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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. Augustine’s 23 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 24 Wednesday 10.00 am Community Café at Christ Church 11.30 am Communion at Christ Church 7.00 pm Central Churches Together 8.00 pm Questions of Faith at Pellon Club 25 Thursday 6.30 pm International Evening at Christ Church 26 Friday 7.30 pm Celebratory Mass at St. Paul’s Kings Cross 27 Saturday 8.00 am Men’s Breakfast at The Fountainhead Inn 10.00 am Prayers for Calderdale at The Minster
28 Sunday: Last Sunday after Trinity 9.00 am Sung Communion at Christ Church 10.45 am Communion at St. Augustine’s 10.45 am Parade Service at Christ Church 12 .45 pm Baptisms at Christ Church 3.00 pm Brass Band concert at St. Paul’s, Kings Cross 6.30 pm Communion Service at Christ Church 29 Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s 30 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 31 Wednesday 10.00 am Community Café at Christ Church 11.30 am Communion at Christ Church 12.15 pm Wednesday Lunch at Christ Church 7.00 pm Sharx midweek at Christ Church 6 NOVEMBER
1 Thursday 3.00 pm Communion at Clement Court – All welcome! 6.30 pm International Evening at Christ Church 7.30 pm Communion for All Saints at St. Augustine’s 3 Saturday 5.00 pm S.O.U.L. patrol sleepover at Christ church 4 Sunday: Fourth Sunday before Advent 10.45 am Communion at Christ Church 10.45 am Morning Worship at St. Augustine’s 6.30 pm Communion at Christ Church 5 Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s 7.30 pm Preachers Meeting at the Vicarage 6 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 7.30 pm Deanery Synod at St. Paul’s, Kings Cross 7 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 8 Thursday 6.30 pm International Evening at Christ Church! 9 11Fri Sun Men’s Weekend away
11 Sunday: Third Sunday before Advent 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 12 Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s 13 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 7.30 pm St. Augustine’s PCC at the Centre 14 Wednesday 10.00 am Community Café at Christ Church 11.30 am Communion at Christ Church 7.00 pm Sharx midweek at Christ Church 15 Thursday 6.30 pm International Evening at Christ Church 7.30 pm Induction of new vicar at Holy Nativity Mixenden 17 Saturday 9.30 am Shared Ministry Day at Battyford 6.00 pm X:Site Halifax at Christ Church 7.30 pm Love Calderdale “The Big Celebration” at the Minster
7 18 Sunday: Second Sunday before Advent 10.45 am Communion at Christ Church 10.45 am Morning Worship at St. Augustine’s 6.30 pm Communion at Christ Church 19 Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s 20 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 21 Wednesday 10.00 am Community Café at Christ Church 11.30 am Communion at Christ Church 22 Thursday 6.30 pm International Evening at Christ Church 7.30 pm Baptism Preparation at Christ Church 24 Saturday 8.00 am Men’s Breakfast at The Fountainhead Inn 10.00 am Prayers for Calderdale at The Minster
25 Sunday: Feast of Christ the King 9.00 am Sung Communion at Christ Church 10.45 am Communion at St. Augustine’s 10.45 am Parade & Toy Service at Christ Church 12.45 pm Baptisms at Christ Church 6.30 pm Communion at Christ Church 26 Monday 9.15 am Morning Prayer at St. Augustine’s 27 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 7.30 pm Christ Church PCC in The Barn 28 Wednesday 10.00 am Community Café at Christ Church 11.30 am Communion at Christ Church 12.15 pm Wednesday Lunch at Christ Church 7.00 pm Central Churches Together 7.00 pm Sharx midweek at Christ Church 29 Thursday 6.30 pm International Evening at Christ Church 30 Friday 6.00 pm Guides Sleepover at Christ Church 7.00 pm Wakefield Cathedral Choir at St. Michael’s, Mytholmroyd
DECEMBER
2 Sunday: Advent Sunday 10.45 am Communion at Christ Church
10.45 am Morning Worship at St. Augustine’s 6.30 pm Communion at Christ Church
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MAGAZINE DEADLINE The Parish Magazine is distributed on the last Sunday of every other month. The copy deadline for the August/September magazine is Sunday, 11th November 2012
Contact Kath Sharman on 363058 or email [email protected] or [email protected]
Dear ALL,
Ian & Lynn Lawson would just like to thank everyone for their support and prayers during recent difficulties for care for Ian’s parents. Much appreciated,
Love and God Bless
My Granddaughter and her husband, ‘Sara & Chris’ from London paid me a visit in May and came to our morning service at Christ Church. They would like to say a big thank you for the very warm welcome. They were very much impressed. A daughter, ‘Lizzie’ was born to them on July 25 th . Joan Gelder
• My friend drowned in a bowl of muesli. A strong currant pulled him in. • I went to a seafood disco last week and pulled a muscle. • Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, and the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
9 The Worship leaders – Lou Fellingham
One of my top female Worship leaders is Lou Fellingham she has one of the most beautiful voices you could ever wish to hear. Songs we sing by Lou are “All I have and all I have is yours” (build this house) and “There is a day”. She has sang on many Stoneleigh Worship albums she also appears along with Stuart Townend on songs of praise. Check out her website www.loufellingham.com
Louise "Lou" Fellingham (née Hunt), (born 5 May 1974), is a Christian worship leader, singer and songwriter from Brighton in East Sussex, England. She is a founding member of the British band Phatfish and has also pursued a solo career. In 2008, she won a Christian Broadcasting Council (CBC) Award for her album Promised Land, in the category of Best Worship. Fellingham has worked alongside other Christian artists such as Matt Redman, Graham Kendrick, Tim Hughes and Stuart Townend. She regularly leads worship and performs at different venues around the world. A rendition of Fellingham leading the hymn "In Christ Alone" has had more than four million views on YouTube. Personal background: Louise (Lou) Fellingham (née Hunt) grew up in the West Sussex village of Turners Hill in England, where she attended the Turners Hill Free Church. In her teens, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, she sang in two local Christian groups, The Turners Hill Mob and 4th Dimension. Both gained local acclaim among the churches and youth groups of mid Sussex. In 1998, she married Nathan Fellingham, the drummer and one of the founding members of Phatfish. Together, they have three children. The family attends the Church of Christ the King (CCK), where they are frequently involved in leading worship and musical projects. In particular, Fellingham serves the church by training and managing their 50 member church choir.
