In this issue February 1998

Valuing young people

Christmas and the law

The tallest falls

Luis Palau is coming

Chernobyl children

This month’s Notes & Events

The Parish Magazine of St Peter’s with All Saints’

Welcome to the February issue of the Berkhamsted Review. In this month’s issue... It’s interesting to reflect on the fact that, like so many things in life, the Valuing young people Review is the result of a lot of effort and Christina Billington wants us to value teamwork on the part of many people. Our the contributions young people can contributors; our advertisers; our loyal make. distributors (particularly this time of year when trudging through windswept streets Christmas and the law delivering magazines is hardly appealing); Some surprising legal pitfalls of the the editorial team; the people who make festive period uncovered by Stephen sure we can pay our bills; our printers… Halliday. everyone plays a vital part. The same is true of technology, though I speak The tallest fall somewhat wryly as this month this Helen Appleyard on the Ashlyns School ‘member’ of our team is responsible for expedition to the world’s tallest the magazine being a little late! waterfall. The amount of work everyone does, month in and month out, is truly amazing Luis Palau is coming and is most certainly valued. A big thank The famous evangelist is coming to you to everyone. Berkhamsted. Revd Peter Swaffield Building on this, the Review is one of outlines the plans. the ways we can get our message across not just to our parish but to the wider Host families wanted! community in Berkhamsted. This of An important initiative gets under way course embraces all ages, and with our this month. Chris Smalley tells us more. emphasis on youth in our parish (see Christina Billington’s leader this month) ... plus our regular features, readers’ we’d really like contributions from our letters, notes & notices and diary dates. young people for the magazine. You’re out there - come on, how about it? Chris Smalley Cover: Reflections of the castle. Photo: P J Craig

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I am writing this starting in May. Any other youth leaders on New Years are very welcome to join. Christina Day, an auspi- But New Years Day is an occasion to Billington wants cious moment to look forward in a more visionary sense. us to value the look at the youth What do I hope to achieve in this new year and children’s and in the next few years? contribution young work in the par- I want to give a lot of time to the older people can make. ish. It seems no group. It is very easy for someone like me time at all since I to get involved with lots of different things started, a matter of weeks instead of four which seem important at the time, yet are months. The welcome I have received actually not as important as giving young from people has been amazing. The people the things they really need in this amount and quality of co-operation in the day and age. They need time, they need youth ministry has exceeded all my hopes. someone to be their friend. Only then What has happened in these four when they feel secure, loved and months? I have met with all the leaders of appreciated, can faith be fully shared. the various youth groups and have I would like to see all the youth and attended the Sunday school leaders’ children’s groups to be a place where the meetings of all three churches. I have members are committed and supportive of attended Pathfinder and Sunday school one another, where it is safe to explore the sessions. I am now on the planning Christian faith, and understand how their committee for the family service at All faith works with the modern world, where Saints’ Anglican. I have made a start with these people can become full and a youth music group, which had its first committed members of their churches. outing on the 21st December, with the All I would like to see our churches Saints’ Anglican family Christmas service. valuing the contributions the young people We accompanied the Sunday school in can make to the life of the community, and their tableau of six lessons and carols. allowing them to explore worship valuing With the aid of Emily Banks, Kate what they can give rather than being afraid Greenfield and Ambrose White, and the of what they will change. In my occasional help of Sue and Mike Sismey, experience young people may want we have restarted the Wednesday night alternative ‘youth services’, but where games club. We have from between 12 to they are loved and feel part of what is 19 young people attending. going on they will feel that the normal After some time I found three other worship on a Sunday belongs to them, as it people willing to be leaders with myself in belongs to the rest of us. the older young people’s group - Carole Nothing that we do is of any worth Dell, Anne Acton and Carolyn Gunn. unless is what God wants. We can really This new group will start on 11th January labour in vain in this life unless we seek and will be every Sunday. God’s will. Much, much prayer is needed In this new year I am running training for all those working with young people. sessions for the Sunday school teachers My hope and request is for the parish to and the Pathfinder leaders. For the YPF support this work fervently in prayer. And leaders the diocese is organising a when the going is tough, for us all to keep Spectrum training course, probably going. ™ 3 TO ADVERTISE IN THIS SPACE call David Woodward on 862723 The Review has a wide local readership; advertise and get the message across to your customers!

4 when he was prime minister. The Lytteltons were related not only to William Gladstone, but also to the Spencer family (and thus to the late Princess Diana), and there are many references to both in the book. On one occasion Lord Lyttelton wrote to Gladstone asking him for an earldom. Gladstone’s reply reproduced in the book is a model of how to say no to a relative whom you do not wish to offend who asks a favour which you are not prepared to grant. Was it while staying in Berkhamsted that Gladstone scratched his head and concocted the wording of his tactful reply?

Gladstone’s Visits We are likely to be hearing a lot about Lytteltons, Spencers and Gladstone Gladstone this year, the centenary of his A book published last year, Victorian death. Paddy Ashdown described him the Girls, written by a Berkhamsted resident, other day as unquestionably the greatest Sheila Fletcher, tells something of the prime minister we have ever had. lives of three aristocratic young ladies, While staying at Berkhamsted Place daughters of the 4th Lord Lyttelton. Gladstone would regularly walk down When you pick up a book as well-written Castle Hill on Sundays to Morning Prayer as this one, based on a careful distillation at St Peter’s. In those days his route of gossipy letters and frank diaries, it is would have been along the lime avenue difficult to put it down. No wonder there is through unspoiled parkland. There were a waiting list for it at the library. no buildings then on that side of the Apart from the author’s living here the railway except for a cluster round book does have some local connections. In Berkhamsted Place and a few large houses one place it tells of the girls’ coming to on Whitehill and off Gravel Path. Berkhamsted by train and being taken by At the church he would have seen a carriage from the station to a lavish dance good deal of change between one visit and at Ashridge. They were also entertained by the next, because it was during and (and enraptured by the beauty of) the same between his terms of office that much of hostess, Adelaide, Lady Brownlow, at the the Victorian restoration of St Peter’s was Brownlows’ other country seat, Belton. carried out. And he would have seen the Mention of a number of other names in the beginning of the removal of the plain glass book is a reminder of some Berkhamsted from the church windows, one by one, and residents and visitors a century and more its replacement by stained glass. I am not ago. sure that with his evangelical brand of Berkhamsted Place, the Elizabethan churchmanship he would have approved. mansion that stood at the top of Castle Hill until it was demolished in 1967, had many Pictures in Glass owners and tenants over the centuries. In To me, though, St Peter’s windows the later part of Victoria’s reign it was have great richness and interest. The fact occupied by Lady Sarah Spencer, and she that the stained glass is nearly all Victorian frequently entertained Gladstone there and some of it a bit sentimental doesn’t

