May 2016 magazine - St Paul`s Church

May 2016
in touch
edition 133
St. Pau l’s Chu rch
May 2016
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News for the Church and
Community on Canford
Heath
www.stpaulscanfordheath.org.uk
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Contents
Letter from Rev’d Paul Renyard
Community Cafe Update from ‘the coffee house’
EU Referendum – which way Christians should vote - Archbishop of Canterbury
Inspiring words on the other side of the world - David and Susan Ridd
Stillsinging! - Trevor Muddimer
Message Board - Read it or Miss it!!
St Paul’s Diary and Prayers for May
THE GUARDIANS OF ANCORA EasterClub 2016
Deanery Events in May -Penny Elliott
Church of England News
St James The Least
CATHEDRALS & ABBEYS – No.14 - Stephen P Church
Chernobyl - 30 years on - John Martindale
May Recipe: Chocolate Fridge Cake
May Crossword
Final Thoughts … The capital of England - Nigel Beeton
St Paul’s Contact Information
15th May: Day of Pentecost – Whit Sunday
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From the Editor!
Thank you to everyone who sent in a contribution this month. There is a good
variety of articles which is … just great!
Please start thinking about the June magazine. The deadline is earlier for editorial reasons so don’t miss the deadline.
I am always on the lookout for photos that I can use eg for the front cover. I
have to convert them to black & white so plenty of contrast is needed. Why
not email me a picture that you have taken?
Competition Time … Can you work out the significance of the end-of-article
stamp this month? Easter clubbers shouldn’t have a problem with that!!
Ideas and feedback always welcomed. The deadline for the June edition will
be Thursday 19th May 2016
Thank you -- John Martindale
Email me at [email protected] or see me in church!
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Letter from Rev’d Paul Renyard
Dear Friends,
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hen I was responsible for writing a monthly piece
for a parish magazine I often did it in the form of a
diary. Thus I could give people an indication of what I was
doing and what was happening in the parish and the
churches round about. It showed the various administrative jobs that had to be done. So I might be finding a Baptism certification, sending in a quarterly return for the
number of weddings I had overseen, telling the complier
of the Diocesan prayers what we would like prayed for
next time round, to say nothing of architect’s visits, archdeacon’s visits and dealings with the secular authorities.
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hen there was the care of the congregation, especially
among those who were sick or in any kind of trouble,
encouraging their talents, and bringing them together in
the web of worship. The latter meant preparing services
(and there is far more time spent preparing than delivering), liaising with the other churches over sharing services, special events, social care (such as
food banks, hospital chaplaincy) and combined mission. There was also work with schools,
especially at the times I had a church school in the parish.
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hen there was the rest of the parish and the Christian commitment to them. We are the
only people who have the privilege of seeing people at times of birth (or baptism), marriages and death, and are often asked to share in high points- and indeed low points- in between. No other profession does that. So we tend to be, even in towns where we not always
so visible, the public face of the Church and what it is proclaiming, even though we are aware
that all Christians have that responsibility of service.
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ll this would be quite overwhelming if clergy did not keep ourselves aware of the loving
mercy and care of God. So we keep ourselves abreast of the latest scholarship, of the
news of the world, and of our own spiritual and prayerful discipline. I was told very early on by
my first incumbent to have two things which were outside the parish, to make life possible.
One could have connections with the Church, the other none at all. So I did a lot with local
Voluntary Service Overseas groups, and was also a member of and then chaplain to an ecumenical network exploring and practising the life of spirituality. Although the age may change,
God does not, and the general work of a priest remains the same in his sight.
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e must ensure that the new incumbent does have time out and away but also encouragement and prayer for a task which is more than four hours on a Sunday! He will have
had some experience in his curacy but now we need to talk in terms of bucks stopping and
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carrying cans. So we pray for him and the congregation and the parish as we begin a new
chapter and wish him God’s peace in all the heights and the troughs of being a parish priest
in the twenty-first century.
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aul Renyard
(a parish priest, mostly in the 20th Century!)
Smile Lines ….
On the move!
2 men moving a piano, one said “Do you know the piano’s on my foot?”
The other replied “No, but you hum it and I’ll play it!”
Community Cafe Update from ‘the coffee house’
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ow! We’ve now been open for 2 years, and what an incredible journey it’s been!
We just wanted to say a huge thank you for all your support and encouragement
over this time, as we have felt so blessed and loved by the local churches and community.
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e really wanted to share with you all some of the answers to prayer (both big and
small) over this time without which the work the cafe does would not have been
possible, and also to encourage you all in your own journeys as to how God can and does
listen to, and answer prayers!
 From the outset, finances were tight. The electrics in the building were condemned
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soon after we took on the lease, but the son-in-law of the alarm technician was an
electrician who did the work for exactly the money we had budgeted without knowing how much we had! We then prayed over the bills that we could afford them
before opening them, and the bills came to far less than expected since the water
meter hadn’t been working (we let Wessex Water know, but no charge was due!)
We were led to a coffee course in Bradford that gave us exactly the skills required,
not only for making coffee, but for every aspect of running the coffee house! They
still support us now, and supply us with the coffee you all love!
