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Church of<br />

<strong>St</strong>. Mary the Virgin<br />

Finedon<br />

Parish <strong>Magazine</strong><br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Wishing everyone a<br />

very Happy<br />

and Peaceful New<br />

Year<br />

Our Worship in <strong>January</strong> Year A<br />

From the Churchwardens<br />

Church Monthly Draw<br />

Digital Edition<br />

1<br />

In My Day<br />

And Much More


Vicar:<br />

Finedon Parish Church: <strong>St</strong> Mary The Virgin<br />

The Revd Richard Coles,<br />

<strong>St</strong> Mary the Virgin Finedon, The Vicarage,<br />

Church Hill, Finedon, Northants, NN9 5NR<br />

01933 681 786, Mobile 07885 967 960<br />

email: revdrichardcoles@yahoo.co.uk<br />

Assistant Honorary Priest Fr Peter Baden,01832 733186<br />

email: p.baden36@btinternet.com<br />

Reader Mr Michael Duncombe, 01536 483935<br />

email: michaelbex@talktalk.net<br />

Parish Clerk<br />

Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364 (To whom first<br />

contact for Baptisms and weddings must be<br />

made).<br />

Churchwardens: Mrs Jane Read Tel: 680522<br />

Mr Neil Forster Tel: 682177<br />

PCC Secretary: Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364<br />

Treasurer: Mr Andrew Weatherill Tel: 682212<br />

<strong>Magazine</strong> Editor: Mrs Janet Millington, Tel: 681161.<br />

email: millingtonjanet@aol.com<br />

(to whom all copy should addressed by<br />

the 15 th of the month prior to publication)<br />

Director of Music Mr Jonathan Harris Tel: 01933 779059,<br />

Mobile 07791 664507<br />

Email: Hjonathan83@aol.com<br />

Deputy Organists<br />

Mrs. Kathy Roberts<br />

Mr Oliver Grigg<br />

Choirmaster: Mr. Bryan Chapman Tel: 398818<br />

Tower Captain Mr Bryan Chapman, Tel 398818<br />

Web Site<br />

www.finedonphotographs.org.uk/<br />

bellringers.html<br />

Archivist<br />

<strong>St</strong> Michael’s Mission Room:<br />

Bryan & Christine Chapman<br />

Tel: 01933 398818<br />

Times Of Services:<br />

Sundays<br />

8.00 am Holy Eucharist<br />

9.30 am Parish Eucharist.<br />

6.00 pm Evensong (1st Sunday of the Month)<br />

Visit us on the Web at www.stmarysfinedon.co.uk


From the Vicarage<br />

<strong>January</strong> 2016<br />

The New Year has arrived and with it new resolutions. The usual ones,<br />

made every year, concerning weight (to be decreased), exercise (to be<br />

increased), and admin (to be efficiently discharged) apply, but added<br />

this year is the resolution to avoid the temptation to dwell on the things<br />

that went wrong rather than right.<br />

As you get older there comes the realisation that the infinite choices of<br />

youth have begun to narrow, and with them the comfort of thinking that<br />

there is always the opportunity to fix the mistakes and bad decisions we<br />

make. Sometimes we can’t, or not adequately, and we have to live as<br />

best we can with the consequences. I find I am more often asking God<br />

for patience and resilience rather than instant solutions to make all things<br />

right – partly because I have discovered that instant solutions rarely<br />

deliver on their promise.<br />

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, says Jesus Christ, and it behoves<br />

us then, if we seek to live as his faithful disciples, not to live in the past but<br />

the present, fully, and thereby open up the possibility of a future<br />

transformed.<br />

The recent past – 2016 – was a mixed affair for many, with political<br />

turbulence at home and abroad adding to concerns about wages and<br />

prices, making a living, and trying to park at Kettering General Hospital<br />

(an enterprise which could make <strong>St</strong> Francis of Assisi drive a 4x4 into<br />

Outpatients).<br />

But these are merely aspects of the passing scene, the to and fro and up<br />

and down of the inescapable consequences of living in the world. We,<br />

however, are citizens not only of the world, where we share the<br />

frustrations of everyone else, but citizens-in-waiting of heaven, where we<br />

will live a new life with God.<br />

May the New Year bring you peace and joy.<br />

Yours in Christ,<br />

Fr Richard.<br />

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Our Worship in <strong>January</strong><br />

