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Snowshill Manor 2014
The
Broadsheet
To know Jesus better,
And to make Him better known
United Reformed Church,
77 High Street, Broadway
July 2014
Dear Friends
By the time you read this article in July the date of the return of our football team
from the World Cup will be old hat and if Wayne Rooney produced the goods it
would be yesterday’s news and we as a Church Family will be celebrating the
results of the Church Fete on the Green.
In June, as a Church we joined with our friends from the other Churches in
Broadway on the Village Green to celebrate Pentecost, and what a great time we
had rejoicing in the coming of the Holy Spirit into the world and the birth of the
Church. It was very appropriate when we think that Peter also stood outside in the
open air, ‘Then Peter stood up with the other eleven apostles and in a loud voice
began to speak to the crowd. “Fellow-Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem,
listen to me and let me tell you what this means.” (Acts 2: 14-15 GNB)
Every time we drive out in the country there are signs pointing the way to open
gardens that one can visit. In fact when visiting the homes of our Church family I
see in their gardens the beauty of God’s creation and the hard work of those who
out of love have spent long hours attending the plants, their rest in winter along
with the summer sun has revitalised the plants into new life. At this point ,we as a
family want to thank Michael Eden for looking after the Manse garden. One of the
most famous gardens in ancient times was the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
although there is a question mark about their existence, but one garden we do
know that is for real was the Garden of Eden. In Genesis we read that the first
recorded occupation of man is that of a gardener. Adam was given this job by God.
“Then the Lord God took the man and put him in Garden of Eden to tend and keep
it”. (Genesis 2:15. NKJ). We know from the Bible that there were trees in the
Garden of Eden that produced fruit. But it was not until after the FALL did the
ground produce thorns and weeds, (not the Garden of Eden). Adam had a some-
what easy life looking after the garden, but after the Fall it was a different ball
game. Like all good gardeners and farmers today, he earned his living by the sweat
of his brow. ”In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread”.( Gen. 3:19 NKJ) Just a
thought here, did Adam eat food before the Fall?
The late Rev George B Duncan asks us, “If Christ indeed be the Gardener of our
souls, then His is the hand that plants; and His mind will have much to do with the
preparing of the soil, and then planting of the seed. His hand will be the hand that
prunes. The reason for the pruning is not to hurt but to help the plant, and the
results from the pruning will be a finer blossom or a greater harvest of fruit. If your
life is under the hands of the Gardner of our souls, then surely all will be well.
Our Community Outreach Activities A busy month as we engaged in joint community activities centred on the Broadway Festival and as a result we have come to better know organisations and people in the village and local area. There is more information about some of these initiatives later in this Broadsheet. Neighbours on Line has reached over 40 different people through its 12 sessions ,with them attending 118 times altogether . More people are now communicating by email with their families and friends and are comfortable with using the internet to follow their interests and seek information. Worcester County Council have asked us to provide case study examples of success and to help in the design and roll out of other ideas about tackling loneliness and digital skills. Health and well being is a major focus for society for people of all ages. Discussion with Wychavon Council and Rooftop Housing Group has confirmed that they are prioritising this area with funding and are interested in hearing ideas. We are forming a team to look at how we could re-model the kitchen in our hall to address this area of need. Now that we have several initiatives becoming well established, including Threads and Games Afternoons, we have an opportunity to raise awareness and encourage people to come. To do this we have used grant funding for new communications methods including table top information stands, flier dispensers, posters with Christian messages, and a large A-frame. Shortly we will be installing a large external notice board on the Hall and some signs directing people to the Hall and Jubilee Room. We invited the new Area Minister for Hereford and Worcestershire for a very useful meeting where we shared our ideas and obtained his insights and suggestions including funding. We have also invited the Synod Evangelist to visit us to seek his ideas and utilise his experience too, particularly regarding effective ways to develop faith in the community. Thank you for your ideas, prayers and involvement as we ask to reach out into the community and build on these initiatives. Mark
Do people see the beauty of Christ in us and want to learn more of the work of the
Great Gardener, Jesus Christ and what He can do in their lives ?
Please remember in your prayers many of our Church Family who are ill at this
time and also for those who because of their years find life difficult, unable to do
the things they would like and used to do.
Your friend Ken
Visitors Welcome - A Strange Co-incidence!
