2018 Messenger - January

The Messenger January 2018

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Latest Brompton Best SellerAll Saints’ Church - A History and Guide

byVivian Bairstow

Foreword by Dr. Sentamu, Archbishop of York

Available in Brompton Church and elsewhere in the village

Please donate as much as you can for a copy, preferably using a completed Gift Aid envelope.

Suggested minimum donation of £8.99 to cover costs

Thank you for supporting the village!!

All Saints’ ChurchBrompton-by-Sawdon A History and Guidewhere William Wordsworth, poet, married in 1802and Sir George Cayley, inventor, polymath and designer of the

World’s first man carrying aeroplane, was interred in 1857with a foreword by Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York

Vivian BairstowProduced in aid of All Saints’ Church

· 154 pages

· 315 colour illustrations

buds * 2018 there will be a buds session Monday 8th January 2018

(Topic ‘The Epiphany’)

A reflection on the Lectionary reading Matthew 2: 1-12

(Ann)

At the Downe Arms 6.30pm supper

or 7.30 for the meeting

Come to BUDS and GRoW

All welcome but please

ring 862227 or email Pat to confirm numbers for supper

OPERA @ Wykeham Saturday 20th January 2018

St Helen & All Saints Church, Wykeham 6.30pm for 7.00pm

Voices from English National Opera Solos, Arias from Opera and Musicals

Tickets £16 Concessions £10

Tel: 01723 866600 Email: [email protected]

The Estate Office, Wykeham, Scarborough, YO13 9QD



Brompton Blog

The Christmas Fest at Brompton was felt by all I have spoken to to be the best so far. Throughout December All Saints was filled with the sight and smell of 41 Christmas trees decorated with thought and ingenuity. The whole event was a big success which raised at least £1200.Now on to the really big challenge: The installation of a toilet and kitchen in the Church. The architect is drawing up the plans, then the application for a Faculty has to go in. However as a number of other churches in the diocese, including Ebberston, have already completed schemes similar to ours we hope there will be no obstacles. We have already named the project Toilet All Saints Kitchen so look out further news about TASK throughout 2018.

Mary 859437 [email protected]


View from the Vicarage.

We are all familiar with the Queen's New Year’s honours list, celebrating those who have made a significant contribution to public life.

In 2017 famous names included Andy Murray, Mo Farah, Ken Dodd, Patricia Routledge, Angela Rippon and Victoria Beckham. However, what would God's New Year’s honours list look like? In 1 Sam. 2:30 God says, ‘Those who honour me I will honour’. In this New Year, how can we honour God in our lives?

Honouring God means giving Him reverence, submission, and obedience; the complete surrender of our entire lives to His glory and loving service: ‘in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship.’ (Romans 12:1). So, we might honour God this year in five key areas:

My Time: how can I use my time to glorify God (Colossians 4:5)? My Gifts: how am I using my God-given gifts and abilities in His service (Matthew 25:14-30)? My Body: in what ways do I honour God in my body (1 Corinthians 6:18-20)? My Treasure: who is in charge of my finances (Matthew 6:24)? My Heart: how do I honour God not just outwardly, but from my heart: ‘These people come near to me with their mouth and honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me’ (Isaiah 29:13)?

Here's a challenge for 2018: When we wake up each day, let’s ask God: ‘How can I honour you today? Please help me to honour you with the time, gifts, body, finance, and heart that you have given me.’

Jesus Christ gave His life for us, and promises to give us the Holy Spirit to help us to serve Him.

‘When the worship is over, let the service begin.’

Stuart

Post Christmas Benefice Dinner Monday 5th February 2018 at the Downe Arms Wykeham

at 6.30 for 7.00pm Menu

Lightly spiced carrot and coriander soup with crusty roll (v)

Classic prawn cocktail with Marie sauce brown bread and butter Fan of sweet melon with refreshing sorbet

********* Golden roast turkey, seasonal stuffing, bacon wrapped chipolata

Beef bourguignon with rich claret sauce with shallots & mushrooms Salmon en croute with watercress cream

Baked ricotta and spinach cannelloni with creamy tomato sauce (v) *********

Steamed Christmas pudding with Chefs brandy sauce Treacle steamed pudding served with vanilla ice cream

Fresh fruit cocktail with pouring cream

Coffee or tea 2 Courses £13 3 Courses £16

Including gratuities

Please book your place for this fabulous menu at this fantastic price by

Tuesday 30th January at the latest.

