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The Hub The Magazine of St. Augustine’s Halifax & Christ Church Pellon Price 50p October ––– November 2012 Regular events For Children Sundays Children are welcome at all services! At Christ Church 10.45am service there is either an all age service (4 th Sundays) or a Sunday club (other Sundays). At St. Augustine’s there is a special children’s area with different children’s activities. Girl’s Uniformed Groups (all at Christ Church) Monday 6.00 – 7.00pm Rainbows (age 5-7) Jane Webster 885878 Monday 6.30 – 8.00pm Brownies (age 7-10) Tracey Jagger 248365 Monday 7.30 – 9.00pm Guides (age 10-15) Louise Cater 0775 9267671 Sharx Midweek at Christ Church Alternate Wednesdays, 7.00—9.00pm. For ages 10+. Fun, friendship and chat., Karaoke, air hockey, table football, Wii games and lots more. Contact Norman McDonnell for more details 07851142694 . Fellowship House Groups Various days & times to suit. Alternate weeks. Get together with others to explore fellowship, faith and prayer to help you in your daily discipleship. The best way to grow as a Christian! For more details and dates contact Karen Hellewell 365027. Community Café Wednesdays 10.00 am—11.30am at Christ Church. Informal chat to meet other people, chat over coffee and cakes. International Evening Thursdays 6.30pm—9.30pm at Christ Church. A relaxed evening of games, food, and a chance to chill out, especially for those from other countries. Friday Group Friday evenings, bi-monthly. Ladies get-togethers and social events. See ’What’s Happening’ for more details, or contact Ann Gardner 341962 . Men’s Breakfast Last Saturday of each month 8-10am. At The Fountainhead Inn, Pellon. Men only, worship, discussion, prayer and breakfast! Contact David Ramanauskas for more details 330770. Worship As well as Sundays, we have other regular worship: Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s Tuesday 12 noon Informal Worship at St. Augustine’s, followed by lunch Wednesday 11.30am Communion Service at Christ Church Interpreted Services . The first Sunday 10.45am service at Christ Church and the 6.30pm Celebration services on the second Sundays at Christ Church will be BSL signed services. 2 From the Vicar Dear Readers, Already summer seems a long time ago (maybe that’s because we didn’t really have a ‘proper summer’ this year)! Whether or not you managed to have a break away, summer has traditionally been a time for a slightly lighter work-load, or sitting out and enjoying the sun a bit (if only!). But now that school is back in action and another term is here it seems that we have to get back to the grind – and somehow it’s all that much harder because of the break and all the things we were hoping to get done when we didn’t have so much on but never got round to for one reason or another. Take my study, for example. Anyone who has been in there – or even stuck your head round the door, which is much more likely – will notice that it is no tidier. I had all those good plans to tidy it up over the summer weeks when there weren’t assemblies to do, meetings to have and so on. But despite my good intentions, it didn’t seem to happen. Don’t get me wrong. I certainly managed to shuffle some papers around, get rid of a few bits and pieces and even file some others, but more things kept coming, undoing the work I was trying to do. Why can’t the rest of the world take a holiday at the same time?! If only they did, I could catch up with myself, and things would be so different. My study would be tidy, jobs would get done in plenty of time, there would be more time to spend talking with people rather than rushing from meeting to meeting, and life would be so much more enjoyable. But maybe the clutter in my office is a reminder of what so many of our lives can get like. We have dreams and plans of how we would like things to be, but circumstances beyond our control always seem to get in the way. So we wait, and hope that when we have more time, things will improve – when things are quieter at work I’ll spend more time with the family, or when we have more money we can make those dreams come true. 3 But the reality is just the same as my office – if (and sometimes it’s a very big if) that time ever comes, we find that we are so used to doing things the way we’ve become so used to doing them that we miss the opportunity, and things don’t actually change. The plan of saving all those dreams until we get an ‘opportunity’ to put them into action is usually a myth. Of course, we can’t do everything at once, and perhaps some things are best left for a while until we have thought a bit more about them (that quick text when we’re angry, or that email when we have been hurt by something, for example). What we need is to begin our dreams today. If family really is more important to us that our work (and it ought to be!) then how might we show that to the rest of our family now , not at some imagined time in the future. If God is calling us to give up some bad habit – or take up a good one – then what am I going to do differently today to avoid that temptation, or make time and opportunity for that positive step? What we most often need is the little step, the small change that over time grows into something much larger than we expected or even hoped. We might need an annual ‘spring clean’, but much more we need the daily or weekly ‘dusting’ that keeps things in their right place all the time. Otherwise, like my office, our lives become cluttered with the dust and litter of dreams unfulfilled, or chances missed, or life lives in second or third gear rather than in all its fullness. And probably those small changes mean giving something up so that something better can take its place. What might that be for you? Watching quite so much TV? Spending so much time on your computer or phone? Having that lie-in every day, or that extra drink at night? What takes your time that really isn’t that important but you keep doing because, well really that’s the habit you’ve just fallen into? And what are those things we do as churches that fall into the same category – things we’ve done for a long time, but have passed their ‘sell-by date’? What things should we be doing instead that help our spiritual development? And maybe you will see a difference in my study if I begin to practice what I preach John Hellewell 4 WHAT’S HAPPENING This is a BSL interpreted service OCTOBER 1 Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s 7.30 pm Preachers’ meeting at The Vicarage 2 Tuesday 10.30 am Communion at Asquith Court. All welcome! 12 noon Worship at St. Augustine’s, followed by lunch 6.00 pm Christian Meditation at Christ Church 7.00 pm Dream Team at Christ Church 3 Wednesday 10.00 am Community Café at Christ Church 11.30 am Communion at Christ Church 12 noon World Food Festival at St. Augustine’s 7.00 pm Sharx midweek at Christ Church 4 Thursday 3.00 pm Communion at Clement Court. All welcome! 6.30 pm International Evening at Christ Church 5 Friday 7.30 pm Ladies Friday Group at Kath Sharman’s 7.30 pm Lou Fellingham in Concert at St. George’s, Leeds 6 Saturday 10.00 am Calderdale Poverty Conference at King’s Centre 11.00 am BCPM re-authorisation Service at Dewsbury Minster 7 Sunday: Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 10.45 am Communion at Christ Church 10.45 am Morning Worship at St. Augustine’s 6.30 pm Communion at Christ Church 8 Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s 9 Tuesday 12 noon Worship at St. Augustine’s, followed by lunch 2.00 pm Pastoral Team meeting at Rosemary’s 6.00 pm Christian Meditation at Christ Church 7.00 pm Dream Team at Christ Church 7.30 pm Induction of new vicar at St. George’s, Ovenden 10 Wednesday 10.00 am Community Café at Christ Church 11.30 am Communion at Christ Church 11 Thursday 6.30 pm International Evening at Christ Church 14 Sunday: Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity 9.00 am Said Communion at Christ Church 10.45 am Morning Worship at Christ Church 10.45 am Communion at St. Augustine’s 6.30 pm Celebration Service at Christ Church 5 15 Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s 16 Tuesday 12 noon Worship at St. Augustine’s, followed by lunch 6.00 pm Christian Meditation at Christ Church 7.00 pm Dream Team at Christ Church 17 Wednesday 10.00 am Community Café at Christ Church 11.30 am Communion at Christ Church 7.00 pm Sharx midweek at Christ Church 18 Thursday 6.30 pm International Evening at Christ Church 21 Sunday: Twentieth Sunday after Trinity 10.45 am Communion at Christ Church 10.45 am Morning Worship at St. Augustine’s 6.30 pm Communion at Christ Church 22 Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St.