AUGUST DIARY
Tuesday 1 7.30pm Fitness & Fun
Wednesday 2 10am Holy Communion
Saturday 5 12.30pm Wedding of Simon Peters and Natalie Pace
August 6 EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 9.30am Rise & Shine
Tuesday 8 7.30pm Fitness & Fun
Wednesday 9 10am Holy Communion
August 13 NINTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 10.30 Family Communion
12.15 Holy Baptism
2pm Holy Baptism
6pm Holy Communion
Monday 14 2pm Let’s get Together
Tuesday 15 7.30pm Fitness & Fun
Wednesday 16 10am Holy Communion
August 20 TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 10.30 Morning Worship
Tuesday 22 7.30pm Fitness & Fun
Wednesday 23 10am Holy Communion
Saturday 26 3pm Wedding of Andrew Ticktum and Melanie Rawlins
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August 27 ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 10.30am Parish Communion
12.15 Holy Baptisms
2pm Warmley Woollies
6pm Evening Prayer
Tuesday 29 7.30pm Fitness & Fun
Wednesday 30 10am Holy Communion
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DEANERY CONFIRMATION SERVICE
This year our Deanery Confirmation service is at St .Michael’s Stoke
Gifford on 5th November in the evening. If you are thinking about confirmation and would like find out more please contact the vicar,
Jeremy Andrew on 0117 9672724 or email [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you.
Jeremy.
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MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER
Ever since I was a young boy, I’ve always been interested in trains, and some of you may know that over the last few years I’ve been building a model railway in the garden-some of you might even have seen it.
Recently however, I’ve had a bit of a problem with some of the track collapsing due to the fact that I didn’t take enough care at the start to ensure that I was building on a firm foundation. In fact I think you could probably say that metaphorically I was building on sand not on rock! Actually of course I’d used external plywood which had started to degrade because I hadn’t prepared it properly. Luckily the degradation hadn’t reached a point where everything was beyond salvation.
So the only thing to do was to take out the parts that were rotten and replace them with a new foundation which was properly prepared and fit for purpose. Luckily, a friend of mind was available to help because this was a task that I was definitely not going to be able to handle alone-saving this railroad was going to need another pair of hands.
So, in some sweltering heat, we cut out the rotten stuff and replaced it all with properly prepared, strong foundations and the track is now rock steady and runs true, with little chance now of the trains derailing. Everything you might say is back on track! In fact my friend and fellow railroad engineer reckoned that we now had something that was better and stronger than the original!
And it was that chance remark that suddenly threw me back to the start of my own faith journey, when my own life was built on a foundation that was not altogether secure but which in God’s eyes was not beyond redemption. Reliving parts of that journey over the last week or so has brought me to an even greater appreciation of how God works in our lives if we let him, and that faith is not a solitary journey-we need the company and help of others if we are to stay on the right track.
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And just to reflect on how, piece by piece, God has gently removed the unsteady, shifting foundations that my life was built upon and replaced them with the rock of His grace and mercy reminds me anew that there is no part of our failure and brokenness that cannot be reached by his love. Any barriers that come between us and God are of our making, not His.
To borrow an analogy from C.S. Lewis-- (his was about cars!), my engines need water and steam to run properly. And because we were made by God, we need God and the Holy Spirit if we are to run properly. If we are to be the people that God really created us to be. And just like my trains we need a regular maintenance plan to keep us on the right track. It’s absolutely essential; and it’s called Prayer.
Richard
4 WARMLEY WARBLINGS
We send our love and best wishes to Lill Little who is undergoing a series of treatment in hospital and who has been particularly unwell of late, we remember her in our prayers and indeed husband Mervyn and their family at this time of anxiety.
We send our love and best wishes too to John Eames who is awaiting surgery in hospital and we think also of his wife Chris at this difficult time.
We understand that this is an anxious time for all of those youngsters who await the results of their exams taken recently, we wish them every success and hope that the results they achieve will help them take the next steps towards a successful career in whatever they want to do. For any that are disappointed, we are sure that other opportunities will arrive and that the future they seek will mature at some stage.
We have been very successful in our social and fundraising activities recently with good results at both the summer fete and the art exhibition and craft fair. We look forward to our other events this year and hope that you will be able to come to some or all of them, they include our harvest supper, harvest auction, autumn fayre and a concert in December, we look forward to your support.
