trinity church honley newsletter february 2015

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TRINITY CHURCH

HONLEY

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Trinity Church (Methodist-URC) Moorbottom Honley

For God so loved the

world that He gave His only begotten Son,

that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting

life

See Phakamisa report on page 4

Newsletter

February 2015

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Trinity Church February 2015 SERVICES

Date Time Minister/Organiser Vestibule Stewards

Church Stewards Flowers Coffee team

Karen Stannard +

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1030 Richard Hoyle* Martin Hirst

Caroline Page Margaret Armitage Penny Winterbottom

Joyce Draper

Rachel Boothroyd Joyce Draper

1800 Taize Service led by

Rev Richard Thompson

8 1030 Rev Tim Moore (Incl. communion)

Eileen & Peter Marshall

Hilary Turner Carolynne Roberts

Joan Vevers Jean Wood

Maureen Burley

15 1030 Janice Leam** David Redfearn Ronnie Moncur

Margaret Sheppard Pam Redfearn

Helen Amster Barbara Leach Pam Redfearn

22 1030 Adrian Burton*** Keith Knutton

Karen Stannard Glenys Pallister

Pat Waite Sylvia Hallas

Joyce Draper Audrey Hawkswell

Day Date Events in February

Tuesday 10

Women’s Fellowship Meeting in Arthurs’ Room at 2.30pm. Speaker- Susan Whitwain ‘Colne Valley Museum’. Chairlady: Joyce Draper.

Holmfirth Methodist Leisure Group. Meet Shepley Methodist’s at 11 am for a walk, picnic lunch and talk

Thursday 19 Lent Lunch No 1 in St Mary's Parish Rooms, Church Street. 12.00 to 1.30. (new times)

Tuesday 24 Women’s Fellowship Meeting in Arthurs’ Room at 2.30pm. Speaker– John Mumford ‘Estate Planning and Financial Matters, etc.’ Chairlady– Margaret Armitage.

Saturday 28 Fairtrade Fair at the Huddersfield Methodist Mission.

Events coming up in following months

Sunday 1st March- Taize service at 6.00 pm conducted by Rev Richard Thompson

Friday 6th March– Women’s World Day of Prayer

Junior Church- Junior and Senior classes Trinity has a Junior Church which takes place during the latter part of the service.

The ‘children's corner’ in church is always available for the younger ones and their carers. The older ones meet in the church office at the same time. Junior Church also keeps a second-hand self-service book shelf in the west transept. All books are 25p.

New Time for Lent Lunches Lent Lunches will be from 12 noon to 1 30 pm this year. The lunches start on 19th February and continue every Thursday for 7 weeks in the Parish Rooms Church Street. Easter Sunday is April 5th, so the final Lent Lunch will be on April 2nd. Sylvia Hallas asks that we support these lunches (by paying for and eating them) and the proceeds will go to the charity Honley Aid in Sickness.

Fairtrade Fortnight is 23 February - 8 March

At Huddersfield Mission, Lord Street

Saturday 28th- Fairtrade Fair

Sunday March 1st at 3pm-

Circuit Fairtrade celebration service

* Richard Hoyle was born in South Wales, and

grew up in the Persian Gulf (Doha then Dubai),

where he also worked for a while. He is married

to Nicky, his wife of some 28 years, and they are

members of Gledholt Methodist Church. He has

two grown up children, Adam and Lisa. He re-

ceived the call to preach in the late 80’s and be-

came accredited in the early 90’s. Richard’s interests include

photography, reading, walking and just appreciating the beauty

and variety of Gods creations in their many forms.

**Janice Leam was born in Nottingham. She was

trained as a teacher at Bretton Hall College of

Education, has taught in schools in West York-

shire, but is now retired. She has sung in the

choir at Dalton St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Hud-

dersfield, for thirty years and loves the new Meth-

odist Hymn Book, Singing the Faith. She enjoys

historical research, both family and local history, taking photo-

graphs and walking in the country.

***Adrian Burton grew up in Derbyshire and has

lived in Huddersfield for nearly 10 years. Adrian is

married with four school age children. He works in

financial services in Leeds. Adrian is currently ‘on

trial’ as a local preacher - but is hoping to complete

his studies this year… He also enjoys reading and

pottering about in the garden.

PLAYGROUP MAKES GOOD! The Trinity Church Playgroup, run by Carolynne Roberts,

was inspected by OFSTED on December 4th. It was graded ‘good’ in all categories.

