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(Free to visitors) staple Trinity Church (Methodist-URC) Moorbottom Honley Trinity Church February 2015 SERVICES Date Vestibule Stewards Church Stewards Flowers Martin Hirst Caroline Page Margaret Armitage Penny Winterbottom Joyce Draper Rev Tim Moore (Incl. communion) Eileen & Peter Marshall Hilary Turner Carolynne Roberts Joan Vevers Jean Wood Maureen Burley 1030 Janice Leam** David Redfearn Ronnie Moncur Margaret Sheppard Pam Redfearn Helen Amster Barbara Leach Pam Redfearn 1030 Adrian Burton*** Keith Knutton Karen Stannard Glenys Pallister Pat Waite Sylvia Hallas Joyce Draper Audrey Hawkswell Time Minister/Organiser 1030 Richard Hoyle* 1800 Taize Service led by Rev Richard Thompson 8 1030 15 22 1 Coffee team Karen Stannard + Rachel Boothroyd Joyce Draper Junior Church- Junior and Senior classes * 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 received the call to preach in the late 80’s and became 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. 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 **Janice Leam was born in Nottingham. She was trained as a teacher at Bretton Hall College of Education, has taught in schools in West Yorkshire, but is now retired. She has sung in the choir at Dalton St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Huddersfield, for thirty years and loves the new Methodist Hymn Book, Singing the Faith. She enjoys historical research, both family and local history, taking photographs and walking in the country. 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. ***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. Fairtrade Fortnight is 23 February - 8 March At Huddersfield Mission, Lord Street Saturday 28th- Fairtrade Fair Sunday March 1st at 3pmCircuit Fairtrade celebration service PLAYGROU P 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 welcoming, 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 wellplanned inside and outdoor areas.” Well done Carolynne! Day Tuesday Date 10 Events in February 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. 28 Fairtrade Fair at the Huddersfield Methodist Mission. Saturday Events coming up in following months Sunday Friday 2 1st March- Taize service at 6.00 pm conducted by Rev Richard Thompson 6th March– Women’s World Day of Prayer 2 Trinity Church Honley Newsletter February 2015 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 sometimes does. As we begin a new year, the Lectionary 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 adventure. 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 question Mark always asks us is, ‘are we willing to imitate Christ and accept the cost?’ So what are our costs of following Jesus? I don’t intend to explore 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 violence. 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 reassure 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 demoniac and sits with a former lunatic having a sensible conversation with him; or the Jesus who sits with the uneducated (but not unintelligent) and gives them a message 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’. Contact Tim Moore on mobile: 07837 128611 or email: [email protected] 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 Jubilee Mills, Bradford but works in various localities, including our own. CAP works through help and advice in debt, education in debt control and money management. More details are displayed on our notice board. Please read about this worthwhile charity, its places of support, the volunteers 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. 3 Overseas Missions BANGLADESH - Battling against the odds PHAKAMISA* From Brian Brown, Chairman of Phakamisa UK Trust Aklima holds on to her emergency relief card from Christian Aid partner, Shushilan, which entitled her to a relief food parcel following dramatic 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 dying 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. 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. Each year floods come to this area of South West Bangladesh and those affected often need emergency 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 resistant seeds and emergency disaster training. They know that the Forum will be better prepared for the floods and may not need emergency aid again. Indeed other groups, with whom they have worked longer, are testament to that fact that they recover far quicker than those not organised into forums. † *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” 4 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 people like Aklima and her son Commitment for Life– A URC mission supported by Trinity Church. 4 Trinity Church Honley Newsletter February 2015 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 Playgroup 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. Photo-Deborah Fawcett Christmas Tree Festival, December 6th and 7th Ann Hirst reports on behalf of the Activities Committee: 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. 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. 5 Farm Africa What do you call a chicken wearing a shell-suit?