At Broadway URC we always extend a warm welcome to visitors to our Sunday Worship and are delighted when they are able to join us afterwards for refreshments and conversation in the Hall. In April I was talking with two such visitors, Stuart and Hazel Lees, and was interested to find they came from Ramsbottom, north of Bury in Lancashire.
This is the area where the ancestors of Brian, my husband, originate, and with our interest in Family History, we had traced the Nuttalls and some other family lines in that area back to the Seventeenth Century. Amongst them was a Presbyterian Minister, the Revd. Edward Rothwell (c.1665-1731), who, c.1711 had given the site for a Chapel and Graveyard in Nuttall Lane, Ramsbottom, where he had ministered for some years. Alas, that Chapel, also known as “Old Dundee”, is no more, but Nuttall Lane has become Dundee Lane. [Dundee is apparently a corruption of Donum Dei or Domus Dei, the gift or house of God, said to have been inscribed on the original building.]
The Presbyterian congregation later joined the Congregational Chapel further down Dundee Lane, the present Dundee URC – and our visitor Stuart Lees is its Church Secretary! Imagine our excited conversation when we discovered this link; we have since shared more information by correspondence, and I have been able to add a photo of a painting of “Old Dundee” to our Family Records.
Readers may be amused at the following: In 1996 when Brian and I visited the former Manse of “Old Dundee”, the present owner, Mrs. Barnes, kindly showed us round, including the large sitting room, built on the site of the old Chapel. Brian asked her where the Pulpit had been, and then told her that it is recorded that Edward Rothwell had been buried in front of the pulpit – no further record!!
Susan Nuttall
You are kindly invited by Doreen and Ken
to a
“Manse Garden Tea” on the 12th July 2014 from 2.30 pm,
If you require help with transport please speak to Christine Waller
Services for July and August
All services start at 10.30am followed by refreshments in the Church
Hall to which everyone is invited.
Sunday 6th July Allister du Plessis - The Leprosy Mission
Sunday 13th July Revd. Ken Martin - Communion
Sunday 20th July Jo Williamson - St. Michael’s Church, Broadway
Sunday 27th July Revd. Ken Martin
United Service at Methodist Church, Broadway
Sunday 3rd August Revd. Ken Martin - Communion
Sunday 10th August Revd. Arthur Kent
Sunday 17th August Revd. Ken Martin - Songs of Praise
Sunday 24th August Julie Jefferies
Sunday31st August Revd. Ken Martin
Elders Meeting 10th July
Church Meeting 20th July
Birthday Celebrations
7th July - Tim Huc , 21st July - Mavis Payne
26th July –Alex Peters, 6th August - John Tunwell
9th August - Margaret Harrington ,
25th August - Kathy Hancock, 27th August - Gladys Woodward
Duty Elder Christine Waller
Sunday 6th July
Welcome Doreen Martin
Reading Doreen Martin
Coffee Christine and Frank Waller
Flowers Dorothy Valentine
Sunday 13th July
Welcome Laura Holt
Reading Laura Holt
Coffee Ann Walters and Christine Kershaw
Flowers June Willn arranged by Christine Waller
Sunday 20th July
Welcome Joanne Griffin
Reading Joanne Griffin
Coffee Julie Stickler and Megan Thomas
Flowers Audrey Harrison
Sunday 27th July
Joint Service Methodist Church, Broadway
Thank you for helping. If you are unable to attend please swap with
someone else and alter the sheet in the vestibule so the Duty Elder knows
who to expect.
Duty Elder
Sunday 3rd August
Welcome Frank Waller
Reading Frank Waller
Coffee Judy Aiton and Pat Aberdein
Flowers Dorothy Cox arranged by Christine Waller
Sunday 10th August
Welcome Robin and Sue Jones
Reading Sue Jones
Coffee Muriel and Bill Nelson
Flowers Margaret Rubridge arranged by Val Williams
Sunday 17th August
Welcome Mark Pickering
Reading Mark Pickering
Coffee Margaret and Roger Harrington
Flowers Edna Hodges arranged by Christine Waller
Sunday 24th August
Welcome Michael Eden
Reading Michael Eden
Coffee Sheila Payne and Margaret Strange
Flowers Shirley Caddy
Sunday 31st August
Welcome Margaret and Roger Harrington
Reading Margaret Harrington
Coffee Joanne and Les Griffin
Flowers Julie Stickler
Our Traidcraft enterprise continues to do well. Figures are; April - £92.73, May - £83.72 and June - £94.03. We are having a stall at the Church Fete and, on this occasion, are allowed to take some revenue from it.
