www.allsaintsaston.com Our Parish Aston-Cum-Aughton with Swallownest and Ulley September 2019 If you would like to make a donation towards the costs of producing this magazine, please tell your distributor . www.allsaintsaston.com SERVICES IN SEPTEMBER Sunday 1st September 9am Holy Communion at Holy Trinity, Ulley 10.30am All Age Worship at All Saints, Aston with presentation of Child Friendly Church Award. Sunday 8th September 9am Morning Worship at Holy Trinty, Ulley 10.30am Holy Communion at All Saints, Aston 6pm Flare Youth group Sunday 15th September 9am Holy Communion at Holy Trinity, Ulley 10.30am Sunday Morning Worship with Choir at All Saints, Aston Sunday 22nd September 9am Morning Worship at Holy Trinty, Ulley 10.30am Holy Communion at All Saints, Aston Sunday 29th September Harvest 10.30am Joint service with Holy Trinity, Ulley at All Saints, Aston If you want to talk about getting married, or to book your wedding please contact Hazel : [email protected] Tuesday 1pm-5pm Thursday 9am-1pm Wedding couples can ring: 07852 506712 If you would like to arrange a Baptism please contact our Baptism co-ordinator Gloria Hope : [email protected] 2 www.allsaintsaston.com I recently read Psalm 3 in which the Psalmist says “I laid me down and slept, and rose up again, for the Lord sustained me. Who is this, who goes to bed, sleeps soundly and wakes in the morning thoroughly refreshed? Is it some thick skinned character, who drops off without a care for the moment, let alone the next day? But this person writes poetry, as in Psalm 3. Is it some lucky person who hasn’t a care in the world, and life is just per- fect But the psalmist begins ‘Lord how increased are they that trouble me; many are they that rise against me. Many there be that say of my soul: there is no help for him from his God’. Most of us have had sleepless nights certainly I have over recent months. We have gone over and over tomorrows problems in our minds, and they never get any better. We have got up, paced the room, regretted that the night is only half through, maybe we have taken a sleeping tablet, then dozed off, only to wake more weary in the morning than when we went to bed. I wonder if Jesus ever found it impossible to sleep? Did he in the first place learn this secret of sleep from Psalm 3 which he must have known from childhood, and later came to understand and apply to him- self? After all the Psalter was his prayer book WE are not all made alike. Some of us are placid, some are nervous. Is Sleep an in- dex of the kind of persons we are. Is it also an index of the kind of faith we exercise? This is certainly an awkward question and we often try to avoid it. Perhaps we ought to erase Psalm 3 as hopelessly naïve, but that wouldn’t be right would it? Yes we have experienced sleepless nights, but we have also experienced the Lords sustaining power. This is the message of the psalm for us. God sustains those who trust him. We need reminding of this over and over again, for we constantly slip back into the old routine of worry. Let this be our last thought at night, when we put out the light. That even though all the odds may seem to be stacked against us, Faith in God’s sustaining power will see us safely through the dark night, and we will wake safe and refreshed. Something that you may also like to think on: You can't change the past but you can ruin a perfectly good future by worrying about the present. Best wishes to everyone, Jim 3 www.allsaintsaston.com ASTON ALL SAINTS C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL will be holding an Open Morning for parents who are interested in their child joining our Foundation Two Class in September 2020. This will be held in the school hall on Thursday 3rd October at 9.30am Please contact the school on 01142872100 or [email protected] to confirm your attendance Thank you, Sue Mellor Head Teacher You will be made very welcome! 4 www.allsaintsaston.com We are delighted to announce that All Saints, Aston church has been awarded a Child Friendly Church Award by the Di- ocese of Sheffield. We will be presented with our award in a special All Age Worship Service on Sunday 1st September 10.30am. Please come along and help us celebrate our award and to show our appreciation for all the people who volunteer their time to run all of the wonderful Children’s, Youth and Fami- ly events in our church community. 