PARISH NEWS St Cuthberts, Wells and St Mary Magdalene, Hole November 2013

Time to get down to it by Alistair Glanvile I am writing this on a dull, wet dreary day and people who are no longer with us and the ones thinking that it is only the start of the winter. The we are not sure about. Each year we say we months at the end of the year can be very must meet again. Each year there isn’t time. But depressing. Everything in the garden is dying they get a card and a snippet of news. I’m not so and the lawns are covered in dead leaves which keen on round robin details of meals cooked and have to be cleared up and the annual flowers journeys taken but it is nice to be remembered. which have been so good are all being pulled out We can also do the reorganising in our Church leaving bare earth until the replanting starts. I life as well. Make time to read the books on our could get really depressing if I tried but that faith which we have put off reading during the would not be much help. summer. Visit the people who need a friendly So what about the good things about this time? It face and a smile and tidy up our faith and root is a good time to reorganise things in the garden. out the dead bits and plant some new ideas. Like We can get rid of the things which haven’t gardens our lives need a tidy up occasionally thrived. Try new ideas for brightening up dull and the dark days of winter seem as good a time corners and generally make a fresh start. I had a as any. coffee morning for the Children’s Society the I started by saying that this was a depressing other day so that meant that I have a nice clean time of year but when I think of all the tidy house. For a few days anyway! The longer opportunities there are for doing things I’m not nights are good for catching up on reading and sure that there will be time to do them all. But it entertaining friends. I see that the Christmas will be fun trying and with God’s grace we may cards are on sale in St Cuthbert’s and so it’s time even succeed. to go through last year’s list and buy the ones for this year. It is good to remember old friends and Alistair keep in touch although there are always the

1 The Kingdom Season Congregation, were in extremely good voice and As many of you will know, this period in the Church’s year really attempted to raise the between All Saints and Advent is known as ‘The Kingdom roof “with shouts of Season’, and it invites us to reflect on what we believe the exultation”. The evening was church is for. rounded off with very welcome drinks and You will have your own views, but at the heart of my Elizabeth’s refreshments, and a general feeling that Harvest

November 2013 response to that question as I look forward to Advent and Christmas is my continuing belief in a God who chose to had been well and truly come and make his home among us. celebrated. Lucy is currently recovering In other words the church is called to be a sign of the God from surgery, and we send who has come to earth to dwell with his people. Our her our love and prayers for a purpose as a church is not only to make better the lives of speedy return to us. individuals, but through them to enable local communities to flourish as well. It is only when a community flourishes that

PARISH NEWS Elizabeth Talbott the individuals who live there can live well, which is why the church is right to be so concerned at the levels of increasing poverty and debt that we are witnessing across the country. Archdeacon Nicola elected ‘Seek the welfare of the city’, God told the exiled Jews as one of the first female representatives through the mouth of the prophet Jeremiah, because in its welfare you will find your welfare. On a recent visit to the to the House of Bishops Halcon Estate in Taunton that is what I witnessed. The church at the heart of one of the most deprived parts of our , the Ven Nicola Sullivan has been diocese working in partnership with the school, the , elected as one of eight senior women clergy to serve as social services and other willing partners to enable the regional representatives on the Church of ’s House community to flourish – the Kingdom of God at work! of Bishops.

