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St Kiaran'sSt Kiaran's

Chronicle Chronicle

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Praise gets our focus off ourselves and back on God

In our often selfie focused world, we need this constant

reminder - life is not all about us.We may know that in our heads, but yet our hearts think differently so often.

We're prone to selfishness, He desires our eyes be set firmly on Him,

because that's where our true hope is found.

He is worthy of our praise, no matter what we face from day to day.

Praise him for his mighty deeds;

praise him according to his excellent greatness! Psalm 150:2

"And my tonge shall spea of yor righteosness

and of yor praise all the day long" Psalm #5:2$

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Dear riends and amily of !t "iaran#s$resbyterian %hurch

&he year is rapidly runnin away fromus ( but perhaps it#s because I#m )ust ettina little older* When I was a little boy time

seemed to dra on fore+er and each schoolterm felt like a lifetime* I suppose, in the end,it#s really about personal busy-ness and ourindi+idual perceptions. I am sure you are aware that what we

et out of relationships and life in eneral is related to what we put in.It comes down to sowin and reapin. We can#t be miserable, snippyand bark at people ( and then wonder why we don#t ha+e friends.

ery often folk beha+e, in principle, like the unfaithful ser+ant inthe parable of the talents att./0123-4561 I knew that you are ahard man 7inore the hard man part, unless it applies8, har+estinwhere you ha+e not sown and atherin where you ha+e notscattered seed./3b6. &he ser+ant#s impression of his master wasthat he was an unreasonable man when it came to e9pectin results.:re we not sometimes uilty of lookin for results when we ha+e notput in the effort ( particularly in our spiritual life;

%here are fi&e sponges lying on yor itchen conter 'achmem(er of yor family has (een cleaning p different areas of yorhome) (t all the sponges loo the same *o are crios as to +hat+as cleaned) (t yo can,t tell (y looing %hey all loo the same -o)+hat do yo do. As yo s/eee the first sponge yo see that cocacola comes ot) and yo decide that someone cleaned the itchen+ith that one pon s/eeing the second sponge) yo find (atht(and tile cleaner %hat one +as sed in the (athroom 3n the thirdsponge yo find motor oil -omeone cleaned in the garage 3n the

forth sponge) (a(y po+der pffs ot %he (a(y,s nrsery +ascleaned +ith that one 3n the last sponge is floor +ax %hat +as theone yo sed on the hall floor As yo lay the last one do+n) yo looagain at their similarity %hey all loo the same ntil they ares/eeed 4hristians are the same! As life s/eees s) differentthings come ot: anger) re&enge) tears) remorse) greed) ntrth) lstand finally) from one saint) pors forth the lo&e of 4hrist st lie thesponge) +e can only s/eee ot +hat is pt in

!o what should we do; We need to remain in the Word of e on

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us, ?esus, and ?esus alone will shine forth. @f course, this is the idealand we should ne+er i+e up when we fall short. Instead, confessyour shortcomins to the Aord and et up and try aain. :s youmeditate on this, ask yourself, If I was s=uee>ed, would it be mostly?esus who would shine forth;

Do en)oy this edition of the newsletter.

$lease remember to take care, be enerous and continue to lo+eone another.

With much lo+eMike

65 And The 3rd Ageby Bob Hagley

Here's a small booklet, stuffed with helpfulinformation for those forward-lookin people who

are approachin a point where they need toconsider restructurin their li+es - =uote fromformer Bditor of Cand Daily ail ( Ce9

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!"#G!!$% TH!& A&' &() *******

While the present ut-wrenchin scenes et played out

world-wide throuh our tele+ision screens, I happened to pick up

a Huuenot !ociety#s reconstructed# description of one particularfamily#s e9perience of fleein from rance durin the Coman%atholic persecution of the $rotestants. Imaine this1 ha+in to

flee suddenly with only what one can carry. In the case of thiscouple, the aures, their most precious possession was theirbaby, :ntoine. &ra+ellin all the way from @rane in the south ofrance walkin all the way;6 they reached !wit>erland. y this

time winter had come, so they stayed put until sprin. It is

thouht that they and other refuees split up1 the women andchildren were able to et passaes on a boat on the Ci+er Chine,oin to Holland where they knew they would be welcomed6.&his was e9pensi+e, so the men walked. Imaine the aony ofthe uncertainty of families e+er bein reunited....6.

