Beacon Villages
Under Cosdon Beacon Dartmoor Devon UK
 Benefice of South Tawton with Belstone Services August 2005
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St. Andrew's Church, South Tawton
JUNIOR CHURCH 9:30 a.m. South Zeal Methodist School Room 2nd and 3rd Sunday of the month All welcome |
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. Thank you to all who worked to make the Summer Event such a success and to all who supported the day. £1,500 was raised on this most enjoyable day. Photographs are on display in St Andrew's. . August Benefice Coach outing - cancelled. . Junior Church next meets on 11 September. . Date for the diary - 15 October 7.30pm St Andrew's Church, South Tawton - The Choir of Exeter Cathedral in Concert. Tickets £6. Early booking advised - Tel: 849048. . The next ConfIrmation in the Deanery will take place on 24 November. Anyone who is considering confirmation please contact Michael as soon as possible
It is hoped that the next Confirmation in the Deanery will take place towards the end of November - Date and Venue to be announced. Anyone who is considering confirmation please contact Michael as soon as possible. |
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FROM THE REGISTERSHoly Baptism - Thomas Louis Hallowell Walsh Holy Matrimony - Philip Porterfield and Sarah Hanington Rest in peace - Maud Stephenson |
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Rectory Ramblings August 2005 1 recently read a marvellous article in The Church Times!! The author Giles Fraser wrote of his grandmother who due to senile dementia no longer recognises him but who he believes has been set free from a life of nervousness and anxiety to a new existence of openness and liberation. Weare all 'locked in' by some demon or other; we are truly blessed when we are set free! 1 do not remember many sermons, my own are far from memorable, but one address has always stuck in my mind. At college we had a TV studio where one faced the unenviable task of preaching a sermon only for it to be cut to pieces by staff and worse fellow students who pointed out the use of jargon or irritating physical mannerisms. One student lost his temper with what he believed to be unhelpful criticism. He challenged the staff member to preach a sermon on camera and the lecturer later that week took up the challenge only to dry in front of everyone and lose his place in his notes. 1 have never forgotten the sermon. We were told of the clergyman who went for an interview for a job as a hospital chaplain. He carefully prepared and on the day was asked all the questions he had anticipated. A lady on the interviewing panel had said nothing but right at the end had asked the question 'do people who have Down's Syndrome still have it when they get to Heaven?' The rather confident cleric was stunned by the question, as 1 believe most of us would be. The preacher stated that when we consider others who are 'handicapped' (his word not mine) we often see people who have something less than ourselves, while those born with Down's Syndrome have one chromosome more and are generally speaking open, loving, trusting human beings, who often experience prejudice from other people who do not see them as individuals with a full range of emotions. 1 do not for a moment underestimate the demands of having an educationally challenged person as a member of a family; 1 would not be so presumptuous to say 1 understand. However, Giles Fraser ends his Church Times article with these words 'I wonder could it be for some of us that it is only when our schemes have all gone foggy that we are released to become the people God really wants us to be?' 1 wonder when 1 see people who are full of love, lacking in the kinds of inhibitions that chain me down, people whose concern for others and their lives is so transparent, that when we get to heaven perhaps we will all be like that? Michael Quote for the month: Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing so gentle as real strength. Francis De Sales
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