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1 T IME D ear September GOES BY SO QUICKLY Friends 1 M agazine I t may be at as I get older and often busier, at time flies past. Perhaps it isn't so and I'm less able to keep up wi ings. September here and it d oesn't seem as ough e summer has started and we are already i n e a utumn and of course it will soon be Christmas!! I f you are finding is to be true of your life, en I ink it is time we (you and I) took ings a little easier and found time to sit back and ink. One w ay you might like to ink a while is wi a course which will be running f or seven weeks starting in early October. It is called Christianity E xplored and is a course which looks at basic Christianity rough St M ark's Gospel. Above all it might give us a chance to sit and ink about our own fai and how we might be willing to tell oers. Keep your ey es and ears ready to receive e information about date and time. It will be t aking place at Georges Place. So stand by!! C hanges are also a cause of is time "rushing by " business. It seems as t hough changes which are taking place at Christ Church can cause us to panic. In fact e changes which are happening a re minimal. On e first Sunday of e mon we shall have a Kings Café after e am Holy C ommunion Servic e. On e ird Sunday we will have a Kings Praise at am and on e oer two Sundays we will have a Communion S ervice but will also be running a Sunday school for any children which t urn up. I hope you will be happy wi is, but if you find someing which d oesn't work for you please tell some one. I much prefer to hear complaints first hand raer an gaer at ere are unhappy people w ho are just moaning to each oer. During September we also look forward to our 50 Anniversary taking p lace in October. The refurbishment should be well under way by e time you read is letter. Many anks to ose who have given for e Gift Day and have been involved in oer money raising efforts. A day of bag- p acking at Waitrose raised 545 wi more t o come from e g reen discs. W ell done and anks!! I found e hour at I did bag packing really interesting and I received many enquires about where Christ Church was and what e money was needed for. Try explaining at as you pack b ags!!

2 I hope and pray at all goes well is autumn. That we each find time to stop and ink and at we will all enjoy our beautifully refurbished and d ecorated church. G od bless you all. P eter. C ollections O pen Plate En v/ G ift Aid E nv. (NTP) J une: J uly: T ax claim I have sent off a claim for a tax refund of This is unusually high b ecause of e very generous support for e church refurbishment project a s well as e usual giving. P arish Share Our Parish Share for 2011 is or 1909 per mon of which we h ave paid 8300 to date. This leaves still to pay. P l ease pray at w e find e funding to pay our Parish Share. I f a nyone would like to join e e nvelope giving o r give by monly direct d ebit, please have a word wi me or ring T hank you to everyone. G ail. O ctober Magazine C ould all entries for e above edition of e magazine be given to me by S unday, Sept. 18. Publication will be e following S unday, 25 t h. J ane Richardson. 2

3 B aptism P arish Registers 10 July E vie Kimberley Ford K aty Ford ( adult) 14 August C onnor James Hutchins 21st August Taylor-L orraine Laura Smi 28 August L ucas David Alan Hinson G race Marie Sinclair 200 Club D raw result for J uly, 1 s t No. : 10, 2 nd : No. 53 The A ugust and September draws will take place on Wednesdays, st September 14 and 21 respectively during Day Centre meetings. Bits and P ieces V olunteers Wanted! We need volunteers for arranging and serving refreshments at e m orning s ervices on e 1st and 3rd Sundays of each mon. It doesn t h a ve to be bo and e more people we get e less often it is to do. You would need to be at church by 9.30am to set up and everying will b e provided so ere is no monetary outlay. P lease speak to Jane C. on Stam if you can help. ~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ N eed some inspiration? Try: w ww.ucb.co.uk T he Word for Today makes 3 for some e asy r eading!