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6 diminish their value. of the church are also They are full of symbols memorials to of one sort or another. schoolmasters and their The three persons of families and a reminder the Holy Trinity are that St John’s Chantry, there. Our Lord is shown as it used to be called, in different windows in a was for centuries used by variety of ways: as a the boys of Berkhamsted babe in Mary’s arms, as School until their own Christ the Light of the chapel was built about World, Christ the Good 100 years ago. Shepherd and Christ the King; also as a child Orange Cars being carried by St It is a good few years Christopher over the since Outspan, the big water. In several places importers of South Jesus is portrayed as the African fruit, moved Paschal Lamb. their main UK office out The Holy Spirit is in of Berkhamsted. There some windows, always is now very little to shown as a dove. How to remind us of the represent the first person important presence the of the Trinity, God the company once had in the Father, in their work presented a town - with one exception. In Startrite’s formidable challenge to the window yard in the High Street three of their designers. In a couple of places in St orange-shaped small cars are still to be Peter’s, rather feebly to my way of seen. thinking, they chose to depict Him simply Seven of these vehicles were built in by a hand, pointing. the 1970s as a promotion gimmick. One of Saints abound. St Alban, the first them has ended up in Lord Montagu’s English martyr, who lived and died only Motor Museum at Beaulieu. Like the twelve miles from here, is shown in biblical Holy City, these cars are as wide armour with a sword in his hand, and St as they are long as they are high Thomas à Becket (a Berkhamsted resident (obviously, if the orange is a true sphere), when he was Constable of the Castle) with and Lord Montagu in a recent reference to a sword through his head. them raised doubts about their stability at Incidentally, Dr Eileen Roberts who is speed. The possibility envisaged is that if researching for a book on St Alban tells the brakes were suddenly to be applied me that she thinks our St Alban’s window when moving fast the back wheels would gives one of the earliest representations of lift off the ground and the vehicle would him as a Roman soldier, which in fact he roll forward like a ball, causing some wasn’t. Then we have St Catherine (twice alarm and discomfort to the driver and in glass and once in stone) with the wheel disbelief to other road users. on which she was tortured and which Anyway, I do hope that our specimens gives its name to the firework. continue to stay on view where for years And in a more homely vein, high up in they have become accepted among the window behind the organ, there is Mrs Berkhamsted’s oddities, like our totem Bartrum, wife of a headmaster of pole. ™ Berkhamsted School, embracing their three children. Other windows in that part

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8 Many have noted the 8:00pm. Both those fact that recent days BE THERE FOR evenings promise to be have seen a complete very special. change in the But perhaps the leadership of every LUIS PALAU highest profile guest church in Northchurch who is coming to our and Berkhamsted. town is the Christian There are new clergy Revd Peter Swaffield invites communicator Luis in each church. (The us to come together to witness Palau. Whilst that recent Induction of name may be new to David Abbott at the evangelism of Luis Palau. some of us in world Sunnyside and Bourne terms the BBC recently End brings to two the number of described Luis Palau as ‘second only to committed Leicester City Billy Graham’ in terms of Football club supporters amongst Christian communication (if the clergy).In fact the longest you’ve never heard of Billy serving leader in primary charge Graham then we’re really of a church has been in the area struggling!!). for all of four years. This George Carey, Archbishop of remarkable and, in my Canterbury, said this of Luis experience, unique occurrence Palau: “I warmly commend Luis has given fresh impetus and Palau as an evangelist of integrity, vision to our working together as relevance and compassion. Luis Photo: Gospel churches. The recent well- Communications Network preaches the biblical Gospel that attended carol service in the not only makes people holy and beautiful setting of St Peter’s once again good, but also has an impact on society affirmed the good things that we share as and community care”. followers of Jesus Christ. It was good to To date, Luis has shared the message be together to sing familiar carols and hear of peace with God through Jesus Christ in the Gospel message that can unite us. over sixty countries, face to face with I’m delighted on behalf of the more than 12 million people. And he’s Association of Berkhamsted Churches to coming to our town on Monday 9th March invite you to continue participating in this at 8:00pm at the Girls’ Collegiate School process of working together. Do share in Hall. The evening will be totally free - not the following events. even a collection plate in sight. Sunday 15th February sees the visit of Plan now to listen to one of the leading Robin, Bishop of Hertford , to St Peter’s at Christian communicators in the world 8:00pm. He’ll be speaking on A Passion today. The Wall Street Journal describes for Unity. On Sunday 15th March we host how Luis Palau has set safeguards to deter the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s financial and potential scandal describing advisor on evangelism, Revd Stephen him as ‘Mr Clean’. Be there on March 9th. Cotterell. His subject is A Passion for Hear Luis Palau . Hear truth. ™ Growth. Again this is at St Peter’s at

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10 In the summer of 1996 Some of the group Helen Appleyard and found out about a her fellow travellers The Tallest Falls cheaper local canoe from Ashlyns School trip to see waterfalls made an expedition to Have you fixed your holiday and swim in them but Venezuela. In this destination for 1998 yet? If not nowhere near the article she recounts Angel Falls. The only their visit to Angel then Helen Appleyard has an way of getting to the Falls, the tallest idea for you. Angel Falls was to fly waterfall in the world. to Canaima, in the middle of the jungle. trip to Angel Falls, the tallest If we were to go we would simply have to A waterfalls in the world, had not fly out there and then see if we could find initially formed part of our itinerary. anything we could afford. However, finding ourselves days ahead of In the end we decided we wanted to do schedule the idea of Angel Falls was again this and were prepared to take a chance. being considered. It was decided that we Perhaps if we were unable to make a trip would go to St Helena, the nearest town, to the Angel Falls we could go to other to find a place to camp and find out about small falls or simply camp in Canaima for possible trips to the Falls. a couple of days. In St Helena we were faced with A local man managed to find us 13 several problems. There was nowhere to tickets on the one flight out the next day to camp. We had little money and so opted Canaima on an old Dakota plane. That for La Luz, the cheapest available hotel. was no good as we had to all go. Then at We could afford only two of the grey the end of the day, by an amazing turn rooms. Each had four beds. Plans to sleep three more tickets came available. We on the floor were abandoned when it was could go! discovered the ice-cold trickle shower That night we slept eight wide in our flooded the bedroom. The concrete floor four beds and by an interesting feat of was covered in mud and toilets didn’t engineering suspended our food from the flush. In each room, we pushed the foul ceiling in a carrier bag, so it would not be smelling beds together so that eight of us eaten by the cockroaches in the night. The could lie across them. next day we arrived at the airport (a run of It was a blisteringly hot day. We drank tarmac and a couple of huts) in pouring copious amounts of water and sampled the rain. Some in the group were amused by delights of fresh mangoes from local stalls. studying the condition of the old plane and Health was suffering. Many others had commenting on the loose panelling, also discovered their legs were puffing up. missing screws, dents in the body and It was decided this was probably a damaged wings. I didn’t want to know. reaction to bites we had received when Not until we had touched down safely. climbing. Other minor ailments were Thankfully the flight was uneventful developing. and we touched down in Canaima in the Groups of our party bought meals, middle of dense Venezuelan jungle. purchased provisions and gathered Canaima was not as expected. Tours were information about going to Angel Falls. Most trips to the falls were in the region of three or four hundred dollars This was far too expensive for our budget. It seemed it would be impossible for us to get there.