Ofsted inspector Nicola Dickinson said: “Children thrive and are inspired to learn in this wel-coming, child-focussed environment. Practitioners have a thorough knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage and a very good understanding of how children learn. Children make independent choices and initiate their own learning as they access a wide range of resources in the well-

planned inside and outdoor areas.” Well done Carolynne!

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Contact Tim Moore on mobile: 07837 128611 or email: [email protected]

Minister’s Message

‘More of the same doesn’t make it any better….’ By Rev Tim Moore

I hope January has been a good

month for you and that it hasn’t

brought the blues as it some-

times does.

As we begin a new year, the Lec-

tionary brings us a new book to

study, so this year we will focus

(mostly) on the Gospel of Mark.

Already you will have begun to see

how Mark quickly moves from one

situation to another and all the ac-

tion is fast-paced as he takes us

swiftly from adventure to adven-

ture.

Mark’s gospel splits into two (it

divides at chapter 8 v22 roughly)

but the two halves still have the

same message, and that is about

following a ‘Way’ and the ques-

tion Mark always asks us is, ‘are

we willing to imitate Christ and ac-

cept the cost?’

So what are our costs of follow-

ing Jesus? I don’t intend to ex-

plore that but it’s a good question.

But maybe it’s the wrong question

for now. Perhaps a better one is

what are the benefits of imitating

Jesus?

Recent events in Paris have

caused us alarm and shock.

For some they have reminded us

that Britain has been subject to

violent attacks for many years. It

seems that we struggle to grasp

that all the violence the world has

seen hasn’t brought an end to vio-

lence. Why do we think that a little

more violence will conquer vio-

lence or a little more hate will rid

us of hate or more money will cure

us of greed? Sometimes we just

need to stop and think a bit to reas-

sure ourselves there is a different

way.

As those who try to imitate Jesus

what is we hope to see? Perhaps

it’s the Jesus who calms the demo-

niac and sits with a former lunatic

having a sensible conversation

with him; or the Jesus who sits

with the uneducated (but not unin-

telligent) and gives them a mes-

sage of hope; or Jesus who offers

them the chance to have enough

food and to live a longer life.

Perhaps that’s where the cost

lies – discussing with people who

can’t see that doing the same thing

over and over again will produce

the same results of misery.

Whatever we think now, maybe

we will hold a different view by

the time we have gone through

Mark’s gospel and be well on

our way along a different path

and following ‘The Way’.

FROM CUP TO CAP–Sunday Coffee Donations

The charity we are contributing to from Jan – June 2015 is Christians against Poverty (CAP). It is a national charity with headquarters at Ju-bilee Mills, Bradford but works in various locali-ties, including our own. CAP works through help and advice in debt, education in debt con-

trol and money management.

More details are displayed on our notice board. Please read about this worthwhile charity, its places of support, the volun-

teers and how you could help. https://capuk.org/

OMGroup Jane Armitage, Glenys Pallister, Pam

Redfearn, Margaret Sheppard and Pat Waite.

Who are Christians Against Poverty?

CAP started in 1996 when John Kirkby gave up his successful career in consumer finance to help people out of misery and poverty associated with unmanageable debt. We have grown into a national charity with a vision to have a CAP Debt centre, opened in partnership with a local church, in every town and

city across the UK.

We are passionate about releasing people in our nation from a life sentence of debt, poverty and their causes. Working with

the Church we bring good news, hope and freedom.


Overseas Missions

PHAKAMISA* From Brian Brown, Chairman of Phakamisa UK Trust

Dear Friends,

I offer insights from my current visit to South Africa, and Phakamisa in particular. What a blessing it was to share in the devotions of caregivers and teachers before classes

commenced.

Devotions are an integral part of the Phakamisa day, not an appendage. Participants share their stories. One told of a fostered thirteen year old, found with a loaded gun in her home. How was it obtained? What were the intentions? Another told of three deaths in as many weeks in her extended family. How could she bear the funeral costs when she existed on the breadline? I'm not suggesting 'answers' were offered. But as we ended with prayer, song and dance, I gave thanks that Phakamisa's listening ear meant

everything by way of encouragement and affirmation.

