PARISH NEWS St Cuthberts, Wells and St , Wookey Hole May 2013 May

The Ascension

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What IF by Elizabeth Sidwell Easter has been celebrated, school has gone lives with the pain of hunger even though back, – and at last... population growth has not made it impossible to feed the world – there is enough food produced The spring has sprung today to feed everyone – but somehow not the grass is riz everyone in the world has enough to eat. I wonder where dem boidies is. So, a huge group of organisations including De little boids is on de OXFAM, CAFOD, Save the Children, Send a wing, Cow, the C of E, Comic Relief, the Methodist ...ain’t that absoid? Church, Traidcraft and a hundred others have De little wing is on de put together a campaign “Enough Food If” to boid. make this generation the one that ends hunger in the world. With this exuberant life all around us, is there anything happening this year that we can pour Because hunger's unfair, it's unjust, and - it's our enthusiasm into? totally preventable. We can push world leaders to end this injustice by tackling four big IFs.

YES We can work together Aid to make sure that everyone in the world has we give aid to stop people dying enough food to eat. from hunger, and help the poorest people feed themselves. We live in a world of plenty, yet hunger is the The British government has recently committed world's most shocking problem and our toughest itself to giving the long promised 0.7% of national challenge. One in eight people on this planet income to poor countries. This is in part as a

1 result of continued pressure from organizations like Christian Aid week: 12-18 May 2013 Christian Aid, Save the Children and Oxfam – so it really is worth while letting your ideas be heard. St Cuthbert’s will be supporting Christian Aid week this year, as usual. Along with house to house collections and a Land street collection, there will be a service in the Cathedral with May 2013 we stop poor farmers being forced off their a Christian Aid focus – so make space for Christian Aid and land, and use crops to feed people, not fuel join us one way or another. cars. House to House Collection Tax we stop big companies dodging taxes in poor We have a great team of volunteers who deliver and collect countries, so that millions of people can free envelopes from streets allocated to St Cuthbert’s Church. If themselves from hunger. you have not already done so, please find the notice in PARISH NEWS church and sign your name against the street in which you would like to collect. Maps are displayed near the notice. Transparency Nearer the time envelopes and bags and badges will be we force governments and big corporations to distributed. be honest and open about their role in the food system. New Volunteers If you have not done this before, please see Elizabeth Sidwell – or anyone else who has signed up – These are big IFs, but IF we press world leaders to make to find out what is involved. Last year we were unable to these happen, and IF they listen, there really will be enough cover every single one of our streets, so new help will be food for everyone much valued.

The G8 summit in June is being hosted by the United Christian Aid Service – Cathedral Kingdom and all these issues are on the agenda. So let’s do our best to make sure that the leaders make decisions that Evensong with a Christian Aid focus will be held at the will help end hunger. The website Enoughfoodif.org has Cathedral on MAY 12th at 3 pm. The service will follow the lots of information and ways of getting involved in the usual form, but Jenny Humphries, Diocesan World Mission campaigning. Write to your MP if you do nothing else – it Adviser, will preach, and the prayers will be focused on really can make a difference. world poverty and its alleviation.

And there is another opportunity to help because Christian Street Collection Aid Week is coming up. Christian Aid is already working to help poor farmers grow enough food to feed their families, St Cuthbert’s is charged with collecting from outside the old rather than having to take another to make ends meet Woolworths between 9am and 12 noon on MAY 18th. just at the time that their own fields need labour. Christian Again, there is a sign up in church for anyone who is able to Aid partners are already working with their own take this on for any length of time. Ideally we’d do it in two’s governments to monitor the way that government tax is – makes it more companionable – but there is no problem spent (or not spent) for the poorest in society. doing it alone.

In Wells, the churches get together to organise house to Elizabeth house collections for Christian Aid – this year in the week from May 12th – 18th. Volunteers will come round to most streets delivering envelopes, and collecting them, hopefully with money inside, a few days later. So, IF you want to help Churches are paying the price of bat end hunger, please consider making a donation, and please conservation get in touch with Elizabeth Sidwell if you are able to help with collecting envelopes or with the street collection on Bat conservation is damaging churches not just physically, May 18th. but financially, and cannot be sustained, the Environment Minister Richard Benyon MP has been told. The cost of Together we can help end hunger – because there is replacing one small piece of a leaded window, for example, enough food for everyone IF….. increased from £5 using plain glass to £140 when fitting a lead 'bat flap' was required by the Bat Conservation Trust Elizabeth (BCT) - four weeks' collection in the rural parish church of * * * * * Wiggenhall, St Germans.

