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Reverend Frances reflects on gathering - Page 3 1 call Robert Wall of Whaley Bridge on

2 Finding new ways to gather together

It was a chilly December evening, and we were sitting on picnic benches on the green outside the Transhipment Warehouse. There were thirty of us, sitting in carefully distanced and be-masked family groups, around a roaring fire burning in a brazier. Everyone’s attention was focussed on the storyteller, as he told his tales of luck and magic and treasure. It was great to see the delight in the children’s faces, excited at staying up late, enthralled by the power of the stories. After a while the stories continued inside the darkened warehouse where was a huge illuminated paper model of a chinook helicopter, and shadow puppets cast against the warehouse wall. As we walked back home past the brightly lit up shops Steve and I reflected what a joy it had been to be part of a live audience again. After many months of restrictions it was a truly precious moment. There are so many things we have missed during the pandemic. For most people is the enforced distance from those dear to us that is hardest. But I also very much miss that sense of community and belonging that comes from sharing an experience with people I don’t know. Whether it’s at a folk gig, or the theatre – I love the sense of sharing that special experience with a crowd of strangers. As we respond to the live experience together it reminds us of our shared humanity. In a world that was very atomised even before the pandemic – that’s a good thing. I guess you could call this experience gathering – coming together as individuals to share and experience something together. Gathering is a very basic human thing. Whether it’s the playground, or the pub, or the football pitch – we need places to gather. The word church basically means “the gathering”. The Christian faith has never been a privatised thing – from the earliest days it’s been about gathering with others, and recognising that our search for God, our experience of God is something that connects us to one another. At present our gathering in church is online by Zoom. It is teaching us new things about gathering. One of the things I like about it is that whereas in church the clergy tend to sit up one end of the church a bit separate from everyone else, on the computer screen all our faces are lined up equally. We are one body of people together. When I think back to the “Whaley Winter Tales” storytelling evening it seems to me an image of what the church can be – a place where the fire of God’s love is the focus around which we gather, a place where stories are told and community can grow. As this long Covid winter continues, the vaccination programme helps us look towards the time when life in Whaley Bridge opens up again, when gathering become the norm again, in our schools, our shops, our green spaces, our churches. Until then, may we do all we can to keep ourselves and our neighbours safe. Every blessing Frances

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Priest in Charge Revd Frances Eccleston 01663 732724 46 Road, Whaley Bridge [email protected] Readers Beryl Axcell 732612 Hilltop, Road Mick Connell 734153 1 Shallcross Mill Road [email protected] Pastoral Worker Sue Mellor 732005 2 Taxal View, Fernilee [email protected] Churchwardens John Swift 07775 691403 Madscar Farm, Taxal Stella Whitehurst 732132 [email protected]

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Praying for the Streets of Whaley Bridge The names of the streets to be prayed for in any particular week will appear on the church notice sheet and these streets will be remembered in our prayers.

7 February: Linglongs Avenue, Linglongs Road, Low Meadow 14 February: Lower Macclesfield Road, Macclesfield Road, Manor Road

21 February: Market Street, Meadow Close, Meadowfield, Meadowside

28 February: Mereside Gardens, Mevril Road, Mevril Springs Way

7 March: New Horwich Road, New Road, Old Hall Drive

14 March: Old Road, Orchard Avenue, Orchard Road

21 March: Paddock Lane, Park Road, Randal Crescent, Reddish Avenue

28 March: Reddish Lane, Reddish Road, Reservoir Road

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Services in February 2021

In January our Church Council voted to continue to suspend public worship in church in order to support the public health advice to stay safe by staying at home. We will review the situation in mid February: we are keen to resume public worship when it is appropriate and safe to do so. Therefore, in February, we will continue with regular worship online using Zoom video conferencing. The access codes for all our services are the same: Meeting ID: 364 083 0788. Password: 123456. All are welcome to join us. Zoom is free, and easy to use: either from a laptop, a tablet or even a mobile phone. Here at the end of a phone!