Beverley is collating the bookings and your menu choices please phone 01723 863812 evenings and weekends

(no answer phone messages please) or email [email protected]

See you there ! ! !


mailto:[email protected]


Hutton Buscel and West Ayton

From St Matthew's

We have celebrated the most amazing Advent and Christmas at St Matthew's this year. Our Walking Nativity was superb, so well attended, thank you to all who organised, participated and offered hospitality along the way.

Equally successful but totally different our traditional 9 Lessons and Carols. St Matthew's decorated and bathed in candlelight, just perfect. Thank you to those who decorated, read, sung, baked, organised the mulled wine, washed up, cleared up, collectively adding up to a very happy evening.

Our Christingle, what can I say? A huge smile sums up the afternoon. 121 exceptionally happy children and adults. Delightful and profoundly moving.

Once again candle lit, our Benefice Midnight Mass, time for that very special peace, reflection and wonder.

This morning, New Year's Eve our Benefice Eucharist, good to welcome our friends from around our Benefice, to look back on 2017 and to look forward to a new year.

Our thanks for the help and support we have received during 2017 and our very best wishes for 2018.

Beverley, David and Richard

Snainton Snippets

A successful year for Snainton on the grant application front and a lot of hard work fundraising ourselves as well has just been and gone so we look forward to 2018 with hopefully a little less hard work for us to do. A big thank you to anyone and everyone who has supported us in any way, it is much appreciated.

It was lovely to have the choir singing at our Benefice Service on Christmas Eve, so thanks to Rosemary and her merry band for coming along and then staying chatting over a cuppa and a mince pie.

Still the fundraising must go on and our first event is 'Pancake Saturday - 10 February' in Snainton Village Hall at lunchtime. So pop along and enjoy home made soup followed by pancakes with various toppings.

With all best wishes from all at St Stephens for a healthy, peaceful New Year.

Thanks, Angela


In praise of the Remnant

I hadn’t seen her for 30 years, when she had been a member of the Church Youth Club. Now, as an adult, she was one of a faithful few who were keeping the same church going. Thinking I would pay her an encouraging compliment, I said she was part of the Remnant. When her face fell, I realised that, for most people, ‘remnant’ is how you describe leftover pieces of material which fabric departments have no use for and sell at bargain prices.

But in the Bible, the ‘Remnant’ is a term of great honour.

It describes a dedicated minority who remained loyal to God, when others were falling away. God relied on them to represent Him, and He honoured their commitment. It underlies the story of Noah, when only a few were saved from the Flood. It recurred when Lot escaped from the destruction of Sodom, and again when Elijah grumpily complained that he alone remained faithful, although he was one of a minority of 7,000 loyal servants of God.

The prophets taught that, despite the apostasy of the majority, God would keep hold of a minority; special messengers would confirm that His purposes could not be thwarted. In the New Testament, John the Baptist took up that role, and preached the uncompromising message that repentance is required if people mean business with God – the right pedigree or great wealth is meaningless to the Almighty.

God doesn’t need large numbers to fulfil His purposes. Jesus said the Kingdom of Heaven is like a tiny bit of yeast which transforms a large quantity of flour to produce bread. What does that say to the 21st Century, when the success of a movement is measured by the number of its adherents?

“Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit”, says the Lord Almighty.



Women’s World Day of Prayer for Suriname ‘All God’s creation is very good’

There will be a Set-up Meeting for Women’s World Day of Prayer 2018 on Monday

8th January 2018 at 2.00pm following a very short Epiphany Carol Service.

