For your diaryDo you enjoy reading? If so, you may have some books you have finished with and don't know what to do with.
I may have the answer! I would like to start a lending library at chapel where books are brought and placed, at a location to be agreed, borrowed and returned when finished with.
Books may be Christian or suitable non Christian, paper back or small hardback. A record will be kept via a diary of who borrowed, date taken and returned.
I would appreciate any thoughts or comments, this was done at my previous church and worked well. I would like to start in September
Carolyn
For your diaryJuly 31 deacons meeting
Aug. 6 youth steering group
October 13 'Hollywood' dinner in aid of youth project to be held in village hall - more details to follow in September
Neil has two dates planned for the young people in Harvington:
Aug. 18 Football tournament and training session. The training session is aimed at those aged 8 - 14 years and places need to be reserved in advance, please contact Neil if you know of anyone who would like more information.
October 20 It seems like a long way off but this promises to be a very special day incorporating a drama workshop and circus skills, more details to follow
After a short break for a couple of weeks Neil intends to keep the Friday night sessions running through the summer break - see Neil for start back date plus, of course Greenbelt will conclude the summer holiday.
Huge and Heartfelt thanks to the team Mel, James, Hugh, Colin, Richard and others who with a lot of hard work and not much help from the weather! transformed the land around the chapel into the area we see today. Special thanks to Hugh who excused the female body from the church on this occasion.
From Vicky and Brian . . .
What a weekend! - July 7/8
On Friday evening we were joined by our daughter Ruth and her husband, Iain who had travelled from Hull. On Saturday morning our friends Audrey and Norman from Cliftonville in Kent, arrived for a long weekend. Then, on Saturday - the big day! - our family celebration and an evening meal at Kings Court Hotel, Coughton. It was great to have our five children, their other halves, our two grandchildren and six of our oldest friends present. Audrey and Norman we have known for over 55 years, Freda and Dennis, friends from Dunnington Baptist Church friends for over 35 years.
It was a joy and a rare treat to share time together with all of the family and representatives of our many friends.
Then on Sunday, another wonderful treat, Hugh led a very meaningful service and we joined with all our spiritual family in praise and thanks to God for his love blessings and guidance over the years. Feeling part of our church family is very special to us and Brian and I would like to thank you all sincerely for making this so, and for making the time to stay and have lunch with us. Very many thanks to all for the beautiful flowers and special gift.
Well, it is now eight months since I started working in Harvington, perhaps for some it may seem like its been longer. The work is doing is going really well, I feel that most people in the village now know who I am, which is very important.
I really started by continuing the work that Jim was doing, my little saying during my time with you has been 'if its not broken don't fix it'. But I feel that I've still been able to do my own things. For example the project now has a new skateboard group that meets once a week in the school playground and in the vestry of St. James on wet days. I have also been helping with P.E lessons at Harvington school, thus building further links between the project and community. Both of these activities have been a success and I feel that they are now just as important as all the other elements that make up the youth project. Both Vickie and myself are grateful for the love and friendship that both churches have shown to us, this has helped us both cope with the pressure and time it takes to work on the project. May I also take this opportunity to welcome a new leader to the project, Paul Haynes, who has been helping with the skateboard group and on Friday nights and is now an important member of the team.
Please continue to pray for the project as this is something everyone can do. Finally look out for the forthcoming football tournament in August and the drama day in October and pray that both events are a success.
Yours in Christ, Neil
Some of us met recently for an evening time of prayer and found this invaluable. We hope to repeat it in September. A Friday evening seemed to work well although we will keep this flexible.
We hope to resume these, both on a combined and mens & ladies time in the early autumn
Chris sent this lovely poem called "The Perfect Church" . . .
If you should find the perfect church
Without one fault or smear
For goodness sake don't join that church
You'd spoil the atmosphere.
If you should find the perfect church
Where all anxieties cease,
Then pass it by, lest joining it,
Would spoil the masterpiece.
If you should find the perfect church
Then don't you ever dare,
To tread upon such holy ground
You'd be a misfit there.
But since no perfect church exists
Made of perfect men,
Let's keep on looking for that church
And love the one were in.
Of course its not the perfect church
That's simple to discern
But you and I and all of us
Could cause the tide to turn.