I'll return to the UK more convinced than ever that the

spiritual component of Phakamisa is crucial. The sociology department of a local University undertook an appraisal of Phakamisa's projects. The report is glowing, without exception! What the researchers found as an unexpected plus I found especially gratifying - the caring for and support of the caregivers. Phakamisa is seen as both an enabling

tool and a spiritual home.

Those I met at Phakamisa including Thokozani Poswa , Nei! Purdon, chair of the Phakamisa board in South Africa, and ex-director Glenda Howieson, all send their greetings, and heartfelt thanks to our UK support family. We plan for Thokozani to visit the UK at the end of April 2015 to share firsthand knowledge

of the work of Phakamisa.

This is sent in my new capacity of chair of the UK trust. £92,500 was raised and sent to South Africa for the recent year - bless you for being part of this remarkable achievement! Together we are making a

difference.

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*Phakamisa is an outreach of Pinetown Methodist Church, Durban, South Africa. It is one of the

overseas missions supported by Trinity Church.

“Phakamisa exists to serve, uplift and empower impoverished communities through the provision of educational training, resourcing and support. Our program involves 290 Educare Centres teaching 10,000 children under 6 years old and 1500 people caring for 5000

orphans”

BANGLADESH - Battling against the odds

Aklima holds on to her emergency relief card from Christian Aid part-ner, Shushilan, which entitled her to a relief food parcel following dra-matic flooding in her village of Tala Upzila. This package with its rice, potatoes, dal, cooking oil and water purification tablets helped keep her

alive during a very difficult time.

As the water rose, Aklima, with her son Sumum aged 10, fled their home for safer ground on a raised local embankment. Here she made a temporary shelter

from plastic sheeting and debris.

Now she is back ‘home’. Although the path into the village is passable it is very treacherous with water lapping and algae forming. Her house is the first one you see as you enter the village. The walls are falling down and she says it really is unsafe to live there now. However, because it is all she has, she is trying to repair it but the foundations are not strong. Almost every house you can see around has been damaged

by the flooding.

Aklima holds up her hands to just below her armpits to explain how high the waters came. The floods have had a devastating effect on the people, with appalling conditions in the village. Work, sowing and harvesting have stopped, which means there is no

money or food coming in.

She points to a few cows on a raised concrete circle. She is worried about how thin they are but there is nowhere for them to graze at present. Trees are dy-ing too from the saline water which still covers much of their grazing land. This area has flooded before and some of the land has been under saline water for

two years.

Each year floods come to this area of South West Bangladesh and those affected often need emer-gency aid. Shushilan, who have recently started working in this area, will work with the village to set up a forum, early warning system, provide saline re-sistant seeds and emergency disaster training. They know that the Forum will be better prepared for the floods and may not need emergency aid again. In-deed other groups, with whom they have worked longer, are testament to that fact that they recover far

quicker than those not organised into forums.

It is amazing what can be done, with personal giving through Commitment for Life. You are helping Shushilan make a real difference to the lives of peo-

ple like Aklima and her son

Commitment for Life– A URC mission supported

by Trinity Church.

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Groups, various

The Toddlers Group- report and picture by Deborah Fawcett The Toddlers Group has been going over 43 years and has been run by many different people. Jackie Fawcett took it over in 2006, making a stronger connection between it and Church.

Originally the group was called ‘Mothers and Toddlers’ but we dropped the ‘Mothers’ from our name as we have dads, grandparents and nannies bringing the children as well as mums. We meet upstairs every Tuesday morning during term time from 9 until about 11.15. Our children age from 0-3; when they move on to either Play-group downstairs or to the Early Years nursery at the Infants School.

Jackie is now in charge of toast making, teas and coffees and tidying up! Alan Fawcett comes and does the washing up and I am in charge of the singing and responsible for providing homemade cakes for the adults! We are lower on numbers at the moment as quite a few of our children left in September for school but we are slowly building up again and now average about 14. Our party (pictured) was on the 16th of December. Each child got a present, we sang Christmas songs and the children enjoyed party food whilst the adults had mince pies and Christmas cake.

Christmas Tree Festival, December 6th and 7th Ann Hirst reports on behalf of the Activities Commit-tee: Our Christmas Tree Festival was again a great success and we thank everyone for their support, including

those people not connected with our church. Also a thank-you to Ken Draper for playing the carols on the Sunday and to St Mary’s Hand Chimers for joining us. Pictured are some of the Trinity people who worked so hard on this project. Please book 5th and 6th December 2015 in your diary and we can do it all again! The Activities Committee is arranging a Spring Social on 22nd March. More details will be available later.

