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Advent and Christmas 2017 The Magazine of Westgate New Church Issue 473: Advent and Christmas 2017 Westgate New Church, Peterborough United Reformed/Methodist 68b Westgate, Peterborough, PE1 1RG Minister: The Revd Lesley Moseley Minister: 01733 751681 The Church http://www.westgatechurch.org.uk/ where you belong Our Mission Statement We at Westgate New Church are called by God to highlight Jesus Christ’s love for the people of Peterborough. We pass on this good news by worship, fellowship, mission, education, personal life and social service. This will be my final letter to many functions. It keeps you in the Chronicle as us in touch with friends we know it. Sadly, this is who have moved away, it Linda’s last edition as editor keeps us informed, it helps and no one has come us to develop a sense of forward to take over that our identity as a community role. Some of the functions and, no doubt, other things of the church magazine will I’ve not included. Those continue in different forms. functions still need to be For example, Ewan will undertaken; our challenge is continue to prepare rotas and will how we can do that without a formal distribute them to those on the rota and monthly publication. Church Council are to church notice boards. Weekly notice always pleased to hear ideas about how sheets will continue to give details of diary we can be more effective as a church and prayer requests. and as disciples. We are even more Church Council have spent a lot of pleased if you can offer to help with some time discussing what we can do and of the tasks. continue to try to work out a plan. At Meanwhile, what is happening in our recent meeting I reminded them Advent and at Christmas? An Advent of something I’ve said before in that and study group has been arranged. Doug other contexts. The Scottish Episcopal Stevens, Alison and I will lead sessions Church developed a strategy called local looking at the prophecies of Isaiah, collaborative ministry. Their churches which provide the Old Testament were presented with two rules as part of Readings during Advent this year. The the strategy: no one has two jobs till group will meet from 2pm – 4pm on everyone has one and if no one comes Thursdays beginning on November 30th. forward to do a job ask the question, The group will be people who want to ‘Does God want this job doing?’ learn more. You don’t need to have been We believe that the Chronicle serves to a group before, you don’t need to know 2 anything at all before you arrive at you’re not ‘blue’. Our family celebration on the first session and there’s no book to Christmas morning is an opportunity to buy. We’ll try to make the afternoons share the joy of Christmas with our interesting and will give you a cuppa Westgate New family. Please come and before you go home. Each session will share in this lovely, warm and friendly stand alone so you can come to as many service. or as few as you wish. Finally, I want to say thank you for Our services in December will include Linda and the team, who have put a toy service on 10th December, a carol together the Chronicle for more years service on 24th December and an than I’ve been at Westgate New Church. afternoon Blue Christmas service on It has provided us with a regular bumper 3rd too. I’m often asked what a blue edition of useful information, teaching and Christmas service is. It is designed for news. We will miss the Chronicle, and people who struggle with Christmas, who wish Linda all the best in her new may be sad, lonely or unwell. It provides ventures. Thank you to her and all the a space to quietly reflect without mince team. pies and bright lights and flashy reindeer In Christ antlers! You will be welcomed even if Lesley From your Retiring Editor Dear Friends, off) or even find a completely The time has come for me different way of communicating to retire as your editor and this with our congregation, former is the last issue I shall edit. Ian members, friends and visitors. and I have now got to a stage You will also find some in life when we are able to differences in this issue. The downsize, certainly in terms of Church Council have put their house size, and probably in minds to reducing the excessive terms of town size. We shall begin house work-load which is carried by some of hunting after Christmas. The process may our members and have identified the all be over in a few months or it could colouring page, the puzzles and the rotas take a year or more, so we have at as items that can be dispensed with, so present no idea how much longer we shall these do not appear in this issue. You will be with Westgate New Church. In any also, no doubt, be hearing about other case, I shall no longer have the time it work-saving arrangements before long. takes to edit the Chronicle and, besides, I I want to thank you all for reading the have been editor for nine years and two Chronicle, for your financial contributions months (110 issues) and this is long towards the cost and for what you have enough for one editor. written for our magazine. For those who At present the Church Council, who have at any time served on the editorial were given due notice, have not been team, helped to find advertisements or able to find a new editor. Maybe, after helped with distribution, a very special an interval it will be easier for someone thank you for making my work easier. to re-start a completely different Chronicle God bless you all, (rather than trying to pick up where I left Linda 3 Stories within the Story: The Big Story “A book full of stories” – this phrase coined by Maria Penstone in a Victorian hymn reflects the approach I have taken over five years of writing “Stories within the Story” for the Chronicle. Every page of the Bible has a story to tell, stories about everyday people just as often as about the great ones like prophets and monarchs. I have found you can make friends with all these people by dwelling on their stories and imagining how they would tell their stories themselves. Usually stories can be retold in the first person, as by the character him or herself. Stories How did Jesus know so much about the life of shepherds? Big stories like Israel fleeing from Egypt I imagine a shepherd knowing our Lord or building the first temple – from Bethlehem-nativity to Calvary to the seminal event of Solomon’s reign early church. A whole nation responding to God’s call which came to just a few, Bible stories are not often about people who inspired or led many others seeking God except perhaps for Job amid the ruin of Small stories, barely mentioned in the his once-prosperous life. biblical text Bible stories are usually about God But life-changing: sometimes a divine call, seeking us, finding us, calling us: sometimes circumstances that open a Moses at the ever-burning bush life to God Paul on the Damascus road Like Simon of Cyrene who carried Jesus’ Nathanael, under a fig tree cross People who become extraordinary and his two sons – a family history in when God calls one verse Many Bible stories are about strong, Sometimes stories we can imagine are not extraordinary women in the Bible account. Eve, mother of us all, sassy and How did the donkey get back home after ambitious; bearing Jesus on Palm Sunday? Mary, mother of Jesus, unexpectedly I have imagined a boy from the farm and pregnant, obedient and politically an extraordinary day out. astute; 4 Another Mary, first to meet the risen Stories human and divine; Lord, deeply devoted; Stories of God seeking us in love, of Sarah, not afraid to laugh at God; people responding in faith; Ruth, immigrant but royal great- Stories bringing inspiration for us. grandmother, faithful and focused. The Bible is the Big Story of God seeking But the high point of Bible stories will and finding us throughout history. The always be stories of Jesus. Big Story encompasses numerous little Human stories: a helpless, endangered stories – “stories within the story” about baby, remarkable individuals. It often requires a a rebellious teenager lost in Jerusalem, large dose of imagination, but we can a dutiful son saving the occasion at a dwell upon the little stories and let them family wedding in Cana, speak to us, we can retell the stories an anguished man in the Garden, as if from the mouths of the characters facing arrest and death; themselves. That is what I have tried to And Divine stories, the God-man bringing do in “Stories within the Story”, and this is healing and hope, a way of doing Bible Study we can all restoring life and health, walking on make use of. Try it. water and feeding the crowds, Ian dying for his friends, and enemies, and multitudes yet to come; raised in glory, LORD Jesus. A Christian Perspective Advent Jesus our Saviour and on worship. We Advent is a period of four weeks leading think more of the results of Jesus coming up to Christmas Day. During this time, into our world, God showing humanity when everyone is busy with shopping what God is all about.
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