If you have not used Zoom before Revd Frances writes: lockdown and would like to talk to someone three has been the hardest yet, about how to use it, please give us a with dark days and winter weather. ring on 01663 732724/ 07554 240762. If you’re feeling low and would like to talk to someone please ring - It is also possible to access Zoom calls will be responded to in services by phone. strictest confidence. Service times are Sunday at 10.30 01663 732724/ 07554 240762 am and Tuesday at 9.30 am.

Vision Statement: To Live and Grow as the body of Christ 5 Book Review: ‘Living His Story’

The Archbishop of drawn to him through our Canterbury’s Lent Book natural gifts. 2021 ‘Living His Story’, ‘Living His Story’ is a explores evangelism as a Lent devotional that will way of sharing God’s love change the way you think with people. How can we about evangelism, show convey the love of God to how ideally suited it is for our neighbours in a post- the world we live in and Christian world that has fill you with confidence in largely forgotten the sharing God’s love with gospel of Jesus Christ? the people around you. Hannah Steele uncovers Set out in six sessions to liberating and practical take you through Lent, the ways of sharing the book can be used as a gospel story afresh. With single study for revealing the warmth and individuals or small extraordinary love of God encouragement, she groups to prepare for in ordinary ways shows us how we can live Easter. It will help you The Archbishop of Jesus’ story in our own find space to see Canterbury’s Lent Book lives simply by being the evangelism from a new 2021 people God made us and practical perspective. By Hannah Steele, SPCK, allowing people to be Living His Story – £7.99

In this Lenten Time renew us This may be sung to the tune His laws can’t be circumvented ‘Rhuddlan’ (‘Judge Eternal, Satan’s world will turn to dust! Throned in Splendour’) In this Lenten time renew us Jesus, in the wilds You tarried Teach us where to place our trust! Forty days and forty nights All Earth’s kingdoms are but trifles By the Tempter often harried If our Lord we can’t adore You the victor in each fight! Worldly wealth our worship stifles In this Lenten time renew us And, in truth, it makes us poor Make us perfect in Your sight! In this Lenten time renew us Bread alone cannot sustain us Guide us to Your Heav’nly shore! But each word from God above God Almighty, everlasting Worldly goods can nothing gain us Perfect all that you create If we lack our Father’s love Be with us in feast or fasting In this Lenten time renew us Cleanse our hearts from greed and Come upon us like a dove! hate God our judge should not be tempted In this Lenten time renew us He alone is fully just That our joy may ne’er abate! By Nigel Beeton

6 A prayer for Thank you to our NHS heroes the pandemic “What day is it? Where By John Swift Dear Father God, are you? Who is the You promise to hear us Prime Minister?” the morning. I was lucky when we come to you in These were all questions to have a loo close at prayer, thank you! We asked on entry into the hand and towels, soap, so need Your listening hospital. Then blood pressure and temperature and fresh jim-jams for ear at this time – and the asking. your help, Lord. Winter checks. From 7.30pm - always brings 2.00am the doctors gave The ladies at night got challenges, but this me pills, liquids, on with their jobs and the main man, Ian, aged winter is exceptional as cannulas, took blood 60, hardly stopped. the effects of the samples… I felt like a pandemic continue. pin cushion! John, a small man The next morning Ms Li opposite, woke me up When we are afraid, or most nights to say the lonely, or grieving, or in asked me the same questions as the night Lord’s Prayer and closed despair, help us to trust asking to go home (it You and to know that before. It was when two members of the happened!). He was You are with us in the government were sent stone deaf and sang on middle of it all, packing and were in the the way to the loo! sustaining us. You are news – I replied that Mrs It was an 8-day stay in not social-distancing, Johnson was the head of Macclesfield General You are very, very the government. I’m and by the end I was close, full of love and afraid the posse did not ready to come home for compassion. put two and two a rest. We pray for our National together..! Thank you to everyone Health Service and ask I had a touch of for your kind messages, for Your special strength pneumonia and Covid. cards, and calls, I’m and protection for all The food and people, I looking forward to staff. Thank you for the enjoyed, even when seeing you at some skills You have given to being tested at 3.00 in stage. scientists all over the world. Thank you for the hope which the vaccines Church Action on Poverty: Sunday 21 February bring. Most of all thank You for the hope which This month you can join churches around the UK in Jesus brings. prayer, giving and action, on behalf of those who are This earthly life is a struggling with poverty. whisper in the light of eternity and Jesus is the Society should be “founded on compassion and justice, key to that eternal life. where all people are able to exercise dignity, agency Thank You, Father, for and power,” says Church Action on Poverty. meeting all our needs in Jesus. Amen. For more information visit: www.church- By Daphne Kitching poverty.org.uk/sunday/ 7 Obituary - Rex Clarke (Died 3 December 2020)

