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March 2019 In this issue: • Last film club of the LINK season • What is Collop Monday? • 50 years of Mark Beech nursery school • What makes a good photo? • Remembering Margaret Dale • Mark Beech book fair • What’s on in March ...and much more! Parish magazine of Four Elms, Hever and Markbeech £1 All Types of Interior & Exterior PAINTING & DECORATING Ray Meades (Speldhurst) 01892 863548 Also General Household Repairs & Maintenance Fully Insured XÄÄtËá VâÑvt~xá Delicious homemade cupcakes using local free range eggs and organic ingredients wherever possible. Our cakes are freshly baked to order ensuring that they taste as good M & M WALKER as they look! We cater for all occasions: birthdays, weddings, corporate events or just because . 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At the time it seemed so out of context that I wrote it down, and every now and then it slips out of my notebook as a timely reminder. Of what? For me, it says that God loves and blesses us all without distinction. As Lent approaches, that set me thinking about the Beatitudes - those beautiful sayings that we can read in St Matthew’s Gospel. In 8 short verses the Bible provides a rich mine of resources for living faithfully in the world of today – they are always relevant, whatever the state of the world. Whether you’re planning to give something up for Lent or not, this is an invitation to join us to focus your thoughts and prayers on LINK what is important in life. Some versions of the Bible replace the word ‘blessed’ with the word ‘happy’. Maybe that works for you. There’s no right or wrong version. So, with very many thanks to all who have let me know what might work well for a Lent programme this year, this is the plan: we shall meet at 10:30am on five Saturday mornings beginning on 9th March. Most of my respondents said that they prefer to meet in someone’s home – so I am grateful to Elly Heard, who has promised us not just the comfort of her home, but also a generous supply of coffee or tea! Her address is – Wedgwood, Uckfield Lane, Hever TN8 7LJ. All are welcome. If you can offer someone a lift, please let me know. Wendy Izod 1 news from the pews on 27th January, which coincided with the meeting of ‘Inspire Club’ Markbeech Unfortunately, the Parish Rooms were Our monthly Family Services have not available for use so the young begun! This is a very exciting time members of Inspire worked quietly in the life of Holy Trinity Markbeech at the back of the Church, joining – historically a high Anglo Catholic in the service at the end. Well done church basing its worship in Tractarian everyone for not making a difficulty theology – now offering a light hearted into a problem. Café Church was service with coffee and buns, might back in its home in the Parish Rooms, well have our ancestors turn in their Four Elms for its monthly meeting on graves! The church was built to 10th February. Learning about Jesus provide an alternative to the rather calling fishermen to be his disciples, low and liberal minded churches in the children coloured cut out fish, Cowden and Hever and was, for over while others (a little older) participated a century a single parish with a large in “name the fish”.