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Community Magazine December 2018 Community Magazine December 2018 Church and Community £1 news Beaconsfield Community • views Magazine - •December inspiration 2018 • information 1 BEACONSFIELD ANGLICAN TEAM MINISTRY St Mary & All Saints - Old Town St Michael & All Angels (www.stmarysbeaconsfield.org.uk) St Michael’s Green, New Town (www.stmichaelsbeaconsfield.org.uk) Team Rector: Revd Dr Jeremy Brooks Vicar: In vacancy Tel: 01494 677058 (*Monday) Church Office: 01494 676931 email: [email protected] [email protected] For information phone Parish Office 01494 676690 email: [email protected] Churchwardens: Daphne Scott – Tel: 01494 676938 Associate Minister: John Gibbs – Tel: 01494 676931 Revd Sharon Roberts – Tel: 01494 433853 [email protected] email: [email protected] Assistant Church Warden: Associate Priest: Chris Cook – Tel: 01494 676931 Revd Carolynn Croisdale-Appleby [email protected] Tel: w01494 728195 email: [email protected] Licensed Lay Minister : Churchwardens: Mrs Hazel Chow – Tel: 01494 675832 Steve Snaith – Tel: 07802 931978 [email protected] Harriet Baldwin – Tel: 07973 397075 Holy Communion - 8.00am Holy Communion - 8.00am (traditional) (Book of Common Prayer) Early Bird Service - 9.15am (1st Sunday in the hall for Parish Communion - 10.00am (except 1st Sunday) children aged 0-11 and parents or guardians) (Family Service non-Eucharistic: 1st Sunday) Family Time and a Talk - 9.15am (every Sunday) Matins and Sermon - 11.15am (1st Sunday only) Family Holy Communion - 9.15am (3rd Sunday) Evensong and Sermon - 6.30pm (except 1st Sunday) Holy Communion 10.30am (every Sunday) Evening Eucharist with Ministry of Healing Ministry of Healing Prayer offered each (1st Sunday only) Sunday during 10.30am service Weekday Holy Communion 9.00am (every Wednesday) Junior Church each Sunday (except 1st) 10.00am Messy Church for all ages 2nd Sunday in the hall at 4.00pm in the Fitzwilliams Centre. For families there is a warm welcome and a variety Crèche each Sunday (except 1st). of activities each Sunday Baptism and marriage enquiries to the Parish Office. St Thomas’ Mayflower Way, Holtspur (www.stthomasbeaconsfield.org.uk) Team Vicar: Revd Michael Johnson Holy Communion (1st and 3rd Sundays) 10.00am Tel: 01494 675705 Morning Worship (2nd and 4th Sundays) 10.00am email: [email protected] Crèche and children’s church each Sunday at 10.00am. Churchwardens: Baptisms and marriages by appointment . Peter Honiball - Tel: 01494 689974 email: [email protected] Paul Cornelius - Tel: 01494 674898 email: [email protected] Further information from the Parish Office (676690) in the Fitzwilliams Centre, Windsor End, Beaconsfield, HP9 2JW. Open 9.30am - 2.30pm Monday to Friday * Denotes normal day off Letter from Contents this month include: the Team Letter from the Team Rector Page 1 Rector The ‘Countdown’ 2 Prayer for Christmas Joy 3 It’s a long way off…’ Honouring Alison Uttley 4 Meet the lunch club 6 So begins a poem by Welcoming the Johnson family 10 the Welsh poet and Community & Church News 13-22 clergyman R.S. Thomas. His is the sort of Beaconsfield Decides 23 poetry that can leave you feeling baffled Tots to Teens News 24 and longing for a time when poetry meant Calendar of Events 26 things rhyme, but I find it worth persisting Parish Registers 29 with. The poem is entitled ‘The Kingdom’ Local Information 30 and it speaks of what God’s Kingdom is like. Bradbury House 33 As I begin the start of December, ‘it’s a Festival of Lights 35 long way off’ is little more than wishful Small advertisements 36 thinking. Surely there is still plenty of time Knit and natter 42 to get done all that needs to be completed Index of Advertisers 52 for December 25th; surely I don’t have to contemplate the numerous Christmas meals, Christmas carol services, Christmas Editor: present buying and Christmas family Tel: 07919 028741 visiting just yet. Surely it’s a long way off. email: [email protected] But I know it is wishful thinking. That is Advertising: why the garden store has had its Christmas Margaret Mardall Tel: 07919 028741 decorations out since the beginning of email: [email protected] October - so that we give ourselves time Subscriptions and Distributions: not to get into that December-filled panic. Sally Masters But Thomas’s poem has a more profound Tel: 07919 028741 email: [email protected] meaning. The kingdom is a long way off because in our rush to celebrate Christ’s Typesetting and Printer: birth, we bypass the point of the kingdom: Turville Printing Services Tel: 01494 520322 that in God’s Kingdom it is the poor man email: [email protected] who can afford nothing for his stocking www.turvilleprinting.co.uk who is king and all the rush and activity Website: of the season has no place. Most of all, it www.beaconsfieldcommunitymag.org.uk is a place of mirrors ‘in which the blind Copy Deadline: look at themselves and love looks at 8th day of the preceding month them back.’ May we have eyes to see this Christmastime. The editorial team is not responsible for accuracy of contributions nor the view expressed within them. With best wishes, Please send your contributions for our January / Jeremy February issue no later than the 21st December to [email protected] Beaconsfield Community Magazine - December 2018 1 ‘THE COUNTDOWN’ Advent is ‘the about planning and to-do countdown’ to Christmas lists. Maybe it’s a time of day and many children tears. For many it is a sad will have an Advent and lonely time - nagged calendar to help them by the feeling that your count the days. It’s also Christmas is not like those a special time for the ‘perfect’ ones we see in church. The word Advent the media. simply means ‘coming’ Just like the unexpected – it’s the season when assortment of people who Christians remember that were invited to meet the God came to earth to be baby Jesus, God invites us born as the Christ child, to come just as we are and Jesus. As John 3:16 tells us ‘God so loved take the life-changing Christmas journey. the world that he gave us his only son.’ Wherever you are this Christmas, you are The centrepiece of Christmas is God’s invited to follow the star and to be with extravagant love. It permeates every Jesus. You are welcome. You are deeply aspect of the Christmas story. As the known and truly loved. Mary and Joseph remainder of John 3:16 shows us though, and all those caught up in the Christmas this is a sacrificial love as God gave his story were surprised by the astonishing Son to die for our sins on the cross so way that God chose to live among them. that, ‘whoever believes in him should Each Christmas we are reminded of not perish but have eternal life.’ God’s longing to surprise us with his God also promised that Jesus will come gift of joy, love and new life. It’s the again at the end of time to heal all the greatest present we can receive and world’s hurts and divisions. Advent share with others! remembers this amazing promise, so This year the Church of England has it’s a time of hope, of getting ready and launched its #FollowTheStar campaign. expectation. As Revelation 21:3 tells us This campaign invites us all to travel in ‘I heard a loud voice from the throne the footsteps of the Wise Men to meet saying, Look! God’s dwelling place is Jesus. Offering fourteen daily reflections now among the people and he will dwell beginning on Christmas Eve and with them. They will be his people and finishing on the Epiphany (6th January). God himself will be with them and be I invite you to sign up and share the their God.’ Waiting is hard, but Christmas journey www.churchofengland.org/ is worth waiting for. When Christmas followthestar. If I don’t manage to see arrives, it brings up so many emotions, you at one of the services, I wish you all a memories and expectations for us all. joyous advent and a merry Christmas. We have one nativity story, but it can seem like we all have very different Christmases. For you it might be a time Gareth Morley of joy and togetherness. Perhaps it’s all Ordinand, St Mary’s Church 2 Beaconsfield Community Magazine - December 2018 PAUSE TO PRAY Prayer for Christmas Joy Loving, generous Father, This Christmas, please help us to keep you at the centre of our preparations and celebrations. May our thankfulness for the gift of your precious son, Jesus, motivate all that we think and say and do. May the joy of His coming shine from us and attract those who don’t know what Christmas really means, so that they want to find out! In Jesus’ name and for His glory, Amen. Daphne Kitching Beaconsfield Community Magazine - December 2018 3 BEACONSFIELD HONOURS ALISON UTTLEY A plaque to Alison Uttley, there until her death in 1976 and former Beaconsfield resident is buried in Penn churchyard. Her and creator of ‘Little Grey headstone bears the simple but Rabbit,’ will be unveiled by telling phrase, ‘Spinner of Tales.’ th our Mayor on Monday 17 Alison wrote over 100 books, December at 2.30pm in the most of them for children. Her Town Hall Gardens. All are works for adults include the welcome to attend. The plaque famous, semi-autobiographical has been commissioned by ‘The Country Child,’ ‘Ambush of The Beaconsfield Society and Young Days’ and ‘A Year in the follows on from the Alison Uttley Country,’ all drawing on her deep love and celebrations of 2017.
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