If you are interested in taking part / assisting in any way at the Women’s World Day of Prayer Service on Friday the 2nd of March, please come along to Snainton Chapel on

8th January or phone Pat Wood 862227.

2.00pm Short Epiphany Carol Service

2.30pm Women’s World Day of Prayer Set- up Meeting only.


A Bright Guiding StarSaturday, January 6, 20189:45am 4:00pm

Start 2018 with a quiet day for Epiphany exploring what the Wise Men, their journey, the gifts they bring and their encounter with the Christ Child teach us. A new year brings new hope, new possibilities and new beginnings - so is there a path or direction you need to take? Who or what is your guiding star? What gifts do you bring and how do you use them? A day to be renewed and refreshed for the New Year journey.

Led by Fiona Fidgin, a member of the Iona Community who works for the Discipleship and Ministries Learning Network of the Methodist Church.Cost: £25 to include lunch and refreshments.

The Bible in a DayTuesday, February 13, 20189:45 AM 4:00 PM

An opportunity to look at the Bible as a whole rather than the sum of the parts as we so often do.Leader to be confirmedCost: £25 to include lunch and refreshments

Lenten Quiet Days: Encountering Jesus in lentWed, Feb 14, 2018 9:45 AM Wed, Mar 28, 2018 4:00 PM

Building on 2017 this year we are offering a pattern of Quiet Days in Lent. Some of these are guided and others are self-led.Cost: £12.00 for guided quiet days; £5 for individual reflection days

A Journey Through John's Passion Narrative - John 18-20Tuesday, March 6, 20189:45 AM 4:00 PM

An opportunity to have an in-depth look at John's distinctive narrative of the passion of Jesus - engaging with the text at a deeper level than is often possible when looking at the whole of the Easter story.

Led by Bishop Graham CrayCost: £25.00 to include lunch and refreshments

For more info www.wydale.org


http://www.wydale.org

http://www.wydale.org


Lights of the world

Our Christmas celebrations are over. As we tidy up and restore our homes to what they were like before Christmas, we might look back at our festivities and ponder on what was so special about it.

Jesus made clear that He came as light for the world. He came to give life in all its fullness. He came to show God’s character—full of love, compassion, forgiveness and mercy.

So if, as we put away our Christmas decorations, we think there is no more to be said until next Christmas, we have missed out on a vital part of the Christian message. For Jesus also said that we, His followers, were to be the light of the world…...’let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven’. (Matthew 5:14-16). We are now involved! Jesus calls us, as His disciples, to be like Him this coming year - lights of hope, love, joy, healing and peace in a world that badly needs it.

A song by Graham Kendrick, ‘Do Something Beautiful’, urges us to: ‘Do something beautiful in the name of Jesus’, and ‘Go do something Jesus would’. Now that’s a challenge for 2018!


The River-Bank Preacher

“A voice of one calling in the desert, Prepare the way for the Lord’ (Matthew 3:3)

Just as we face a New Year right now, so the ancient people of God were facing a new era altogether around the year 30 AD, as a man of fire made his presence felt, out by the river Jordan.

Since the departure of Israel’s last recognised prophet 400 years earlier, no definitive preached word had been heard in Judea. And then – in came this wild man from the wilderness - all hair and leather! What schooling had he received, apart from heaven itself?

History has indeed served us at times with powerful preachers, albeit possessing minimal academic credentials! One such was the unschooled D.L. Moody of Chicago in the 19th century – whose last-ever letter contained 38 spelling mistakes. Yet millions responded to his riveting messages, both sides of the Atlantic. London’s Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury - the influential Ashley Cooper – compared him favourably with Britain’s supposedly top preacher, Canon Liddon of St Paul’s Cathedral. “Moody will do more in an hour,” said Shaftesbury, “than Canon Liddon in a century!”

So it had to be with John the Baptist. There in Judea a new class of religious leadership had formed, in the Pharisees and Sadducees – but they were formal, dry and overlaid with tedious platitudes.