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's Leaving interpretation of the law on bat conservation largely called a shipment, but when you transport something by to the BCT is bringing the European Habitats Directive into ship, it's a cargo? disrepute to the detriment of endangered species more generally, warned a Church of England delegation led by Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips? Second Church Estates Commissioner Sir Tony Baldry MP, with representatives of Natural England. "I remain puzzled Be kind to your dentist. He has fillings, too as to why our churches are treated as if they were uninhabited barns. They are not," said the Rt Revd Graham It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody James, Bishop of Norwich. bothers to ask you the questions.

(continued) 2 The delegation looked forward to results that would mitigate The service in Wells Cathedral will start at 2pm and will be the impact of bats on buildings. Churches are places of open to all as an opportunity to express our thanks and say worship, centres of communities and heritage sites, not our farewells. It is very likely that the Cathedral will be full sites of special scientific interest, they reminded the for the service and we may even need to spill out onto Minister. Cathedral Green.

May 2013 Bring a picnic and join us after the service for a party on Cathedral Green. “Being bishop in Somerset has been the greatest privilege of my life” Sunday 19th May - Christians of Wells The house isn’t quite filled with boxes, nor the removal van worship TOGETHER! ordered, but there is a sense of departure coming over us PARISH NEWS as I write this last magazine article during my time as After months of planning and discussion between the Wells Bishop of Bath and Wells. Being bishop in Somerset has church leaders and the Christians Together in Wells Forum, been the greatest privilege of my life. I have enjoyed the a very unusual event is planned for Pentecost Sunday, 19th wide and varied visits to communities, churches and May. institutions, where so many people are changing lives for At 10.30am that morning Christians of all denominations good. will meet together in St Cuthbert's to celebrate the foundation of the church - the coming of God the Spirit on When I am asked what the high points have been, there are the disciples in . so many it is almost invidious to compare. However, I think the early Changing Lives roadshows when over 6,000 The service will start at 10am and last under an hour, with people came out over 19 nights were encouraging and, I people from different churches taking part and will be hope, inspiring. In 2009 the walk around the diocese – followed (we hope if it has stopped snowing!) by shared ‘Peter’s Progress’ – was a delight; meeting folk in their work refreshments and food outside so that people can meet and and play in places as varied as a children’s hospice, mix. Avonmouth Docks, the farms of Exmoor, military bases, This is an exciting one off event by CTWA this year and schools, a travellers’ camp, and even going down Swildons celebrates the ways in which the different churches do work Pot – a cave on the Mendips. together and recognise and affirm one another.

But mostly it has been in the ‘well come’ that I have Like everyone else this does received in each of the many parishes that I have visited, mean some changes from often with Bishop Peter of Taunton on our Deanery Visits. the normal structure for St Working with Archdeacons and the staff team too has been Cuthbert's and Wookey a joy and a delight. So thank you. Hole. Both churches will have a full service of Now it is time to say ‘fare well’. When we bid someone ‘well communion at 6.30 that come’, we hope they will bring us health and wholeness – evening, and the usual 8am what the bible calls salvation. I hope that in the various ‘well communion also happens at comes’ that we have experienced, something of that St Cuthbert's. There will be no separate service at wholeness and healing Christ wants us to experience has Wookey Hole in the morning, been found. Now in saying ‘fare well’ the emphasis is on but a Pentecost communion wishing the wholeness and healing will continue to enable service at 6.30pm. each and every one of us to fare well – continuing in the love and hope of God, and our neighbour. Do tell people about this and invite them to take part in a very unusual event! So thank you for the ‘well come’ – and now I bid you ‘fare well’ God be with you. Good bye. Alastair

+Peter Bath and Wells

" Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples." -- Francois de la Rochefoucald Beware those modern choruses

The Rectory AN INVITATION TO BISHOP PETER’S St. James the Least RETIREMENT SERVICE AND PARTY My dear Nephew Darren Saturday 22 June 2013 - Wells Cathedral and Cathedral Green I am afraid we shall have to agree to disagree on yet another topic – although I suspect the list of items we agree to agree on would be considerably shorter. I like to think my Parishioners across the Diocese of Bath & Wells are invited appreciation of hymns resembles a connoisseur of fine to a farewell service for the Rt Revd Peter Price, Bishop of wines savouring a grand cru claret, yours seems to Bath & Wells who retires at the end of June.

