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Page 1: Trinity Church Honley newsletter December 2013

Trinity Church (Methodist-URC) Moorbottom Honley

Newsletter suggested price 30p or £3pa. (Free to v isitors) www.trinitychurchinhonley.org.uk

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TRINITY CHURCH

HONLEY Newsletter

December 2013 & January 2014

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TRINITY CHURCH December 2013 / January 2014

SERVICES

Dec Time Minister / Organiser Vestibule Stewards

Church Stewards

Flowers Coffee team

Karen Stannard+

1 1030 Robert Booth (adv ent)

Caroly nne Roberts

Margaret Winterbottom Bob & Jane

Armitage Flower Fund

Margaret Armitage

Barbara Leach

8 1030 Rev Tim Moore Marina & Roger

Woodhead Margaret Armitage

Penny Winterbottom Linda Crav en

Sy lvia Hallas

15 1030 Marina Woodhead ���� (Nativ ity Serv ice)

Linda & Stephen

Crav en Hilary Turner

Caroly nne Roberts Joy ce Draper

Ann Hirst

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1030 Terry Frost Jean Wood Di Harris

Margaret Sheppard Pam Redfearn

Pat Waite

Pam Redfearn

1600 Rev John Hardy (Carol Serv ice) -

25 0930 Rev Tim Moore

Christmas Day Service Any stewards who are present -

29 1030 Rev Laura Hardy (incl. Communion)

Jane & Bob Armitage Glenys Pallister

Pat Waite Di Harris

Margaret Armitage

Jan Time Minister / Organiser Vestibule

Stewards

Church

Stewards Flowers

Coffee team Maureen Burley +

5 1030 Rev Richard Thompson Alan Fawcett

John Murray Bob & Jane Armitage Barbara Leach

Pam Redfearn

Linda Crav en

12 1030 Rev Tim Moore (incl. Communion)

Marjorie Woodhead

Peter Jackson Margaret Armitage

Penny Winterbottom Martin & Alison

Booth Barbara Leach

Ann Hirst

19 1030 Trevor Jones Sy lva Hallas

Jackie Fawcett Hilary Turner

Caroly nne Roberts Shirley Heaton

Audrey Hawkswell

Di Harris

26 1030 Robert Booth Joan Vev ers

Margaret Winterbottom Margaret Sheppard

Pam Redfearn Brenda Turner

Kathleen Kennedy

Doreen Sykes

Day DEC Events in December

Sat 7 Christmas Tree Festival Church open 10 am – 4 pm. With Father Christmas,

Yorkshire Traction Honley Band and Honley Ladies Choir. Food and Drink available all day.

Sun 8 Christmas Tree Festival 2– 4 pm. With music by organist Ken Draper. Food & Drink av ailable.

Tues 10

Children’s Christmas Service 11am - 15 minute service followed a chance to meet the children

and their carers over refreshments. Every one welcome, parents, friends, congregation, stewards.

Circuit Leisure Group Walk- Meet at Trinity at 11 am f or 2 hr walk, then picnic lunch and talk.

Fri 13 Honley Scouts Carol Service 7.00 pm. Refreshments after in Scout HQ across the road.

Tues 17 Women’s Fellowship Meeting in Arthurs’ Room at 2.30pm – Carols with Ken. Chairlady Joyce Draper

Thur 26 Boxing Day Trinity Church/Civic Society Guided Walk. Meet at Trinity at 2.15pm f or a Map reading walk, bring your compass (and boots) – Leader Bert

Day JAN Events in January

Tues 7

Women’s Fellowship Meeting in Arthurs’ Room at 2.30 pm: Speaker: Mr Colin Hill

Chairlady : Margaret Armitage

Circuit Leisure Group Walk. Meet at Scholes at 11:00 am for walk and ‘Jacob's Join’ Faith meal

Sun 12 Trinity Church/Civic Society Guided Walk. Meet at Trinity at 2.15pm f or walk in Magdale

Tues 21 Women’s Fellowship Meeting in Arthurs’ Room at 2.30pm: Speaker: Liz Cummings ‘Liv ing in China’.