11 even more expensive, Canaima itself was costly and tourist-orientated. It had only one shop and several holiday huts, and simply to camp you had to pay vast park fees. We had given up the canoe trip and spent all our money getting a flight out here where we were stranded with nothing to do. We felt awful. We sat down and contemplated what to do. Had we made the wrong decision? Should we have come? Then a local man approached us and said he could do a tour for $80. Things were looking up. We then managed to do a lot of bargaining and got a deal for $60 after promising not to tell a soul in Canaima. We scraped the money together from cutting back other parts of the budget and adding some of our personal money. We set off later that day for what many felt were the best three days of the expedition and we were so proud of having organised it ourselves, against the odds, whilst out there. We set off on a boat trip then walked through jungle to El washed off the rocks but it was exciting Sapo, a huge waterfall. It was an awe too. When we made it to the other side inspiring sight and we were to walk under and looked back, the feeling was amazing. it. This was amazing. The force of the There were squeals of delight as we saw water was tremendous and battered against the immense power of the huge natural us. It was ice cold and in the centre of the force we had just walked under. It was 600m fall it was hard to breathe with the magic and completely exhilarating. Then cold and force of the water. There was an followed a element of fear at slipping or being

12 long boat journey along rivers with amazing views and scenery, all absolutely Thinning the breath-taking. Clear waters lined by palm trees and the sheer sides of the black Trees Tepuis rising powerfully above it, apparently from nowhere. That night we Ian McCalla reflects on camped in hammocks slung under a shelter on an island. a year in the life of a The next day was another long boat Northchurch parish trip up swirling rivers. We got soaked as councillor. water crashed over the sides of the long- boats. At times the small engines would cut out and a young boy would begin Life in Northchurch has seemed placid - scooping out water with a bottle. It was a even dull compared with the melodramas relief to arrive on dry land and walk of Berkhamsted council. Apart from a through jungle to the base of the Angel couple of minor arguments about planning Falls. It was an extraordinary sight, applications submitted by horse owners especially as the top of the falls kept we have not had any disagreements. disappearing into the clouds and it simply We have all agreed that the major appeared as if a huge long line of cloud problem affecting the village is the speed was failing down from the sky. We went of traffic. We have been trying everything swimming at the bottom of the tallest possible to get the county council and the waterfall in the world. It was freezing, but police to do something about the excessive worth it. speed of traffic on the A4251 (formerly Our guide had said he would arrange A41). transport out of Canaima by contacting We might get an extra traffic island, local mining towns and getting anyone but that's about all. The parish council with a plane to come out and fetch us. We would like to see the link between were very grateful but uncertain just what Springfield Road and Northchurch New the transport would be like. Sure enough Road completed so as to remove all that he did - and were we surprised!. ™ through traffic which comes along the B4506, from the centre of the village. But I can see the whole population of Berkhamsted north of the railway rising up against that idea, ably led by the Bridgwater Road campaign group! BAILEY & SONS Perhaps I would then have more exciting Jewellers Est 1872 things to report than Norman Cutting! 9 Lower Kings Road There has been a lot of fuss during the 01442 863091 past year about tree felling and clearance Unbeatable selection, service, on Berkhamsted Common. A large quality & value number of trees has been felled elsewhere but that's attracted no comment at all. But Watches from the finest Watch if you chop down trees on Berkhamsted Houses, Beautiful Cultured Pearls, Common, watch out! (con’t overleaf) Diamond and Gem Ring Specialists There are in fact two separate though Jewellery of every description and related operations. The main one is the clearance of all the south-west-facing much, much more!! slopes, away from the golf course. When we came to Berkhamsted in 1973 the area

13 was open land with some scrub and gorse. we have to thin them sometimes. But I do Subsequently it became covered with wonder whether the Golf Club have gone saplings, mainly birch, and bracken. a bit over the top. Bracken has to be the nastiest and most Turning to the subject of footways and invasive weed there is. bridleways, I am sorry they are all so At the same time it has been found that muddy right now. This however is the the amount of heathland in Hertfordshire unavoidable price you pay for praying for is dwindling at an alarming rate. The rain to fill the Bulbourne! More seriously I Countryside Management Service have a am pleased to report that we have now ten-year grant to clear the saplings and completed our programme of bracken, to convert the area into reinstatement and repair of rights of way heathland, and to encourage the return of a in Northchurch. We have re-opened a wide range of appropriate flora and fauna, bridleway and two footpaths; others have including gorse and heather. So far, they been cleared to make them more pleasant do seem to be winning. The other for walks and rides. A large number of operation being carried out by the Golf stiles has been repaired or replaced. Club is the thinning of trees alongside the Waymarking of all the paths is almost fairways. This has been approved by all complete. the appropriate experts and authorities for Our last and most expensive operation woodlands and forestry. Its purpose is was to widen, re-grade, re-surface and partly to improve drainage and also to improve the drainage of the steep downhill create heathland-type strips between the sections of bridleway 34 which crosses fairways and the wood. Heather, gorse and Northchurch New Road just north of the so on will then be able to grow. county council's fancy white gates. This As I walk round the Ashridge area I was a joint operation between the never cease to be amazed at the number Northchurch parish council, the National and variety of trees we have. Mile after Trust, the borough council and the county council. It shows what can be achieved if there is goodwill between all parties. It does not happen if you call them all rude names! ™