For all its weaknesses and foibles the church is still The creation of the regional roles by the House of Bishops populated by Christian people who quietly go about the means female participation at the highest level in the business of being Christians in their workplaces and . It demonstrates how much the House communities, transforming them by their patience, kindness and its members value the contribution of women to the and generosity often over long periods of time. May God future of the church. give us grace to continue to give evidence to the Kingdom The move is in direct response to events of November last by seeking the welfare of the communities in which we are year, when General Synod as a whole narrowly voted set. against legislation to allow women to become bishops. The House of Bishops voted unanimously in favour. +Peter Taunton The regional representatives, who take up their roles on 1 December, will play a full part in meetings and discussions, Letter from bringing a fresh perspective from their own ministry and experience. They will not, however, be able to vote on decisions. Autumn is upon us, and this year we really had something Archdeacon Nicola says, “I am privileged, honoured and to celebrate at Harvest time as we looked back on a excited to be representing the south west region as a beautiful summer and enjoyed a warm golden September. woman in the House of Bishops. This interim arrangement allows for women to make a contribution to the decisions On September 28th we held our second Harvest Supper in and discussions at the highest level in the Church of the Community Hall, a truly village event and a really happy England. and joyful occasion. Everyone contributed: those who brought delicious and varied dishes, the furniture movers, “Following the disappointment at last November’s General the table layers, the hall decorator, and the flower arranger, Synod, this move is a sign of hope and significant change the raffle organisers, the washers up and clearers up. We over the next three years, or until such a time as women were entertained by the weight of the pumpkin guessing may be members of the House of Bishops in their own right. competition organised by Katie Stenhouse, by a brilliant I shall do my best to use my experience in this diocese to brain teasing quiz based on place names, serve and help shape the national church in the challenges compiled by Elizabeth Rennie, and by our musicians Lucy, and opportunities ahead”. Juliet and Mary Gaunt who brought the evening to a lovely end with a performance and then led a singsong. Rt Revd , Bishop of Taunton adds, “I welcome this news. The presence and contribution of women will The next day we celebrated Harvest Festival in our change the dynamic of the House of Bishops for the better. beautifully decorated church with much of the flowers and Archdeacon Nicola is at the coal face of ministry and will fruit coming from Wookey Hole gardens and the traditional bring a wealth of experience to this new role at such an sheaves from the Scott Farm. We were joined for Evensong important time for the Church of England.” by St Cuthbert’s Choir, augmented for the Anthem by members of the village choir, and everyone, both Choir and Diocesan press release, 30 September

2 Christian Aid produces spoof film – school and was accepted where he learnt method acting.He did work at the Bristol Old Vic and also got involved with T.V aimed at church youth commercials including one for McDonalds and the advert for “The Age of the Train”. A new film and spoof campaign, Leftovers for Africa, has Dave told us it isn’t easy to get work as an actor and that been produced by the Christian Aid Collective to raise you have to be prepared to turn your hand to other things, awareness of poverty and hunger. also be able to cope with rejections from casting directors. Dave currently appears in a BBC 2 programme “Count The film follows eager entrepreneur Dan Stirling as he tries November 2013 Arthur Strong”, on Saturday evenings, it was previously to encourage people to save their leftover food in charity broadcast on Radio 4. envelopes to send to Africa, in a bid to solve world hunger. The next meeting of the Ladies Club will be held on Christian Aid says: “‘Leftovers for Africa suggests that by Tuesday 3rd November at 7.30pm in the Wookey Hole posting half-eaten food into envelopes and sending it to Community Hall and will be an evening of arts and crafts. hungry people, we can help end world hunger. This of We would welcome any new ladies to the group. course is an absurd idea so we’re using this false message to inform young people of things they CAN do; actions they Lyn Astle PARISH NEWS can take which will make a difference.”