Year A<br />

1st Naming and Circumcision of<br />

Jesus<br />

Numbers 6. 22 – 27<br />

Psalm 8<br />

Galatians 4. 4 -7<br />

Luke 2. 15 -21<br />

Hymns<br />

81 Lord, for the years your love<br />

and kept and guided<br />

496 Lead us, heavenly Father, lead<br />

us<br />

58 Long ago, prophets knew<br />

Anthem: Psalms 98, 100<br />

444 God is working his purpose out<br />

8th Epiphany<br />

Isaiah 42. 1 – 9<br />

Psalm 29<br />

Acts 10. 34-43<br />

Matthew 3. 13 -17<br />

Hymns<br />

83 As with gladness men of old<br />

34 On Jordan's bank the Baptist's<br />

cry<br />

93 When Jesus came to Jordan<br />

Anthem: Lo, how a Rose e’er<br />

blooming arr. M Praetorius and<br />

Coventry Carol<br />

91 We three kings of Orient are,<br />

15th Epiphany 2<br />

Isaiah 49. 1 – 7<br />

Psalm 40. 1 – 12<br />

1 Corinthians 1. 1 – 9<br />

John1. 29 – 42<br />

Hymns<br />

453 Great is thy faithfulness<br />

183 Holy Spirit, come, confirm us<br />

622 Will you come and follow me<br />

Anthem: The Lord bless you and keep<br />

you by Paul Mealor<br />

90 (Tune <strong>St</strong> Edmund) Songs of<br />

thankfulness and praise<br />

22nd Epiphany 3<br />

Isaiah 9. 1 – 4<br />

Psalm 27. 1, 4 – 12<br />

1 Corinthians 1. 10 – 18<br />

Matthew 4. 12 -23<br />

Hymns<br />

305 I come with joy, a child of God<br />

591 The kingdom of God is justice<br />

and joy<br />

89 O worship the Lord in the<br />

beauty of holiness<br />

Anthem: Magnificat by Henry Purcell<br />

411 Dear Lord and Father of<br />

mankind<br />

29th Presentation of Christ into the<br />

temple (Candlemas)<br />

1 Kings 17. 8 – 16<br />

Psalm 36. 5 – 10<br />

1 Corinthians 1. 18 to end<br />

John 2. 1 – 11<br />

Hymns<br />

516 (Tune Blaenwern) Love divine<br />

all loves excelling<br />

360 Faithful vigil ended<br />

87 Hail to the Lord's anointed<br />

Anthem: Nunc Dimittis by Henry<br />

Purcell<br />

513 Lord, the light of your love is<br />

shining<br />

Organ Voluntaries following the<br />

9.30am services<br />

1st <strong>January</strong> – Buxtehude:<br />

Passacaglia in d<br />

8th <strong>January</strong> – Howells: Master Tallis’s<br />

Testament<br />

15th <strong>January</strong> – Vincent Lübeck:<br />

Praeambulum in G<br />

22nd <strong>January</strong> – Bruhns: Praeludium<br />

in e<br />

29th <strong>January</strong> – Malcolm Archer:<br />

Festival Fanfare


From the Registers<br />

Funerals<br />

16th November<br />

Elsie Parrott<br />

23rd November<br />

Mary Faulkner, 89<br />

Floodlight Sponsorship<br />

4th December<br />

Auntie Eileen, Sue & Jose - in<br />

memory of <strong>St</strong>ephen Love (on what<br />

would have been his 51st birthday on<br />

9th December) God bless.<br />

11th December<br />

Sponsored by Mick & Monica Webb<br />

18th December<br />

Jane & David Read - in memory of<br />

their dear Aunt & Uncle Kathleen &<br />

Ronald Read.<br />

25th December<br />

All the family - remembering their<br />

mum & dad Joe & Louisa Love with<br />

love at Christmas.<br />

Mary Wilson - in memory of Jack &<br />

Sylvia Bramley (on the anniversary of<br />

their deaths)<br />

Mum & dad Pickering, family &<br />

friends - in memory of Alison Jane<br />

Pickering.<br />

Ian, Sue, Irene & Susan - in memory<br />

of Evelyn Collis.<br />

The grandchildren & great<br />

grandchildren - in memory of Evelyn<br />

Collis<br />

Concerts at <strong>St</strong> Mary’s<br />

Church<br />

Saturday 20 May<br />

Celebratory concert to mark the 300th<br />

anniversary of the installation of the<br />

organ here at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary's</strong>, Finedon at<br />

