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The Parish Magazine of All Saints, Sedgley & St THE BEACON THE PARISH MAGAZINE OF ALL SAINTS, SEDGLEY & ST. ANDREW’S THE STRAITS 50p NOVEMBER 2017 WHO’s WHO Team Rector Revd Guy Hewlett 01902 295164 Team Vicar Catherine Mitchell 01902 677897 Canon Licensed Lay Minster 01902 661275 Jan Humphries Pastoral Care Tracey Bate 01902 680727 Worship Leader Suzanne Bradley 01902 880055 Youth Leader Laura Robinson 01902 678572 PCC Secretary Chris Williams 01902 672880 Parish Office Gail Griffiths information baptisms, weddings, 01902 540289 funerals and hall bookings. Keith Tomlinson 01902 673366 Parish Wardens John Anderson 01902 677666 Treasurer John Anderson 01902 677666 Caretaker Dave Bell 07933 204132 Server / Verger Len Millard 01902 676339 Junior Church Barbara Price 01902 676591 Brownies Heather Churm 01902 674709 Ladies’ Society Geraldine Baker 01902 674608 Men’s Society Roger Berry 01902 881374 Mothers’ Union Liz Williams 01902 672880 Noah’s Ark Linda Edwards 01902 672556 Parent & Toddler Group Rainbows Liz Naylor 07827 629648 Web Editor Martin Jones 01902 884461 Youth Group Laura Robinson 01902 678572 Bell Ringer Keith Williams 01902 672585 Organist Martin Platts 07941 173252 2 DIARY DATES FOR NOVEMBER 2017 Dates for Diary Mothers' Union November 7th - 2.30pm - World Travel - Pauline Turner November 21st - 7.15pm Communion - Faith In Action - Margaret Penn Mens’ Society November 20th - Travelling With My Camera - Gordon Nicklin Baptisms 8th October - Havana Grace Middleton and Harper Rose Middleton at St Andrew’s 22nd October - Joel Alfie Hunt, Henson James Porter, Kacie-May Madeleine Wood and Sienne-Rose Olivia Wood - All Saints' Funerals 2nd October - Alan Butler - Gornal Wood 12th October - Betty Joan Payne - age 82 - St Andrew’s 12th October - William Thomas Fellows - age 92 - Gornal Wood 13th October - May Bunch - age 92 - Gornal Wood 20th October - John Norman Tibbs - age 87 - Gornal Wood 3 High Days & Holy Days for November 1 All Saints’ Day – the feast day of all the redeemed 1 The first martyrs – the ‘seed’ of the Christian Church 2 All Souls’ Day – a time of reckoning with the past 3 Hubert and the stag 4 Charles Borromeo - the un-ordained archbishop 5 Guy Fawkes – an early terrorist 5 The Kea to toothache? *6 NEW William Temple: Archbishop of Canterbury 6 Illtud – patron saint of NGOs? 6 The Martyrs of Vietnam d. 1745 - 1862 7 Willibrord of York – apostle of Frisia (658 - 739) 8 Four Crowned Martyrs 10 Leo the Great (d 461) – Pope who rescued the doctrine of the Incar- nation 10 Justus – leading the Church in troubled times 11 Martin of Tours (316 – 397) – pioneer of western monasticism 13 Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850 – 1917) – first saint of New York City 17 Gregory of Tours (539 – 94) - charity and compassion in dangerous times 25 Catherine of Alexandria – patron saint of young girls and nurses 30 Andrew (d. c.60) – patron saint of Scotland 30 Andrew - first disciple of Jesus 4 THE BEACON If you are interested in having the magazine delivered to your home on a regular basis please contact: Keith Tomlinson : tel. 01902 673366. The Beacon is published ten times a year and the cost for the year is £5. A larger typeface version of The Beacon can be provided on request. Articles for the November magazine need to be sent to: [email protected] by Friday 17th November and needs to be in Arial typeface, size 18. WEBSITE: www.gornalandsedgley.org.uk CHURCH OPENING Friday mornings from 10.30am to 12.30pm The church is open for quiet prayer & coffee and a chat. 5 Letter from the Bishop Of Dudley Recently I made my first visit to the National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield. It’s a place of memory and hope, and I was particularly struck by the main memorial to those members of the armed forces who have died since 1945. Names are carved on about two thirds of the stone walls; sons and daughters, husbands and wives, mums and dads, who never came home. I found myself running a hand along the smooth wall for future years and wondered whose names would be there. I pondered to myself what pain was still to come, what tears and bloodshed, bullets and bombs? Oh, if only we could learn to make plough shares and pruning hooks. How, I wondered, could I make a difference towards building a little part of more peaceable world? In 1940 a young twenty-five year old left his native Switzerland and moved to France wanting to make a difference. For years he had been ill with tuberculosis, and during that long convalescence the call to create a community had matured within him. At the height of the Second World War, Brother Roger, as he became known, realised that he could build a little part of a more peaceable