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AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2014 the stjames-hamptonhill.org.ukspire FREE please take a copy Heavenly Holidays 10 worldwide dream destinations AROUND THE SPIRE P4 RECIPE FOR LIFE P6 WHAT’S ON P7 Our Church From the Editor... Registered Charity No 1129286 Having had mixed weather for Wimbledon this year we Clergy hope that the summer holidays prove to be good for you wherever you might go. You will have noticed the Vicar holiday theme on our front cover and Linda Cargill has The Revd Peter Vannozzi (pictured, right) written about her ten favourite holiday destinations. Peter was born in Hanwell in 1962, but owes his surname to his Italian great-grandfather. Jackie Cammidge has written in the centrespread He was ordained in 1987. Peter is a about her two years as a trainee priest. She is finding Governor of Hampton Hill Junior School and the course very inspirational. Juggling family life, her a Trustee of the Hampton and Hampton Hill job at a nursery school, and her family while studying Voluntary Care Group. and writing essays is quite something. Telephone: 020 8979 2069 Email: [email protected] We welcomed Canon Julie Gittoes to St James’s Day and it was good to catch up and hear about her work at Guildford Cathedral as a Residentiary Canon and all it involves. Curate The Revd David Bell By the time you are reading this we shall be worshipping in the hall while the new heating David was born in Skipton in system is installed in the church. We look forward to returning when the work is over. 1952. He is a self-supporting Happy holidays to everyone from the Spire Committee. minister, ordained in June 2012, and working during the Best wishes week in events sponsorship management. Bell Ringing Susan Horner 020 8979 9380 Telephone: 077 1057 2498 Brownies Girlguiding.org.uk or 0800 1 69 59 01 Email: [email protected] Janet Charities and Links Committee Ann Peterken 020 8891 5862 Parish Office thespire is published nine times a year for the Parochial Church Council of St James. Children’s Champion Administrator Stuart Richardson 020 8890 4854 We make no charge for this magazine, but we hope that you will contribute towards the production Nickie Jones costs to enable us to expand our important outreach across the parish. For all general enquiries and Church Cleaning Debbie Nunn 020 8979 3078 hall bookings. The office is If you are a regular reader please consider making an annual donation. Cheques should be made open Monday, Wednesday Church Flowers Coryn Robinson 020 8979 6786 payable to The PCC of St James and sent to Spire Appeal c/o the Parish Office. and Friday mornings. Churches Together Around Hampton Telephone: 020 8941 6003 Ann Peterken 020 8891 5862 STORIES, FEATURES NEXT ISSUE / COPY DEADLINE Email: [email protected] If you have any ideas, or would like to write for the The October issue is published on 28 September. Address: St James’s Church, 46 St James’s Deanery Synod Ann Peterken 020 8891 5862 magazine, please contact the Editor, Janet Nunn. All copy to be with us by Tuesday 2 September. Road, Hampton Hill TW12 1DQ Electoral Roll Nickie Jones 020 8941 6003 Telephone: 020 8979 6325 Email: [email protected] Credits Eco-Group Catherine Gash 020 8783 0563 PRODUCTION Officials AROUND THE SPIRE Design Nick Bagge Guides Girlguiding.org.uk or 0800 1 69 59 01 If you have any news, please contact Susan Horner: Churchwarden Proofreaders Susan Horner and Dick Wilde Email: [email protected] Carole Greville-Giddings Hall Bookings PUBLISHING Carole has a background in Nickie Jones 020 8941 6003 WHAT’S ON Nick Bagge is listings editor. 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Nick is a former television Peter Vannozzi 020 8979 2069 CIRCULATION journalist, now working at a Manuscripts, photographs and artwork are accepted PCC Secretary Clare Ryan 079 6413 1135 thespire is available free from church and other local theatre. on the basis that thespire does not accept liability outlets. It is also delivered across the parish and Telephone: 020 8783 0871 Planned Giving Committee for loss or damage to them. We cannot print anything posted further afield. Contact Susan Horner: subject to copyright. Views expressed in thespire Email: [email protected] Gwynneth Lloyd 020 8943 0709 Telephone: 