4 H eartfelt Thanks We would like to ank everyone who sent letters and cards of condolence o n e dea of my dear wife, Mary. We had over 100 and ey were a g reat comfort to read. We would like to ank Jane Calderin for e time she spent wi us as a family and e wonderful funeral service she took. O ur anks also to Maria for all e beautiful flowe rs w hich decorated e church, it looked w onderful. T he amount d onated in m emory of Mary for e Lincolnshire and N ottinghamshire Air Ambulance Charitable Trust came t o T h ankyou all for donating so generously. A rur Potter and family. ~ ~~~~ ~ ~~~ ~ A Sincere Apology I would sincerely like to apologise to Arur and his family for omitting e above letter from e July magazine. No words come close to expressing h ow I feel about is omission. J ane Richardson. St amford Deanery Pa rish Fo undation Co urse The Parish Foundation Course starts in only four week's time wi e Introductory Taster Evening on Monday 5 S eptember. This first evening is an open meeting and people will en be asked to sign up for main course which starts on 19 S eptember. A ll e sessions are at 7.30 pm in e All Saints' Centre, Stamford. If you are interested in finding out more about is exciting new venture t h en come along on Monday September 5 t o All Saints' Centre, S cotgate at 7.30p m. C hris. 4

5 F undraising W e hope at you have all had a good summer! J ust Lent a quick recap of events held over e last few mons: Slim, S ponsorship Money T hanks to Peter H art, David Wise (who we hope is still keeping on course t o loose anoer stone!) and Maria Jackson over 320 was raised for C hurch funds. Thanks to everyone who sponsored t hem and well done to o ur ree volunteers! F riday Market Stall, June 17 T his was a good day wi e sun shining (at least until lunchtime!) A steady flow of customers kept us busy and along wi e Tombola held w e raised 360 t owards e Refurbishment fund. S trawberry Tea Afternoon Thank you to everyone who supported i s event. I t was an afternoon of f ellowship and enjoyment of e scones, str awberries a nd c ream. Thank y ou to ose people who baked for us. We raised Coffee Morning, 30 July, Coffee Evening 25 August T hese two events were held so friends could come along and share stories of Christ Church over e last 50 years. Committee members made notes which will be transcribed into e Memory Book. The t wo events raised 56 f or e Refurbishment Fund rough donations kindly made for r efreshments. P artnering wi Waitrose C hrist Church has joined in a partnership wi Waitrose who are currently helping us to raise funds for o ur 50 Anniversary but primarily for e R efurbishment F u nd. Several c hurch members d id a B ag Pack at e store on Saturday 13 A ugust and we raised a staggering 545!!! Well done to everyone invo lved on e day. The hours were long but enjoyable as Peter H art has a lready said in his letter! 5

6 C heese and Wine Tasting Evening Sponsored by Waitrose F riday, September 23rd, 7-9p m Tickets are now available for is evening and are v ery limited s o get yours now. First come, first served! They are priced at a minimum d onation of 5 to be Gift Aided if possible. T ickets S unshine available from Dawn Field, and Jane Richardson, Bags: T hank you for ( hopefully!) filling ese over e s ummer. We did have s ome sunny days if I remember correctly. P lease return ese to Church over e next few weeks a nd give to Dawn or a Church Warden so e m oney can be counted and put to good use on e refurbishment. 50 Anniversary Weekend 8 t h / 9 O ctober We still need your help providing us wit h memories of your life at Christ C hurch over e past 50 years especially wi regard to e church in W illoughby Road. A n y event d etails or photo you have will be ankfully r eceived. T here is also a b ook of memories on e notice board where you can put down your oughts or you can write em down at your leisure on a piece o f paper a nd put it in e envelopes provided. If you re not sure what sort o f oughts we re after take a look at what s written in e book already a nd maybe at will inspire you! The more information we have e more w e can make e Anniversary interesting and informative f or everyone. There must be so many wonderful stories which oers would love to hear a bout life at Ch rist Church before Green Lane! We can only display what you have told, donated or loaned to us! Please p ass any items to a member of e Anniversary Committee. We will s hortly beg in selling our 50 Anniversary Te a T owels which we h ave commissioned to celebrate e a nniversary. Keep a look out for d etails i n church. P lease do keep looki ng a t e 50 Anniversary notice board for furer i nformation a nd looko ut f or furer announcements/information given in c hurch and on e weekly notice sheets i n parti cular a bout e bring a nd share lunch on e 9 O ctober. 6