7.30pm. Concert given by<br />

Peterborough Cathedral Choir under<br />

the direction of <strong>St</strong>even Grahl. Music<br />

to include a specially commissioned<br />

work by Francis John Dolben Pott<br />

(descendant of the Finedon Dolbens)<br />

Monday 29 May<br />

10.00am to 3.14pm - 314 minute<br />

Organ Recital by Jonathan Harris to<br />

celebrate the 314 years since the <strong>St</strong><br />

<strong>Mary's</strong> Finedon organ was built.<br />

Saturday 17 June<br />

Evening concert at 7.30 pm by<br />

Northampton Philharmonic Choir.<br />

Music to include Haydn's Little Organ<br />

Mass and Handel's Organ Concerto<br />

in F.<br />

Wishing everyone a<br />

very Happy<br />

and Peaceful New<br />

Year<br />

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Epiphany Evensong<br />

The will be an Epiphany Evensong in<br />

<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church on Sunday 8th<br />

<strong>January</strong> at 6.00 pm.<br />

The service will be followed by light<br />

refreshments.<br />

<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church Choir<br />

On Saturday 11th February at 5.30 pm<br />

at Peterborough Cathedral, <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary's</strong>,<br />

Finedon choir sing Choral Evensong<br />

as the Visiting Choir at Peterborough<br />

Cathedral.<br />

Mothers Union<br />

The next meeting of Mothers Union<br />

will be the AGM.<br />

This will be held in the Mission Room<br />

on Tuesday 3rd <strong>January</strong> at 2.30pm.<br />

We shall begin with a short service,<br />

and anyone wishing to come along to<br />

find out what we are about will be<br />

made most welcome.<br />

Members please note that<br />

subscriptions are now due.<br />

Drone Over the Church<br />

On Monday 28th November and more<br />

recently a drone was seen flying over<br />

and around the church at 10.00 am in<br />

the morning.<br />

As there were a few ‘break ins’<br />

in Finedon recently, can<br />

we all be extra observant about<br />

anything unusual.<br />

<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church<br />

is holding a<br />

Murder Mystery Night<br />

‘For Whom the<br />

Bell Tolled’<br />

Finedon Local History<br />

Society<br />

The <strong>January</strong> meeting of the society<br />

will be on Monday 23rd <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

at 7-30pm in the Mission Room, Well<br />

<strong>St</strong>reet, Finedon.<br />

The speaker will be James Wrench on<br />

“Sources for researching your family<br />

history”<br />

Admission to the evening is £2-50 for<br />

members and £3-50 for non members.<br />

After the event light refreshments will<br />

be served.<br />

at the<br />

Bowls Club<br />

Wellingborough Road<br />

at 6.30 pm<br />

on<br />

Saturday 14th <strong>January</strong><br />

<strong>2017</strong><br />

Tickets £8.00<br />

(including refreshments)<br />

Available from 01933 681161


'F.C.S.S.E.S<br />

presents<br />

'ALADDIN'<br />

Saturday 28th <strong>January</strong> - 4th February <strong>2017</strong><br />

