NPBC DIARY LIFE@NP BAPTIST CHURCH WEEK COMMENCING SUNDAY 15th NOVEMBER 2020 SUNDAY 15th NOVEMBER 2020 SUNDAY 9.45am Kids On-Line Follow the link on the website under What’s Over the summer we spent time seeking God’s heart for His church in Newport On>Events Pagnell. 9.45-10.15am Zoom Prayer Space hosted by Grace and Barry Inwood We believe that God is calling us – first and foremost – to return to Him; to Details in the Church calendar on the website under think about the people He is calling us to be. What’s On>Events Through October and November, we’ll remind ourselves of the Church’s vision 10.30am Church Online Sunday Service statement, and then explore the 6 values that support it – the behaviours that

we want to underpin everything that we do.

We are already praying that the Holy Spirit might work in us and amongst us THURSDAY as we approach this new season. Join us as we seek to be the people, He

calls us to be. 6.30pm Zoom Girls Brigade N:Vestigate and N;gage (Explorers

and Juniors ). Details from Grace Inwood 7.30pm Zoom Prayer Space - follow the website link under What’s THIS WEEK On>Events 8.30pm Zoom Girls Brigade N:Counta and N;Spire (Seniors and 10.30am Church Online with Steve Wood, continuing the series “Called to Be Brigaders). Details from Grace Inwood God’s People – We Are Generous (Luke 21:1-4) We have been blessed, more abundantly than we could ever imagine. And we are called to bless others in the same way – with our time, our money, our SUNDAY service and our love.

9.45am Kids On-Line Follow the link on the website under What’s On>Events NEXT SUNDAY 9.45 -10.15am Zoom Prayer Space hosted by Grace and Barry Inwood Details in the Church calendar on the website under What’s On>Events 10.30am Church Online led by with Steve Wood, concluding the series “Called 10.30am Church Online Sunday Service to Be God’s People – We Are For Everyone (Romans 15:7)

Jesus spent more time with sinners and the outcasts of society than he did with the wealthy, or the movers and shakers. What does this tell us, and how should it shape the church that we’re called to be?

NEWPORT PAGNELL BAPTIST CHURCH Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation – Charity No. 1175783 Lovat Hall, Silver Street, Newport Pagnell, Bucks. MK16 0EJ. www.npbc.org.uk E-mail: [email protected] Tel: Office (01908) 618898 Bookings (01908) 612100

FAMILY NEWS WINTER NIGHT SHELTER We pray God’s healing and peace for those with health problems: VOLUNTEER COOKS NEEDED

 unwell or awaiting tests and treatment – Rosemary Bridge, Maria As we are unable to use our facilities to provide accommodation for Jones, Cynthia Howes, Pauline Redgrift, Mia, Kate Henderson the homeless this winter season, we are making our kitchen

 friends having or recovering from cancer treatment - Mandy Dillow, available on Tuesdays Cicily George, Keith Hope, Paul Manning, Poppy, Geoff Colmer We need teams of up to 4 people who will batch cook meals,  our Bethany and F4T members, with fragile health transfer them to microwavable takeaway containers and store them  those with Covid-19 infection and those who are isolating in a fridge overnight. The meals will be taken to Unity Park Station (The Buszy) on Wednesday mornings for reheating and serving to Give thanks for promising vaccines, praying for wisdom regarding vaccination homeless people who have been put into hotels by the council programmes. during the winter months.

Continue to pray for: If you are able to help with this, please contact Keith Bedford or the Church Office.  all health workers, particularly Etive  leaders in the UK and around the world, for wisdom in decisions they make

Pray for our community and church family:

 those who are grieving  all in education – especially teachers under extra pressure DEFERRED TO DECEMBER  all struggling with isolation, mental health issues or anxiety over DUE TO LOCKDOWN money, work and the future To mark his 70th year, Keith Bedford entered the Marathon Swims virtual  friends and relatives in care homes – Dorothy, Alan and Julia challenge to swim a minimum of 10km during November. Please sponsor  our leaders at NPBC Keith’s participation in this challenge using the sponsor form in the Church Office or by visiting his online giving page at Heavenly Father, when the challenges seem overwhelming, remind us of your https://www.give.net/marathonswim10k resurrection power and the miracle of your love, and may we lift our eyes to You can follow his progress on Strava from 1st November look to you, knowing that nothing can separate us from your love. Amen

‘Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church BUILDING DEVELOPMENT FUND and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.’ Those of us of a certain age will soon be receiving the Winter Fuel Ephesians 3:20-21 Allowance from the DWP and may be in the fortunate position of not being reliant on this payment to meet our energy bills. If you are in this position you might like to consider sacrificing part or all of the allowance to the Building Development Project. This can be done by putting your gift in an envelope marked Building Fund and dropping it into the church office or by bank transfer to Lovat Hall Development, Sort Code: 40-52-40, Account No: 00032501.