7 R efurbishment of e Church Burmor Construction will be starting work on Tuesday 30 August, so please expect some disruption for approx two weeks. Painting has already s tarted in e back half of e church anks to volunteer Sebastian White a nd we are indebted to his willingness to assist us. Working parties are currently being organised for each Saturday starting from e 27 August a t so p lease speak to Bill or Chris who are overseeing is group. P lease volunteer your services a s w e cannot do is on our own. R efurbishment Gift Day, started on 17 J uly T o date we have in e R efurbishment Fund w hich includes t he d onation of 1500 from Church Lads towards e curtain fabri c. This m eans we are almost halfway to our goal of which is fantastic. T hank you to everyone who has made a donation especially if you agreed t o Gift Aid is. I f y ou have not contributed and feel you would like to do s o it is not too late. Any do nation, however small or l arge, would make all t he difference to e fund. P lease speak to Dawn or a Church Warden. G rand Draw Raffle Tickets 5 We will be selling raffle tickets and our 0 Anniversary Te a Towels on Saturday 17 S eptember at Waitrose. We n eed your help to man e s tand in Waitrose foyer s o p lease sign up on e list in e entrance hall. W e look forward to your continuing support. B lessings a nd anks, D awn Field On behalf of e Fundraising a nd 50 Anniversary Fundraising Committees D awn Field H elen Burney J ane Richardson J ane Harris B ill Mawdsley B rian Stephens J ane Calderin P eter Wise 7

8 S ponsored Ride and Stride I n a id of e Lincolnshire Old Churches Trust S aturday, September 10, 10.00am pm This annual event will take place around e churches in our Deanery of Aveland and Ness wi half e money raised going to e Trust and half t o Christ Church. T his year once again my work colleague David Ettridge has agreed to take pa rt in is along wi my son Joseph. There is a sponsorship form in e church entrance hall for you to sign up to support em. Any sponsorship w ould be great. They are hoping to visit 21 churches on e day. W e also need people to man e church on at day to welcome any cyclists/walkers who need eir forms signing as well as offering em refreshments. If you could spare an hour or so during e day please write y our name on e form which, again, is in e church foyer. T hankyou, D avid Wise. ~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ D ay Centre We hope all e Day Centre staff and Members have enjoyed e summer b reak and w ill r eturn happy, healy and refreshed. O ur return is, sadly, p ostponed for one week due to e refurbishment and decorating work w hich is taking place at church at e moment. We now look forward to h seeing everyone on Wednesday, September 14 t! t h ) On our first day back (14 Margaret Fox and friends will be singing and p erforming various cabaret acts. It is some time since Margaret has been to see us and we look forward to welcoming her back. Phil Rudkin shows st his beautiful wildlife slides on e 21 which we always find fascinating and Ka Heyden- Dale brings her poems and short stories for us to enjoy h on e 28 t. 8

9 T he next Day Centre Communion takes place on September 14 at 11.15am. T he Foot Heal Practitioner will a lso b e wi us on t his day. Amy a nd C arolyn. F un and Fitness A fter a long summer break we are looking forward to r eturning to our g roup on Tuesday, 13 September at 2.30pm. We have a full membership n ow wi ree new people starting t his next meeting. W e w ill have a weeks break on October 4 r estarting again on t he 11 a nd en have anoer break o n November 1st restarting on e 8. We t hen meet weekly until our last meeting for is term on D ecember 6 w hen we break for Christmas. I f you have any queries please contact us on Stam D aphne and Peter Wise. Group co Moers U nion o rdinators. T he next M.U. H oly Communion Service, followed by e meeting, will be st h eld at All Saints C hurch on Thursday, September 1 at e usual time of 10.00am. All are welcome. S tartafresh / Befrienders W e are going to miss Katie very much but we wish her every success as she moves on to pastures new! Mike has, very ably, stepped into e b reach anoer responsibility to add to ose he does wi such a big h eart. 9