5 www.allsaintsaston.com All Saints have re-commenced being a collection point for the main Trussell Trust Rotherham Foodbank. Today in Rotherham there are families struggling to put food on the table - people on low incomes, a sudden crisis, redundancy or benefit delay can mean going hungry. They feed over 200 people per week, providing emergency food and support to local people in crisis. Foodbanks partner with a wide range of care professionals such as doctors, health visitors, social workers and police to identify people in crisis and issue them with a foodbank voucher. A typical food parcel would include: Cereal, Soup, Pasta, Cooking Sauce, Tinned Tomatoes, Beans, & Vegetables. Tinned meat and fish. Tinned fruit, Biscuits, UHT milk and Fruit juice. We can help by giving generously. There is a basket in the Church Porch for donations. Thank you 6 www.allsaintsaston.com Thursday 19th September 3.15 - 4.45pm at Aston All Saints C of E School, Lodge Lane Fun, Faith, Friendship and Food Make, Play, Explore, Create, Discover www.allsaintsaston.com 7 Sunday Date Wardens Sidespersons Scripture Intercessions Chalice TEAS Reader 01/09/2019 Liz Marjorie O'Neill - - - Mavis Standing (AAW) Ann Mason Michael Standing 08/09/2019 Terry Bessie James Bradley Cox Pauline James Bradley Cox Janet Watson (HC) Pauline James Pam Taylor 15/09/2019 Liz Sheila Brown Val Dixon Milly Nuttall - Marjorie O'Neill (SMW) Pauline Martin Ann Mason 22/09/2019 Terry Marilyn Harvey Marilyn Harvey Norman Harvey Pauline James Val Deixon (HC) Norman Harvey Sheila Brown 29/09/2019 Liz TBA Terry NF B Wall B Wall Kath Fairchild (Harvest HC) TBA Pauline Martin 06/10/2019 Terry Val Dixon - - - Pam Taylor (AAW) Bradley Cox Sue Silk www.allsaintsaston.com 13/10/2019 Terry Bessie James Pauline James Sharron Goddard Glyn Sands Marilyn Harvey (HC) Pauline James Norman Harvey 20/10/2019 Liz Pam Taylor Chris Ward Terry NF - Marlene NF (SMW) Gill Ward Wendy Hallewell 27/10/2019 Terry TBA Hazel Rainer S Mellor B Wall Michael Standing (HC) TBA Mavis Standing (HC) = Holy Communion If you are unavailable for your Sunday on Teas, please contact Ann Mason on 0114 287 7032 8 (SMW) = Sunday Morning Worship with choir For other Rota roles, please phone Terry on 01709 852 057 www.allsaintsaston.com Home There’s no place like it A flexible and friendly home- based care service from a few hours to full time.. Our service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide: • Companionship • Local transportation • Personal care • Meal preparation • Light housekeeping • Specialist dementia care Contact us on Home Instead Senior Care Suite 3 Linden House, 34 Moorgate Road, 01709 837170 Rotherham S60 2AG Each Home Instead Senior Care franchise is independently www.homeinstead.co.uk/rotherham owned and operated. 9 www.allsaintsaston.com THE GLOOPS CLUB FIELD DAY IN SWALLOWNEST 1958 The Gloops Club was started in 1928 by the Sheffield Star and grew to be one of the largest children's clubs in the world and had members in every English-speaking country. Gloops was a jolly, impish little cartoon cat who appeared in pictures in the Star each evening. The motto of the Club was "Smile" and members had to help each other, be kind to animals and birds, and help the sick. Club activities grew enormously and a large number of District Committees were formed to help in these activities. They opened a Gloops Holiday Home at Mablethorpe that accommodated 60 children each week and many medically unfit children were brought back to health through this home. Twelve children's hospital cots were installed in Sheffield and the surrounding districts with a gift of £3,270 to the hospitals in ten years. Members sent books, toys and comics to sick children in hospital and chocolate eggs at Easter. A Gloops Silver Cross was awarded for life-saving and brave actions and a Silver Star for distinguished conduct. A Silver Disc was awarded to every Glooper who attended school for three years without being absent. This also applied to Sunday Schools. The Club lasted right up until the 1980s, when it was disbanded. 10 www.allsaintsaston.com The following is the report in the South Yorkshire Times on Saturday 4th October 1958. Swallownest Gloops Field Day Swallownest Gloops held their annual field day last Saturday in the Church Hall grounds, Swallownest, where there were many side shows, competitions and a film shown by the West Riding Police. The retiring Queen, Miss Janet Trow, handed over £5.10s. (£5.50p) and the retiring captain Terry Havenhand handed over £1.10s.(£1.50p), the results of efforts by the Gloopers. The new Gloops Queen, Miss Sandra Jones, was crowned by Miss Julie Gray. The attendants were Christine Jones, Margaret Peston, Marilyn Trow, Alison Porrit, Jane Blakemore and Janice Dann and the crown bearer was Hugh Coldwell.