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West Hallam & Mapperley Village Diaries April 2020 West Hallam & Mapperley Church & Community Magazine Thurs 2nd St. Wilfrid’s News chat Punch Bowl 10.30am – 12.00 Award Winning Sunday 5th WH Walking & Rural Walk, meet at Dales Lower area Society 10am Monday 6th WH History Society Methodist Church Hall 7.30 pm Stephen Flinders ‘My kind of Paris’ Tuesday 7th West Hallam Flower Club ‘Easter’ Wed 8th WH Women’s Institute ‘Off the boats’ Elizabeth Holloway Village Hall 7.30 pm Tues 14th W H Parish Council Mtg. Powtrell Pavilion 7pm Fri 17th WH Craft Group Methodist Church Hall 10am – 12.00 ‘Quilling’ Monday WH Amateur Gardening Methodist Chuch 7.30 pm 16th Soc. Anthony Norman ‘Evergreen plants for small gardens’ Weds 29th W H & District Coffee Club Methodist Church 10am ‘A face in the crowd’ May Sun 3rd WH Walking & Rural Walk, meet at Dales lower area Society 10am Mon 4th West Hallam Parish Powtrell pavilion 7pm Council Mtg. Tues 5th WH Flower club ‘Carnival’ Thurs 7th St. Wilfrid’s news chat Punch Bowl 10.30 am – 12.00 Copy Date Midday Useful Phone April 2020 Wednesday 15th April Numbers on page 27 40 Magazine Enquiries WHM (West Hallam & Mapperley) SERVICES Email: [email protected] Sunday ST WILFRID’S HOLY TRINITY METHODIST Editor: June Thornton - 07752837084 CHURCH Commercial Advertising: Roger Wood - 932 6193 5th April 8am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30am Morning Praise 10.30 am Distribution & to subscribe: Jill & Peter Steiner - 930 3426 (Red) 11am Holy Communion Liturgy of the Palms Revd Peter Willis (£10 per year or £1 per copy) Palm Liturgy of the Palms Matthew 21.1-11 Also available to purchase from Evans Pharmacy and Brew and Bake Sunday Matthew 21.1-11 V Smith D Batley 4pm 1st Sunday @ 4pm We are Proud Members of the Association of Church Editors at WH Village Hall Matthew 21.1-11 B Moyse Psalm 118.1-2,19-29 Front Cover Good 7.30pm Stations of the Cross 2pm Stations of the Friday Cross Beautiful cover picture by Emma Brown 10th April (Hangings removed) th Wish to book one of our halls? 12 April 11am Kaleidoscope + Egg Hunt 9.30am Holy 10.30 am (White) 5pm S of P with Holy Communion Revd Robert Please contact the Booking Secretaries; Easter Day Communion Acts 10.34-43 Foster Holy Trinity contact Bill Skinner on 0115 932 5237 Acts 10.34-43 C Hartshorn E Campbell Methodist contact Malcolm & Anne Brown Colossians 3.1-4 R Horton Colossians 3.1-4 on 0115 932 8007 John 20.1-18 S Semken J Isam Village Hall contact Ann Ainsworth 0115 930 3340 John 20.1-18 Community Centre contact Kate Grice before 9pm on 0115 944 2825 L Hatfield Powtrell Pavilion contact Jason Smith th email [email protected] 19 April 8am Holy Communion (BCP) 5pm Evening Special 10.30 am (White) 11am Holy Communion Revd Stephen Easter 2 Acts 2.14a,22-32 V Smith Pratt 1 Peter 1.3-9 M Turner Keyholders for our churches John 20.19-31 M Statham Keys can be obtained from the Rectory or the following 26th April 5pm Contemplative Holy 9.30am Holy 10.30 am St Wilfrid’s Brian Moyse 0115 9307445/ 07818 282239 (White) Communion Communion Revd John Easter 3 Luke 24.13-35 A Brown Acts 2.14a,36-41 Malnutt Holy Trinity Bill Skinner 0115 932 5237 James Isam 07754 772843 B Skinner Methodist Church Malcolm Brown 0115 932 8007 1 Peter 1.17-23 C Smith Luke 24.13-35 Submitting Articles/Reports C Woodward If you would like to send us an article or report for entry into our next magazine you can 3rd May 8am Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30am Morning Praise 10.30 am do this by emailing your Word document to [email protected] (White) 11.00am Holy Communion Acts 2.42-47 Mr John Moorley Easter 4 Acts 2.42-47 S Brown D Batley The latest date for entry into our May magazine is 1 Peter 2.19-25 A Leatherland John 10.1-10 Wednesday 15th April midday. John 10.1-10 J Jordan E Campbell 4pm 1st Sunday @ 4pm at WH Village Hall John 10.1-10 J Hyatt http://www.wssm.org.uk/ http://www.westhallammethodistchurch.co.uk/ Psalm 23 2 39 Parish Registers. Prayer for the Month John Moorley, Methodist Local Preacher writes: St Wilfrid's Colour printing has made a world of difference to our lives and it is RIP now much cheaper than ever it was. Colour has improved so many We offer our prayers and things we now take them for granted. I remember in the early days of sympathy to the friends and colour TV a commentator at a snooker tournament saying “For those family of We all have the sadness of watching in black and white, the blue is behind the remaining red”. Doug Hudson. Aged: 86 Funeral: Good Friday in our lives. 