10 W e ve been continuing to meet during e holidays by having picnics on e Meadows each Monday and also our light lunches on Fridays here at church. Mike, Kitty, Chris and Bill have kept us all in check and we ank em very much for keeping e groups going during e holidays. It is m uch appreciated by our m embers. We had a lovely trip to Hunstanton on Tuesday, August 16 wi 24 members enjoying e day. The weaer was quite nice. Fish and chips and ice creams were e order for e day! Some of us even braved a p addle l ooking forward to e next one! Our normal timetable will resume wi our light lunch on Monday, S eptember 5. L ove and anks to all, R uie. T oddlers W orking wi Families Everyone had a great time at e end of term party. Seven of our little m embers h ave left us to g o to big school and ey will be missed b y us all! Alough we have been on summer break I have met many of our little f riends whilst out shopping t hem seeing me before I em! W e had a lovely trip to Wickstead Park on August 11 and everyone had a great time despite e rain which fell for a short time. There were about 70 of us so we had a coach and Uncle Mike drove e minibus. Sadly, Aunty Pam was unable to join e trip as she had a poorly leg. We hope s he s getting better f ollowing her operation. W e look forward to welcoming members old and new when we return on T hursday, September 8. G ranny Ru a nd t he Gang! 10

11 B ishop o f Grimsby s L etter D ear Friends, T he violent disturbances in London and oer cities during August raise m any questions. Inevitably our oughts and prayers are wi ose who h ave suffered and lost rough e violence. There can be no excuses for e criminal behaviour of scores of people who subsequently had to take r esponsibility for eir actions b efore e courts. Yet e complexity of e breakdown in law-and- order demands a wiser response at just legislating for longer sentences and more powers for e police. We cannot pretend at such behaviour has been spawned f rom happy, contented and flourishing sections of our society. Nor does it really address e problem by blaming parents or a lack of discipline in schools. The moral vacuum we witnessed in e violence and looting is e vidence of a deeper malaise wiin our society. Difficult and politically unpalatable questions about e quality of our society have to be addressed and, to me, e most urgent issue is at too many wiin our communities sit on e margins of our society feeling at ey don t belong. Gangs and e mob offer a sense of belonging which is too frequently absent for ose who are culturally, socially and economically m arginalised. F eeling at we belong is a fundamental feature of a healy community. T his tru has been recognised from e very earliest human communities. It is an imperative found in e Old Testament prophecies, where belonging means at you have a share in e good ings of creation. The need to belong is central to Jesus healing and pastoral ministry, w here he restores people to community and creates a new platform of b elonging for eir future. Followers of Jesus Christ have to take a lead in creating a sense of belonging for all sections of our communities. Enabling people to know t hat ey belong has to be fundamental to creating communities where e negativity of e violence we witnessed is summer is addressed t hrough e quality of life which all people are offered. There are inevitably political and economic features to belonging, but it starts wiin e ach and every co mmunity. I n Christian terms our neighbours belong because, being made in his image, ey have a God- g iven dignity. Our task is to turn e eology of 'belonging' into a reality wiin e c ommunities in which we worship and witness. T he streng of e 11

12 p arochial system is at we are well placed to give a lead to is agenda i n each and every community. + David Grimsby L ove in a Box Y es, it really is e time of year when we start inking about e above! W e hope you have been saving y our empty shoe boxes ( separate lid from b ox, size 5 approx) so at we can cover em in Christmas paper and fill w i lots of lovely t oiletries, g ifts e tc for children who would oerwise not r eceive anying at Christmas time. A lso, w i all e b argains in e summer sales a t e moment (kids going back to school offers), please ink of our Love in a Box appeal and c onsider donating e BOGOF and 2 for e price of 1 o ffers to us. All d onations are gratefully appreciate d. M oney g ratefully accepted so we can p urchase extra items a s needed. T hank you i n advance, G ail, Gill and Phil. C at s Tales H i Family! Hope you are all enjoying your holidays. Activities here have been less t han usual but I ve been keeping an eye on e old homestead! Talking of eyes - I had a nasty eye infection and very, very reluctantly w ent to e V...!! (Don t say e word out loud! ) A raer unpleasant jab in a raer delicate place has put me to rights ough I m not anxious to r epeat e experience! S ee you all soon once e new term starts. L ove, M.D. 12

