Trinity Church Honley Newsletter October 2015

TRI ITY CHURCH HO LEY ewsletter October 2015

Two of the events illustrated on Trinity’s Away Day in September. 18 members enjoyed a messy time of clay modelling, painting and making collages. In case you’re wondering what this picture is about, see Mark chapter 4,verses 35 to 41 and Luke chapter 15 verses 8-10.

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Minister/ Organiser

Rev Colin Vere

Terry Frost

Rev Helen Roberts incl communion

DIY service

Vestibule Stewards

Alan Fawcett & to be advised

Marjorie Woodhead Peter Jackson

Sylvia Hallas Jackie Fawcett

TAIZE with Rev Richard Thompson

Church Stewards

Margaret Armitage Penny Winterbottom

Hilary Turner Carolynne Roberts

Margaret Sheppard Pam Redfearn

Flowers

Pam Redfearn

Linda Hirst

Joan Vevers

Coffee: Karen Stannard+

Rachel Boothroyd Joyce Draper

Jean Wood Maureen Burley

Barbara Leach Pam Redfearn

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*Colin Vere ‘sat down’ from circuit ministry in 2006, having served for over forty years in Manchester, Harrogate, Leeds and Brighouse. He now lives in Holywell Green and belongs to the Methodist church in Lindley. He's currently involved in many of the regular activities of his local church, as well as contributing to the training and development of probationer ministers. Colin’s interests include walking, bird-watching and sport– but the latter now only from a sedentary position!

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Joan Vevers Margaret Winterbottom

A one hour Glenys Pallister service for Pat Waite anyone who wants a quiet, Margaret Winterbottom meditative time.

Joyce Draper All are welcome Audrey Hawkswell

A worldwide fellowship of churches seeking unity, a common witness and Christian service.

The Churches’ Week of Action on Food is an opportunity for Christians and others around the world to act together for food justice and food sovereignty. It is a special time to raise awareness about farming approaches that help individuals and communities develop resiliency and combat poverty.

The Food for Life Campaign places a particular emphasis on sustainable agricultural practices and the situation of smallholder producers and their access to, and control over, natural resources such as land, water and seeds.

All of us can examine our food choices and call for policy changes that will ensure the right to food for everyone.

The global Food Week of Action includes World Food Day (16 October) as well as the International Day for Disaster Reduction (13 Octber), International Day of Rural Women (15 October) and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October).

Brockholes Methodist Church We invite you to partake of our soup n' roll lunches every alternate Wednesday 11.45 to 1.oo– – See the notice board for this months dates.

Don’t be scared of Mike– he’s there to help you!

Imagine a blown up balloon tied to the front of Mike.

Speak into his balloon from about 30 cm (12 inches) from your mouth. Don’t be frightened of him- adjust him so as to match your height. All the kids know this, adults should too, especially preachers and readers. And don’t be shy-if you turn your head away from Mike the sound will get noticeably duller.

Of course if you don’t get near him at all, no-one using the hearing aid loop or listening to the recording afterwards will hear anything you said.

Spre ad i t arou nd!

Heartening message from Parish Pump Ltd which supplies material for church magazines including the Trinity Newsletter:.

‘Your magazine may be the ONLY Christian reading that a lot of your neighbours ever do. So you can make a difference!’’

But only, of course, if we get the Newsletter into places where people can pick it up– like shops, hairdressers, the surgery and dentist’ waiting room.

Where else could you take it for outsiders to read?

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Date Events in September Holmfirth Methodist Leisure Group. Meet at Gatehead 11am for a walk. Picnic lunch followed by a talk.

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Women’s Fellowship 2.30pm in Arthurs’ Room. First meeting of the new season. Speaker: Rev. Helen Roberts. Chairlady: Margaret Sheppard.

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Civic Society / Trinity walk. Meet 2.15 at Trinity for a walk to Wooldale led by Bert Neary.

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The Minister’s Column Knowing and not knowing

By Rev Helen Roberts

THE WELCOME TEA PARTY

“There are known ‘knowns’. These are things we know that we know.

“There are known ‘unknowns’ That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know.

“But there are also ‘unknown unknowns’.

There are things we don't know we don't know.”