Now here was a man who was evidently the Elijah-like messenger foretold in the last sentence of the Old Testament; a man who would ‘turn hearts’ and baptise the repentant, there by the banks of the Jordan. And Jesus Himself arrived – not that HE needed to repent… but His stepping into the water seemed to be identifying Him with the suffering, sinful humanity He had come to save. Indeed, it was He whom John was promoting.

‘A voice crying in the wilderness’ - that’s all John ever claimed to be (Isaiah 40:3), as He prepared the way for Jesus.

Let’s pray for the preachers around us this year – that the authority of their opened Bibles and the centrality of Christ may characterise their ministry – from Week One!

The next Messy Church is at

HUTTON BUSCEL VILLAGE HALL

Saturday 17 February 2018

4.00pm – 5.30pm

Come and join us for

NEW crafts, NEW activities FUN party time

AND a lovely tea (no charge)

TEA SERVED at 4.00pm

(don’t be late)

Children please bring a grown up with you






Great writing

There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to define "great," he said, ‘I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream in disbelief, cry in despair, howl in pain, and vent their anger in ways they've never dreamed of!’ He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.

Incentive to succeed

An old gentleman was on the operating table awaiting surgery. He had insisted that his son, a renowned surgeon, perform the operation. As he was about to get the anaesthesia, he asked to speak to his son, to encourage him. 'Don't be nervous, do your best and just remember, if it doesn't go well, and something happens to me, your mother is going to come and live with you and your wife.'

Know your sources

One evening my parents came over to visit. Our five-year-old son, James, decided to impress his grandparents by reciting his latest memory verse. Standing at attention, he rattled off the verse, and was doing famously until he reached the reference. "And that comes from Delusions 5:16!"

This curious business of raising children

You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen telling them to sit down and shut up

Dial-a-Prayer

They have Dial-a-Prayer for atheists now.

You ring this number, and it rings and rings, but nobody answers.

Prayer changes things

The little girl had been so naughty during the Christmas break that her mother decided to give her the worst kind of punishment. She told her she couldn't go on the New Year’s Day family outing. But when the day finally came, her mother felt she had been too harsh. When she told her daughter that she could go after all, but the child's reaction was one of gloom and dismay. "What's the matter? I thought you'd be glad to go,” her mother said.

"But it's too late now!" the little girl protested. "I've already prayed for rain."


Just for fun!



The Daily Service celebrates a big birthday

Ninety years ago this month BBC Radio broadcast for the first time a short Daily Service at 10.15 – in those days, the start of its daily output. It’s half an hour later now, but it’s still there, the longest running programme on the BBC, after News and Weather forecasts.

Its appearance in 1928 was, in fact, the result of a tireless and determined campaign by a lady in Bushey, Herts, Miss Kathleen Cordeux. For two years she had campaigned for a short Christian service each morning ‘for the sick and house-bound’ – ‘just some sacred music, a hymn, a Bible reading and prayer’.

Through the letters column in the Radio Times, and then by bombarding the director-general of the BBC, John Reith, after two years she got her way – at first as an ‘experiment’, to test the demand.

The response from listeners was immediate and enthusiastic and 90 years later, I think even she would be surprised to find that it is still there every day on Radio 4. And it still follows her proposed content: sacred music, a hymn, a Bible reading and a prayer.

The 1918 ‘Flu pandemic

Known as the “greatest medical holocaust in history”, the worldwide flu pandemic that followed the First World War started 100 years ago, and lasted from January 1918 to December 1920.

Sometimes known as Spanish flu because it received greater publicity at first in that country, its origins were unclear. At one time, it was thought to have originated in Kansas among poultry and pigs, but later a more virulent strain appeared simultaneously in France, Sierra Leone and Boston, Massachusetts.

Up to 20% of those infected died, as opposed to the usual flu epidemic mortality rate of 0.1%. Unusually, it killed mostly young adults and was widespread in summer and autumn.