The building had leaks in
the roof in the first winter,
so we laid hands on the
building and prayed for it!
The landlord came and did
some basic work upstairs
for free and the leaks have
stopped!
When praying about both
a bookcase and a filing
cabinet to help with the
cafe (without telling anyGuild Knit and Natter with the dementia friendly
one), these were both Townswomen
twiddlemitts they’ve made! A big thanks to them for also supplying
donated within a week of us with a new batch of tea cosies!
praying.
We have also been blessed with amazing volunteers and staff to work alongside
whom God has raised up at just the right time. Alongside generous and warm customers, this has helped make the cafe so enjoyable and worthwhile.
The biggest answer to prayer of course has been the fact that the community have
been using the cafe, and have benefited from using it: we have had testimonies of
relief from anxiety and loneliness in the cafe, we have seen community relationships
being built through local events we ran and in the cafe itself, we have shared in
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births, deaths, weddings, funerals and birthdays with the community, and we have
seen our work with dementia awareness benefit customers in their time of need.
None of this would have been possible without God’s help and support.
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hankyou once again for all of your support so far on this incredible journey. We have
always known that the journey has been bigger than the cafe, so we are excited to see
what is in store for us in the future!
If you would like to join in with activities in the community, we have included a list below.
All groups are free and always open to new people, so please do visit!
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Pottery Painting - Please check in the cafe for the next date!
Knit and Natter: Thursdays 10:30am - 12:30pm
Ukulele Club: Saturday’s 2pm - 3:30pm
Scrabble Club: Saturday’s 3:30pm - 5pm
Townswomen Guild Knit and Natter: First Weds of each month 2pm - 4pm
Craft at the Cafe: Third Friday of each month 10am - 1pm
Beading: Third Saturday of each month 12pm - 3pm
Win on Waste: Third Saturday of each month 10am - 11am
EU Referendum – which way Christians should vote
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here is no ‘correct Christian view’ on how to vote in the EU referendum. So says the
Archbishop of Canterbury. He also says that people are entitled to fear the impact
that “enormous” numbers of migrants will have on our jobs, housing and the NHS.
Speaking in a recent interview with The House magazine, Justin Welby said it was
“outrageous” to condemn people who raise concerns as “racist”. Instead, their
“genuine fears” needed to be addressed.
“Fear is a valid emotion at a time of such colossal crisis. This is one of the greatest
movements of people in human history. Just enormous. And to be anxious about that is
very reasonable.”
His comments are taken by many as the most significant concerns raised by the Church
of England in the present migrant crisis. The archbishop went on to repeat his call for
Britain to take more than 20,000 refugees.
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Inspiring words on the other side of the world - David and Susan Ridd
Blessed be God who calls us together.
Praise to God who makes us one people.
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he liturgy, or form of words, that we as Anglicans use in our church services has evolved
over the years. Until the twentieth century the uniting text was the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, but a growing desire to provide flexibility, reflect some of the pre-Reformation
orders of worship and meet contemporary pastoral needs led, eventually, to the publication
of the Alternative Service Book in 1980.
This
was followed in 2000 by a new series of services
known as Common Worship which Michael Perham (formerly team rector of the Oakdale Team
Ministry) had a significant role in developing.
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ur Easter Sunday morning this year was
spent half a world away from Canford
Heath in Napier, a beautiful coastal city on New
Zealand’s North Island, where we joined the cathedral congregation for their Communion service. Its geographical position means that St
John’s, Napier is the first cathedral in the world
to greet Easter Day and it made us feel quite
emotional to think that our family and friends at
St Paul’s would be singing the same glorious,
celebratory hymns of praise twelve hours or so
later.
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Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist CC By
t was also poignant because the words used
Napier Art Deco.
during the service were so familiar. At the risk
of sounding like liturgical Luddites it made us realise how important the pattern of our Anglican worship is. Not just in enabling holiday makers to feel sentimental when miles from
home but to emphasise the fact that we at St Paul’s are part of a world-wide Christian family. Of course some of the local adaptations that are made here from time to time are welcome and help tailor the worship to our own requirements but we need to be careful about
wholesale omissions or changes to the words we use.
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ooking at the worship and traditions in other churches can be very instructive. The
morning in Napier ended with the person taking the service having his head completely
shaved and everyone being invited to drink champagne and eat chicken!
Now there’s a thought for our next Easter service!
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Still singing!
- Trevor Muddimer
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’m still being surprised that I can sing! Yes, I’m convinced that the voice is one of
those organs that develops with use.
or anyone who missed my previous updates, I learned to sing 2 years ago in a
short course with Bournemouth Male Voice Choir. The 32 learners then performed just two songs in one of their concerts. However, to gain choir entrance, I
learned an audition piece in Latin, and was fortunate to gain acceptance into the
choir. In the last 18months we have learned many songs in various languages, performed in many venues, and two of these concerts were in our home church of St
Pauls.
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finished a performance yesterday (in Gillingham Dorset) and have to almost pinch
myself to believe it is my voice I can hear, producing some sweet and harmonic
sounds (not always sweet, but getting better at each practice & performance). So I
guess my message is if you have a nagging ‘I wish I could...’, then do give it a try!!!