Although he had lived in Chapel since the and Buxton Rd. Picture young Rex pushing late 1970s, many older readers will fondly around a wooden wheelbarrow full of quarts remember Rex Clarke, writes Beryl and pints of milk! His round was up Chapel Axcell. Road, along the Top Level and back round Rex was born on 22 June 1934, the second Buxton Rd. They got half-a-crown/ 2/6 a son of Harold Ernest and Emily Elizabeth week. Uncle Tom saved it up for them till Clarke, in St. Mary’s , just 10 they had enough to buy two second hand minutes after his brother David. They were bikes - a Raleigh and a Hercules. A real boon because there was never enough identical twins. The only way their Mum could tell them apart was that Rex had a spare money at home for such luxuries. scar on his forehead - the result of a piece Life wasn’t all shovelling sand and of coal jumping out of the fire and landing delivering milk. Rex and David went to, and on his forehead when he was lying in his shone at, the dancing classes run at Trinity cot in front of the fire! Until they were 16, Hall by Jack Hadfield and his wife. They they lived on Shallcross Mill Rd, so they were so good that Jack regularly took them didn’t have far to go to Horwich End School. to help at the class run at the Pavilion From there they went on to Whaley Bridge Gardens. According to the modest David, Elementary. when it came to progressive dances, ladies couldn’t wait to get round to him and Rex, Rex and David were always the best of pals. According to David, they weren’t they were so good! naughty boys, just full of mischief! Folks It was there that the pair of them met the called them “Rum so-and-sos”-except the loves of their lives, their future wives, Jean word they used wasn’t “so-and-sos”..! It and Angela. Many’s the night they took the was never anything malicious, just pesky - girls back to Furness then trekked back to string on door knockers and the like. The the top of Elnor Lane in the pitch dark. local Bobby called Rex “Convict 99” and Backtracking a bit, the pair of them left David “Convict 100”. He gave them a pair of school at 15 years of age. Rex got an boxing gloves each so that they could apprenticeship with the Gas Board at knock the watsit out of each other! Whaley, fitting all kinds of appliances. He’d Their energy must have been boundless, served most of his apprenticeship when he but, like many children in those days, they got his call-up papers. He spent 6 months had jobs to do, which worked off some of in Aldershot and the next 18 months in their energy. Seven tons of sand was Germany chauffeuring for his Captain and regularly delivered and dumped outside family. “The best job in the army”, said Rex, Eric Morris’ Foundry on Elnor Lane. The and his family greatly appreciated the twins would get it all shovelled away in one wonderful gifts he brought back. night, which was some shovelling. Back home to Civvy St and his beloved From the age of 12 years, or so, they Jean, Rex took up lorry driving. delivered milk for Uncle Tom Bradshaw who had the Dairy on the corner of New Rd Continued on page 9 ►

