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OUR COMMUNITY
ST T HOMASrsquo CHURCH KE RE SLE Y AN D KE RE SLE Y V I LLAGE COM MUN I T Y CHURCH
wwwst-thomas-keresleyorguk
J U L Y A U G U S T
2 0 11
5 0 P
Inside this issue
St Thomasrsquo
Calendar and
Notice Board
2
Local news 3
East Africa Food
Crisis appeal
4
St Thomasrsquo past 5
Keresley Village
Community
Church Calendar
6
Whatrsquos the big
idea 6
Parish Register 7
Mouse page 8
Bible or
Shakespeare
8
Whatever our trust
is most in that is our
God
R Stibbes
Update from the Churchwardens
T he Section 12 meeting where the PCC meet with diocesan staff to finalise
details regarding the recruitment of a new vicar was held at St Thomas
Church on Tuesday 14th June It was chaired by the Bishop of Warwick and
Archdeacon Ian Watson
The parish profile was signed off and it was agreed that we would advertise
shortly for our new vicar with an interview date of September
The PCC is also delighted to report that Steven Medley our current Young People
and Family worker will shortly take up post as the new Lay Pioneer Minister at
KVCC This is a full time position and is jointly funded by the Methodist Circuit
and the Coventry Diocese
Monday 1st to Friday 5th August
10am until 12 noon
St Thomas Church Hall Wickham Close
pound100 per child per day
From creation to the rescue explore Godrsquos Story
throughout history
Explained with a little help from Disneyrsquos Toy Story
Exciting crafts games and activities for
all primary school aged children
For further details contact Steve Medley - 02476331910
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 2
July Sunday 3rd 9am Holy Communion and hymns Rev Buff Forbes-
Stone
1030am Family Service
After the service there will be a Parish Barbecue in
the vicarage gardens All welcome Bring something
to cook and something to sit on
Sunday10th 9am Holy Communion Rev Buff Forbes-Stone
1030am Family Communion and Baptism Rev Pam
Smith
Sunday 17th 9am Holy Communion Rev Buff Forbes-Stone
030am Morning Worship Ministry Team Sunday
School Party
Sunday 24th 9am Holy Communion Rev Alison Evans
1030am Family Communion Rev Alan Davies
C H I L D R E N A N D Y O U N G P E O P L E
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 2
Sunday Morning Activities at St Thomasrsquo 1030am (during term time)
1st Sunday Family Service in Church
2nd Sunday 3-11s Sunday School in Galilee Room
11+ Pathfinders in the Church Hall
All join the service around 1125am
3rd Sunday All ages start in Church
4th amp 5th 3-11s Sunday School in Galilee Room
11+ Pathfinders in the Church Hall
All join the service around 1125am
This pattern may change occasionally for special services
ST THOMASrsquo CHURCH CALENDAR
First Steps with Jesus
For babies and pre-school children
with their parents and carers
Meets in the Galilee Room weekly
in term time
Mondays 130-230pm
Uniformed Groups Meet in the Church Hall
9th Rainbows Mondays 6-7pm
13th Brownies Mondays 600 - 730pm
9th Brownies Wednesdays 600 - 730pm
9th Guides Thursdays 630 - 830pm
Meet in the Scout Hut
41st Cubs Mondays 645 - 830pm
41st Scouts Tuesdays 700 - 900pm
41st Beavers Fridays 600 - 730pm
(for 6-8 year olds ) Thursday at St Trsquos
For 5-11 years Meets in the Galilee Room On Thursdays From 6pm to 7pm
Regular activities for children and young people take a break for the
summer holidays
new flavour
Thursdays
730pm to 9pm
Galilee Room
School year 9 upwards
Sunday 31st 9am Holy Communion
1030am Family Communion Ven Ian Watson
August Sunday 7th 9am Holy Communion and hymns
1030am ~Holiday Club Family Service
Sunday 14th 9am Holy Communion
1030am Family Communion
Sunday 21st 9am Holy Communion
1030am Family Worship
Sunday 28th 9am Holy Communion
1030am Family Communion
September Sunday 4th 9am Holy Communion and hymns
1030am Family Service
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 3
Churchyard Update
M any of you who have visited the churchyard will
see the wonderful work Coventry City Council
has done to improve our pathways and the work
that the probation service has done in maintaining
the shrubbery
Unfortunately we need to report that we have been
the victim of vandalism in our churchyard and there
has been considerable damage to a number of
headstones
We share your distress and to prevent further
damage we have laid the headstones flat If you see
a headstone laid flat can you please leave it as is
We need to make sure that the graves are mended
correctly to make sure that we do not have any
Health and Safety issues with unstable stones
We are working closely with the local police and we
ask you all to be vigilant and to report anything you
may see or hear If you have any queries around this
matter please contact one of the Churchwardens
Claire McArthur Margaret Potter
Refreshment for all Tuesday afternoons 130-230pm in the Galilee
Room Fortnightly
If you need transport or would like to
request prayers please contact
Margaret Bosworth on 7633 7932
