Hadleigh United Reformed Church with Monks Eleigh and Whatfield Monthly Newsletter Oct 2014 The vision of Hadleigh URC is to challenge the community to respond to God's love as shown and taught by Jesus Christ. www.hadleighurc.org.uk 1 2014 Newsletter No. 719 WORSHIP IN HADLEIGH Sun 5th 10.30am Communion Service led by Revd Canon David Atkins. Sun 12th 10.30am Worship with a baptism led by Explorers and Nigel Crisp Sun 19th 10.30am Worship led by Revd Paul Whittle, Synod Moderator Sun 26th 10.30am Worship led by Ron Wade of Thetford Sun 2nd 10.30am Communion Service led by Nov Richard Jurd of Colchester include the collection of Shoeboxes. WEEKDAY MEETINGS Tuesday 10 - 11.30 Pause for Prayer - Come in for Coffee Tuesday 9.00 am Toddler Group ) Term time 10.00 am Refreshments ) only MONKS ELEIGH URC Sun 12th 3pm TBA Sun 26th TBA 3pm Services Nursing and Care Homes and Sheltered Housing Place Link Person Usual Monthly Worship Sydney Brown Court Jean Herring (823320) 1st Thursday, 10.30am Canterbury House Hilary Griffin (823100) 2nd Tuesday, 2.30pm Waterfield House Jackie Cork (823739) 3rdTuesday, 3pm Friars Hall Janice White (808835) 1st Monday, 2pm Magdalen House Chris Todd (827915) last Thursday, 11am NB Please check these times with the link person. 1 From the Interim Moderator Dear Friends For those who have not met me, let me introduce myself. I’m Mary Playford, URC minister at Christchurch, Needham Market. I’ve been appointed by the Eastern Synod to be your new Interim Moderator and hope that I can help you as much as I am able as you seek a new minister. As Interim Moderator I will be involved with the process of the call of a new minister, including chairing of meetings involving the call and with meetings with prospective ministers. I hope it’s not too long before we are talking about the induction service! As some of you know I have already attended a Church Meeting and have lead worship early in September. I hope to be in the congregation on Sunday 12th October and look forward to worshipping with you then. I am a �part time’ minister but anticipate that I will be able to fulfil this role as required – but be patient with me! I live at Forward Green – �the other side’ of Stowmarket, I’m an ardent Archers and Ipswich Town fan. I have a Season Ticket for Town and am often found catching up with The Archers on my Mp3 player when I’m out walking. I have a large garden which takes up a lot of my �spare’ time. By the time you read this, Harvest Festivals will be a dim memory and the shops and media will be urging us to get ready for Christmas. The year progresses and it’s tempting to look ahead and become anxious about something that is going to happen but which we seem to have little control over. And perhaps that’s how you are feeling about the vacancy. You know you will have another minister – and you have heard that it may include sharing that person with Sudbury URC (as I write this, their Church Meeting hasn’t met). It’s easy to be anxious – to look ahead – to anticipate how this would work - to foresee problems – or be excited about the opportunities that may lie ahead. But I urge you to be patient – God has his hand on your church – on his people. He will be 2 faithful and true – he has been in the past and will be in the future. Thank you for the hopes of the day that will come, For all the change that will happen in time; God, for the future our spirits prepare, Hallow our doubts and redeem us from fear. (Fred Kaan) Blessings to you all Mary Playford (Rev) Guild On Tuesday September 2nd a small number of Guild friends visited Corncraft at Monks Eleigh. After a good look round tea and cakes were very much enjoyed in the café. It was a lovely sunny afternoon and very much enjoyed by all. This completes our Summer programme and we look forward to our Autumn programme commencing on October 7th with a Social afternoon. October Programme 7th Social Afternoon + Tea & Biscuits. Bring & Buy for The Marie Curie Nurses. 