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Link THE PARISH MAGAZINE FOR ORTON, TEBAY AND RAVENSTONEDALE WITH NEWBIGGIN-ON-LUNE December 2019 /January 2020 THE LINK IS PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH LETTER PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCILS OF ALL SAINTS’, CHURCH, ORTON, From the Revd. Ian Elliott with ST JAMES’ CHURCH, TEBAY, AND ST OSWALD’S CHURCH, RAVENSTONEDALE It would no doubt raise a few in partnership and mutual WITH NEWBIGGIN-ON-LUNE eyebrows among my friends, support rather than in VICAR knowing my total lack of interest competition and rivalry. At Revd. Alun Hurd 01931 716048 in the cooking process (as distinct Christmas and throughout the The Vicarage, Shap, Penrith, CA10 3LB Email: [email protected] from the outcome, of course!), to year we celebrate a God who Curate find me starting this piece with a comes alongside us, to ‘be there’ Fran Parkinson 23393 reference to the Great British for us in all the challenges life Retired clergy may throw at us. A God whose Ian Elliott 24441 Bake Off. However, I recently Christopher Jenkin 24410 read a comment which I found aim is not to put us down through Reader Emeritus rang several bells in my mind – constant criticism and judgement Reg Capstick 24497 especially in the light of what but to release the full potential ORTON with Tebay CHURCHWARDENS Philip Rigby wrote in this column which lies within us all as people Chris Bland 24258 last month about the importance made ‘in his image’. A God who Angela Milburn 24382 Linda Garrick 24262 of treating other people with invites each of us to join with him Martin Lawson 26028 respect even when we hold in this enterprise in our everyday PCC SECRETARY strongly different opinions. life and relationships. Susan Thorpe 24166 Email: [email protected] The writer observed, “Bake In competitive workplaces and TREASURER Off’s sustained appeal is no in a deeply divided society, Bake Bill Lawler 24465 surprise. When much of our news Off reminds us that God’s image LOCAL LAY MINISTER Rosemary Campbell 24837 is a combination of confusing, in every human being gives RAVENSTONEDALE with depressing, and downright infinite value and significance NEWBIGGIN-ON-LUNE vitriolic, the opportunity to spend even to our fiercest ‘rivals’ and CHURCHWARDENS Ann Brownrigg 23594 an hour soaking in the warm ‘competitors’. It enables us to Martin Windle 07899 907958 innocence of the Bake Off tent is aspire to something better than a SECRETARY Diana Fothergilll 23288 a welcome escape. Though billed rat race of continually trying to [email protected] push ourselves forward at the as a ‘baking competition’ there’s TREASURER something unusual about the way expense of other people. The Tim Parkinson 23393 the bakers ‘compete’. What takes “peace and goodwill” of which Methodist Church Revd Stephen Radford, 50 South Road, place in the tent is more a shepherds heard angels sing is K. 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Front Cover: She laid him in a manger SUNDAY SERVICES IN OUR CHURCHES FOR DECEMBER 2019 at Newbiggin-on-Lune Chapel Isaiah 52:7-10 Hebrews 1:1-4 Family Communion Sidesman Isaiah 11:1-9 Matthew 1:18-end Vinelife Cumbria Fellowship: Every Sunday in Orton Market Hall, 10.30 a.m. SUNDAY SERVICES IN OUR CHAPELS FOR DECEMBER 2019 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th 1st Sunday 2nd Sunday 3rd Sunday 4th Sunday in Advent in Advent in Advent in Advent Tebay 10.30 a.m. S of P at PC R McGregor J Betts Carol Service OA At N-on-L 6.30 p.m. Orton 10.30 a.m. T Longworth W Riley OA B Staley S Radford Carols FS At N-on-L 6.30 p.m. J Betts S Radford HC LA US at PC Newbiggin-on- 10.30 a.m. S Thackray OA LA W B Robinson Carols OA N Klein SS OA Lune 6.30 p.m. Prayer & Share Candlelight Svce OA Prayer & Share Ravenstonedale 2.00 p.m. D Askew S Radford J Law Carols OA 10.30 At N-on-L 6.30 p.m. Orton Methodist Church invite you, Newbiggin Methodist Church jointly with All Saints, Orton, to a Family Carol Service for all Sunday 8th December Candlelight Service 6.30 p.m. Sunday 22nd December Family at Orton Methodist Church Carols nd Sunday, 22 December, 10.30am 10.30 a.m. Coffee and seasonal refreshments afterwards Tebay Methodist Church COME AND JOIN US - EVERYONE WELCOME! Friday 13th December Lightingof Christmas Tree and carols Ravenstonedale 6.30 p.m. Methodist Church Sunday 22nd December Christmas Day Carol Service Service 10.30 a.m. 2.00 p.m. SUNDAY SERVICES IN OUR CHURCHES FOR JANUARY 2020 SUNDAY SERVICES IN OUR CHAPELS FOR JANUARY 2020 5th 12th 19th 26th Covenant Sunday Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Tebay 10.30 a.m. S of P OA J Tebbutt LA OA T Dent Cov 6.30 p.m. Cnxn Svce at K. Stephen Orton 10.30 a.m. D Askew HC L Morton OA LA P Gorst OA 6.30 p.m. A Sterling Cnxn Svce at K. Stephen S Radford LA Newbiggin-on- 10.30 a.m. H Hutchinson OA S Radford Cov J Law A Sterling HC Lune 6.30 p.m. Cnxn Svce at K. Stephen Prayer & Share Ravenstonedale 2.00 p.m. G & R Crippen S Radford Cov B Staley S Radford 6.30 p.m. Cnxn Svce at K. Stephen Vinelife Cumbria Fellowship: Every Sunday in Orton Market Hall, 10.30 a.m. even if it is wet. I still like going to A VIEW FROM TEBAY Kendal when I can although the closure J’UNCTION From Reg Capstick, Reader Emeritus of Prelude, my regular eating place, has made Kendal less appealing. On the first As the evenings draw in, winter I mentioned ‘The Reader’ earlier in Tuesday of every seems to have come early which could this article and one item in the winter month a group of us be a depressing thought. However, edition struck me as fascinating. meets to pray for God’s work in despite the shorter days, I do not find it ‘Humour in the Bible’ is not perhaps a the Tebay community. too bad as my main activity is now subject many people will relate to but it reading. It gives me more time to really is there more often than one might think - especially in The Old Testament. I will Come and join us at get stuck into a variety of books and J’Unction in The Hub at other publications such as ‘The Reader’ never be able to read or listen to Elijah and the priests of Baal again without St James’ on which arrives each month and ‘The rd Economist’, which is passed on to me smiling at the image of his taunting Tuesdays 3 December th from Jo. The Reader stimulates me in them. Nor will the tale of Jonah be the 14 January & many ways even though I no longer same as I visualise his physical appearance when vomited from the every Tuesday in February have the privilege of conducting 7.30-8.30 pm. services. The Economist is sometimes a whale’s stomach onto the shore. These very depressing read as it outlines are only two examples of humorous events in countries which have many passages although not everybody will more problems than we have. But the see them as such. Humour is an information it gives helps me to realise individual thing and my sense of it has always been somewhat quirky. I am glad ‘Twinkles’ that, in spite of Brexit and the uselessness of many of our politicians, to say, the Goon show was one of my Tuesdays my life is relatively good. favourite programmes and much modern ‘comedy’ leaves me cold.