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film@barbour is now September sees the start of our exciting new season. Friday September 26th: Le Weekend (2013) Cert 15 A comedy drama, starring Lindsay Duncan, Jim Broadbent and Jeff Goldblum. It is the story of a British couple who return to Paris many years after their honeymoon. ‘Topped with bittersweet humour but possessing surprisingly thorny depths, Le Week -End offers a sophisticated, well-acted portrait of late-life struggles and long-term marriage’. 8pm start (doors open 7.30pm) Barbour Institute main hall Bar available Pay on the door: £5 (under 18s £4) The full season’s programme will be available in early September and we are hoping to get a copy to every household. If you don’t receive one, would like extra copies, an electronic copy, or email reminders, please contact us on 01829 771649 or [email protected] March 2014 MAY 2014 JULY 2014 Churches engaging with the community [email protected] 24 1 www.handleychurch.co.uk Tattenhall Rural Touring Arts And The Maasai Company present …. An Evening with The Osiligi Maasai Warriors on Saturday 27th September at the Barbour Institute This group of traditional performers are in the UK to raise funds to improve their village of Kisamis, about 30 miles outside Nairobi, Kenya. The Warriors' concert tells their unique story through a combination of eye-catching costume, movement and song. The performance benefits from being fully narrated so everyone gets the most out of this rare international experience – right here on our doorstep. The show is in the Barbour Institute at 7.30pm and is suitable for all (5+ years). Tickets are £10.00 each (all ages) and are available from Cat Got the Cream in the High Street, The Studio in Worley Court or by email from Linda on [email protected] or Barbara on [email protected]. If you have any queries before booking, please email Linda for more information. [email protected] 2 23 FROM THE RECTOR HOMEWATCH GIVING THANKS TO GOD FOR EVERYTHING WE HAVE Dear Residents opportunist thief. ‘Offer to God thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High. Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me’. (Ps. 50:14 & 15) Over the past two weeks we have been Also please distributing UV marker pens to remember to remove your Sat Throughout the Word, the Lord desires from us humility and thanksgiving. We are to numerous homes around the Village Nav’s sucker marks from the continually confess that our salvation is solely from Him, and without the Lord, along with accompanying leaflets. windscreen as this could also hint that it eternal life would be impossible. The Lord taught our absolute dependency upon Him There are still some available on request has been left inside the vehicle. when He told His disciples: by calling at the Old School House on In early August a generator, amongst I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much the High Street. All that is required is other items, was stolen from a building fruit; for without Me You can do nothing. (Jn 15:5) We are humble before the Lord to mark your valued items with your site in the nearby neighbouring Village when we sincerely acknowledge that our salvation is totally from Him. Along with of Malpas . Villagers are requested to be house name or number. Local Police humility, we are also told to be thankful before the Lord. make regular checks on suspect vehicles aware of any unusual activity around travelling in and out of our areas. building sites out of the normal working The words of our text states that we are to go before the Lord with thanksgiving. We Should you be unfortunate to have had hours and report on 101 soonest. are to make the effort to recount the blessings He has bestowed upon us. If we go your property taken it would help both Again in early August a water treatment before with the genuine recognition of our dependency on Him for our salvation, we the Police in a prosecution and you in its station in the nearby Tilston area was are at the same time truly grateful for the peace we have in our country and the swift return should it be spotted in broken into and approximately 1000 Ltrs wonderful things He has given to us, whereby we are approaching Him properly. one of their vehicle checks. of red Diesel was stolen along with Also, the habit of giving thanks can remind us of our recent World War 1 We have had reports of a suspicious numerous power tools. If you have commemoration here in Tattenhall on the 3rd of August. It was a memorable event in male approaching properties in containers with Diesel or heating oil the lives of all those who came to witness during that weekend. We need to always Tattenhall offering to sell various goods. please make sure they are adequately be aware of the Lord protecting us from the attacks of evil one. This reminder can Please be vigilant if approached as door alarmed or secured. comfort us and make us fully secure in the Lord's protection. Giving thanks to the to door selling is often a front for other Police Surgeries Lord can be such a blessed reminder. Therefore, thanksgiving before the Lord is criminal activity. Ask for a form of Dates presently unavailable. For sincere and genuine only when we are committed to allow the Lord to regenerate us. identification where appropriate. Police updates please contact PCSO Hurst (Ps 106:47) The Lord's "wondrous works that declare His name" is displayed while will deal robustly with anyone engaged on 101 in this activity. We advise everyone to He is creating us into angels. If you would like to be included in our e- remain cautious, do not open the door And while we are giving thanks, we do not have to neglect problems, difficulties, or mail HomeWatch updates contact list, to strangers if you feel uncomfortable the hardships which we may be experiencing. Giving thanks and voicing our troubles send your details doing so, and report any such activity as to [email protected] together are not incompatible with each other. We can be sincerely thankful while at the soon as possible to the police. with your address and phone number in same time praying that certain things be made better; we can call to mind our Residents are reminded to remove items case of e-mails bouncing back. discouragements at this time of the year. Nevertheless, as we present our anxieties of value from sight in their vehicles. Graham Marsden before the Lord, we can still be thankful that the Lord understands what we are There have been break-ins to vehicles in going through and He can deliver us from our troubles. 01829 771641 surrounding areas. Even an empty coat When we are willing to go before the Lord with thanksgiving, especially by having left in a vehicle is an attraction to an the desire to obey the Lord's teachings, the words of the Psalm becomes real, "Offer to God thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High. Call upon Me in the day of POLICE CONTACT NUMBERS trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me." (Ps 50: 14 & 15) EMERGENCY calls ONLY: Ring 999 INCIDENT calls: Ring 101 Dragon Hall and Answer phone: 0845 458 6377 Crimestoppers: 0800 555 111 [email protected] 22 3 The Churches of Tattenhall, Handley and Burwardsley Following donations received and Churches without Walls various activities held over the summer for Rector: Rev. Canon Lameck Mutete THE VAULT @ ST ALBAN’S 770245 the fund now stands at approximately Churchwardens: Tattenhall Georgina Blackhurst 770377 Dee Mason 770687 £140,000 Handley Jon Moseley 771279 Alex Park 771277 Please help us to keep up the momentum Burwardsley Jean Dutton 770379 Barbara Clare 770418 Social Media– St Alban’s Church is now on Facebook and St Alban’s Church Extension Donations Twitter as well as having a website As usual we all would like to know what the glorious God has done over the past month St Albans Tattenhall on Facebook regarding our Extension fund ‘The Vault’ Last month we reported that our total contribution for the Church Extension ‘The Vault’ was £138 000.00. Thanks to all those who contributed https://twitter.com/ChurchStAlbans @ChurchStAlbans during the month of July. A total of £10.000.00 was donated and that brings our total www.tattenhallchurch.co.uk contribution for the ‘The Vault’ to £148.000.00. It is never too late to give your donation to the construction of our extension and no donation is too big or too small in the eyes of God. Visit us now and keep up to date The Vault is waiting for your contribution. Let us leave a legacy for tomorrow’s generation. The Garden Trail THE VAULT AT ST ALBAN’S As the summer season continue to surprise us this year, we are extremely grateful for all the hard work that was exhibited by our generous residents who opened to the public their What a lovely afternoon 20th July was. Those who went to Bolesworth Castle for beautiful gardens. the Lake Walk and to enjoy the grounds will know what I am talking about! We were blessed once more with the weather: it was warm and the sun shone even DIOCESEAN NEWS though the day before had been threatening rain and thunder storms.