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Winter Edition 2019-20 No FARMING GOD’S WAY LIGHT PARTY THOUGHTS ON STILLE (JESUS IS THE LIGHT) NACHT (SILENT NIGHT) “….on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.” Matthew 4 v 16 Winter Edition 2019-20 No. 407 First Larne Presbyterian Church, Inver Road, Larne Tel 028 28269968 E-mail : [email protected] Web : www.firstlarne.org.uk www.facebook.com/Firstlarne Registered Charity in Northern Ireland (NIC104895) The ripeness of an orange is not determined by its colour. If an orange goes unpicked, it can stay on the tree until the next season, and in the meantime fluctuations in temperature can make it turn from green to orange and back to green again without the quality or flavour being affected. GREEN OR ORANGE ? A few more “orange” facts. Did you know there are only two words in the English language which rhyme As I write this a General Election campaign is under with orange and they are both proper nouns – way. As you read this you may already have voted. Blorenge (a 1,833ft hill outside Abergavenny in The question I ask may seem to be a brazen political Wales which is currently owned by the South East enquiry – but it is not! I am posing a botanical Wales Hang-gliding and Paragliding Club) and query: What colour are oranges – the fruit, Gorringe (an English surname whose most famous unknown in the wild, first grown in South-East Asia, sons have included the unpopular First World War which is a cross between tangerines and the British general, George Frederick Gorringe; the first- “pomelo” or “Chinese grapefruit” (which is pale- class Australian cricketer, Harry Gorringe; and Henry green or yellow)? The answer is not as obvious as Honeychurch Garringe, the man who brought you might think. Cleopatra’s Needle from Egypt to New York’s Central Park. The colour of an orange depends on On the subject of New York, it was founded by the where it is grown. As a Dutch in 1653 as New Amsterdam, then taken by subtropical fruit, when English troops in 1664 and renamed New York, only grown in more to be retaken by the Dutch in 1673 and renamed temperate climes its New Orange - an arrangement that lasted less than a green skin turns orange year before the Treaty of Westminster ceded it into when the weather English hands, thus reverting to New York – the cools; but in countries name that has stuck. (The quick-witted among you where it is always hot will have observed that New Orange became the Big the chlorophyll is not destroyed and the fruits stay Apple!). green. For example, Hondurans eat their oranges green but artificially “orange” them for export. They At Christmas oranges feature prominently in several do this by blasting the oranges with ethylene gas – a of our long-standing customs. Have you ever by product of the oil industry used mainly in plastic wondered why there was usually an orange in your production. The ethylene removes the natural outer traditional Christmas stocking? Apparently, we owe green layer allowing the more familiar orange colour the practice to St. Nicholas, who also has to show through. But don’t panic! Ethylene is associations with Santa Claus. Nicholas, born in what odourless, tasteless and harmless, and is given off by is now Turkey, inherited a large sum of money but many fruits and vegetables after they are picked. chose to devote his life to helping others and Ethylene producers include apples, melons, eventually became a bishop. Nicholas acted after tomatoes, avocados and bananas. That is why you hearing the plight of a poor man unable to find should keep apples and bananas separate from the suitors for his three likes of lemons, carrots … and oranges. daughters because there In South-East Asia, where they were first grown, was not enough money oranges were green and still are green! Vietnamese for dowries. Under cover oranges and Thai tangerines are bright green on the of darkness, the bishop outside and only orange on the inside. travelled to the poor man’s house and tossed The world’s largest producer of oranges is Brazil with three sacks of gold down over 18 million tons a year, followed by the USA with the chimney – one sack less than half that amount, from the states of for each dowry. The gold California, Texas and Florida. The Americans happened to land in each of the girls’ stockings which were hanging by The four sticks (usually cocktail sticks) point in all the fire to dry! Oranges represent that dowry of directions and symbolise North, South, East and gold. West and/or the four seasons. On the sticks the fruit and nuts (or sometimes sweets) represent the fruits Another more recent “orange” tradition is that of