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f you like the sound of a Male Voice Choir, then our next concert may be of interest? May 7th 7:30pm. It’s at St Mary church Ferndown where we share the event
with a visiting choir from Mousehole in Cornwall.
t only £5 for over 100 voices, this will be a real treat for the ears. Please see
the concert poster in this magazine, and for tickets please call 07792 121 645 or
email [email protected]
f you would like to hear Bournemouth Male Voice Choir in St.Paul’s, then please
let me know. I’m sure the choir would welcome the opportunity to sing on Canford Heath again.
See next concert advert on next page
Message Board - Read it or Miss it!!
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Line Dance Classes
WAR MEMORIAL HALL
Tudor Road – Broadstone
Monday Morning 10.00 – 11.00a.m. Beg/Imp
ST. PAULS CHURCH HALL
Tuesday Evening
7.30 – 8.15 Beginners Class
8.20 – 9.30 Improvers Class
THE SCOUT HALL Poole Road – Upton
Thursday Morning 10.00 – 11.30a.m. Improvers Class
All Classes £5.00 EACH
Contact Nicky on 01202 382194 Mob 07954 439461
Or Just Turn up newcomers always welcome
Bournemouth Male
Voice Choir
The Bournemouth Male Voice Choir
(BMVC) has teamed up with the Mousehole Male Voice Choir for the concert,
which will be held at St Mary’s Church Ferndown on Saturday May 7th.
Money raised from ticket sales will be donated to the John Thornton
Young Achievers Foundation (JTYAF), which supports young people in a
wide range of youth organisations in Dorset.
Meanwhile the Mousehole Male Voice Choir, formed in 1909, will be leaving their picturesque village of Mousehole on the Cornish coast for the
tour.
Tickets cost £5 and can be bought fromjtyaf.org./events/bmvc or by calling Pete on 07792121645.
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Wessex Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline
Annual Concert
St Paul’s Church
7.30pm on Friday May 6th 2016
Free entry - Retiring collection
Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus (Director: Vicky Gray)
Brian Howells Trio
Revue 4U (Director: Angela Jacobs)
Matt Cuff & friends
James Curtis
De Ashton - Alto
Richard Holt - Piano
Our work gives Chernobyl children up to 5 years of added life expectancy
Help!
The Toddler group, little Treasures, needs help to clear chairs and put
toys out and away on the following Thursdays please:
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Thursday 28 April
Thursday 5 May
Thursday 12 May
Thursday 19 May
Thursday 26 May
The toddler group starts at 1pm so chairs will need to be cleared and toys put out before then. Toys need to be put away at 2:30pm. The office holds a full diagram of how
the chairs need to be cleared and also how the toys fit into the cupboards.
Please let the church office know if you can help and if so what day/s you can help.
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Bournemouth and Poole sponsored walk
Date: Saturday 14 May 2015
Time: Start between 8.30am and 11.30am at any checkpoint. Finish by 3.30pm at
any checkpoint.
Checkpoints: Shore Road, Branksome, Bournemouth Pier, Boscombe Pier and
Southbourne.
Distance: As far as you are comfortable going! The maximum distance is 12 miles
(that's from Shore Road to Southbourne and back) but you can start and finish at
any checkpoint.
Sponsor forms should be available from the end of April from Paul Taylor or the
church office. Further details will be provided nearer the time. This is a good chance to
enjoy some fun together and raise money for a very good cause.
Speak to Paul or Linda Taylor if you need any more information
A R C H COMMUNITY FAIR
Saturday 4th June
To show case all the talents on Canford Heath
CANFORD HEATH COMMUNITY CENTRE
Mitchell road BH17 8UE (opposite the library.)
Stalls inside and outside, (weather permitting.)
COME AND JOIN IN THE FUN
10am until 3pm.
Fancy dress is optional, but wearing
Red white & blue will be great.
If you would like to take part, with a stall, activities or suitable
entertainment please email
[email protected] or phone 01202 382643
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St Paul’s Diary for May
Sun
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8:00am
9:30am
Holy Communion Service
Service of the Word
Thur
5
10:00am
Holy Communion Service
2-4:15pm
Fri
6
7:30pm
Heath Social Club- talk ‘travel to a
foreign place’
Chernobyl Concert
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1:30-3pm
Family Fun Afternoon
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9:30am
4:00pm
Holy Communion
FRESH Service
Church Coach Holiday to the Cotswolds
Holy Communion Service
Sat
Sun
Mon-Fri
9-13
Thur
12
Sat
14
9am-2pm
Christian Aid Walk taking place along
Poole sea front.
Sun
15
9:30am
All-Age Service
Thur
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10:00am
Holy Communion Service
9:30am
Holy Communion Service
Sun
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11:30am-2pm
Sunday roast lunch in the church hall
10:00am
Holy Communion Service
10:00am
Thur
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Fri
27
2-4:15pm
Heath Social Club-games
Sun
29
9:30am
Healing Service
Smile Lines …
Scientific Payment?
Q) What is a nitrate?
A) Cheaper than a day rate.
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Please pray for..
Friends and family who are unwell:
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ach month the names for prayers in the book will be taken out – if you require us to
continue to pray for someone unwell please add their names with a brief explanation
at the start of each month.