3 resemble a Russian female tractor driver who is a Hero of them for being too drunk, or heaven forbid ask them to turn the Nation. off their precious Kindles for take-off. Then there’s us gays, who make up a vast majority of hosties around the world, (continued) We at St. James the Least are more than happy with and in the eyes of some churches are probably the world’s (continued“Hymns Ancient & Modern” – the original 1861 number one sinners. May 2013 edition, naturally - the later editions display a dangerous So I was a little surprised when I discovered that the Roman tendency towards modernism. Sadly, St. Paul was not able had in fact created a Patron of flight to sing “Onward, Christian soldiers,” but I am sure he attendants back in 1962, and here is her story. regretted the fact that it had yet to be written. The hymns our grandparents pretended to sing when they were in Born in 1156 in , , Santa Bona was said to have church are quite good enough for the ones we pretend to been able to see visions of Christ and the Mary from sing when we sit in the same pews. an early age. During one such vision, she is reported to have been chased by James the Greater; after seeing him PARISH NEWS At least when we come to the last verse, we know that we with and The Virgin Mary, James then led her back to can then sit down, mission accomplished. The last time I the image of Jesus, who then held out his hand to her. After attended your church, just as I saw the last words and this she dedicated the rest of her life to Saint James and therefore the finishing line of one of your choruses coming became an Augustinian tertiary; well I guess being chased into sight, we were told it would be splendid to sing the thing by a dead saint and having Jesus trying to hold your hand another three times. At least it gave me another analogy to would freak you out quite a bit. She subsequently took part use when I next preached on eternity in hell. in regular fasting, taking only bread and water three days a week, similar to what many of the girls (and boys) eat And your method of singing would plunge our congregation onboard the aircraft today so they can squeeze into their into an existential crisis. What do they do with their hands party frocks - still, better than eating the crew food. when they don’t have books to hold and are obliged to look at a screen? To be deprived of being able to hold a book in A cheerful and adventurous child, Bona always wanted to church is like a smoker who is trying to give up being unable explore what lay outside her small home town. At just 14 to grasp a cigarette when in the pub. years old she made the first of many long and treacherous journeys that would subsequently lead to her sainthood. The ladies do not know whether to clutch their handbags, Bona had gone to visit her father, who was fighting in the which then makes it look as if they suspect the rest of the near Jerusalem. But on her way back to Pisa, she congregation of theft, or to hold some flowers, which looks a was captured by Islamic pirates in the Mediterranean, little too matrimonial. The men experiment with putting wounded and imprisoned. She would later be rescued by hands in pockets, which they then realise looks scruffy, so some of her countrymen and eventually returned home. they try to hold on to the pew in front, which is inevitably too low, so they have to adopt some form of half crouch, which But nothing daunted Bona and she did not stay in Pisa for makes them look as if they have recently had hernia long. She soon set out on another , this time operations. leading many on the dangerous thousand mile journey to , where James the Greater is Your choral tradition – if I can flatter it with such a honoured. Following this trip, she was made one of the description – also seems to require half an hour before the official guides for this pilgrimage by the Knights of Saint Service spent singing for our congregation; that time is James; ensuring those that travelled the route had stowed more usefully spent discussing Government incompetence, their hand luggage, fastened their seat-belts, knew where livestock prices and why Miss Threlfall always wears a red the emergency exits were and most importantly arrived in felt hat with her tangerine coat. one piece.

Should we ever Santa Bona completed the trip ten times. However, on the have a joint tenth trip she became very ill and passed away on her Service, I can’t return, aged 51. Her body was found in the room she kept imagine how we’ll near the church of San Martino in Pisa, where it still lies to all get through the this day. first hymn together. In 1962 the Roman Catholic , John XXIII canonised her as Bona Of Pisa, of Flight Attendants and Your loving uncle, her feast day is celebrated on the 29th May each year. This amazing woman took care of thousands of travellers on Eustace their , long before man had even taken to the skies.