So said Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence from 2001 to 2006 One of the strange changes when you move to a new church is that suddenly you go from knowing to not knowing – finding your way around, knowing what is ‘always done this way’. There are the things that I know I need to ask about – the known unknowns – but there are other things I won’t know that I don’t know, and others won’t think to tell me because they too don’t know that I don’t know. It is all very confusing.

As we looked at the Healthy Churches responses across the churches one area people felt uncertain about was how we share about our faith with others. I think some of the knowns and unknowns are part of our difficulties.

Perhaps we have met those who were so confident in what they knew about God that they forgot that there is much they don’t know, and we can feel that we don’t want to be like that. So we don’t talk about faith.

Then on the other hand we may feel that if we don’t know it all, or know as much as we think we need to know. And so we think we don’t have anything to say because we don’t have everything to say.

But we all know about our own experience of God, and so we all have our own stories to share. We don’t need to know it all to be able to talk of what we do know, and in daring to share let us have the humility to know that we don’t know it all.

Helen Trinity Church Honley Newsletter October 2015

We welcomed Helen Roberts as our minister with the traditional informal tea party. Held on September 1st in The Arthurs’ Room it was plentifully supplied with donated food. That’s all there is to say really. We were sorry Helen didn't bring dog Gabi to the feast– we still have to have an official welcome occasion for her.

T HE CIRCUIT WELCOME SERVICE The Official Welcome Service was on September 6th in the afternoon. The church was full with people from all the four churches that Helen looks after: Honley, Gatehead, Shepley and Brockholes and from further afield in the Huddersfield Circuit. The service was led by Rev David Bidnell Circuit Superintendent, and was also the occasion when Tim Moore, our outgoing minister, took on the role of Pioneer Minister in the Circuit.

If you missed this event you can hear it by going to the Trinity website and clicking on the recording listed there.

Ken’s Retirement Service & cake

Ken Draper, our organist, retired after playing his last service on August 23rd. Following the service there was coffee and cakes in The Arthurs’ Room. The main item was Ken’s cake which had a musical theme– the first bars of the anthem he composed for Trinity’s 25th anniversary, 16 years ago. This too can be heard via the link on the church website.

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Trinity Away Day at Birdsedge The theme for the day was ‘Following the Treasure Trail’. Led by local preacher Barbara Rochester eighteen Trinity members had a grand time sticking, painting, modelling– as well as eating, drinking, and worshipping.

The day, at Birdsedge Methodist church, began at 9.30 with the obligatory cup of coffee, and then Barbara read and explained the three texts which it was to be our task to illustrate. They were from the New Testament gospels: The Parable of the Lost Coin, The Calming of the Storm and The Healing of the Paralysed Man. A large amount of craft material was placed at our disposal– a real treasure chest of paper, cloth, clay, plasticine, soap (to carve) and glue, all to help us illustrate those three stories. If creativity ran out there was a prayer room in the office and the church. Some of us worked in a group, and some individually.

Lunch came, lots of it, provided by two hardworking members from Birdsedge, and then the option to walk it off by going into the countryside (and strong wind) outside. A few people did so, but most stayed in the warm and got to work on grand collages based on the three themes.

Not only that, we dramatised them too, and after a very short rehearsal the three themes were presented to an appreciative audience in the main church building. It’s amazing what you can do with no props but a lot of imagination!

The day ended with more refreshments at about 4 o’clock and a worship session in the church.

Thanks to the organisers, Di Harris, Marion Bainbridge, and Jane Armitage– who got all those bits and bats of stuff, fantastic, to the car drivers who brought many of us out to this wild spot, and to the helpful people of Birdsedge who provided the food and use of the building. A grand day out with a good news message attached.

Plastic bags to cost 5p at all stores England will join the rest of the UK this October in setting a charge for each plastic carrier bag. Wales saw its plastic bag use plummet by 78% due to the introduction of a 5p charge per bag. Scotland introduced a plastic bag charge last October and bag use dropped. At present millions of tonnes of plastic waste end up in our oceans. In Britain, almost 70,000 tonnes of plastic bags are used once and then thrown away each year.

So, better take your own’ when you go to the store. They’re not heavy!

Sources: The Environnent magazine (CIWEM) www.edie.net

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The Carbon Conversations book “In Time For Tomorrow?” addresses many of the questions asked by those of us who try to make our lives and homes more carbon-efficient. For example: “Is it worth fitting a solar water heater?”

“What are the best energy-efficient light bulbs?”