Clair Anderson
Sam Mellows
Peter Hewitt
Rose Fisher
Sylvia Messenger
Alex and Family
Parish Prayers
On each day of each month we think of, and pray for:
DAY ORGANISATION/ROAD
DAY ORGANISATION/ROAD
S1 MALAN CL & NICHOLSON CL
17 Fruits of the Spirit: patience & kindness
2 Sunday Club
18 Fruits of the Spirit:: generosity & faithfulness
3 SPLAT
19 BURBRIDGE CL & WYKEHAM CL
4 Youth Home Group
20 Fruits of the Spirit: gentleness & self-control
5 ASCENSION DAY
21 Salvation Army & Society of Friends (Quakers)
6 Home Groups
S22 SHERBORNE CRESCENT
7 Senior’s Group
23 Orthodox Churches
S8 Christian Aid Week
24 Roman Catholic Church
9 Christian Aid Staff
25 Methodist Church
10 All Collectors for CA
26 YETMINSTER ROAD
11 For all those who give to CA 27 United Reformed Church
12 LEAROYD RD & NETTLETON CL 28 The Baptist Churches
13 All those who receive from CA S29 PUDDLETOWN CRESCENT
14 The Pentecostal Churches
30 The Sudan Link
S15 PENTECOST
31 The Library Service
16 Fruits of the Spirit: love & joy
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THE GUARDIANS OF ANCORA
EASTER HOLIDAY CLUB 2016
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ach day the children went on a treasure hunt, and among
other potential treasure, found real treasure that added another story from the Bible to those already known. No one goes
out without being properly equipped, and so it was at the holiday club, that each child had a firebug to take out with them on
the journey.
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s well as talking about the stories rediscovered over the
three days, the children were able to paint the stories. You
can see this for yourselves as the big picture now hangs in the
church. A number of other craft activities were available and
surely most of the children will have taken part in the fishy food
craft, which had the advantage of being edible creativity.
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here were parts in the drama this year that called for extras,
and there were eager actors taking the parts of rolling
clouds, trees, baddies, and villagers.
o enjoy the photographs which show something of the fun
of being part of the holiday club.
Well done to Sheila Wilson, Paul Renyard and all
l the other helpers for another great Easter Club!
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Deanery Events in May - Penny Elliott
MAY
Thursday, 5 – Ascension Day.
Special Service in London to mark 150 years of Reader/LLM Ministry.
Friday 6, 7.30pm Annual Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline Concert at St Paul’s Church, Canford
Heath. Free entry, Retiring collection.
Saturday, 7 – Prom Praise Wessex, Lighthouse, Poole, 7.30 p.m.
Sunday, 8 – Services in the Diocese to mark 150 years of Reader/LLM Ministry.
Monday, 9 – Bournemouth William Temple Association, Marsham Court Hotel, 8 p.m., for
AGM and talk by The Archdeacon of Dorset, the Venerable Antony MacRow-Wood on “The
Roots of the Economic Crisis”.
Saturday, 14 7.30pm – Christchurch Priory - Concert to mark the 30th anniversary of the
Chernobyl disaster. Fauré: Requiem , Carr: Requiem for an Angel. Tickets from The Regent’s
Centre, Christchurch.
Annual Sponsored Walk for Christian Aid between Sandbanks and Southbourne.
Monday, 16 – Salisbury Diocesan Evangelical Fellowship meets at St John’s Church, Wimborne, at 9.45 a.m. Theme is “The Importance of the Bible in a Changing World” with Reverend Simon Auston from St Leonard’s, Exeter.
Wednesday, 18 Poole and North Bournemouth LLMs and Purbeck LLMs Evening with Bishop
Karen, Christchurch, Creekmoor, 7.30 p.m.
Saturday, 21 – Barclays House Choir Spring Concert, St Peter’s Church, Parkstone, 7.30 p.m.
JUNE
Saturday, 4 – Clergy/LLM Training Day re Safeguarding, Wimborne.
Sunday, 5 – Cream Teas at St Mary’s Church, Lytchett Matravers.
Thursday, 9 – Poole Churches Together meeting, Holton Lee, 12.30 p.m.
Poole and North Bournemouth Deanery Synod, 7.30 p.m.
Smile Lines …
Endangered Species
Q) Name six animals which live specifically in the Artic.
A) Two polar bears. Four seals.
Church of England News
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New Bishop of Oxford is announce
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he new Bishop of Oxford is to be the Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft, Downing Street has
announced. Bishop Steven succeeds the Rt
Revd John Pritchard, who retired in October 2014
after seven years in post. Bishop Steven, who is
58, is currently Bishop of Sheffield, a role he has
held since 2009. He serves on the Archbishops’
Council and Chairs the Ministry Council of the
Church of England. He has been a member of the
House of Lords since 2013. He has a passion for
mission and evangelism and for finding creative
ways of sharing the Gospel.
