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ISSUE 640 BARNHAM BROOM and DECEMBER 2019 & JANUARY 2020 UPPER YARE GROUP NEWS GROUP SERVICES on Sunday at 10am: Wramplingham church, St Peter & St Paul’s, on December 1st +++ St George’s church, Hardingham on December 29th +++ Barnham Broom church, St Peter & St Paul’s, on January 5th +++ St Peter’s church, Reymerston on February 2nd Everyone is very welcome at all the services. What’s inside? Page Repair Café 7 How many Christmas candles can you count? How many Christmas trees are in the pages? Service Grids for Dec & Jan 14/15 Answers on the back page. Childrens’ Corner 16 We celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Venerable Arthur Hawe’s Priesting Mobile Library Visits 27 at a service on Saturday December 21st, 12noon at How to help your Church 28 All Saints church, Shipdham. THE CLOSING DATES FOR THE FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE ARE: Adverts by January 4th; News by January 6th. Group News is produced and delivered to your door by volunteers. THANK YOU to all the Group News Deliverers. MINISTRY TEAM Rector: Rev. Dr. Tim Weatherstone, The Rectory, Reymerston NR9 4AG [email protected] 01362 858021 Assistant Priest: The Venerable Arthur Hawes 01362 822441 Assistant Curate: Rev. Dr. Louisa Pittman, The Vicarage, Honingham Road, Barnham Broom, NR9 4DB 01603 759641 Email: [email protected] Reader: Roger Walpole, 1 Woodfarm Cottages, Reymerston, NR9 4QZ 01362 820284 GROUP OFFICERS Group Office: The Rectory, The Street, Reymerston, NR9 4AG [email protected] 01362 858021 Group Treasurer: Adrian Rodford, Church Barn, Southburgh, IP25 7TF 01362 822186 Lay Chairman: Philip Richardson, 16, Vicar Street, Wymondham, NR18 0PL 01953 607564 Website: www.groupof15.org.uk F Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/Groupof15/ Twitter link https://twitter.com/groupof15 GROUP NEWS EDITORIAL TEAM p Rev. Dr. Tim Weatherstone, Rev. Dr. Louisa Pittman, Joy Smiley, Fiona Winser, Advertising and Finance: Mr Francis Woodcock Flat 2, Kimberley Hall, Barnham Broom Road, Editor: Jane Howard NR18 0RT Summer Barn, 07879 379181 Mill Road, Email: [email protected] Hardingham, NR9 4EH 01953 851215 Distribution: Christine & Ivan Revell-Burrows Email: [email protected] 3, Low Road, Carleton Forehoe, NR9 4AP 01603 759695 Email: [email protected] Guidelines: adverts should be sent in Doc., Pub., JPG ADVERTISING RATES: files. Please do not send a PDF. The Group News is 1 issue 6 issues 11 issues printed in black and white. For best clarity please send bright images in black and white. Coloured 1/8 page 9 x 6.3 cm £15 £75 £115 logos or posters cannot be printed clearly. LANDSCAPE Inserts & Leaflet Distribution: When making an en- 1/4 page 9 x 13 cm PORTRAIT £26 £143 £227 quiry about leaflets, please advise on the size and type, and indicate which villages you would like 1/2 page 18.5 x 13 cm £47 £266 £432 covered. Prices are from 5p for each single A5 leaflet. LANDSCAPE Please address any enquiries about advertising and leaflets direct to Mr Francis Woodcock (see above) For historical reasons, no one-off, unpaid for, ‘For Sale’ advertisements can be accepted. Our Group website is www.groupof15.org.uk For our advertisers, we can offer to place their advertisements online on the website for a small additional monthly charge. Payments to ‘Group News Community Account’. Details: Sort Code 20 - 28 - 20 Account No. 4389 5424 Payment to include the invoice number. If you know anyone outside the Group who would like to receive Group News, this can be arranged for a small fee. Please contact anyone on the editorial team. Group News is published by the Barnham Broom and Upper Yare Group of Churches. It is managed, edited and distributed by volunteers. Donations are always welcome to help with printing costs and can be sent to Francis Woodcock at the above address. Cheques should be made payable to Group News. Please See page 3. Any views expressed in Group News are not necessarily those of the publishers or the editorial team. Whilst every effort is made to ensure accuracy, we cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions. Group News accepts advertisements in good faith and we cannot guarantee the goods or services offered by advertisers. GROUP NEWS IS PRINTED BY: Reflex litho ltd, THETFORD, ip24 1HG. 2 The Editorial is written by Alan Wakeman: It's a busy season. Our preoccupation with the preparation of the perfect present and the packaging, posting, parties, poinsettia plants, pies, puddings, poultry, and