Chairlady : Margaret Sheppard

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���� Celebration of Christmas– 15th December

Marina Woodhead will be leading the

service. Members of the congregation,

Junior Church and the Trinity Singers will

all take part in a service of music, drama

and readings tell ing the Christmas story.

What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?

THE BIBLE comes to TV Channel 5

December sees the launch of THE BIBLE, a mini-

series to be broadcast on Channel 5. THE BIBLE

series features some of the most famous stories, such

as Noah's Ark, the Exodus and Daniel in the Lion's

Den, to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.

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The Minister’s Column

A Free Gift for Christmas!

I love December because it means

thinking about new ways to tell a

familiar story which is always a challenge. So what is our challenge

as a church this month? We always

seem to be doing so many things that it can be difficult to sit and

relax and enjoy this t ime of the year

but I think sitt ing down and reviewing what Christmas is all

about would be a good thing to do.

Is it all about buying presents or

getting in a fluster over the dinner

or travelling miles to be with people when we would rather be in

our own home? Trying to provide

Christmas for other people is always demanding but I don’t think

God had any of this on his agenda

when he let loose his love and set it down in the midst of the people he

adored.

Reading the nativity stories we see that Jesus doesn’t come to exact

a price from us or demand

perfection before he makes himself known. Instead we see a gift from

God, freely given. A gift who sits

alongside us in all our worries and fears. There are no demands made

by God before he sends the Son. He just sees us and knowing what

we need he says, ‘Have this Son of

mine. He’s the best there is and I

give him as a gift to you all’.

So whether the turkey is too dry or the Yorkshire puddings fall flat or you can’t buy the presents you

want, just remember that it’s not

that important. The Christmas gift of Jesus can’t be earned, it is freely

given.

Rev Tim Moore

(contact address-back page)

I hope this year has been a good

and positive one for you and that it

continues into 2014!

Next in our Christmas service we welcome

George, the vicar’s nephew, who will give us his

own interpretation of the carol ‘Silent Night’

Frostbite!

Stop Press! Dear all, Last month some of us

began reading Philip Yancy's book on prayer

in the hope of starting a couple of sessions dis-cussing prayer and how we pray and why we

pray. The feed back from many people is that

the book is not an easy read and they have

wanted more time to get through it. I thought it

would be quite straight forward but I was wrong - so sorry about that. What we will do is give every-

one more time to get to grips with it with the hope of

two or three discussion sessions starting in mid Janu-ary. I'll let you know the dates next month. Tim,

A great way to share the Christmas Story

The Real Advent Calendar is a new and fun way for par-

ents, grandparents and Godparents to share the Christmas story. Behind each of the 25 windows there is a Fairtrade

chocolate star and a few words from the Christmas story.

Behind the final window there is a 24-page Christmas

story booklet.

As well as celebrating the true meaning of Christmas, the

calendar makes a charity donation to The Children’s Soci-

ety from every sale.

The Real Advent Calendar is avail-able from Tesco stores nationwide

and certain retailers.

The Real Advent Calendar also supports the Christmas Starts with Christ campaign, which aims to

reverse the trend of Christ being written out of Christmas.

Whet’s the difference

between a Pharisee and a Sadducee?

Well, the Pharisee believes in resurrection of the

dead, whi le the Sadducee does not- and that's why

he’s sad, you see. BOOM BOOM

(Rev Brian Stare, Holy Trinity, Las Palmas. Nov 10th)

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What do you call Santa ’s little helpers?

Carols for Christmas

CAROL SINGINGCAROL SINGINGCAROL SINGINGCAROL SINGING HONLEY CHURCHES TOGETHER

All at 7 pm

Weds 11 Dec Trinity Court Lounge (at rear of Trinity Church).

Tues 17 Dec Burhouse Court Lounge (through archway on New

Street opposite back of CO-OP).

Mon 23 Dec Roundway flats

Lounge (up the path and through

the gate opposite 140 Roundway.

Then the entrance is diagonally

across to the top right of the gar-

den). Better take these directions

with you!

Come along and enjoy the company and singing, even if only on one of the occasions.

Honley

It’s those flippin’ Honley Carol

Singers again!

Twelve Classic reads for the kids and for you!

Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss (Random

House, 1940): An elephant cares for an abandoned egg.