Brian Draper
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… WATCH THIS SPACE!
Soon to be revealed are plans for a 'holiday at home' for those of a
'certain age'!
Some shared fun times, alongside good food and fellowship.
For further details please speak with Susie or leave a message (0117
9798371 or 07917 602703) and she will get back to you.
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Dear Friends,
I write to you about a serious and important matter which may require your attention. At the beginning of May this year, there was an incident in the new memorial garden at St. Barnabas church where some cremated remains were disturbed. Soil and ashes were inadvertently removed from the central flower bed where new rose bushes were being planted. The soil and ashes were removed to the church yard wall. The discovery of this incident led to immediate action to restore the soil and ashes, as far as possible, to their original place in the flower bed and appropriate prayers were said in that place by way of consecrating and restoring the sense of spiritual rest. Following this immediate action an investigation began to establish who was involved and the facts of what had taken place. Over a period of time the police and eventually the Archdeacon of Malmsbury acting on behalf of the chancellor of Bristol Diocese, have become involved and the investigation is now firmly in her hands.
Whilst we have identified three families that are affected by this incident, because of the nature of the memorial garden where ashes are buried but the place is unmarked, there may be others that have been affected without realising it. If you have a family member’s ashes buried in the new memorial garden in the central flower bed at St. Barnabas church and think you may have been affected by the incident I describe above, then please do be in contact with me by letter or email, using the contact details below. The intention is to gather all those affected together to explain what has happened and for the archdeacon to present the findings of her investigation as well as to suggest ways in which the matter can eventually be resolved.
I want to assure you that as well as taking practical steps to resolve this matter I have been holding those affected in whatever way, in my thoughts and prayers and would be very pleased to hear from you about this matter if you would like to contact me.
With every good wish and blessing Jeremy Vicar of St. Barnabas Church, Warmley
Revd. Jeremy Andrew Warmley Vicarage Church Avenue Warmley Brsitol BS30 5JJ
Email: [email protected]
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FLOWER ROTA DATE HIGH ALTAR LADY ALTAR MEMORIAL ALTAR August 5 Flower Fund Flower Fund Holloway Family August 12 Flower Fund Flower Fund - August 19 Flower Fund Flower Fund Eileen Salt August 26 Flower Fund Flower Fund - Sep.3 Flower Fund Flower Fund -
Pam Draper
COFFEE ROTA August 6 Nicola/Rosie August 13 Carol August 20 Pam August 27 Sheila
Many thanks for all your help with the coffees after church. If you are unavailable for your turn please arrange for someone else to do your session and change the master copy in church (and let me know if possible).
Thanks, Nicola 01179 616629
CLEANING ROTA Week Commencing: August 7 Mr. & Mrs. L. Lovell August 14 Mr. & Mrs. B. Draper August 21 Mrs. S. Price, Miss K. Price August 28 Mr. & Mrs. T. Wilshire
Thanks, Pam Draper
Volunteers for any of the rotas would be very much appreciated, if you can help, please contact Brian Draper on 9326276
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DATE MORNING EVENING
August 6 Beryl & Lillian No Service
August 13 Karen Mayo Martin Hanney Eileen Salt
August 20 Lydia Hughes No service
Michele Heap
August 27 Margaret Hill Eileen Salt Chris Eames
COPY DATE
Copy for of our September magazine should be with me by Sunday
20th August at the latest please.
Brian Draper, Magazine Editor
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FINDING HOME
This month Bishop Lee reminds us of the thousands of children who have little experience of a loving home and asks how the gospel can help us engage with such a challenge.
One of the most moving stories I heard recently concerned a lad called Jack. Jack came from a difficult family background where there had been no settled father figure and little experience of love and care at home. As a teenager Jack found himself getting into trouble with the police and eventually he was arrested in connection with a series of burglaries.
When the police officers came to interview Jack they expressed their puzzlement about his activities. It seems he would break in but nothing of much value ever went missing. What was Jack doing in these homes? “Sometimes,” he answered, “I just sit on the settee in front of the TV and imagine this is my home and my family.”