leaving a message if necessary
with your name and telephone number
and she will ring you back
Be patterns be examples in all
countries places islands nations
wherever you come that your
carriage and life may preach among
all sorts of people and to them then
you will come to walk cheerfully all
over the world answering that of God
in every one George Fox
400m gold medallist reads Olympic
prayer 400 days ahead of 2012
Games ndash and counting Coventry is one of the venues for Olympic events
next year This summer with a year to go to the start
of the London Olympics the Church of England
released a prayer for those preparing for the 2012
Games It asks God to be with the athletes their
supporters and families and the thousands of
churches preparing to organise Olympics-themed
events in their communities and it is read on a new
podcast by GB Olympic 400m gold medallist
Christine Ohuruogu MBE
The Church of England is a member of the
ecumenical organisation More Than Gold which
supports churches of all denominations around the
UK with resources and ideas as they prepare to
engage with the Games
The prayer composed by the Revd Christopher
Woods the Church of Englands National Worship
Development Officer reads as follows
Eternal God
Giver of joy and source of all strength
we pray for those
who prepare for the London Olympic and Paralympic
games
For the competitors training for the Games and their loved
ones
For the many thousands who will support them
And for the Churches and others who are organising
special events and who will welcome many people from
many nations
In a world where many are rejected and abused
we pray for a spirit
of tolerance and acceptance of humility and respect
and for the health and safety of all
May we at the last be led towards the love of Christ who is
more than gold today and forever Amen
The Church of England podcast is available here
httpwwwchurchofenglandorgmedia-centre
follow-us-onlinepodcastsaspx
For more on More Than Gold visit
wwwmorethangoldorguk
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 4
Christian Aid partners are responding Our partners in Ethiopia Sudan and Kenya are
closely monitoring the situation This appeal will
fund urgently needed life-saving measures such as
emergency tanks and distribution of water
for villages experiencing the worst of the
drought conditions
construction of additional water points
food for families who currently are not
reached by the World Food Programme
response
extra nutrition for malnourished children and
pregnant women
animal feed to protect livestock that are so
crucial to survival
helping communities become more resilient
to future crises
Activities will be carried out by partners across the
region Our partners Christian Community Services
Mount Kenya East Northern Aid and Ukamba
Christian Community Services are responding in
north eastern and eastern Kenya In Ethiopia our
partners Action for Development and Agri-Service
Ethiopia are currently working with local
communities in the south to help them to withstand
the effects of crises such as drought
To make a donation to Christian Aidrsquos East Africa
Food Crisis Appeal call 08080 004 004 or visit
wwwchristianaidorgukeast-africa-appeal
C hristian Aid has launched an emergency
humanitarian appeal to help people across the
east and Horn of Africa after two failed rainy seasons
have left ten million on the brink of starvation
Drought and displacement Drought and displacement combined with rising food
prices has left the east and the horn of Africa
especially Kenya and Ethiopia in need of urgent
humanitarian support
UNOCHA reports that the situation is the worst food
security crisis in the world today and some parts of
the region are experiencing the driest conditions in
60 years
After two poor rainy seasons in 2011 drought in
countries affected has left 10 million people in need
of humanitarian assistance
At the same time Christian Aid is concerned that
large numbers of people who have been displaced
within Sudan and from Somalia that are also facing
food shortages
Christian Aid staff in the region are reporting cases
of malnutrition in children and adults and people
begging for water on the side of the road
Even animals which are normally resistant to drought
such as camels donkeys and goats are suffering
Due to the lack of water some schools and hospitals
have been forced to close and people are travelling
for miles to collect water to drink
I s there any point in my struggling to live
sustainably when so many - including
emerging nations - are indifferent to the
earths worth and restraints Nearly 10
of precious European soil is covered and
sealed And the bulldozers continue to
roar I care but what good does it do
Are not my actions like myself and
my thoughts dismissed like seeds in a gale
What good are my frail efforts at personal and
community sustainability Mother Teresa agreed
that ones efforts were only a drop in the ocean but
added that the ocean would be smaller without that