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Steven-

son (Simon and Schuster, revised edition, 1999): Po-

etry to celebrate childhood before technology.

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis (Harper Collins, 2007, boxed set): Series of seven books about

four kids who enter a magical world through a wardrobe.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

(Harper Classics, 1998): A sullen orphan learns to love

life by tending a garden.

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne (Harper Collins, 2003): Lovable Pooh makes friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.

The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien (Harper Collins, 2007): Bilbo Baggins finds a magical ring that sets the stage

for The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming (Random House, 2005): By the creator of James Bond, it's good

vs. evil in a flying car.

The Borrowers by Mary Norton (Gale Group, 2005):

First o a delightful series about tiny folk who live, hid-

den, amongst humans.

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (Bullseye Books, 1988): Bored Milo learns how to live after he

drives through a mysterious tollbooth with his toy car.

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (Scholastic, 2002): Wendy and Peter against evil Captain Hook.

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

(Sterling, 2004): The endearing story of a spirited or-

phan adopted by an older couple.

The Once and Future King by T. H. White (Ace, 1987): Adventures of King Arthur and his knights.

You are what you read By Mary Margaret Keaton (from ‘US Catholic’ magazine) Wondering what to read over the dark winter months? In choosing a story, simply follow the advice of C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, who said, "No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not

equally worth reading at the age of 50”. (or 70+ Ed)

Scouts keep their promise

The Church of England has welcomed the recent

decision by the Scout movement to keep a ‘Duty to God’ in its core promise, and to introduce an

alternative promise for those without a religious faith. The Church feels this decision “affirms the

importance of spiritual life. “We remain a faithful nation where the majority of families and individuals find

identity, affiliation and meaning in religious belief”.

In this season of parties, please remember:

~ No woman ever shot her husband whi le he was washing the dishes. ~ Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright unti l you hear them speak.

~ I got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. ~ Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

~ Woman’s ambition: to be weighed and found wanting.

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Letters etc

From Kathryn Butters, Dean Brook Road, Netherthong 26 October.

Thank you very much for the gorgeous flowers given to me from Trinity Church. Thank you Sylvia, and

special thanks to all at Trinity for prayers and support

whilst Robert is undergoing his chemotherapy. We both really appreciate it .

From Barbara Watterson, Stoney Lane, 15 November Dear Friends, Many thanks for the beautiful roses

and the good wishes which Sylvia brought for me.

My return home from hospital was such a happy one.

Subordinate Clauses.

Peace on

Earth, good-

will towards men

(and then shoot them

)

Civic Society New Book Honley Civic Society’s latest

book takes its title from the area known as Honley Bridge and

Newtown. It includes details of the build-

ing of the Council offices, the gas works and the lives of some of

the people who lived there. This 40-page booklet has 45 historical

images of the district and will be on sale at the Christmas street

market on December 7th, plus Holme Valley News and the Holmfirth Tourist Information Centre, price £4.00.

Christmas Lights Honley Bus iness Association has

been granted a total of £4,000 from

Holmfirth Parish Council and Kirklees Council to light

up Honley. So this year Christmas lights will be strung

the full length of Westgate.

Lights switch on is Friday 29 November. At 7 pm

Entertainment sta rts at 4.30pm in the Market Place

and includes a fa ncy dress disco with the theme

‘Cycling' The festive parade, led by the Honley Band,

leaves Trinity Church at 6.15. The big switch on will

be performed by Kirklees mayor Cllr Martyn Bolt, as-

sisted by our MP Jason McCa rtney (both keen cy-

clists) a nd Cha irman of Holme Valley Pa rish Council

Greg Christof i. Santa Claus will arrive in a rickshaw.

Christmas Crafts, Stirley Community Farm,

Wednesday 11th December; 1pm – 4pm Hand craft your own unique Christmas wrea ths and deco-

rations using locally sourced greenery. Refreshments

Charge:£5 Booking Essential. Call: 01904 659570

Stirley Farm is one of the destinations of the Trinity + Civic Society Sunday Walks next year

Our February issue will have details of the walks which

took place in October and November this year, and a re-

minder about this one the 23 March next year to Stirley

Community Farm. Interesting, volunteer, organic.

