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Bishop James Retires “So Let Us Try to Be a Little Kinder and Gentler with Each Other in the Further Deliberations of This Parliament Consider Christ Church Aughton Parish Newsletter No 481 ~ July 2013 Vicar’s Viewpoint . Bishop James retires “So let us try to be a little kinder and gentler with each other in the further deliberations of this parliament. ” ~ Kevin Rudd on being reappointed Prime Minister of Australia HiS summer Bishop James retires as account. Transparency in office is essential T Bishop of Liverpool after 15 years of if our society is to thrive. But we do need to memorable service. His ministry has offer support to those who are entrusted been invaluable in helping the Diocese to with leadership. adapt to a fast-changing world. For many “Be kind and compassionate to one his key contribution was his chairmanship another,” writes the apostle Paul to the of the Hillsborough independent Panel. We Christians in Ephesus. “Keep on forgiving owe him our gratitude. each other, just as in Christ God forgave But such ministry comes at a price, not you.” (Ephesians 4:32) least at the hands of the tabloid press. Like We each need to show kindness and many in public office Bishop James has had compassion for the simple reason that we to endure the full Daily Mail treatment. each need to be shown kindness and Former Commissioner of the Metro - compassion. Both in private and public life, politan Police, ian Blair, writes in his book, not that you can separate the two. “Policing Controversy”, of the damage For the amazing truth is that God is kind caused to family life through sustained and and compassionate with us. Even as he was often demeaning media intrusion. it can being crucified, Jesus refused to allow this cause real hurt to partners or children, not to harden his attitude to his enemies. He otherwise involved. forgave - even as the nails were being driven One consequence of all this is for good through his wrists. people to lie low and not offer a public Such kindness, such compassion, does profile, the risks are too high. Which means not come easily but it does come from the that our society is that much the God who made us. We may be kind because poorer. this is the kind of God that Jesus shows us. The answer is not to return to And as we turn to Christ, so his Holy Spirit a deferential society where transforms us to be people in positions of like him. This is the responsibility are not held to Kingdom of God. SUMMER 2013 Breakfast is served . in the Ministry Centre between the 8.15 and Every Sunday 10.45 services on Parade Sundays – 14 July 8.15am: Holy Communion and 8 September. Enjoy croissants and coffee, Sunday, 7 July bacon sandwiches and toast! 10.45am: Holy Communion 6.30pm: Evening Worship ‘Faith under Fire!’ Wednesday,10 July On Saturday 6 July, our men’s breakfast guest 2.00pm: Holy Communion speaker is Davy nyirongo. Sunday, 14 July Originally from Zambia, David came to the 10.45am: Parade Service UK eleven years ago to work for CSV Volunteer network in London. He then joined the British 6.30pm: Evening Worship Army, working in the Royal Logistics Corps and Thursday,18 July serving in Iraq, Belize and Qatar. 2.00pm: Leavers service for Aughton It was while in the army that David began schools to seriously explore his calling to ordained Sunday, 21 July ministry. 10.45am: Family Service with David said, “I had always felt called to serve Baptism God, but I was hesitant at first. Whilst I was in 6.30pm: Evening Worship the army and serving in Iraq, I spoke to the Wednesday, 24 July military chaplains. They were doing some 1.15pm: School Year 6 farewell fantastic things in extremely testing service circumstances. In situations like that you really do start to think about your faith in depth. I Sunday, 28 July began to see the way that I should serve God 10.45am: All-age Family Service – through ordained ministry. ” 6.30pm: Holy Communion now curate of St Paul's Church, Penketh, Sunday, 4 August Davy will be sharing his experiences as a 10.45am: All-age Holy Communion Christian in the military, and offering his 6.30pm: Evening Worship Christian view of war and peace. Wednesday, 7 August So do join us for an enjoyable fry-up and an 2.00pm: Holy Communion engaging talk, from 8:30-10am in the Ministry Sunday, 11 August Centre. 10.45am: All-age Family Service News from the Bell ringers 6.30pm: Evening Worship DO you know the maximum number of Sunday, 18 August permutations of ringing 8 bells? 