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Spur Petroleum (London Ltd) HARTFORD SPUR HUNDRED WEST PARISH MAGAZINE April 2017 50p Central Heating Oil, Fast Delivery Service, Competitive Prices Tel 01992 760820/762391 TANK REMOVAL & REPLACEMENT SERVICE - complete change over service. Old tanks removed, pump overs of product, new tanks installed. Access Oil & Tank Ltd, Oil Terminal, Bryanstone Rd, Waltham Cross EN8 7PJ Fax: 01992 788154 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 44 DIOCESE OF ST. ALBANS BISHOP: The Rt. Revd. Dr. Alan Smith ARCHDEACON: The Venerable Janet Mackenzie . RURAL DEAN: The Revd. Canon Jo Loveridge, Assistant Rural Dean, The Revd. Mark Dunstan THE PARISHES OF BAYFORD & BRICKENDON, LITTLE BERKHAMSTED, ESSENDON & WOODHlLL, PONSBOURNE: RECTOR: The Revd. Canon Pauline Higham, Hartford Hundred Rectory, 1 Little Berkhamsted Lane, Little Berkhamsted, SG13 8LU. Telephone: 01707 875940 email - [email protected] READER: Rod Higham, Hartford Hundred Rectory as above. Communion to the sick, Notice of Banns and of Marriage by arrangement with the Ministers. Please advise them of any cases of sickness so that prayers may be offered or where they may be of any assistance ST ANDREW'’S - LITTLE BERKHAMSTED ST MARY THE VIRGIN - ESSENDON & WOODHILL CHURCHWARDEN Sandie Ash, Hall Cottage, 7 Church Road CHURCHWARDENS Little Berkhamsted , SG13 8LY Mrs A Mitcheson, Farmleigh, Berkhamsted Lane, 01707 875221 Essendon, AL9 6JS 01707 658057 PCC SECRETARY Mr P Wombwell, 27 Rectory Close, Essendon, Ian Bailey, Tower House, Stockings Lane, Little AL9 6HG 01707 273729 Berkhamsted. SG13 8LW 01707 875791 PCC SECRETARY TREASURER Mrs J Thomson, Adelaide Cottage, 8 High Road, Mr C Nunn, Trewinnard House, Little Essendon, AL9 6HW 01707 271626 Berkhamsted, SG13 8LS 01707 874299 TREASURER ORGANIST Mr D Mitchell, Essenwell Cottage, Cucumber ‘Creating Memorials that stand as a ST MARY - BAYFORD and HOLY CROSS & Lane, Essendon, AL9 6JB 01707 659243 lasting act of remembrance’ ST ALBAN – BRICKENDON ORGANIST CHURCHWARDENS ST MARY - PONSBOURNE Mr G Gay, Blackbird Cottage, 6 Wormley West CHURCHWARDEN End Broxbourne, Herts, EN10 7QN Mr T M Sutcliffe, School Cottages, Newgate 01992 465304 Street, SG13 8RA 01707 874388 Mr C Taylor, Baybury House,41 Ashendene Road, Bayford, Hertford, SG13 8PX PCC SECRETARY 01992 511041 Tina Wilkinson c/o Hartford Hundred Rectory PCC SECRETARY TREASURER Tina Wilkinson, c/o Hartford Hundred Rectory Mr T M Sutcliffe, School Cottages, Newgate Street, SG13 8RA 01707 874388 TREASURER ORGANIST Mrs E Gay, Blackbird Cottage, 6 Wormley West Mr P Minchinton, 14 Byfield, Welwyn Garden City, End, Broxboume, EN10 7QN AL8 7AL 01707 323742 01992 465304 PARISH MAGAZINE EDITOR ORGANIST Dr M E Wainwright 12 Church Road, Little Mrs V Haryott, Wellpond Cottage, Brickendon, Berkhamsted, SG13 8LY. 01707 875970 SG13 8NU 01992 511575 [email protected] 2 43 MAGAZINE TEAM ear Friends, He’s asking: “Is it nothing to you all you I wonder what you think of who pass by?” The question then D this tragic story which I read becomes: “What shall I do with Jesus REVEREND CANON PAULINE HIGHAM in “The UCB Word for Today” Bible who is called Christ?” [Mathew 27, 22]. notes written by Bob and Debby Gass There is only one right answer to that Editorial and Commercial Advertising for Good Friday 2016? question: “Today, I accept You as my Michael Wainwright, 12 Church Road, Saviour and my Lord.” * Two Questions. Little Berkhamsted, Hertford. SG13 8LY 01707 875 970 “Is it nothing to you all you that pass It made the “hairs stand up on the email:- [email protected] by?” Lamentations 1 verse 12 back of my neck” and the thought of it Graphics John Griffin who controlled a railway gave me much anguish and yet Good All photographs M E Wainwright drawbridge over the Mississippi River Friday is the day when we remember Treasurer took his young son to work with him God the Father giving His Son, Jesus Melvyn Byrne, Rose Cottage, Little Berkhamsted Lane, one day. After putting the massive Christ, to die for us all on the Cross. Little Berkhamsted, Hertford. SG13 8LU 01707 876 674 drawbridge up, Griffin was eating his Each time we sin in thought, word or Gardening lunch when suddenly he heard the deed or by omitting to do what we Royal Horticultural Society whistle of the Memphis Express roaring should do, we cause a