Diocesan Newspaper Advertising Media Pack 2017 www.oxford.anglican.org November 2014 no 262 Around the Deaneries: thedoor Claydon Thames thePath Pilgrimage - The Grand Day Out - Win a Real Advent page 11 Centrespread Calendar - page 5 Bishop John’s farewell thoughts - page 15 The newspaper from the Church of England for everyoneFree inof thecharge Diocese of Guildford December 2014/January 2015 - Issue 79 cofeguildford @CofEGuildford www.cofeguildford.org.uk Kate Clewer with one of the knitted characters Photos courtesy of Woolly idea sees Surrey Advertiser NUMBER 133 Parish news from north of Petersfield to the Isle of Wight NOVEMBER 2014 overFrom making1,250 sausages flockChurch-run nursery is to being trainee vicar popular with parents to StMy Martin’sFaith: page 12 St Jude’s Church Nursery: pages 8-9 Nimble-fingered members served refreshments and met lots were mixing together and within Hearts of St Martin’s Church, East of new people.” that atmosphere conversations Horsley, donated over 100 Alison Hendy, diocesan children were able to start. Each visitor of their own hand-knitted and families ministry advisor who came away having been reminded on Fire sheep when the Knitted visited the experience, commented: of 34 bible stories and the over- BibleTHE Experience made its “I was delighted to find the church archingBRIDGE flow of the Bible narrative. first trip down South for a full of people of all ages - mums “I am sure new relationships will The Diocese of Southwark week-long exhibition at the with children on half term, grannies be formed and the community will church. with grandchildren, dedicated be blessed through this unlikely More thanJoe’s 1,250 people came knitters of all ages, the odd mediumlegacy and all the associated will Newspaper of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark Vol.19 No.9 November 2014 to see an exhibition featuring teenager and even a few men! activities planned for the week. knitted figures of the Nativity, Well done St Martin’s for thinking Jonah being eaten by a whale, Engaging outside the box! “ David and Goliath and much more. “People were stopping to talk The knitted characters are now Inside Margaret Read from St Martin’s, with fellow visitors about various on their way home to Hartlepool. A Village who was responsible for bringing aspects of the stories. There was The exhibition will then travel to THE BRIDGE the experience all the way from a table of related activities, with North Wales in the New Year, Remembers the United Reformed Church an older child who was doing a but you may well have another ...this month in Hartlepool,be said: “We were brilliant to job encouraging the smaller helpchance to see it closer to home, others ATHEY sufferedpanto in the is not Parish astonishedcruellest at the numberway ofpossible. children to engage with hunting as two churches in the diocese visitors we attracted. People came for the lost sheep which were have already expressed an newsround... andNow then broughtthey back want friends andto usedotted around the story corner. interest in hosting this Knitted pages 2,3,10 &12 familytheir for another tragedy visit. It was to an helpEveryone was involved, everyone Bible Experience next year. eventother with real families. family appeal - we was engaged, different generations Watch this space! just for Christmas!See page 5 Simon and Sally Ellis went through what every parent dreads Members of the latter played on the joke that whenPoignantNovember their 13-year-old 2014 son JoeRemembrance congregation‘Allow atGod All theto giant enter was in fact one the of the picture’ died of cancer this summer. The shortest members of the cast Saints’ Church, South And it not just ‘over there’ in theN OVEMBERMiddle East 2014 or talented teenager died as his Saints’Bishop Church,Ian shares Southhis Christmaswith illusions of grandeur. Sunday for father and son Sierra Leone.legacy We have – that a part his to fundplay too, has in bringinghelped family were raising £100,000 to Merstham,message, after ably a year of globalThe crises: pantomime was staged Remembrance Sunday unknown perils of the front-line to raise money forthe thelove Canadaof Godother into children. the situations And where we don’t we are, have in pay for treatment. assisted by several had a special poignancy – I don’t know whether they all In this last year we have witnessedHall a great Redevelopment deal of our homes, Project anyin our - kind places of of bureaucracy,work, in our relationships so 100 Now they plan to use the Christmasfriends, produced yet starts for the Revd Chris came home unscathed. friends,pain, suffering produced and death in yetcountriesa in building the Middle programme with one toanother perbuild cent and withinof the our money society andwill its go to Amoney toRoyal help other children“The FirstRemembrance World War lasted anotherEast. Not muchsuccessful has changed then sinceand the furnish time of a linkneeds. building Luckraft of St John’s help them.” Christ! between Canada HallIf ‘Love and All withChurch,By thecancer VenMerrow, living Clive who on Mansell the Isle 4of years, the secondArchdeacon some 6 of Tonbridge, was replaced after pantomimedesigned after consultationin with local schools Gardens’ MemorialSally Trust,admits led otherthat prayers. the Wight.was joined They for created the service the Joe Ellisyears, but British involvementthe Second World War with a new and large andNow under there the is theguidance frightening of Ebolalocal Saints’epidemicsculptor, Church in Guy (bothcame down in at HRH the Duke of Kent came to October.with Battlebridge Lane, Southexperience of Joe’s illness and Trustby his Fund son Corporalin his memory andin Afghanistan lastedmemorial some 13 garden, recalling yet more names Portelli.West Africa. It is Health, both peace attractive and goodwill and seemthought- so Christmas’It was inan the occasion of pleasure, gratitude, Performed in the church Merstham) and to furtherdeath has affected her faith in God TonbridgeTimothy Luckraft. in Septemberyears to (this join time). Aof year the ago fallen. That has been the venue for provoking.far away. It has a bronze base, made birthpride of Jesusand coming together of a community — have already made contact with itself this year’s offering ‘Jack improve the facilities in the NEEDBoth father and sonTO bore the KNOWtoday I finished mythe sermonI annual STORIES by Remembrance Sunday I service AREA for likeYet earth, ourUPDATES annual into observancewhich have of thebeen birth I ofimprinted ChristEVENTS Christ,in the then presence– we but that NEARof GodJoe never and in lost remembrance YOUhis. memberssix families of who the they local can help. community and The Beanstalk’ took a hall itself. campaign medal for Afghanistan saying that I had athe son town.on active featuresis a call to fromremember a battlefield God’s close identity— a bootprint,with our whoof thosecall ourselves who“Joe gave did so question much tohis the faith, service but in aHis service mum Sallyto re-dedicatesaid: “Joe the Christinglenovel approach to the nutty When completed the as Chris told the congregation: service in Afghanistan with the human situation. 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