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WEB COPY JUNE 2020 This is the Parish Magazine for Burton Joyce, Bulcote and Stoke Bardolph. It is published by St Helen’s Parochial Church Council IN THIS MONTH’S EDITION

Letter June 2 FEATURES Vicar’s message 4 VE Day Celebration Elders not betters Bird Watch Church Information 6

Clubs & Groups 12/13

Parish Councillors 16 Parish Council Report 18

Community Informtion 25

Colonel Tom 30 News from the Library 31 TLC for your PC 33

In the Garden 35 Train Timetable 37 Useful names 39 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11

DEADLINE 5 PM 20 JUNE for the 2020 edition. Please send items to our editor preferably by email to [email protected] or post to the Carnarvon Room.

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2020 Parish Magazine Page 1 JUNE LETTER

Things I Don’t Know

I don’t know how to read music

I don’t know how to speak Russian

I don’t know how to fly an aeroplane

You will be able to list things that you have never learned how to do, things that you probably never missed, things that have never held you back or diminished your life in any way. There are lots of thing that we don’t know how to do, but it’s ok be- cause someone else does know how to do them. If I want to sing in church I ask our organist to play the music, if someone from Russia ever writes me a letter (if!) I will ask a translator to tell me what it says, and if I ever need to fly I’ll trust someone with a pilots license to get me there.

The world works well when we share our gifts and skills effectively.

However right now we’re dealing with something that no one has Any experience of.

No one really knows about Coronavirus and the long term affects it is going to have on our health and our economy, how long will this pandemic cast a shadow over our lives?

We don’t know.

And that is really difficult.

We don’t know what is safe.

We don’t know who is safe.

We don’t know how long this will last for.

2020 Parish Magazine Page 2 JUNE LETTER CONTINUED

It’s really difficult to live with this level of unknowing, to try and imagine a future which we cannot begin to comprehend.

It seems to me then, no surprise that people are seeking God, social surveys, media surveys and anecdotal evidence suggests that people are looking for God and ways to pray. We need to know that there is something or someone bigger than us, someone who is constant and unchanging in a world which has twisted on its axis in the last few weeks.

Psalm 46 says

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. The Lord Almighty is with us;

Now more than ever we need the one who made himself known through the person of Jesus. God who moved into the neighbourhood and lived among his people. The future is unknown, and unknowable; But this we do know, God loves us, and he is with us, he is our strength, he provides safety, he is our hope and our joy.