“Is it better to replace my fridge with a more energy-efficient model, or just to wait until it breaks down?”

“How should I dry the washing in winter?”

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Refugees and Asylum Seekers Quakers urgently call for safe paths for refugees That which is morally wrong cannot be politically right

“In Britain we have a tradition of sheltering those in danger, as we did with the Kindertransport, rescuing thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe so many years ago, and more recently, when we welcomed refugees from countries including Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Bosnia and Kosova. It is time to open our hearts and communities again. Refugees are fleeing from fear. Difficult but compassionate decisions need to be made to secure peace for people in these regions”

From The Guardian

Refugee crisis: what can you do to help?

The 20,000 refugees that David Cameron has said the UK will take over the next four years will come in under a scheme that will provide housing.

However, there are an estimated 200,000 refused asylum seekers living in the UK who are destitute.

These are people who have been unable to prove their asylum case to the government but say they are unable to return to their home country, often Eritrea, Iran or Iraq, for fear of persecution. There are groups, often faith-based, all over the UK, which help these people find accommodation.

Here are ways to help house refugees in the UK: Offer to host in your home There are many charities, often run by churches, which work to provide accommodation to destitute people who may have been refused asylum.

Other groups provide accommodaTrinity Church Honley Newsletter October 2015

tion not in family homes, but in houses lent by owners, and empty vicarages and church buildings made available by dioceses.

In some cases this is a temporary arrangement, with people hosting for a few weeks or months – for example during the period after their guest has been given refugee status, when government support stops, but before receiving the national insurance number that allows them to work.

Give money and time As well as hosts and houses, local groups also need money to support the refused asylum seekers they are helping. In most cases these people have no access to money from the government and are not allowed to work, so everything – food, transport, clothing – is provided thanks to the generosity of others. Some groups run drop-in centres and English classes and need volunteers who are willing to teach refugees, provide practical assistance, or just welcome them into the community.

Campaign for better conditions for refugees and asylum seekers Will Sutcliffe, a campaigner in Bradford, says that if people want to help,

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they should get informed about the reasons for destitution and start lobbying their local MP* for more help.

“There is a deliberate attack on all forms of support for asylum seekers and people need to write and campaign and keep up to date with the issues affecting refugees in the UK. For example the government recently cut the weekly support to asylum-seeker families and these sort of campaigns are as important as providing a room,” he said.

Groups to contact There are many local groups in the North of England- Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Huddersfield Destitute Asylum Seekers Huddersfield (has website) This group mainly helps people who have been refused asylum and are left with no recourse to public funds. seekers. They are always looking for volunteers to befriend, or help run their drop-in centre. *Jason McCartney MP, 24 Huddersfield Road, Holmfirth HD9 2JS Phone:01484 688378. Email: jason.mccartney.mp@parliament.uk

Wordsearch / Letters Letters to the Editor

WORDSEARCH for OCTOBER

mail- 27 Moorside Rd, Honley, HD9 6HR email- trinity.news@ntlworld.com

To St Luke, whose feast-day is 18th October, we owe a beautifully written gospel as well as the Book of Acts.

Luke was a Greek physician and faithful travelling companion to St Paul. Under house arrest near the end of his life Paul noted, ‘only Luke is with me’.

Luke’s gospel focuses on the compassion of Christ, and offers us moving parables, such as the Good Samaritan and Prodigal Son. Women figure more prominently in Luke’s gospel than in any other: look out for the extended story of the Virgin Birth, and stories of Mary, Elizabeth, and the woman who was a sinner.

Luke’s gospel also features more poor people, more lepers, more ‘sinners’, who are all shown to be ‘inside’ the love of Christ.

In Acts, Luke skilfully links sacred and profane history, as subsequent archaeology has shown. He tells of how the early Christians moved away from Jerusalem into the pagan world, and on to Rome.

PLEASE PUT YOUR ADDRESS AND THE DATE on your letters.

From Ken Draper, Back Bradshaw Rd, 11 September I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the friends at Trinity who helped to make my retirement service such a special occasion. Thank you for your gift and the certificate, the cake and all your cards and good wishes. It was a day I will long remember. ♣ From Joyce & Ken Draper, Back Bradshaw Rd, 11 Sept We would like to thank all our friends for making our diamond wedding a truly memorable day. From early morning until evening, we enjoyed it all. ♣ Our retired organist Ken Draper hasn’t lost his love of writing music– or poetry, if this is poetry. Ken writes: ‘Some years ago, 'All things Bright and Beautiful' was frequently chosen for services; so often in fact that in my mind it became abbreviated to 'All things B & B’.and a reminder of past summer holidays.’