020 8979 9380 are not necessarily those of the PCC of St James. Properties Committee Email: [email protected] Treasurer Bryan Basdell 020 8979 2040 Write to: 5 St James’s Avenue, Hampton Hill, Please recycle this Don Barrett Middlesex TW12 1HH magazine after use Safeguarding Officer Jane Newman 020 8979 6154 Before retiring, Don worked at the Church Commissioners Scout Group Paul Fitchett 020 8941 7186 for England, who manage the Come and worship with us! Church of England’s assets. Servers Lesley Mortimer 020 8941 2345 IMPORTANT CHANGES Sunday 7 September Telephone: 020 8979 3331 Sidespersons Janet Taylor 020 8979 0046 Email: [email protected] Sundays 12th Sunday after Trinity St James’s Ark Debbie Nunn 020 8979 3078 Romans 13.8-end; Matthew 18.15-20 9am and 11am Holy Communion St James’s Hospitality / Parish Breakfast Sunday 14 September Holy Cross Day Organist / Choirmaster Clare Ryan and Kirstie Craig 079 6413 1135 Services are in the Fitz Wygram Church Hall Philippians 2.6-11; John 3.13-17 Samuel Draper during work to replace the central heating Sam joined St James’s in St James’s Players Martin Hinckley 020 8979 0528 system. Tea and coffee will be served from Sunday 21 September October 2010, after The Shell Seekers (Sunday School) 10.15-10.45am to enable people to meet up, St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist graduating from the Royal Term-time in the hall from 9.25am (not first in month) whichever service they attend. 2 Corinthians 4.1-6; Matthew 9.9-13 College of Music. Catherine Gash 020 8783 0563 Telephone: 020 8892 4957 Sunday 3 August 7th Sunday after Trinity Sunday 28 September Tools with a Mission Janet Nunn 020 8979 6325 15th Sunday after Trinity Romans 9.1-5; Matthew 14.13-21 GET INVOLVED Theatre Club Peter Hale 020 979 9287 Philippians 2.1-13; Matthew 21.23-32 Sunday 10 August 8th Sunday after Trinity The more volunteers, the more we can do Visitors’ Group Liz Wilmot 020 8977 9434 Romans 10.5-15; Matthew 14.22-33 Mondays-Fridays (not Tues) Support us by regular giving, it’s easy to do Weekly Pew Sheet Nickie Jones 020 8941 6003 9.15am Morning Prayer Leave a gift in your will, a lasting legacy Sunday 17 August 9th Sunday after Trinity Romans 11.1-2a, 29-32; Matthew 15.21-28 Tuesdays Sunday 24 August 9.30am Holy Communion Finding us St Bartholomew the Apostle Weekday services will be in the Fitz Wygram St James’s Church is on the Acts 5.12-16; Luke 22.24-30 Church Hall’s Upper Room. Please use the corner of St James’s Road and Park Road. There is Sunday 31 August 11th Sunday after Trinity side door opposite the vestry to enter the hall ample parking in the road. Romans 12.9-end; Matthew 23.23-26 and then climb the stairs to the Upper Room. 2 I thespire DISCOVER WHAT’S ON IN CHURCH AND LOCALLY ON PAGE SEVEN Leader Column with Peter Vannozzi Actions speak louder Thought & Prayer Taking time to talk to God Saint Bartholomew Remembering Bartholomew on 24 August, a martyr in his day, a prayer for Christians facing persecution O Lord God, your Son Jesus Christ suffered and died for us. In his resurrection he restores life and peace in all creation. Comfort, we pray, all victims of intolerance welcome survival of tumultuous times is located in of prayer and worship with positive action for the poor and and those oppressed by their fellow humans. Smithfield, in the City of London. The Priory Church needy. Remember in your kingdom those who have died. of St. Bartholomew the Great, seen above, has seen A good model for life Lead the oppressors towards compassion off the Reformation (though the nave of the church Rahere, and Bartholomew before him, offer a good model for and give hope to the suffering. was demolished), the Great Fire of London, wartime today. Reflection, thoughtfulness, contemplation, whether Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Abombing, and planning crazes. It is a fine medieval building, an spiritual or not, are important in an activist culture that prizes active place of worship in the heart of the city to this day. ‘doing’ above ‘being.’ Founded in 1123 by its first prior, Rahere, the church and Christian worship offers a specific setting within which people famous hospital next door were the result of a profound spiritual may find space to ponder, but are also taken out of themselves experience.