drop The anthropologist Margaret Mead when
asked if the actions of a few committed persons
could change the world replied Its the only thing
that ever has Robert F Kennedy said that each of
us can work to change a small portion of events in
the least of these actions will be written the history
of this generation When we live sustainably locally
in community with others who share our ideals and
efforts we are part of a holistic countercultural
movement offering hope and light
July 2011
Christian Aid is responding to the east Africa food crisis and has launched an emergency appeal to help people affected across the re-
gion
pound130000 has been released for partners to respond as the situation intensifies in Kenya and Ethiopia
Please give now to help us reach those most in need
East Africa food crisis appeal
Light one candle When families who have lived on ancestral land for
centuries leave their hereditary fields as they do in
parts of Africa Asia South America and even in
the west today the world and its future grow darker
As Indian farm woman Chandramma said sadly A
farm without seeds is like a home without light But
each of us can be a candle And we all know the
saying Its better to light one candle than to curse
the darkness
People of all religions and of none wonder if they
make a difference Do my little acts matter The
biblical scholar CFD Moule said he was asked this
question more than any other He replied Nothing is
wasted all good acts contribute to the approaching
kingdom In the words of the Colossians hymn so
loved by the Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de
Chardin In Him all things cohere (Col 117) Even
in dark times all good actions no matter how slight
burn brightly
We may be a drop in the ocean a candle lit in the
dark but in Christ and together we can win
Edward Echlin (Author of Climate and Christ A
Prophetic Alternative Columba 2010)
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 5 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 5
Sunday School Party
The Sunday School party on June 30th will possibly be over by the time the Magazine is in the hands of subscribers It is to be held in a field at Coundon very kindly lent for the occasion by Captain Miller In view of the food restrictions and the recently reported utterance of the Food Controller against school teas there was some hesitation about providing a tea this year But in view of a more recent utterance of the Food Campaign Department of the national war Savings Committee it appears that our decision to give a tea on strictly economical lines was a highly patriotic action The following is the reply of the above Department to an enquiry from the Willenhall Local Central War Savings Committee ldquoThe Department could not give approval (to school feasts) unless they were assured of the strictest economy and an avoidance of all display and excess In the case of childrenrsquos treats for the occasion offers excellent opportunities for bringing before they youthful mind the aims and principles of the food campaign in a practical manner If a public meal can thus be made to serve as a valuable object lesson the Department are of opinion that to hold it may perhaps be morally and materially of advantagerdquo This is our own view of the matter and it is gratifying to find that two such important bodies as the National War Savings committee and the Keresley Sunday School teachers think alike upon the weighty subject of unlimited buns
Sunday Schools
Saturday June 2nd was a red letter day for our Sunday Schools and more particularly for the Infantsrsquo department for on that day we were favoured with a visit from Miss Phyllis Dent one of the Sunday School experts of the Church of England Sunday School Institute It is now recognised that teaching is an art as much in the Sunday School as in the Day school the Secondary School and the University Men and women who choose teaching for their profession need to study not merely the subjects but also the methods of education The question ldquoWhat am I going to teachrdquo is not more important than ldquoHow am I going to teachrdquo The answer to the latter question varies according to the age of the pupil It is just as necessary for Sunday school teachers as for other teachers to know what these methods are if their teaching is to be effective and although some people are by nature alone better teachers than
others yet there are none who could not by studying the art of teaching improve upon their natural gifts and very few who by the same means could not make up for the lack of natural gifts and turn themselves into efficient teachers
