Community Magazine September 2016 Church and Community £1 newsBeaconsfield Community • views Magazine - •September inspiration 2016 • information 1 BEACONSFIELD ANGLICAN TEAM MINISTRY St Mary & All Saints - Old Town St Michael & All Angels (www.stmarysbeaconsfield.org.uk) St Michael’s Green, New Town (www.stmichaelsbeaconsfield.org.uk) Team Rector: Revd Dr Jeremy Brooks Vicar: Tel: 01494 677058 (*Monday) Revd Camilla Walton - Tel: 01494 673464 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] (*Friday) For information phone Church Office For information phone Parish Office 01494 676690 01494 676931 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Associate Priest: Associate Priest: (*Saturday) Revd Carolynn Croisdale-Appleby Revd Cathy Smith - Tel: 01494 670389 Tel: 01494 728195 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Churchwardens: Daphne Scott - Tel: 01494 676938 Churchwardens: David Wyn-Ricketts - Tel: 07967 236975 Wendy Godrich - Tel: 01628 526945 Licensed Lay Minister : Steve Snaith - Tel: 07802 931978 Mrs Hazel Chow - Tel: 01494 675832 Holy Communion - 8.00am Holy Communion - 8.00am (traditional) Early Bird Service - 9.15am (1st Sunday in the hall for children (Book of Common Prayer) aged 0-11 and parents or guardians) Parish Communion - 10.00am (except 1st Sunday) Family Time and a Talk - 9.15am (every Sunday) (Family Service non-Eucharistic: 1st Sunday) Family Holy Communion - 9.15am (3rd Sunday) Matins and Sermon - 11.15am (1st Sunday only) Holy Communion 10.30am (every Sunday) Ministry of Healing Prayer offered each Evensong and Sermon - 6.30pm (except 1st Sunday) Sunday during 10.30am service Evening Eucharist with Ministry of Healing Weekday Morning Prayer 8.45am (1st Sunday only) (every Tuesday and Thursday) Junior Church each Sunday (except 1st) 10.00 am Weekday Holy Communion 9.00am (every Wednesday) in the Fitzwilliams Centre. Messy Church for all ages 2nd Sunday in the hall at 4.00pm Children’s Sunday Club 4th Sunday in the hall from 9.15am Crèche each Sunday (except 1st). For families there is a warm welcome and a variety Baptism and marriage enquiries to the Parish Office. of activities each Sunday St Thomas’ Mayflower Way, Holtspur (www.stthomasbeaconsfield.org.uk) Vicar: Revd Narinder Tegally - Tel: 01494 670460 email: [email protected] Holy Communion (1st and 3rd Sundays) 10.00am St Thomas’ House, Mayflower Way, HP9 1UF (2nd and 4th Tuesdays) 9.30am Churchwardens: Morning Worship (2nd and 4th Sundays) 10.00am Peter Honiball - Tel: 01494 689974 Open Morning Prayer 9.00am Tuesday, Thursday & Friday email: [email protected] Crèche and children’s church each Sunday at 10.00am. Andrew Snelling - Tel: 01494 676260 Baptisms and marriages by appointment . e-mail: [email protected] Further information from the Parish Office (676690) in the Fitzwilliams Centre, Windsor End, Beaconsfield, HP9 2JW. Open 9.30am - 2.30pm Monday to Friday * Denotes normal day off Note from Contents this month include: the Team Rector Note from the Team Rector Page 1 It’s a time of new Embracing change 2 beginnings for the Church Pause to pray 3 of England locally. It has been two years since the New Bereavement Group 4 retirement of the previous Lighthouse holiday club 5-9 Bishop of Oxford, who Interview at the Fire Station 10 has oversight of this part Community & Church News 13-22 of the country and only now is a new person, Tots to Teens News 24 Bishop Steve Croft about to start. When an Calendar of Events 26 organisation gets a new person in charge, Parish Registers 27 there is always anticipation and interest to Local Information 30 see how things will turn out. We were very Looking for a builder? 33 fortunate with our previous incumbent, Bishop John Pritchard and everyone hopes Small advertisements 36 for great things with Bishop Steve. For those Maasai Warriors visit 41 of you who enjoy the intricacies of church New solicitors opened 42 government - and there must be some of you Index of Advertisers 52 out there - we also have a new Archdeacon of Buckingham - the Ven. Guy Elsmore and he will be welcomed in Aylesbury on 11th Editor: September. Tel: 07919 028741 email: [email protected] New leadership in the Church of England Advertising: is not something that affects most of us Margaret Mardall day by day, but leadership in other spheres Tel: 07919 028741 affects us all; whether that is a new Mayor email: [email protected] in our town, a new district councillor, a new Subscriptions and Distributions: national government or a new Headteacher Sally Masters at your children’s or grandchildren’s school. Tel: 07919 028741 