The Magazine, July/August 2005 (Section 1)

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Deadline for September magazine: 15th August

Team News

The four groups formed to take the Bracknell Team Ministry on its next stage of the ministry journey have now begun their work.

The Prayer Group meets again on 7th July and I would like to encourage you to come and pray for the mission and ministry of the parish. We meet at 8pm in the Rectory for one hour.

The Profile Group are setting about their task of writing a profile and job description for the new team vicar of St Andrew's. We hope to advertise in September, but already the Bishop has a couple of names for our consideration. It is unlikely that anyone will be here before Christmas, but in the meantime, Peter Bestley will do a good job.

The Fresh Expressions Group have also begun their work and looking at how we might frame an entirely new approach to ministry in the Bracknell Team to run alongside the more traditional ways. This is a new post and we shall seek money from the Cutting Edge project of the Diocese to fund the post and we need to report back to the Bishop of Reading by the end of October. We are consulting national figures including Steven Croft the author of 'Mission Shaped Church' who is the Archbishop's Officer for Fresh Expressions.

The Financial Strategy Group have also met and will be reporting to the PCC at it's July meeting.

The Wedding Choir (The Trinity Chorale) continues to flourish and have received a couple of invites from other quarters as well as more weddings.

The Tea House
The Tea House celebrated its first birthday and continues to be a vital part of the ministry of the parish.

David

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News from Holy Trinity

Security
Our thanks to Geoffrey Payne for all his work on the Langley Hall and Holy Trinity Church in making it secure. We are applying for relevant faculties to enable the work to go ahead and hopefully work will start soon on the Langley Hall. The cost will in total be just over £5000 and it will be money well spent.

Sounds
Thanks to Tim Bostock of the URC Church who has updated our sound system and it should now provide a uniform and consistent sound.

Summer
Our services in the summer months will continue as normal but we are putting together an alternative version of Common Worship. We will not be using the Iona Service this year but we do need another service in the same style as our present one for what is called Ordinary Time - i.e. Sundays after Trinity.

Dates for your Diary
Saturday 15th October is the date for our tea house sale. Pottery from Stoke, cakes, good second hand stuff will be the order of the day. Can you look in your attic for saleable items please?

Please put in your diary dates for the future..................
 

David

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News from St Andrew's

Sponsored hymn singing
Please try and come along to St. Andrew's on 10th July to support the sponsored hymn singing. The singing will begin at 3pm and finish at 5pm.
Following the singing there will be a cream tea. All are welcome to support the event by singing your favourite hymn, sponsoring the hymn singing and sharing the tea. All proceeds will go towards the heating system at St. Andrew's.

100 Club
The St. Andrew's 100 club has started and the first winner was Frank Hatley. If you would like to join the club the cost is £25 for the year. Please contact John Jayaseelan on 422960 or Nicola Morgan on 305037.

Pram and Toddler Group
It is great to see new faces at the Pram and Toddler group each Monday at St. Andrew's. Thank you to all those who support the group by helping set up the church, providing coffee and sausage rolls and singing and dancing to the toddler nursery rhymes.


Walsingham Pilgrimage
There will be a meeting for the pilgrims of Bracknell Team Ministry on the 24th July following the 10.30am Eucharist at St. Andrew's. This will give an opportunity to share the final arrangements for the pilgrimage over the weekend of the 12th to the 16th August.

Future dates
Next DCC meeting for St. Andrew's will be on the 4th July at 8pm at the Church.

17th July 6.30pm Shepherds Lane Methodist Church. This will be the final service for Helen White at Shepherds Lane Methodist Church. We have enjoyed good relations with the Methodist Church and Helen's ministry has been greatly appreciated by myself and the congregation of St. Andrew's. It
would be good to see support from St. Andrew's and indeed the team at this service.

30th July 12 noon St. Andrew's.
We welcome to St. Andrew's Fred and Marian Strange as they celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary with a blessing in church.

Parish trip to Worcester.
By the time this magazine goes to print we will have been to Worcester Cathedral. Once again we have filled the coach and its good to see that this year 11 people from the Methodist Church are joining us.
Thank you to Len Barrett for planning the day.

Team 14 + Youth Events
An exciting new timetable of events has been planned by the young people.
On the 1st of July an overnight sleepover to raise awareness for the Make Poverty History event will take place.
On the 17th July the young people are going to the Look Out to play wide games.
On the 4th September there will be an evening of ten pin bowling at the Point. Finally on the 18th September the group will meet again at the Look Out to do the Arial Challenge.

The Make Poverty History sleepover will finish with the young people taking a banner to wrap around the railings at St. Joseph's Catholic Church for the rally in Bracknell. At 12 noon there will be a minute’s silence followed by a mighty sound of noise.

Fr Jeremy

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News from St Paul's

Peter Flint, the URC Minister at St Paul’s for the last 11 years, has now left and St Paul’s really pulled together to mark his leaving with special events.
His last Sunday service was on the 5th June and it was a lively service full of rousing hymns, songs and a spectacularly noisy and colourful song from the Elim Pentecostal Church which meets in St Paul’s on Sunday afternoons.

