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Mottram Parish Magazine Sunday 11th February 2018 Our confirmation candidates, with Bishop Graham Dow and not forgetting.... Jacky Smith’s cake! We aim to be ~ a growing fellowship of believers ~ warm in welcome ~ reverent in worship ~ gracious in witness ~ and joyfully serving God and our community ~ Printed: 50p monthly March 2018 or download from the website Vicar: James Halstead Mottram The Vicarage, 30a Broadbottom Road, Mottram, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 6JB Parish 01457 762268 [email protected] www.mottramparish.org.uk The Church of England in Mottram Parish, serving the communities of Mottram, Broadbottom and Hattersley East together “seeking to know Christ and to make Christ known” OUR MAIN SUNDAY WORSHIP IS AT 10.30am St. Michael & All Angels, Warhill, via Church Brow, Mottram, SK14 6JL For full details of all our services, see page 11 USEFUL CHURCH CONTACTS IN MOTTRAM PARISH Churchwardens Pastoral Visiting Coordinators Alice Litaba 07790 765985 Christine Brandreth 01457 238268 David Russell 01457 765165 Kath Higgins 01457 765690 Readers Christine Kershaw 01457 765350 John Walker (Emeritus) 01457 763292 (email [email protected]) Allen Standeven 01457 857331 Safeguarding Coordinator Callum Boothroyd 07970 564269 Claire Bibby 01457 763758 (secure email: [email protected]) PCC Secretary Kate Best 01457 857248 Parish Development Worker Ruth Montgomery 01457 766173 PCC Treasurer Brian Seaborn 0161 336 8089 Baptisms: James Halstead Parish Administrator Weddings Juliet Edwards 07935 498208 Margaret Taylor 0161 494 8071 Honorary Curate Organists Richard Hills 01457 763104 John Brandreth 01457 238268 Prayer Contacts Nigel Crookall 0161 338 6790 Allen Standeven 01457 857331 Friends of Mottram Parish Church (email [email protected]) Ian Roebuck 01457 763179 Children’s Work Coordinator Bellringers Captain Pat Hall 01457 861827 Christine Broadley 07810 560796 email: use the person’s name, eg. [email protected] MAGAZINE CONTACTS Editors: Chris & Tony Kershaw 14 Broadbottom Rd ... 01457 765350 ... [email protected] Magazine Distribution Magazine Advertising Adrian Davis 01457 764727 Bryan Higgins 01457 765690 Printed by , Oldham Street, Hyde, SK14 1LJ www.lee-print.co.uk all your printing needs and office supplies, 0161 368 9678, [email protected] Andrew Writes when Partington was a small village of a Ponderings from Partington Parish couple of hundred people, nestled along a few streets round a village green. The Greetings from St. Mary’s parish grew as a Manchester overspill Church here in Partington estate between the 60s and 80s to 8,500 where it’s hard to believe people today, and there are plans for I’ve been in post as Priest- building around 1000 new homes. in-Charge for over 10 months now and I have settled well into the parish and high time, I thought, to let folk know vicarage, helped by purchasing some how I’m getting along. furniture including a comfy sofa from the Time has simply flown by, perhaps money gifted to me from Mottram Parish because as soon as one Sunday service Church when I left in March. In my spare is done I’m already working on the time I continue to hike in the surrounding next two. As James said when I first countryside, travel in Eastern Europe started out at Mottram “the trouble with and indoor skydive in nearby Trafford! Sundays is there’s nearly one a week”! My focus thus far has included growing Being the sole minister here and leading the ministry to families and children; and preaching every week I am certainly including revitalising baptism ministry, missing the team at Mottram, however I all-age worship and leading a team of 10 am hugely supported by the congregation volunteers who run “Open the Book” in all sorts of ways. assemblies at a local primary school. It Here, all of our church members come has also been a challenging year for our from the parish and are committed to church’s pastoral work and we have our tight knit community which they seen the use of the Foodbank increase know well; caring with a passion for significantly. social justice, a heart for the gospel and Overall my ministry has been one of deeply rooted in prayer. reconciliation and bridge building, Partington and Carrington is a somewhat between the church and community and isolated community both demographically within families and damaged relationships. and geographically, and has in the past In so many ways God is showing me “I suffered, often unjustly, from a poor am the right person, in the right place, at reputation. Many families and individuals the right time” and the parish and all its are really struggling for a whole variety opportunities and challenges fit well with of reasons, yet the community and the my passions and prayers, and