Many thanks to all those who support this monthly activity. If there is anything you especially want us to get, just let one of us know and we can usually obtain it for the Sunday. Pat Wallace and Judith Gibbons.
Dear Friends,
I'm sure that you'll be sorry to learn of the death of my sister Chris Bradshaw. She died yesterday morning, the 16th June at Watford General Hospital – and had been unwell for a year or more. She missed you and Broadway a good deal – as do we all. I thought that the congregation of your church which I attended whenever I was in Broadway will want to know. Anyone wishing to get in touch with me will be very welcome.
With kind regards, Yours,
John Wileman
If you would like to contact John please ask Christine for details.
School Children parade to fun and games
Children from the two schools in the village who we work with in Open
the Book made lanterns and set off from the URC in a procession to the
Green led by a stilt walker. There they enjoyed songs, fire throwing,
balancing tricks, and the fun and games organised by Pilots in their
gazebo. We were busy for the whole time and met some families new
to the village and as a result two of their children now come to Pilots.
Just to let people know that there is an Evesham Community Transport Service which also covers the surrounding villages, to provide drivers for hospital, doctors' appointments, and some other occasions if required. Telephone information is available on 01386 45035 between 9.30am and 1pm.
Margaret Harrington
The Parkinson’s Society is visiting Signpost on Thursday 24th July between 11am and 1pm. If you have any queries for them or would like to find out more about them do call in on that day.
The Village in a Church
Our church
joined in with
the whole
community as
groups set up
displays in St. Michael's. Neighbours on Line, Games Afternoon,
Church in Society, and Pilots all demonstrated what they do and
who their activities are for.
Pentecost Service on the Green
All of the churches in Broadway worked
together to create a well attended open air
Pentecost service on the Green.
The 100 or so people enjoyed the sunshine and
the stories of how people came to faith, what the hymns meant to the
people who chose them, and Pilots acted out how the Spirit of God can
transform someone - even a
robot!
A Prayer for Guatemala
We pray for :
Guatemala , a country of contrasts: with flooding and drought,
wealth and poverty, agricultural exports and food shortages
The two-thirds of the country’s school children who do not
complete primary school on time and where literacy levels are
closer to the average sub-Saharan Africa than to that of Latin
America: that all children may have access to education
The work by Christian aid partner Bethania as they educate
communities where around 70% of the indigenous children
under five suffer from chronic malnutrition.
In aid of Signpost – Broadway
Charity no. - 082114
On Sunday 17th August from 3.30pm to 5.30pm
at
Broadway United Reformed Church, Upper High
Street, Broadway
Entertaining People are presenting a
This will be followed by a leisurely
British cream tea
Tickets are £5.00 and can be bought from the Signpost Office
on a Monday or Thursday or else ring us on 01386 859029
If you missed Entertaining People’s concert last year make sure
you come this time!
REGULAR MEETINGS
Monday Girl Guides every week during term time
7pm—8.30.pm
(except the last Monday of the month when held at the Methodist Hall )
Gardening Club (Last Monday of month )
Tuesday Games Afternoon 1st Tuesday each month 2-4pm
Healing Service 2nd Tuesday each month 11am in URC Vestry
Tai Chi 6-8pm
Wednesday Beaver Scouts 6- 7.15pm
Music Makers 7.30 – 9.00pm
Thursday Cub Scouts 6- 7.15pm
Elders’ Meeting 7.30pm URC Vestry
( 2nd Thursday in month )
Friday PILOTS 6.30pm -8pm
Fun and activities in a Christian environment during term time for everyone aged 4 - 18.
All welcome whether or not they go to any church.
Sunday PILOTS extra! 10.30am -11.30am
For everyone aged 4 - 18.
Starts in the Church then in the hall for games, stories , pop and biscuits.
Broadway United Reformed Church
High Street , Broadway , Worcestershire. WR12 7AL
www.broadwayurc-worcs.org.uk
Minister Rev. Ken Martin 01386 247021
Outreach Development Worker Mark Pickering 07949 296 738
markp.broadwayurc@outlook.com
Secretary Christine Waller
Booking Secretaries Margaret and Roger Harrington
E-mail broadwayurc@outlook.com
Articles for the next Broadsheet can be sent to broadsheet.editor@hotmail.co.uk
or can be placed in the folder at the back of the Church
Closing date for articles is 10th August2014
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