BENEFICE NEWSLETTER JUNE and JULY 2018 Your Gateway to the churches of Patrick Brompton, Crakehall, Hornby, Spennithorne, Finghall, & Hauxwell Wydale Away Weekend 2018 RECTOR Revd Chris Lawton, The Vicarage, Patrick Brompton DL8 1JN 01677 450920 [email protected] Loving Living Learning 1 MINISTERS WITH PERMISSION TO OFFICIATE Revd. Laura Wilford 5 Cookson Way, Brough St Giles 01748 830017 [email protected] Revd. Lisle Ryder 01677 450180 Fr. Philip Carrington 01677 425 077 READERS Joyce Blundell 01748 812668 Tony Gibson 01748 830017 CHURCHWARDENS Crakehall St Gregory’s Myra Sheild 01677 427970 Gill Bartram 01677 424517 Finghall St Andrew’s Colin Thorpe 01969 622471 Hauxwell St Oswald’s Rosi Keatinge 01969 623416 Dyno Keatinge 01969 623416 Hornby St Mary’s Vacant Patrick Brompton St Patrick’s Alistair Clark 01677 450414 Spennithorne St Michael’s Margaret Crocker 01969 625479 Norma Croft 01969 624077 Please do not hesitate to contact any of the above for further information CORNERSTONE PASTORAL CARE Cornerstone is here to provide a 'listening ministry' within a safe, accepting and confidential environment. Our aim is to give emotional and spiritual support to church members and the wider community. We also offer help and information concerning practical matters such as shopping, transport, odd jobs, etc. The pastoral team includes those who have had training in 'active listening' and who collectively have experience of – Hospital and Prison Chaplaincy, the Samaritans, Counselling and Nursing. All volunteers are insured and checked by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS – formerly CRB). Please contact: 01677 937124 Cornerstone cards can be found in the pews and at the back of your church. Please feel free to take one away with you. HOME COMMUNION If you are unable to attend church because of illness or any other difficult circumstances and you would like communion at home, please contact the clergy or one of the readers. 2 LOOKING AFTER GOD'S OWN COUNTY This is a time of year when things are growing. After a late cold spring everything has been bursting with life to catch up. The variety of fresh green colour in the trees is always a joy to me at this time of year. Having had an early edition of Richard Mabey's Food For Free since the 1970s I have always been inclined to enjoy a taste of nature. Young beech leaves and bramble tips have excellent flavour, wild garlic too, and nettles make a good soup. God the Creator of all this new life has given us responsibility for looking after all that is good in the natural world. Sadly, there is much evidence that we are living in an age of extinction of species of fauna and flora, unprecedented in scale and rapidity. When I first owned a car, before the days of screenwash buttons, when driving at night the windscreen would become encrusted with insect life. Now the evidence in a clear windscreen is that some 90% of our flying insects have gone. Insects are critically important in the food chain especially for birds. There is much else in the way we live and exploit resources that threatens biodiversity. Nature programmes on television are hugely popular, showing us the rich diversity of life around us and around the globe. They give us cause for wonder and yes, worship. Yet they nearly all have messages of warning. These include unsustainable logging, quarrying and mining that pollutes water courses, trawling over fragile creatures on the ocean floor, polluting the atmosphere with excess carbon dioxide that leads not only to extremes of climate but to acidity in the sea. This restricts crustaceans in the building of shells. Then on our doorstep farmers have been pushed this way and that by successive policies British and European as well as commercial pressures for the production of food and the care of habitats. This also involves dealing with controversies over the use of pesticides. There are no easy solutions to any of these issues. The most controversial issue being overpopulation. There is a limit to how many of us the world can sustain without desertification. Sir David Attenborough has identified the education of women as being a key. Where women have education, they gain control over so much in their lives and in the destiny of all of us. Educated populations discover that prosperity does not lie in having large families. It is controversial because so many religious traditions including our own Christianity have followed the teaching in Genesis that we should go forth and multiply. Fortunately, our schools are giving a lead in educating a new generation to value wildlife and the need to protect it. Our Diocese has an Environment Officer and a policy to encourage us to live more sustainably. The Diocesan Synod adopted the Diocesan Environment Policy in June 2017. See http://www.leeds.anglican.org/environment Every church is encouraged to make use of the Eco Church programme, registration is simple. This can be adapted into a Parish Environment Policy suitable to local circumstances. There are lots of helpful resources on the Eco Church website. There is a quarterly newsletter entitled God's Green Fingers. Both within the Church and in the circumstances of our own lives we have a duty to live responsibly in relation to God and his wonderful world. Lisle Ryder. 