The News Magazine of the ‘Heart of Eden’ Team Ministry St. Lawrence, Appleby; St. John, Murton-cum-Hilton; St. James, Ormside; St. Peter, Great Asby; St. Margaret & St. James, Long Marton; St. Cuthbert, Dufton; St. Cuthbert, Milburn with additional information from Methodist Churches at The Sands, Appleby, Great Asby & Dufton with Knock Methodist Church The Church of Our Lady of Appleby The Local Communities and Organisations of Appleby and the Mid-Eden Valley What’s On in The Heart of Eden in September? Food Bank Collection, every Tuesday, Sands Methodist, 10:30; Friday , St. Lawrence’s Church, 11.00 – 12.00 Date Time Place What?? 1st 7:30pm Ormside Village Hall Ormside WI 1st 2~4 pm Long Marton Village Hall Carpet Bowls – Fun and friendly 2nd 7:30pm Drybeck Hall Fellsiders 2nd 7:30pm ? Kirkby Thore MU 3rd 2pm Guide Hut Inner Wheel Whist & Dominoes 3rd 1~ 3:30pm Appleby Health Centre Hearing Loss drop in 3rd 10am ~ 2pm outside Moot Hall Blind Information bus 3rd 7:30pm RBL Clubhouse RBL meeting re Remembrance Sunday 3rd 7-30pm Newbiggin Ladies Club trip to Theatre 5th 9:30 – 11:30am Appleby Market Hall Supper Room Coffee Morning in aid of Appleby Friends of Guiding 5th RBL Women’s Section 2p a mile challenge 5th 4:30pm Milburn Milburn Horticultural Show 7th 9 ~ 10:45am Sands Methodist Church Hall 1st meeting of Playgroup 7th ~10.30am Bolton Lounge – Health Centre Cancer Info drop in and coffee 8th 7:30pm Village Hall WI: : Pilates with Teresa Davies 8th 10:30 to 12:15 Long Marton Village Hall Coffee Morning – Friendly crack, cakes, raffles, cards and toasties 9th 10:15 for 11am Appleby Market Hall WADFAS lecture “The Beggars’ Opera” 9th 7pm Kirkby Thore Memorial Hall K.T. W.I (lecture about Mardale) 10th 10am + Appleby Gardeners’ Lake District tour 10th 12:30 pm Eden River Cafe, Appleby Diners, : all welcome: 2 courses £7 10th 7.30 pm The Hollies Asby PCC, 10th 7:30pm Long Marton Village Hall Pottery Group 11th 6:30~9:15pm Post Office Friday Club Rainbow Sports 11th 7:30pm Colby Village Hall Coffee Evening with bingo 12th 9:30 – 11:30am Appleby Market Hall Supper Room Coffee Morning in aid of Friday Club 12th 10:30am Colby Village Hall Coffee Morning 13th 5pm Murton church Fellside Concert (Organ and Oboe) 13th 6:30pm Newbiggin church Compline 13th 5pm St. John, Murton-cum-Hilton Fellside Concert 13th 6-30pm Newbiggin Church Compline Service 15th 2pm Appleby Parish Church MU Service 15th 7:30pm St Peter’s Church Asby MU, : service with Rev. Carole Marsden 15th 2~4 pm Long Marton Village Hall Carpet Bowls – Fun and friendly 16th 7.30 pm The Hollies Asby Fellowship : John Bevan 16th 12 noon Long Marton Village Hall Lunch Club (contact Ann on 61244 a week before) 17th 2pm Guide Hut Inner Wheel Whist & Dominoes 17th see article see article Appleby Broadband event 18th 7:30pm Kirkby Thore Memorial Hall Prize Bingo 18th 10am ~ noon Milburn Village Hall Macmillan coffee morning 18th 7-30pm Kirkby Thore Memorial Hall BINGO in aid Newbiggin Church 19th 9:30 – 11:30am Appleby Market Hall Supper Room Coffee Morning in aid of 1st Appleby Brownies 21st ~10.30am Bolton Lounge – Health Centre Cancer Info drop in and coffee 21st 2 – 4pm Wynderbarn WI and others!: Knit and Natter 22nd 7:30pm Long Marton Village Hall Local History Group – Christine Craghill, ‘A Guide to the History of your House’ . £3 inc. refreshments. 23rd 10:15~11:30 St. Peter’s Church Coffee Morning/Bring & Buy: In aid of church funds 24th 7:30pm Long Marton Village Hall Pottery Group 24th 7:30pm Milburn Village Hall Milburn Film Club “Tea with Mussolini” 25th 7 – 9pm Guide Hut Friday Club Ceilidh 25th 2pm Red Lion Asby WI committee 25th 7 for 7:30pm Brampton Brampton Remote Cinema (Testament of Youth) 26th 9:30 – 11:30am Appleby Market Hall Supper Room Coffee Morning in aid of Arthritis Research UK 26th 7:30pm Dufton Village Hall John Ellis Trio 27th 5pm Temple Sowerby church Fellside Concert (Camerata Cumbria) 27th 9:15am Ormside Church Communion and Harvest Festival 27th noon ~ 2pm Colby Village Hall Soup & Pudding Lunch 27th 6-30pm Newbiggin Church Collection Food for Food Bank/Shelter 29th 7:15pm RBL Clubhouse RBL Women’s Section meeting 29th 2~4 pm Long Marton Village Hall Carpet Bowls – Fun and friendly 30th leave 10:30am Asby WI: Visit to Bowes Museum 30th 7.30 pm The Hollies Asby Fellowship : John Morton October 1st 2pm Guide Hut Inner Wheel Whist & Dominoes 1st 7:30pm Maulds Meaburn V.I. Dr. Carl Hallam talks about MSF 3rd 5pm Carlisle Cathedral Festal Choral Evensong 3rd 10am Appleby Cloisters Curry Aid cake & Christmas card stall 4th 5pm Dufton church Fellside Concert (Gainsborough Ensemble) 7th 9 ~ 