of the earth, nurtured by the sunshine and the rain. “Christingle”. Although only introduced to England in 1968 the “Christingle” service traces its origins back “Christingle” is a very visual and truthful to 1747 when John de Watteville, a German representation of the Gospel. However, as we come Moravian bishop, gave children a lighted candle with to celebrate Christmas, we acknowledge that some a red ribbon around it. Although the lighted candle is of our traditional customs and trimmings are sometimes now replaced with a glow stick it still surrounded in ambiguity, obscurity and uncertainty, represents Jesus being the light of the world and the and can be fanciful and even (dare I say so) dubious. final prayer of that first service is still apt. "Lord Jesus, kindle a flame in these children’s hearts, that What is not ambiguous, obscure or uncertain is what theirs like Thine become". This Christmas there will happened when, as prophesied, that baby was born be well over 6,000 such services in the British Isles. in the little town of Bethlehem to be the light of the world. We are not absolutely certain of the origins of the word “Christingle”. Given that tradition has German The eternal Creator entered His creation. The origins it is more likely to be an English version of Creator who stretched out the heavens was wrapped “Christkindl” (meaning “Christ child”), the present up in old clothes and set down in a manger. The bringer in some parts of Germany and other limitless Son of God took on human limitations. European countries, who represents the baby Jesus. However, some have suggested it comes from In his book “God’s Gift of Christmas”, John conflating the words “Christmas” and ingle” - “Ingle” MacArthur writes: being the old Scots word for fire. Thus, “Christingle” means the “Christlight”. “Those soft little hands, fashioned by the Holy Spirit in Mary’s womb, were made so that nails might be driven through them. Those baby feet, pink and unable to walk, would one day walk up a dusty hill to be nailed to a cross…. Jesus was born to die.” The staggering reality of Christmas? This, God’s gift at Christmas, is for you. “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1 v.14) HAPPY CHRISTMAS! We have absolutely no idea why it is explicitly an Nollaig shona (Irish) orange in the Christingle - but we do know what it Nollaig chridheil (Scottish) represents. The orange is round like the world. Nadolig Ilowen (Welsh) Nollick Ghennal (Manx) The candle stands tall and straight and gives light in Nadelik Lowen (Cornish) the dark, like the love of God. a blithe yule (Scots The red ribbon goes all around the 'world' and is a symbol of the blood Jesus shed when he died for us. (Sometimes in Moravian Churches, where the tradition began, a white ribbon is used, to represent Rev Colin McClure the purity of Jesus.) Regular weeding when the seedlings are still small saves time and energy Watering twice a day using water from hand dug wells on site This year’s World Development Appeal features These simple principles are different from the Tearfund and Christian Aid farming projects. techniques farmers have been using for generations and are often met with scepticism, yet they are The Tearfund project is in Mozambique where 80% ecologically friendly, and when applied well, increase of the people live on less than $2 a day and over crop yields year on year. half don’t have access to clean water. Mozambique is very vulnerable to natural disasters such as floods, The Christian Aid project is in Bangladesh. Working cyclones and droughts. Currently, areas of the with the Christian Commission for Development in country are suffering severe drought while still Bangladesh (CCDB) the project, aims to help 500 recovering from the impact of Cyclone Idai. disadvantaged households in the Gopalganj and Consequently food security is a big issue. Mymensingh districts by improving the production of cassava and poultry farming. Tearfund’s partner, the Ecumenical Committee for Social Development (CEDES) works with self-help The project will benefit people such as Catherina groups, churches and farming co-operatives. The Chambugong and her husband, Alan Hagidok. In the local community share one large plot of land divided past Catherina used half of her land to cultivate into beds for each person. When they meet the pineapples & turmeric. people have a Bible study and often participate in a The rest of the land savings & loans group. CEDES staff provide training lying on higher on conservation farming techniques and supply ground, was seeds. The produce that the co-operative grows is unused.
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