8 From page 8 ► Club and Rileys; for holidays, golf, and, of course, fishing. How he loved fishing. He He drove for Bill Higgins, then Goodwin and was Bailiff at Errwood for a while, went Pen and finally for Hayworth Brothers, salmon fishing in Scotland with Roger, and , for 10 years. he did it properly, tying his own flies. He and Jean were married in July 1956 at Although not everyone would agree, St. Mary’s Disley. Their reception was at Archbishop Desmond Tutu is quoted as The Swan, then off to Llandudno. They set saying, “You don’t choose your family, they up home at 228 Buxton Rd, , are God’s gift to you and you are His gift to paying 2/6 a week in rent. What a different your family.” This was God's intention from world! the beginning and each of us is meant to At Christmas 1961 Jean presented Rex with fulfil each part of that, to be the one who an extra special gift when she gave birth to receives the gift and also to be part of the Nigel - the first baby to be born at Stepping gift. Hill on Christmas Day 1961. Two years later, Rex fulfilled both parts. Family was of prime to their delight, Julie arrived on the scene. importance to him and to Jean. He was a Needing more room, they moved to 286 brilliant Dad and an equally brilliant Buxton Rd, Whaley. Then, in 1970, they Grandad. A real bonus of his working in took over the shop that had been Uncle Hazel Grove had been that he could call at Tom’s Dairy. Jean ran the shop while Rex Julie’s every night on his way home, either continued with the job he loved at Nemo to have tea with the young Jake and Lewis Heat Treatment in Hazel Grove. or to bath them. As the boys got older, the Neighbours had shown him the advert for bond with Grandad became stronger and the job and encouraged him to apply. He got Rex’s pride in them both knew no bounds. the job in spite of turning up for interview in He was delighted to welcome Kate and his coal lorry! He was a braising engineer, Katie into the family. working on parts for turbines and Rolls Of course, time doesn’t stand still. The Royce. He was good at it, worked hard and family kept Rex going when Jean lost most worked his way up to becoming a very of her mobility and needed to go into popular, and much respected, manager. Not Whitestones in 2015. It was a wrench; they’d least because he was always cheerful. He shared every moment for well over 60 years knew that a good laugh was a real tonic both and their love was as strong as ever. Rex for himself and those around him, and that went to Whitestones every day to have tea never changed. He made a great many with Jean. In fact, the whole family friends among his work mates. He was so decamped to Whitestones! They grieved good at his job that the company sent him to together for Nigel and when Jean sadly died sort out another branch that wasn’t doing so in 2017, Julie, Neil, Jake, Lewis and the girls well. When Rex retired, aged 64, Simon were his rock. Blanton said it was a really sad day for all of Where was Rex when he passed away? them. Just where he would have wanted to be - at By then, he and Jean had moved up to Julie and Neil’s, surrounded by his family. It Horsefair Avenue, Chapel. Retirement gave is to them that we send our love and him lots more time for snooker at Whaley sympathy.

9 A February Rose My love, she likes a red, red rose Of deep magenta hue, A gift for Valentine that shows That someone’s love is true. But think on this, my bonnie lass, As you admire the bloom – That flower’s been forced on under glass You ought to wait till June! By Nigel Beeton

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Love He held her close in his arms’ embrace, Their eyes and their lips did meet, He looked down into her lovely face, And her heart did faster beat… ‘Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, They went to the kirk and it came the day, it does not boast, it is And the book the priest did take; not proud. It does not He in his kilt was so bright and gay dishonour others, it is As his promise he did make. not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it She stood at his side so white and fair, keeps no record of Her white fingers fair to give, wrongs. Love does not The priest handfasted them then and there, delight in evil but And he blessed them long to live. rejoices with the truth. O God give the joy and God the love It always protects, To those who are lovers true, always trusts, always Shed down benediction from above hopes, always As in one are joined the two. perseveres. Love never fails.’ From Prayers of the Western Highlanders 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

Book Review: The Boy, The Mole, The fox and The Horse This book remains the The author Charlie publishing sensation of Mackesy has suffered the past eighteen from depression and months, selling over a anxiety. He says, “We million copies, writes all struggle and that’s Jean Oldbury. the point. I have never It is a conversation met anybody who does between the boy, the not struggle with mole, the fox and the something. Being horse. The boy wishes human is really difficult to be kind when he and we just need to be grows up, the mole is kind to ourselves and to very fond of cake, the each other as much as fox says very little, but possible”. that is okay. The horse is wise. Charlie Mackesy was an atheist, now It is simple and uncomplicated, a Christian, and worships at Holy basically a book about kindness and Trinity Church, Brompton. friendship. Appeals to any age from “Everyone is a bit scared,” said the eight to eighty plus. A book to be horse. “But we are less scared dipped into, illustrated on every page. together.”