* Di Harris is a supporter (and this has nothing to do with the letter on page 8) 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 colleague 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! The Trinity-Civic Society Boxing Day walk, organised by Bert Neary, saw eight people with compasses following bearings in a north-westerly direction to get to Honley Wood. (There wasn’t a star to follow- it had done its bit the day before) 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 information for you regarding the charity and the e-cards To keep spirits up Bert handed out riddles from Christmas 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. 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 answers to the ancient problems of farming Africa well, pioneering techniques that boost harvests, reduce poverty, In Kitali, Kenya, Lillian's cabsustain natural resources bages now grow well and sell and help to end Africa’s for a good price need for aid. They work on the ground in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. *see page 9 for the answer 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 Cantorelli & Cakes, Trinity Singers & Nativity 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) 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. FREEPOST RTCT-SUKU-RHRU, Farm Africa, 9th floor, Bastion House, 140 London Wall, London EC2Y 5DN. Or phone on 020 7430 0440 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 entertained a full church with a concert of Christmas music and readings. What a lovely blend of voices they produced 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 Sunday 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. 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!” 6 A very successful morning’s worship produced by Marina Woodhead and Di Harris. 6 Trinity Church Honley Newsletter February 2015 Outings Snow, Sun and Fun January Leisure Group Report by Joan Vevers, picture by Edmund Spavin The day dawned well after the previous day’s torrential 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 Somerset 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. Whilst in Somerset for Christmas we visited St Andrews 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 Somerset 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 Jacobean pulpit- much easier to see than peering precariously 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.” Which was very appropriate as Blackpool had its strongest gales for years which even managed to stop the trams to Fleetwood running.” JM 7 Wordsearch / Letters Letters to the Editor 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. mail- 27 Moorside Rd, Honley, HD9 6HR email- [email protected] PLEASE PUT YOUR ADDRESS AND THE DATE on your letters. 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 cursory 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 appreciate 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. There’s a word in the list below which is not in the square but hidden elsewhere in the newsletter. FORTY DAYS BABY BOY PUBLIC APPEARANCE MARY JEWISH MOTHERS T EMPLE JESUS PURIF IED PRESENT LORD FEST IVAL PRESENT AT ION CANDLES LIGHT WORLD CANDLEMAS SIMEON NUNC DIMITT IS OFFICE EVENING PRAYER WEST 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 memorystick with you. We ask for a small donation. For more info contact Roy Squires on 01484 323132, Mobile. 07768 067251 8 8 Trinity Church Honley Newsletter February 2015 Notices Shrove Tuesday Feb 17th 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 Great for 5.5m. Capacity 35 seated. parties! 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. 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 Contact Karen Stannard 01484 664648. For weddings, baptisms, funerals, etc contact Rev Tim Moore 01484 608913 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 ‘My URC’ The United Reformed Church media team is introducing 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] ‘Hope14’ Honley Library Tel 222340 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 denominations, churches, ages and cultures – and the number of ministries involved is unprecedented. One-off event– Poetry ‘Readaround’ The Friends of Honley Library invite you to their next Poetry 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. From page 6 *An egg! 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. 9 Taylor’s Foodstore Fairtrade February Crossword This puzzle is sponsored by Taylor’s Foodstore Meltham Road, Honley, a local store which supports local charities. staple The back page Address or tel no 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 The Book of Revelations A young woman woke one morning and told her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace 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. Delighted, she opened it…… to find a book entitled ‘The Meaning of Dreams’. Our Minister is the Rev Tim Moore He also looks after the Methodist chapels in Shepley, Gatehead and Brockholes. Contact details below. 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 Minister: Rev Tim Moore, 6a Marsh Lane, Shepley, Huddersfield HD8 8AE. Tel 608913 / 07837 128611 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 CANDLES Room Bookings / Activities Cttee Karen Stannard, 6a Marsh Gardens, Honley HD9 6AF 664648 Email addresses Secretary: [email protected], Newsletter: trinity.news@ntlwo rld.com Newsletter (Editor) John Murray, 27 Moorside Road, Honley HD9 6HR. (Coordinator) Vera Stanley, 46 Stoney Lane, Honley HD9 6DY. 662635 663670 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 staple Name 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) staple 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!
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