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The Hub the Magazine of St The Hub The Magazine of St. Augustine’s Halifax & Christ Church Pellon Price 50p Oct – Nov 2015 Regular events For Children Sundays Children are always welcome! Christ Church 10.45am - S.O.U.L. Patrol or all age service (4th Sundays). St. Augustine’s - a special children’s area with different activities. Uniformed Groups (all at Christ Church) Monday 6.00 – 7.00pm Rainbows(age 5-7) Jane Webster 885878 Monday 6.30 – 8.00pm Brownies(age 7-10) Tracey Jagger 248365 Monday 7.30 – 9.00pm Guides(age 10-15) Louise Cater 0775 9267671 Tuesday 6.00 – 7.00pm Beavers(age 6-8) } Sam 07847 359969 Tuesday 7.00 – 8.00pm Cubs(age 8-11) } Jo 07500 592999 Tuesday 7.00 – 8.00pm Scouts(age 11-14) } or facebook – Sam Jojo SharX at Christ Church Alternate Wednesdays, 7.00—9.00pm. For ages 10+. Fun, friendship and chat., Karaoke, air hockey, table football, Wii games and lots more. Contact Norman McDonnell for more details 07851142694. Fellowship House Groups Various days. Get together for fellowship, faith and prayer. For details contact Brian 250321. Community Café Wednesdays 10.00 am—11.30am at Christ Church. Informal chat to meet other people, chat over coffee and cakes. Wednesday Lunch Last Wednesday of every month, 12.15pm at Christ Church. A lovely lunch followed by fantastic puddings, cheese and biscuits and a cup of tea, all for just £3. International Evening Fridays 6.30pm—9.30pm at Christ Church. A relaxed evening of games, food, and a chance to chill out, especially for those from other countries. Friday Group Friday evenings, bi-monthly. Ladies get-togethers and social events. See ’What’s Happening’ for more details, or contact Ann Gardner 341962. Men’s Breakfast Last Saturday of each month 8-10am. At The Fountainhead Inn, Pellon. Men only, worship, discussion, prayer and breakfast! Contact David Ramanauskas for more details 330770. Worship As well as Sundays, we have other regular worship: Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s Tuesday 12 noon Informal Worship at St. Augustine’s, followed by lunch Wednesday 11.30am Communion Service at Christ Church Interpreted Services. The first Sunday 10.45am service and the Second Sunday 6.30pm Celebration services at Christ Church will be BSL signed services. From the Vicar Dear Readers, The current refugee crisis has got people talking about the political and economic situation overseas and at home like nothing else in the recent past. Yes, the banking crisis got us talking about those who seemed to earn a great deal of money by thinking up cleverer and more intricate ways of gambling someone else’s money on the stock exchange, but that was largely limited to the UK, Europe and the USA. This has got us all thinking about countries we knew relatively little about before. Yes, Syria has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, but it was something ‘over there’ until the last couple of months. Suddenly, the picture of the lifeless body of young boy being lifted out of the sea has triggered much soul-searching among a lot of people. For many, there has been a heartfelt and positive response, and an outpouring of generosity and willingness to help that is reminiscent of the kind of ‘blitz spirit’ that people talk about. This sort of thing should not be happening in the 21st century, we say, so let’s do something about it! And of course, they’re right. This sort of thing shouldn’t be happening in this day and age, and something does need to be done. But what, exactly? Some will argue that we are already doing something. The UK government has put a lot of money into providing support, food, clothing, etc. for the refugee camps close to where the ‘problems’ are, thereby, arguably, helping a relatively large number of people in a cost-effective way. After all, most refugees never make it anywhere near Europe, but are either internally displaced (what a wonderfully euphemistic phrase) or only make it just beyond a border and settle in huge refugee camps in countries that are in little better condition to help them than their home country. And, so the argument goes, if we provide refuge for a few thousand refugees, all that will do will be to encourage more to follow, and there’s only a limited number we can take before it overloads our already stretched resources – our schools and hospitals, for example. 