11 Spring will come, it always does

I am writing this in mid-January. So, the days are short and often dark. The weather has been at times wet, cold, snowy, icy and treacherous underfoot with ice, snow and mud. Yet occasionally we have woken to a blue sky and a sparkling day. What a difference a day makes! Yet overall there is a dejected feel about this Photo by Olga Subach on Unsplash. January and it’s getting to all of us one way or another and it’s not surprising. The pace neighbours and strangers has been heart- warming, the way in which most people have of the spread of the pandemic is frightening, our day to day life is becoming more and ‘got on’ with this situation is very impressive. more restricted and needs to be if the spread Thank goodness for the telephone, and for all the technology, such as Zoom, keeping of the virus is to be slowed down. Then there is Brexit. Already the extra paperwork people in touch with one another. We must all applaud the brilliant scientists and logistics of trading with Europe are who have worked so tirelessly to produce resulting in complications at Channel ports, not to mention with Northern Ireland. The vaccines to protect us from Coronavirus. By astounding news of the attacks on the the summer most of the elderly and Capitol Building in Washington DC have left vulnerable members of the population and us stunned. What is the world coming to? most key workers should be vaccinated. I hope that vaccination will then be made It’s hard to think that this time last year most of us had never heard of Covid-19. How available to the rest of the population. The quickly things had changed by March. How world will not be safe until vaccination has been done in all countries. quickly we adapted to life in Lockdown. We threw ourselves into the strange new way of On my winter walks with my Labrador, life, convinced that if we behaved things Peggy, we see signs of growth in the fields. Snowdrops are pushing through, and would be back to normal before Christmas. I listened to the news, and by May I was daffodils are everywhere. The birds are busy at the bird feeders and on sunny days the feeling that this virus would be with us for a long time. I had 12 or 18 months in mind sheep, now heavy in lamb, are quite and I found myself thinking of my parents interested as we walk past. By February the snowdrops will be flowering, then comes when the last world war started in 1939. Did March with early daffodils, then April and they imagine that it would go on for six years? Yet, however hard it was, they never Easter and it will be Spring with longer, warmer days and gardens full of colour. gave up expecting to come through in the end. We too must stay positive and trust We have a few more difficult weeks and months ahead but the Spring will come. So that our Heavenly Father, who loves and cares for each of us, will bring us through don’t let Covid get you down. More than anything we are missing human contact so, these difficult times. Good things have been pick up the phone and call someone for a happening during this year. The response of staff in our hospitals to the emergency has chat, that will cheer up two people. been overwhelming. The kindness of Stella Whitehurst 12 An ode to the humble Snowdrop: A symbol of Hope According to legend, the for “earring”. mountain tops, waylay Snowdrop became the The Latin name is The rising sun, and on the symbol of Hope when “Galanthus” which means plains descend; Adam and Eve were “milk flower”. Yet thou art welcome, expelled from the Garden They are also known as welcome as a friend of Eden, writes Beryl “Candlemas bells”. Whose zeal outruns his Axcell. The most famous of promise! Blue-eyed May When Eve was about to Wordsworth’s poems is probably ‘Daffodils’. Less Shall soon behold this give up hope that the cold border thickly set winters would never end, well known is his poem, With bright jonquils, their an angel appeared. She ‘The Snowdrop’ odours lavishing transformed some of the Lone flower, hemmed in On the soft west-wind and snow flakes into with snow and white as his frolic peers; Snowdrop flowers, they proving that winters do, But hardier far, once more Nor will I then thy modest eventually, give way to I see thee bend grace forget Spring. Thy forehead, as if fearful Chaste Snowdrop, The name snowdrop to offend, venturous harbinger of doesn’t mean “drop” of Like an unbidden guest. Spring snow, it means “drop” as Though day by day, And pensive monitor of in “eardrop”, the old name Storms, sallying from the fleeting years.