St NICHOLAS- His Feast Day is 6 December

St Nicholas was the

bishop of Myra, in Asia Minor, in the fourth cen-

tury. Lots of stories are told of his kindness and

generosity.

One legend tells of his

secret gifts to three daugh-ters from a poor family. It

is said that he threw 3 purses of gold down the chimney where they landed in

the girls’ stockings which they had hung up to dry in front of the fire. This may be the origin of hanging up Christ-

mas stockings. Over time the name of St Nicholas changed to Sinterklass and then to our present day

Santa Claus and associated Ho Ho Ho’s and reindeer.

The right to bear arms is as ridiculous as the right to arm bears

Trinity is hosting the Circuit Leisure Group on Tuesday December 10th. These monthly meets in-volve a 2 hour guided walk starting at 11am in beautiful

countryside, followed by the picnic lunch you brought with you (tea provided) and then an entertaining hour of

home-grown fun. Anyone and everyone is welcome!

mail- 27 Moorside Rd, Honley, HD9 6HR

email- [email protected]

PLEASE PUT YOUR ADDRESS AND

THE DATE on your letters if they are for publication.

Letters to the EditorLetters to the EditorLetters to the EditorLetters to the Editor

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Readers’ Stories

Cold Turkey, by Colin Hill A Christmas to remember (or forget).

Some of you will know that I worked at the recently famous Hinkley Point nuclear

power station. It was Christmas

1966 when our shift drew the short straw and had to work the

four Christmas nights - !0.30pm to 8.30am. This was on “A”

Station and we were, at that

t ime the largest nuclear power

station in the world.

Most routine maintenance and refuelling ceased for

Christmas. We were, on the last of our night shifts, steadily generating about 500MW from our 6 main

turbines. Our reactor plant engineer had only a few

routine jobs to carry out and, as he enjoyed cooking, he decided to make us a Christmas dinner in the

mess-room oven. Wonderful. At 3am a full Christ-

mas dinner arrived, complete with all the trimmings, for the three control room staff (of which I was one)

watching over the steadily operating plant.

Just then, and without warning, both Reactors 1 & 2 shut down and our output dropped to zero. Oh dear!

The rest of the shift was very busy and at 8.30 in the

morning our splendid meals still sat there, un-

touched, cold and with congealed fat. Not nice; a

Christmas to remember

for all the wrong reasons. We went home tired and

hungry.

Let us not forget all our Christmas workers: Doctors, nurses, police, utility workers, railway men (who

often carry out major track work whilst the trains are

not running), church workers, radio, TV and tele-

phone staff..... and probably many I have forgotten.

Name three phrases that sum up Christmas

Five Islands- Two Churches- One Mission-

One Lord Wendy Peach reports:

Here is a picture of the

Methodist church on St Mary's on the Isles of

Scilly where my friend and I worshiped on September

29th. We had met the min-ister four years ago when

we were last there. He has responsibility for worship

in the Methodist churches on the five main islands.

It would be good to hear of a few more churches that people have visited on their holidays. Incidentally, October and November are the months when most S icillonians (as they are known) take the ir holidays!

Your Gift of Life – at Christmas

Creaking on the staircase -

Noise outside my door - A rustle in the chimney –

It’s ‘Santa-time’ once more.

St. Nicholas is on his way With all his Christ-life gifts

To fire every child-light with

The loving Christ-mass kiss.

In some he’ll place the gift of gold - In others frankincense -

While others will be given myrrh -

All signs of God’s presence.

For in each earthly crib or bed

In squalor, comfort, splendour - The Christ child has been placed again

To call the world to wonder.

So come you kings, come one, come

all, Come shepherds to the cradle stall

And hear the angels sing anew

The heavenly song they sing for

you.

Your God is in your gift of life -

The life He gives with love - So take the gift and use it,

Use it wisely, don’t abuse it.