at the<br />

<strong>St</strong>ar Hall, Laws Lane<br />

Magically brought to life, with plenty of fun and laughter<br />

and special effects, this traditional pantomime will be a hit with all<br />

the family.<br />

Tickets on sale Saturday mornings between 10.00 am-12.00 pm<br />

throughout <strong>January</strong> from the <strong>St</strong>ar Hall,<br />

or by calling 07790 309856.,<br />

Tickets start at just £6.00.<br />

<strong>St</strong> Marys Thursday Club<br />

The committee would like to wish all<br />

its members a very Happy New Year.<br />

Our next meeting will be held on<br />

Thursday 26th <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong>.<br />

We will be having a Surprise Bingo<br />

and we will meet at the Band Club at<br />

7.45 pm for an 8.00 pm start.<br />

If you are interested in becoming a<br />

member please call Louise on<br />

07581 556417 for further details.<br />

We usually meet once a month on the<br />

4th Thursday.<br />

We also run a mums and tots group<br />

during school term time. The group<br />

meets on a Thursday afternoon at the<br />

Mission Room from 1.30 pm-2.30 pm.<br />

Anyone wishing to join us will be<br />

made very welcome.<br />

We hope to see you all at our<br />

<strong>January</strong>'s meeting.<br />

Finedon Over 60’s<br />

We are open again on 11th <strong>January</strong><br />

<strong>2017</strong> with Bingo.<br />

Our weekly meeting is held in the<br />

Bowl’s Club, Wellingborough Road on<br />

Wednesdays at 1.45 pm until<br />

3.30 pm.<br />

Admission is only £1.00 per week<br />

plus raffle.<br />

<strong>January</strong> Programme<br />

11th Bingo<br />

18th Margaret Burgon Memories.<br />

25th Table top games<br />

We look forward to meeting you.<br />

Wishing you a Happy & Healthy New<br />

Year.<br />

7


Townswomen’s Guild<br />

On 5th <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong>, Finedon<br />

Townswomen's Guild will celebrate<br />

the New Year with a party in the Town<br />

Hall.<br />

This will take the form of a faith<br />

supper with entertainment by the<br />

Thrapston Ukulele Band, and there<br />

will also be a grand raffle.<br />

It will begin at our usual time of<br />

7.30 pm.<br />

A Happy New Year to all our<br />

members.<br />

who provided the music for the<br />

carols.<br />

To Bob Haseldine for his help. To<br />

Janet Millington for selling the tickets<br />

and to everyone who came.<br />

We made £579.00 on the draw and<br />

£210.26 on the Wassail evening.<br />

Thank You Corner<br />

Thank you to the Flower Festival for<br />

their generous donation of £2,400 to<br />

<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church funds from the<br />

proceeds of the Flower Festival.<br />

Church Monthly Draw<br />

The results of the December church<br />

monthly draw are as follows:<br />

Total receipts of £257.00 are divided<br />

equally between the winners and the<br />

church funds. Winning numbers for<br />

the December monthly draw are:<br />

1st prize 133 £64.25<br />

2nd prize 49 £38.55<br />

3rd prize 273 £25.70<br />

If you would like to join the monthly<br />

draw (£1.00 per share per month)<br />

which takes place in the church on<br />

the first Sunday of the month, please<br />

contact Kathy Hobbs on 01933<br />

398794.<br />

Wassail Evening<br />

Thank you to everyone who worked<br />

together to make the Wassail evening<br />

a success.<br />

To Gill Foster, Gill Barlow and Pat<br />

Peet for the excellent raffle. To<br />

everyone who sold and bought raffle<br />

tickets. To Jacqui Minchinton and the<br />

actors of the Mummer Play.<br />

To Neil Forster who presented the<br />

Wassail Evening and Oliver Grigg<br />

<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Thursday<br />

Club<br />

will be holding their<br />

Pancake Races<br />

on<br />

Tuesday 28th February<br />

at<br />

Finedon Junior School<br />

in the Playground.<br />

Races will start<br />

at 3.15pm<br />

Races will start with<br />

pre-school children and<br />

younger, we will then work up<br />

through the school years.<br />

There will be a cake stall and<br />

refreshments will be served in<br />

the school canteen.<br />

There will also be a raffle.<br />

Look out for our posters that<br />

will be around Finedon.<br />

All proceeds will be donated to<br />

The Children's Society.