In the UK we are seeing a worrying rise in the number of children who have little or no experience of a stable and secure home life. Statistics reveal that at any one time in England there are 60 000 children being looked after away from their home, with 89 000 being cared for at some point in any year. A child goes into Foster Care every 22 minutes and there are 4000 children waiting to be adopted.
The majority of children enter care because of abuse or neglect, and about 45% have a diagnosable mental health condition. Anxieties generated by the case of ‘Baby Peter’ have led to an increase in the number of infants being taken into care. Councils are struggling to meet the needs with around 9000 new foster carers needed in 2013. At our recent Diocesan Clergy Conferences, Bishop Gordon Mursell was helping us to reflect on ways of speaking about God in contemporary society. One of those was ‘being at home’ - in God, with God, and with his people. The Bible also speaks in Psalm 68 of God being ‘a father to the fatherless… who sets the lonely in families’. These are two compelling reasons for Christians to wish to engage with such deep needs in our society – but how might we do so?
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A first way might be to put the challenge of being good news for vulnerable children before our congregations. ‘Home for Good’, a national joint initiative has been founded to help Christians engage with these very issues www.homeforgood.org.uk
A second and very simple step would be to support those already involved in foster care. According to Krish and Miriam Kandiah, who have fostered children for many years, one of the key needs of carers is for respite. Giving foster carers time out is precious because caring is a difficult and demanding vocation. I have heard it said that having people who are prepared to come back and ‘babysit’ is a gift in itself. With the appropriate checks in place churches might offer this to foster carers in their local communities as well as to those within congregations. Local councils would be likely to welcome such support.
When I shared Jack’s story with a group of church leaders one of them came up to me afterwards. “That’s the kind of background I had”, said one of our younger clergy, “but God turned it around.” At the heart of the gospel are themes of adoption, family and finding our true home. It is a powerful good news story which connects deeply with contemporary need. How can we give it flesh for today?
+Lee
10 OPEN ART EXHIBITION & CRAFT FAIR
During the weekend of 1st and 2nd July an Open Art Exhibition and Craft fair was held in the church and the church hall. There were a variety of stalls at the Craft Fair on the Saturday and on both days in the church hall there was an excellent and eclectic mix of art on show. There were paintings of all shapes and sizes covering a whole range of topics, all by local artists.
Refreshments were available and visitors could purchase a catalogue and walk around to view all of the art on show or just sit and admire the abundance of local artistic talent.
This bi-annual event was a great success and as a result, raised over £780 for church funds.
We owe sincere thanks to Nicola Eaton who organized, planned and ran this event and to Margaret Fletcher, Liz and Bernard Clark and all of those other people who spent so much time and effort making this event the success that it obviously was. Thanks also of course to all of the artists for their contributions, to the stallholders at the craft fair and to everyone who came along and supported it over the two days
Brian Draper
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LOCAL GROUP NEEDS SUPPORT –
A little time, a lasting difference
There’s nothing quite like afternoon tea chatting with friends of all ages and enjoying delicious cakes and sandwiches on a Sunday!
Contact the Elderly, a national charity, set up in 1965 offers that opportunity to those over 75 who live alone and don’t have much family or friendship support nearby, by arranging tea parties once a month, normally on a Sunday afternoon. A team of volunteer drivers collect the guest from their home and take them to a volunteer host’s home where they join a small group for tea, talk and companionship. The group is warmly welcomed by a different host each month but the drivers and guests remain the same. This means that over the months and years acquaintances turn in to friends and loneliness is replaced by companionship.
Our local group needs more support, and we are looking for:
Coordinator – a few hours admin a month to arrange the party URGENTLY NEEDED by late Autumn as current one moving away from Bristol.
Driver – once a month on a Sunday afternoon
Tea party Host – a couple of times a year
For more information: please get in touch with Helen 01225 873812 [email protected] (Regional Organiser). www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk
These tea parties are such enjoyable occasions and all our guests really look forward to them.
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BIBLE YARNS October 14 th-15th 2017
We had another very successful knitter’s meeting in July. Thanks go to Ken and Jill Gibson for providing cream teas for this. As well as an amazing number of small people handed in that day, more have arrived since then. We have groups and single knitters now working on the scenery and more specific people now.
This is a free day out for all the family. Please come and join us in October and look for the blue lady ( below).
