates. Easter Sunday afternoon (1st
April) and the Monday Bank Holiday
(2nd). Further details to follow.
Talking of Easter assuming the Pace
Egg play is being performed in St
Michael’s square on Good Friday
(30th March) we will be serving Hot
Cross Buns and refreshments to
coincide with the event.
Cycling fanatics
will know that
the Tour De
Yorkshire
passes through
Mytholmroyd on
Sunday 6th
May. St
Michael’s will be open for
refreshments on the day.
Enjoy the rest of the read. Alan
What’s On this Month
Sunday Services
St John’s Sunday’s 9.30am. Communion
St Michael’s Sunday’s 11am. Communion
St Michael’s Sunday’s 4pm. New Connect
service February 4th & March 4th.
Brew. Every Monday 10.30am in the
Erringden Room at St Michael’s. Chance to
meet, chat and have a cuppa. All welcome.
Open Church. Every Tuesday at 2pm in
St John’s church. Meet, chat and have a
cuppa. All welcome.
Angels Meet. Every Thursday in term time at
9.15am in St Michael’s Hall. A chance for
parents with pre school children to get
together. Activities for the children.
Parish Prayers. Every Friday at 9am at the
Vicarage Brier Hey Lane. Meet and pray for
the community and one another.
Quiz Nights. In St Michael’s Hall at 7.30pm
on Friday 4th February and Friday 4th March.
Bar open, Pie & pea supper (optional). New
quizzers welcome.
Coffee Mornings. Run by the Guild. Held in
the Erringden room of St Michael’s Hall 1st
Saturday’s of the month at 10am - Great
cakes for sale.
Guild group meet on 6th February and 6th
March at 2pm in the Erringden room in St
Michael’s Hall.
St Michaels Wives group meet at 8pm on
Thursday 15th February in the Erringden
Room in St Michael’s Hall.
Cragg Vale Yorkshire Country Women meet
on 12th February.
St Michael’s PCC meet in the Erringden
Room at 7pm on Tuesday 6th February and
6th March.
St John’s PCC meet in church at 6.30pm on
Monday 19th February.
Book Club meet in the Erringden Room at
7.30pm on Tuesday 20th February. Book is
'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine ' by Gail
Honeyman. cost £2:00 which includes wine
and nibbles.
House Group meet at the Cansdale’s at
7.30pm on Wednesdays February 7th, 21st.
See Alan for details. tel 883944
Churches Together Open meeting at
7.30pm on Monday 5th February at Hope
Baptist Church. Matt Hawthorn from the
Scripture Union will be talking about meeting
young people ‘where they are’ – which is
probably not in church! This promises to be a
really worthwhile topic and it would be great to
see as many people as possible coming to
hear him.
Lent Courses. Take place during the weeks
of Lent. If you have registered to host or be
part of a group the organisers will contact you
directly.
Cragg Vale History Group meet on February
15th at 7.30pm in St John’s church. Theme
The history of tins.
Willing to be a contact for your group for
people who want to know more. Then see
Alan to get your contact details added.
Well I am back, did you miss me? I wish I had been
away on holiday or chasing rabbits up and down the
hills of Mytholmroyd, but I haven’t. You see I am
crocked (sore leg). I am feeling very sorry for myself. I used to look down on
dogs half my age who were limping around showing the signs of old age. I
used to tell them to buck up, run through the pain, get out there and run, play,
run. I never understood what it meant, I never realised how it felt when you
could no longer do all the things you used to do. I had no sympathy at all.
I sit at home bored, no walks unless you call a drive down to the canal for a
10 minute stroll twice a day A WALK. Well I don’t, I need at least 1.5hrs a
day and that’s a bad day. I need to play, to hunt, to run like the wind, I am
Rosie the invincible, the dog that goes on and on and on. I thought I was
immortal but know I feel mortal. O, I do hope my leg gets better soon, I can’t
stand, pardon the pun, living like this. Surely life is meant to be more than
getting old, unable to do all the things I took for granted. Stuck and trapped in
an aging body, just watching as all the other dogs have fun. It can’t have
meant to be this way, can it?
I used to tell Alan to shape up or ship out when he had a bad knee, he was
holding me back. I used to say ’come on old man you can walk further than
this’. Well it’s him waiting for me now, it’s him waiting on me to do a long
walk. Waiting for me is not what I expected. How the tables have turned.
Surely life is not meant to be like this? Then I found hope.
I am telling you this strange and wonderful secret: we shall not all die, but we
shall all be given new bodies! It will all happen in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For there will be a trumpet blast
from the sky, and all the Christians who have died will suddenly become
alive, with new bodies that will never, never die; and then we who are still
alive shall suddenly have new bodies too. For our earthly bodies, the ones
we have now that can die, must be transformed into heavenly bodies that
cannot perish but will live forever.
When this happens, then at last this Scripture will come true—“Death is
swallowed up in victory.” O death, where then your victory? Where then your
sting? Yours, running like the wind for ever, Rosie
Rosie’s Ramblings from
The Vicarage
The Magic of Socks
A few years ago, Adina Lichtman was handing out sandwiches on the streets of New York City to help people experiencing homelessness. One man, grateful for the sandwich, approached her and offered some surprising insight.
“It’s great that you’re giving out sandwiches,” he said, “but one thing we really need is socks, especially as winter approaches.” “Here I was, sandwiches in hand, assuming I knew the best way to help people, when in reality, helping is about listening, and hearing the needs of different communities,” Lichtman said. “It was a powerful lesson, and I wanted to put it into action.”
She began that night, with a simple step: going door-to-door on the floor of her dormitory at New York University, asking fellow classmates if they could each just donate just one pair of their own socks to someone experiencing homelessness. She got 40 pairs of socks in a single night, from a single floor. The next morning she opened her door to find a huge pile of socks that other people had donated.
“College students love to do good, but sometimes they need a literal knock on their door to do so. And most everyone has an extra pair of socks they can donate,” Lichtman said. (Check out this story on lives changed thanks to the power of generosity.) That morning officially kicked off Knock, Knock give a Sock (KKGS), a non profit organization that has now provided over 350,000 pairs of socks to the homeless in cities and states across America. It is also now Lichtman’s full-time job.
“I thought this would be such a great example of ways people can take action in small ways, especially the college age-Millennial set, and how it can grow to expand and become national,” she says.
To date, over 50 colleges and high schools across the U.S. have got involved.
Taken from a Readers Digest article by Herlaina Hovitz