“Virus” was a novel concept in 1918, and most of the world’s doctors assumed they were dealing with a bacterial disease. They had no vaccine, antiviral drugs or even antibiotics, which might have defeated the secondary bacterial infections that killed most victims.

The disease claimed between 50 and 100 million lives, or between 2.5% and 5% of the global population. (World War I killed about 18 million people, World War II about 60 million.) It disappeared as suddenly as it arrived, possibly mutating into a less dangerous form of the virus.


All in the month of November . . . .

150 years ago, on 8th Jan 1868 that Sir Frank Dyson, British Astronomer Royal (1910-33), was born. His observations during the 1919 solar eclipse helped support Einstein’s theory of general relativity. He also introduced the Greenwich time signal ‘pips’.

125 years ago, on 14th - 16th Jan 1893 that the Independent Labour Party was founded in the UK. It was led by Keir Hardie and was a precursor to the Labour Party (founded 1900).

100 years ago, from Jan1918 to Dec 1920 that the 1918 ‘flu pandemic took place. About 500 million people were infected and 50 – 100 million people died (5%of the global population).

90 years ago, on 2nd Jan 1928 that the BBC radio broadcast its first Daily Service – a 15 minute daily religious service. It is still running today.

Also 90 years ago, on 11th Jan 1928 that Thomas Hardy, British novelist and poet died. (Wrote Far from the Madding Crowd, the Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, etc)

75 years ago, from 24th to 31st Jan 1943 that the battle of Stalingrad took place. Adolf Hitler ordered the German 6th army to keep fighting to the death, even though they had no chance. `But German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus finally surrendered.

65 years ago, on 31st Jan to 1st Feb that the North Sea flood of 1953 took place. North-western Europe was hit by extensive flooding when severe gales combined with a Spring tide. Several thousand people were killed.

60 years ago, on 1st Jan 1958 that the European Economic Community (EEC) began operating. It was incorporated into the European Union (EU) in 1993 as the European Community (EC).









Benefice Diary - December 2017 Sunday 7th January - Epiphany Sunday8.00 am BCP Communion Snainton9.30 am Holy Eucharist Hutton Buscel11.00 am Holy Eucharist Brompton2.30 pm Evening Prayer Langdale End6.30 pm BCP Evensong Wykeham

Sunday 14th January - Epiphany 28.00 am BCP Communion Hutton Buscel9.30 am Holy Eucharist Wykeham11.00 am Holy Eucharist Snainton11.00 am BCP Matins Brompton

Sunday 21st January - Epiphany 38.00 am BCP Communion Wykeham9.30 am Holy Eucharist Brompton11.00 am Holy Eucharist Hutton Buscel4.30 pm BCP Evensong Snainton

Monday 22nd January7.00 pm Benefice Council Vicarage

Sunday 28th January - The Presentation of Christ in the Temple8.00 am BCP Communion Brompton9.30 am Holy Eucharist Snainton11.00 am Holy Eucharist Wykeham6.30 pm BCP Evensong Hutton Buscel

Monday 29th January7.00 pm Snainton PCC Kingsbrooke, SN

Tuesday 30th January7.30 pm Hutton Buscel PCC The Vicarage

Sunday 4th February - 2nd before Lent8.00 am BCP Communion Snainton9.30 am Holy Eucharist Hutton Buscel11.00 am Holy Eucharist Brompton2.30 pm Evening Prayer Langdale End6.30 pm BCP Evensong Wykeham


Vicar Revd Stuart G Hill BTh (Oxon.)

01723 859694

Reader Mrs Pat Wood

01723 862227

Organist Mr Terry Cartlidge

01723 563170

Church Wardens St Stephen, Snainton

Bob Williams

01723 859130

St John Harris

01723 850684

All Saints, Brompton

Don Jones

01723 859437

Mark Evans

01723 859233

All Saints, Wykeham

Robert Sword

01723 862434

Anthony Tubbs

01723 850620

St Matthew, Hutton Buscel

David Knowelden

01723 864670

Beverley Waldie

01723 863812

St Peter, Langdale End

Dianne Collins

01723 882204


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