Town Diary<br />

We are preparing the <strong>2017</strong> Town<br />

Diary so if you are a member of an<br />

organisation and would like the<br />

details of you meetings in the town<br />

diary, could you please let the editor<br />

know as soon as possible please.<br />

The Train<br />

At birth we boarded the train and<br />

met our parents, and we believe<br />

they will always travel by our side.<br />

As time goes by, other people will<br />

board the train; and they will be<br />

significant i.e. our siblings,<br />

friends, children, and even the<br />

love of your life.<br />

However, at some station our<br />

parents will step down from the<br />

train, leaving us on this journey<br />

alone. Others will step down over<br />

time and leave a permanent<br />

vacuum. Some, however, will go so<br />

unnoticed that we don't realize<br />

they vacated their seats.<br />

step down and leave our seat<br />

empty we should leave behind<br />

beautiful memories for those who<br />

will continue to travel on the train<br />

of life.<br />

I wish you all a joyful journey<br />

Recipe for Life<br />

Think freely, keep an open mind<br />

and open thankful heart,<br />

And learn from the mistakes you<br />

make, these lessons play a part<br />

Take time for someone in distress<br />

and lend a helping hand,<br />

Be patient with the lonely ones,<br />

and try to understand.<br />

Make time for simply being you,<br />

to hold your plans and schemes,<br />

To see the beauty of the earth<br />

and dream your special dreams<br />

Enjoy the flowers, plants and<br />

trees, as seasons come and go<br />

And celebrate the gift of life<br />

and all it can bestow.<br />

This train ride will be full of joy,<br />

sorrow, fantasy, expectations,<br />

hellos, goodbyes, and farewells.<br />

Success consists of having a good<br />

relationship with all passengers<br />

requiring that we give the best of<br />

ourselves.<br />

The mystery to everyone is: We<br />

do not know at which station we<br />

ourselves will step down. So, we<br />

must live in the best way, love,<br />

forgive, and offer the best of<br />

who we are.<br />

It is important to do this because<br />

when the time comes for us to<br />

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In My Day<br />

the ramblings of Hubert James<br />

In my day it was about this time of<br />

year that we started to look forward<br />

to what the new year would bring, but<br />

first we had to decide what to eat.<br />

As you probably know you need to<br />

avoid poultry on new year’s day. If<br />

you eat anything that spends its time<br />

scratching the ground then you will<br />

end up ‘scratching’ to make ends<br />

meet; fact.<br />

So first decision; what to eat first?<br />

Now in my day most folks taste buds<br />

craved pork or gammon.<br />

Now this was a particular problem for<br />

local pig farmer, Terry Trotter. He<br />

could provide the meat but his<br />

market was bankrupt. He decided to<br />

do something about it. Course, he<br />

hadn’t done himself any favours by<br />

his previous marketing strategy. He<br />

had tried to popularise his product by<br />

building two cute piglet puppets who<br />

sang popular songs at the wrong<br />

speed. Punky and Parky launched on<br />

an unsuspecting public two days<br />

after Pinky and Perky and so failed<br />

miserably. Mind you with hindsight<br />

making the pigs adorable was never<br />

going to make people want to eat<br />

them.<br />

Terry looked to a different way to<br />

solve his problem. He realised that<br />

the best way to get folk to buy was by<br />

getting them to save up all year long.<br />

Give them a money box, it was<br />

simple.<br />

The idea really took off when he<br />

bumped into Perry Grayson the<br />

potter from Sibley Road who offered<br />

to make a money box in the shape of<br />

a pig. He agreed to make the banks<br />

free in return for a cut of the profits.<br />

That way Terry could get the local<br />

butcher to give them away with<br />

sausages.<br />

It worked. Folk loved the piggy banks<br />

and could put a few bob in now and<br />

then, so come the end of the year<br />

they had enough to by a decent sized<br />

joint.<br />

This all gave folk a reason to<br />

celebrate the day before. Terry<br />

organised a huge party on the 31 st<br />

and everyone brought their piggy<br />

banks, paid up and collected their<br />

meat. Nowadays of course, things<br />

have moved on but you’ll still hear<br />

folks saying they are off to a party on<br />

the night. And they still call it Hog<br />

Money day.<br />

Out of the mouths of<br />

babes<br />

A Sunday school teacher was<br />

discussing the Ten Commandments<br />

with her five and six year olds. After<br />

explaining the commandment to<br />

"honour thy father and thy mother,"<br />

she asked, "Is there a commandment<br />

that teaches us how to treat our<br />

brothers and sisters?"<br />

Without missing a beat one little boy<br />

answered, "Thou shall not kill."