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THE OUTPOST – CHANGE OF OPENING TIMES
In the advertising pages, there is an advert for ‘The Outpost’. The new opening times are as follows:
SUMMER OPENING TIMES
MONDAY-SATURDAY
10am-3pm
SUNDAY - CLOSED
CLOSED MONDAY 31st JULY-THURSDAY 10th AUGUST
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WARMLEY COMMUNITY CENTRE
are celebrating their
70th ANNIVERSARY
on
SATURDAY 26th AUGUST with fun activities for all the family
10am-12.30pm - Children’s Entertainer
2pm-5pm - A Tea Dance
8pm-11pm Live Band–‘Hot Dog Jackson’
Tickets will be available from
1st AUGUST 2017
Telephone 07986934654 for further information and ticket sales
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MARY SUMNER – FOUNDER OF THE MOTHERS’ UNION
The Mothers’ Union is now more than 140 years old. It has accomplished a staggering amount in that time, and nowadays numbers more than four million members, doing good work in 83 countries. That is a far cry from the modest circle of prayer for mothers who cared about family life, which is how it all began with a rector’s wife, Mary Sumner.
Mary was born in late 1828 in Swinton, near Manchester. When she was four, her family moved to Herefordshire. Mary’s father, Thomas Heywood, was a banker and historian. Her mother has been described as a woman of “faith, charm and sympathy” – qualities which Mary certainly inherited. Mrs Heywood also held informal ‘mothers’ meetings’ at her home, to encourage local women. Those meetings may well have inspired Mary’s later work. Mary was educated at home, spoke three foreign languages, and sang well. While in her late teens, on a visit to Rome she met George Sumner, a son of the Bishop of Winchester. It was a well-connected family: George’s uncle became Archbishop of Canterbury, and his second cousin was William Wilberforce. Mary and George married in July 1848, soon after his ordination. They moved to Old Alresford in 1851 and had three children: Margaret, Louise and George. Mary dedicated herself to raising her children and supporting her husband’s ministry by providing music and Bible classes.
When in 1876 Mary’s eldest daughter Margaret, gave birth, Mary was reminded how difficult she had found the burden of motherhood. Soon she decided to hold a meeting to which she invited the local women not only of her own class, but also all the village mothers. Her aim was to find out if women could be brought together to offer each other prayer and mutual support in their roles as wives and mothers. That meeting at Old Alresford Rectory was the inaugural meeting of the Mothers’ Union.
For 11 years, the Mothers’ Union was limited to Old Alresford. Then in 1885 the Bishop of Newcastle invited Mary to address the women churchgoers of the Portsmouth Church Congress, some 20 miles away. Mary gave a passionate speech about the poor state of national morality, and the vital need for women to use their vocation as mothers to change the nation for the better. A number of the women present went back to their parishes to found mothers' meetings on Sumner's pattern. Soon, the Mothers’ Union spread to the dioceses of Ely, Exeter, Hereford, Lichfield and Newcastle. By 1892, there were already 60,000 members in 28 dioceses, and by 1900 there were 169,000 members. By the time Mary died in 1921, she had seen MU cross the seas and become an international organisation of prayer and good purpose. 15
A LITTLE HUMOUR! Golf There was a clergyman who was an avid golfer. One Sunday was a picture-perfect day for golf, and the minister could not resist the temptation. He rang his assistant and told him he was too ill to attend church. Then he packed up the car, and drove three hours to a golf course where no one would recognise him. Happily, he began to play the course. But an angel up above was watching the minister and was quite perturbed. He went to God and said, ‘Look at the minister. He should be punished for what he's doing.’
God nodded in agreement. The minister teed up on the first hole. He swung, and the ball sailed effortlessly through the air and landed right in the cup three hundred and fifty yards away. A perfect hole-in-one.
The minister was amazed and overjoyed. The angel was a little shocked. He turned to God and said: ‘Begging your pardon, but I thought you were going to punish him.’ And God smiled. ‘Think about it; who can he tell?’
Helpful signs Sign on a door: Push. If that doesn't work. Pull. If that doesn’t work, we’re closed.
In front of a church: Don't give up. Moses was once a basket case.
In the grounds of a private school: No trespassing without permission.
A sign advertising a Company-wide skiing race: Let's see who can go downhill the fastest.