&his family did meet up and were assined to orculo in the

Jetherlands, where :ntoine#s father was i+en a )ob as one of

the soldierKatekeepers at the castle. &here#s no space to tell therest of :ntoine#s story, e9cept to say he came to the %ape andmade a reat contribution to the community. He married Cachel,

:braham de illiers# dauhter.

When +isitin Jorwich, I came across the story of &he!traners. ifty families, Walloons from elium6 had fledreliious persecution and were accepted by the town, andbrouht their skills with them. &hey could instruct the ritish

wea+ers on all the latest technoloy. &here is still a !traners!ociety in Jorwich.

:nd what about all the refuees, fleein from war >ones orpart of an economic miration that arri+e in our own country;: an of

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difference in social and reliious backrounds. @ur Huuenot

ancestors were much easier to interate with the Dutch1 )ust aneffort needed to learn a new lanuae. Jo, I#m not belittlin the

traumas they went throuh or their po+erty or the hard work offarmin from scratch#.6 I wonder how many people in our church

ha+e Huuenot ancestors and ha+e looked into their own familyhistories; I#+e had a fascinatin time del+in into mine1 the de

illiers, ?ouberts, Jels, le Cou9s, the Cou9s and &ailleferts.

+ucy ,entlivres

&he symbolism of the Huuenot cross is particularly rich.

&he cross as an eminent symbol of the %hristian faith,represents not only the death of %hrist but also +ictory o+er

death and impiety. &his is represented also in the altese%ross.

It is (otonn6, the eiht points symbolisin the eihteatitudes atthew 014-2/6.

etween the arms of the cross is the stylised fleur-de-lys,each has 4 petals the total of twel+e petals of the fleur-de-lys sinify the twel+e apostles. etween each fleur-de-lys

and the arms of the altese %ross with which it is )oined, isan open space in the form of a heart, the symbol of loyalty,

which suests the seal of the rench Ceformer, ?ohn %al+in.

&he pendant do+e symbolises the Holy !pirit. In times ofpersecution a pearl, symboli>in a teardrop, replaced thedo+e.

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A! TH! TAT!$ -&.(# ,H#,H/

Doyou know how manymembers of the &:&B family belonto your church; &here is old man DI%

&:&B who wants to run e+erythin, while Mncle C@ &:&B tries to

chane e+erythin. &heir sister :

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second home as a storeroom and office on the newly cleared

land. : borehole that was part of the ift of land had been duand had water ushin out N for twenty minutes N then nothin

more.Doulas, pastor at owbray and )ust 45 years old, was the

Oouth %on+enor of the %ape $resbytery.&he idea of a pre-%hristmas camp for about

/5 )uniors to test out the new camp site, beanto row. :pplication forms were dispatched to

all the white churches in the $resbytery ( it wasin the days of :partheid. B+ery mother mustha+e wanted a =uiet period for %hristmasshoppin as the applications streamed in ( until

they reached one hundred*Do we or don't we; &hat was the =uestion.

Dust and sand e+erywhere, and no water. Aotsof trees for shade. Aots and lots of playinspace. Aots of enthusiasm ( and miht I add, a tine of madness.%ould this newly appointed Oouth %on+enor make it work; ut he

set to work. :nd work he did*&ents were borrowed from the Oounsfield ilitary camp (

those old army tents with the hea+y wooden pole in the middleand rope uy lines all around held in place with lare woodentent pes, for accommodation. :bout 25 kids could be s=uee>edinto one tent. &hese were erected ahead of time by that team of

owbray youn people.Drinkin water came by way of two +ery lare plastic

containers with small taps near the bottom. &hese were filledtwice daily by Doulas from the tap at the train station about

