OCTOBER 2015 the stjames-hamptonhill.org.ukspire FREE please take a copy Through the arch window 10 favourite churches AROUND THE SPIRE P5 RECIPE FOR LIFE P6 WHAT’S ON P7 Our Church From the Editor... Registered Charity No 1129286 I am sure most people will know that our vicar will be Clergy leaving us soon to take up a post at Saint Augustine’s Church, Highgate. Peter’s last Sunday at St James’s will Vicar be 1 November and we hope there will be a large The Revd Peter Vannozzi (pictured, right) congregation to wish him well after his eight years here. Peter was born in Hanwell in 1962, but owes Peter has written the centrespread this month his surname to his Italian great-grandfather. featuring the Queen’s remarkable achievement, being He was ordained in 1987. Peter is a Governor of Hampton Hill Junior School and our longest-ever reigning monarch. In her 90th year and a Trustee of the Hampton and Hampton Hill still working incredibly hard, it is certainly worthy of Voluntary Care Group (Greenwood Centre). celebration. Her Christian faith has always played a big Telephone: 020 8979 2069 part in her life. We also have a recipe for jubilee chicken for the occasion. Email: [email protected] We are also pleased to feature our Scouts in the Young Spire section. Two of them recently returned from the World Jamboree in Tokyo - a great experience for them. Curate I have written about My Favourite Churches which I have visited on my travels and the The Revd Jacky Cammidge one on the cover will always be an inspiration - a small country church just outside Jacky was born in Abertillery, Dorchester with such wonderful work in the windows by Laurence Whistler. Do visit if South Wales. She is a self- ever you are in the area. supporting minister, ordained in July 2015. During term time Best wishes she runs one of two nursery schools owned by Bell Ringing Susan Horner 020 8979 9380 her family. Telephone: 077 4677 0505 Brownies and Guides Janet [email protected] Girlguiding.org.uk or 0800 1 69 59 01 Janet Nunn Charities and Links Committee Parish Office Ann Peterken 020 8891 5862 thespire is published nine times a year for the Parochial Church Council of St James. Administrator Children’s Champion We make no charge for this magazine, but we hope that you will contribute towards the production Jane Gibson Stuart Richardson 020 8890 4854 costs to enable us to expand our important outreach across the parish. For all general enquiries and If you are a regular reader please consider making an annual donation. Cheques should be made hall bookings. 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Bryan Basdell 020 8979 2040 Email: [email protected] Treasurer Safeguarding Officer Write to: 5 St James’s Avenue, Hampton Hill, Please recycle this Don Barrett Jane Newman 020 8979 6154 Middlesex TW12 1HH magazine after use Before retiring, Don worked at Scout Group Paul Fitchett 020 8941 7186 the Church Commissioners for England, who manage the Servers Lesley Mortimer 020 8941 2345 Come and worship with us! Church of England’s assets. Telephone: 020 8979 3331 Sidespersons Janet Taylor 020 8979 0046 Sunday 25 October Sundays Email: [email protected] Last Sunday after Trinity St James’s Ark Debbie Nunn 020 8979 3078 8am Holy Communion CLOCKS Jeremiah 31.7-9; 9.30am Parish Communion GO St James’s Hospitality / Parish Breakfast Hebrews 7.23-end; BACK Organist / Choirmaster Clare Ryan and Kirstie Craig 079 6413 1135 1 HOUR Mark 10.46-end. Mark Blackwell St James’s Players Martin Hinckley 020 8979 0528 Sunday 4 October Mark is an accomplished 18th Sunday after Trinity parish organist with 40 The Shell Seekers (Sunday School) Genesis 2.18-24; Mondays-Fridays (not Tues) Term-time in the hall from 9.25am years of experience. Hebrews 1.1-4; 2.5-12; 9.15am Morning Prayer Telephone: 077 6814 6879 (except when there is an all-age service.) Email: [email protected] Stuart Richardson 020 8890 4854 Mark 10.2-16. Tuesdays Tools with a Mission Janet Nunn 020 8979 6325 Sunday 11 October 9.30am Holy Communion SUPPORT US! Theatre Club Peter Hale 020 979 9287 19th Sunday after Trinity The more volunteers, the more we can do Visitors’ Group Liz Wilmot 020 8977 9434 Amos 5.6-7, 10-15; COMING SOON Support us by regular giving, it’s easy to do Hebrews 4.12-end; Sunday 1 November All Saints Day Leave a gift in your will, a lasting legacy Weekly Pew Sheet Jane Gibson 020 8941 6003 Mark 10.17-31. 9.30am Peter’s final service at St James’s. Help us to give Peter a warm send-off. Finding us Sunday 18 October St Luke the Evangelist Sunday 8 November St James’s Church is on the Isaiah 35.3-6; 9.45am Remembrance Sunday corner of St James’s Road 2 Timothy 4.5-17; With two minutes’ silence at the war memorial and Park Road. There is ample parking in the road. Luke 10.1-9. 3.30pm All Souls’ Service (please note date) 2 I thespire FOR DETAILS OF WHAT’S ON LOCALLY GO TO PAGE SEVEN Leader Column with Peter Vannozzi Time on your hands Thought & Prayer Taking time to talk to God A time and place Here are two verses from a hymn by the prolific hree years ago I took the plunge and exchanged my 19th century Bishop of East Equatorial Africa, and a martyr in hymn writer Timothy Dudley-Smith recognising the Filofax for Google Calendar. I had used a Filofax for Uganda. importance of time, but putting it in its place. around 25 years – it was cutting edge back then! Time is used by the Church to recall individuals (and events) Google Calendar, I discovered, would talk to my who point us to aspects of the Christian faith or to practical Lord, for the years your love has kept and guided, different bits of electrical equipment regardless of applications of it in real, human lives. urged and inspired us, cheered us on our way, Toperating system. sought us and saved us, pardoned and provided: Liking this sort of thing I was, of course, terribly excited by it. or me, time is rather a preoccupation at the moment as I Lord for the years, we bring our thanks today. That soon wore off when I realised that, as with a pen and ink prepare to leave Hampton Hill in November. I am looking Lord for ourselves; in living power remake us- diary, an appointment put down on the wrong day or at the F back, organising my more than eight years in my mind, no self on the cross, and Christ upon the throne, wrong time was just as wrong electronically! doubt reinterpreting events in different ways, recalling dates, and past put behind us, for the future take us: Human beings are concerned so often with time.