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Easter at Stalham Baptist Church GOOD FRIDAY 19th April 2.00pm Joint service at St Mary’s Church Stalham 7.00pm Reflective Service Stalham Baptist Church EASTER DAY Sunday 21st April 6.30am Sunrise Service at How Hill (Next to car park) Followed by Breakfast in The Stables Phone 01692 582731 to book breakfast Easter Sunday CELEBRATION Service Stalham Baptist Church 10.45am to 12noon Welcome to the Easter 2019 edition of Community Scene produced by Stalham Baptist Church. A really big thankyou to Steve English, who has produced all our great cartoons, Barbara Reynolds, Frank Payne who helped with production and Roger, Niki and Katie Newman at our printers Century Printing High Street Stalham and all the amazing volunteers who deliver the magazine for all their help. You can contact us at [email protected] or phone David Child on 07799262645. In This Issue Your Council Needs You Would you like to make a difference for the Stalham Page 4 Community by joining the Stalham Town Council? The date for the next Town Council elections is 2nd May 2019 May One Mile Marathon and Stalham Town Council is looking for candidates to stand as councillors. Page 5 Not all of the current councillors are standing for re-election so some fresh blood is needed. Mercy Ships The Council is not party political and works to improve and maintain the Town within its powers. Page 6 Stalham Town Council serves a population of 3,000 people in The Notice Board Stalham and falls within the district of North Norfolk. There are 13 Councillors, who represent the Page 7 whole town. The Council meets on Eye of A Needle the second Monday of each month (apart from when there is a bank Pages 8 holiday, when the meeting is moved forward or back) at 7.30 pm in the Happisburgh Poisoner Town Hall. If you need any further information Page 9 contact Susan Wellerd on 01692 670531 or email her on Amazing Grace [email protected] or go to the website https:// stalhamtowncouncil.wordpress.com/ Page 10 Families at SBC Stalham Baptist Church Page 11 You will find us at the end of the High Street with the two mini roundabouts. Contact us on 01692-582731 or The Beauty of Shine [email protected] Page 12 TWAM and the Stalham Fringe Page 13 Supporting Missions Page 14 SWAN Page 15 Easter Memories Community Scene is Printed by Century Printing 132 High Street Stalham NR129AZ Community Scene Easter 2019 3 www.stalhambaptist.org.uk Swan and John Stalham Baptist Church May One Mile Marathon and Family Fun Afternoon Stalham Recreation Ground Monday 6th May 2.00 to 5.00pm Raise some money for your favourite charity by taking part in SBC’s May one Mile Marathon. We are looking for at least 26 people who will run, walk or push a pram etc. around a one mile course on Stalham Recreation look round Stalham’s brilliant new facility Ground. Better still do it in fancy dress. including the Community Gym. There will be prizes for the best fancy dress The recreation ground has some great play costumes, adult and children. There will be equipment and a skate boarding park that you music, table stalls, games and a catering stall. can also enjoy. The Poppy Centre will be open so you can have a The Youth Club will have Art and Craft exhibitions by the SWAN ladies. Come and spend a few family fun hours at the Sponsored By Recreation Ground. You can book a table stall, cost £6, by phoning David Child 07799262645 you will need your own table. Entrance to the Mile Marathon and fancy dress competition are free. A big thank you to our sponsors Trett Phillips High Street Stalham. www.trettphillipsresidential.co.uk had time to do so, because soon after because I would like to be living in the Easter Reminds us they said goodbye and went to their healthy zone. respective classes. The incidence kept me Thinking about the above incident that we are not thinking about what people consider reminds me that one of the messages of healthy. The fact that I go running most the cross is that without Christ we are all Healthy. mornings is not an indication that I am UNHEALTHY. All of us have sinned and “Recently, on my way out of a local school healthy. The opposite is the truth. I am fallen short of God standards Romans after taking an assembly, I met two Unhealthy therefore I need to do some 3:23 tells us. That’s why Jesus came to teachers along the corridor.” Writes exercise to move to the healthy zone. bring us back to the healthy zone. He Assistant SBC Pastor Jerry Otieno. One