14th Devotional led by Wendy Atkins 21st No Meeting 28th Talk about the Marie Curie Nurses + Tea & Biscuits All meetings on Tuesdays at 2.30pm in the Community Room unless otherwise stated. All Welcome! "The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest." - Aung San Suu Kyi 3 The Hadleigh Historian—October Edition The Hadleigh Historian journal this month has stories about: Early days at the Co-op; The last Station Master of Hadleigh Railway Station Stone work on St Mary’s Church Lord of the Manor of Toppesfield Hadleigh hero – Felix Mowles Obelisk in the centre of the town A fascinating read! Copies of The Hadleigh Historian at £3 each, are available form Avis’, the Idler, Hollow Trees Farm shop or from myself. Nigel �ONE WEEK EARLY’ �Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes’ Our filled shoeboxes will be taken in during our Sunday service on November the 2nd. This year the majority of our boxes will be travelling to children in Serbia. Many of you are helping in so many different ways with this project. Sincere thanks to you all. Your support greatly benefits these children. If anyone would like to help at the Bentley sorting depot you would be most welcome. Processing the filled boxes begins on Wednesday the 12th November, taking place on Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 10am, until the end of the month. Blessings, Doreen 827460 & Hilary 822208 4 Hadleigh United Reformed Church Whatfield Chapel A Service of Thanksgiving will be held in the Chapel Sunday November 2nd at 3pm The Service will: Give thanks for over 160 years of witness at the Chapel Remember Mrs Kay Fullerton’s 25 years in the village Sadly this is anticipated as the closing service for the chapel. Nigel Crisp (Church Secretary Hadleigh URC) �CHRISTMAS STARTS WITH CHRIST’ FAIRTRADE CHRISTMAS ADVENT CALENDARS If your going to be purchasing an advent calendar for a child this Christmas, you will find Fairtrade are producing �The Real Advent Calendar’, priced £3.99. They are a great way to share the story of Jesus’ birth. It’s a colourful chocolate window calendar with an accompanying 32 page Christmas activity story booklet with a page for each day of advent. There is also an added bonus for others when purchasing one of these Fairtrade Belgian chocolate calendars. 10p from each calendar sold will be donated to care for mums & their babies at Funzi clinic on Funzi island in Kenya. Many people live in poverty in Funzi without access to clean water & basic sanitation The clinic provides medical care to the community 24 hours a day, including ante & post natal care & immunisations. www.realadvent.co.uk Blessings, Hilary 822208 5 Out and A Bits and smalls bout Sun 19th Oct, Nig el leadin Long Me g worship lford URC at , prayers apprecia ted. hink... ut What do yo 14; October 20 . d n 2 2 y a d iscences, Wednes in m e r s y a lid s subject:" Ho favourites, handy hint ies, horror stor tc" for others e h; as ge, Hadleig r o e G e h t 8pm in . en welcome m ll a , l a u s u seeing you; o t d r a w r 822658) 3 7 Looking fo 4 1 0 ( n n ip Ma contact Phil details. for further ...over a dr ink? Vision 4 Lif e Please note fo is on T r the d ia u The G esday 7th.Oc ry, our next m reen. tober,7 .30pm eeting at 19, Please could you let me have all items for the Nov14 Newsletter by Sunday 12th Oct (19th if emailed)? Email to [email protected], post to 11 Jordayn Rise, Hadleigh Thanks, Phil 6 The Ansell Centre Films With a Worthwhile Story to Tell On Friday October 10th we present THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. 12cert. This is a secret love story surrounding the life of Charles Dickens. Dickens met , and fell in love with Nelly Ternan an 18 year old actress whilst she was performing at London's Haymarket Theatre. Although 45 years old at the time, the love affair lasted for 13 years until Dickens' death in 1870 . This is a British biological drama from BBC Films, directed by Ralph Fiennes who plays the lead part of Dickens, supported by Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Tom Hollander. With a 12 cert. All are welcome , the performance starts at 7.30pm In complete contrast on Friday 24th October is THE BUTLER an American historical drama which is loosely based on the real life of Eugene Allen . The film stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines an African-American who had a 34 year tenure serving as a White House Butler , and during this long association he served under eight American presidents from Eisenhower to Ronald Reagan. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society during this time – from the Civil Rights movement to Vietnam and beyond. The film is essentially a dip into American history as seen though the eyes of Cecil Gaines, the butler – it makes essential viewing ! There will be an interval for refreshments at an appropriate time for both films. 