St. Peter's Church Magazine April 2019
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St Peter’s Scottish Episcopal Church Galashiels Scottish Charity SC006210 Useful Numbers Priest, Rev Simon Cake St. Peter’s Church 01896 668898 Vestry Chairman Magazine 01896 751474 Treasurer 01896 757114 People’s Warden 01896 758017 PVG/Safeguarding Co-ordinator 07704 788689 Organist 01896 758017 Sunday Squad 01896 751484 Hall Bookings 01896 751694 Caretaker : 07787 729639 Facebook page - St Peters Sunday Squad Church web site www.stpetersgala.co.uk Services Sunday mornings 'A movable feast' - the meaning and origin of this phrase 10.30am Sung Eucharist followed by tea/coffee st A feast day that falls on the same day of the week each year but 1 Sunday of the month which has a date which varies. 9.00am Super Squad 9.45am Family Breakfast 2nd Sunday of the month 6.00pm Healing/anointing service 3rd Tuesday of the month, April – October 3.00pm Afternoon Tea Service April 2019 th 4 Tuesday of the month during school terms 5.30 – 7.00pm Messy Church £1 Recommended donation per issue Thursdays 10.00am Holy Communion service takes place in the hall Last Friday of the month 5.00pm Choir practice Shared Leadership Team Emergency Prayer Circle Susan Boorman Sheena Cossar Karen Ellis This is a group in the church which prays for people at times of special need. If you know of a member of your family or a friend John Maltman Nancy Muir Monica Reynolds facing crisis or difficulty who would be grateful of such confidential Church Diary April support Call 01896 831418 or 01896 751484 nd Tues 2 7.30pm Vestry meeting th Prayer Tree Thurs 4 10.00 am Communion service th Roslynn, Darrin, Steph, Emily & Holly, Joan, Sheila, (Katie, Fri 5 7.00pm Cursillo @ Coldstream th Stephanie, Ted, April, Finn & Joan), the Ellis family, 6 year Sun 7 9.00am Super Squad with Simon old Joe and his family, Miriam, Andrew, Simon & Oliver, 9.45am Family breakfast (William, Bethany, Katie & John), Patricia, Martin & Sarah 10.30am Sung Eucharist, Rev Simon Cake th Thurs 11 10am Communion Sat 13th 12.30 Soup ‘n’ Pud lunch Sun 14th 10.30am Palm Sunday Sung Eucharist Please e-mail additional names for inclusion to [email protected] unless 6.00pm Healing service, otherwise stated they will remain on the prayer tree for two weeks Tues 16th 3.00pm Afternoon Tea service, Rev Simon Cake Thurs 18th 10.00am Communion April Anniversary of Baptism 6.00pm Maundy Thursday service Rev Simon Cake th nd th 8 Fletcher Green 22 Greyson Waddell Fri 19 noon Good Friday service th th 29 Holly & Zack Mathieson Sat 20 6.00pm Easter Light, Joint service @ St John’s, Selkirk st Sun 21 10.30am Easter Sunday Eucharist rd Tues 23 5.30pm Messy Church th Thurs 25 10.00am Communion th Fri 26 5.00pm Choir practice Sun 28th 10.30am Sung Eucharist It is 10.04am on Monday 4th March and so far I have received FOUR telephone calls on my landline that ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo are scam. 2 silent and 2 purporting to be from BT and talktalk as my telephone providers informing me that my service will be terminated unless …. (this is SERVICES @ ST PETER’S where I hang up and press the call block button on my new phone) Sun 14th 10.30am Palm Sunday Eucharist Police are alerting folk to the fact that scammers are reverting to using Thurs 18th 6.00pm Maundy Thursday /vigil landlines to call their victims as we have become more savvy on our Fri 19th noon Good Friday service mobiles, e-mails and online. The callers say they are from Sat 6.00pm joint Light of Christ service @ Telephone/broadband companies, HMRC, Banks, even local councils St John’s, Selkirk regarding tax. HANG UP – DON’T LET THEMSCARE YOU INTO GIVING Sun 21st 10.30am Easter Sunday Eucharist BANK DETAILS OR TRANSFERRING MONEY TO AN ACCOUNT THAT THEY NAME. At the meeting of members of the SIMON’S PAUSE FOR THOUGHT churches involved in running the Galashiels Foodbank a number of issues Well we’ve finally arrived Oliver and I have moved to the Borders and were raised including information we are nearly unpacked. Of course we have about another 6 boxes to regarding the need for this service in our unpack. Of course there’s the usual shouting from one end of the home community, a report was given regarding to the other ‘’Oliver Where have you put the - - - - - I can’t find it or the first 8 weeks of 2019 with some comparative figures from 2018. Dad Where’s the TV remote’’ We’ll get there eventually. The