It is one of the aims of the Sunday School Institute to help Sunday School teachers to acquire some knowledge of the methods of teaching It was in order to give such hep and advice to the kindergarten teachers that Miss Phyllis Dent visited us and although the teacher had already been able to gather much on these subjects from the Sunday School magazine yet the practical assistance give by Miss Dent was of very great value She made it plain that for infants up to seven years of age the kindergarten is the best possible method because it is exactly suited to the minds of infants Objections have sometimes been heart to the kindergarten Sunday School that ldquoit is only teaching the children to playrdquo Nothing could be farther from the truth or more unjust to the teachers For instance the teacher has been telling the children a story from the Bible and it is required to find out how much they have learned form the lesson With older children this could be done by question and answer or by getting them to write down in their own words what they had learned But this will not do with a class of infants They cannot frame their ideas in words and writing is out of the question But let the kindergarten teacher give them a pencil and paper and they will readily produce a drawing of the scene and objects and persons which the teacher has told them about It is surprising what an amount of thoughtfulness sometimes appears in these crude drawings ndash thoughtfulness which is thus afforded means of expression instead of being suppressed as it otherwise would be
Another point in the justification of the kindergarten is that the children are not permitted to become fidgety or listless They are so occupied and the programme is so varied that they are kept interested and alert all the time and yet they see and hear and do nothing that is not directly connected with religious instruction
There is every reason for gratitude to the Sunday school Institute for providing such help and to Miss Dent herself for the obvious insight and sympathy which she showed for the problems and difficulties of Sunday school work
St Thomasrsquo Keresley and Coundon
In these current times of financial cutbacks I found ths item within an article on the Sunday school from
June 1917 An interesting take on a partymdashthat its austerity should be morally of advantage to young
minds The rest of the article is a treatise on Sunday school teaching It surprises me that at a time when
all things German were deplored the word rsquokindergartenrsquo to describe a style of teaching was not
July 2011
Christian Aid is responding to the east Africa food crisis and has launched an emergency appeal to help people affected across the re-
gion
pound130000 has been released for partners to respond as the situation intensifies in Kenya and Ethiopia
Please give now to help us reach those most in need
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 6
lsquoThe Psalms have a unique place in the Bible because
most of the Scripture speaks to us while the Psalms
speak for usrsquo (Athanasius of Alexandria)
The Book of Psalms contains 150 prayers or songs of
praise (thallium is the Hebrew title meaning lsquopraisesrsquo)
The majority of the psalms (73) are attributed to
David although some were composed around the
exilic period
The majority of the psalms were composed for
liturgical worship and follow a distinct pattern There
are songs of praise in which people joyfully express
their praise of God for his work of creation and
sustenance (eg Psalms 135 amp 136) Another form is
the thanksgiving psalm in which the psalmist
recounts a desperate situation and tells of how God
has answered his prayer (eg Psalms 30 amp 116)
There are significantly psalms of lament which may be
individual (eg Psalms 3-7 22) or communal (eg Psalm
44) Although they usually begin with a cry for help
they develop in various ways Some clearly refer to
deliverance from sin (Psalms 51 amp 130) Other
laments end on a note of certainty that the Lord has
heard the prayer (Psalm 7 but contrast Psalm 88) in
a movement from lament to praise In other cases the
theme of trust is the central thrust of the psalm
(Psalms 23 62 amp 91)
The lsquoroyal psalmsrsquo address the situation of a currently
reigning king (eg Psalm 20 21 amp 72) They were
preserved even after kingship had disappeared
because they point to the promised Messiah under the
Davidic covenant For Christians of course they point
to the coming of Jesus the true Son of David
Sunday 14th 1030am Holy Communion Rev Robin Trew
Sunday 21st 1030am Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 28th 1030am Morning Worship Rev Ian Worsfold
Regular Meetings Mondays 5-6pm Trailblazers Childrens Club
Tuesday afternoons 130-245pm First Steps for babies and pre-school children with their
parents and carers during term time
Wednesday 730-9pm lsquoDrop-inrsquo Centre for teenagers
Fridays 5-630pm monthly Friday Church usually meets on the first Friday of the
month
P AGE 6
July Sunday 3rd 1030am Family Service Mr Neil Bolus
All invited to the Parish Barbecue in the vicarage
garden after the service
Sunday 10th
1030 Holy Communion by Extension Mr Pete
Hudson
Sunday 17th 1030 Morning Worship