I am of church are slowly re-writing the story and course building upon all I learned through I have witnessed open hearts, surprising my invaluable time as curate with you. honesty, sacrificial generosity and a I continue to keep St. Michael’s in my hospitality that goes the extra mile. prayers and very much appreciate your I’m somewhat rattling around the 130 prayers too. year old rambling vicarage that was built Mottram Parish Magazine March 2018 page 1 www.mottramparish.org.uk sponsored by Rodney and June Lamb NOTICE BOARD Please support our advertisers Tell them you saw them in the Mottram Parish Magazine! GARDENING PARTY our church insurer Monday 5th March, 10am-12.30pm Ecclesiastical Insurance in the Memorial Garden is 130 years old! and is offering to donate £130 to our church for every new home Monthly Prayer Group insurance policy taken out by a Tuesday 6th March, 8pm member of our church family at the home of For more details, see poster in Betty Gadd (0161 368 5131) church or visit www.ecclesiastical. Quiet, informal prayers for com/trust130 the church, ourselves, friends, neighbours and the world. Trefoil Guild 3rd Thursday of every month, 7.30pm Weekly Prayer Meeting at Mottram Community Centre Mondays, 7pm–7.45pm open to anyone over 18yrs who is at the vicarage sympathetic to the aims of Guiding. Focusing on Church and Ministry 15th March ... Easter Flowers demonstration WOMEN’S INSTITUTE second Monday of every month PCC MEETING 7.45pm at Mottram Cricket Club Thursday 8th March 12th March: ‘Gardens Well the Magdalene Centre, 7.30pm Worth a Visit’ with Judy Popley WOMEN’S SOCIETY Tuesdays, 8.00pm at Mottram SEW, KNIT & NATTER Community Centre Alternate Tuesday afternoons, 6th March – AGM and Bring and 1.30–3.30pm at Mottram Community Centre ,Church Brow Buy Sale March 6th and 20th 20th – Post-Christmas Meal 7.30pm at Peruga and much much more and much much more see pagessee page 4, 5 5and 6 see pages 4 and 5 March 2018 page 2 Mottram Parish Magazine sponsored by Alf and Sue Wilkinson www.mottramparish.org.uk NOTICE BOARD Your contributions welcome - the deadline for the April issue is Wednesday 14th March Walking With The Walkers HOLY WEEK Saturday 10th March 10.30am at St. Michael’s Ogden Reservoir Evening Prayer Easy Plus: 3.5 miles with some each day in church ascent, led by Tony & Chris at 7.30pm Kershaw 01457 765350 from Palm Sunday 25th March Saturday 31st March 10.30am to Wednesday 28th March (note - NOT 24th) Carrbrook Maundy Thursday Moderate: 4 miles with ascent led by Holy Communion at 7.30pm Bob & Sue Joy 0161 368 2706 Good Friday Worship at 10.30am Meet at Mottram church gates – car share if needed. New walkers always welcome! THE SALE OF THE CENTURY! Sunday 20th May 10K, Half Marathon, Mini and Mottram Cricket Club Saturday 24th March 10am - 1pm Junior Distance Household Goods, Bric a Brac, Visit www.greatrun.org and select Books, DVDs, CDs & Much More Simplyhealth Great Manchester Run Refreshments to enter. Please register, and when asked “Run for another charity in the Why not come along, have a browse Simplyhealth Great Manchester Run?” & maybe a cup of tea/coffee please select OTHER. WE’D LOVE TO SEE YOU! Do let us know by emailing run@ reubensretreat.org, so that we can include you in our plans. Please bring saleable goods to church. If you can help on the day let Margaret Taylor know or put your name on the Community Groups/Charities sheet at the back of church. Advertise here. It’s FREE! Mottram Parish Magazine March 2018 page 3 www.mottramparish.org.uk sponsored by Kate Best BIBLE MATTERS The oldest Bible comes Our Bible Book Clubs meet back to the UK monthly: The world’s oldest surviving complete Latin Bible returns to the UK this autumn. It left these shores for Rome 1302 years ago, when monks in the northeast of England sent it as a gift to Pope Gregory II. For dates, contact the host: The Codex Amiatinus was one of Monday afternoons from 2pm only three produced at the twin at the home of Peter and Jean Hey monasteries of Wearmouth and with Allen Standeven: 01457 857331 Jarrow. (One has since got lost, and Monday evenings from 8pm the other survives in fragments.) at the home of Tony and Chris It was kept safe for centuries at Kershaw: 01457 765350 the Abbey of the Saviour in Monte Wednesday evenings from 8pm Amiata, in Tuscany. Then in the at the home of Ruth Montgomery: 18th century it was sent to the 01457 766173 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, in Wednesday evenings from 8pm Florence. at the home of Adele Boothroyd: The Laurenziana has now agreed 01457 763770 to send it back, to be exhibited Thursday mornings from 9.30am alongside the Lindisfarne Gospels at the home of Louise Britton: and the St Cuthbert Gospel, the 07834 436810 earliest intact European book.