25kms away in !tellenbosch. @pen fires and borrowed pot)iesser+ed the cookin needs. :n abundance of firewood was

e+erywhere. :nd no need to con+ince 25 year old boys to keepthe fires burnin ( there were always plenty of +olunteers* &his

was as close to paradise that boys could et* :nd uess who hadto orani>e the food re=uirements. e*

%amp leaders came from owbray church. &hey formed ane9tremely able team of about 25 youn people, se+eral of whom

had been trained as leaders for !P camps that were popular inthe %ape at the time. %amp doctor was arie unnins, nee

Hardman6 then a second year medical student. !he was

Dou uller at thetime of this story

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upraded to camp doctor. %amp leader was Cobert enfield,

himself a M%& student. He also had to ensure the daily de+otions.&ransport was +ia the

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Church Family NewsBirth: Lucas van der Spuywas born on /2 :pril /52Gto :ileen and anne and

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A very sad story - Our duck's demise

I ha+e to tell you the sad news that all our ducks aredead they ha+e been massacred by a fiendish do that)umped o+er the wall of our arden. I only manaed to

bury ?acob in our arden, the other three probably ended up

in a arbae bin of house number 42 on 4rd :+enue.It happened this way. @n !aturday 2/ arch /52G at

about 22am the rideback do )umped our arden wall andimmediately went for ?acob, broke his neck and attackedthe two teenaers woundin both before Jaomi and two

passers-by chased the do away. Cachel escaped unharmedby flyin away Jaomi followed her and she replied by

crossin the road in the face of all the traffic and flyin into

the arden. &he three ducks were traumatised, refused toeat and spent the day near our front door in the porch.

&he same niht somethin incredible happened1 Cachel

decided to find out where ?acob was and flew on a suicidemission to 42 on 4rd :+enue about 355 metres away, she landed

in the back arden and was dispatched by the ride back, 25minutes later the wounded teenaer who could fly followedCachel and was also killed by the do.

How did these ducks know where to fly to; If you ha+e ananswer please tell me.

y !unday 24 arch I was left with only one duck with a

broken win that needed cleanin which I did carefully in water inthe duck bath. !he was +ery tremulous but seemed to realise Iwas there to help. &he whole of !unday she remained hiddenbehind a bush, sometimes drinkin water but refusin to eat.

&he ne9t day howe+er she disappeared without a trace the

do had come back, took her home in his mouth and that wasthe end of our ducks.&he owner of 42 on 4rd :+enue has apoloised and assured

us that they will build a hue steel fence around their backarden and i+e us a carrot cake as a peace offerin. ?acob and

Cachel came to us almost four years ao in a card board bo9 asfluffy yellow chicks and entertained us with their clackin and

their uncanny intellience and curiosity sadly we will ha+e to li+ewithout them. aybe we will start in the sprin with new chicks,but Cachel and ?acob are still our champions*

Arie de oning

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St Kiaran's Women's Fellowship

&he ne9t meetin will be held on 44 une

with Peter Mc+eodpresentin a ui7

ollowed by a Beetle 'riveon 48 uly

Any /estions. 4ontact Anne 7c8eod on

021 9$2#15

$t iaran9s Men9s "ello2shi:

meets monthly on the 3th!aturday.

or information contact Hubert !toll

5/26 EF0 35G0

Presbyterian !ducational "und ; $unday%

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&he !?ecutive ,o00ission of 4>

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ay our dear Aord and !a+iour bless you and the needs of

our youth.

In His Jame, ev T P +etsheleha, $B &ask &eam %o-ordinator P ev + M:etsheni,

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amily %hristian ible

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St Kiaran's Presbyterian Church

Cnr. Central Circle and Recreation RoadP.O.Box 22146, Fish Hoek, 7974

Church Phone !21 7"2 611"

Minister@ ev* Mike Muller

All are welcome at ourRegular Sunday Services

Sunday Worship Services at 9.30a.m. & 7p.m.

Holy Communion is ser#ed on the 1st$unda% o& the 'onth at (oth ser#ices

,H#,H PA.! M!!T-&G$

&uesdays1 22.30 a.m. in the %rai Coom

$rayer is offered after ser+ices for healin or other needs, by members of our $rayerinistry