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OUR CLERGY The Spire WHAT’S ON EVENTS VICAR St James’s Church Revd Peter Vannozzi WELCOME Peter was born in Hanwell in 1962, Registered Charity No 1129286 but owes his surname to his Italian This Spire is produced nine times a year on October 2009 great-grandfather who came from behalf of the PCC of St James’s Church. Florence to the UK in the late 19th century. ℡ 020 8979 2069 We make no charge for this magazine but [email protected] hope that you will contribute towards the The Vicarage, 46 St James’s Road, production costs, enabling us to expand our Hampton Hill, Middlesex TW12 1DQ. St James’s Ark St James’s Theatre Club important outreach across the parish. Carers and Toddlers’ Group, St James’s Church, Wednesday 7 October, 7.45pm, Entertaining Angels, If you are a regular reader please consider CURATE Revelations making an annual donation. Cheques should Revd Debbie Oades 10.30-12.30pm every Monday during term time. Richmond Theatre be made payable to ‘The PCC of St James’ Debbie was born in Hull in 1963 £2 per session per family. Penelope Keith stars as a vicar’s widow in this razor- and sent to Spire Appeal c/o the Parish Office. and is a self-supporting minister. Come and share in conversation, refreshments, play time, sharp comedy. Tickets are £18.50 (normally £28.50). Crime, punishment and Thank you. story time, crafts and worship. Contact the parish office The club has also secured tickets for the following ℡ 01784 260498 020 8941 6003 or Revd Debbie Oades 01784 260498 or productions from Richmond Theatre’s new season: [email protected] forgiveness GET IN TOUCH Debbie Nunn 020 8979 3078. Thursday 22 October, 7.45pm, Caucasian Chalk Circle, By the time this magazine is distributed the repatriation of BAPTISM AND WEDDING ENQUIRIES by Bertolt Brecht. A servant girl sacrifices everything to STORIES, FEATURES the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and its noisy These should be made in person in church on a Harvest Festival and protect an abandoned girl. Tickets are £13 (normally £24). Janet Nunn is our editor. If you have any ideas or Saturday morning from 10-10.30am. repercussions will probably be out of the news. But news, or would like to write an article for the his year has been an excellent one for fruit and Monday 26 October, 7.45pm, Rain Man. Neil Morrissey perhaps those who studied the affair and came to Bring a Friend to magazine, please contact: PARISH OFFICE stars in the stage version of the Oscar-winning film. vegetables and everyone with a garden or an allotment considered personal conclusions will have discovered ℡ 020 8979 6325 Church Day Tickets are £17 (normal price £27). has been busy gathering in their harvest to make jams, PARISH ADMINISTRATOR something about different governments, various [email protected] T Sunday 4 October, 11am, Tuesday 3rd November, 7.45pm, Dial M for Murder, from Kirstie Hird politicians, some other people, their own friends and also 151 Uxbridge Road, Hampton Hill, chutneys, freezing supplies or simply to enjoy their produce. St James’s Church the producers of The 39 steps. Tickets are £14 (normal For enquiries and hall bookings. The themselves. One newspaper claimed that nobody came Middlesex TW12 1BQ. The All-Age Communion, with a full parade by our price £24). office is open on Monday, well out of the affair. This is surely not true. The quiet AROUND THE SPIRE Sunday 4 October is our Harvest Festival with the main Wednesday and Friday mornings. uniformed organisations, will be held at 11am followed by Monday 16th November, 7.45pm, Mrs Warren's dignity and charity of several of those who had lost Susan Horner writes Around the Spire. If you service at 11 am. The church will no doubt be beautifully ℡ 020 8941 6003 a bring-and-share lunch, served in the hall. Wine and beer Profession starring Felicity Kendal. One of George relatives and friends made the posturing of some have any news to be considered, please [email protected] will be available by donation. Bernard Shaw's best plays. Catch it pre-West End. decorated for the occasion and we shall sing the well-known politicians seem shallow and unpleasant, and in some email: [email protected] St James’s Church, 46 St James’s Road, This year we are combining this with Back to Church Tickets are £18 (normal price £28.50). Harvest hymns. The difference nowadays, certainly in urban Hampton Hill, Middlesex TW12 1DQ. cases self-serving and cowardly. The Libyan leader, EVENTS Day, which last year resulted in 36,000 people swelling Tuesday 12 January 2010, 7.45pm, The Woman in churches, is that we no longer bring the fruits of our labours Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s