[email protected] [email protected] The Thirty-fifth Edition 11thNovember 2020 Bethany Times with F4T Song of the week We Shall Stand Before the King Your Wednesday We shall stand before the King, With the angels we shall sing, By and by, By and by! Bethany Times Walk the bright, the golden shore, Praising Him for ever more, With By and by, By and by! We shall stand before the King,

With the angels we shall sing; Food4Thought Glory, glory to our King! From Hallelujah! Hallelujah! We shall stand before the King. Your Friends at Ring, ye bells of heaven, ring! Newport Pagnell Baptist Church We shall stand before the King, By and by, By and by! There our sorrows will be o’er; There His name we will adore, By and by, By and by! We shall stand before the King… Wake, my soul! Thy tribute bring. Thou shalt stand before the King, By and by, By and by! Remembering in our Remembrance Day edition Lay thy trophies at His feet; --names on the War Memorial in Extra-Extra In His likeness stand complete, --Chris tells of his Grandad’s experiences in Extra-Extra-Extra By and by, By and by! --pray for our country, its leaders and those who serve us today We shall stand before the King… KEEP FIT—KEEP SAFE---KEEP SMILING Written by Edwin Othello Excell (1851—1921) CCLI 4901 “May the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, & the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all, now & evermore. Amen” NEWPORT PAGNELL BAPTIST CHURCH Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation – Charity No. 1175783 Lovat Hall, Silver Street, Newport Pagnell, Bucks. MK16 0EJ. www.npbc.org.uk E-mail: [email protected] Tel: Office (01908) 618898 Bookings (01908) 612100 For prayer or practical needs 07874 372708 (Daytime or evenings)

To my dear friends at Bethany and Food4Thought …continued A big event in our lives was being baptised at the Baptist Church some I've been looking at stories written by my brother James and my sister, good few years ago - a special time to look back on. Now, in our older Elspeth about their life in North China when we were interned by the years, we so much appreciate the kindness of others and the wonderful Japanese. I was there too but at about three, my memories of that time care from family members. It feels as if God has brought me on a long are not so clear. There was also my older brother and sister, Peter and journey and has looked over me all the way - wonderful! Tina. With love, until we meet again, Sheila Wiles

We were in Chefoo, or Yantai as it is now called, because my maternal grandparents had gone there as missionaries, met and married. We were interned for several years by the Japanese. We were finally rescued by American Airmen at the end of the war and eventually taken back to Britain, to a hostel in Bridge of Weir Scotland, finally ending up in Newport Pagnell where my parents came to be Wardens at Tickford Abbey Older People's Home.