28th February 2020 With your help, we can reach Years ago at work I was looking for a photo to use on the cover of a magazine; the Raymond Smith. Aged: 87 ideal seemed to be a colourful scene of daffodils in a wood th Funeral: 12 March 2020 the promise of Easter – a blaze of yellow amongst dark shadows. The problem Sunday was that the magazine was printed in black and the scene If you wish to donate to have the and rejoice in the hope of was totally lost in black and white. I opted for a display of church illuminated in remembrance the restoration of our lives. colourful polyanthus, which in black and white did have of a loved one please contact The Amen sufficient contrast, but it didn’t really do the flowers justice. Rectory office What a delight it is that customers can now afford to have their print in full colour. Each week during Lent some churches are adding an emblem of Christ’s suffering to a West Hallam Minors Club plain wooden cross. Then on Easter Sunday the dark colourless crosses become a at West Hallam Community blaze of colour as the emblems are removed and the cross is “thatched” with flowers. Centre The first Good Friday was a very black day for the Disciples who witnessed Jesus’ Every Tuesday night term time First Wednesday Worship crucifixion. Even the day itself, normally bright in Palestine, lost its colour as it went 6.00pm to 8.00pm. Do you want space from the business of life. dark from 9am to 3pm. The day was well and truly a black and white affair as the For all children aged between 6 and Why not join us on the FIRST powers of evil seemed to have the upper hand. a half and 11 WEDNESDAY EACH MONTH at 7.30 - On Easter morning, Jesus, sometimes described as a “colourful character”, showed There are loads of activities for you 8.45pm.at West Hallam Methodist Church. to take part in Himself in the garden where His grave had been. He was alive! Short time for songs and readings, followed by Trips, Sports, Crafts,Baking, During the next six weeks Jesus met with those who had let Him down and those who space for you to read, meditate, whilst drinking Trading cards had felt it was all over. He planned special visits to Peter who had denied Him and Your first week is free then after that coffee. On behalf of WSSM Churches Together. Thomas who’d doubted that He had risen. What colour came into their lives as they it is £3.50 per week as well as your knew what it was to be forgiven and loved. trips being heavily subsidised For information ring Anne 932 8007 or WE CAN’T WAIT TO MEET YOU Carol Smith 0115 930 8787 Perhaps to you, Jesus is a grey figure of history or your idea of Christianity is black and sombre. However the garden of resurrection is a colourful place and the Christian life that can begin there, will bring forgiveness, hope, love AND COLOUR Come and find Notable Dates into YOUR life. A touch of Peace... April As the hymn writer puts it: ...before Monday comes around again. 10th Good Friday St Wilfrid’s, West Hallam Heaven above is softer blue, 12th Easter Day Contemplative Communion 23rd George, Martyr, Patron of England, Earth around is sweeter green; 5pm on most fourth Sundays. c.304 (check the SERVICES Something lives in every hue, 27th Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 listing in this magazine) Christless eyes have never seen. Space to think • Time to Pray Keep safe and, hopefully, well! Enjoy the colours of Spring! • People to Listen • Best wishes, John 38 3 D.C. Gardening Services West Hallam Wine Appreciation Society: March 2020. General Garden Maintenance Our theme for March was Wines of Chile and Rosie started with her “mystery wine”. It had the aroma and flavour of a Sauvignon Blanc but, as the second wine on the list was Mowing, Weeding, Hedge Cutting. the same grape, I over-thought it and suggested something else. Wrong. It was a General Garden Tidy Ups. Sauvignon Blanc but a mass-produced example. Whilst balanced and tasty, it was not very exciting but improved with cheese or pâté. We then had a second Sauvignon Petrol Powered Jet Washing Blanc, this time from selected grapes from the Central Valley – and it showed. More aromatic, a very full body and a long finish of melon, this was a quality wine. Our final Tel: 0115 9308109 white was a full-bodied Viognier but the background taste of this grape is not to my Mobile: 0794 7688 233 liking.