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ALL OVER 60S VERY WELCOME September 2016 5 Pelican Film Society, The Danish Girl, Ark Conference Centre 7.30pm 6 SSJ Women’s Fellowship, Annual Outing TBA 10 Moonlight Walk, St Michael’s Hospice, Fundraising Hotline 01256 848848 13 Sherborne St John Parish Council Planning Meeting, Surgery Room, SSJ Village Hall 7.30pm 23 SMH & TC Golf Day, St Michael’s Hospice, Fundraising Hotline 01256 848848 24 SSJ Village Market, Village Hall 10 – 1pm 26 Sherborne St John Parish Council Meeting AGM, SSJ Village Hall 7.30pm October 2016 3 Pelican Film Society, Ark Conference Centre 7.30pm 4 SSJ Women’s Fellowship, Newlyn’s Farm Shop, SSJ Village Hall 2.00pm 11 Sherborne St John Parish Council Planning Meeting, Surgery Room, SSJ Village Hall 7.30pm 24 Sherborne St John Parish Council Meeting AGM, SSJ Village Hall 7.30pm 29 SSJ Village Market, Village Hall 10 – 1pm 4 5 Church Matters May Many will know that Ian Roberts was Ian writes: diagnosed with a brain tumour just before When I went into hospital I was in a lot “Believe” – “Believe” in this context does Christmas. He has been “Lay Reader” in of pain with blinding headaches. After not just mean intellectual assent to the our parish for more than 25 years and has a scan I was told I had a brain tumour existence of Jesus as a person but putting lived here much longer than that. He first and I was quite confused. I realised I one’s trust in him and accepting him as became a Christian toward the end of his could die and I was afraid. After a while I your Lord and Saviour. Luke 23:39:39-43 time at university but it was 30 years ago pulled myself together and said “You say tells the story of the thief on the cross that he really began to serve the Lord. For you are a Christian; what are you afraid next to the dying Jesus. He had been this article I have asked Ian to tell us a bit of? We will all die. The real problem is a criminal, but as he was about to be about what it means to believe in Jesus in what happens afterwards.” At this stage executed he turned to Jesus and asked the face of terminal cancer. words from the 23rd psalm were going for mercy/help. He knew enough about John Hamilton through my mind: “The valley of the Jesus to believe he could help him, even shadow of death” – that is where I felt I at this late stage. He put his trust in him was. and Jesus said “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.” That I then tried to remember Bible verses is as short a “conversion” story as I have which defined what it meant to be a ever heard, but it does show that it is Christian. The first one was John 3:16 - never too late in life to trust in Jesus! the most quoted verse in the Bible, which could be said to summarise the After going through these and other message of the gospel, the good news of Bible verses I realised that whatever Christianity, and even of the whole Bible: happened, whether I died or not, my final destiny was absolutely assured. I “God so loved the world that he gave would be in paradise with Jesus. I then his only son that WHOEVER felt calm and at peace and I moved to the believes in him shall not perish but end of the 23rd Psalm where it says “and have eternal life.” I will