Let the Christ-life fire your spirit

That God in you

may LIVE

By Sam Doubtfire

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Missions

Overseas Missions Group

The Food Quiz is being sold for £1 per copy and they

will be available throughout December. Closing date

for returning them is in the first week of January 2014

The Honley Male Voice Choir concert on 29th October raised approximately £400 for OMG as the choir kindly

agreed to perform for less than their

normal charge

The Forfeits were disclosed on the 3rd

November and show a total of £102.85 in

’forfeits’. What an honest lot we must be

OMG team: Glenys Pallister, Pam Redfearn, Margaret

Sheppard, Pat Waite and Jane Armitage.

Peace on Earth; Goodwill to Men; Batteries not includ ed.

BANGLADESH:

Stories for Change 93 November -

Your monthly update from Commitment for Life, a mission

supported by Trinity Church.

Uncertain and anxious times

It’s been a year of general strikes

and shutdowns in Bangladesh as the country moves towards general elec-

tions - due in January 2014.

For Christian Aid staff in Dhaka, po-

litical instability and uncertainty is making field visits and organizing

events difficult. Country Manager, Sajjad Mohammad Sajid explains,

‘”The overall security is not good. This is the stark reality in which

Christian Aid staff and our partners are working and in which many

Bangladeshi are now living. With

parliamentary elections due in Janu-ary 2014, this situation is expected

to continue.”

These are anxious times. The cur-

rent government's term ended on 5 October, and the Bangladeshi con-

stitution requires fresh elections to be held within the following 90

days. Bangladesh is about to enter a

tense period of political negotiation

The Yule Log

Yule is an Old Norse word - jol - for

the pagan winter solstice festival around the shortest day. Nowadays

you get your Yule log at a supermar-

ket- It 's a chocolate covered sponge roll in the shape of a log. But for

centuries past there was an ancient

ritual of bringing a real log into the house on Christmas Eve. The blaze

and crackle of the Yule log typified

warmth, light and good cheer.

SNAPDRAGON

Another lost custom is the playing

by adults and children of the Christ-mas game of Snapdragon. This game

was at the heart of every Victorian

Christmas. It was played on Christ-mas Eve with the room in darkness

and involved pouring brandy into a

shallow dish which contained rai-sins. The brandy was then set on

fire. The players tried to snatch a raisin without burning their fingers.

The one who grabbed most raisins

was the winner.

Not only have customs been lost, but

of those we retain we often don't

understand what they mean.

Mistletoe

Like the Yule log this is another

throwback to our

pre-Christian pagan past. It is sup-posed to have magical properties and

is said to ward off witches and gob-

lins. It is also associated with fertil-ity, probably because it is green

when most other living things look dead. The fertility belief lives on in

the Christmas kissing tradition (kissing = courtship = marriage =

birth and renewal). Mistletoe is still

banned from churches— except for York Minster. In York, mistletoe

was carried in procession on Christ-

mas Eve and placed on the high altar of the Minster; a symbol of the vic-

tory of Christianity over paganism.

The Dean of York Mister today still t ies up bunches of mistletoe at noon

every Christmas Eve.

mince pies

Finally, did you know that before

the Reformation they were oval like

a cradle with a pastry image of the holy child in swaddling clothes. And

they were savoury, of beef, goose,

chicken or even eggs. They were suppressed by the Protestant reform-

ers and re-emerged as small, round

and sweet. By

the way, it

is unlucky to refuse a

mince pie!

Christmas Customs lost and forgotten- by Mel Jones

The trouble with Christmas is that a lot of the customs which for centuries were part of the Christmas sea-son have been lost or forgotten. They have been replaced by modern customs such as watching TV specials,

computer games, and accessing the apps on your new mobile phone.

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Wordsearch / Christmas Quiz

Wordsearch for Advent This month the Christmas story will be read and

reread by hundreds of millions of people around the world: how the shepherds were in the fields of

Bethlehem when the angels appeared with the astonishing news that the Messiah had been born!

How many words from the Christmas story can you find below?

There’s a word in the list below which is not in the square. There’s sti ll no prize for spotting it this month; just the satisfaction of discovery. However, if you want to check, the ‘rogue word’ is hidden else-where in this Newsletter. You’ll have to search for it!

A little Christmas Quiz (Answers on page 10) True or False?

1. The town of Bethlehem is just over 20 miles from

Jerusalem.