The Bishop of Peterborough writes<br />

Shocks and Surprises in <strong>2017</strong>?<br />

2016 was a year of surprises. You<br />

might feel that we could all do<br />

with a bit more stability in this<br />

New Year. However, I doubt that we<br />

can bank on it. Whether you are into<br />

politics, sport, soaps and celebrities, or<br />

just family and friends, I’m pretty sure<br />

you can expect a surprise or two. But<br />

I’m not going to make any predictions.<br />

One of the interesting things about<br />

surprises is how we react to them. It is<br />

worth thinking about that. What sort of<br />

reactions do you have to a shock<br />

election result, or an unexpected sports<br />

champion, or an ex-politician being<br />

lauded for dancing badly in a yellow<br />

suit? Or, much more seriously, how do<br />

you react to the news of the serious<br />

illness of a loved one, or even<br />

yourself? Or the death of someone<br />

who has been a hero of yours, or of a<br />

family member?<br />

The immediate reaction isn’t the most<br />

important thing. Some of us are more<br />

volatile than others, or more used to<br />

showing our feelings. Others seem to<br />

take everything calmly, maybe too<br />

calmly. But what counts is how these<br />

shocks and surprises affect us long<br />

term. You may have met someone who<br />

says that a tragic event caused them to<br />

lose their faith in God. You may be<br />

someone who has never been able to<br />

deal with a deep disappointment or a<br />

death in the family.<br />

Jesus seems to rebuke his disciples<br />

for panicking in the face of a storm,<br />

even a life-threatening one. He seems<br />

to imply that his presence ought to give<br />

us a deep peace, a strength to deal<br />

with what life throws at us. But it<br />

isn’t that easy. He still wept at the<br />

grave of his friend Lazarus, and he<br />

still showed anger at those who<br />

used the Temple to make a profit<br />

from the poor. He isn’t modelling or<br />

teaching a false calmness, an<br />

emotional deficit.<br />

The big question is: Can we trust<br />

him, whatever life throws at us? The<br />

famous saying of Job in the King<br />

James Version of the Old<br />

Testament, “Though he slay me, yet<br />

will I trust in him” (Job 13:15) may<br />

be a bad translation, but it still sets<br />

us the challenge. And the testimony<br />

of the whole Bible, and of so many<br />

Christian people in history and<br />

today, is absolutely clear.<br />

Come what may, he can be trusted.<br />

Great is thy faithfulness.<br />

Diocese of Peterborough - <strong>Magazine</strong> Resource - <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Produced by the Diocesan Office, The Palace, Peterborough PE1 1YB<br />

01733 887000 www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk<br />

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Archbishop Justin supports savings clubs and financial<br />

