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Dec 2015 Parish News V1 Visit us online at: www.hanboroughparish.co.uk Three Congregations: One God, One Parish December 2015 Hanborough Parish News Hanborough Parish & January 2016 Contact InformaƟon David Tyler ‐ [email protected] Parish News ‐ [email protected] Noce Sheet ‐ [email protected] Website ‐ [email protected] Hitchhikers ‐ [email protected] Communicaon Team Members Parish News Editor ‐ Zoe Preston Noce Sheet Editor ‐ Megan Pawley / Sarah Lindon Parish News ContribuƟons Please do support your local Parish News by leng us know what you or your group have been doing recently. Please submit news, arcles, adverts for future events, poems, jokes, etc for the next issue to the Editor, Zoë Preston (Tel 886637), by Tuesday 12th January 2015. By Email: [email protected] Or by post to: 63 Church Road, Long Hanborough, Oxon, OX29 8JF If you would like to receive a PDF version of this monthly newsleer via email, or if you know someone else who would like to receive a paper or PDF version, please contact the Editor. Cut-off Date for Contributions To aid publication of the Parish News in Hanborough we have decided to bring the cut-off date for articles forward to the 12th of the month. Please can you ensure that any items are with the Editor, Zoe Preston ([email protected]) by the 12th of the previous month. 2 Christmas Services December 2015 Hanborough Parish 20th 6pm Carol Service St Peter & St Paul (followed by refreshments at The Hand and Shears) 24th Christmas Eve 3pm Crib Service with Carols St Peter & St Paul 11.15pm Holy Communion St Peter & St Paul 25th Christmas Day 10am Family Worship Manor School with Holy Communion (Children, bring your presents!) There will also be a service led by the Methodists at Christ Church, Long Hanborough at 10am on Christmas Day. St Mary the Virgin, Freeland 24th Christmas Eve 5pm Christingle Service St Mary's 11.15pm Holy Communion St Mary's 25th Christmas Day 10am Holy Communion St Mary's (Children, bring your presents!) You are warmly invited to join us for any of our services 3 The Methodist Minister, Rev Paul Weir, writes this month... Christmas is almost upon us once more! It seems to come around ever so quickly. I am assured that as we grow older me passes even more quickly. Well we know it doesn’t really but it shows how our percepƟons vary. Our percepon of Christmas is oen interesng too. For many, the romanc and senmental aspects are important, baby in the crib, snowflakes coming down outside, music on the radio ‘I’m dreaming of a white Christmas’ and nsel, decoraons and lots of nice food and drink. A lot comes from Victorian mes and has diverted us all a bit. Shops have used this as a way of making you believe that you must spend hundreds of pounds each on presents – I say shops but actually people have fuelled this themselves and is now the expectaon. However, it contrasts with the stark reality of what happened in the real story of Christmas. It’s a story of homelessness, a pregnant mother with her husband trying to find a roof over their heads before she gives birth and then having to shelter in a smelly animal stable with poverty and destuon all around them. Sounds like an episode for a soap! Of course, it's nice to give and share presents, enjoy the fun and innocence of it all and relive the mes that we had throwing snowballs and sing in front of the fire warming ourselves. I think it’s the ancipaon and excitement that srs us and that’s important. However, the cross is never far from the crib. Seems a funny thing to say, but it isn’t really. The central message of Christmas is that God became man. It is such an amazing and incredible truth. How can life ever be the same again? Dickens’ ‘Scrooge’, highlights a good summary of what Christmas is all about. Ebenezer Scrooge is converted, changed and transformed. We all know the story (bah humbug). But why is it a good summary? It's because he examines his Christmas past, his Christmas present and his Christmas future (was there a pun there?). That is what we are asked to do, the Bible readings over this Christmas will ask you to do exactly that – examine our past, present and our future. This is what Christmas should be forcing us to do in the light of God becoming man. Life aer that can never, never be the same. So don't exnguish the religious side of Christmas. We know it has become synonymous with high spirits, high jinks, pares and having a good me. Many people do not idenfy with the true meaning of it – for many it has become an irrelevance. And for many it is a me of feeling low, isolated or depressed, a difficult me because there is great pressure to conform to the ‘norm’ whatever that may be now. But Christmas isn’t about conforming at all. In the way the Christmas story happened, there was complete non‐conformance! It wasn’t happening in a 5 star hotel, with hot and cold running water, en‐suite and mini‐bar with the flash car outside. It was the complete opposite. In fact, I’m sure a straw poll at the me wouldn’t have expected God to arrive in the back of an animal stable. Which really comes back to our percepon which is what I started this newsleer with. Jesus' arrival overturns the ‘norm’. He overturns our percepons and transforms our lives. The Christmas story is one of great hope and great joy. In a world where both of these things seem in short supply, this is one story that will gladden our hearts immensely. So in all your celebraons don’t forget the one reason why you are having a good me, remember whose birthday you are celebrang – and make sure you really have the right person at that birthday party! (with thanks to J.John for thoughts incorporated into this newsleer) Jane and I would like to wish you all a lovely and peaceful Christmas. Every good wish, Reverend Paul Weir Methodist Superintendent Minister Witney and Faringdon Circuit 4 And our Rector, Rev David Tyler, writes this month… Dear friends, It seems that we have been geng ready for Christmas for at least 3 months already ‐ the preparaons seems to start earlier and earlier each year. (I don't think it's just because I noce it more because I have a November birthday!) But now in the church calendar we are also preparing for Christmas as we enter the season of Advent. I suspect many of you are well on in your preparaons ‐ cards, presents, food, working out who you will visit and when over the holiday period and perhaps trying to clear your desk at work. But the season of Advent is about a different sort of preparaon. Many of our preparaons for Christmas make us busier and busier and busier; Advent is about trying to find space and quiet in the busyness to remember the preparaons God made for that first Christmas. I worry about the 4 months of preparaons that are made each year for Christmas, but in fact God had been preparing for the first Christmas from the very beginning of me ‐ a bit longer than 4 months! In the very first book of the bible we get the hint that Jesus will be coming. God had always intended to send Jesus that first Christmas. So in the midst of your preparaons for Christmas I pray that you might find the space and the peace to ponder the preparaons that were made for Jesus' birth ‐ preparaons which dated back hundreds and thousands of years and I pray that you may find space to consider how much God loves you ... enough that he sent his own Son to be born in a stable 2,000 years ago. Praying that you enjoy a fruiul and blessed Advent. With best wishes David 5 Forthcoming Events & News Christmas Unwrapped 1st December, 7.30pm At High Street Methodist Church, Witney. Bring your friends and neighbours to a carol service with internaonally acclaimed speaker J.John. Free entry, but ckets may be booked in advance: www.thefillingstaon.org.uk Messiah Sing In 5th December, 7pm At St Marn's Church, Bladon. Rehearsal 3.30 pm. Performance 7 pm. Tickets £10. Vocal scores can be hired for £2 (Watkins Shaw version). More details from Mollie Hance. Email: [email protected] Tel. 01993 811354 WICS' Christmas Performance 5th and 6th December WICS' Christmas performance this year will be the cantata ‘Love Transcending’ and various Christmas songs at Congregaonal Church, Witney. Sat 5 December @ 7.30pm and Sun 6 December @ 6.30pm Tickets from St Andrews Bookshop. Christmas Concert at St Mary Magdalene Church Woodstock 11th and 12th December, 7.30pm An evening of sublime Christmas music by Bach, Mendelsohn, Ruer and Corp performed by the Woodstock Music Society and Orchestra with baritone soloist Quenn Hayes. Tickets available from Peter Young (01993 881578) or Susan Sugden (01993 881522). We will be running an Alpha course starng in January 2015. If you would like to come or know someone who would please speak to Robin Feast or David. 6 Please Pray For... For our Alpha course to run in January. For the growth of our churches. For those unwell and recovering including Megan Pawley, Marie‐Jo and Janet Paerson. For those recently bereaved.
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