worrying trend is an increase in expenditure from £744 to £1164, in the face of a drop in income over the same time period While this has been going on I almost missed the fact were in the from £1535 to £368. Over this same time period the number of season of Lent and coming towards the end of it. Oops I almost missed clients served has risen from 108 to 179. Perhaps you could think it still I will make up for it! about donating cash for the purchase of fresh food – milk, bread, eggs, bacon - particularly when it is the turn of our church to fill the Lent is a season like Advent where we are encouraged in one way or bags and give out the food to those in need. It was noted that service another to get to try and understand God and get closer to God to help days are increasingly busy, especially Fridays. An additional us to become a more whole person. One thing I’ve been made very volunteer might be helpful at busy times. aware of since arriving here in the Borders is how people say hello to Food stocks. There remains a large surplus of soup and beans so strangers and make you feel so welcome. This has made Oliver and please don’t donate these for the time being as some tins are going me settle in easier. The other thing I am very aware of is people’s out of their use by date. However cereal, jam, tinned fruit, canned kindness. People have been so kind and helpful even when they don’t meat, potatoes (packets of mash and tins), long life milk, are always know who I am. People can be so humble and they don’t even no they needed. are doing it. It is natural to them. This is very much Goodness of God where we can see him and appreciate how God wants his people to be. At the same time we have to be careful. Because often when we say how kind we are and look at all the good things I am doing that’s when we lose it. We stop caring and sharing one another and people stop Books in St. Peters wanting to know us as we can are filled with self- importance. We find We started selling books in July ourselves on our own. God wants us to be with each of us helping each 2016 and have raised £554.74p, other along in our lives sharing what we can willingly and not doing it from July 2018 until February 2019 for ourselves. Perhaps we should try watching out to see how many and we collected £109.31p (this people show us kindness. I think we will all be amazed as to how much was included in the total) All this was helped by Enid's Bookmarks and kindness there is in this world. Thank God for Peoples Kindness. plants from our garden. Once again on Oliver and my behalf can I thank all of you again on the Thank you all so much for your support. We try Humbleness and Kindness everyone has shown to us to help us settle in and vary the books as much as possible. Every more easily. penny goes to Church Funds. Do keep reading. With Every Blessing. Yours Ethel and Yvonne Dylan’s 15th birthday Revd. Capt. Simon Cake. CA. A7 Centre of Mission in the Borders. March Messy Church PILGRIMAGE At this month’s Messy Church we met Charity Worker, Academic, Ultra-marathon Runner - Mark Calder is all of these. One evening last week he spoke in our church Gideon who was trying to thresh wheat in about his experiences running pilgrimage routes in Scotland and a wine cellar because he was hiding from North East England. He's doing this to raise funds for "Embrace the Midianites. This was a silly thing to do, the Middle East" projects in Iraq. As people return to their almost impossible! Just as impossible as homelands Embrace is supporting local Christians who are starting dancing around to dislodge table tennis to re-build their communities and local economies. balls from paper tissue boxes; but the Mark came to us as he was returning to his home in children succeeded. When the Angel came Aberdeenshire from a run which had started at Melrose and ended from God to encourage Gideon not to in Durham. His route covered 200 miles following in the footsteps worry and be scared but to be brave and of St Cuthbert taking in Lindisfarne and Heavensfield. In his talk go to save the Israelites, he did this with God’s support. The children Mark wove together experiences from the situation in the Middle thought about times when they had been scared to do something and East, thoughts on pilgrimage and the danger of rushing. A few made prayer parachutes and were amazed when water stayed in days earlier he'd experienced first hand the danger of rushing.