Outside a photographer's studio: Out to lunch: if not back by five, out for dinner also.
Notice in health food shop window: Closed due to illness.
On a plumber's van: We repair what your husband fixed.
Sounds Music festival as parent drops off teenagers... Daughter: Did you ever hear anything so amazing as that band? Father: Well, I once heard a collision between a milk float and a little van filled with ducks.
16 WHO’S WHO
VICAR The Rev. Jeremy Andrew The Vicarage Church Avenue 9672724
CURATE The Rev. Anika Gardiner 85 Bath Road, Longwell Green 9325305
CURATE The Rev. Susie Bishop 100 North Road, Stoke Gifford 9798371
HON. CURATE The Rev. Jillianne Norman 74 Blackhorse Road, Mangotsfield 9561551
LAY MINISTERS Mr. Leslie Willcox 29 Neville Road, Kingswood 9405086
Mr. John Sibley 94 Cock Road 9679478
CHURCHWARDEN Mr. Brian Draper 15 The Keep, North Common 9326276
TREASURER Mr. Phillip Heap 9 Mitchell Walk, Bridgeyate 9353996
PCC SECRETARY Mrs. Sarah Davis 49 Sunningdale Drive 9673231
DIRECTOR OF Mr. Shaun Weeks MUSIC 6 Gregory Court 9605206
STEWARDSHIP Mr. Leslie Willcox SECRETARY 29 Neville Road, Kingswood 9405086
CHURCH FLOWER Mrs. Pamela Draper ORGANISER 15 The Keep, North Common 9326276
MAGAZINE EDITOR Mr. Brian Draper 15 The Keep, North Common 9326276
HALL BOOKING Mrs. Terri Lavis 28 Stockton Close 9327039
SAFEGUARDING OFFICER (CHILDREN) Miss Margaret Fletcher 9616629
SAFEGUARDING OFFICER (VUNERABLE ADULTS) Mrs, Helen Willcox 9405086
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ACTIVITIES (around Warmley)
BEAVERS, CUBS, SCOUTS, BROWNIES AND GUIDES Each group meets at the Scout H.Q., London Road BEAVERS (age 6-8 years}, Meet Fridays, 6.30pm to 7.30pm N.B. It is advisable to put the boy’s name on the waiting list at 4 years old. Contact: R. Pace on 932 8498
CUBS Meet Thursdays 6.45pm to 8.15pm
SCOUTS Meet Tuesdays 7.15pm to 9.15pm
GUIDES Meet Mondays Guide Leader: Mrs. Elaine Roch Tel: 937 3153
BROWNIES (24th Kingswood) age 7-10 years Meet on Mondays Leader: Sarah Alder Tel: 947 8997 It is advisable to put the girl’s name on the waiting list at 5 years of age.
COMMUNITY CENTRES: North Common - Secretary: Mrs. Carol Fowler Tel: 9602999 Warmley - The Administrator: Tel: 9674282 Email: [email protected]
ORCHESTRA The Cameo Orchestra rehearse in Church on Tuesdays from 7.45pm-9.45pm String and brass players above Grade 5 always welcome Contact: Denise Clark on 0117 9497864
OLDLAND Music for your Garden Party or Fete. BRASS Contact Bob or Terri Lavis on 932 7039 QUINTET or email [email protected]
LADIES’ FRIENDSHIP GROUP: meetings are held on 3rd Monday of every month at the Warmley Community Centre at 7.45pm Secretary: Mrs. Margaret Brown 9613401
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BELLS Practice: Every Wednesday in the Belfry from 7.30pm-9pm Captain: Mr. D. Wilkins-Smith - Tel: 9676226
CHOIR Newcomers always welcome. Contact: Shaun Weeks Tel: 9605206.
PARENT AND Meet in the Church Hall in School term time on TODDLER Thursday 10.00am - 11.45am GROUP
RISE AND SHINE Meet 1st Sunday of each month in Church Contact: Fiona Rogers on 07714 100092
FITNESS FUN Meet on Tuesdays at 7.30pm in the Church Hall Contact: Margaret Fletcher on 9616629
MESSY CHURCH Meet at 3.30pm on Tuesday’s of each month in term time in St. Barnabas Church of England School. Contact: Rev. Jeremy Andrew on 9672724
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