Photo-Deborah Fawcett

6th Holme Valley (Trinity Church) Scout Troop. Report from the year 2014 by Joan Vevers

All sections have gone camping and hiking over the summer which includes a lot of activities such as kayaking, raft building archery, caving,, assault courses and of course cooking over a fire. The Scouts took part in the WW1 Remembrance weekend at Sands, Holmfirth. The Saturday was a wash out but Sunday was great with the young people taking part in the parade and leaders running a tea stall when they made about £340. A good summer- and they have new young people joining them. They could still

do with more leaders though.


Cantorelli & Cakes, Trinity Singers & Nativity Review by Glenys Pallister

We have certainly been blessed with the vocal groups who have performed at Trinity in the couple of months

leading up to, and including, the Christmas period.

On Sunday Afternoon, 14th December, we were treated to a superb Christmas concert by ‘Cantorelli’

which started with tea and cakes (donated by Cantorelli).

This eight part unaccompanied vocal group then enter-tained a full church with a concert of Christmas music and readings. What a lovely blend of voices they pro-duced and all very relaxed in their delivery! This was choral singing at its highest level, with some lovely contrasts in dynamics and styles of music. Their love of performing together was very evident and we look forward to welcoming this very talented group again to Trinity Church. Donations from the concert realised

£225 which goes to Joseph Salmon Trust.

Our own Trinity Singers performed on the same Sun-day in the morning during the Nativity Celebration. They were delightful in the singing of ‘Now Let All the World Be Silent’ and ‘Carol of the Star’, both of which

linked in with the Nativity presentation.

A very successful morning’s worship produced by Ma-

rina Woodhead and Di Harris.

Farm Africa Di Harris is a supporter

I have long been a supporter of Oxfam and over the years many people have received gifts of goats or school supplies at Christmas. It must be said that not all recipients were happy with the ‘goat’. One col-league was still harking on about it in the New Year, the team having received a goat collectively rather

than the individuals getting a card each!

A couple of years ago I was looking for a similar way of giving, hoping to find it in the form of a Christmas card but also with a charity that has similar values. An internet search led me to Farm Africa. I add some in-

formation for you regarding the charity and the e-cards

Farm Africa believes that Africa has the power to feed itself and that its smallholders hold the key to lasting rural prosperity. They find modern an-swers to the ancient problems of farming Af-rica well, pioneering techniques that boost harvests, reduce poverty, sustain natural resources and help to end Africa’s need for aid. They work on the ground in Ethio-

pia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

e-cards are not just for Christmas and getting them is dead easy –you buy ‘credits’ from one card for £1 on an ascending scale to 50 cards for £20. Take a look

at www.farmafrica.org

FREEPOST RTCT-SUKU-RHRU, Farm Africa, 9th floor, Bastion House, 140 London Wall, London EC2Y

5DN. Or phone on 020 7430 0440

In Kitali, Kenya, Lillian's cab-

bages now grow well and sell

for a good price

We and thee Thora Hird told this story on the BBC1 programme ‘Praise Be’ about a little girl saying her prayers: “God bless Mummy, God bless Daddy, God bless my brother Tommy, God bless Granny-and God look after yourself, ‘cos if anything happens to you, we’ve had it!”

What do you call a chicken wearing a shell-suit?*

(and this has nothing to do with the letter on page 8)

The Trinity-Civic Society Boxing Day walk, organised by Bert Neary, saw eight people with compasses follow-ing bearings in a north-westerly direc-tion to get to Honley Wood. (There wasn’t a star to follow- it had done its bit

the day before)

To keep spirits up Bert handed out riddles from Christ-mas crackers, like the one in the title, which you had to guess to win a wee gift. Many thanks to Bert for a most enjoyable afternoon on which no-one got lost and

which ended just before it got dark.

*see page 9 for the answer

Will you be my (Saint) Valentine?

Pope Gelasius 1 started it all in the year 496 AD.

The first recorded association of Valentine Day with romantic love is from Geoffrey Chaucer who in 1382 wrote ‘For this was Saint Valentine’s Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate.’