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14 responds to all questions with terse phrases such as ‘Leave me alone’ and ‘Chill out’. He rarely receives homework from school, and when he does is able to dispatch it in under 30 seconds when you are not looking. He also has 225 free periods scheduled for tomorrow morning. Where does the adolescent live? Male adolescents still tend to live in their rooms, sometimes described as lairs or sties. Females live in their bedrooms, the How can I recognise an adolescent? bathroom, or anywhere with a phone or You can tell the adolescent not so much by hairdryer. They may also live at friends’ the way he looks, as by the way he slams houses. Most seek privacy to the point of the door in your face after you have said reclusion. something he has found incredibly offensive, such as ‘hello’. What does the adolescent do in his room? In what way has he or she gone awry? It is believed that he tries to communicate Let me count the ways! For one thing, he with aliens in other galaxies by turning the eats twelve meals a day instead of three, stereo loud enough for them to hear it. having acquired the eating habits of a No-one knows if he is successful but if giant termite. If he continues to grow at not, it’s because aliens are deaf. the present rate, his body will one day be in proportion to his mouth. What does the adolescent want? For another thing, he no longer The adolescent desperately wants to grow requires sleep: he can go to bed at 4am, a third ear so that he does not have to get up at 7pm and be no more grumpy remove his walkman when talking on the than usual. phone. Also his intelligence has grown to the How is the adolescent’s health? point where he now knows everything He suffers from a hideous form of body including whatever you were about to say! blight (called spots), which he tries to treat But most importantly, he now talks to you by eating dozens of Mars bars and as if you were no longer his parents but drinking gallons of Coke. annoying creatures recently flown in from the planet ‘Stress’ and put on earth, solely Is there anything I can say or do to to pester him. guide him through this difficult period, to be his Does he recognise us as his parents? friend? No one knows for sure. All that can be No. said with certainty is that we are a tremendous source of embarrassment to him. Also, threats of smacking him or cutting off his pocket money if he talks that way again only serve to make him more angry. He thinks we are stupid enough as it is. In what other way has he changed? Where once he was polite and well- Reproduced by kind permission of the NW Herts mannered he now belches in public. He Foster Care Association.

15 t seems a long time CHERNOBYL We hope to host a Isince the nuclear group of ten or twelve disaster at Chernobyl CHILDREN children in the age was on the front page range 10-14 years. of every newspaper. In This means we need a a way, it is: the This month sees the launch similar number of nuclear reactor melt- of an important appeal. families willing to down happened in provide a home for 1986, twelve years Chris Smalley tells us about each child for a ago. However, the this new initiative in the month. We also need terrible legacy of a parish. volunteers to arrange nuclear accident lasts and help with group for many generations. activities and to In Belarus, the area most affected by the organise the all-important ‘behind the radiation fallout, a whole generation of scenes’ support. Ideally host families will children is growing up with terrible have children of school age; this isn’t illnesses as a direct result of radiation. crucial but it makes it easier for the You may remember that the Petertide visiting children. Don’t worry about Fair raised some £3,000 last year to fund a language: while few of the visiting recuperative visit for a group of children children speak English it tends not to be a to the UK, a month-long escape from the problem with children of that age, and a heavily polluted environment they’ve ‘minder’ accompanying the group helps grown up in. Now we want to continue our with translation when needed. involvement with the Chernobyl Children We’re particularly keen to hear from Life Line, the charity at the centre of this anyone who would be willing to lead a initiative, by hosting such a visit in our small group to manage the organisation of community here in Berkhamsted in the the visit. coming spring. The PCC has given its full Several of our neighbouring parishes backing to the initiative. The value of have already welcomed groups of children these visits cannot be underestimated: - often organising repeat visits as the while not a miracle cure, just the chance to experience proves so rewarding. breath clear air and enjoy healthy food If you’re interested in helping with this gives these kids a real boost in both health initiative then do please have a word with and morale. me. More details will be in future issues of the Review. On February 20th at 8:00pm you will be very welcome at an open meeting in the Court House to hear more about our plans and how you can help. Do come if you can. Let’s help make a real difference to these children’s lives. ™

Chris Smalley can be contacted on 826821. More details of the work of the Chernobyl Children Life Line can be found in both churches.

16 Many readers will two elements are not remember Geoffrey NEWS FROM always compatible, as Allen, for a time of St ITALY most Italian evangeli- Peter’s choir and lat- cals are still hostile to terly at All Saints’, the Catholic church who 25 years ago Geoffrey Allen writes with and expect any Catho- went to work with lic who has a real per- evangelical Christians news of his work with sonal relationship with in Italy. Readers from evangelical Christians in Jesus to leave and join St Mary’s North- northern Italy. them. We keep pray- church will know his ing Jesus’ prayer in wife Judith and her John 17 and look to family. Geoffrey now oversees a number of God to bring about the unity He desires. evangelical groups in northern Italy, In practice this means we continue sharing travel-ling to them in turn to preach, the Gospel whenever and wherever advise and support them. possible, as reconciliation between God Here are some extracts from his and man is our primary concern, and then Christmas letter on the theme of move towards other Christians at various collaboration between evangelical and levels as opportunity offers. Catholic charismatic Christians. We were recently at a charismatic dialogue held in Frascati, Rome, where the he national work with which we aim was for evangelical and Catholic Tcollaborate is multiplying, fast (now charismatics to get together, listen to numbering some twenty churches), and so speakers (often theologians) from both are the opportunities for service. After sides on a particular subject and talk round years of being vaguely known as a it, while building up relationships over ‘Restoration-type movement’, we have meals and praying and worshipping now settled on an official name, for use on together and ministering to one another. legal documents and so on which This was the sixth such conference and for translates as ‘Evangelical Church of us the best yet, with about 150 resident Reconciliation’. We have just returned participants plus local visitors. from our national conference where we For our future it seems God is asking were able to renew fellowship with many us to move to Brescia, 1½ hours drive people from the south of the country east. We will start house-hunting in the whom we now rarely see, as Geoff’s new year. Please, those of you who pray ministry this last year has been almost for us, remember Brescia in your prayers. exclusively in the North. We were It is a large town, very industrial with a encouraged by the teaching and worship growing immigrant population and from the leadership team, including Geoff, consequent racial problems. It is also near and to see how the Holy Spirit is maturing to Verona and has easy access to leaders and bringing people together for Bergamo, Trento and other towns, and His purposes. therefore could be the gateway to a large The emphasis on reconciliation is not sphere of work in an area we haven’t yet new, but has become more explicit in our touched as a movement but where there movement as we spearhead involvement are people we know who would like more with the Catholic charismatics and contact. It is an exciting prospect but the endeavour to be present wherever situation with our small group in Brescia is Christians of different denominations seek by no means easy. ™ to come together as God’s children. These

17 s you all know by CUTTING approval just five A now, I like to months later. This bring you little snip- COMMENTS particular application pets of information was not in that you would be Berkhamsted, but hard pressed to find Eagle eyed local independent similar things have elsewhere. The town councillor Norman Cutting happened here to. We council has been com- have recently had two plaining that we do on recent council matters. applications that have not have enough room been similar to previ- whenever the public ous ones, both rejected wishes to attend committee meetings and by the inspector following refusal by the has been considering various options. planning authority (Dacorum Borough Now I think our problems are over. The Council) and yet recommended for borough planning department has sent a approval by the planning department letter to the town council addressed to the officers. Indeed, one did not quite meet the Market House, Berkhamsted. I am sure the borough council’s newly-adopted parking Market House was part of the Town Hall, standards. These accepted that the motor but the letter did manage to find us in the car is here to stay and applications should Civic Centre. It may have been wishful be refused unless either the site is near to thinking on the part of the borough, but I public parking (such as in the town centre) can reassure both them and you that we or has adequate public transport nearby. are still lodging in the borough-owned So who defines ‘nearby’? We are often Civic Centre. told that planning decisions are governed Whilst on the subject of the planning by the law and often find it difficult to department, the planning process leaves refuse a perfectly proper application many members of the public frustrated and provided it meets the guidelines as set out wondering about the logic leading to some in the local plan and other planning decisions. Recently, we had the case of an guidance notes. I have to keep reminding application being refused under officers’ myself that the planning process is an delegated powers, only to have an enabling process which favours the identical one (same location and details, so developer, rather than the needs or wishes I do mean identical) recommended for of the local population.