3 Asby Village Hall Clothing collection i.a.o. Air Ambulance Holy Cross Day On Holy Cross Day the Church celebrates the Cross as a symbol of triumph, as the sign of Christ’s victory over death. Holy Cross Day goes right back to 14 September 335, and we have the mother of a Roman Emperor to thank for it. Helena was a devout Christian, and after her son, Constantine, was converted, they agreed that she should travel from Rome to Israel, and seek out the places of special significance to Christians. Of course, much of Jerusalem had been destroyed by the Romans around 135 AD. But even so, Helena finally located what she believed to be the sites of the Crucifixion and of the Burial (and modern archaeologists think she may well be correct). The sites were so close together that she built one large church over them - the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. That church, built in honour of the Cross, was dedicated on 14 September 335. The sign of the Cross has been used by Christians since early times. Tertullian, writing his De Corona (3:2) around AD 211, noted that Christians seldom did anything significant without making the sign of the cross. What is its significance? Well, people often put their initials or some sort of personal mark on something to show that it belongs to them. The Cross is the personal mark of our Lord Jesus Christ, and we mark it on ourselves as a sign that we belong to him. Even in the book of Revelation, we read that the servants of God are ‘sealed’ or ‘marked’ on their foreheads as a sign that they are his. A preacher once put it this way: if you were explaining to someone how to make a cross, you would say: “Draw an I.” That is you standing before the Lord, saying, ‘here I am’. Then cancel that vertical stroke with a horizontal stroke – as if to say: “Lord, I abandon my self-will and make you the centre of my life instead. I abandon myself to your love and service.” On Holy Cross Day, we recall Jesus’ wonderful promise: “And when I am lifted up, I will draw all men unto me.” (John 12:32) Take Away our Hearts of Stone and Give us Hearts of Flesh · In his novel “1984”, George Orwell has the chilling sentence: If you want a picture of the future, imagine a stamping human face for ever. Well, we don’t have to look back far to understand Orwell’s pessimism. No need to recite all the horrors of World War II and its apocalyptic climax at Hiroshima and Nagasaki when, in a blinding moment, hundreds of thousands of civilians were obliterated. In light of the evidence of human wickedness and folly, only the most shallow among us could shrug off the threat of a nightmare world the future can hold for us. The present, already, brings new horrors. Members of Islamic State and related bodies hold human life worthless in the pursuit of a religious creed. Not a new phenomenon. We have only to remember the massacre of Moslems by Christian Crusaders – and many Moslems have never forgotten! So one can feel some sympathy with those who condemn religion as the cause of much evil in the world. But, in fairness, it has be admitted atheistic creeds such as Stalinism have perpetrated equal atrocities to achieve their ends. What can so easily be lost zealous adherents to religious and secular philosophies is humanity and virtue which raises human- beings to a higher spiritual plane - kindnessI’m not speaking of conventional, undemanding niceness, but that generous love of neighbour which comes of a deep sense of kindred, extending to those who are not of my tribe. In his picture of the Last Judgement, when men and women are held accountable for their lives, Jesus insists that it’s just that – kindness – caring for my neighbour – that is the sole criterion:’I was hungry and you fed me, naked and you clothed me, sick and you visited me.’That is to say: Have I been fully human in my concem for those who need me? Success in this is all that ultimately matters. And, knowing how often we fall short, the more we try to walk with Jesus who is humble of heart and the friend of failures. Roger Collinson Church Registers Baptisms 14th June Sadie Soulsby St Edmund Newbiggin 14th June Micah Wilson St Lawrence, Appleby 2nd August Holly Niamh Kim Swinscoe St Lawrence, Appleby Weddings 20th June 2015 Kaye Carruthers and Richard Metcalfe St Margaret and St James Long Marton 4th July Kay Fitzgibbon and Andrew Dorset St Peter Great Asby 11th July Carolyn Ellis and Andrew Linney St Margaret and St James Long Marton 25th July Jacqueline Savage and George Camm St Peter Great Asby 1st August Nicola Walker and William Tatters St Cuthbert, Dufton 21st August Rebecca Atkinson St.