3 A CELEBRATION FOR THE CENTENARY OF THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. A group of friends from across the area have decided to hold a tea afternoon in memory of the Armistice in 1918. This came about following a visit to Phoenix House and learning about the amazing work they are doing, for ex servicemen. This will take place on Saturday 18 August from 2pm. There will be various displays of memorabilia, a raffle and afternoon tea im Harmby Village Hall. This is a registered event and All money raised will go to Help for Heroes. If you are able to help in any way please contact Joyce on 01748 812668 or Chris on 01969 622471. More info in next newsletter. Wensleydale Filling Station Wensleydale Filling Station has been meeting since spring 2013 and grew out of a United Service which had been running once a month for 22 years. This was initially set up as a meeting to which Christians could invite their friends and so was essentially all about telling God’s story for people today. Changing to a Filling Station format has helped us to re-focus on this original vision. Each Filling Station evening starts with Coffee (or other drinks!) and cakes, with an opportunity to chat and relax. Music and worship is contemporary. Speakers are invited from around the country and there is often the opportunity to discuss some of the issues raised. There are normally about 60 people attending each month. You are very welcome to come along each month and bring your friends to hear God’s word in a relaxed and informal way. We meet 7 to 9pm on the second Friday of each month (except January and August) Venue Change From February 2018 onwards, we are changing the Venue for Wensleydale Filling Station. We will meet at Newton Le Willows Village Hall DL8 1SP 19:00 to 21:00 For more information please contact: Pauline Hirst 01969 667841 [email protected] Our next meetings are : June 8 : Chris Bennett -Muswell Hill London & London theological seminary July 13 : Martin Dowland – Glossop 4 PARISH LUNCHES - ALL ARE WELCOME! Parish Lunch at the Old Horn Inn, SPENNITHORNE Next lunches are Wednesday 20 June and Wednesday 18 July at 12.30 £10 per head for a 2-course meal. Please ring Jeff or Diane at the Old Horn Inn on 01969 622370. Parish Lunch at the GREYHOUND HACKFORTH is on Thursday 21 June 12.30. £10 per head. Please confirm your place by ringing Myra Shield on 01677 427970 by Monday 18 June Parish Lunch at the BAY HORSE CRAKEHALL is on Thursday 19 July 12.30. £10 per head . Please confirm your place by ringing Myra Shield on 01677 427970 by Monday16 July Patrick Brompton Community Events Tour de Yorkshire Patrick Brompton Community Events Committee and all who assisted with the TdeY organisation, would like to thank EVERYONE who helped to make the day such a success. The village and church looked splendid and it was wonderful to see so many friends from Newton le Willows and our surrounding community joining together. Patrick Brompton Village Show and BBQ Saturday 18 August, in the Old Schoolroom and on Jubilee Green. Show schedules can be obtained from 01677 450937 / 01677 451837 and from PB or N-le-W Bus Shelters and viewed from the PB website from the beginning of June. All are very welcome St. Patrick's/Community Events Coffee Mornings continue at The Old Schoolroom, PB 10.00 - 12.00, Saturday 2nd June, 7th July, 4th August. Come if you can! Village Carol Singing: Saturday 15th December, 18.30 5 HACKFORTH & HORNBY CE PRIMARY SCHOOL 2018 is proving to be a busy year. Pupils enjoyed success at The Wensleydale Tournament of Music and Speech: Katrina Dunn was awarded the Mary Palmer Trophy for the highest marks in the Bible Reading (junior section) for a second time and our junior choir enjoyed performing This Little Light of Mine on the impressive stage at the Tennants Garden Rooms in the Unison Song category. At the end of the tournament, we heard that school had been chosen by the adjudicator (speech) to receive the Margery Freeman Memorial Bursary for speech. This was in recognition of strong, individual performances by our junior pupils. In awarding the bursary, the adjudicator expressed her hope that staff would use it, “To further the love for the written word that you have instilled into your students.” As you can imagine, we will be pleased to do so.