Peter preached at the service reminding us to make all our goodbyes, ‘good, goodbyes’ so we can leave in peace and arrive in peace.
His final parade service on the 12th June was packed and during this service he was presented with many gifts, including an electronic palm pilot, towards which the Anglican’s contributed over £100. For those not sure of what a Palm Pilot is…it is a small computer with probably enough computing power to blast off the Space Shuttle. However Peter will probably use it for his diary and other communication needs.

This service was followed by the biggest slap up lunch I’ve ever had at St Paul’s, groaning tables laden with goodies were soon followed by groaning stomachs as we celebrated in style (and if you haven’t ever tried Ann Baker’s fish pie…you’ve missed out!)

As I said in last months magazine, Peter will be much missed by those at St Paul’s and I ask for your continuing prayers for our congregations.

Summer Fayre
Things will now have to settle into a new pattern. June 18th is our Summer Fayre and Small Time, our Pre-school Toddler Group, are looking to win the prize in the scarecrow competition and numerous people are planning to bake cakes and enter craft activities.

Chapter meeting
June also saw the Chapter meeting at St Paul’s, Joan Knight prepared a splendid breakfast for clergy and lay ministers and afterwards the Chapter shared favourite films and music with one another to help deepen our friendships and collaborative ministry.

Summer Services
In July we will have our Parade Service, this time led by Jenny Colby and at the end of July we will begin our summer services. For the six weeks of the summer we will share our services with the URC, starting at 10.00am. This is a new endeavour for us all, so again we would appreciate your prayers as we explore new ways of being a truly shared church.

Catherine

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Parish Register

Please remember them all in your prayers

Baptisms

We welcome into the God's family

Holy Trinity
Erin May Gosling
Annabel Grace Tyler
Niamh Amelia Naylor
Ryan Gavin Smedley
Jessica Violet Louise Patricia Hawkins
Jamie William Charles Hawkins
Laura Astar Leeann Simmonds
Leah Anner May Cook
Jamie Antony Alex Cook

St Andrew's
Morgan Pearcey
Alisha Hope Riley
Simon Paul Riley
Suzanne Riley
Lauren Charlotte Satterly
Hannah Catherine Satterly

Weddings

There are three things that last for ever, faith hope and love; but the greatest of them all is love.

Holy Trinity
4th June 2005 ... Paul Fordham to Tara Lyons

St Andrew's
11th June 2005 ... Andrew Daunt to Evelyn Halford

Funerals

We commit to God's care

Holy Trinity

Keren Williams (Mary)	Aged 95
Sheila Walther	Aged 61
James Dickinson (Jimmy)	Aged 80

St Andrew's

Peter Thomas Birchall	Aged 84
Olive Coles	Aged 83
Albert James Ruddle (Jim)	Aged 81
Rose Mary Grumbt	Aged 73

St Paul’s

Wilfred Cole	Aged 91
Dennis King	Aged 74
Evelyn Jones	Aged 74
Dennis Hinman (Den)	Aged 73
Stephen Gargini (Steve)	Aged 53

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July Diary

This can be found in For your Diary...

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July Prayer Diary

This can be found in Prayer Diary

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Taizé Meditation

These meditations are meant as a way of seeking God in silence and prayer in the midst of our daily life. During the course of a day, take a moment to read the Bible Passage with this short commentary and reflect on the questions which follow.

Luke 14:12-14
Using the example of the people we invite to the parties we organize, Jesus reminds us that the overflowing life of God’s Kingdom goes far beyond anything we can imagine and accomplish, even were we to manage our life, our resources and our relationships in the most prudent and judicious way possible.

God gives, with no strategy or keeping of accounts. He aspires to awaken in human beings someone like himself who enters into fellowship with him. The primary motivation in God’s Kingdom is the joy of unconditional giving. We are invited to take the same risk.

Those who want to take part in God’s Reign can leave behind the habitual tendency to calculate what will be most profitable to them or to create a network of people obligated to them. Loved by God, they are not the only judge of the worth of their life, nor the only one responsible for their happiness.

The poor, the lowly, those who “cannot pay you back,” become the privileged road chosen by God to open his Kingdom to us. By putting them in the place of honour, we will discover and confirm the freedom and the joy of giving.

To suppose, in God’s name, that other people, even those from whom I can expect nothing in return, are my joy, will extricate me from timidity, fear and contempt, and allow me to discover my inalienable joy. Such an outlook attests my specific human dignity and brings me to life beyond all expectations.

We are not invited to wait passively, as spectators, for the Kingdom to arrive. Living in the Spirit of Christ, we are called to take part in its coming by making ourselves servants and neighbours even of those who do not love us.

In my life, who are those who “cannot pay me back”?

In what circumstances have I discovered the joy and the freedom of giving unconditionally?

Take time at the end to pray, thanking God for his presence, asking for what you need for yourself, and for those things close to your heart.

Further information on Taizé can be obtained from the Community's website.

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