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e is the co-author of the Emmaus and Pilgrim courses, which help people engage
with the Christian faith. The Bishop of Oxford leads the Church of England in Oxfordshire,
Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, supported by the Area Bishops of Dorchester, Buckingham and Reading. The Diocese is one of the largest and most complex in the Church of
England, stretching from Milton Keynes in the north, to Newbury in the south; from the
Cotswolds in the west to Slough in the east. The Diocese has a population of 2.3 million
people, more than 800 churches and almost 600 parochial clergy. It includes 12 secondary and 270 primary church schools. As the senior bishop in the Diocese, Bishop Steven
will lead a large team and is expected to have a wide ranging role across the Thames Valley alongside his national responsibilities.
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ishop Steven has personal connections with Oxford: he is a graduate of Worcester
College, Oxford, and met and married his wife Ann in the city. The family lived in
Oxford from 2004 until 2009 when Bishop Steven was leading ‘Fresh Expressions’, an
initiative aimed at encouraging new forms of church for the 21st century.
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peaking about his appointment, Bishop Steven said: ”I am looking forward enormously to a new challenge and new responsibility in the Diocese of Oxford and to
working with the senior team and many others to serve the local communities and to
build up the life of the Church. There are many signs of God’s grace at work across the
Diocese and immense potential for the future. I would ask for the prayers of the Diocese
in the coming weeks and months for all that lies ahead.” The Bishop of Dorchester, the Rt
Revd Colin Fletcher, who is serving as Acting Bishop of Oxford during the vacancy, said:
“Today is a great day for our Diocese as we welcome the announcement of the next Bishop of Oxford. As both a diocesan bishop and as a parish priest Steven has shown a passion for sharing the good news of Christ in both traditional and innovative ways. Link that
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to his wide experience of training men and women for a variety of ministries and you can
understand there will be much rejoicing around the Diocese today. ” During the announcement day Bishop Steven travelled across the diocese, visiting all three counties of his new
diocese. The day began with breakfast with colleagues in Bicester, an area of significant new
housing development, and ended with Evening Prayer at the Cathedral. “Today will be just a
whistlestop tour but I’m very much looking forward to making longer visits to all corners of
the diocese when I take up office later in the year,” he said. The Dean of Christ Church, the
Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy, said: “The Cathedral very much looks forward to welcoming Bishop Steven to Oxford, and to the wider diocese. “Bishop Steven comes with a wealth
of experience in ministry, mission and in theological education, and the diocese will welcome the many gifts that he will bring to our work across the cities, communities and counties of the diocese. The diocese – like its cathedral – is both complex and unique, and we
look forward to the distinctive gifts that Bishop Steven will bring to us in
our shared vocation.” Bishop Steven expects to take up office in the early
autumn.
A year in the life of a CofE priest: how a photo project changed my life
A
photographer who devoted a year of his life to documenting the ministry of a Church of
England priest has spoken of how the experience changed his life – and drew him back
to his Christian faith and regular church going. Jim Grover said photographing Rev Kit Gunasekera, a priest in Clapham, south London, had been ‘the most incredible experience’ and
had shone a light on the ‘amazing’ unseen ministry of Church of England clergy. “I learned
about what it takes to be a minister – I find ministry now an inspiring thing – I think what I
call the ‘foot soldiers’, what the local parish priests do in their communities day in, day out, is
remarkable,” he said. “Whilst at the top of the church there are a whole series of very big
issues being wrestled with, out in the parishes, on the ground, ministers are going about
their days doing amazing things for the people they connect with.” The project, called Of
Things Not Seen, was aimed at showing the ‘unseen’ ministry of CofE clergy beyond Sunday
services, baptisms, weddings and funerals. They show Rev Kit at home, in his church and caring for people in the wider community. A selection of the photographs was viewed by 7,500
people in an exhibition earlier this year at the Oxo Gallery on London’s South Bank and displayed on a series of websites, as well as discussed on TV and radio. The reaction to the photographs has been moving, Mr Grover said, with a second visitors’ book at the gallery ordered after the first book filled rapidly
ith positive responses – many from clergy visitors. Some people said how viewing the
photographs had made them re- think their own relationship with their faith and the
church, he said. Speaking about the ‘unexpected, unintended and wonderful’ impact of the
project on his own life, Mr Grover, a former Group Strategy Director with the company Diageo, said he had moved from being a ‘classic Christmas day church goer”, to recommitting to
his faith and becoming a regular church goer. “I had a very busy work life, I used to run round
the world a lot, so weekends were very precious… My faith and the church weren’t a big part
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of my life for a long time – it wasn’t a deliberate move away from it, but it took a back seat
while other things were more important,” he said. “Now that has completely changed. I really love going to church and learning more about God and faith and spending time with Kit’s
parishioners. My Sundays are now completely changed from what they were. “Every Sunday
you will find me at church and other times too. I am on the PCC – I am completely recommitted to church both as a churchgoer and a believer with faith as well as someone trying to
help Kit’s Church as much as I can on the sort of agenda items that churches face.”
You can find out more about the project as well as view the photos at
www.ofthingsnotseen.com
St James The Least
On dealing with summer fetes
The Rectory
St. James the Least of All
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y dear Nephew Darren
o you are beginning to plan your first
Summer Fete in your new parish. That
you appear to be looking forward to it
shows how little you know about them.
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arishes hold Summer Fetes so that their clergy can preach more meaningfully on purgatory. Their ostensible purpose is to raise money for the church - which is wholly illogical.