Sunday 24th 1030 Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 31st 1030 Morning Worship Miss Mary Coles
August Sunday 7th 1030am Family Worship
KERESLEY VILLAGE COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICES
Re
v P
au
l H
ard
ing
ha
m
Re
cto
r o
f B
olt
on
Whatrsquos the Big Idea - An Introduction to the Books of the Old and New Testament Psalms and 1 Timothy
There are also psalms which teach wisdom (eg
Psalms 37 49) lsquotorahrsquo psalms in which the torah
(instruction law) of the Lord is central (eg Psalms
1 19 amp 119) and psalms which celebrate the
history of Israel and Godrsquos faithfulness (eg Psalms
78 105 amp 106)
It has been rightly said that the psalms are a school
of prayer Many Christians have learnt to pray using
the psalms as they not only provide us with models
to follow but also voice our own deepest feelings
and aspirations as we come into Godrsquos presence
lsquoThe Lord is my shepherd I shall lack nothing He
makes me lie down in green pastures he leads me
beside quiet waters he restores my soulrsquo (Psalm
231-3)
1 Timothy Paulrsquos Pastoral Epistles (1 2 Timothy ampTitus) were
written to young leaders in the local church Paul
wrote this first letter to Timothy around c 63ndash65
instructing him to care for the church at Ephesus
(13) to challenge false teaching (13ndash7 41ndash8 63
ndash5 20ndash21) and to oversee the life of the growing
Ephesian church incl their worship ( 21-15) the
appointment of leaders (31ndash13 517ndash25) and their
attitude to money (63-10 17-18) This section
includes the often misquoted verse lsquothe love of
money is the root of all kinds of evilrsquo (610)
Paul writes to Timothy lsquomy true son in the
faithrsquo (12) Timothyrsquos father was Greek while his
mother was a Jewish Christian (Ac 161) Paul led
him to faith in Christ during his first visit to Lystra At
the time of his second visit he invited Timothy to join
(Continued on page 7)
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7
PARISH REGISTER
THANKSGIVINGS 19th June
Kyle Harvey Liggins Darcey Rose Lee
WEDDINGS June 18th
Sharon Tracy Crisp amp Paul Graham Colson
BURIAL 10th June
Phyllis Mason aged 93 of Charnwood House
at St Paulrsquos
17th June
Clifford Reginald Barrell aged 90 of Keresley Wood
him on his missionary travels circumcising him so
that his Greek ancestry would not be a liability in
working with the Jews (Ac 163) Although somewhat
timid and often unwell Timothy was faithful servant
of the Lord and Paul
The primary purpose of the letter is to urge Timothy
to deal with false teaching in the church It also
provided written authorisation to allow Timothy to
carry out this task The false teachers were primarily
insiders not teachers from outside the church They
taught a strong emphasis on Jewish myths and
genealogies They were legalistic about the about
Jewish laws while downplaying the importance of
marriage It would also appear that they taught that
the resurrection had already come and Christians no
longer needed to look forward to Christs coming
judgment and resurrection of the dead They were
so immersed in speculative controversies that they
were neglecting the very core of the Christian faith
Not an unfamiliar situation today
Therefore this letter teaches us that we should all be
an example of faithfulness and not a stumbling block
to those God has called us to reach Like Timothy
we are called to build the church in a way that will
bring glory to God lsquoBut you man of God flee from all
this and pursue righteousness godliness faith
love endurance and gentleness Fight the good fight
of the faith Take hold of the eternal life to which you
were called when you made your good confession in
the presence of many witnessesrsquo (I Timothy 61112)
(Continued from page 6) 1 Thessalonians
Regular Activities in the Church Hall NB the Church Hall is not usually available for late night
Discos
Pre-school Playgroup
Mondays to Fridays 9am - 1130am and
1230pm ndash 3pm
Brownies Guides Cubs and Scouts meet on
weekday evenings See page 2 for details
I dreamt that I went to
Heaven and an angel was deputised to show me around
Our first stop was at a large room filled with angels They were unfolding reading and stacking thousands of bits of paper of all sizes My angel guide explained ldquoThis is the Receiving Section Here all petitions to God said in prayer are received‟ I looked around the area and it was terribly busy Angels were sorting out petitions from all over the world Some were long and involved and weighty others merely a sigh on a scrap of paper
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section
The angel said to me This is the Packaging and Delivery Section Here the graces and blessings that have been asked for are processed and delivered to the people who need them I noticed again how busy it was there The angels were working hard to package and send back to earth all the blessings that had been requested