More details on ‘The Leftovers for Africa’ film at: Pigeon Lock

www.leftoversforafrica.org.uk. I should like to thank everyone who has made kind comments about my ...and you thought you knew Christian Aid! - Ed. book of poems. You're never so old that a compliment doesn't make you feel warm inside. The arrangement Book Review: Etched by Silence - a remains, that 25% of sales to members of the congregation goes Pilgrimage through the Poetry of R. S. to Church funds. Thomas David Green By Jim Cotter, Canterbury Press, £12.99 This collection of poems by Wales' most famous poet-priest, R S Thomas, is interspersed with short reflections and questions for exploration that connect the timeless poetry to the landscape that inspired it. Originally produced locally for WELLS EVENING SOCIETY – visitors to the North Wales village and church where R S New Season of Lectures Thomas was the parish priest, its appeal extends to all who know and love the raw honesty and sparse, striking style of You are invited to join the Wells Evening Society to enjoy the poetry, and whose own faith and questions are mirrored excellent audio-visual presentations in the elegant in it. surroundings of Wells Town Hall. Lectures are on the first Thursday of each month starting at 7.30pm and we Aberdaron still welcomes streams of visitors, R S Thomas socialise with wine and soft drinks from 6.45pm onwards. aficionados and pilgrims en route to the nearby holy island of Bardsey. This book brings the poetry alive in a fresh way and 2013 – 2014 Programme provides a pilgrim guide to the locality, along with reflections 7th November The History of Punch and Judy – Bertie that enable armchair readers everywhere to enter more Pearce deeply into the world of the poems. All royalties will continue to go to maintaining the church at Aberdaron. 5th December Capturing the Moment -150 years of Wedding Photography – Paul Atterbury 2nd January Fifty Years in Horticulture – Mary Payne Wookey Hole Ladies Club October MBE Meeting 6th February Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century – Anthony Slinn 6th March New York, New York - an Architectural Dave Plimmer, a Wookey Hole resident, treated us to a very Discovery – Andrew Davies entertaining evening when he came to talk to us about his life as an actor. He started his talk, accompanying us with 3rd April Code breakers – Enigma, Bletchley Park his guitar, to a rendition of the song “You are my Sunshine” and the Battle of the Atlantic – Dr Mark Baldwin which everyone enjoyed.He told us how difficult it had been for him at school, but he had been inspired by the book written by J.B. Priestley “The Good Companions” which Membership: £33 for full season but visitors are welcome tells the story of a concert party between WW1 and WW2. £7.00 per lecture He wasn’t really into academia but very interested in drama, and after taking different jobs eventually started work as an www.wellseveningsociety.co.uk or 01761 232788 assistant stage manager at his local theatre in Leicester.he gradually worked his way up to acting and took jobs in Bolton and Lancaster amongst others. He applied to drama (continued) 3 More real-life notes left for milkmen... O come, O come, Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel, ~ When you leave my milk, knock on my bedroom window That mourns in lonely exile here, and wake me because I want to turn my mattress and you Until the Son of God appear... could give me a hand. ~ Please knock. My TV’s broken down and I missed What wonderful words of hope and faith in the coming of Coronation Street last night. Maybe we could talk about Jesus, our Messiah! You’ve heard that Advent carol every

November 2013 what happened over a cup of tea? Christmas-tide of your entire life. But if it wasn’t for a quiet, High Anglican English vicar who was once warden of an ~ My daughter says she wants a milkshake. Do you do this almshouse in East Grinstead, most likely you would never before you deliver, or do I have to shake it at my end? have heard of it. ~ Please send me a form for cheap milk, as I have a baby two months old and did not know about it until a neighbour John Mason Neale (1818-66) had always loved words. As a told me. child of 10 he had edited his own handwritten family magazine. As a young man he enjoyed long solitary walks ~ Sorry not to have paid your in the English countryside, pausing only to do a bit of brass- PARISH NEWS bill before, but my wife had a rubbing or to collect the architectural details of the country baby and I’ve been carrying it churches he discovered. around in my pocket for weeks. ~ Milk is needed for the baby. Neale was something of a scholar: he was captivated by Father is unable to supply it. the Middle Ages and the medieval church, the early church fathers and the lives of the saints. As one small girl at his ~ Please leave no milk today. almshouse orphanage once observed, Mr Neale (then in When I say today I mean his 40s) “must be very old, to have talked to so many saints tomorrow, as I wrote this note and martyrs”. yesterday. John Mason Neale’s place in history was assured when he decided to translate old hymns into English. He went on to St Cuthbert’s Ladies Group become the greatest of all translators of hymns from the old Latin, Greek, Russian and Syrian churches. ‘O Come, O Our November meeting is on Tuesday 19th, when our own Come Emmanuel’ was just one of them; it began as an old member, Mary Read, will be encouraging us to get creative Latin hymn of doubtful date. Today it is loved round the with flowers. I strongly suspect the evening will also world. The English Hymnal (1906) contains 63 of translated involve mince pies and mulled wine. All ladies welcome, hymns and six original hymns by Neale. at the Lawrence Centre at 7.30, as usual.