What fools we are to flee the past
In that unfruitful search
To find, atlast, where problems loom,
God proudly builds his church.
Kitchen cupboardA wonderful dish for feeding a crowd, cut it into wedges and serve with green bean and tomato salad - for lunch, tea, for picnics (keeps warm for ages wrapped in foil) for anytime!
| 1lb packet puff pastry | 1 bay leaf |
| 6 oz smoked ham - chopped | 1 oz flour |
| 6oz grated eating apples | 1 egg beaten |
| 6oz strong cheddar - grated | 2oz butter |
| 3oz frozen spinach thawed and chopped | 0.5 pt milk |
| Salt and pepper to season |
Cut pastry in half and roll out one bit to a rectangle to fit large baking tray. Cook in hot over 10-15mins until just risen and golden. Cool and trim. Roll out the other piece so that it will cover the filling and pastry and put to one side.
Melt 1oz butter in sauté pan and cook the onion, apple bay leaf and nutmeg for about 15mins. Tip into bowl and remove bay leaf. Melt remaining butter stir in spinach and flour, cook for one minute then stirring add milk, boil then simmer until thickened, season to taste. Allow to cool and firm up. Spread onion and apple mixture over cooked pastry base. Top with ham and spoon spinach down the centre. Sprinkle all but 1oz cheese on top. Now cover with pastry 'lid' , seal edges together and make a slit in lid, then egg wash over, sprinkle with remaining cheese and bake 200ºC 400ºF or gas6 for 25mins.
The answers to the puzzler last time were:
Eg DITLD Daniel in the Lions Den
TWFAC The wedding feast at Cana
A and E Adam and Eve
TFOTFT The feeding of the five thousand
JATW Jonah and the Whale
Too easy? Ok try these . . .
COTT Cleansing of the temple
TPOTS The parting of the sea
TSOTM The sermon on the mount
Do you recognise either of these young men? The smart one with the tie or the one on the left taking a break on his horse. A box of celebrations awaits the first connect member to identify both!
This season at the 7+ youth The group has been good even though the weather has been poor. We have been on a walk to Dover's Hill and played several rounds of Danish long ball down the revitalised playing field.
To round the term off we had a party at in the garden at Orchard Close which was a huge success in all areas. There were plenty of fun filled activities for the kids and leaders to enjoy, such as a bear hunt which was an adapted version of hide and seek. This was also a game involving brains and speed, the children managed the speed but lacked in the negotiating part of the game. However it was thoroughly enjoyed.
Next on the agenda was the highlight of many of the children's evening when they got a ride in the back of Hugh's van which was totally blacked out.
After this bumpy ride it was time for the food! There was an excellent barbecue laid on my Liz and hardly any sausages were cremated! Well Done!
It was at the drinks bar that the kids got to experiment with boggy aid (lime aid), blood aid (cherry aid), puss aid (lemon aid) and cola. Many of the kids asked for mixtures of all the drinks together and came back for more however when I tried it I could hardly swallow it!
Ice cream was also popular with two types of sprinkles and sauces, the kids really were getting a lot of E-numbers! The evening was enjoyed by all and I would like to thank Liz and Hugh Nunn for letting us use their garden and organising the games. Also I would like to thank the leaders Jayne, Neil, Jenny, Chris and a new addition Tom Evans. Were all looking forward to next season and seeing the kids again.
J. Merrick
They say it's the most difficult language to learn - if you read this you'll see why!
Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another. Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
by Richard Lederer
By the time you read this many of you will have enjoyed an evening with Bob James and heard of the wonderful work he does with all those shoe boxes! Wouldn't it be tremendous if, as a church, we could give him a bumper collection this year. Yes I know it is only August (almost!) But if we all put one extra item in our shopping trolley each week it would make a big difference, and remember you do not have to make up a box, just give items to go in one if that is easier. For those who weren't there, the following items are much needed, cost little and were very much in demand last year.
Plain or lined notepads (paper is very hard to come by) pencils/crayons
Toothbrushes/paste/wrapped soap/shaving kit for teenage boys/haircombs./brushes/mittens or gloves and hats.
Thank you!
Next addition is December 2001
August 2001