3 The trouble with these ‘reasonable sounding’ arguments is that they have bought into the modern idea that the thing we should be most concerned about is money. Don’t believe me? What do you think of when I say that something is ‘uneconomic’? My guess is that it immediately becomes something ‘bad’, rather than actually a simple statement about whether the financial calculations balance. And some things, when we consider them carefully, are worthwhile doing even if they are ‘uneconomic’. For example, raising children is not something most people choose to do because it makes financial good sense! So maybe we need something different to help us make our decisions. And that’s where faith comes in. Faith gives us a compass by which to steer through the complex web of issues that surround a situation like this. And for the Christian, that means letting the person of Jesus show us the way. And maybe the place to start is by remembering that Jesus himself was a refugee – fleeing from Herod and taking refuge in Egypt when he was but a baby. And then there are those uncomfortable words in Matthew chapter 25 in his parable of the sheep and the goats which suggest that the way we treat the most weak and vulnerable is the way we are treating him. “But it’s not our problem – they need to sort themselves out” may sound ‘reasonable’, but then I remember Jesus talking about a Good Samaritan who didn’t cross the street to avoid a problem, but recognised in his enemy the neighbour who he was called to love and to serve. “But we can’t afford it” was the cry of those who gave out of their riches, but the one who was commended by Jesus was the woman who gave the last two coins she had to help others. “But we might be opening our borders to IS terrorists” ignores maybe the hardest of Jesus direct commands – to love our enemies – not to mention the immense good that so many others will bring. And above all, we should remember that Jesus gave up everything – and ultimately even his own life – for those who were different from him, who were his ‘enemies’, i.e. you and me. Can we do anything less if we claim to follow him? John Hellewell 4 WHAT’S HAPPENING This is a BSL interpreted service OCTOBER 1 Thursday 3.30 pm Communion at Clement Court – All welcome! 6.00 pm Christian Meditation at Christ Church 7.00 pm Farsi Baptism Preparation (3) at Christ Church 2 Friday 9.30 am CC Chatterbox at Christ Church 7.30 pm Ladies Friday Group at Tracey Jagger’s 3 Saturday 9.00 am Fitness Class at Christ Church 4.30 pm Jesus special meal (3) at Christ Church 4 Sunday: Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 10.45 am Communion at Christ Church 10.45 am Communion at St. Augustine’s 6.30 pm Evening Café Worship at Christ Church 5 Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s 6 Tuesday 10.30 am Communion at Asquith Court – all welcome! 12 noon Worship at St. Augustine’s, followed by lunch 1.30 pm ‘Simple English’ Alpha course at St. Augustine’s 2.30 pm Service at Pellon Manor 7 Wednesday 9.30 am Macmillan’s Coffee Morning at Christ Church 11.30 am Communion at Christ Church 7.00 pm Knowing Jesus (3) at Christ Church 7.30 pm HappyDays Mentoring Intro. at Christ Church 8 Thursday 3.30 pm Communion at Clement Court – all welcome! 6.00 pm Christian Meditation at Christ Church 7.00 pm Farsi Baptism Preparation (4) at Christ Church 9 Friday 9.30 am CC Chatterbox at Christ Church 6.30 pm International Evening at Christ Church 10 Saturday 9.00 am Fitness Class at Christ Church 1.00 pm Private Party at Christ Church 2.30 pm Licensing of Shelagh as Reader at St. Michael’s, Mytholmroyd – all welcome! 11 Sunday: Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity 10.45 am Communion at Christ Church 10.45 am Morning Worship at St. Augustine’s 6.30 pm Celebration Service at Christ Church 5 12 Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s 7.30 pm Parish share consultation at Halifax Minster 13 Tuesday 12 noon Worship at St. Augustine’s, followed by lunch 1.30 pm ‘Simple English’ Alpha course at St. Augustine’s 14 Wednesday 10.00 am Community café at Christ Church 11.30 am Communion at Christ Church 7.00 pm SharX at Christ Church 7.30 pm Bible Society Quiz at St. Andrew’s 15 Thursday 10.30 am Christ Church School Harvest Festival in Church 6.00 pm Christian Meditation at Christ Church 7.00 pm Farsi Baptism Preparation (5) at Christ Church 16 Friday 9.30 am CC Chatterbox at Christ Church 17 Saturday 9.00 am Fitness Class at Christ Church 2.00 pm Trefoil Guild at Christ Church 18 Sunday: Twentieth Sunday after Trinity 10.45 am Communion at Christ Church 10.45 am Communion at St.
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