2. The composer Gustav Holst, who wrote the music for the carol ‘In the Bleak Mid-Winter’, lived in Thaxted,

Essex.

3. A pheasant is one of numerous birds mentioned in

the song: ‘The 12 days of Christmas’.

4. The first light bulbs used to decorate a Christmas

tree were switched on at London’s Great Exhibition in

1851.

5. After leaving Bethlehem, Mary and Joseph with the

baby Jesus went into Egypt.

6. The Christmas stamps produced by Royal Mail in

2009 depicted the Nativity on stained glass windows.

7. The second line of the carol ‘Once in Royal David’s

city’ is: ‘Stood a little cattle-shed’.

8. ‘Vrolyk Kerstfeest’ means ‘Happy Christmas’ in the

Slovakian language.

9. ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’ sung by Slade was top

of the UK singles chart in 1983.

10. Bethlehem in Israel stands 2,550 feet above sea

level.

11. Mistletoe is nutritious to many animals, but

poisonous to people.

12. In December 2001, the world’s longest Christmas

cracker was measured at 63 metres.

13. The carol ‘Silent Night’ was originally written in

Germany.

14. Poinsettia plants were first discovered in Mexico by

Joel Poinsett in the mid 1800s.

15. There is a vil lage in Wales called Bethlehem.

16. The song ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’

featured in the film ‘Meet me in St. Louis’ (1940).

17. The story for the film ‘The Snowman’ was written

by Roald Dahl.

18. ‘A Christmas Carol’ was written by Charles

Dickens in 1843.

19. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope starred together in the

film ‘White Christmas’ (1954).

20. Christmas Activities were banned in 1647 following

an Act of Parliament introduced by Oliver Cromwell.

There’s a word in the list below which is not in the square. There’s sti ll no prize for spotting it this month; just the satisfaction of discovery. However, if you want to check, the ‘rogue word’ is hidden else-where in this Newsletter. You’ll have to search for it!

BABY

TREE

JESUS

NATIVITY

SHEPHERDS

LAMBS

ANGELS

DONKEY

SHEEP

INN

MANGER

MARY

VIRGIN

JOSEPH

STAR

HALLELUJAH

HEAVENLYHOST

TURKEY

HOLLY

PRESENTS

MISTLETOE

STUFFING

PUDDING

CAROLS

Which side of the turkey has the most feathers?

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-

feet ice cold in the snow, stood

puzzling and puzzling, how could it

be so? It came without ribbons. It

came without tags. It came with-

out packages, boxes or bags. And

he puzzled and puzzled 'ti ll his

puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of some-

thing he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he

thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christ-

mas, perhaps, means a li ttle bit more." (Dr Seuss)

Socialising on Westgate Café Plus on Westgate is opening its doors every other Saturday

night for teenagers to meet and socialize. The "After Hours Café"

opens 8pm till 10pm and free hot chocolate is served.

LAMBS

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Notices

Regular room bookings at Trinity

Playgroup- Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri (morning)

Contact- Carolynn Roberts 661024

Mums & Toddlers- Tuesday morning

Contact- Deborah Fawcett 663966

Drama Groups- Friday evening, Saturday morning

Contact- Natalie Haigh 340859 / 07840800601

Brownies- Wednesday evening

Contact- Ann Dove 665669

Zumba-(seated Zumba—Friend-to-Friend group)

2nd & 4th Thursdays Contact tel 687773, also

Tai Chi- Weds 1-3pm fortnightly 6 & 20 Nov, 4 Dec

Honley Over 55’s Activity Group

Winter sessions in the Community Centre Stoney Lane

Wednesdays from 1.30 to 4.30. All Ov er 55’s welcome

The charge is £1 and f or that y ou get three hours of various activ ities, tea and biscuits- and ev en a free raffle ticket. What a bargain!! We’v e got lots of activities including carpet bowls,

curling, table tennis and pool. Many members play a v ery competitiv e game of Scrabble or Rummikub and dominoes is

also a firm f avourite. . Pat Barr (Secretary ) 0793 131 4231

Regular events at Honley Library Tel 222340

Story time for the under 5s- 2.30 pm Friday afternoons in

term time. Stories and craft activity.