My mother was a lovely person - I think she was the first pianist for the An array of smiles from a young Sheila, with Jim, her handsome new Baptist Church when we met in the "Wooden Hut" in Wolverton Road. husband, and in 2008 when they were “awarded MBEs for service to the She would speak at meetings and give talks about her life in China and community of Newport Pagnell”. the work of her parents who had opened an orphanage for Chinese girls. Jim and Sheila Wiles I met Jim during the time my parents were at the Abbey, he lived close Sheila has chosen for her “Song of the week” a great revivalist Hymn by in Park View. We were married in 1957 at the Congregational “We shall stand before the King” written by the exotically named Church and Jim, who was doing his national service at the time, wore American, Edwin Othello Excell. Sheila says “When my mother his Grenadier Guard uniform. Sadly, my father had died some months moved from Tickford Abbey to Greenfield Road, Jim and I would before so my brother James gave me away. My brother Peter was a gather round the piano while my mother played. Jim liked to sing missionary out in Malaya so could not be there and neither could my this hymn with gusto. More happy memories!” eldest sister, Tina who had married a Norwegian and lived in Tasmania. Editor’s note My first visit to NPBC was Remembrance Sunday 2002. I sat next We were fortunate to have three children who all at various stages to Sheila and Peter Faulkner. Paul Rosier, the minister at the time helped with 'Wiles Family Caterers' which is partly how we got involved instructed the congregation to ask the people next to them where they with Food 4 Thought. were born. To my surprise my neighbours both said “China”. Linda and I have been attending NPBC ever since! Jim and I spent many happy years helping at Brooklands Club for older people in Newport and it is still going strong today, when not in Jim and Sheila have always served the community of Newport lockdown. Pagnell both through “Brooklands”, NPBC and their awards in the Queen’s Honours list are richly deserved. Continued…. “We pray for blessings on Jim & Sheila as we give thanks for their life of service & dedication to every task set before them” Amen Extract from “For the Fallen” by Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) Bethany Times with Food4Thought extra-extra th They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: REMEMBRANCE DAY 11 NOVEMBER 2020 Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; In Flanders fields the poppies blow They sleep beyond 's foam Between the crosses, row on row, .But where our desires are and our hopes profound, That mark our place; and in the sky Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, The larks, still bravely singing, fly To the innermost heart of their own land they are known Scarce heard amid the guns below. As the stars are known to the Night; We are the Dead. Short days ago As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain, Loved and were loved, and now we lie As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, In Flanders fields. To the end, to the end, they remain. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw This poem was written a few weeks after the outbreak of the First The torch; be yours to hold it high. World War. During these weeks the British Expeditionary Force had If ye break faith with us who die suffered casualties following its first encounter with the Imperial We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. German Army at the Battle of Mons on 23 August, its action during the retreat from Mons in late August and the Battle of Le Cateau on by John McCrae, May 1915 26 August, and in holding up the Imperial German Army at the First On 2 May 1915, during the early days of the Second Battle of Ypres, a young Battle of the Marne between 5 /9 September. Canadian artillery officer, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, was killed in the gun

positions near Ypres by an exploding German artillery shell. He was serving Binyon was too old to enlist in the military forces but he went to work in the same Canadian artillery unit as a friend of his, the Canadian military for the Red Cross as a medical orderly in 1916. He lost several close doctor and artillery commander Major John McCrae. friends and his brother-in-law in the war. As the brigade doctor, John McCrae was asked to conduct the burial service A plaque on the clifftop at for Alexis because the chaplain had been called away somewhere else on duty Polzeath in Cornwall is that evening. It is believed that later that evening, after the burial, John began where Binyon is believed to the draft for his now famous poem “In Flanders Fields”. have composed his poem. All items in this issue CCLI 4901

We Remember Those Who Gave Their Lives for Their Country Presents Cross to a Gallant Son of Newport Pagnell

In 1857, Queen Victoria gave a new award for “Valour in the presence of the enemy”. The first ones were presented by her, in person, in Hyde Park. On that day she pinned one on George Walters, from Newport Pagnell. See plaque on wall (arrowed) next to Newport War These photographs show the 6 sides of the Newport Pagnell War memorial Memorial. (Go and see the inscription) displaying the 131 who died or listed missing in World War 1 and 28 in World War 2. We remember them together with those, unnamed who fought and George Walters VC survived - some with dreadful injuries - and also those who were left to mourn. George Walters was born on 15th September 1829 in Newport Pagnell. His father, James was a local innkeeper, and his mother was Jane Green. George We give thanks and remember those who served their country in all wars that was the third child of seven. There are little records of his early life, and the we may be free. God bless all whom served, those who survived, those who reasons why he enlisted with the Army are unknown. died, those who suffered and those who mourn. George enlisted with the 49th Regiment of Foot and was sent to the Crimea. He distinguished himself particularly at the Battle of Inkerman on a foggy morning on 5th November 1854. During the battle, Walters noticed that Brigadier General Adams was under attack from a group of Russians. He immediately went to the officer’s aid, and, having bayoneted one of the enemy, rescued Adams from further harm. Sadly, Adams had been wounded in the ankle, and having been taken to the hospital at Scutari, (Florence Nightingale hospital), he died of infections a few days later. Walters was

awarded the for his gallantry. I recognise that the photographs are far too small to be able to pick out individual names but I feel it important to know that they are there “carved In February 1856 George married Mary Norman at Newport Pagnell Parish in stone” that they may be imprinted on our hearts, in our minds and in our Church. They moved to where George joined the Metropolitan prayers “Lest we Forget”. Police. He died in Marylebone in 1872.

In WW1 and WW2, it is estimated approaching 100 million deaths, military, “We give thanks for those who serve, whether in or out of uniform - give civilian and disease and famine related and many more wounded. them wisdom, courage and strength-they are all our heroes.” Amen May We Remember Our Heroes and Never Forget. NO 12,682 FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2020 A SHENLEY BROOK END NEWSPAPER ONE PENNY

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