May I remind members that we would like them to return Be a stained glass window their coin collecting jam-jars for St Margaret's Hospice as People are like stained glass windows. We glow and soon as they remember! Please hand the proceeds to sparkle when it is sunny and bright outside. But it is only either Mary Weare or myself; many thanks. when the sun goes down that our true beauty is revealed – and then only if there is a light deep within us – the light of Bid God. Why go to church? Wookey Hole Cinema Club Film for A church-goer complained to his minister: “I’ve been coming to church every Sunday for 30 years, and in that November 2013 time I have heard thousands of sermons, but for the life of me, I can’t think of a single one now. So I think I have It will be shown at the Wookey Hole Community Hall wasted my time.” and will start at 7.30pm. Tickets on the door £6. The minister thought for a moment and replied: “I’ve been Wednesday 13 November married for 30 years and my wife has cooked me thousands A Highjacking (15) of meals. For the life of me I can’t recall the entire menu of A terrific thriller from Denmark (featuring several stars a single one of those meals now. But I do know that each from those acclaimed recent TV series) one nourished me and gave me strength to carry on living. If my wife had not given me those meals, I would have been stunted and eventually starved. Without regular Christian See for more information: nourishment, we also will starve – spiritually. wookeyholecinemaclub.weebly.com Life and death The vicar was preaching a powerful sermon concerning death and judgment. In the course of the sermon, he said: Quiet “Just think – all of you living in this parish will one day die.” At this, a man in the front pew began to laugh quietly. After A Sunday School teacher asked her children: “And why is it the service the vicar demanded sternly what he had found necessary to be quiet in church?” One little girl replied so funny about his sermon. The man replied: “I was just helpfully: “Because people are sleeping.” so happy that I don’t live in this parish!”

4 Wookey Hole WI, September meeting 2013 including the modern restoration that caused controversy when it was new, but is now accepted. Sue explained why (apologies for the non-appearance of this report last month - it the singing gallery is there, for accompanying processions, vanished into the ether somewhere, and probably ended up in Samoa or Reykjavik) and that the statues were originally brightly painted. Her photographs took us into corners and up into heights we At our September meeting president Sue took the chair, with wouldn’t otherwise have reached, around the clock, the Elizabeth as deputy secretary. We looked back at our ‘have Chapter House and the tops of the columns, where we got a fun with a fiver’ fund raising lunch held at Sue’s last month. good look at the man with toothache and the one with a In spite of the rain keeping us in the house, we and our thorn in his foot. We now know why the scissor arches are a November 2013 guests had fun, enjoyed lovely food and raised a very modern looking marvel, keeping the tower just where it respectable amount of money to share with the county should be. Mary B, who has known the cathedral from federation. Rose and Joan had been on the federation visit childhood, thanked Sue for her fascinating talk. to Hinkley Point B power station, kitted out in hard hats, ear defenders and safety goggles, it had been very interesting. The competition for a hint ‘How to make life easier’ was won Our future plans include helping with and reading at the by Jan S, with Elizabeth R second and Jill D third. The Teatime tales event being hosted by the federation at Flower of the month was brought by Sue H, with Jan S Wookey Hole later this month, and taking part in the skittle second and Jill D third. PARISH NEWS competition. Rose Docherty Sue introduced our speaker, Mrs Ann Healey of the Friends of Somerset Rural Life Museum. She told us about a social history project that has been running for some years, On using Glebe land for allotments recording interviews with elderly people. Called Somerset The Rectory Voices, it aims to make a record of the way of life and work St James the Least of All of ordinary people in Somerset in the first part of the 20th century. The recordings and transcriptions are available for My dear Nephew Darren study, some students use them for history projects, and actors for the voices and characters. We heard a lady called I hear you have joined the committee which wants to convert Phyllis Jones talking about catching and cooking elvers, the waste land between the abandoned soap factory and which used to be plentiful in the River Parrett, and which canal in your parish into allotments – although I would have sold for two shillings for a three gallon bucket. Gertie Titball thought there were holier sorts of conversions you could told how her mother did the laundry, right through from have concentrated on. I am sure you will soon be caught up lighting the furnace to heat the water through to ironing with in arguments which make that little disagreement over an heavy iron flat irons heated on the fire. This reminded some apple in the Garden seem quite trivial. of our members of how their own mothers used similar methods. All the interviews made it plain how much physical Some years ago, we similarly decided to let part of our labour and exposure to the weather was involved in country Glebe land become allotments; the outcome was not wholly life even in living memory. Jan thanked Ann for stirring up as may have been anticipated. Colonel Wainwright saw it as the memories. an opportunity of re-living his War years and was only just restrained from digging trenches around his plot; no doubt The competition for a souvenir of Somerset was won by Jill, he would have offered to play football with neighbouring with Jan second and Sue H third. The flower of the month allotment holders on Christmas Day. was won by Sue H, with Margaret L second and Lesley R third. It caused some surprise when the Earl of Stowe applied for a plot, but it has become something of an attraction to see his daily procession, preceded by his gardener pushing the wheelbarrow, the under-gardener carrying the tools and Wookey Hole WI, October meeting 2013 following him, his butler with the newspaper, a deckchair and a flask of coffee. He then settles down for a comfortable With Sue H in the chair, our October meeting was a busy hour while occasionally supervising the work, once reports one, we made arrangements for our delegate to go to the on the local hunt have been read. County Federation annual meeting, and the delivery of the Christmas gift shoe boxes that our members have been Miss Simpson managed to unite everyone in communal filling for the YMCA. We have been thanked by the outrage by using her plot to encourage fluffy bunnies, darling federation music speech and drama committee for the foxes and sweet squirrels. She seemed to be particularly baking and waitress service that we provided for the Teatime grateful to everyone else for providing fruit and vegetables Tales event that was held last month at our community hall. for their happiness. Resolution was only achieved when she Our skittle team enjoyed an evening at Croscombe in the was convinced to grow potatoes, helping the Colonel in his first round of the competition, but we lost to Buckland War Effort. Fortunately, he did not ask her to arrive equipped Dinham. Anne B is organising a lunch next month, and we with the regulation gas mask. plan to send a team or two to the quizzes at Coxley and Our local architect seems to spend most of his time . Jill D explained the plan for our next meeting, beautifying his garden shed, rather than growing produce. when we shall be making decorations for the Christmas tree With its gothic arched windows, Norman tower and flying that will be part of the festival in St Cuthbert’s Church. buttresses, I do wonder if he may have spent rather too much of his time renovating ancient churches. Neighbouring Sue introduced our speaker, Sue George, who took us on a plot-holders look forward to the agricultural equivalent of the guided tour of , the ‘Lazy Man’s’ way, by Dissolution of the Monasteries. means of a portfolio of photographs. Still sitting comfortably