BITS – introduction to using a computer Getting started with IT – Wednesday sessions stating at 10

am ev ery 2 weeks f rom Sept 11th . Please book in adv ance.

Honley library book group– Every 2nd Wednesday of the

month at 10.30. Pick up the choice of the month in adv ance.

Family history- help and advice with an expert on the sec-ond Wednesday of the month, 2 – 4pm Plus f ree use of

www.ancestry .co.uk to card holders. Very popular!

Knit and natter. Every Monday 5.30– 7.00 Bring y our knit-

ting / sewing/ craft work and have a chat and f ree refreshments.

Friends of Honley Library’ group. For information please contact Suzanne Dufton. Tel 661214

Christmas Tree Festival 10th Anniversary.

Weekend of 7th and 8th December- Saturday 10-4, Sunday 2-4

With visits on the Saturday by Father Christmas, Yorkshire Traction Honley Band (1030 am & 2 pm)

and Honley Ladies’ Choir (12.00) Organ recital by Ken Draper on the Sunday.

Food and drink available both days.

Join us and enjoy the fun and festive forestry

Trees can be prepared on Friday 6th December during the day, and should be removed on the

Sunday between 4 & 6 pm (later by arrangement)

Honley Scout Group

6th Holme Valley (Trinity Church Honley) Scout Group

invites you to their

Carol Service Friday 13th December at 7 pm in Trinity Church.

Refreshments after the service in the Scout

Headquarters over the road. Children, Parents, Family, Friends, all welcome.

Booking a room at Trinity Church

The Upper Room 9.5m x 7m. Capacity 60 seated.

Kitchen facilities. Access by stairs, not suitable for wheelchairs. £33 per 4 hr session

The Arthurs’ Room Ground floor room size 9m x

5.5m. Capacity 35 seated. Facilities for refreshments.

Access for disabled. £33-£38.50 per 4 hr session.

If you know of an organisation looking for a space please

recommend Trinity Church. Good for birthday parties, meetings, rehearsal rooms etc.

Contact Karen Stannard 01484 664648

For weddings, baptisms, funerals, etc contact Rev Tim Moore 01484

Great for parties!

Sav e used postage stamps to

raise f unds by their sale for Kirk-wood Hospice. Cut them out

carefully with a wide margin and put in the box in the vesti-bule. Thanks Colin Hill

Thursdays 6, 13 & 20

December & Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve from 10 till 3 For Christmas food and drink, gifts & fashion go to The Toll House, 32-34 Huddersfield Road, Holmfirth.

This is your cooperative! Every time you choose to

buy food and drink, gifts and fashion from Fair Trader, you are supporting small producers and cooperatives

around the world, also local craftspeople.

Late night Christmas shopping till 8pm

‘Mixed Harmony’ returns to St Mary’s Wednesday 11th December at 7.15 pm Tickets are £5 in advance from Alison Dean (tel

323832) .or £6 on the door and include refresh-ments . Proceeds to be split between the Mothers’ Union and St Mary’s Church.

Christmas with Cantorelli & James Sykes Sunday 8th December at 3.30 pm in St Mary’s

Church - Carols and Readings for Christmas. Free Admission - collection for local cancer charities.

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Page 10: Trinity Church Honley newsletter December 2013

February Newsletter

Will be available on Sunday Jan 25th (DV)

Contributions to Vera Stanley or John

Murray by Sunday Jan 11th

Photocopier

Alan Fawcett

Assemblers

Karen Stannard Margaret Sheppard

Taylor’s Foodstore Fairtrade Christmas Crossword This puzzle is sponsored by Taylor’s Foodstore Meltham

Road, Honley, a local store which supports local charities. The winner will get a voucher to take to Tony Washington at the store

and get a big block of Cadbury’s Fairtrade Milk Chocolate!