not forgetting the prosecco will soon be over but for what purpose? Will it be to remember the Prince of Peace, to gather as a family to evoke memories of Christmases past, or just a few days off work, or perhaps all of these? But what is the "Reason for the Season?" The Christmas story of baby Jesus, the Shepherds, and the Wise Men just arriving on time as though by a well- rehearsed curtain call is far from reality. But too often it is what is portrayed in school and church pageants that fixes the events of the Christmas story into our memories. What we have done over the years is to mix two different Christmas stories into one story. Yes, the Shepherds did come to the manger, but we are unsure if the Wise Men did, because Matthew in his gospel talks about the Maji visiting a house and not a stable! But does all of this matter? The Shepherds did visit Jesus as did the Wise Men. These events mattered when the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were written because they set the tone and emphasis of what they later wrote. It is only in these two gospels where we find our Christmas stories; in Luke, we only have the Shepherds and in Matthew, we only have the Wise Men. But why do we have two different stories of the birth of Jesus when both stories at their heart are about having a new start in life and therefore a change in direction in how we live and interact with one another and with God. Matthew, who was a Jew, saw his mission in life as bringing the good news of the love of God, through Jesus, to the Jewish people. Luke, who was not a Jew, saw his mission differently. His gospel was to a universal audience with an emphasis on the rejected and not those who were thought of as God's chosen. For Luke, the shepherds represented the rejected whereas Matthew was looking for a future King, "Where is he born to be King of the Jews?" The years have passed, and the Christmas story has been condensed into a well-rehearsed pageant. But at the heart of both the Gospel of Matthew and Luke is an eternal truth that is best expressed by the words from a hymn by Charles Wesley, "Our God contracted to a span, Incomprehensibly made man." Enjoy your Christmas in your giving and receiving, remembering there is a “Reason for the Season.” READINGS IN OUR READINGS IN OUR CHURCHES CHURCHES DECEMBER 2019 JANUARY 2020 YEAR A YEAR A Sunday 1st December th Sunday 22nd December Sunday 5 January Sunday 26th January 1st Sunday of Advent 4th Sunday of Advent Epiphany 3rd Sunday of Epiphany Lectionary page 1 Lectionary page 10 Lectionary page 33 Lectionary page 44 Isaiah 2.1-5 Isaiah 7.10-16 Isaiah 60.1-6 Isaiah 9.1-4 Psalm 122 Psalm 80.1-7, 16-18 Psalm 72.1-7, 10-14 Psalm 27.1, 55-13 Romans 13.11-14 Romans 1.1-7 Ephesians 3.1.-12 1 Corinthians 1.10-18 Matthew 24.36-44 Matthew 1.18-25 Matthew 2.1-12 Matthew 4.12-23 th Sunday 29th December Sunday 12 January Sunday 2nd February Sunday 8th December 1st Sunday of Christmas Baptism of Christ Presentation of Christ in the 2nd Sunday of Advent Lectionary page 23 Lectionary page 37 Temple Lectionary page 3 Isaiah 63.7-9 Isaiah 42.1-9 (Candlemas) Isaiah 11.1-10 Psalm 148 Psalm 29 Lectionary page 54 Psalm 72.1-7,18-19 Hebrews 2.10-18 Acts 10.34-43 Malachi 3.1-5 Romans 15.4-13 Matthew 2.13-23 Matthew 3.13-17 Psalm 24 (1-6) 7-10 Matthew 3.1-12 Hebrews 2.14-18 Sunday 19th January Luke 2.22-40 Sunday 15th December 2nd Sunday of Epiphany 3rd Sunday of Advent Lectionary page 40 Lectionary page 7 Isaiah 49.1-7 Isaiah 35.1-10 Psalm 40.1-11 Psalm 146.4-9 1 Corinthians 1.1-9 James 5.7-10 John 1.20-42 Matthew 11.2-11 3 PARISH COUNCIL NEWS VILLAGE HALL CONTACTS Dates and agendas are displayed on the website Thinking about booking a village hall and noticeboards in the villages. The public and press for your event? Here are the booking clerks: are welcome to attend all meetings. Barford & Wramplingham. Barnham Broom Parish Council meet at 7.30pm Booking Clerk: Fran / Norman Cox in the village hall every 3rd Thursday (except Dec and Aug). Tel: 01603 759667 Contact the new clerk, Jordana Wheeler on [email protected] or 01953 859704 or Barnham Broom. Booking Clerk: Tony Baker visit the website http://barnhambroompc.wixsite.com/home. [email protected] There is a Council noticeboard by the shop and a defibrillator situated outside the village hall for the general public to use in Website: www.barnhambroomvh.co.uk the case of an emergency. Tel: 07702 367800 Booking diary and forms also +++ held at the Village Store & PO. Cranworth Jubilee Hall.