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Free for All THE MAGAZINE OF THE VENTA GROUP AUGUST 2018 SUNDAY 3rd DECEMBER OUR CURATE LYN MARSH IS ORDAINED AS A PRIEST AT NORWICH CATHEDRAL So who are - see page 6 these guys looking at? - see page 5 Stoke Holy Cross Allotment and Leisure Gardeners’ Annual Show The 2018 show is on Sunday 9th September in the hall at Stoke Holy Cross School. CREAM TEAS AT CAISTOR CHURCH It is open to all and the Show Schedule is available from Len Finch on 01508 492253. each Sunday in August 2-5pm The hall is open from 8am to 11am for entries at 25p each. Its not just fruit and vegetables. You can enter cakes, bread, homemade drink as well as flowers and pot plants. FOOTBALL There are children’s classes too. REALLY DOES COME The doors reopen for the show at 2pm (free entry). Come HOME and see what is grown locally and view the prize winners! TO STOKE - DO COME! Afternoon tea and cake available. see page 7 ARMINGHALL, CAISTOR ST EDMUND, STOKE HOLY CROSS with DUNSTON R.B. 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I 530739 ‘For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and know it has been brown before, because my streams on the dry ground; I will pour out parents got married during the all-comers’ my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing record summer of 1976, when there was no on your descendants.’ We start to see God FROM THE REGISTERS rain in some places for 45 days, and it was promising his presence among his people We continue to pray for all those who 32°C somewhere in the UK for 15 days solid. by the Holy Spirit, like water poured out on have lost loved ones recently, or are In their wedding photos everything is brown. a thirsty land. remembering someone particularly at The grass is brown, my dad’s suit and shoes this time of year. are brown, his tie is brown and (it being the How does this happen? Well, move forward 70s) even the pattern on his cream shirt is a lot further, to John’s gospel, and you notice We are always happy to record the brown. Maybe when you read this, it will Jesus talks about water quite a lot. Things names of anyone from the villages still not have rained. Don’t worry, I’m going like: ‘Let the thirsty come to me and drink. whose funeral has been held recently, camping on 5th August. It’ll start hosing it Whoever believes in me, rivers of living water even if it wasn’t taken by a member of down soon enough. will flow from within them.’ In case we haven’t our ministry team. read the Old Testament, John helpfully adds Unlike the inside of my tent, the land needs that Jesus is talking about the Holy Spirit. water. The bible often and unsurprisingly uses the language of dry land and desert to If water is the answer to our physical thirst, POST OFFICE describe a situation where nothing is able to or the drought in the land, Jesus says that Stoke Church Hall, grow or thrive. The lack of water shows us a he is the answer to our spiritual thirst. And Mondays 9am-1pm, sense of the absence of God in people’s lives he is the answer not just for us, but through Weds 1.15-4.15pm and experience. In the Psalms, it sounds like us: Jesus wants to flow out of us and into longing: ‘You, God, are my God, earnestly all the dryness around us. I don’t often feel like a river of living water flows through me, I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being We would love to feature but I do take Jesus at his word, and at times longs for you, in a dry and parched land your village organisation where there is no water. I have experienced everything in me that is parched and dry and dead being revived IN A FUTURE MAGAZINE Like you, I have been thirsty, and longed for and refreshed by the water of his Spirit. It is just get in touch and we will see a good refreshing drink. But I often get the a wonderful thing, and it inspires me to do what we can do! feeling that people are also spiritually thirsty; what more and more people are suggesting dry, parched, and wondering where to find to me at the moment: it makes me want to Email: [email protected] water. We can look everywhere for God, and pray for rain. VICAR OF THE VENTA GROUP Stoke Holy Cross with Dunston, Arminghall and Caistor St Edmund NEXT EDITION Rob Baker, The Vicarage, Mill Road, Stoke Holy Cross, NR14 8PA Items for the next month’s magazine [email protected] 01508 492305 please send by email to Henry and Eostre Caswell CHURCH ADMINISTRATOR by email to For any admin inquiries please email Freyja Mardell [email protected] [email protected] CURATE By 10th of this month please. 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