7 Pauline Update We both want to thank God for you all, our wonderful church family, the care, love and support in so many ways over the last 5 months of Pauline's treatment for cancer. We are most grateful for the many gifts, flowers, cards, emails, letters, notes, phone calls and messages during these months of her treatment, although the first two sessions were delayed because we had booked a family holiday earlier in the year to EuroDisney and on the second occasion when she had an infection and had treatment delayed because of a course of antibiotics. She had her third session on Monday, 1st September and was poorly for the rest of the week, it seems an accumulative effect and takes it's toll after each chemo session. At least for two weeks she is in reasonably good health and starts to eat more and put on some weight, which is encouraging. She has had one CT scan so far, Praise the Lord and thanks be to God the cancer has been contained and has not spread any further. She is probably not likely to be healed even with possible radiotherapy treatment at the moment, medically speaking, but with God and by His Grace and Infinite wisdom nothing is impossible and everything is possible, so thank you so much for your prayers, please do not give up and continue to pray for Pauline's complete recovery and supernatural healing. She is due for 3 more sessions of chemo 22nd Sept., 13th October and 3 November. We do value so much your continued prayers – thank you -We try to update our prayer requests via email and Claire Coster is the lady to see if you would like to receive any updates. With all our love and every blessing in Christ Pauline & George x x x 8 Reflection on Water Jan's Commitment for Life talk last month on water and Bangladesh set me thinking about the connections between my own life and that of those villagers in Bangladesh affected by flooding. We live in a world in which more and more people are affected by floods or droughts - and in some countries by both, one after the other. Even in the UK, communities have experienced such problems in recent years, even though as a rich country we can afford to mitigate these disasters. This summer, Sonia and I went to the Lake District - the first visit for many years - and were yet again bowled over by the beauty of the landscape. But what leapt out at me for the first time is the extent to which those heart-stopping views are made by the presence of the water in the bottom of the valleys. Looking back again at the photos I took, it is those with that pool of light providing scale and depth that really attract the eye and open the heart. So water is useful for washing cars and manufacturing and power generation; it is essential for health and growing food; but 9 most deeply it is a source of beauty and wonder that points us upwards and changes our perspective. And yet, that trip to the Lakes involved a journey of several hundred miles and, taken in a car, for all the usual good and bad reasons, created an additional load of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Our holiday was a small but significant additional push for climate change and so a small but significant additional cause of the floods and droughts that affect many of the poorest people in our shared world. What is the short term pleasure - the uplift - I had from my trip against the small but permanent impact I have had on those people? So as well as thanking God for water, treasuring it as the precious thing it is and supporting agencies who help others get the water they need, I must also look at the way my life can actually make things worse. Leaving the tap running does not take water from an African village or flood a Bangladesh one; driving a car does. Turning up the central heating does. Buying products needing transport from far away does. So (as well as praying and giving) I must make more use of public transport, buy local when possible and fair trade when not, check my insulation (and winter woollies) at home, get electricity from wind or solar power, reduce my meat consumption - and stop being a part of the problems I pray about! I feel God is asking me to be part of the answer to my prayer for Bangladesh, otherwise my petitions are just a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. Phil "I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me." -Wangari Maathai 10 Monthly Finance Report July 2014 Summary Income Exp Present 5,551 10,915 Notes General Fund Income £2,570 Exp £2,842 Balance £4,310 £5,056 £4,933 £4,433 £1,150 