The Queen at 90 a New Statue at Runnymede
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MAY 2016 the stjames-hamptonhill.org.ukspire FREE please take a copy The Queen at 90 A new statue at Runnymede AROUND THE SPIRE P5 A-Z SACRED PLACES P6 WHAT’S ON P7 Our Church From the Editor... Registered Charity No 1129286 This year with Easter being so early we not only had to Clergy cope with very poor weather, but also the loss of an hour’s sleep on Easter morning! We owe a great debt of Vicar gratitude to the Revd Jacky Cammidge and Canon Julian Vacant Reindorp for their hard work in covering all the services All enquiries regarding and to Mark Blackwell and the choir for the great success baptisms, weddings and of Stainer’s Crucifixion on Palm Sunday. funerals should go through The cover photo this month has links to the 90th the Parish Office. birthday of the Queen and My Favourite ‘local gems’. The statue, sculpted by James Butler, was unveiled at Runnymede, close to the memorials mentioned in 9 and 10 of my feature on the back page. The statue is on the banks of the Thames and can be reached by crossing the field from the memorials or parking in the car park by the river. You will also find a timeline, Curate listing all the monarchs from the signing of the Magna Carta up to our present Queen. The Revd Jacky Cammidge Our church bells rang out on April 21 to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday and this year’s Jacky, pictured right, was born in Abertillery, St James’s Day on Sunday 3 July will celebrate both our patronal festival and the royal South Wales. She is a self-supporting milestone. minister, ordained in July 2015. During term Bell Ringing Susan Horner 020 8979 9380 time she runs one of two Hampton Hill nursery Book of Remembrance Recorder Best wishes Cover image: Runnymede gardens (see page eight) schools owned by her family. 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Finding us Bishop of Kingston, followed by St James’s Church is on the Sunday 22 May lunch in the hall / vicarage garden. corner of St James’s Road Trinity Sunday All-age Service The church will then open for a and Park Road. There is Proverbs 8: 1-4, 22-31; Romans 5:1-5; chance to ring the bells and climb ample parking in the road. John 16:12-15. the tower. Put it in your diary now! 2 I thespire FOR DETAILS OF CHURCH AND LOCAL EVENTS GO TO PAGE SEVEN Leader Column with Julian Reindorp Your spiritual journey Thought & Prayer Taking time to talk to God School of Prayer Jesus Christ calls every person to follow him. It is our duty and joy to share that invitation. The wo people were key in taking the message of the life, today suggests that it takes a person about four years from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York are inviting death and resurrection of Jesus Christ from being the time they come through a church door to the time they can say in us to join a week of prayer this Pentecost, to give experience of a small group of Jews meeting in their own way: I have become, I am a Christian. every Christian confidence in sharing our faith. Jerusalem to being a turning point in the history of our Donald Soper, Methodist minister and life peer, was asked in a world. The first was Paul of Tarsus. radio interview when did he consider himself a Christian? He Prayer for those who seek TSome years ago friends took me to see Howard Brenton’s play replied: ‘I have modest ambitions in that direction!’ Lord Jesus, when your followers walked the Paul at the National Theatre. Brenton’s introduction in the And I am aware that today the challenge is for people to hear Emmaus road, wondering what was true and what programme ended with these words: ‘Paul’s letters contain some about Jesus who may never have entered a church.