we were taken up close to the statues on the West Front,

5 I am sure you will find you have committed yourself to many It had been an unhappy time for the young lad, as many of hours of unnecessary work. Just make sure you insist on a his family in Hamburg had died, probably from an epidemic. percentage of their produce for your Harvest Festival. His father Nikolaus died in 1599, when he was three, and his mother Lucia married again. Both mother and Your loving uncle, stepfather were dead by 1608 when Heinrich was 12. Heinrich’s only brother Christoffer had also died in 1606 and Eustace he was put into the guardianship of four people from the maternal and paternal sides of his family. They decided to A computer saying send the 13-year-old orphan to England and he arrived in November 2013 You can't teach a new mouse old clicks. January 1609. After 6 years he could have been quite proficient in the language. Here’s a glimpse into the history of St But he didn’t come to Wells – but to “Glastonbury, near Bridgewater”. Perhaps after 1611 he listened to English Cuthbert’s church, sent to us by John readings in St John’s Church Glastonbury from the new Authorised Version of the Bible. No doubt some of his Mayers. guardians came to the funeral in August 1615 and paid for the fine memorial tablet laid (perhaps) in a Glastonbury

PARISH NEWS Queen Elizabeth I had died in 1603 and James I (VI of churchyard. There is no explanation of why the stone was Scotland) was on the throne. The Gunpowder plot had later taken to St Cuthbert’s and fixed to the church pillar. taken place in 1605, and Walter Raleigh was in the Tower on suspicion of a different plot against the king. In 1606, Today the name Kellinghusen is very familiar to Hamburg James had authorised the first permanent settlement in the people as there is a station, park and a road named after New World, Jamestown in Virginia, although the Mayflower the family. Namesake Heinrich Kellinghusen was mayor did not arrive for another 14 years. Shakespeare was still during the 1800s. His son-in-law and grandson were also writing, he completed the Tempest in 1611, while John mayors. Donne was just getting going. In Wells the cloth trade was starting to tail off, while at St Cuthbert’s the reredoses had been plastered over for some 40 years and the Vicar was 1. Hans Kellinghusen, Gesichte der Familie Kellinghusen Vol 1, Thomas Hall. Die Stammfulge der Familie in Hamburg von Han bis Jurgen A school, founded in Wells in 1641, was named the Blue Kellinghuse 1507-1686 (1757) Hamburg 1919 School in 1654.