18 I have no objection to granting or perhaps someone else within their refusing planning approval when all the organisation may well be better placed to agreed guidelines are met, but the officers attend in the future for one reason or the appear to be bending over backwards to other. If my memory is correct, when the recommend approval for developments town council was involved before, it made that are questionable, to say the least. The a good effort before it passed the matter to difficulty is that once permission is the ‘private’ sector. As the chairman of the granted that is often the end of the matter. chamber of commerce pointed out, for the If permission is refused, then the applicant past three years, whilst they did the can appeal against the decision. Very one organising, it all went like clockwork, but sided, in my view, but that is the way the the chamber does not have the resources, law is set at the moment and we have to manpower, and indeed, is not in the uphold the law even if we do not agree business of promoting social events within with it. It therefore seems to me that your the town, just looking after the interests of local planning authority along with your its members. local elected representatives should err on The town mayor was volunteered to the side of caution even if it means setting chair the organisation, which should take aside monies in the budget to support on board both the social and decorative decisions your representatives make on aspects of the festival. It was also your behalf. suggested that the body should embrace all The town council contacted the local the town’s public/open-air events to electricity board (all right, regional maximise effort and co-ordinate electricity company, but I am getting on in everything. The second meeting is just years) to find out just what is going on before the deadline for the next issue so, with our supplies. They offered to come to with luck, all should be made clear. speak to the council, but the planning By now, you will have realised that the meeting held on 5th January suggested to town council has reduced the precept for them that a public meeting may be in the coming year. Hurrah, I hear you all order. I mean, we had a two-hour cut on cry. I will tell you now, it was against my 4th January and another two-hour one on recommendation that the Labour, Lib- 7th January while it was repaired. The Dems and Conservatives pushed through a problem is, they always have a good cut of £8,000 on what I suggested. The excuse like the weather; everyone else; it borough council is in the same boat with just blew up; it’s old; and the tree did it, the expectation of a minimal increase this guv! Then I remember that county and year, but privately admitting next year will borough, not to mention developers, all mean a cut in staff and/or services or a want to build more houses without any much larger increase in your council tax. thought about the services required Just before an election too. I must admit I because it is then someone else’s problem. am not a political animal and believe that I can’t let the Christmas lights saga if the public want a service provided, then escape completely, so I will let you have someone will have to pay, one way or the the latest news. The proposed new other. I also believe you have a better organisation had its inaugural meeting on chance of making your views known to Tuesday 7th January and most of the your town councillors than you do to most voluntary bodies were represented as were borough, county or national the county, borough and town councils representatives. On the other hand, you complete with the CVS. All I will say is normally get who your local political party that a number of representatives gave the wants you to have. Think about it! ™ impression that it was a good idea, but

19 few months ago I Christmas dinner A became a Justice Christmas and though the harmful of the Peace, sitting at effects of the latter the Magistrates’ Court the Law should be mitigated by in Hemel Hempstead. a law thoughtfully The work is fascinating Think you had a law abiding passed in 1646, during and I look forward very the Civil War, which much to the days that I Christmas? Think again, says forbids the spend there. As a ‘new Stephen Halliday. consumption on boy’ everything that Christmas Day of a happens is novel and meal of more than three intriguing. Magistrates are dependent for courses. Christmas pudding and mince legal advice upon our dedicated team of pies are specifically forbidden on the Justices’ clerks but in the course of the grounds that they are ‘abominable and work one acquires some knowledge of idolatrous’. some of the laws that are most commonly The Holy Days and Fasting Days Act applied in the Magistrates’ Courts. I am of 1551 makes it obligatory for everyone to indebted to one of my fellow JPs for the attend church on Christmas Day but also following account of obscure and long- prescribes that all must make the journey forgotten laws, placed on the statute books on foot. Any vehicles used for the by our forefathers and never repealed. I purpose may be confiscated and sold, the hope you all had a good Christmas and proceeds being given to the poor. that your memories of it will not be spoilt Wonderful news for joy-riders, by the fact that you were all almost particularly since the police can’t do certainly breaking the law! anything on Christmas Day since a law The Unlawful Games Act, passed passed in the reign of Charles II in 1677 under Henry VIII in 1541 forbids all sports states that ‘noe servant, artificer, on Christmas day except archery, this workeman, labourer or other person being permitted in order to promote a state whatsoever shall do or exercise any of constant readiness for the anticipated worldly labours, business or worke of their French invasion. Leap frog was later added to the list of permitted games, presumably to help work off the effects of

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This month marks time it was celebrated. The run-in from Revd Peter Hart the completion of Epiphany to Lent gives us the opportunity reflects on his first my first full year to note afresh the ways in which Christ’s at St Mary’s. glory was seen by those with whom he year at St Mary’s Whether that is an lived - the growing realisation as a result and the value of anniversary any- of miracles, conversations, encounters and one would con- stories that this was no ordinary man, or anniversaries. sider worthy of prophet, or religious teacher, but the marking is open promised Messiah of God. to question, but never the less, it does give It is all too easy for us to settle into an rise to thoughts of the rapid passage of understanding of Christ which remains time and the thought that everything from static. We work out what we think of him, now on is merely repetition. As I do not and stick with that. However, it is in the keep my sermons, and my memory is nature of God to escape any neat sufficiently bad to merit two diaries and a framework into which we may try to fit host of aides-memoire, an exact replay of him, and instead, to surprise us with an the year just gone is extremely unlikely. action or a word of which we did not think Anniversaries do not necessarily result him capable. Another year of worship, in an endless reiteration of all that has study and fellowship will increase the passed. Anniversaries are milestones, revelation of God to us, not simply steps achieved on a journey: they look confirm what we already know. forward as much as back. The church is in Through this season of anniversaries, the middle of a period of its year when may God’s glory revealed in Christ anniversaries come tumbling one after become ever greater in our lives, and may another, yet each one is fresh, each one we know the grace of God’s Holy Spirit to reveals more of God’s glory than the last share that glory with everyone we meet. ™