education in primary schools<br />

A<br />

network of savings clubs<br />

and financial education in<br />

primary schools across<br />

England is launched with backing<br />

from the Archbishop of Canterbury.<br />

LifeSavers, a programme<br />

promoting financial education and<br />

savings clubs administered by<br />

credit unions in primary schools, is<br />

on course to reach 30,000 children<br />

by the end of 2018 after a<br />

successful pilot scheme.<br />

LifeSavers gives children practical<br />

experience of money management<br />

through saving small, regular<br />

amounts of money in savings clubs<br />

administered by credit unions.<br />

The programme is a partnership<br />

between the Archbishop of<br />

Canterbury’s Just Finance<br />

Foundation and Young Enterprise,<br />

the enterprise and financial<br />

education charity.<br />

A grant from Virgin Money will<br />

enable LifeSavers to reach 120<br />

more schools by 2018 in six areas<br />

including the North East,<br />

Nottinghamshire, South East<br />

London and West Yorkshire.<br />

Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin<br />

Welby, said: “How we think about<br />

and use our money is central to a<br />

fulfilled and contented life.<br />

“That is why I strongly support this<br />

exciting initiative to encourage<br />

children to develop positive attitudes<br />

towards money and the habit of<br />

saving. This programme has the<br />

potential to make a significant<br />

difference to the lives of millions of<br />

children and future adults.”<br />

“Understanding the place of money<br />

can be a make-or-break issue for<br />

many people. The great thing today is<br />

that we’re seeing vision and action<br />

brought together in partnership<br />

between the charity, business, and<br />

education sectors to work for the<br />

flourishing of our next generation –<br />

and what a privilege to see this<br />

launched from the North East.”<br />

Michael Mercieca, Chief Executive<br />

of Young Enterprise, said: “LifeSavers<br />

is a crucial part of the work of our<br />

charity to ensure that all young people<br />

leave school with the knowledge,<br />

experience, and skills to manage their<br />

finances. LifeSavers will have a real<br />

impact on young people’s futures.”<br />

Red House School English Class photo by Jallison01


Helen and David Newman<br />

L<br />

aunde Abbey, the Retreat<br />

House of the Dioceses of<br />

Peterborough and Leicester,<br />

has a new warden, the Venerable<br />

David Newman, currently<br />

Archdeacon of Loughborough. The<br />

Rev’d Canon Helen Newman will<br />

also be joining the staff of Launde<br />

in a new role of Chaplain.<br />

David and Helen have both<br />

worked in the Diocese of Leicester<br />

for a number of years. David was<br />

appointed as Archdeacon of<br />

Loughborough in 2009 and before<br />

that was Rector of Emmanuel<br />

Loughborough and Area Dean of<br />

Akeley East. He was also chair of<br />

the House of Clergy from 2007-<br />

2009. Helen has been the Chaplain<br />

of LOROS since 2009 and<br />

previously worked with David at<br />

Emmanuel. Helen was made an<br />

Honorary Canon of Leicester<br />

Cathedral earlier this year. They<br />

have both led numerous retreats<br />

and courses at Launde in recent<br />

years and have a deep love of the<br />

place and people.<br />

Bishop Donald said: “I warmly<br />

welcome the appointment of David<br />

and Helen, and am delighted that<br />

their gifts will be used in this way at<br />

Launde, and for the blessing of<br />

both Leicester and Peterborough<br />

Dioceses.”<br />

The Bishop of Leicester, The<br />

Right Reverend Martyn Snow<br />

commented: “David’s rich<br />

experience as an Archdeacon<br />

and Rector will be invaluable in<br />

ensuring that Launde plays a very<br />

prominent role in the diocese’<br />

vision to be ‘Shaped by God’.<br />

Helen also brings rich gifts in<br />

teaching and spiritual direction and<br />

I am absolutely delighted that they<br />

New Warden for Launde Abbey<br />

have agreed to move to Launde.”<br />

David and Helen are very happy to<br />

be moving to the Retreat<br />

Centre. “Launde Abbey has always<br />

been a special place for us during our<br />

twenty years in Leicester Diocese and<br />

we are very excited at this opportunity<br />

to lead the community forward in its<br />

ministry of hospitality, prayer and<br />

equipping for discipleship. Our vision<br />

is for Launde to be a prophetic and<br />

sustaining resource, enabling the<br />

people of God to negotiate<br />

challenging times with courage,<br />

wisdom and hope.”<br />

Tim <strong>St</strong>ratford, Chair of Trustees,<br />

added, “I am delighted that David<br />

Newman is to take on the role of<br />

Warden at Launde Abbey and will be<br />

joined in ministry there by his wife,<br />

Helen. Together they bring deep<br />

spiritual maturity and a breadth of<br />

experience that it is rare to find. I am<br />

confident that this precious place will<br />

be in safe hands as they offer their<br />

leadership and share responsibility<br />

with others to make Launde Abbey a<br />

hospitable place on a secure footing<br />

in which people will encounter the<br />

living God.”<br />

Please pray for David and Helen as<br />

they prepare to move to Launde in<br />

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Photo of <strong>St</strong>avronikita by Will Charlton<br />