13 New Year Resolution

I have never been one to attempt a life- By Rosemary Kidd change just because our calendar has flipped over into a new year, but this like ostriches that the consequences of year I have a deep feeling of wanting to modern life can be ignored, burying our engage in my own small way in the heads in the sand or, like vulnerable recovery of our global environment. little children, hiding their heads under There is a new social and cultural cushions. OR … we can work with urgency in the light of the terrible every fibre of our being to be positive, omens of climate change and plastic to be a part of a call to save our species, pollution, etc. BUT … every television and to live differently for their sakes. programme or news cast on the threat to That might sound impossibly pompous, life on earth ends with “But … it is not but that is my aim! too late! There is still time”. But … not Thank you to Jamie and Sophie much! Richardson for organising our Whaley For instance, did you catch the recent Bridge Terracycle collections so we can Sky News documentary footage on the recycle more of our plastic rubbish, pollution and near death of the waters rather than throw it into the earth. of the river Nile? Once the source of ‘Good News!’, for 2021. They will life over thousands of miles, supporting need lots of support. great civilisations in desert wastes, today its fish stocks are rapidly Thank you to Wildlife Trust dwindling and its tributaries and lower for fronting the ‘Re-Wilding reaches are choked with city waste, all Derbyshire’ initiative. Even a window of which flows eventually into the box can support wild species and I can Mediterranean – conjuring up images of certainly do better with my small glorious sunshine, blue sea and sky, garden. Between us, we can actually leisure and romantic holidays … and help to prevent other stressed species muck. But can you guess how the report from disappearing. ‘Good News’, for ended? “It is NOT TOO LATE …” 2021. There is no denying that we are on the Despite everything, there could yet be brink as a species. We could all pretend ‘GOOD NEWS’ this year!

National Nestbox Week aims to encourage us to put up more nestboxes, and to consider planting shrubs or trees with fruit that birds eat.

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14 National Nestbox Week – time to help your garden birds

Our birds are short of nesting holes, and These can make all the difference to no wonder: gardens, parks and woodland birds struggling to survive, especially are much neater than they used to be, and blue tits, great tits, house sparrows, modern homes offer few crannies for robins and starlings. nest building. The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) National Nestbox Week, which is offers a variety of ideas for building and celebrated from 14th February each year, placing nestboxes. Go to: https:// aims to encourage us to put up more www.nestboxweek.com nestboxes, and to consider planting shrubs or trees with fruit that birds eat. Photographs by Cynthia King

15 16 Try colouring to aid mindfulness and relaxation

Do you think that colouring is just for children? Think again! The trend for buying colouring books has spread nationwide and you don’t have to be an expert artist to do it. If you are looking for an uplifting way to unwind, colouring will surely do the trick. There are many benefits to colouring for children and adults; it’s relaxing and can help you to focus, so lockdown may just be the perfect time to dig out the crayons, coloured pencils, felt tips or paints and have a go! ABOVE: Thank you to Jean Oldbury On page 16 is an image for you to for sharing her lovely colouring print off and colour in. Enjoy! picture with us.