Christmas and the Law (continued from page 20) ordinary callings’. This appears to mean from home is as illegal as playing it. A that no-one can do his own job though we further Act of 1831 forbids the use of guns can presumably all do someone else’s. It or dogs in killing animals. Is this why so is rather alarming to learn that patients in many hunts meet on Boxing Day? hospital may not be ministered to by You may wish to examine your nurses though it is presumably perfectly consciences and ask yourselves how many legal for their jobs to be done by traffic of these laws you have broken before wardens, milkmen or, perish the thought, making a full confession at your local university lecturers. police station. If you do so I imagine that More prohibitions on Christmas Day the constabulary will summon an sports are to be found in an Act of 1625 ambulance rather than lock you in a cell which forbids ‘meetings, assemblings or and besides, you can feel reasonably safe concourses of people out of their owne until Boxing Day since you cannot be parish for any sporte or pastime served with a summons on Christmas day. whatsoever’ so watching a game away ™

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THE MOTHERS UNION Road Evangelical Church. The speaker is Victoria Macdonald. Refreshments and a This year looks as though it is going to be an crèche will be available. exciting one for the Mother's • An Evening Service at 8:00pm in the Union. 1998 is the year of the United Reformed Church in Chapel Street. Lambeth Conference and this The speaker is the Revd Jane Wade. This means that not only will our service will be followed by refreshments. country give hospitality to many Do come and join us at either or both of overseas bishops but also many of our diocesan these services, and bring a friend with you, to presidents will travel equally long distances to hear more about the island and people of attend the worldwide M.U. council in York. Madagascar. For further details please contact We are hoping that we shall have an Pam Elphinstone on 863677. opportunity to meet some of these overseas members and also to attend the worldwide festival at Winchester. But back to PILGRIMAGE TO TAIZÉ Berkhamsted! 23RD-31ST MAY Our January meeting will be an informal Aged 15-29 years? start to the year as we swap tales of the past Come and experience the unique with a game of Lifestyle. In February we atmosphere of the internationally renowned welcome Fr Basil Jones to talk to us on the ecumenical community of Taizé, France. Phenomenon of Princess Diana. Do join us if Taizé is a place of peace were you will be you are interested. For further details contact enabled to find, rediscover or refresh the Jenny Wells on 870981. wellsprings of your faith. Our visit will coincide with Pentecost (31st WOMEN'S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER May) and so we will be able to share this special time with 7,000 other pilgrims from all The Women's World Day of Prayer in 1998 over the world. falls on Friday 6th March. The theme this time Interested? If you would like more is Who is thy neighbour?, which was prepared information about this exciting opportunity by the women of Madagascar. There are two please contact Fr Robin Figg (866161). services in Berkhamsted on that day: • A morning service at 10:30am in the King's

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LENT TALKS AT SACRED HEART OXFAM SHOPS’ GOLDEN JUBILEE Following last Advent’s talks on Millennium Oxfam shops throughout the country will be And Jubilee our Christian preparation for the celebrating the 50th anniversary of the opening Millennium continues with a Lent Course of in February 1948 of the first Oxfam shop, in five weekly talks on the theme The Holy Spirit Broad Street, Oxford. Opened as a collecting in our Lives. Once again we are favoured with centre for clothing and bedding for refugees in a group of excellent speakers, including a Germany and Austria, the helpers received number who have visited us for previous items such as jewellery and bric-a-brac which courses. were of no direct use overseas and these were The Lent Course commences on sold to aid the appeal. Since then the network Wednesday, 4th March. All five talks will be of shops has grown to 850, staffed by some at 8:00pm at the Sacred Heart Hall in Park 23,000 volunteers. Street, Berkhamsted and a very warm welcome The Berkhamsted shop opened in 1979 in is extended to all. For further details please Lower Kings Road and transferred to the contact Sylvia Ross on 863872. present High Street premises in 1990. The volunteers who run the shop are planning an TUESDAY CLUB open day on Saturday, 7th February when Fair Trade food and coffee will be served, and there At our birthday celebration on 4th February at will be an opportunity to tour the premises and 8:15pm, we welcome ladies from other church learn about some of the 30 different jobs such groups in the town to hear Mr C W Clarke of as sorting and pricing donations as varied as the Sparrow Hearn Turnpike Trust talk on the glassware, pictures, toys, books and clothing. history of the old A41 road. Following this we Why not come along and bring Oxfam a shall enjoy refreshments together. birthday present?

The December PCC meeting centred around a Chernobyl, funded by last year’s Petertide Fair. presentation by our parish Looking forward, causes youth worker, Christina to be supported by the Billington. She focussed N EWS F ROM T HE 1998 fair needed to be on the value and role of identified; suggestions young people in our P z C z C would be welcomed. worship and spiritual life, Fr Mark Bonney setting out sixteen core summarised the recent statements extracted from the recently meeting of the General Synod which he published report Youth A Part - Young had attended. Much new legislation had People and the Church. Discussion been covered, particularly in the area of groups agreed that we should work to unity with the Methodists, and a review avoid polarisation of the age spectrum of synod structures had been addressed. around our two churches and to A topic which had attracted much media encourage the contributions that both young coverage concerned embryo research; Fr Mark and old can make to our church life. stressed that the Synod had underscored its The meeting noted that we are facing a commitment to marriage as the basis for IVF, likely shortfall in our financial budget by the despite misrepresentation of this stance in the end of the year. While stewardship income had tabloids. risen, this fell short of matching inflation; a CJS further factor for the coming year was that our ‘parish share’ would be increasing by an amount significantly higher than inflation. The new year would see an appeal for families to host a visit by a group of children from 23 review notes¬ices