ChorusAll things bed and breakfast, They're at your beck and call.

All food in the morning, No evening meal at all.

The food it is a mountain, (No river running by)!!

No sunset, just the morning, That brightens up the sky.

Chorus Each little pack of cornflakes, Each tiny pot of jam, With toast and eggs and bacon, Black pudding, tea and ham.

Chorus We have our eyes to see them, And taste buds; power of smell; We're thankfully provided With voice; so we can tell!!

Chorus The cold wind in the winter, We never come here then!

We only come in summer, Then next year come again.

Chorus

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

LUKE FEAST DAY WRITT EN GOSPEL ACT S GREEK PHYSICIAN T RAVELLING

FAIT HF UL PAUL MARY COMPASSION PARABLES PRODIGAL SON GOOD SAMARITAN

WOMEN POOR LEPERS SINNERS JERUSALEM PAGAN ROME EARLY CHRIST IANS

Meals on Wheels in Honley?

We would like to extend the service to Honley if there are enough people interested in volunteering and enough potential clients (i.e. partakers or eaters) to benefit.

If you are interested in helping or know someone who could benefit, please get in touch.

Angela Payne 01484 685009

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Notices Messy church is a form of church for children and adults together that involves creativity, celebration and hospitality.

It starts with a welcome, followed by a long period of creativity time to explore the biblical theme by getting messy; a short celebration time with a story, prayer, song, games etc; followed by a sit-down meal together at tables.

All these are shared by people of all ages; both adults and children. It is a fun way of doing church.

Messy Church Honley is run jointly by St Mary’s, Elim and Trinity churches. The next event is 3.30- 5.30pm on Saturday 31 October. at Trinity

RESPONDING TO CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST Talk by Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford.

At Huddersfield Quaker Meeting House, Church St. Paddock. 8th October at 7.30 pm.

2015 Real Advent Calendar features It’s a great way to share the Christmas story The new design 2015 Real Advent Calendar is the UK's only calendar to include a copy of the Christmas story in the box, this year illustrated by Sophie Allsopp.

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 Great for session parties!

The Arthurs’ Room Ground floor room size 9m x 5.5m. Capacity 30 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.

There is a line of the Christmas story behind each window and a total of 24 Fairtrade Belgian chocolates - one for each day.

It is also the UK's only charity Advent calendar.

• Free 32- page Advent activity booklet.

• A line of the Christmas story behind each window • Charitable donation to the Funzi Clinic and Traidcraft Exchange • 24 high quality Fairtrade Belgian chocolates • Differing chocolate shapes • Foiled for freshness (new easy open design) • Recyclable box & tray • Resource pack for schools and churches (available October) www.realadvent.co.uk The Meaningful Chocolate Co

Contact Karen Stannard 01484 664648.

For weddings, baptisms, funerals, etc

Honley Aid In Sickness Honley Aid in Sickness (Charity No 237203) provides small grants for those who are sick and in need. Grants may be awarded towards help with heating costs, domestic help, convalescence, and in some cases equipment, which fall outside the remit of the NHS or Social Services.

Referrals may be through local GPs and other professionals but anyone resident in the parish of Honley and its neighbourhood is welcome to apply.

Contact Diana Kaye on 666424 for further details.

Honley Players ADS Southgate Theatre Fund-raising Open Day Saturday 17 October, Murder Mystery Play- Day at the Races- Fri 23 October

A real corker!

In 2007 the Portuguese national postal service issued the world's first postage stamp made of cork.

Save your used postage stamps to raise funds by their sale for Kirkwood Hospice. Cut them out with a wide margin & put them in the box in the vestibule.

Regular room bookings at Trinity Playgroup- Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri (morning) Contact- Carolynn Roberts 661024 Toddlers Group Tuesday morning Contact- Deborah Fawcett 663966 Drama Groups- Friday evening, Saturday morning Contact- Natalie Haigh 617468 / 07840800601 Brownies- Wednesday evening Contact- Ann Dove 665669 BLOODWISE (previously called Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research group)– every 3rd Tuesday from Sept 16th at 8pm.