29th May - Today things are very different and us cabin crew have to put up with a lot more than a few rowdy pilgrims. The The Patron Saint Of Cabin Crew – Bona constant threat of terrorism, abusive and drunken Of Pisa. passengers and in some cases **** employers. So today as An alternative version by ‘confessionsofatrolleydolly’ you take to the skies remember, we’re all ; we have to be to keep smiling through all that ****. Many people say that if there’s a scam going on within an Happy Flying everyone… airline, then the cabin crew are usually at it and are probably the ones that started it. Many of our passengers think we’re spawns of the Devil himself, when we offload

4 May 14: St Matthias Bread of Heaven

I think I have always loved bread - its smell, its texture and, If you’re saying to yourself, ‘Who?’ you’ll be in good of course, its taste. company. May 14th is the feast day of St Matthias the May 2013 Perhaps this love was born when, as a very little boy, my Apostle, and in describing him thus we have said just about mum used to sit me on the kitchen worktop so that I could all there is to know about him. He gets just one mention in ‘help’ her knead the bread that she was making. Then the Bible, in the first chapter of Acts, immediately prior to the again, perhaps it was born a little later on in childhood when day of Pentecost, where it tells us that he was elected to my maternal grandparents moved to South Wales, to a take the place in the ranks of the twelve apostles recently small town near Caerphilly called Ystrad Mynach. I used to vacated by the betrayer Judas Iscariot. love visiting and going for walks with my grandpa - past the allotments to the woods and the rugby pitch or past the little Eusebius, in the fourth century, says in his history of the

PARISH NEWS church at the end of the road and to the High Street. apostolic era that Matthias was one of the Always hopeful of being bought a comic, trips to the sent out by Jesus (Luke 10:1), and that seems reasonable. newsagent were always looked forward to with great When it was necessary to fill the vacancy among the anticipation. My favourite destination by far though was the apostles it would be natural to turn to someone who had bakery where, if I was lucky and we had timed it right, the followed Jesus from earlier years, as well as being a baker would allow me to help him draw the loaves from the witness of the resurrection. Two names were suggested and oven on his old long-handled wooden peel. Even now, I prayed over. Then the apostles cast lots, following the Old think I can still picture the loaves coming out of the flames Testament practice of the high priest’s Urim and Thummim, and smell that bakery with all its wonderful aromas. one assumes. When they did, ‘the lot fell on Matthias’. There’s something deeply satisfying about a really good loaf Casting lots to fill vacancies on committees or councils, or of bread. Inspired perhaps by the BBC Television even, I suppose, to appoint bishops, would seem to us a programme Paul Hollywood’s Bread, I have even, for the bizarre and risky practice, and it may be, as the great first time in ages, made a few loaves of my own recently Victorian preacher Campbell Morgan suggested, that the and have enjoyed getting my hands on the dough and eleven acted in haste and pre-empted God’s choice of Saul kneading it with my knuckles. In doing so I have been (later known as Paul), who at that time was busy reminded that bread-making is not a speedy process. Once persecuting the Church, arresting Christians and having mixed and kneaded, the dough has to sit and ‘prove’ - them thrown into prison. He hadn’t yet travelled the sometimes for hours - before going into the oven or even, Damascus Road. depending on the loaf in question, being kneaded again before yet more proving. It takes time and patience to make Be that as it may, Matthias was elected, and for us he can a good loaf of bread. stand for all those excellent, consistent, reliable and faithful servants of Christ who never make a headline, not even in There is, of course, much that could be said about bread the parish magazine. He was chosen because he could be and its place in the Scriptures. We could consider the a ‘witness’, and so are we. manna that the people of Israel ate in the wilderness, and the request for it daily in the Lord’s Prayer. We could recall Doubtless he fulfilled that responsibility admirably, without, Jesus’ feeding of five thousand people from just five small as we say, ‘setting the Thames on fire’. Let’s salute him on loaves of it (and a couple of fish), Jesus breaking bread, his day - the ‘Unknown Apostle’. blessing it and instructing his friends to eat to remember him (during his last meal with them before his death), and Winter indeed the resurrected Jesus being recognised in the breaking of the bread on the road to Emmaus. We could explore what Jesus might have meant when he said “I am the bread of life”. But even this would still be scratching the surface, for bread is mentioned 330 times in 300 verses in the Bible - and those numbers don’t take account references to ‘loaf’ or ‘loaves’, just ‘bread’.

So instead, I would like to set you a challenge for these days after Easter. Think about the process of bread- making. Think about the need to have certain ingredients in place. Think about how those ingredients are prepared and put to work. Think about the work surface and the mixing then about the kneading and proving, kneading and proving, required before shaping and baking can take place. Think about the periods of intense activity and patient waiting involved so that something good and wholesome may be produced. Think about how much a good loaf is made by human hands and how much by things beyond us. Then think about the life of the church and see where the The retiring collection will be split 50:50 between the parallels lie. Feel free to share the results of your thinking performers and their costs and St Cuthbert's church funds. with others in the church - it would be an interesting We hope you will support the church and musicians, all of conversation to have, I think. And if this inspires you to whom are local talent. We look forward to seeing you at the bake some bread (see after for a recipe), feel free to share recitals." that as well! Rev Paul Timms, Merton Park Methodist Church 5 Wookey Hole WI, April Meeting