BERKHAMSTED W.I. BERKHAMSTED CASTLE W.I. The December meeting was a Our January meeting started with our president, Christmas celebration with a Liz Baxendale, welcoming members including short play about the Littlest two new ones. We hope they will enjoy our Angel who was causing various activities during 1998. We have an disturbance in heaven among excellent programme planed with a miscellany the seraphs and cherubs. of speakers to look forward to this year. Michael, Gabriel, the Guardian After business matters were dealt with we Angel and the voice of God were able to bring had a ‘members afternoon’ and were peace in heaven as well as on earth. There were entertained by Liz Baxendale reading several then readings and carols, a circle of friendship poems. We went on to do some amusing with candles lit in the centre and presents for quizzes to get us thinking! During teatime the everyone. raffle was drawn and the competition for Business was kept to the minimum. We had ‘flower of the month’ and for a lovely a report on the international day on Canada, Christmas card was judged. and prizes were presented for gaining the most Next month we welcome Lady Walford points during the year in the monthly who will be telling us what it was like ‘Living competitions to Mrs Daphne Brookes with 22 in the Mansion House’. The meeting will be at points and Mrs Jean Gale with 18 points. The the Court House, Berkhamsted on 18th new committee responsibilities were outlined February at 2:00pm. Why not join us? A warm and the programme for 1998 was announced. welcome and new friends await you. We have interesting talks on Royalty on your Doorstep: Coaching Days and Coaching Ways; NORTHCHURCH W.I. Once upon a time; Up the Nile without a paddle; Moments, Memory and Magic; Old The first meeting of Northchurch W.I. under the Paperweights; Osteopathy; Pottering at chairmanship of its new president, Mrs Joan Sotheby’s; Talking Turkeys; and A Box of Hollingdale, took place early in December and Crackers. On more serious matters we have a got the festive season off to a splendid start meeting on resolutions for discussion at with a very well attended dinner held at Stocks. institute and national level. All these meetings The December meeting at Northchurch are on the first Wednesday in each month at Social Centre was informal. After business Gable Hall, Prince Edward Street, Berkhamsted matters and noting the forthcoming lecture at at 7:30pm. We also have craft and play reading the Tate Gallery, members and visitors were meetings and a bowls afternoon each fortnight. greatly entertained by the Wendel Singers There are opportunities during the year to join whose enthusiasm communicated itself to the in with county activities, and outings and audience very effectively. lectures on art and visits to galleries and places They offered a selection of songs from My of historic interest. Do come and join in the Fair Lady and Oklahoma by which time they friendship and fun which the W.I. offers to were ready to break for refreshments. Mrs women of today. Your local telephone contact Muriel Martin thanked the singers for the is 863717. enjoyable programme. Mrs Muriel Martin and Mrs Jo Richardson presided over the brisk Organising an event? Let our readers trade at the Christmas gift stall. Always know what’s going on… send full details welcome at the Christmas meeting is the to David Woodward, 3 Murray Road, circulation of the gift sack when members Berkhamsted HP4 1JD (862723) (copy exchange small gifts. The singing of the dates inside front cover) national anthem brought the meeting to a close with the exchange of seasonal greetings. ™

24 SUNDAY St Peter’s: 8:00am Eucharist 9:30am Sung Eucharist, crêche, Sunday School & Pathfinders followed by coffee in the Court House 11:15am Matins & Sermon [lst Sunday only] 6:00pm Evensong [except lst Sunday] All Saints’ 8:00am Eucharist [except lst Sunday] 9:15am Sung Eucharist, crêche, Sunday School & Pathfinders followed by coffee in the hall (All Saints’ is shared with the Methodists and this service will sometimes be replaced by a 10:00am United Service) 6:30pm Evensong [lst Sunday only] MONDAY NONE TUESDAY St Peter’s 7:30am Morning Prayer (MP) 5:30pm Evening Prayer (EP) All Saints’ 9:30am Eucharist WEDNESDAY St Peter’s 6:45am Eucharist 7:30am MP 5:30pm EP THURSDAY St Peter’s 7:30am MP 11:00am Eucharist 5:30pm EP FRIDAY St Peter’s 7:30am MP 9:15am Eucharist 5:30pm EP SATURDAY St Peter’s 7:30am MP 5:00pm EP

1st Sunday SUNDAYS TOGETHER LUNCH: 12:30pm in the Court House For anyone on their own on a Sunday. Contact: Joan Morris 863780 3rd Sunday OPEN HOUSE: 11:30am - 5:00pm with the Macdonalds (384953) 9 Hall Park Stay for five minutes or five hours; unlimited coffee; lunch; tell a friend, bring a friend. 2nd/4th BIBLE STUDY/HOUSE GROUP: 8:00pm at the Macdonalds (384953) 9 Hall Park Monday lst Tuesday TUESDAY CLUB 8:15pm in the Court House A lively women’s group with guest speaker. 2nd & 4th PRAM SERVICE at All Saints’: 10:00am: Children’s Activity; 10:30am: Pram Service; Tuesday 10:50am: Activity & Coffee. Children aged 0-4 years welcome. Gillian Malcolm 874993

services&activities Tuesday MOTHERS’ UNION PRAYER GROUP: 2:15pm third Tuesday at 3 Nightingale Lodge. Non-members always welcome. Contact: Jenny Wells 870981 Tuesday / MEDITATION GROUP: meets first and third Wednesdays at 8:00pm at Jenny’s 57 Wednesday Meadow Road, and second and fourth Wednesdays at 2:15pm at Ruth’s 1 Montague Road. Everyone is very welcome to join us for about half an hour of quiet prayer. Contact: Jenny Wells 870981 or Ruth Treves Brown 863268 Wednesday PATHFINDERS GAMES CLUB 7:00-8:30pm in All Saints’ Hall. review Contact Chris Billington 866038. 2nd Wed MOTHERS’ UNION: meets in members’ houses. Non-members always welcome. Contact: Jenny Wells 870981 4th Wed WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP: meets 2:30-4:00pm in the Court House. The meetings are usually addressed by a guest speaker and the group attracts senior members for whom lifts can be arranged. New members and visitors always welcome. Contact: Vera Pullen 862196 Thursday BELLRINGING: 8:00pm at St Peter’s. Contact: Priscilla Watt (Captain of the Tower) 863084 Thursday THURSDAY / FRIDAY STUDY GROUPS: 9:30-11:30am. Two separate weekly / Friday meetings for informal Bible study and support. Young children welcome. Contact: Kate Semmens 866531 for Thursday or Gillian Malcolm 874993 for Friday Friday LITTLE FISHES PARENT & TODDLER GROUP: 9:30-1:30pm in the Court House. Weekly meetings with a short service on 1st Fridays in St Peter’s. Katy Bonney: 874194 Friday CHOIR: Boys 7:00-8:30pm (& Tuesday 5:15-6:30pm), Adults 7:30-8:30pm. Contact: Adrian Davis 864722 or Jean Wild 866859 1st JOINT BREAKFAST & PRAYERS: 8:00am for Prayers followed by breakfast at All Saturday Saints’ All very welcome. (subject to confirmation - see pew leaflet) 3rd ECUMENICAL PRAYER MEETING: 8:00am for breakfast followed by prayers. Share Saturday the concerns of individual churches and of our town. All will be very welcome. Meetings rotate between local churches.