The parish could double the money raised if the Fete were dropped, none of the endless
preparations made, if everyone spent a pleasant afternoon in their own gardens and each
person simply donated £20 to the church instead. But we still feel obliged to go to endless
trouble, making ourselves miserable so we can show each other what a good time we are
having. That it generally pours seems to make the entire event even more grimly satisfying.
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o, the real reasons for a Summer Fete are twofold. First, it gives the entire parish the
chance to inspect the Rector’s garden. Whatever state it is in, it will cause disapproval.
If it is poorly kept, then I am clearly being ungrateful for having three acres of lawn to enjoy.
Mowing it each week should be one of my delights; what else would I do with a whole day
off each week anyway? The hand mower, kindly given by Colonel French is assumed to be
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CATHEDRALS & ABBEYS – No.14 - Stephen P Church
ROMSEY ABBEY
Near Winchester and founded in 900 by Edward Son of Alfred the Great. The present
building started in 1120, the 12th Century
Romanesque has survived on the ground,
Triforium and clerestory. In 1300 two large
Gothic windows were added. A tomb recalling Lord Mountbatten’s death in 1979 is
near the family pen.
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL
Originally situated in Old Sarium the
new Church was begun in 1220 and
completed 50 years later. Built in early English architecture, the Trinity
Chapel has slender pillars of Purbeck
Marble. The famous feature is the
Spire – 404’ – tallest in England. The
other fame is one of the 4 copies of
the Magna Carter.
SELBY ABBEY
In North Yorkshire 10 miles N.E. of Goole and
on the A63. Building began in 1100 and took
130 years to complete and styles changed
during that period. Entering from the west is
the magnificent Romanesque carving round
the door.
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GLOSSARY
Romanesque: Between Roman & Gothic
Triforium:
A gallery over the arches at the side of the
Nave
Clerestory:
Above the level of aisles to let light into the
Central parts
Early English: Early phase of the Gothic Period
Gothic:
12th – 15th Century
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quite adequate - and rumour has it that I need to lose weight anyway. The mower was presented to me when the Colonel bought his own gardener a sit-on motor mower - which is of
a size and opulence that makes me assume it has a drinks cabinet and satellite navigation.
T
he second reason for a Fete comes as a special perk for the organisers. It gives them a
chance to inspect the inside of the Rectory. Under the pretence of looking for a little
more sugar, they can systematically inspect all the kitchen cupboards and comment on their
contents. By the end of the day, the whole parish will know what marmalade I spread on my
toast, that I use unnecessarily expensive washing powder, and where I have unsuccessfully
tried to hide the gin.
T
he details of what then happens while the Fete is in progress must wait until my next
letter, when we will have had our own. It is now time for Evensong,
drinks with Major Mallet and his wife, and then a quiet evening with a
good book, while I toy with other possible hiding places for the gin this
year.
Your loving uncle, - Eustace
Smile Lines …
Wrong field!
Q) State three drawbacks of hedgerow removal.
A) All the cows will escape. The cars drive into the fields. There is nowhere to hide.
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Chernobyl - 30 years on - John Martindale
(Chair: Wessex Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline)
I
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am writing this article on 26th April. Today is the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl
Disaster though it was another week before the full extent of what had happened
became known to the World. It was the worst nuclear accident to date.
fter many inquiries and remodelling of the circumstances leading up to the explosion the cause has been established as a combination of a fault in the reactor design and human error. The fault was that the reactor itself needed electrical power to
maintain the control of the fuel rods. The scientists knew that should this power be lost
the reactor would become unstable within 15 seconds. However the diesel emergency
generators would take 75 seconds to reach full productive speed and that extra minute
would cause the reactor to become unstable and cause a melt down.
T
he General Manager of the plant (Alexander Akimov) wanted to conduct some tests
but in order to proceed most of the safety systems would need to be turned off. His
team were very anxious about taking such a risk. However to voice dissent - remember
that we are talking about the former Russian communist era - would have resulted in
instant dismissal. And this was made clear to all personnel.
T
he rest, as they say, is history. The reactor overheated, the fuel rods buckled and
could not be controlled, the 20,000 ton metal floor began to move alarmingly and
the 1,000 ton lid of the reactor was blown off, releasing thousands of tons of dangerous
nuclear material into the stratosphere.
The resulting contamination will exists for hundreds of years.
Latest research from Torch-16 (An independent scientific evaluation of the healthrelated effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster) gives the executive summary of findings on page 8 of this 122 page report as follows*:
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5 million people in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia still live in highly contaminated
areas
400 million people in less contaminated areas
37 % of Chernobyl’s fallout deposited on western Europe; 42 % of western Europe contaminated
40,000 fatal cancers predicted
6,000 thyroid cancer cases to date, 16,000 more expected
increased radiogenic thyroid cancers now seen in Austria
increased radiogenic leukemia, cardiovascular disease, breast cancers confirmed
new evidence of radiogenic birth defects, mental health effects and diabetes
new evidence that children in contaminated areas suffer radiogenic illnesses
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W
essex Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline is one of over 80 branches of the national
charity that brings children out of the contaminated regions for 4 weeks recuperative care. This year we will be providing this care for 17 children who live in the
town of Pinkovich near Pinsk in the Brest region of Belarus. The children will be with us
from July 8th until they return on August 5th. We will provide daily quality activities for
them - thanks to the generosity of local organisations, businesses and individuals and of
course, host them and feed them. Six members of St Paul’s are hosting this year.