G<br />

entlemen, you are invited to<br />

experience Orthodox Christian<br />

monasticism by joining the<br />

Friends of Mt. Athos path clearing<br />

group May 5th - 19th - with a few<br />

places for a week. <strong>St</strong>aying in one of<br />

the 20 monasteries on the Holy<br />

Mountain, we join the monks at their<br />

early morning service, breakfast and<br />

start clearing the paths<br />

between monasteries<br />

at 7.30, till the<br />

afternoon. Supper is<br />

after the early evening<br />

service. You would<br />

change monastery if<br />

staying for the<br />

fortnight. Membership<br />

of the Friends of Mt.<br />

Athos is required -<br />

please see their<br />

website<br />

athosfriends.org - +<br />

£100 for tools and UK<br />

administration which<br />

includes the licence to<br />

A men’s working retreat<br />

enter the Holy Mountain. The path<br />

clearing has been fully funded but we<br />

wait each year to hear about the<br />

EasyJet flights to and from<br />

Thessaloniki. You are advised to<br />

bring spending money. Those<br />

interested, please contact Will<br />

Charlton via carfin@freeuk.com or<br />

phone 01606 591850<br />

Sat 4 Feb, Winter Glory Conference<br />

9.15am-4.30pm at Kettering<br />

Conference Centre.<br />

A Christian Conference to encourage<br />

and equip women in the East<br />

Midlands. Tickets are £14 for Winter<br />

Glory and £10 for Blizzard. More<br />

information at www.winterglory.co.uk<br />

to book tickets<br />

enquiries@winterglory.co.uk or<br />

01536 414141<br />

Sat 18 Feb, The Gift of Years -<br />

Resourcing the spiritual journey of<br />

older people. 9.30am-1pm. A<br />

keynote address and a variety of<br />

workshops to share good practice and<br />

ideas. Tickets are £5. To book a<br />

February <strong>2017</strong> events<br />

place email:<br />

bookings@peterboroughdiocese.org.uk<br />

Tues 21 Feb, Core Skills for<br />

Family Ministry. 6 Tuesday<br />

evenings 21, 28 February, 7, 14, 28<br />

March and 4 April <strong>2017</strong>. At Bouverie<br />

Court NN4 7YD.<br />

More information from Rona Orme at<br />

rona.orme@peterboroughdiocese.org.uk<br />

or 01604 887045.<br />

To book a place email:<br />

bookings@peterboroughdiocese.org.uk


<strong>January</strong><br />

3rd<br />

5th<br />

9.45 Coffee Morning, Bowls Club<br />

2.30 Mothers Union, Mission Room,<br />

AGM<br />

7.30 TG, Town Hall, Ukulele Band<br />

Town Diary<br />

March<br />

27th<br />

April<br />

7.30 History Society, Mission<br />

Room, The History of Apethorpe<br />

Palace<br />

8th<br />

11th<br />

6pm Epiphany Carol Service,<br />

<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church<br />

1.45 Over 60s Bowls Club, Bingo<br />

24th<br />

May<br />

20th<br />

7.30 History Society, Mission<br />

Room, Sheep that eat men.<br />

7.30 Concert, <strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church<br />

14th<br />

6.30 <strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church, Murder<br />

Mystery, Bowls club<br />

29th<br />

10am-3.14, 314 minute organ<br />

recital, <strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church<br />

17th<br />

18th<br />

23rd<br />

25th<br />

28th/<br />

4th<br />

31st<br />

February<br />

9.45 Coffee Morning, Bowls Club<br />

1.45Over 60s, Bowls Club,<br />

Margaret Burgon. Memories<br />

7.30 History Society, Mission Room,<br />

Family History.<br />

1.45 Over 60s Bowls Club, Table top<br />

games.<br />

7.45 :Pantomime, <strong>St</strong>ar Hall.<br />

9.45 Coffee Morning, Bowls Club<br />

June<br />

17th<br />

26th<br />

July<br />

24th<br />

August<br />

21st<br />

7.30pm Evening Concert, <strong>St</strong> Mary’s<br />

Church<br />

7.30 History Society, Mission<br />

Room, the Bevan Boys in Finedon<br />

7.30 History Society, Mission<br />

Room, The History of Broadcasting<br />

7.30 History Society, Mission Room<br />

The last navel hero. A local man.<br />

1st/<br />

4th<br />

11th<br />

27th<br />

28th<br />

7.45 Pantomime <strong>St</strong>ar Hall<br />

5.30 Choir singing Evensong at<br />

Peterborough Cathedral.<br />

7.30 History Society, Mission Room,<br />

Northamptonshire Saints, sinners,<br />

stars and scandals<br />

3.15 Pancake Races, Mulso School<br />

September<br />

25th<br />

October<br />

23rd<br />

November<br />

27th<br />

7.30 History Society, Mission Room<br />

Richard III and the Greyfriars dig.<br />

7.30 History Society, Mission Room<br />

The History of Toys.<br />

7.30 History Society, Mission Room<br />

AGM<br />

Michael’s Mission Room, Well <strong>St</strong>reet, Finedon<br />

Available for hire weekdays and Saturdays.<br />

Suitable for most social functions, charitable events, children's parties (no late<br />

discos)<br />

For all enquiries and information contact<br />

Bryan & Christine Chapman Tel: 01933 398818<br />

Email: bryanchapman2@aol.com<br />

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