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There is Eucharist every Tuesday (9:30am) at All Saint’s and every Wednesday (6:45am), Thursday (11:00am) and Friday (9:15am) at St Peter’s. At St Peter’s there is 7:30am Morning Prayer and 5:30pm Evening Prayer every weekday and 7:30am Morning Prayer and 5:00pm Evening Prayer on Saturdays. FEBRUARY 1 8:00pm Taizé style Evening Worship All Saints’ 2 8:00pm Solemn Eucharist for Candlemas St Peter’s 8 9:15am Sung Eucharist with an emphasis on Stewardship (I) All Saints’ 9:30am Sung Eucharist with an emphasis on Stewardship (I) St Peter’s 13 Parochial Church Council meeting 15 9:15am Sung Eucharist with an emphasis on Stewardship (II)All Saints’ 9:30am Sung Eucharist with an emphasis on Stewardship (II) St Peter’s 8:00pm A Passion for Unity: The Rt Revd Robin Smith St Peter’s 21 7:00pm Quiz Night Court House 25 8:00pm Parish Service - Solemn Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes St Peter’s MARCH 9 8:00pm Luis Palau speaks in the Centenary Hall 13 8:00pm Annual Parochial Church Meeting Court House 15 8:00pm A Passion for Growth: The Revd Stephen Cottrell St Peter’s 28 7:30pm D Scarlatti Stabat Mater, Zelenka De Profundis. Chiltern Chamber Choir St Peter’s

Baptisms (St Peter’s) 21 December Joseph David Horobin, Lucy Elizabeth Biddle, Thomas David Arnold Baptisms (All Saints’) 30 November Daniel Peter Drury Weddings (St Peter’s) 20 December Edward James Tebbutt & Lucy Emma Templar 3 January Richard James Perkins & Rosslyn Mary Barnard Blessing (St Peter’s) 27 December Jonathan Brooks & Kate Thomas Funerals (St Peter’s) 29 November Gertrude Agnes Sherwood The Chilterns Crematorium, Amersham 18 December Joyce Victoria Blanche Nunn West Herts Crematorium, Garston 19 December Frank John Cook The Chilterns Crematorium, Amersham 23 December Joseph Parker St Peter’s Church (Kingshill Cemetery) 23 December Joffré Francis Thompson The Chilterns Crematorium, Amersham 31 December Professor George Charles Drew The Chilterns Crematorium, Amersham

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SundaySchool Churches PCC 1997/8 Contacts CONTACT LIST

Names and local telephone numbers for jobs, rotas and information (for clergy, parish officers, music, bells and banns etc. see back page). Parish Office in the Court House (sec: Jean Green, 878227) is usually open 9:30-5:30 Tues/Wed, 9:30-1pm Friday (ansaphone other times). Changes from the last list are shown in italics. St Peters All Saints Altar service Keith Middleditch (862423) Doug Billington (866038) Chalice rota Martin Macdonald (872002) Doug Billington (866038) Sunday school Julie Kemp (872576) Carol Newcombe-Coetsee (863452) Youth activities Carole Dell (864706) Christina Billington (866038) Church maintenance John Cook (866278) Mike Limbrick (384682) Church cleaning Jean Green (863241) Sylvia Banks (871195) Flower arrangements Gwen Beddall (862845) Jayne Harris (873974) Sunday morning coffee Rene Dunford (862420) Currently vacant Service recordings Tony Blair (864660) Ian McCalla (384574) Intercessions Rev. Mark Bonney (864194) Jenny Wells (870981) Epistle Readers Joan Cook (866278) Jenny Wells (870981) Electoral Roll June Haile (873087) Pat Hearne (871270) Pathfinders Stephen Lally (863526) John Malcolm (874993) Sidesmen Christopher Green (863241) John Banks (871195) Social events Chris Smalley (826821) Currently vacant Catering Val Atkinson (866792) Currently vacant Hospice contact Angela Morris (866992) May Kempster (863037)

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The Revd Mark Bonney, The Rectory, Rectory Lane. Tel: 864194 (day off Monday) The Revd Robin Figg, All Saints’ House, Shrublands Road. Tel: 866161 (day off Monday) The Revd Canon Basil Jones (Hon.Asst.Priest), 17 Lochnell Road. Tel: 864485 The Revd Jim Lawrenson (Hon.Asst.Priest), Downside, 7 Torrington Road. Tel: 865999 The Revd Preb Stephen Wells (Hon.Asst.Priest), 57 Meadow Road. Tel: 870981 Miss Marjorie Bowden (Reader), 16 Broadwater. Tel: 871283 Mrs Joan Cook (Reader), The Gardeners Arms, Castle Street. Tel: 866278 John Malcolm (Reader), Landswood, Shootersway. Tel: 874993 Tom Montague (Reader), 27 Hill View. Tel: 875320 Mrs Jenny Wells (Reader), 57 Meadow Road. Tel: 870981 Parish & Area Youth Worker, Christina Billington, 13 Ashlyns Rise. Tel: 866038 Parish Secretary: Mrs Jean Green, The Parish Office, The Court House Tel: 878227 Churchwardens: Christopher Green, 17 Cowper Road. Tel: 863241; John Banks, Ladybrand, Cross Oak Road. Tel: 871195 Parochial Church Secretary: Alan Conway, 7 Kilfillan Gardens. Tel: 865798 Council: Treasurer: Michael Robinson, 36 Trevelyan Way. Tel: 863559 Director of Music: Adrian Davis 864722 Asst. Director of Music: Mrs Jean Wild. 866859 Organist: Mrs Jean Cooper. Tel: 874088 Sundays Weekdays 8.00am Holy Communion (1st Sun Rite B) Holy Communion 9.30am Family Sung Eucharist with Wednesday 6.45am Sunday Schools (in the Court Thursday 11.00am House) followed by coffee in Friday 9.15am the Court House. Morning Prayer: Tues-Sat 7:30am 11.15am Matins & Sermon (lst Sunday only) Evening Prayer: Tues-Fri 5:30pm 6.00pm Evensong & Sermon Holy Days - see weekly Notices (except lst Sunday see All Saints’) Matins & Evensong said daily Confessions: After Saturday Evening Prayer (5.00pm) or at other times by appointment. Weddings, Banns of Marriage, Baptisms, Funerals: Contact Father Mark Bonney.

Bellringers (St Peter’s): Miss Priscilla Watt, 11 Cavalier Court, Chesham Road. Tel: 863804 Organist: Mrs Valerie McCalla Tel: 384574 Choirmaster: Peter McMunn Tel: 874894 Sundays 8.00am Holy Communion (lst Sunday - Methodist rite) 9.15am Family Sung Eucharist & Sunday Schools, then coffee in the Hall 11.00am (Methodist Morning Service) 6.30pm Evening Service (1st Sunday - Anglican rite, other Sundays Methodist rite) Weekdays Holy Communion: Tuesday 9.30am Holy Days - see weekly Notices (All Saints’ is shared with the Berkhamsted Methodist Church)

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