break up in our General Distributors towards the crossing. Leaping up from relationship with God who is all holy. Gill & Mike Sutcliffe, School Cottages, Ponsbourne 01707 874 388 the observation deck, he ran to throw However, He loves us so much that Parish Distributors the control switch. Glancing down, his only Jesus’ great sacrifice could and BAYFORD: Jane Honeyman, 22 Well Row 01992 511 391 heart stopped! His son had fallen into can reinstate us in that special BRICKENDON: Virginia Haryott, Wellpond Cottage 01992 511 575 the gears trapping his leg in the cogs. relationship with God. Jesus never ESSENDON: Shirley Christison, 24 Rectory Close 01707 261 437 Desperately he tried to devise a rescue committed any sin, so He was the only WILD HILL: Sue Horner, Butlers Mead, 3 Hornbeam Lane 01707 643 260 plan, but there was no time. His son one who could possibly do that great LITTLE BERKHAMSTED: Janet Byrne, Rose Cottage 01707 876 674 was down there – but there were four task. This is what we need to stop and NEWGATE STREET: Angela Bryant, 29 Newgate Street Village hundred passengers on the train! think about each time we’re tempted 01707 874 805 Griffin knew what he had to do. to sin and disobey God. WOODHILL: Anne Mitcheson, Farmleigh, Berkhamsted Lane 01707 658 057 Burying his face in his arm, he pushed God’s wonderful gift of new life the master switch just in time to lower extends even further to include not Copy for the magazine, please by the the bridge into place as the train just His particular help and guidance 12th of each month, thundered across. Then raising his in this life, but the promise of new life head he looked into the passing in His everlasting Kingdom. The or earlier if possible. windows with tear-filled eyes. There events of that first Easter Day ensure were businessmen casually reading the that. Please note this is the deadline for copy and not the target date. newspaper, ladies sipping coffee and In rising from death, Jesus showed children eating ice cream. Nobody even once and for all that nothing, not even looked at the control house or glanced death can separate us from God’s love The end of our magazine: THANKS BE TO GOD down at the great gearbox. In agony and we need to hang on to this Griffin cried out, “I sacrificed my son tremendous hope, because it does for you people. Don’t you care?” But as keep us going especially when days The Editor reserves the right to shorten or omit articles or refuse advertisements. The opinions the train rushed by nobody heard the ahead may look bleak at first. expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of Clergy, Editor or Publishers. The anguished father’s words. On this Good “The story is told of a nine year old boy inclusion of advertisements in the magazine does not imply their endorsement by Clergy, Editor Friday as we consider the cross where named Philip who suffered with Down’s or Publishers. God sacrificed His Son for each of us, syndrome. In Sunday school the other 3 children made fun of him because he today if Jesus were physically on this was different. The Sunday before earth now? Easter, the teacher gave each of the The questions are endless. children a plastic egg and asked them Another way of enabling ourselves to to look for symbols of new life, like understand the significance of all the seeds and leaves and then place them events, is to imagine a particular inside the egg. The idea was to open scene and then to picture ourselves as their eggs on Easter Sunday and part of it – feelings, emotions and discuss what they had found. When the thoughts. Perhaps we imagine children had gathered, they had ourselves at the Last Supper or collected all sorts of things like flowers, waiting with Peter in the courtyard butterflies and rocks. But when the outside while Jesus is questioned. teacher opened Philip’s egg it was Maybe we experience the darkness as empty. One child said, “That’s not fair, Jesus dies or the desolation of the he didn’t do it right!” But Philip tugged women as they approach the tomb at the teacher’s sleeve and said. “I did Herts Computer Services early on that first Easter morning and do it right. It’s empty because the tomb then as they see the stone rolled Call Iain on 07787 157 937 or email: is empty. That’s why we have new life.” away! 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