Thank you to everyone who supported last month’s coffee morning at St Peter’s church; it was a lovely morning and raised a fantastic £165.20.
The next coffee morning will be on Saturday 9th March from 10.30am-12.30pm with all the usual great stalls including refreshments, bacon butties, cakes, raffle, jigsaws and more. Come along for a warm welcome and a very pleasant morning.
Friday evening, 8th March 7:30pm
‘Johnny English Strikes Again’ (2019)
This is the third instalment of the Johnny English comedy series, with Rowan Atkinson returning as the much loved accidental secret agent. The new adventure begins when a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all active undercover agents in Britain, leaving Johnny English as the secret service’s last hope. Called out of retirement, English dives head first into action with the mission to find the mastermind hacker. As a man with few skills and analogue methods, Johnny English must overcome the challenges of modern technology to make this mission a success. The film also stars Emma Thompson as the British Prime Minister and Ben Miller as English’s hapless sidekick.
Doors open 7pm, film start 7.30pm
Free admission, tea & coffee; bring your own popcorn!
You can download the March 2019 parish magazine in PDF format using the link below.
The parish magazine is in Adobe PDF format, if you can’t view the magazine you can download a reader at adobe.com.
How will you remember March 2019? For some people it will be a birth, a marriage or a death. For others it will be redundancy or a new job, an illness or a recovery, a falling out or a reconciliation. Or even the holiday of a lifetime.
The question of Brexit will be foremost in the minds of many people. Will we or won’t we leave; will there be another referendum or not; will we leave with a deal or just walk away; what changes will there be or will there be any at all. It is all very uncertain, and as I write in mid-February, nothing is very clear.
Uncertainty is part of life. One of the most difficult things in life is not to know what is coming; what is going to happen. Unpredictability can sometimes be enjoyable but usually it leads to stress. A study reported in 2016 found that most people would rather know for certain that they were going to get an electric shock than not be able to predict it. A team from University College London, invited people into a laboratory to play a computer game. Snakes were hiding under rocks and when someone found a snake they got a painful shock in their hand. A computer model estimated each person’s level of uncertainty for each choice made, as over time, they could predict which rocks were likely to hide a snake. Their stress level was also measured by looking at pupil response and also the amount of perspiration produced.
The study found that participants were most stressed when they were more uncertain about the situation than when they were certain about either thing happening. The conclusion was that people feel better about knowing what is coming, even if it is painful, rather than not knowing.
March marks the beginning of Lent, the forty days before Easter in the Christian calendar. It is a season of reflection and preparation before Easter, but it is also a season of CERTAINTY that Jesus died, rose and lives again to give us peace, joy and hope.
By Vicky Wilson, Reader, St Peter’s church
Discover the mystery of God this Lent
The last day before the start of Lent is Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, which falls this year on Tuesday 5th March. It was traditionally a time to use up foods such as eggs, milk and butter before the start of the Lenten fast.
The first day of Lent is Ash Wednesday, and there will be a service at St Peter’s on Wednesday 6th March at 7.30pm. As Lent is a season for self-reflection, this service is an opportunity for us ready ourselves to receive afresh the forgiveness and healing that God offers.
During Lent, we will be holding a small group at 6.30pm on Mondays at St Peter’s church, to follow a course titled ’The Mystery of God’. The small group will be led by Rev David Teece and will begin on Monday 11th March at 6.30pm and will run for 5 weeks during Lent.
Thank you everyone who supported the last two coffee mornings. The next coffee morning will be on Saturday 9th February at St Peter’s church from 10.30am—12.30pm with lots of great stalls: cakes, raffle, jigsaws, tombola and refreshments including delicious bacon butties.
The coffee mornings dates for the rest of the year are shown below: they will take place on the 2nd Saturday of each month at St Peter’s church, and will continue to take place from 10.30am—12.30pm. Please join us!
| 12th January | 13 April | 13 July | 12 October |
| 9 February | 11 May | 10 August | 9 November |
| 9 March | 8 June | 14 September | 14 December |
Friday evening, 8th February 7:30pm
‘Calendar Girls’ (2004)
‘Calendar Girls’ is the wonderfully funny, gently touching, and inspiring dramatisation of a true story: when her best friend Annie (Julie Walters) loses her husband to leukaemia, Chris (Dame Helen Mirren) cooks up a scheme to raise money for the hospital where he died. They and their other Women’s Institute friends strip for a nude charity calendar resulting in a media frenzy as the world wakes up to Yorkshire’s very own calendar girls. Also featuring Celia Imrie, Annette Crosbie, Penelope Wilton and Linda Bassett, ’Calendar Girls’ becoming a surprisingly moving fable of loss, determination, the perils of fame and its effect on the women’s friendships and families.
Doors open 7pm, film start 7.30pm
Free admission, tea & coffee; bring your own popcorn!
You can download the February 2019 parish magazine in PDF format using the link below.
The parish magazine is in Adobe PDF format, if you can’t view the magazine you can download a reader at adobe.com.
“Should I stay or should I go?” (The Clash). Since the Referendum in June 2016, we have seen families, our nation and Parliament divided by different opinions over Europe. But—as written in a statement by CofE Bishops in December 2018—”at the heart of the Christian message is Jesus’ command to love our neighbour. This includes those with whom we agree and disagree: at home, in Europe and further afield.”
As we celebrate St Valentine’s Day this month, how can we conduct this debate in a loving way? The Apostle Peter reminds us: ‘Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honour the emperor.’ (1 Peter 2:17).
Respect everyone: However much we may disagree with another people’s perspective, we should respect them as people. This applies even if they don’t respect our views!
Love the church: among the family of believers there should be an even greater respect for each other!0 The way we treat each other not only reveals the depth of our love; it will also cause people to glorify God and want to be part of the family.
Fear God: we must demonstrate our allegiance to God by putting Him first and following His leading. Of course, this doesn’t stop Christians from having different opinions to each other.
Honour those in authority: we are called to honour those who are in authority over us ‘for the Lord’s sake’. Even when we disagree with their decisions and actions, we should keep our respect and not speak ill of them.
Peter is calling us to live with the freedom to make up our own mind on Europe, while listening to what others say. ‘A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all.’ (Martin Luther).
Rev Paul Hardingham writing in parishpump.co.uk
The next church coffee mornings at St Peter’s church will be on Saturday 12th January from 10.30am-12.30pm with all the usual great stalls including refreshments, bacon butties, cakes, raffle, jigsaws and more. Please come along and support our coffee morning—you can be assured of a very pleasant morning.