The speaker for the afternoon, Terry Merrett-Smith, got an enthusiastic welcome from members, who remembered his

May 2013 previous film and music presentation. This time his theme was “Some Enchanted Evening”, with songs from the shows, from Gilbert and Sullivan onwards. The music was illustrated by pictures of the singers, programmes and scenes from the shows. From “Tit Willow”, as originally written and in a jazz version, to “The Sound of Music”, the latter with pictures from the film and also some remarkably rainy Austrian scenery; Terry reminded members of all the shows they had enjoyed over the years. The songs of PARISH NEWS Rogers and Hart, Rogers and Hammerstein, Lehar, Romberg, Novello and many others gave delight. With some we were invited to sing along, with others lips moved soundlessly in smiling faces. It was an enchanting afternoon.

After the tea break it was time for business.. Members voted to buy two 200 Club tickets. Numbers were taken and transport arranged for various forthcoming events and bulb order forms were distributed. Nomination forms for the new committee were filled in and collected and arrangements for next month’s AGM discussed.

The competition, a memento of an enchanted evening, was won by Jill, with Sue second and Elizabeth third. The Flower of the month was won by Jan, with Jill second and PS Add 1tbsp lemon juice to stop the mashed bananas Margaret L. third. going brown. Turn it into Banana Nut Bread by adding 125gms chopped walnuts instead of fruit. Elizabeth R. ______The puppies Wookey Hole Ladies Club, April meeting A client brought a litter of Golden Retriever puppies to the local veterinary clinic for inoculations and worming. As the Roger Cookman was the speaker at the recent Ladies club look-alike pups tumbled over and under one another in their meeting and opened his talk by asking the question “How box, the experienced vet realized it would be difficult to tell well do you know your City?” which had been treated and which hadn't. So the vet turned on the water tap, wet her fingers and gently Mr Cookman showed us a slide with a map of Wells from moistened each dog's head as she finished giving it the 1735 and then took us on a short tour of the City which necessary shots. included information about the railways, and the Regal Cinema, now a night club. We had a look at some of the After the fourth puppy, the vet noticed her hitherto talkative architecture of the buildings in the High Street and saw client had grown silent and was looking rather reverent. As photographs of the shops of many years ago and the animal doctor sprinkled the last pup's head, the owner photographs of the more modern shops of today. We also leaned forward and whispered, "Thank you so much. I saw slides of some of the cottages in Mill Street and a view hadn’t realised you baptised them, too.” of Sadler Street demonstrating how that had changed. There are many things of historical interest in the City that we walk past in our daily lives but we are not always aware St Cuthbert’s Ladies Group of them. A vote of thanks was given to Mr Cookman for his very Our May meeting is on Tuesday 21st, 7.30 at St interesting talk and for helping us to appreciate the history Lawrence’s Day Centre when Fay Wilson-Rudd is coming of Wells. to talk about “Being a Woman in the Church of England”. Many of you will already know Fay from her years working The next meeting is the A.G.M and a members evening on at the Old Deanery Diocesan offices or in one of her many Tuesday 7th May at 7.30p.m. other roles around Wells. It promises to be an entertaining and educational evening! Lyn

Details of our outing on 16th July should be Definition of an archaeologist: a person whose career is in available at this meeting, so if you are unable to make it, do ruins. please ask for the information afterwards.

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6 Quiet Gardens Days “What was lost is now found, like the return of the prodigal son,” says Declan Kelly, Director of Libraries. “We are The Quiet Gardens concept is an international movement overjoyed that these books are now being restored and will whereby gardens are made available for a time of rest, once more be available to our readers and library users. reflection and prayer. Their return greatly enriches the already impressive Lambeth library, which is the major centre for the study of Two days have been arranged in Wells this year:Thursday the history of the Church of England.” Work has already 11th July and Thursday 1st August.The Revd.Hugh Talbott begun on conserving and cataloging, a task which has been May 2013 will lead each day. described as “challenging”. The days will include an introduction to Lectio Divina, a from “In Focus”, reflective and meditative use of the Bible for personal CofE e-newsletter devotion.

If you are interested please contact:

Anne Wood, telephone 01749 673210. PARISH NEWS

Numbers will be limited.

Over the hills and far away...