world by assisting refugees. He settled in the small Burgundy village of Taizé, close to the demarcation line dividing France in two, and it was there that he, together with one of his sisters, began sheltering refugees, including Jewish people. There was no running water, just the village well, and food was scarce. Brother Roger’s parents, knowing that their son and daughter were in danger, asked a retired French officer who was a friend of the family to watch over them. In the autumn of 1942, he warned them that their activities had been found out and that everyone should leave at once. So until the end of the war, it was in Geneva that Brother Roger lived and it was there that he began a common life with his first brothers. They were able to return to Taizé in 1944. 6 Since then Brother Roger’s ecumenical community has grown to around 100 brothers. Each summer they are joined by thousands of young adults to spend a week seeking communion with God in prayer, singing, silence and reflection. Young people who spend time there often rediscover an inner peace, a meaning to life and a new impetus. Experiencing a simple life shared with others reminds us that daily life is the place where Christ is waiting for us. Next July I am going to be leading a pilgrimage, together with the Bishop of Southampton in the Diocese of Winchester, to Taizé. I warmly invite 18 to 25 year olds to join me, but all of us can play a part in this pilgrimage. Please share this page with young people who you know, pray that they might respond to this invitation and please consider whether you or your PCC might sponsor one or more young people to go (it will cost around £200 per person). Do please let me know and I would be happy to send a personal invitation. My prayer is that this pilgrimage will encourage a generation of young people in their Christian life and witness as together we sing a song for peace. 5 Oct 2017 BISHOP GRAHAM Thanks to grandparents It seems that the Bank of Grandma and Grandad is the go-to one, these days. Recent research by the bank Santander found that 8% of first time house buyers are helped with their deposit by their grandparents. And more than half (63%) of older house-owners would accept a fall in prices over the next two years if it would help young people buy a home, according to the National Housing Federation. 7 Mission Shaped Ministry (MSM) I guess we are all aware of the fact that our churches are not as full as they once were in fairly recent times. Many of us are sad that the Gospel message, the love of God in Jesus, is not known by many people. God’s love is transforming, but how do we share His love with the community in which we live? If I were to ask you ‘What shape is our church?”, after you have got over the shock of such a question you may begin to think about our churches and what stands out about them. What do we do well? What could we do better? In our Diocese and nationally the church is working hard to make the Gospel message known. One way of doing this is called ‘Fresh Expressions’ of church. Simply put this includes ‘doing church’ in different ways; expressing church in a fresh way. Do not panic, this does not mean we do everything differently! But in some places and in some ways we may do things differently! For example ‘Singing Angels’ based in St Andrew’s is a new way of doing church, where the children come into church and sing songs of worship together, sing some secular songs, have some teaching and pray together. For us to encourage people with the Gospel message so that their lives are transformed by the love of God is in truth why we are here. To explore fresh ways of doing this, sharing the unchanging Gospel, is important. Bishop john and Bishop Graham in our Diocese of Worcester, and the Methodist church in Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury District are delighted to have made a course called Mission Shaped Ministry available locally. They believe it will be a significant resource for building the Kingdom of God in this area. 8 A small group from our Parish, Catherine Mitchell, Jan Humphries, Jackie Hewlett and myself have started the course. The mission shaped ministry course is described as ‘a one-year learning journey in a supportive community, equipping you for a lifetime of good practice and learning in planting and sustaining fresh expressions of church’. Those who come on mission shaped ministry tend to do so: as individuals and as teams; as leaders and members, clergy and lay people, learning side by side; as they prepare to start a fresh expression of church; once they have already started a fresh expression of church; because they want their existing church to be more mission-shaped.
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