Contact Val Akroyd 662852

Honley Library Tel 222340 Honley library book group– Every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 10.30. Pick up the book of the month in advance.

U3A Book Group– 8 Sept, 13 Oct, 10 Nov, 8 Dec at 1.45pm Knit and natter. Every Monday 2. to 3.30pm. Free refreshments.

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The back page Taylor’s Foodstore Fairtrade October 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 He must be ‘the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well’ (1 Timothy 3:12) (6) 4 ‘For we must all — before the judgement seat of Christ’ (2 Corinthians 5:10) (6) 7 ‘They reeled and staggered like drunken men; they were at their — end’ (Ps 107:27) (4) 8 See 19 Across 9 It concerned who among the disciples would be the greatest (Luke 9:46) (8) 13 Formed by the Jews in Thessalonica to root out Paul and Silas (Acts 17:5) (3) 16 ‘He has sent me to bind up the — ’ (Isaiah 61:1) (6-7) 17 Moved rapidly on foot (Matthew 28:8) (3) 19 and 8 ‘ — a great company of the — host appeared with the angel’ (Luke 2:13) (8,8) 24 Hindrance (Romans 14:13) (8) 25 Comes between Luke and Acts (4) 26 Empower (Acts 4:29) (6) 27 ‘Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a — !’ (John 2:16) (6)

Name Address or tel no

September Solution. ACROSS: 8, Kiriath Jearim. 9, Toe. 10, Ill at ease. 11, Hated. 13, Miletus. 16, Started. 19, Micah. 22, Leviticus. 24, Eli. 25, Mary and Joseph.

DOW : 1, Sketch. 2, Priest. 3, Samizdat. 4, Shalom. 5, Wept. 6, Breast. 7, Embers. 12, Art. 14, Limassol. 15, UNA. 16, Salome. 17, Adverb. 18, Decade. 20, Clever. 21, Height. 23, Tear.

The winner is Mary Stapleton, Marsh Gardens Send your entries for this month - cut out or printed-out, by Oct 18th or email the answers to the editor. Address below.

Our Minister is Rev Helen Roberts.

As well as Honley she has responsibility for three other Methodist chapels: Shepley, Gatehead and Brockholes.

Contact details below.

Down 1 Sunrise (Psalm 119:147) (4) 2 The part of the day when Cornelius the Caesarean centurion had a vision of an angel of God (Acts 10:3) (9) 3 He was one of those who returned with Zerubbabel from exile in Babylon to Jerusalem (Nehemiah 7:7) (5) 4 ‘No one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born — ’(Joh 3:3) (5) 5 Animal hunted or killed as food (Ezekiel 22:25) (4) 6 ‘He encouraged them — — remain true to the Lord’ (Acts 11:23) (3,2) 10 Ruses (anag.) tricks us with hesitations (5) 11 Jewish priestly vestment (Exodus 28:6) (5) 12 Visible sign of what had been there (Daniel 2:35) (5) 13 This was the trade of Alexander, who did Paul ‘a great deal of harm’ (2 Timothy 4:14) (9) 14 ‘This is my — , which is for you; do this in remembrance of me’ (1 Corinthians 11:24) (4) 15 One of Noah’s great-great-grandsons (Genesis 10:24) (4) 18 Traditionally the first British Christian martyr (5) 20 Relationship of Ner to Saul (1 Samuel 14:50) (5) 21 Jacob had one at a place he named Bethel while on his way to Haran, fleeing from Esau (Genesis 28:12) (5) 22 Bats (anag.) attempt (4) 23 ‘You strain out a — but swallow a camel’ (Matthew 23:24) (4)

SOME TRI ITY CHURCH CO TACTS 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 Minister: Rev Helen Roberts, 7 Mullion Avenue, Honley HD9 6G . Tel 305308 Secretary

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

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Treasurer

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

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Pastoral Team

Sylvia Hallas / Pam Redfearn / Joyce Draper

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

Secretary: jaassociates@tiscali.co.uk, ewsletter: trinity.news@ntlwo rld.com

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

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November Newsletter Will be available on Sunday Oct 25th (DV) Contributions to Vera Stanley or John Murray

by Sunday Oct 11th Printer

Bob Armitage Assemblers

Joan Vevers Ann Hirst