for the new screens (donations of £400 towards the cost). General comments Offerings £1,880 Rent Lettings £370 Heat/Light £210 £2,102 £2,250 £296 £45 Items such as Rent and lettings keep the G/F afloat Reserve Balance Last £5,420 £3,570 £5,984 £5,984 Student and Young People’s Misc £24 Rosa £4,958 Simon Balance £1,038 Ansell Centre Income £710 Exp £509 Balance £662 Buildings Income Exp Balance £2,140 £25 £15,743 Manse income and interest now in the Fabric Fund. There have been further donations to this fund in August which I shall show in the August report. £5,997 £860 £51 £1,470 Refund of £2,100 from the carpet supplier following problems with the installation. £40 £15,783 11 Fabric Income Exp Balance Last Present £0 £169 £11,684 £577 £566 £11,695 Manse rent and bank interest placed here. Summary of Funds Summary of Bank Ansell Centre £1,470. Community Account £36,202 Buildings £15,783 Savings £9,162 Fabric £11,695 Total £45,364 General £4,433 Reserve £5,984 Young People’s £5,997 £45,365 We are now registered charity, No 1151084 By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance, O God of our salvation; you are the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas. By your strength you established the mountains; you are girded with might. You silence the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples. - Psalm 65:5-7 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to observe your righteous ordinances. I am severely afflicted; give me life, O Lord, according to your word. Accept my offerings of praise, O Lord, and teach me your ordinances. - Psalm 119:105-108 12 Diary Dates — September Day 1 Time Weds 6-8.15pm Activity Eternal in the quiet room 7.30pm Churches Together in Hadleigh (CTiH) 11-3 Synergy Café. Ansell Centre 3 Fri 12.15pm Ansell Lunch Club, Ansell Centre 4 Sat 2-4pm Scrabble, Ansell Centre 7 Tues 10-11.30 Come in for Coffee, Community Room 10.15am Prayer Service, Church 4.30 Silent Prayer Group, Salvation Army 8 Weds 6-8.15pm Eternal in the quiet room 9 Thurs 9-11am Little Angels Toddlers, Community Rm 11-3 Synergy Café. Ansell Centre 10 Fri 7.30 Ansell Film Club 11 Sat 10 - 12 Church Maintenance morning 2-4pm Scrabble, Community Room 10-11.30 Come in for Coffee, Community Room 10.15am Prayer Service, Church 4.30 Silent Prayer Group, Salvation Army 12.15pm Wednesday Lunch Club, Ansell Centre 6-8.15pm Eternal in the quiet room 9-11am Little Angels Toddlers, Community Rm 11-3 Synergy Café. Ansell Centre 10-12 Leading Lives Coffee Morning, Ansell C 7.30pm Digital Cinema, Ansell Centre 14 15 16 17 Tues Wed Thurs Fri 13 18 Sat 2-4pm Scrabble, Community Room 20 Mon 7.30 Any Questions? 9 Queen Street 21 Tues 10-11.30 Come in for Coffee, Community Room 10.15am Prayer Service, Church 4.30 Silent Prayer Group, Salvation Army 6-8.15pm Eternal in the quiet room 8pm What do you think? The George 9-11am Little Angels Toddlers, Community Rm 11-3 Synergy Café. Ansell Centre 22 23 Wed Thurs 24 Fri 7.30 Ansell Film CLub 25 Sat 2-4pm Scrabble, Community Room 28 Tues 10-11.30 Come in for Coffee, Community Room 10.15am Prayer Service, Church 5.30 Silent Prayer Group, Salvation Army 29 Weds 6-8.15pm Eternal in the quiet room 30 Thurs 11-3 Synergy Café. Ansell Centre "But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.' For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon'; the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds." - Matthew 11:16-19 Don’t forget Please let Phil W know about any events you would like listed in the diary dates. I will try to put a notice in the Ansell Centre for you to correct or add to next month’s dates. 14 Contacts Minister Following Jim’s retirement we are temporarily without a Minister. Please refer to an elder if necessary. Elders Nigel Crisp (Secretary) 01473 822208 Claire Coster 01473 822850 Elizabeth Meeks 01473 827318 George Barnes 01787 211716 Jan Dicks 01473 823413 Karen Harman 01473 824765 Mervyn Cort 01473 822149 Pat Langley 01473 823844 Ronnie Howson 01473 310169 Sylvia Jarvis 01473 829166 Tom Gordon 01473 823711 Please feel free to contact any of the above at any time of day (or night in case of emergency), if you have any problem that the church may be able to help with. Sylvia Roberts (Monks Eleigh) 01449 740607 Treasurer Ronnie Howson 4, Ash Grove, Capel St Mary 01473 310169 Newsletter editor Phil Wells ([email protected]) 11 Jordayn Rise, Hadleigh Suffolk IP7 5SY 15
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