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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 />
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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 />
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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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