Across 1 Provisional meeting place of God and the Jews (Exodus 25:9) (10)

7 David’s third son, killed when his head got caught in a tree during a battle with his father (2 Samuel 18:14–15) (7)

8 They ruled much of the west coast of South America in the 15th and early 16th centuries (5)

10 Small deer of European and Asian extraction (4) 11 Seized control of (Numbers 21:25) (8)

13 Terror (Luke 24:5) (6) 15 First World War heroine shot by the Germans in

Brussels, Nurse Edith — (6) 17 Stormy (8)

18 A bitter variety of this, together with lamb and unleavened bread, was the Passover menu for anyone ‘unclean’ (Numbers 9:11) (4)

21 Arson (anag.) detected below (5) 22 How John Newton described God’s grace in his well-known hymn (7)

23 Habitation (Isaiah 27:10) (10) Down

1 ‘ — and see that the Lord is good’ (Psalm 34:8) (5) 2 ‘The wicked man flees though no one pursues, but the righteous

are as — as a lion’ (Proverbs 28:1) (4) 3 One of the exiles, a descendant of Parosh, who married a foreign

woman (Ezra 10:25) (6) 4 He escaped from Nob when Saul killed the rest of his family and

joined David (1 Samuel 22:19–20) (8) 5 City and lake in Central Switzerland (7)

6 ‘Offer your bodies as living — , holy and pleasing to God’ (Romans 12:1) (10)

9 Pouches carried by horses (Genesis 49:14) (10) 12 One who accepts government by God (8)

14 Aromatic substance commonly used in Jewish ritual (Ex 30:1) (7) 16 He asked Jesus, ‘What is truth?’ (John 18:38) (6)

19 Are (Romans 13:1) (5) 20 ‘You are to give him the name Jesus, because he will — his

people from their sins’ (Matthew 1:21) (4)

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November solution

ACROSS: 1, Hopefulness. 9, Hitting. 10, du Pre. 11, Ere. 13, Ozni. 16. Wait. 17, Climbs. 18, Obey. 20, Joni. 21, Cuckoo. 22, In it. 23, Yaws. 25, Elm. 28, Alarm. 29, Epistle. 30, Whitsuntide. DOWN: 2, Often. 3, Exit. 4, Urge. 5, Node. 6, Soprano. 7, Theological. 8, Westmin-ster. 12, Rebuke. 14, Icy. 15, Ritual. 19, Epitaph. 20, Joy. 24, Acted. 25, Emit. 26, Menu. 27, Gift.

Entries from David Murray, Helen Howell, Alison Booth, Sylvia Hallas, Gwyneth Loane, Glenys Pallister

The winner is Gwyneth Loane. Snd your entries for Dec/Jan to the editor by January 13th. (Plenty of time to do this after the Christmas pud and a brandy)

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Name

Address or tel no

Our minister

is the Rev Tim Moore. As well

as Trinity he has charge of four

other churches: Scholes, Shepley, Gatehead and Brockholes.

SOME TRINITY CHURCH CONTACTS From outside Hudders field prefix UK area code 01484 For a full list of all the officers and contacts see the website- www.trinitychurchinhonley.org.uk

Secretary Jane Armitage, 26 Lower Hall, Healey House, Netherton, HD4 7DG 665990

Treasurer Hilary Turner, Rydal Mount, Mearhouse, New Mill, HD9 7EX 684704

Pastoral Team Sylvia Hallas / Pam Redfearn / Joyce Draper 662929

Room Bookings / Activities Cttee Karen Stannard, 6a Marsh Gardens, Honley HD9 6AF 664648

Email addresses Secretary: [email protected] Newsletter: [email protected]

Newsletter (Editor) John Murray, 27 Moorside Road, Honley HD9 6HR. (Coordinator) Vera Stanley, 46 Stoney Lane, Honley HD9 6DY.

662635 663670

Minister: Rev Tim Moore, 6a Marsh Lane, Shepley, Huddersfield HD8 8AE. Tel 608913 / 07837 128611

Christmas Quiz

Answers

1. False: only 5

2. True.

3. False.

4. False: they

were not

commercially

available until

after 1879.

5. True.

6. True.

7. False: Should

be ‘lowly’

8. False: Dutch.

9. False: 1973.

10. True.

11. True

12. True: It was

also 4m in

diameter.

13. False: written

in Austria.

14. True.

15. True: It’s in

Carmarthen..

16. True.

17. False: it was

Raymond Briggs.

18. True.

19. False: Crosby

starred with

Danny Kaye.

20. True:

Christmas was an

illegal f estival for

13 years!