ST. ALBANS CHURCH Come and Meet Each Other The next CAMEO Lunch will be on Thursday 26th March at 12 noon for 12.30 at The Sportsman’s Arms This is open to everyone in the village Contact Kate on 771660 NEW! We are a new group which meets once a month in the Barbour Institute on the second Friday of the month (10am-3pm) for a workshop to make articles including necklaces, bracelets, earrings and ornaments using small beads and weaving them together using a needle. This is suitable for both beginners and improvers. Please contact Hilary on 01829 770516 if you are interested. Inside this month: St Albans House Church Bank Music Society Concert Tattenhall News from the Guides Chester CH3 9QE Spruce up St. Albans Summer Fete Planning Puppets and Praises The firm commenced in 1960 and has served businesses in the North West since then, providing Accountancy, Audit, Taxation, Payroll Services and What’s On, Where and When Business Advisory Services to small and medium sized businesses, charities, clubs and individuals. Churches engaging with the community [email protected] 26 www.tattenhallchurch.co.uk 1 www.handleychurch.co.uk faeces has continuously been thrown onto Institute, one for each person their garden path. This could be because attending. This is held every Tuesday 10am their cat may have wandered into – 12noon. someone's garden and used it as a toilet With your free FREE UV marker pens all and possibly the aggrieved person is trying that is required is that you mark your to make a point. The cat owner is valued items with your house name or sympathetic and keen to try and resolve number and postcode. Sometimes items the problem for the person concerned. If are stolen that are of no value to the thief you recognise yourself as the person doing but of great sentimental value to you. a this, please get in touch with me. I am treasured non replaceable photo maybe happy to act as a mediator in strictest taken along with what a thief believes to be confidence. Should you wish to get in touch a valuable frame. Marking the photo as well you have my word that your details will not as the frame may well end up in the be divulged to anyone. treasured item being returned when 2015 dates for Police Beat Management found. Think about it - what have you got Meetings at Alison’s Café 12.00-13.00 to lose. Wednesday 11th and 25th March If you would like to be included in our To request help with lost and found pets/ e-mail HomeWatch updates contact keys/jewellery etc contact me below as list, send your details soon as possible. If you have a photo of a to [email protected] together lost or found pet please send it in JPEG with your address and phone number form. in case of e-mails bouncing back. FREE UV marker pens are available on Graham Marsden 771641 request at the ‘Drop In’ at the Barbour LOCAL POSTMAN TO RUN LONDON MARATHON FOR CHARITY www.virginmoneygiving.com/HADYNJOHNSON On Sunday 26th April 2015, I am running the 26.3 mile London Marathon in aid of the British Lung Foundation (BLF). As some of you may know, I lost my brother, Robert, suddenly to a Pulmonary Embolism in April 2010, at the age of 43. I have chosen to support BLF as it is a charity close to my heart and that of my family. The foundation undertakes research for the treatments of lung diseases such as Asthma, COPD as well as providing support to sufferers of lung diseases and their families. I need to raise £1750 for the marathon and if you would like to sponsor me, I carry my sponsorship form with me whilst I’m delivering the village’s mail. There is also a sponsorship form in Tattenhall Post Office, or you can donate online at www.virginmoneygiving.com/ HADYNJOHNSON I also have training updates on my Facebook page—Hadyn Johnson Marathon Runner. Thank you for taking the time to read my marathon story. If you see me running round the village—don’t panic—I’m training. Church Engaging with the Community [email protected] 2 25 FROM THE RECTOR HOMEWATCH The Importance of Lent My dear brothers and sisters, Once again we have begun our Lenten Journey, as a special time of growth and Dear Residents Police operator will conversion. Once again we are walking with Christ in the desert on a path of In the early hours of Saturday morning of advise you. If you purification and conversion. It is not a matter of routine or simple repetition of 10th January in the Bickerton area, a female would prefer to remain anonymous ring practices; it is a matter of love. We are aware that the Lord loves us to the end; we driver on her own was followed by a male in CRIMESTOPPERS on 0800 555 111. You are guaranteed that No personal know that we are in need of more love; we know that there are things in our life a cream coloured vehicle. The vehicle was that need to change. That is why we need to take Lent seriously: because it is a time described as having headlamps close details will be taken, not even your to love more. As we begin this time, our thoughts and love go to the Holy Father. together and high up. The woman, after telephone number. confirming to herself it was following her, At the approach to the Redrow building site This is our mission during time. Let us be faithful and the Lord will do his work. made for a friend’s house to get assistance. at the end of Park Avenue small signs have Prepare Yourself Spiritually The following vehicle parked up close and been erected on the grass verges asking The very foundation of fasting and prayer is repentance. Unconfessed sin will hinder touching her vehicle and the man got out vehicles not to park on the grass. Overnight your prayers. and tried the woman's car door handle. She Saturday 24th / Sunday 25th many of the Here are several things you can do to prepare your heart: contacted her friend who appeared at the signs were trampled and broken. Ask God to help you make a comprehensive list of your sins. property’s door and the man got back in the This may have been someone with nothing Confess every sin that the Holy Spirit calls to your remembrance and accept car and left. better to do, or it may be someone who God's forgiveness.(1John 1:9) disagrees with Redrow building in The offender was described as 5’-7”, Seek forgiveness from all whom you have offended, and forgive all who Tattenhall, but it was an act of wearing a hat/cap, of slim build, almond have hurt you. (Mark 11:25, Luke 11:4, 17:3,4) slitty eyes, clean shaven, a tight jaw line. vandalism and has been reported to the Surrender your life fully to Jesus Christ as your Lord and Master; refuse to This obviously has left the woman in a Police. obey your worldly nature (Romans 12:1,2). distressed state. Female drivers are asked The signs are not Redrow being to be aware of this rare incident and as a “difficult” or “awkward”. It is a Prepare Yourself Physically precautionary measure secure all car doors . condition of their planning application, Fasting requires reasonable precautions. Consult your physician first, especially if This lady has been issued with a personal as requested by Tattenhall Parish you take prescription medication or have a chronic ailment. Some persons should attack alarm from the Chester Crime Council, that the workmen’s vehicles never fast without professional supervision. Physical preparation makes the drastic Prevention Panel which, she tells me, has and particularly the heavy delivery change in your eating routine a little easier so that you can turn your full attention to helped. vehicles do not park on and damage the Lord in prayer. If you are aware of any similar incidents in the grass verges. Do not rush into your fast. your areas recently or become aware of any It is not the fault of the workmen that Prepare your body. Eat smaller meals before starting a fast. Avoid high-fat and in the future please call the non urgent line planning permission has been granted in sugary foods. Eat raw fruit and vegetables for two days before starting a fast. Tattenhall. They are just trying to earn a 101 quoting this incident 904 of 10-01-2015, "Fasting is a gift: When we realize the benefits of fasting, we find that it is a blessing or anonymously ring CRIMESTOPPERS wage to support their families. They will be from God. Fasting precedes every grace and service: Through fasting, we prepare on 0800 555 111. working in Tattenhall for several months and ourselves to receive every blessing that God offers us. The faithful, who fast, gain The following incident raised the question the least we can do is show tolerance and for some elderly nearby residents. Who do respect to them and to the elderly residents the blessings of the Holy Spirit during the Church sacraments. "For the oppression of we contact should we see unusual activity living nearby who are frightened and the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now I will arise," says the Lord; "I will set him out of hours on nearby building sites? If it is unsettled by events such as this.