United Benefice of South Tawton and Belstone Services September 2006
Please be assured of a warm welcome at all our services
September 3rd Trinity 12
8.30am Holy Communion (Modern) South Zeal
9.30am Family Communion Belstone
September 10th Trinity 13
8.30am Holy Communion (1662) Sticklepath
9.30am Parish Communion South Tawton
11.15am Parish Communion Belstone
September 17th Trinity 14
8.30am Holy Communion (1662) South Zeal
10.00am Benefice Communion Belstone
6.30pm Taize Service South Zeal
(NoTaize Service this month)
September 24th Trinity 15
8.30am Holy Communion (modern) Sticklepath
9.30am Parish Communion South Tawton
11.15am Harvest Festival Belstone
6.30pm Meditation and prayers for healing Sticklepath
October 1st Trinity 16
8.30am Holy Communion (Modern) South Zeal
9.30am Family Communion Belstone
11.00am Harvest Festival South Tawton
Preacher The Venerable Jophn Rawlings
Archdeacon of Totnes
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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Wednesday 6th September 2pm Bible Study Rectory
Saturday 9th September Historic Bike Ride
Friday 15th September Concert: LouiseMott & Emile Owen
St Andrew's South Tawton Tickets £5 Book 849048
Monday 25th September 7.30pm South Tawton PCC Church House
Thursday 28th September 7.30pm Belstone PCC
Saturday 30th September 7.30pm Belstone Auction Village Hall
Sunday 1st October 12.30pm Benefice Harvest Lunch Victory Hall South Zeal
Book your ticket asap on 849048
£5 Adult £3 Child under 10 years
Parking in School Car Park
Thursday 16th November Deanery Confirmation
Interested in being confirmed - contact Michael on 849048 |
RECTORY RAMBLINGS
The trouble with holidays is the catching up when you return. Letters stacked up behind the front door, messages on the answer machine. Two days back and you feel the need for another two weeks away. My thanks go to those who help us have a break, those who care for the dog, the cat, the poultry and those who oversee parish affairs and priestly duties. A special thank you to Louis Baycock who has been busy in my absence! Tunisia was a place for bartering and endless negotiation, which begins and fun and can become tiresome as one reduces prices to normally about one third of the starting figure. It all becomes a challenge, a matter of honour, and then a matter of guilt, trying to get something for nothing and reducing profit margins to a minimum.
Jesus never bargained with anyone. He gave a 'fixed price' and waited for a response. The price was always a personal response to the free gift of love and forgiveness that we are all offered by God. To some individuals, it was a little more specific: sell all you have, leave the dead to bury the dead, sin no more. But a response was asked for, no place for beating down the price. I sometimes wonder if we sell Christ short today, for we are surely not to haggle over the gift that is not ours to give. It is God who makes the offer, it is for all of us to make the response He hopes for.
Michael
Quote of the month
“God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts. "
Ethel Wilcox |
