Arminghall, Caistor St Edmund, Stoke Holy Cross with Dunston the Magazine of the Venta Group July 2019 Stoke United Win Final 7
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Free for All THE MAGAZINE OF THE VENTA GROUP JULY 2019 STOKE UNITED WIN FINAL 7 GOAL THRILLER See page 10 OUR NEW PAVILLION PROGRESS See page 7 SOMEONE CERTAINLY ENJOYED THE STOKE PLANT SALE t the end of the club we will be celebrating everything we have learnt on our travels See page 6 with a session for the whole family from 3-4pm, where all parents, carers, and older or Ayounger children are welcome to come along and join us to see what we have been up to, and share in a BBQ afterwards! Please download a form and sign up today or request one from [email protected] ARMINGHALL, CAISTOR ST EDMUND, STOKE HOLY CROSS with DUNSTON R.B. COPPING FUNERAL SERVICE Independent Family Funerals Directors Since 1935 For Personal Attention with Dignity and Respect Private Chapels of Rest Memorials & floral tributes supplied Pre-paid funeral plans available www.coppingfunerals.co.uk 125 The Street, Poringland, Norwich NR14 7RP 01508 494434 56 Langley Road, Chedgrave, nr Loddon NR14 6HE 01508 521159 Ivan Fisher Independent Funeral Homes Ltd We are a family run business with three funeral homes based in Aylsham, Hethersett & Hingham All serving the whole of Norwich and Norfolk. Aylsham Hethersett Hingham 01263 735161 01603 810022 01953 850330 www.ivanfisher.co.uk [email protected] Free for All ways we can do that is to look at some of the places in the bible where it mentions the work of the Father, Son and Spirit all in the same CHURCHWARDENS place. We see that in the teaching of Jesus, who tells his friends that he is going to ask Stoke Holy Cross & Dunston Viv (493438) & Roy (493595) the Father to send them the Holy Spirit. That’s Jesus the Son, asking God the Father, to send Arminghall the Holy Spirit. Annie (495580) I love this one little phrase so much for a few Caistor St Edmund reasons, but most of all because Jesus uses Jani (493572) & Lia (494137) the word ‘will’, which means it is a promise: I will ask the Father, and he will send the ST GEORGe’s HALL Spirit. I hope I don’t often break big promises, BOOKINGS: but I am conscious of the number of little Joyce Williams 492143 commitments I make with best intentions and then don’t follow up because I forget, or don’t STOKE CHURCH HALL quite get around to it. Some of you will feel that people have let you down over much BOOKINGS: bigger things. But this is not my promise, Viv Carrington 493438 but the promise of Jesus, who is faithful and t the moment, if I asked you if you reliable in every way. STOKE HOLY CROSS were enjoying the World Cup, you PAVILION BOOKINGS: might well answer, “Which one?” As Jesus asks the Father, the Father gives, and A the Spirit is the gift. Jesus is consistent in I write, we are making our way through the Anita Rose (Parish clerk) 491709 group stages of the Women’s football World offering the Holy Spirit, and says in another Cup, and the men’s cricket World Cup, and place that the Father will give him if we ask. He will give because he is a good Father, England are looking good in both of them. If FROM THE REGISTERS you have been watching either, you will have and if we fathers with our failings know how to give good gifts to our children, how much seen some great individual performances, FUNERAL but in the end it so often comes down to more will God our Father give us the good gift of the Holy Spirit if we ask him. teamwork. By the time you read this, the final BARBARA WHITE will be in sight, and the best team will surely My own experience of the Holy Spirit, Monday 11th June have the best chance of winning the trophy. especially at some of the hardest times in my Caistor St Edmund Recently I have been thinking about life, has been that he is deeply, deeply good, teamwork in connection with the fact that and so I have no hesitation in encouraging We continue to pray for all those who God is revealed in the bible as three as well people to ask God for him. He is truly the have lost loved ones recently, or are as one: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Pretty gift of God, of the Father and of the Son, and remembering someone particularly at much as soon as we get talking about this reveals to us how very wonderful the best of this time of year. idea, we begin to struggle to picture it, teamwork can be. We are always happy to record the because it seems almost impossible for our names of anyone from the villages brains to imagine something being 3 and 1 Rob whose funeral has been held recently, at the same time. All the examples Christians even if it wasn’t taken by a member of give run out of steam in the end; we might our ministry team. talk about a thing having three parts, like an Our annual service of Remembrance egg, or someone being experienced in three and Hope, for families who have been different ways, like me as a father, a brother, or bereaved recently, was held at Caistor St We would love to feature a son, and so on, but none of them are ever Edmund on Thursday 14th June. your village organisation really three and one at once like God is. If you would like an invitation in the future, IN A FUTURE MAGAZINE please email [email protected] just get in touch and we will see That’s why it is so helpful to concentrate on what we can do! the effect of these three working together, if or call 492305.” we can’t quite picture the reality. One of the Email: [email protected] 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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Many congratulations to all those who braved the appalling 14th July 4th Sunday after Trinity weather and did visit gardens on that day. Fortunately Sunday 9.00 am Traditional Holy Communion proved to be a much brighter day altogether and attracted many Arminghall Church more visitors. Our photos are just of a few of the wide range of gardens which we managed to visit but do we hope give a 9.30 am Praise and Worship taste of the event and of the hard work undertaken by so many Caistor St Edmund Church people who opened their gardens for the enjoyment of others. 10.30 am Café Church Stoke Holy Cross Church Hall his event by was organised by many volunteers to raise funds for the nook appeal started because EACH (East 21st July 5th Sunday after Trinity Anglia’s Children’s Hospices) has outgrown its current T Family Service hospice in Quidenham. This is at present based in an older 9.30 am building which was not originally designed for its current use Caistor St Edmund Church as a children’s hospice. The nook is being built on a five acre 11.00 am Traditional Holy Communion woodland site in Framingham Earl and this new, purpose-built Stoke Holy Cross Church hospice will offer services which are either currently unavailable 6.30pm The Gathering withMulbarton or extremely limited at Quidenham.