Advance notice of the seventh annual sponsored walk, on Saturday 15th June 2013. Nine miles, starting at the East Quantoxhead car park, GR 137436, north-west of Holford; 10.15 for a prompt 10.30am start.

In aid of St Cuthbert’s Church, Wells and Oxfam. Ask Bill for a sponsorship form, or give generously to one of the walkers - they’ll be around looking hopeful! A farmer was thinking of ploughing one of his fields… at the moment he is just turning it over in his mind. I understand that the walk will be over relatively level ground, with only one moderate hill to climb. * My husband finished last year’s London Marathon, but he Further information in the June edition of Parish News, or was just pipped at the post by this year’s competitors. talk to Bill Oke 673472 or David Green 673356. * When I asked a friend the secret to his 52 years of marriage, he replied, "We never go to sleep angry. The longest we've been awake so far is five days."

The return of the prodigal books Prepare to be amazed! Lambeth Palace Library is celebrating the recovery of a Trace your path through this maze with your cursor. major collection of rare volumes which were stolen nearly 40 years ago. In 1975 the librarian noticed that there were some troubling gaps on the shelves. At the time it was impossible to discover what the thief had taken because of war damage to the library which resulted in the lost of 10,000 books. However, subsequent research revealed that some 60 of the library’s rarest volumes had disappeared. Despite investigations and the full cooperation of the book trade at home and abroad, none of the volumes were ever found. But like all good stories, this one has a happy ending. In 2011, the newly appointed librarian was contacted by a solicitor dealing with the estate of an individual who had once been associated with the library. The solicitor had been given a sealed letter that contained a full confession and details about where the books could be found.

Hidden in an attic were not just 60 books but around 1,400 individual items and hundreds of catalogue cards. The thief knew how to cover his tracks. The literary treasure trove included Elizabethan and Jacobean books, many featuring beautiful engravings, though many had been damaged in an attempt to remove indications of the former ownership.

7 Weather

A young curate was St BONA of PISA impressed by how her vicar

May 2013 May 29th always seemed to know what Bona was born in Pisa, Italy in 1156. the weather was about to do. When she was 14 she made her first journey, going to see her One day she commented on father who was fighting in the crusades near Jerusalem. On this impressive spiritual gift of the way back she was captured by pirates in the knowledge. Mediterranean. Rescued, she set out again, this time taking with her a large number of The vicar sighed. “Sadly, it is pilgrims to make the 1,000 mile not spiritual. My joints are PARISH NEWS journey to the shrine of St James more accurate meteorologists at Compostella in Spain. than the BBC weather forecast.” Bona became an official guide on this famous pilgrimage route and FROM THE REGISTERS 2013 made the journey 9 times, "full of energy, helpful, and unselfish, CHRISTIAN BAPTISM ready to reassure with her smile April 14th Molly Isla Dickens those who were sick." 21st Benjamin Matthew James In recent times St Bona has come to be associated as the Felicity Lily Goodwin patron saint of travellers along with St Christopher; and in particular of couriers, guides and air-hostesses. BANNS OF MARRIAGE Christopher John Goodchild & Holly Jade Parr TRAVELLING ON… Raymond David Fahrenbruch & Kirsty Diane Haskins There are lots of journeys recorded in the Bible. Can you find the answers to these travel questions? FUNERALS AND MEMORIAL SERVICES Answers at the bottom of the page. 28th March Mary Frew 1. Where Paul was ship-wrecked on his journey to 2nd April Kathleen James Rome (Acts, chapt. 27)? Mary Muirhead 2. Where was there no room for Mary and 5th Oliver Fletcher when they journeyed from Nazareth? 11th Harry Alexander Vile Which country did Joseph’s brothers travel to find 3. 19th Michele Jane Stiling food? (Genesis, chapt.42) 25th Thomas Raymond Lemon 4. Why does the Bible always say that people were ‘going up’ to Jerusalem? Sheila Jenkins 5. When led the people out of Egypt, what did ______he take with himl? (Exodus, chapt.13) 6. Which of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse rides Grow old along with me a red horse? (Revelation) Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith, “A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!”

What do you say to a hitch-hiking frog? From ‘Rabbi ben Ezra’ by Robert Browning Hop in! What do you call a penguin in the Sahara Desert? Lost. Out of the mouths of… ? Marge, you can’t keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself

once, then move on. - Homer Simpson, of The Simpsons

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whatever direction you come from, you will always be be always will you from, come you direction whatever

3. Egypt 4. because Jerusalem is built on a hill, so so hill, a on built is Jerusalem because 4. Egypt 3.

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