response to an act of Griselda Barratt is listings editor. If you have an CHURCHWARDENS congregations across the UK. We would like as many of Black. Susan Hill’s spine-chilling classic. Tickets are £14 to church, but goods to distribute to local people in need. clemency was contemptible. But those who considered event to be considered for inclusion, please you as possible to invite a friend to St James’s. They (normal price £24). and discussed the matter honestly, and with an attempt to email: [email protected] The list of items needed is elsewhere in the magazine. Richard Melville might be a former churchgoer who has got out of the To join us, please add your name on the lists on the ℡ 077 7926 6005 adhere to principle rather than passion, even if they had WEBSITE/YOUNG SPIRE habit, or someone unsure about church worship. church notice board or order telephone Ria Beaumont on [email protected] no personal cause for grief and whether they thought the Prill Hinckley is the church webmaster. She also As the hymn says ‘all is safely gathered in…’ We only hope According to research, about 40% of people who leave 020 8943 4336. Transport can be arranged. compiles the monthly Young Spire page. Please Scottish Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill’s decision the church come back at some stage, usually about eight we don’t have the rest of the line of the hymn, ‘ere the winter email: [email protected] was right or wrong, may have helped to heal the wounds to ten years later. Some return after a special ‘life-event’ Initiatives of Change storms begin’! Liz Wilmot caused by the awful crime over Lockerbie. CIRCULATION ℡ 020 8977 9434 such as marriage or the birth of a child. Some return when Tuesday 13 October, 7.15pm, Conflict Resolution, The Spire is available free from church. It is also [email protected] their partner dies. Others come back because they 24 Greencoat Place, London SW1P 1RD. delivered across the parish or posted further Best wishes missed the worship. Some even return because they are Hearts and Minds Andres Ilves, chair of Peace Direct, a charity that finds, afield. To find out about receiving a regular copy drawn by an attractive notice board, or receive a letter SERVICES FOR OCTOBER A UK reporter, an ethnic Afghan, embedded with the UK funds and promotes local peace building, will introduce this way please contact Susan Horner: Janet from the vicar. Henri Nouwen, a Dutch Catholic priest and forces in Helmand, described the honest efforts that were members of the Truce 2020 project in Newham, east ℡ 020 8979 9380 Janet Nunn, editor Sundays writer, said: ‘I’ve yet to meet anyone who has come closer being made by the NATO forces to ‘win hearts and minds’ London, who are working to prevent disputes among [email protected] [email protected] 8am Holy Communion to Jesus by forsaking the Church. To listen to the Church 5 St James’s Avenue, Hampton Hill, 9.30am Parish Communion by building roads, bridges and community facilities for the young people from getting out of hand. is to listen to the Lord of the Church.’ Middlesex TW12 1HH. villages in the area, and to promote democratic order. He Tuesday 1 December, 7.15pm, Saving the Earth For Harvest Festival, we are collecting essential items 4 October - Harvest Festival then described a journey he made in a troop carrier, which The Rt Revd James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, chairs NEXT ISSUE/COPY DEADLINE for two organisations that support homeless and At 8am: Joel 2.21-27; 1 Timothy 6.6-10; travelled fast along a main road, forcing pedestrians, the governing body of the St Francis of Assisi City The November, covering Remembrance Sunday, For the latest news: www.stjames-hamptonhill.org.uk Matthew 6.25-33 vulnerable adults: the Upper Room in Hammersmith and issue will be published on Sunday 1 November. donkey carts and other vehicles off the road as it made its Academy. He is also author of Jesus and the Earth, and SPEAR in Richmond. Please bring your gift to the Harvest All copy must be with us by Monday 5 October. At 11am: Psalm 8; John 15.12-17 journey. Possibly painting a biased picture to make his founder of Faiths4Change, engaging faith groups in the Festival service, or into church before mid-October, point, he described the anger and contempt he saw in the transformation of the environment. From this week: Entering into the Mystery - making sure they are well within the ‘best by’ date. CREDITS OTHER CONTACTS Music and Worship Committee faces of the people they passed, and felt that this one Book of Remembrance Recorder Peter Vannozzi 020 8979 2069 exploring the Eucharist Suggested items include - Tinned foods: meat There are light refreshments from 6.30pm.