Y
ou have probably seen the
advert for our Annual Fundraising Concert on Friday May
6th (7.30pm at St Pauls). It is a
free concert but we ask folk to
make a donation as they leave.
The money raised goes directly
to paying for the flights and
visas plus any incidental expenses while they are with us.
Y
ou can help us by coming
along to this concert. It is
always a great eveing with
something for everyone and we will certainly send you out singing!
O
ur Annual Garden Party this year will be on Sunday June 26th so do come along for
a bacon butty, tea or coffee and cake and in the afternoon a cream tea. We will
also have stalls - including “Judy’s Jams” again to tempt you.
O
ne other event you should know about is that we are holding a special 30th anniversary commemorative concert at Christchurch Priory on Saturday evening May
14th. The main work will be the Fauré Requiem and the concert is being given by
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and the Bournemouth Chamber Orchestra, Gavin Carr
conductor. If you would like to come tickets are priced £19 nave (£12 children) reserved. Aisles unreserved £10 (children £5).
Book at Regent Centre
www.regentcentre.co.uk 01202 499199
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e are indebted to St Paul’s for the support that we are given and we thank you
all for it. Please think, and pray for us over the coming weeks.
he whole report is available for download from https://
www.global2000.at/sites/global (Email me and I will send you this
link!)
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May Recipe: Chocolate Fridge Cake
(From BBC Food website)
Method
1.Use cling film to line a 20cm (8in) shallow,
square-shaped tin. Leave extra cling film
hanging over the sides.
2.Bash the biscuits into pieces using a rolling
pin. (Put them in a plastic bag first so they
don't go everywhere!)
Ingredients
250g/8oz digestive biscuits
150g/5oz milk chocolate
150g/5oz dark chocolate
100g/3½oz unsalted butter
150g/5oz golden syrup
100g/3½oz dried apricots, chopped
75g/2½oz raisins
60g/2oz pecans, chopped (optional)
3.Melt chocolate, butter and golden syrup in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir occasionally.
4.Remove the bowl from the heat and stir in the broken biscuits, apricots, raisins and
pecans (optional).
5.Spoon the mixture into the tin. Level the surface by pressing it down with a potato
masher.
6.Leave to cool, then put the chocolate mixture in the fridge for 1-2 hours to set.
7.Turn out the cake and peel off the cling film. Cut the cake into 12 squares and enjoy!
Recipe Tips
Marshmallows, honeycomb and meringues all work well as alternative fillings - just
chop them into small chunks and mix in with the melted chocolate mixture.
May Crossword
Across
1 One who owes money, goods or
services (Isaiah 24:2) (6)
4 ‘A good measure, pressed
down, — together and running
over’ (Luke 6:38) (6)
7 Continuous dull pain (Proverbs
14:13) (4)
8 This bread contains yeast (Amos
4:5) (8)
9 ‘But take heart! I have — the
world’ (John 16:33) (8)
13 And the rest (abbrev.) (3)
16 What Paul was accused of by
Tertullus, the high priest’s lawyer,
in his trial before Felix (Acts 24:5)
(13)
17 Rap (anag.) (3)
19 Founder of the Jesuits in 1534
(8)
24 ‘For where your — is, there
your heart will be also’ (Luke
12:34) (8)
25 The first word written on the
wall during King Belshazzar’s great
banquet (Daniel 5:25) (4)
26 ‘We all, like sheep, have gone
— ’ (Isaiah 53:6) (6)
27 One was given in honour of
Jesus in Bethany (John 12:2) (6)
Down
1 ‘The blind receive sight, the
lame walk, the — hear, the dead
are raised’ (Luke 7:22) (4)
2 Conduct (Colossians 1:21) (9)
3 In the Catholic and Orthodox
traditions, the body of a saint or
his belongings, venerated as holy
(5)
4 ‘Like a — of locusts men pounce
on it’ (Isaiah 33:4) (5)
5 Very old (Genesis 44:20) (4)
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6 In Calvinist theology, one who is predestined by
God to receive salvation (5)
10 How Nicodemus addressed Jesus when he visited
him one night (John 3:2) (5)
11 Sea (Psalm 148:7) (5)
12 ‘I will — you, my God the King; I will praise your
name for ever and ever’ (Psalm 145:1) (5)
13 One of the groups of philosophers that Paul met
in Athens, who disagreed with his teaching about
the resurrection (Acts 17:18) (9)
14 Barred enclosure (Ezekiel 19:9) (4)
15 ‘Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in — with
the Spirit’ (Galatians 5:25) (4)
18 Cares (anag.) (5)
20 Garish (Ezekiel 16:16) (5)
21 ‘So God said to Noah, “I am going to put — — to
all people”’ (Genesis 6:13) (2,3)
22 Just (2 Corinthians 6:13) (4)
23 ‘The — of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge’ (Proverbs 1:7)
(4)
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Final Thoughts …
The capital of England - By Nigel Beeton
What is the capital of england?
