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In Partnership April 2015 Contact Information: The Partnership office is open: Monday - Friday, 9:00 – 12:00pm . IInn PPaarrttnneerrsshhiipp Tuesday 8.30 – 11.30am The office number is 01793 874221. The office e-mail is: [email protected] AApprriill 22001155 To publicise any News or Events in the next edition of In Partnership covering May, please send them to the office no later than 16 April. The address for correspondence is: The Partnership Office, Holy Trinity Church, Shaw Village Centre, SWINDON, SN5 5PY. The editor’s e-mail address is: [email protected] The Partnership web site is http://www.wswinlyd.org.uk Partnership Team Minister: Revd Capt Clive Deverell Email: [email protected] Tel: 01793 877111 Partnership Youth Worker: Claire Camm Email: [email protected] Tel: 07981 951381 Partnership Primary Age Schools Worker: Gayle Bryon Email: [email protected] Page 20 of 20 ‘In the beginning the Word already existed. FROM THE REGISTERS The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. Baptisms God created everything through him 15 March 2015 Freddie Aston Rothero and nothing was created except through him. The Word gave life to everything that was created 21 March 2105 Jacob David Gale and his life brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness, Weddings and the darkness can never extinguish it’. 07 March 2015 Carl Read and Katie-Louise Fitzpatrick (John 1: 1-5 New Living Translation) The above words from John is one of my favourite passages in the 21 March 2015 Jack Tait and Alida Marian Dunn Gospels, which we are very familiar with hearing in Church, especially during Advent. What I particularly like about the passage is that it talks Wedding Blessing about light and life and how those things came through Jesus and can 21 March 2015 Matthew James Thompson and Karen Stacey never be extinguished, snuffed out, destroyed. These are truths which Hayes we all need to hear constantly throughout our lives as we travel through times that are difficult or may even seem unbearable. Interment of Ashes We need to remember that the light which Jesus brought into the 02 March 2015 Lorraine Anne Smith world and shared with people he met is now within us, his living body; and we need to let it shine! If we don’t bear his light, how will others 30 March 2015 Audrey Sinden meet Jesus and how will his Kingdom grow, as opposed to that of the ‘Prince of darkness’ whom Jesus called ‘The ruler of this world?’ PRAYERS Peter Benenson, the founder of Amnesty International gave public Please pray for:- utterance to this thought at a Human Rights day ceremony with the words: Give thanks that 19 of the estimated 220 Assyrians abducted by IS in ‘It is better to light a candle in the darkness than to curse the Syria on 23 February have been freed, and pray for the safe release of darkness’. those still being held captive. I have found myself, like many others I am sure, depressed and The Big Banquet on 02 April deeply saddened by the rampant spread of the ISIS movement in Iraq with all the destruction and hatred they have wrought. ‘What can I Partnership AGM on 12 April do’? ‘How can we change this situation’? are questions I’m sure we all ask about this and other terrible examples of suffering we hear of New Partnership Council meeting on Tuesday 28 April daily. When we are outside of a situation and it’s not possible to affect what’s happening, there are really only two things – but two things of great power and hope. One is to pray and believe that prayer brings change, as Jesus says it does. The other is to bear Christ’s light wherever we are. Not to shut ourselves in or lose hope in goodness; to do the opposite and to shine brighter. Page 2 of 20 Page 19 of 20 Swindon/Salzgitter Churches' Exchange Easter is the greatest demonstration of the truth of John 1:1-5. For it was when Jesus, the Light of the World, seemingly extinguished, From Tuesday 28 April - Sunday 3 May 2015, it is Swindon's turn to snuffed out and utterly destroyed, rises triumphant over death, hatred play host to our friends from churches in Salzgitter. The exchange has and evil; proclaiming once again and for all time, that ‘the light shines in been active since 2001 and although it has not always been possible to the darkness and can never be extinguished.’ arrange a visit every year, we have managed to get together with our friends most years in either Salzgitter or Swindon. This year there are Claire Camm only four people coming (all female) and we are busy trying to organise a programme of events while they are here. We will spend two days looking at 'social' projects in Swindon and two days sightseeing: one The MIX Festival 2015 request has been to visit an English garden! th We are planning to hold the Mix again on Sat 20 June at Shaw church, We are keen to welcome new members to the group, and are looking 11.30-5.00pm. Gayle, Mary and I have started to plan the festival with a for one more host. All our friends speak English so you need have no few others and would love to hear your ideas! worry about the language being a barrier. Hosts will need to provide We would also be very keen to hear from you if you can offer your help bed and breakfast for one person, two evening meals and two packed with any of the following: lunches. Other meals will be provided. You would be welcome to join us on our excursions, and maybe even visit Salzgitter next year. Craft zone Messy Space If you are interested in knowing more, please contact Chris Durant on Cafe 07762 210407 or email [email protected]. Even if you are unable to Beauty salon host we would welcome hearing from you. Art show Mural SERVE Reunion and Jesus Trail Church stall volunteer (for info on our church partnership) General volunteer to help supervise a zone November 2015 Steward Door steward - take money and sign in/out Why not join us for our first SERVE Reunion which will be followed by a First aid Jesus Trail Sponsored Walk raising funds for the ongoing ministry of Set up/Set down SERVE Nazareth. Please let me know as soon as possible if you can help us for a two The Reunion will take place across the long weekend of Saturday 14th hour or longer slot. to Monday 16th November, when those joining for the Jesus Trail will arrive. We hope that this will be a great event which brings us together as churches as we welcome people of all ages into the church. The walking will commence early on the morning of Tuesday the 17th and take the walkers from Nazareth to Capernaum before arriving back Thanks in Nazareth on the afternoon of Saturday 21st when the walkers will Claire share in a Service of Thanksgiving. If you would like more information on the Reunion then please email [email protected] If you would like more information on the Jesus Trail Sponsored Walk then please email shaun@nazarethtrust. org. Page 18 of 20 Page 3 of 20 Regular activities 2nd Sunday each month Messy Church 12 April 4-5:30pm @ Shaw Every Monday After School Youth Group 3:30 – 6:00pm @ Holy Trinity Shaw Contact Claire Camm 07981951381 Every Tuesday Coffee Stop 1:30 – 3:00pm @ Holy Trinity Shaw Bell Ringing 7-9pm St Mary’s Bell Tower Remix Youth Group 6:30 – 8:45pm @ Holy Trinity Shaw Contact Claire Camm 07981951381 4th Tuesday each month Lunch Bunch 28 April Noon @Toothill 2nd Wednesday of each month 08 April Mothers Union Contact Doreen Henderson 07434377587 2pm @ St Mary’s Stable Room Every Thursday Quiet Day with Jenni Entrican Toothill Tinies 10-11:30am @ Toothill for WEBA Pastoral Leaders 3rd Friday each month Gen2Gen 24 April “We make the road by walking” Contact Claire Camm 07981951381 4:00 – 6:00pm @ Holy Trinity Shaw Thursday 21st May 2015 Cotswold Farm, Duntisbourne Abbots nr. Cirencester Gloucestershire GL7 7JS Out West 10am for coffee, 10:30 start, finish by 3:30pm A devout cowboy lost his Bible while he was mending fences out on the Cost £15 per head; bring your own lunch Coffee and tea available all day. range. Three weeks later a cow walked up carrying the Bible in its mouth. The cowboy couldn't believe his eyes. He took the book out of the cow's For more information West of England Baptist Association The Old mouth, raised his eyes heavenward, and exclaimed, "It's a miracle!" Forge, Broom Hill, Stapleton, Bristol BS16 1DN Tel: 0117 965 8828 or email: [email protected] www.webassoc.org.uk "Not really," said the cow. "Your name was written inside the cover.” Page 4 of 20 Page 17 of 20 23 April St George ou r patron saint who isn’t English by David Winter It’s perhaps typical of the English that they should have a patron saint who isn’t English, about whom next to nothing is known for sure, and who may not have existed at all. That didn’t stop him being patriotically invoked in many battles, notably at Agincourt and in the Crusades, and of course it is his cross that adorns the flags of English football fans to this day.
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