JUNE 2014 the stjames-hamptonhill.org.ukspire FREE please take a copy Pentecost The Holy Spirit explained Church on the move Service changes during new central heating work Garden of Eden A year in the life of our churchyard AROUND THE SPIRE P4 RECIPE FOR LIFE P6 WHAT’S ON P7 Our Church From the Editor Registered Charity No 1129286 Firstly, thank you to everyone who has so far responded to our Clergy Spire Appeal. The figure to date is £2500 which is tremendous. There is still time to donate. The details are below and there Vicar are spare copies of the Gift Aid form in church. Please The Revd Peter Vannozzi (pictured, right) sign this if you pay tax as we can reclaim a further 25p Peter was born in Hanwell in 1962, but owes for every £1 you give us. Your response also shows his surname to his Italian great-grandfather. He was ordained in 1987. Peter is a the committee that you appreciate not only the content Governor of Hampton Hill Junior School and but all the hard work which goes into each issue — it a Trustee of the Hampton and Hampton Hill is quite a commitment at times. Voluntary Care Group. Telephone: 020 8979 2069 This month’s centrespread features our churchyard. We are so lucky to have such a lovely Email: [email protected] space surrounding the church, even more so over recent years since the council took over the maintenance and cleared the undergrowth and all the wild flowers have emerged. Curate Ros and her husband John have a real passion for it. The Revd David Bell David was born in Skipton in We hope you are enjoying the back page articles on favourite things. This is proving very 1952. He is a self-supporting popular with both writers and readers and we have lots of interesting offerings to come. minister, ordained in June 2012, and working during the Best wishes week in events sponsorship management. 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Safeguarding Officer Telephone: 020 8979 3331 Jane Newman 020 8979 6154 Sunday 15 June Sundays Email: [email protected] Trinity Sunday All-age service Scout Group Paul Fitchett 020 8941 7186 8am Holy Communion Isaiah 40.12-17,27-31; 2 Corinthians 13.11-13; 9.30am Parish Communion Servers Lesley Mortimer 020 8941 2345 Matthew 28.16-20 Organist / Choirmaster Sidespersons Janet Taylor 020 8979 0046 Sunday 1 June Samuel Draper Sunday 22 June Sam joined St James’s in Social Committee Clare Ryan 079 6413 1135 7th Sunday of Easter 1st Sunday after Trinity October 2010, after Acts 1.6-14 ; St James’s Ark Genesis 21.8-21; Romans 6.1b-11; graduating from the Royal 1 Peter 4.12-14; 5.6-11; Debbie Nunn 020 8979 3078 Matthew 10.24-39 College of Music. John 17.1-11 Telephone: 020 8892 4957 St James’s Players Martin Hinckley 020 8979 0528 Sunday 29 June Sunday School Catherine Gash 020 8783 0563 Thursday 5 June St Peter and St Paul GET INVOLVED Ascension Day Tools with a Mission Janet Nunn 020 8979 6325 Acts 12.1-11; 2 Timothy 4.6-8,17,18; 9.30am Holy Communion The more volunteers, the more we can do Matthew 16.13-19 Support us by regular giving, it’s easy to do Theatre Club Peter Hale 020 979 9287 Leave a gift in your will, a lasting legacy Visitors’ Group Liz Wilmot 020 8977 9434 Sunday 8 June Pentecost Mondays-Fridays (not Tues) Acts 2.1-21; 9.15am Morning Prayer Finding us 1 Corinthians 12.3b-13; St James’s Church is on the John 20.19-23 Tuesdays corner of St James’s Road and Park Road. There is 9.30am Holy Communion ample parking in the road. 2 I thespire FULL DETAILS OF CHURCH AND LOCAL EVENTS ARE ON PAGE SEVEN Leader Column with Peter Vannozzi Chalk and Thought & Prayer Taking time to talk to God Peter and Paul Collect for Ss Peter and Paul cheese? Almighty God, whose blessed How can you govern a country which has now know it. Peter was the rock on which the Church was built. apostles Peter 246 varieties of cheese? Since early in the Church's life, the two saints have been linked and Paul together on 29 June, which tradition holds to be the day of their glorified you in harles de Gaulle (1890-1970) spoke these words martyrdom in AD 64. their death as in when President of France, and his time in office, Both men knew the impact of change in their lives. Each their life: 1959-69, saw much dispute, change and clamour. personally changed direction, and began to live with insecurity grant that your In the end, he resigned because he could not and uncertainty. Their respective views of God and the world Church, effectively govern France, though, as a cheese were challenged. Yet out of the anxiety and struggle was formed inspired by their Clover, I would see its many varieties in France as a great a community that accepted difference, and did not draw racial teaching and blessing! boundaries for membership. example, De Gaulle was, I guess, making a point about the problems of and made one by diversity or, rather, its perceived problems. For some, a diverse Showing us the way forward your Spirit, society is exciting. For others, it is frightening. To be honest Today the Church struggles as much with difference as it ever may ever stand about my own bias, as the great-grandson of an Italian has, and is, in this respect, affected by the societies in which it is firm upon the one foundation, immigrant who came to the UK in the 1890s, I feel predisposed present.