of Recently my GP told me that my BMI came to restore our relationship with God them asked whether I was the man she showed that I was near obese and that I because sin messed it up. In Christ we can saw running alongside the road that had very high cholesterol level and I was enjoy a healthy relationship with God and morning. I said “Yes,” and even before I prone to a long list health issue. He we can avoid the deadly and toxic effect explained to them why I usually do my recommended that I restrict myself to a of the power of sin. Easter reminds us runs, the second teacher chipped in and diet, start taking medication to lower my that we are Unhealthy yet Christ is the said, “Aah! He’s a very Healthy man. Very cholesterol and to exercise as much as I great physician who can cure our healthy.” I wanted to tell them that I can. ItLessons is this news outside of being as the Unhealthy work is completed that unhealthiness. wasn’t healthy as they thought but I never caused me to start running consistently Community Scene Easter 2019 4 www.stalhambaptist.org.uk Every patient who comes onboard the Africa Mercy has a unique story, but even experienced Mercy Ships nurses had never seen a case quite like Ulrich’s. Ulrich was born with dislocated knees and a condition known as quadriceps contracture. His muscles do not develop at the same rate as his bones, causing his legs to bend drastically backward. His mother, Georgette, desperately tried to find Ulrich the surgery he needed to walk and function like the other boys his age. But the cost of the operation and the severity of his condition defeated her. “Surgeons wouldn’t touch him,” Georgette said. “It was hard to see him hurting. When he hurts, I hurt.” Despite the constant stares and ridicule Ulrich faced because of his condition, he found a way to adapt. He learned to walk with sticks made from sturdy Their support freed Ulrich from a lifetime of dependence, branches. giving him hope for a bright future. But his determination to be like other boys took its toll. He developed pain in his hands and joints from supporting his body weight. “I was worried that if I was feeling such pain now, Mercy Ships is a faith-based international it was only going to get worse as I got older,” he said. development organisation that deploys hospital ships to some of the poorest countries in the It became increasingly difficult for him to help his world, delivering vital, free healthcare to people mother around the house by collecting firewood in desperate need. and fetching water. “I was scared to grow up like In sub-Saharan Africa, up to 69% of people live on that,” Ulrich said. “I didn’t want this to be all my less than £2 a day. Healthcare in these countries life was ever going to be.” either doesn't exist or is unaffordable to the vast majority of the population. But thanks to Mercy Ships donors and volunteers, Ulrich doesn’t have to live in fear anymore. As well as completing thousands of urgent operations onboard Ulrich’s life was transformed when he received free surgery its “floating hospital”, the Africa Mercy, Mercy Ships volunteers onboard the Africa Mercy. The severity of his condition also work closely with host nations to improve the way required several complicated healthcare is delivered across the country, by training and operations, but finally Ulrich woke up mentoring local medical staff, and renovating hospitals and with two straight legs in casts. clinics. He couldn’t believe they were actually Founded in 1978 by Don and Deyon Stephens, Mercy Ships has his legs. When he stood, he reached up worked in more than 70 countries, providing services valued at to see if he could touch the ceiling. And more than £1 billion. By improving healthcare delivery in every when he finally walked again, the first country it visits, Mercy Ships is working to eradicate the thing he did was hug his mum. diseases of poverty and effectively do itself out of a job. Mercy Now Ulrich is walking straight and tall, Ships follows the 2,000-year-old model of Jesus by “bringing and he can fulfil his dream of getting a hope and healing to the forgotten poor”, helping people of all proper education. faiths and none. Among the countries Mercy Ships serves, “Before, when I would walk in the which lie on the lower third of the World Health street, people would stare at me. They Organisation’s Human Development Index, access to safe, thought I was just a handicapped affordable and timely surgery is extremely limited.