In the wider world, Galileo demonstrated his first telescope 2. The Englandfahrer Company was one of the merchant in Venice, William Byrd was publishing his “Psalms, Songs companies of the Hanseatic League, a group of powerful cities and Sonnets, while Michelangelo died in 1610. which controlled much of the North Sea and Baltic trade. Based in Hamburg, the Company traded exclusively with England.

A German boy in Somerset Elizabeth Sidwell

On a pillar in the Jesse Chapel of St Cuthbert’s Church, Wells is a marble memorial plaque. The inscription reads: “Here Confessions of a tin-rattler, no. 5 resteth in assured hope to rise in Christ the bodie of Henry One day when I was collecting in busy Cornmarket, Oxford, Kellinghusen of Hamburghe in Germanye, who came to see a million miles from Oxfam's real work of helping poor this countrye and learne the language and died here in the people rebuild shattered lives, I was shocked to find myself feare of God the 11 August Anno Verbi incarnate 1615 aetatis quite suddenly brought face to face with reality. The cause suae 19” (aged 19). A lady living in Bridgwater at the time 1 that day was the camps for people fleeing war-torn Sudan. wrote the inscription. A woman put some money in my tin. Unlike most people, The plaque also has a family coat of arms at the top, a she asked me about Oxfam's work in the camps and I did winged skull at the bottom – typical for the period and looks my best to answer her. Then she said 'I have a young as if had originally been a gravestone. Sudanese with me at home, right now.'

Heinrich came from one of the richest and most powerful 'Oh, right' I replied. This was unexpected information. families in Hamburg and it is almost certain that the Kellinghusens had trading links with England. Merchant 'Yes' she went on, 'she got caught up in terrible fighting, but companies in Hamburg were organised by trade eventually found herself with thousands of other Sudanese destinations, and one of them was “Englandfahrer- 2 folk making for the Kenya border and the comparative Gesellschaft”. safety of the camps.' 'And now she's with you?' I asked, becoming intrigued. From 1567 the Merchant Venturers were trading cloth, 'That's right' she said, ' but she had a terrible time of it, and later had complete months in the middle of nowhere, walking hundreds of miles control of commerce between of desert to an unknown fate. What's more, she'd lost her England and Hamburg. family. She doesn't know if they are still alive. Anyway, from Some English traders were Kenya she somehow found her way to the UK, and I took living in Hamburg. So it is most likely that the her in. She was lost and broken. But now she's studying at Kellinghusens had personal Oxford Brookes University. As we speak.' contacts with merchants in the Bristol or Bridgwater port The woman walked a few steps away as I thanked her, areas and it was to one of the while pondering the sheer nastiness of civil war and the Christian families that compassion you find in some people. Then she turned Heinrich was sent. round and came back. She confronted me. I remember being a bit alarmed – what was she going to say to me, a 6 guy who knew little of Sudan or refugee camps or human tragedy? St ANDREW She poked an aggressive finger at my feast day November 30th chest. 'You saved her life' she said, turned again and was lost in the crowd. The Bible tells us that Andrew and his brother Simon Peter were the very first Of course I knew she wasn't telling the disciples to follow Jesus. They were fishermen working at literal truth – but I hope I divined the their nets when Jesus called them. It was a hard thing to do,

