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Community Scene Harvest Festival 2018 1 www.stalhambaptist.org.uk For more information about Harvest events go to www.stalhambaptist.org.uk Hebron Concert Saturday September 22nd at 7.30pm (Doors open at 7.00pm) Featuring Chrissie Rogers - Simon Elman Helen Shapiro In conjunction with Norfolk Broads Filling Station Gospel music with a distinctly Jewish flavour, with ministry in word and song. Admission Free by ticket only a freewill offering will be taken For tickets contact Diana 01692-580268 Or [email protected] Community Scene Harvest Festival 2018 2 www.stalhambaptist.org.uk Welcome To Community Scene Hello Welcome to the Harvest edition of Community Harvest ISSUE Scene produced by Stalham Baptist Church. A really big thankyou to Steve English, who has produced all our great cartoons. To Barbara Reynolds, Daphne Hurt and Frank Payne in Page 4 helping with the magazine production and to Father and Daughter Killed Roger, Niki and Katie Newman at our printers in bombing raid Century Print High Street Stalham for all their Page 5 help. You can contact us at [email protected] or phone Can’t get no satisfaction David Child on 07799262645. Page 6 High Street blaze What’s on at SBC Page 7 Sundays Table Tennis Anniversary Sunday Service 10.45 to 12noon. See page 15. Page 8 & 9 Mondays Did you know? Church Open For Prayer Page 10 10.00 to 12noon. Monday Club in the Schoolroom term time only 3.00 Henry’s Harvest to 4.30pm See page 15. Page 11 Tuesdays Nancy’s Testimony Coffee and Chat in the Stables 9.30 to 11.30am. Page 12 Wednesdays Heat Waves Over 60’s Table Tennis Club in the Schoolroom 9.30 to 12noon. See page 7. Page 13 Thursdays Christian girl prayed for Lunch Club in the Stables twice monthly 12.15pm by Muslims Telephone Dorothy 01692-583373 Page 14 Pop up Café Parents etc. and kids in the Schoolroom Martin Budgett term time 3.00 to 4.30pm. See page 15. Page 15 Fridays Food Bank and Citizen's Advice Bureau. Family Friendly SBC In the Stables 1.15 to 3.00pm. Monthly Youth Pop Up Café. Telephone Jerry 07733837687 for details. EVERY YEAR Saturdays Getting Together To Pray 8.00 to 9.00am. 1/3 OF FOOD For information on all SBC activities including local GROWN FOR HUMANS House Groups go to (1.3 MILLION TONNES ) www.stalhambaptist.org.uk IS WASTED Stalham Baptist Church Social Media INCLUDING Find us on; https://twitter.com/StalhamChurch https:// 45% OF FRUITS AND VEG www.facebook.com/stalhambaptist 35% OF FISH AND SEAFOOD https://www.instagram.com/stalhambaptistchurch 30% OF CEREALS http://www.stalhambaptist.org.uk 20% OF MEAT 20% OF DAIRY PRODUCTS Community Scene is Printed by Source World Health Organisation Century Printing 132 High Street Stalham NR129AZ Community Scene Harvest Festival 2018 3 www.stalhambaptist.org.uk And We Shall Remember Them Wednesday October 30th 1940 the penultimate day of the Battle of Britain. The German Luftwaffe was focusing their bombing raids on British cities at night, to reduce Luftwaffe casualties, but coastal towns, airfields and other military targets were attacked during the day. It was late in the afternoon in Stalham, Beryl Allcock took her Percy Thirst young sister Liz’s hand and walk, the few yards from her dad’s Stalham High Street early 1900s. Allcock’s butchers by the 1930s was butcher’s shop to chat to her good friend 20 year old situated in the shop with the awning . The bakers the pale building on Jean Thirst, in the bakers. Jean was clearing up from the same side of the street. The Railway Inn a little further on. the day’s trading. Liz Austrin said “Beryl often took me to the bakers; Jean always made a fuss of me. I would and all the upstairs bedroom windows. I wasn’t that sit on the counter and I would often be treated with a old but I will never forget that sound and the look of “doughbun” and a bottle of pop, Beryl spent a lot of horror on mum, dad and Beryl’s faces.” A lone German time with Jean and they went out with a bomber had dropped a high explosive bomb group of girls quite regularly. Jean sang in into the middle of Stalham High Street. the church choir and was engaged to be Edward who was part of the Home Guard married.” rushed outside and was confronted by a Jean’s dad Percy came through from the scene of total devastation, the bakery, the bakery and