A Prayer for Light Fountain of light, source of light, Hear our prayer. Drive away from us the shadow of sin. Seek us, kindly light. You, who created us in holiness, Who condemned our sin, Who redeemed us from our sin, Sustain us by your power. Pour your gentle light into our dull minds, Filling our heads with holy thoughts. Pour your glorious light into our cold breasts, Kindling holy love within our hearts. From horror, lust and fear, Guard us while we sleep. And if we cannot sleep, Let our eyes behold your heavenly host. Dramatic scenery surrounds us in the . By Alcuin of York, c. 735 – 804, who was Cracken Edge, above Chinley. later Abbot of Tours. Photograph by Alison Rowland. 17 Down 1 Seas (Proverbs 8:24) (6) 2 One of the sons of Eli the priest, killed in battle by the Philistines (1 Samuel 4:11) (6) 3 Specialist in the study of the Muslim religion (8) 4 ‘Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but — him as if he were your father’ (1 Timothy 5:1) (6) 5 One of Esau’s grandsons (Genesis 36:11) (4) 6 Taking a chance (colloq.) (2,4) 7 God’s instructions to the Israelites concerning grain offerings: ‘ — salt to Crossword Clues — your offerings’ (Leviticus 2:13) (3,3) Across 12 Confederation of British Industry (1,1,1) 8 Interrogated (Acts 12:19) (5-8) 14 ‘All day long they twist my words; 9 ‘Burn it in a wood fire on the — they are always — to harm heap’ (Leviticus 4:12) (3) me’ (Psalm 56:5) (8) 10 Tobit, Judith, Baruch and the 15 The crowd’s reaction to Jesus books of Esdras and the Maccabees bringing back to life a widow’s son in are part of it (9) Nain (Luke 7:16) (3) 11 Science fiction (abbrev.) (3-2) 16 Disappear (Psalm 104:35) (6) 13 Clay pit (anag.) (7) 17 How Jeremiah was likely to die if he wasn’t rescued from the cistern 16 Went to (John 4:46) (7) where he was imprisoned (Jeremiah 19 ‘Therefore, I urge you, brothers, 38:9) (6) in view of God’s mercy, to — your 18 What the prophets do to a wall, bodies as living sacrifices’ (Romans with whitewash (Ezekiel 13:10, RSV) 12:1) (5) (4,2) 22 David’s plea to God concerning 20 Made by a plough (Job 39:10) (6) those referred to in 14 Down: ‘On — 21 Noah was relieved when the flood — let them escape’ (Psalm 56:7) waters continued to — (Genesis 8:5) (2,7) (6) 24 Royal Automobile Club (1,1,1) 23 Jesus gave the Twelve the power 25 How the book of Ezekiel refers to and authority to do this to diseases God more than 200 times (Ezekiel (Luke 9:1) (4) 2:4) (9,4) Answers on page 20

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Portrait knows what God looks like.” A primary teacher was observing her Without missing a beat, or looking up classroom of children while they from her drawing, the girl replied, were drawing. As she got to one “They will in a minute.” little girl who was working diligently, Bishop she asked what the drawing An exam for R.E. asked the following was. The girl replied, “I’m drawing question: ‘What does a Bishop do?’ God.” Came one answer: ‘Move diagonally The teacher blinked: “But no one across the board.’

20 A language guide when visiting Yorkshire by Mick Connell Yorkshire saying English Translation “A caan’t do wi it.” “It’s driving me mad,” or “I can’t cope with that sort of thing.” “Tha’s reyt theer.” “You’re quite correct.” “Put wood in’t oil will yu.” “Would you please close the door.” “Reyt fare an’ ‘onest.” “I find that difficult to believe.” “Well al gu te ower ows.” “Oh I am surprised.” “Well al gu te bottom er ower street.” “I’m really shocked to hear that.” “Gerroff mi fut.” “I believe you’re standing on my foot.” “O yu soft.” “Aren’t you able to cope with such a little thing? “Get a grip on thi sen!” or “O ye soft?” “I suggest you pull yourself together.” “What’s up wi thi?” “Are you feeling unwell?” “Are you mad?” or “Can’t you handle a little problem like that?” “Na thas gone an dunnit,” “I think you’ve put your foot in it.” “Na thas really gone an dunnit.” “You really have spilled the applecart now.”

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Contact details for organisers are listed below: REGULAR CHURCH ACTIVITIES EVERY WEEK Sunday Explorers - held during 10.30 service Bible stories and fun for children. Contact Sue Mellor 01663 732005

Home Groups - Fellowship with Bible Study Wednesday 7.30-9.00pm at Eastfield, 15, Whaley Lane Contact Marion Lacey 01663 733717 or Sue Mellor 01663 732005

Bell Ringing Practice from 8.00pm at St James Taxal. All ages, but must be 4ft 8in tall. Secretary Victoria Shelmerdine [email protected]

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