November 2013 thought that lay behind her frightening to leave everything for an uncertain way of life but Andrew statement: we can play small bit parts in knew that Jesus so special that he had to share this big stories. wonderful knowledge with others. David Green The Future of Church Services is almost here... Andrew followed Jesus for the rest of his life. After Jesus’ death he travelled widely spreading the message and building PARISH NEWS the early church. He was arrested for being a follower of PASTOR: "Praise the Lord!" Christ and condemned to death on the cross. Legend says CONGREGATION: "Hallelujah!" that he was crucified on a diagonal cross. PASTOR: "Will everyone please turn on their tablet, St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and his cross is on PC, iPad, smart phone, and Kindle Bibles to 1 Cor. 13:13. the Scottish flag which is a white cross on a blue background – the blue is for the sea which seems right for a fisherman. And please switch on your Bluetooth to download the sermon." SAIL AWAY P-a-u-s-e...… Andrew and Simon fished with nets from the shore or from "Now, Let us pray committing this coming week into God's hands. small boats. You could make a fishing fleet of small boats and Open your Apps, BBM, Twitter and Facebook, and chat with God" decorate their sails with St Andrew’s cross. S-i-l-e-n-c-e You will need a polystyrene box or tray like the ones you see "As we take our Sunday tithes and offerings, please have your at the fruit shop or supermarket. credit and debit cards ready. You can log on to the church Wi-Fi Using a bread knife, carefully cut out several different shapes using the password 'Lord909887.' The ushers will circulate and sizes. portable card-swipe machines among the worshipers: a. Those who prefer to make electronic fund transfers are directed to computers and laptops at the rear of the church. b. Those who prefer to use iPads can open the ‘Giving’ app. c. Those who prefer telephone banking, take out your cell phones to transfer your contributions to the church Find a thin stick for the masts (you could use a pencil) and cut account. out a sail in paper. Thread or stick the sail onto the mast.

The holy atmosphere of the Church becomes truly electrified as How do fish go into business? ALL the smart phones, iPads, PCs and laptops beep and flicker! They start on a small scale. Final Blessing and Closing Announcements... What day of the week a. This week's ministry cell meetings will be held on the do fish hate? various Facebook group pages where the usual group chatting takes place. Please log in and don't miss out. b. Thursday's Bible study will be held live on Skype at 1900hrs GMT. Please don't miss this. Frydays. c. You can follow your Pastor on Twitter this weekend for counseling and prayers. Why are goldfish orange? “God bless you and have a nice day” The water makes them rusty. Be afraid……… be very afraid! - Ed.

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A Sunday School teacher was teaching how God created everything, including human beings. One little boy seemed especially intent when she explained how Eve was created out of one of Adam’s ribs. Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ill, and asked him what was the matter. The little boy explained worriedly: “I have a pain in my side. I think I’m going to have a wife.”

7 Crispy Parmesan Chicken St Cuthbert’s Christmas Tree Festival

3 lbs chicken pieces (thighs or drumsticks work well) Please note that the dates of the Festival have changed. It 1 slightly beaten egg will now begin on Sunday 8th December, the same day as the 2 tbsp milk Rotary Reindeer Parade. It will run for two weeks to close on ¾ cup crushed corn flakes Sunday 22nd December with the Christingle service at 1 ½ tsp salt 3.00pm, during which prize awards will be presented, then a ¼ tsp pepper service of Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at 6.30pm.

November 2013 ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese Mix egg and milk. Combine dry ingredients. Dip chicken pieces into egg mixture, and then roll in dry mixture. Bake skin side up in well-greased shallow pan at 180°C about one hour or until tender. Serves 6. Seasonal Pepper Pumpkin Custard Pie Buy pumpkins quickly, before they disappear from the shops PARISH NEWS after Hallowe’en! Cut them into 4-6 chunks, remove seeds, steam for 45 minutes, scoop out flesh and squeeze out excess water. If no longer available look for canned pumpkin, which has already been drained. 16 fl oz (1 large can) drained pumpkin 12 fl oz double cream 3 eggs 6 fl oz maple syrup 1 tsp freshly ground white pepper* 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 shortcrust pie shells in nine-inch pans

Preheat oven to 180⁰C. In a bowl mix the pumpkin, cream, You have been reading eggs and maple syrup until smooth. Stir in pepper and vanilla. Pour mixture into the pie shells and bake for 1 hour - St Cuthbert’s Parish News test with a toothpick. Cool on a wire rack. * For a more traditional on the web Thanksgiving pumpkin pie, instead of the pepper add these: 1 tbsp brandy ½ tsp ground allspice ½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg ½ tsp ground ginger

From the Registers 2013 CHRISTIAN BAPTISMS

th 29 September Leo Costanza

th 20 October William Thomas Arbuckle

FUNERALS & MEMORIAL SERVICES th 27 September Muriel Willcocks th 11 October Robert Arthur Dodkin th 15 October Angela Grace Churchill nd 22 October Walter Reginald Corp Sheila Jenkins

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