told Jean to close the blackout Railway Inn and part of the bank were a blinds and lock up. Beryl and Liz walked smouldering pile of rubble. People were back the few yards to the Allcock’s butchers frantically clawing through the wreckage to and family home. Their dad Edward and Jean Thirst find Jean and Percy Thirst. Jean’s brother mum Mary had already cleared the counters Murray who worked in the local ironmongers and asked Beryl to drop the pin on the shop’s front found his dad’s body but Jean was never found. door locking it for the night. The Battle of Britain finished the following day and Liz said “We all went through to the parlour ready for Winston Churchill said of the RAF; tea. Then there was a huge explosion and the sound of “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed glass shattering. The shop front window was blown in by so many to so few.” The bank was repaired, the Railway Inn was replaced Stalham High Street in the by a temporary structure then the Grebe was built on 1930s. Allcock’ butchers to the site and other shops over the years have sprung the right. The windows were up, life in Stalham carried on ... all shattered by the blast. Each year the names of The search for survivors Percy and Jean Thirst, as are the names of Stalham people lost in the wars of our nation since 1914, are read out at St. Mary’s and SBC on Remembrance Day. “And we shall remember them.” Sometimes in life problems and crises pile up on you and there seems nowhere to turn. Stalham Baptist Church has a group of people who will pray for you or pray with you in your own home. If you need some help contact Jan 07767432990 or Jerry 07733837687. You can email Courtesy of Flashback [email protected] Reached the End of the Road? Community Scene Harvest Festival 2018 4 www.stalhambaptist.org.uk Can’t Get No Satisfaction As a kid I liked the Rolling Stones. In a way we end up with a on my state of the art Samsung Why? Because my mum and dad materialistic faith that satisfaction QE55Q9FN a snip at £2499. At the were forever telling me how bad comes solely from what we own, same time I used social media — they were, scruffy, loud and worst what we have harvested through checking for likes and to amaze my of all, you can’t hear the words. want. But that faith can never be friends and family how great my life Obviously the more they disliked the satisfied, it’s designed not to. There was and how happy I am. In truth Stones the more I liked them. is no profit in “I have got all I need.” often I’m not happy in fact more This led to me feeling I had a We need to be encouraged to keep often than not. I’m always deprived fatherhood. My sons, born wanting. searching for something there’s no in the 70s and 80s, liked the Beatles satisfaction. That evening after a and Oasis, nice songs and you could Still why worry, we are all in the few more glasses of wine I wrote on hear all the words. I never had that same boat, it’s the way of the the wall with a black marker pen, in fatherly experience my dad had of world. There is no other path is anguish, I must be worth more than banging on their bedroom door there? I don’t want to be judged by this, and in the calm soft quiet of yelling “Turn that down,” of course people who have better tech, that night a voice whispered to me, interspersed with some descriptive clothes, house, and holidays etc. it was Jesus and I simply asked him language about the artists’ quality. Social media can be a very to be part of my life. Now I am on a In fact I relived my teenage years judgmental format. I’ve got to keep new voyage. Strange really, this when my boys and wife insisted I striving to stay in the materialistic journey I thought should have been turned down Jimi Hendrix and Maria harvest. more difficult. But it’s not. Every Callas. OK I have an eclectic taste in march however long starts with one music though jazz is not my thing. I could never be a success if I single step, they say, this was a big didn’t possess this, wasn’t step for me, but easy. I always Getting back to my mum and dad it doing that, didn’t dress like have a companion, sometimes as always seemed to be a problem this, had the wrong body we walk I lag behind, He never when I played quite quietly, from complains. Other times I rush off in my point of view, the Stones “I can’t shape.