400 years later in 1784 Valentine’s Day appeared in a collection of English nursery rhymes: ‘The rose is red, the violet’s blue; The honey’s sweet, and so are you. Thou are my love and I am thine; I drew thee to my Valentine’. (Be careful on the 14th)

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Outings

Snow, Sun and Fun

January Leisure Group

Report by Di Harris, pic-

ture by Edmund Spavin

The day dawned well after

the previous day’s torren-

tial rain. We walked from

Scholes Chapel down

through the woods (the

path wasn’t too muddy)

and up Butterley Lane. We climbed up the hill over the fields and along and down into New Mill. There was a chilly

wind but we were wrapped up. We then climbed up to Greenhill Bank Road and across the playing fields back to

Scholes. It then began to sleet a bit and by the time we were back at the Chapel it was snowing. We were greeted by

the delicious smell of lunch. Warm and well fed we were then entertained with a piano duet and a very amusing play

with four parts (worthy of Leslie Chadwick). We then had a newspaper quiz which the Honley team won yeah! The

sun had come out and we had enjoyed a good day. Thanks be to God. The next outing is from Shepley on 10th Feb.

Holiday Holydays– in Blackpool

The editor was once (once was enough) a radio mechanic in the RAF but, even so, he’s now a member

of the National Service RAF Association:

“Our annual January event was a ‘Mock Burns’ weekend away in a Blackpool hotel. We had a pipe band and the ‘addressing of the Haggis’ on the Saturday evening (couldn’t understand a word of it, but it didn’t struggle and tasted alright) and then on the Sunday a church service; for all ranks and all denominations. Attendance was not obligatory but the padre made sure everyone went. We sang hymns to reflect the occasion, like this one, sung to the tune of

the Dambusters’ March (try it!)

God is our strength and refuge,

Our present help in trouble, And we therefore will not fear

Though the earth should change! Though mountains shake and tremble,

Though swirling floods are ranging, God the Lord of hosts is with us evermore.

Which was very appropriate as Blackpool had its strongest gales for years which even managed to

stop the trams to Fleetwood running.” JM

Holiday Holydays– in Somerset

Whilst in Somerset for Christmas we visited St An-drews in Holcombe, now cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust. It lies a mile from today’s village, the original mediaeval village having been buried at

the time of the plague.

Holcombe was the site of several mines in the Somer-set coalmines, My husband Steve’s great grandfather was a coalminer who was married in St Andrew’s and

Steve has a copy of the marriage certificate.

We were struck by the beauty of the setting of the church as we drove down a farm track into the valley where the church lies. It was locked, but we peered through a small window to get a sense of the interior. A search on the internet led me to a photo of the interior of the church –a little gem with boxed pews and a Ja-cobean pulpit- much easier to see than peering pre-

cariously through a window! Di Harris

New ministers beware!

A very earnest member of the local church was

praising the spiritual gifts of the new minister, adding, “We never knew anything about sin until he came.”


Wordsearch / Letters

Letters to the EditorLetters to the EditorLetters to the EditorLetters to the Editor mail- 27 Moorside Rd, Honley, HD9 6HR

email- [email protected]

PLEASE PUT YOUR ADDRESS AND

THE DATE on your letters.

February Wordsearch

In New Testament times forty days old was an important

age for baby boys: it was when they made their first ‘public

appearance’. Mary, like all good Jewish mothers, went to the

Temple with Jesus, her first male child - to ‘present him to the

Lord’. So now we have the Festival of the Presentation of

Christ in the Temple, forty days after Christmas. At the same

time, Mary, as a new mother, was ‘purified’.

Jesus is described in the Bible as the Light of the World, and

so early Christians developed the tradition of lighting candles in

celebration of this day. The Church also fell into the custom of

blessing the year’s supply of candles for the church on this

particular day - hence the name, Candlemas.

Simeon’s great declaration of faith and recognition of who

Jesus was is found in the Nunc Dimittis, which is embedded,

and often sung, in Evening Prayer in the Anglican church.

FORTY DAYS BABY BOY PUBLIC APPEARANCE MARY JEWISH MOTHERS

TEMPLE JESUS PURIFIED PRESENT LORD FESTIVAL PRESENTATION CANDLES LIGHT

WORLD CANDLEMAS SIMEON NUNC DIMITTIS OFFICE EVENING PRAYER WEST

There’s a word in the list below which is not in the square but hidden elsewhere in the newsletter.