13 15 H idden Books of e Bible Q uiz T he A n swers! I once made a rem ark a bout e hidden books of e Bible. It was a lulu. Kept people looking so hard for fa cts and for oers it was a r evelation. Some were in a ja m, especially since e names of e books were not capitalized. But e tr u finally struck home to n umbers of readers. To oers, it was a real j ob. We want it to be a most fascinating few moments for you. Ye s, ere will be some really easy ones to spot. Oers may require j udges to help em. I will quickly admit it usually takes a minister to find one of em, and ere will be loud l amentations when it is found. One little lady says sh e brews a cup of tea, so she can c oncentrate better. C alendar R enovation /painting o f e church and hall will be taking place f rom T uesday, Aug. 30 to Friday, Sept 9 - i f all goes well a nd according t o plan. D isruption w ill, h opefully, be kept to a minimum but your patience is r equested a t t his d ifficult t ime. I t will a ll b e wor it!!!!! S eptember F riday B efrienders S aturday C hurch Cleaning Work Group S unday H oly Communion K ings Café 6.30 Eveni ng Service at URC M onday B efrienders T eenzone Drama W ednesday T eenzone Dance T hursday T oddlers 1-3 T winklets F riday B efrienders T eenzone Glee Club 6-8 B rownies S aturday Chu rch Cleaning Work Group S unday H oly Communion w i Sunday s chool E vensong 13

14 M onday B efrienders 6.30 T eenzone Drama 7-9 G uides T uesday F un and Fitness W ednesday D ay Centre H oly Communion T eenzone Dance T hursday T oddlers 1-3 T winklets F riday B efrienders T eenzone Glee Club 6-8 B rownies S unday K ings Praise 6.30 H oly Communion M onday B efrienders 6.30 T eenzone Drama 7-9 Guides T uesday F un and Fitness 7.30 P CC W ednesday D ay Centre T eenzone Dance T hursday T oddlers 1-3 T winklets F riday B efrienders T eenzone Glee Club 6-8 B rownies 7.00 Cheese and Wine Tasting Even t S unday C elebration Service w i St.Geo s in S tamford School Assembly Hall 6.30 Ev ensong M onday B efrienders 6.15 T eenzone Drama 7-9 G uides T uesday F un and Fitness W ednesday D ay Centre T eenzone - D ance T hursday T oddler Group 1-3 T winklets F riday B efrienders T eenzone Glee Club 14

15 B asement R egular term time Programme for e Basement M onday S troke Association (every oer week) 5-7 T eenzone T eenzone QE W ednesday 4-5 T eenzone table tennis 5-7 T eenzone T hursday 1-3 B efrienders F riday 5-7 R ainbows T eenzone S ee weekly notices for details of all events D on t try to outsmart your dad! A teenage boy had just passed his driving test and inquired of his faer a s to when ey could discuss his use of e car. His faer said he'd make a deal wi his son: You bring your grades up f rom a C to a B average, study your Bible a little, and get your hair cut. T hen we'll talk about e car. T he boy ought about at for a moment, decided he'd settle for e offer, a nd ey agreed on it. A fter about six weeks his faer said, Son, you've brought your grades up a nd I've observed at you have been studying your Bible, but I' m d isappointed you haven't had your hair cut. T he boy said, You know, Dad, I've been inking about at, and I ve n oticed in my studies of e Bible at Samson had long hair, John e B aptist had long hair, Moses had l ong hair...and ere's even strong e vidence at Jesus had long hair. ( Y ou re g oing to love e Dad's reply): T o is his faer replied, A nd did you also notice ey walked everywhere t hey went? 15

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