As someone e-mailed me
I said, “The capital of our land,
“Is a lovely, great big ‘E’”
Now you may call it pedantry
Sometimes, you see, I sigh,
To see a town spelled ‘coventry’
Or ‘i’ instead of ‘I’
A word on screen, not written down
A moment, not a gift
Today, no name or proper noun
Is even worth the ‘shift’.
May Crossword Answers -- No Cheating!!
ACROSS: 1, Debtor. 4, Shaken. 7, Ache. 8, Leavened. 9, Overcome. 13, Etc. 16, Troublemaking. 17, Par. 19, Ignatius. 24,
Treasure. 25, Mene. 26, Astray. 27, Dinner. DOWN: 1, Deaf. 2, Behaviour. 3, Relic. 4, Swarm. 5, Aged. 6, Elect. 10, Rabbi.
11, Ocean. 12, Exalt. 13, Epicurean. 14, Cage. 15, Step. 18, Acres. 20, Gaudy. 21, An end. 22, Fair. 23, Fear.
St Paul's Parish Church, Neighbourhood Centre BH17 9DW
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www.stpaulscanfordheath.org.uk
Administrator
dial 01202 then …
Jill Wellington
Email: [email protected]
605311
Alpha Courses/home groups
Contact the church office
605311
Reader at St. Paul’s
Helen Mellows
697114
Church Run Clubs & Activities
Heath Social Club
Vic Martin
605311
Sunday Club
Helen Noble
605311
Youth Home Group
Adrian Palmer (ages 11-18)
605311
Little Treasures parent & toddler group Gemma Windsor
605311
Heath Cafe yrs 5-7
Vic Martin
605311
Tea Dance
Church office
605311
SPLAT+ yrs R-4
Esther Maristegui-Nunez
605311
Traidcraft - Fair Trade sales Val Renyard
682460
Clubs & Activities
Seniors Lunch
Vic Martin
699282
Art on the Heath
Vic Martin www.artontheheath.org.uk 699282
King’s Cru
Saturday
Trisha Foote
460987
Brownies (Thursday)
Sarah Humby
604143
Rainbows
Janette Simpson
382187
Guides
Sarah Humby
604143
Pre-School Jumping Jellybeans Debbie New-Maycock
0770 883 9918
Ceramics
Caroline Johnson
623557
Bournemouth Rehearsal Orchestra Graham Baynes
01929 551050
Who to phone for
Hall Bookings
Jill Wellington
605311
Weddings, Baptisms and Banns for Marriage Church Office
605311
Practical church issues - Church Wardens:
Verity Brayshaw:
603245
David Glass
692253
St Paul’s
is the Church of England serving the whole of Canford Heath. It stands
beside ASDA’s car-park and is open most weekday mornings. You can usually speak
to someone in the church office (605311) on weekdays between 9.30 and 12 noon.
That’s where to go about hall bookings, banns, baptisms weddings and funerals, or
any general church enquiries. There is a post-box in the door (The office address is
Culliford Cres, Canford Heath, Poole, BH17 9DW).
Email: [email protected].
The Vicar
Revd. Matt Williams takes up his post as Vicar at St Paul’s at the beginning of May.
In the meantime please phone the Church Office on 01202 605311 (Weekday mornings) for any enquiries.
15th May: Day of Pentecost – Whit Sunday
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entecost took place on the well
-established Jewish festival of
Firstfruits, which was observed at
the beginning of the wheat harvest.
It was exactly 50 days after the
Passover, the time of Jesus’ crucifixion. A feast day to celebrate the
country’s wheat harvest does not
sound exactly world-changing, but
that year, it became one of the
most important days in world history. For Pentecost was the day that
Jesus sent the Holy Spirit - the day
the Church was born.
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J
esus had told His apostles that something big was going to happen, and that they
were to wait for it in Jerusalem, instead of returning to Galilee. Jesus had plans for
his apostles – but He knew they could not do the work themselves – they would need
His help.
A
nd so the apostles and disciples waited in Jerusalem, praying together for several days. And then on that fateful morning there was suddenly the sound as of a
mighty rushing wind. Tongues of flame flickered on their heads, and they began to
praise God in many tongues – to the astonishment of those who heard them. The
curse of Babel (Genesis 11: 1- 9) was dramatically reversed that morning.
T
hat morning the Holy Spirit came to indwell the apostles and disciples of Jesus:
and the Church was born. The Christians were suddenly full of life and power,
utterly different from their former fearful selves. The change in them was permanent.
Peter gave the first ever sermon of the Christian Church that morning: proclaiming
Jesus was the Messiah. His boldness in the face of possible death was in marked contrast to the man who had denied Jesus 50 days before. And 3,000 people responded,
were converted, and were baptised. How’s that for fast church growth!
O
f course Pentecost was not the first time the Holy Spirit had acted in this world.
All through the Old Testament there are accounts of how God’s
Spirit guided people and strengthened them. But now, because of
Christ’s death and resurrection, he could INDWELL them. From now
on, every Christian could have the confidence that Jesus was with
them constantly, through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.