10 Nathan's father, David Fellingham has served as one of the elders since 1979. The church is also home to Stuart Townend, Paul Oakley and other prominent Christian figures. The evangelical church is affiliated with the New Frontiers neo charismatic church network and is located at the Clarendon Centre near Brighton railway station. Professional background: Fellingham has been the lead singer of the British Christian band Phatfish for the last 17 years, which has played in worship conferences, concert halls, and music festivals, touring throughout Europe and around the world. She has also performed as a soloist and worship leader and has toured extensively throughout the UK, Canada and the United States.
Hope you have enjoyed reading something about this amazing lady
Paul Heptinstall Worship leader Christ Church
by Emma Tyler
Author Merlin Carothers Title Power in Praise
Brief summary:
A fantastic and refreshing attitude to being a Christian. Emphasising the importance of God in every situation.
ISBN 978 0943026015
Available on Amazon but haven’t seen a copy in church. I’ll lend anyone my copy.
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Praise to God for His hand in X:Site September 15 th 2012! 12 1st October – Theresa of Lisieux (1873 97)
Theresa of Lisieux should be the patron saint of teenage girls and young women who want to make the most of their lives, despite being constricted by family and school or work.
Theresa grew up in a strict, devout Roman Catholic middle class family in France, one of four sisters. Her father was a watch maker. Like her sisters, she entered a Carmelite convent at 15, and stayed there. She was never able to go anywhere, do anything extraordinary, or hold any responsibility. She died at the age of 24 of tuberculosis. Yet this quiet young Carmelite nun became so nationally popular that she was declared patroness of France 50 years after her death. Not bad for someone who didn’t get out much!
So how did Theresa do it? By not intending to do it at all. Theresa never set out to become famous: instead, she quietly determined in her spirit to seek God, and, having found him, to honour him in her life, to live as closely as she could to the teaching in the gospels.
The result was a life so spiritually radiant that her convent asked her to write a short spiritual autobiography of her pilgrimage. Theresa obliged with ‘L’Histoire d’une Ame’, which soon became so popular that it was translated into most European languages and several Asiatic ones. Theresa also prayed for people who were ill, and there are many reports of miraculous healings that took place in answer.
After Theresa died in 1897, her book just went on selling. People found the artless sweet simplicity of her observations on her pilgrimage as a Christian compelling. Theresa reminded people of what Christianity was really all about: simple but utter devotion to Christ, not endless outward observance of religion. Theresa helped many in the Roman Catholic Church in France to remember the first principles of their faith.
13 How do you pray? Give me give me? Or how do you do?
Each week we pray in church. We use different postures while we pray: kneeling, sitting, or standing. These postures may well affect our thinking and attitude to God. What we say, whether that be out loud or in our thoughts, also reflects our relationship with God.
If all we do is come to him with a 'shopping list' of requests, whoever they are for, we're like young children who sit on their daddy's knee in order to get what they want. We are always asking for something bigger and better; the latest style and colours. We are never satisfied with what we have. We don’t want a relationship with God; we want what we hope he will give us.
On the other hand, we may approach him only formally. We acknowledge with respect his power and greatness. But where do we go from there? How can such a far away, powerful God, have any interest in us? We have no idea, and so our prayers are brief, rarely acknowledging the ache in our hearts, and the needs in our lives.
The Bible shows a middle way: between the ‘give me give me’ prayers, and the prayers which hesitate to ask for anything at all. The Psalmist made clear that our prayers come out of our relationship with God. “The Lord is near to all those who call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him; he also will hear their cry, and will save them. The Lord preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked will he destroy.” (Ps 145:18 20)
So the key is this: if you really want God, then just tell him so. Be honest. From the depths of your inner self, call upon him. Acknowledge your sins, and ask for forgiveness. Then see what happens. Jesus promised: “Seek and you SHALL find. Knock and the door SHALL be opened unto you.” (Matt 7:7) 14 Living Scripture (Jn5:36b end, Ps 119:105)
We go to church, Study the scriptures Wonderful words in so many forms, Historic, prophetic Poetic and dignified, But meaningless Without the light of the Spirit Who inspired them, Light to bring revelation Of the one who inhabits the words, Who is the Word.
Lord, send us your Spirit, Open our eyes, Open your word To truly be a lamp to our feet And a light for our path, Lord, show us Jesus In every word, That we might come to him And have life. By Daphne Kitching
15 All Saint's Day is the 1 st November
Did you know we are all saints to one another one way or another? Have a think about how important you are to those around you.
As Christians, we try really hard to treat people kindly and do the things that Jesus asks us to do