From Glenys Pallister, Long Lane, 1st December

Dear Mr. Editor,

Just to let you know that I picked up and read the

Circuit Magazine 'In Touch ' (Number 11) so your

assumption in the December Newsletter that it ‘lies

out there on the vestibule table untouched' isn't 100%

correct.

A very good spotlight on Tim Moore and a lovely

article by Jane Armitage made this magazine well

worth reading and it deserves a lot more than a cur-

sory glance.

And whilst I'm on my soap box, let me say that we

are part of a very large Circuit and perhaps need to

embrace the bigger picture and be less insular in our

thinking regarding our participation (or not) in circuit

events! Three of us did represent Trinity in the Circuit

Advent production of ‘The Coming of The King' and

together with a handful of other Trinity folk found it a

worthwhile and moving experience. �

From Eileen Hirst, Marlbeck Close, 2 January

Can I just say thank you so much to everyone at

church for your cards and good wishes for my 90th

birthday. Words cannot express how much I appreci-

ate everything.

I have had a fantastic birthday and count myself a

very lucky person to have such a goods family and

such good friends.

Thank you all again and God bless you all. �

What's the difference between a chicken and a hen?

From Malcolm Hawkswell, Lydgett

Farm, Netherthong

Sir, I refer to our intrepid walkers

who on passing Lydgett Farm say they

observed ‘some chickens’. (Report in

November Newsletter). What they were

looking at were hens, not chickens.

(Editor comments: After a prolonged internet

search, we found: ‘A hen is a fully grown female

chicken, while a chicken- is just a chicken’.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of

the United Nations estimated that in 2002 there were

nearly sixteen billion chickens in the world. It didn’t

mention hens.

We don’t know at what age a chicken becomes a

hen, but I am sure future reporters will note this fowl

difference. And by the way, Malcolm would welcome

egg boxes for his hens’ eggs, on sale at 12/- a dozen)

Huddersfield Mission Computing and Training Facility (C.A.T.)

Open Access /Drop-in COMPUTER COURSES

Each Monday 10am to 12 noon. Until 30th March

Learn essential computer skills – keyboard, mouse, email, computer security, email attachments, internet searches. We also provide help with writing CVs and Job Searches, etc. Bring a note pad and a memory-

stick with you. We ask for a small donation.

For more info contact Roy Squires on 01484 323132,

Mobile. 07768 067251

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Notices

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. £38.50 per 4 hr session

The Arthurs’ Room

Ground floor room size 9m x

5.5m. Capacity 35 seated.

Facilities for refreshments.

Access for disabled.

£38.50-£44.00 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 608913

Great for parties!

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

Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research group– every

3rd Tuesday from Sept 16th at 8pm.

Contact Val Akroyd 662852

Stroke Association- 1st Friday of month 1 to 3 pm

Contact Victoria Robinson 715414

Honley Library Tel 222340

One-off event– Poetry ‘Readaround’

The Friends of Honley Library invite you to their next Po-

etry Readaround - 'Schooldays Remembered' with talk and

poetry from humorous local performance poet, Dorothy

Foster. Tuesday 3rd March, 7.15pm. Bring a memory, your

own poems or relax and listen. Tickets £1.50. Please ring

library to reserve your seat. Refreshments provided.

Regular events: Foodbank– Wednesdays 2—4 pm

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

term time. Stories and craft activity. Come on in!

BITS – introduction to using a computer

Getting started with IT – 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of month

stating at 10 am. Please book in advance.

Honley library book group– Every 2nd Wednesday of the

month at 10.30. Pick up the choice of the

month in advance.

Family history- help and expert advice

Every 2nd Weds of month 2 – 4pm

Knit and natter. Every Monday 2.00 to

3.30pm. With free refreshments.

‘Friends of Honley Library’ group. For information please

contact Pat Thompson, tel. Huddersfield 661541

Brockholes Methodist Church We invite you to partake

of our soup n' roll lunches every alternate Wednesday—List of dates on church notice board

Please come and bring your friends.

Shrove Tuesday Feb 17th Come and eat pancakes at

Newsome South Methodist

Church 12 noon to 1.30 pm and

again 4 to 6 pm.

£1.20 each. Savoury and sweet fillings

Drinks available - Proceeds to charity

‘My URC’

The United Reformed Church media team is intro-

ducing a new quarterly e-newsletter: My URC.