Sometimes change comes about because email: [email protected] we have moved, not a change in leadership Typesetting and Printer: - but children moving to a new school and Turville Printing Services discovering a different way of working from Tel: 01494 520322 the previous school. email: [email protected] www.turvilleprinting.co.uk September is seen as a time of new Website: beginnings for many of us, with the start of www.beaconsfieldcommunitymag.org.uk the new academic year. Whether the leaders whom we know in that new beginning are Copy Deadline: 8th day of the preceding month familiar faces or people starting out, the challenge for us is whether we will support The editorial team is not responsible for accuracy and encourage them or be their most of contributions nor the view expressed within them. vociferous critics. It is up to us to choose. Please send your contributions for our October issue Best wishes, no later than the 8th September to [email protected] Jeremy Beaconsfield Community Magazine - September 2016 1 WE MUST LEARN TO EMBRACE CHANGE For many people September In Luke 5:36-39 Jesus said is a time of new beginnings; that we can’t ‘put new ‘wedding season’ is drawing wine in old wine skins’- he to a close and couples is condemning the shut are starting on a new life mind and pleading that we together; families may have don’t reject new ideas; we taken advantage of the long can’t curl up in a ball, shut summer holiday to move our eyes and pretend that house. Now schools are change isn’t happening and restarting and children are that when we open our eyes going on to new classes, all will be as it was before. perhaps with new teachers Commenting on this and new pupils to mix with; passage Mother Mary Clare of the older students have left school and are Community of the Sisters of Love wrote: starting at college, university or jobs in “we must try to understand the meaning the big outside world. Perhaps at the of the age in which we are called to bear other end of the age spectrum it is a witness. We must accept the fact that time of retiring from a lifetime of paid this is an age in which the cloth is being employment, a wondering what to do with unwoven; it is therefore no good trying all this new found time on our hands. to patch. We must rather set up the loom Even if we are not affected by any of on which coming generations may weave these examples, all of us have to adjust new cloth according to the pattern God and cope with living in a fast-changing provides.” world. It can be an anxious and scary time, Set up the loom. That means putting a challenging time as well as one that is people before programmes and nurturing looked forward to with anticipation and them so that they can weave new cloth. excitement. It’s about orientating ourselves outwards How are we to cope with change and to the world and its needs rather than these conflicting emotions within us? looking inwards to our own needs; it’s The first thing we must not do is panic: about connecting to people in their occurring 365 times in the Bible is the community and culture and listening to phrase ‘do not be afraid’; that’s a reminder how they see themselves and the world for every day of the year. The second thing around them. to do is to look for a constant and for many When we listen to others and listen to of us that constant is God; God doesn’t God and place everything before him with himself change though he is a God of confidence, we will learn how to embrace change. He ‘is the same yesterday, today change and then we will learn how to have and forever’ and, through Jesus, promises life in all its fullness. that he ‘will be with us always, even to the Hazel Chow end of the age.’ The Bible also reminds Licensed Lay Minister us that ‘his promises are sure’; he will help St Michael’s Church and guide us through these changes. 2 Beaconsfield Community Magazine - September 2016 PAUSE TO PRAY A prayer for harvest Lord of the harvest we thank you for all who have worked on land and sea to provide our daily food. We remember our farmers and fishermen and those in other parts of the world who have planted the seed and tended the crops and the fruit of whose labours we enjoy. Grant that they may receive justice, a fair return for their labour and hope for the future with a stable climate. We pray too for those who package and deliver our food, for shopkeepers and restauranteurs, for those concerned with the nation’s health and for ourselves, that we may shop wisely and with thought for others. We ask this in the name of your son, our Saviour Jesus Christ.