12345678, 10.45am: All-age Family Service 21345678, are just two of the many. 6.30pm: Evening Worship We are delighted with the progress of two Sunday, 25 August new ringers, some 50 years apart in age! 10.45am: All-age Family Service We hope too, that members of the 6.30pm: Holy Communion Rainbow group will want to become bell Sunday, 1 September ringers one day as they visit the bell tower on 10.45am: Holy Communion Tuesday, 9 July, between 6.00 and 7.00 pm. 6.30pm: Evening Worship Otherwise Christ Church bells will be Wednesday, 4 September ringing at their usual times over the summer period – for Sunday worship and for the 2.00pm: Holy Communion 2 occasional wedding, along with ringing practice on the first Monday each month from some of the ruins dating back to the time of 7.30 to 9.00 pm. Jesus, which were amazing. It was a real eye We look forward to our tower open day on opener to see what the country has been Saturday 7 September, from 2.00-4.00 pm. through and is still going through as we travelled More details in the September COnSIDER. through more of Lebanon. It is such a beautiful country but has real signs of war from the past. Visit to Lebanon “I met some amazing young people and was LAST month Kristyna Edwards, of Prescot inspired by the head teacher of the school with Road, visited this Mediterranean country as his commitment to the young people and the part of her university course. She writes: country in this unstable time. “I am currently studying at Oasis College in “I had such an amazing experience and grew London for a degree in youth work and ministry, so much in my relationship with God on this trip. and as part of my course I am required to do a I hope to one day go back and maybe take my cross cultural placement. We were given a few own team of young people out to work in the options to choose from but the one that really school and experience the culture.” stood out for me, and which I was passionate about, was a mission trip to Beirut in Lebanon. New Wine Holiday “So in May I went with three other students THIS summer over 35 church members will be and our team leader to Beirut for 10 days of taking part in the new Wine holiday at the mission. We spent seven days working in a newark and nottinghamshire County Show - school, the Lebanese Evangelical School for Boys ground, newark. Using caravans and tents and Girls. While the school is run by Christians, along with 8000 other participants, this is just the pupils are from different faith backgrounds - under one week with activities for all age Muslim, Druze and Christian. groups. This will be the seventh time we have “During our time at the school we took the gone to new Wine as a church. morning chapels every day. Chapels were similar to assemblies with the aim to give a Christian Café Vista . message and allow a time for worship. This . cappuccino with a view. Café Vista is now involved us doing a worship song, led by one of proving a popular attraction, with its the girls on the team. Then there was a time for wonderful homemade food, high-quality testimony in which we took it in turns to tell the facilities and a wonderful view across Clieves school about our journeys in faith. Hill to the Lake District and Liverpool Bay. “We also took each classes bible class, in Open four days a week throughout the which we looked at the story of Jesus walking on summer, Tuesday to Thursday, everyone is the water, specifically looking at Peter stepping very welcome – especially for lunches. The out in faith. This showed how the young people opening times are 11.00 am to 3.30 pm. can trust in God when we have anxieties and worries. News from the Scouts “We also attended and took part in a youth SInCE January, the Beaver, Cub, Scout and group on the Friday evening at a church called Explorer Sections have been working “Jesus Prince of Peace.” We had a great time extremely hard preparing for their Gang Show getting to know all the young people there. which was performed in conjunction with the “On the Sunday we attended Haddath Rainbows, Brownies Baptist Church, where we ran the youth group - and Guides in May in which consisted of mostly Syrian refugees who the Ministry Centre. only spoke Arabic. I did the talk for the group and What a day! The gave the gospel message which had to be hard work paid off, the translated as I spoke. This was a real experience. children were excellent and performed a “On our day off we went to Tyre, and visited 3 variety of songs, sketches and dances with an opening chorus and closing finale, including Clive grew up at Christ Church, being part 'Crest of a Wave' and 'Sing as we Go' which the of our youth group in the 1970’s but moved to audience joined in with great enthusiasm.
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