My URC gives an opportunity to share the latest news,

events, projects and programmes from your church with the wider URC. If you have stories, reflections, or news about your local URC that you would like to share with the rest of the church, email the URC’s

press and media officer [email protected]

Kirkwood Hospice sells used postage stamps to raise money for its work; there's a box for them in the vestibule. Please leave a good margin all round like this Colin Hill.

‘Hope14’‘Hope14’‘Hope14’‘Hope14’ HOPE is a catalyst bringing churches together to transform communities. Momentum is building through a year of mission, the whole church, reaching the whole nation, for a whole year. The mix of denomi-nations, churches, ages and cultures – and the num-ber of ministries involved is unprecedented.

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March Newsletter

Will be available on Sunday Feb 22nd (DV)

Contributions to Vera Stanley

or John Murray by Sunday Feb 8th

Photocopier Sylvia Hallas

Assemblers Linda Craven

Margaret Winterbottom

Taylor’s Foodstore Fairtrade February 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!

The back page

December Solution

ACROSS: 1, Hide. 3, Disgrace. 9, Sonship. 10, Oaths.

11, Tutti. 12, Ignore. 14, Foreknowledge. 17, Ashram.

19, Men or. 22, Aroma. 23, Nineveh. 24, Amethyst. 25,

Trod. DOWN: 1, His staff. 2, Do not. 4, Imprisonments.

5, Groan. 6, Altered. 7, Easy. 8, Shrink. 13, Searched. 15,

Restore. 16, Lament. 18, Reach. 20, Never. 21, Jada. Entries from Helen Howell, Alison Booth, Sylvia Hallas, .

Send your entries for this month - cut out, printed-out, or

email a list of answers, to the editor by February 15th

SOME TRINITY CHURCH CONTACTS From outside Huddersfield 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

Name

Address

or tel no

Our Minister is the Rev Tim Moore He also

looks after the Methodist chapels in Shepley, Gatehead and Brockholes. Contact details below.

CANDLES

Across

8 Interrogated (Acts 12:19) (5-8)

9 ‘Burn it in a wood fire on the — heap’ (Lev 4:12) (3)

10 Tobit, Judith, Baruch and the books of Esdras and

the Maccabees are part of it (9)

11 Science fiction (abbrev.) (3-2)

13 Clay pit (anag.) Just like the others. (7)

16 Went to (John 4:46) (7)

19 ‘Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to —

your bodies as living sacrifices’ (Romans 12:1) (5)

22 David’s plea to God concerning those referred to in 14 Down: ‘On

— — let them escape’ (Psalm 56:7) (2,7)

24 Royal Automobile Club (1,1,1)

25 How the book of Ezekiel refers to God more than 200 times

(Ezekiel 2:4) (9,4)

Down

1 Seas (Proverbs 8:24) (6)

2 One of the sons of Eli the priest, killed in battle by the Philistines (1

Samuel 4:11) (6)

3 Specialist in the study of the Muslim religion (8)

4 ‘Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but — him as if he were your

father’ (1 Timothy 5:1) (6)

5 One of Esau’s grandsons (Genesis 36:11) (4)

6 Taking a chance (colloq.) (2,4)

7 God’s instructions to the Israelites concerning

grain offerings: ‘ — salt to — your offerings’ (Leviticus 2:13) (3,3)

12 Confederation of British Industry (1,1,1)

14 ‘All day long they twist my words; they are always — to harm

me’ (Psalm 56:5) (8)

15 The crowd’s reaction to Jesus bringing back to life a widow’s son

in Nain (Luke 7:16) (3)

16 Disappear (Psalm 104:35) (6)

17 How Jeremiah was likely to die if he wasn’t rescued from the

cistern where he was imprisoned (Jeremiah 38:9) (6)

18 What the prophets do to a wall, with whitewash (Ezekiel 13:10,

RSV) (4,2)

20 Made by a plough (Job 39:10) (6)

21 Noah was relieved when the flood waters continued to — (Genesis

8:5) (6)

23 Jesus gave the Twelve the power and authority to do this to

diseases (Luke 9:1) (4)

The Book of Revelations

A young woman woke one morning and told her hus-band, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl neck-

lace for Valentine's Day. What do you think it means?" “You'll know tonight," he replied with a

smile. Sure enough, that evening the man came home with a small package and gave it to his wife. De-lighted, she opened it…… to find a book entitled ‘The

Meaning of Dreams’.

trinity church honley newsletter february 2015

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