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station To my great surprise only one angel was seated there doing nothing much This is the Acknowledgement Section my angel friend said quietly He seemed a bit embarrassed How is it that there is no work going on here I asked
The angel sighed Well after people receive the blessings that they ask for it seems very few think to send back any acknowledgement
How does one acknowledge Gods blessings I
asked
Simple the angel answered ldquoJust say bdquoThank
you Lord‟ And mean itrdquo
What happens in heaven when you pray
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 2
July Sunday 3rd 9am Holy Communion and hymns Rev Buff Forbes-
Stone
1030am Family Service
After the service there will be a Parish Barbecue in
the vicarage gardens All welcome Bring something
to cook and something to sit on
Sunday10th 9am Holy Communion Rev Buff Forbes-Stone
1030am Family Communion and Baptism Rev Pam
Smith
Sunday 17th 9am Holy Communion Rev Buff Forbes-Stone
030am Morning Worship Ministry Team Sunday
School Party
Sunday 24th 9am Holy Communion Rev Alison Evans
1030am Family Communion Rev Alan Davies
C H I L D R E N A N D Y O U N G P E O P L E
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 2
Sunday Morning Activities at St Thomasrsquo 1030am (during term time)
1st Sunday Family Service in Church
2nd Sunday 3-11s Sunday School in Galilee Room
11+ Pathfinders in the Church Hall
All join the service around 1125am
3rd Sunday All ages start in Church
4th amp 5th 3-11s Sunday School in Galilee Room
11+ Pathfinders in the Church Hall
All join the service around 1125am
This pattern may change occasionally for special services
ST THOMASrsquo CHURCH CALENDAR
First Steps with Jesus
For babies and pre-school children
with their parents and carers
Meets in the Galilee Room weekly
in term time
Mondays 130-230pm
Uniformed Groups Meet in the Church Hall
9th Rainbows Mondays 6-7pm
13th Brownies Mondays 600 - 730pm
9th Brownies Wednesdays 600 - 730pm
9th Guides Thursdays 630 - 830pm
Meet in the Scout Hut
41st Cubs Mondays 645 - 830pm
41st Scouts Tuesdays 700 - 900pm
41st Beavers Fridays 600 - 730pm
(for 6-8 year olds ) Thursday at St Trsquos
For 5-11 years Meets in the Galilee Room On Thursdays From 6pm to 7pm
Regular activities for children and young people take a break for the
summer holidays
new flavour
Thursdays
730pm to 9pm
Galilee Room
School year 9 upwards
Sunday 31st 9am Holy Communion
1030am Family Communion Ven Ian Watson
August Sunday 7th 9am Holy Communion and hymns
1030am ~Holiday Club Family Service
Sunday 14th 9am Holy Communion
1030am Family Communion
Sunday 21st 9am Holy Communion
1030am Family Worship
Sunday 28th 9am Holy Communion
1030am Family Communion
September Sunday 4th 9am Holy Communion and hymns
1030am Family Service
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 3
Churchyard Update
M any of you who have visited the churchyard will
see the wonderful work Coventry City Council
has done to improve our pathways and the work
that the probation service has done in maintaining
the shrubbery
Unfortunately we need to report that we have been
the victim of vandalism in our churchyard and there
has been considerable damage to a number of
headstones
We share your distress and to prevent further
damage we have laid the headstones flat If you see
a headstone laid flat can you please leave it as is
We need to make sure that the graves are mended
correctly to make sure that we do not have any
Health and Safety issues with unstable stones
We are working closely with the local police and we
ask you all to be vigilant and to report anything you
may see or hear If you have any queries around this
matter please contact one of the Churchwardens
Claire McArthur Margaret Potter
Refreshment for all Tuesday afternoons 130-230pm in the Galilee
Room Fortnightly
If you need transport or would like to
request prayers please contact
Margaret Bosworth on 7633 7932
leaving a message if necessary
with your name and telephone number
and she will ring you back
Be patterns be examples in all
countries places islands nations
wherever you come that your
carriage and life may preach among
all sorts of people and to them then
you will come to walk cheerfully all
over the world answering that of God
in every one George Fox
400m gold medallist reads Olympic
prayer 400 days ahead of 2012
Games ndash and counting Coventry is one of the venues for Olympic events
next year This summer with a year to go to the start
of the London Olympics the Church of England
released a prayer for those preparing for the 2012
Games It asks God to be with the athletes their
supporters and families and the thousands of
churches preparing to organise Olympics-themed
events in their communities and it is read on a new
podcast by GB Olympic 400m gold medallist
Christine Ohuruogu MBE
The Church of England is a member of the
ecumenical organisation More Than Gold which
supports churches of all denominations around the
UK with resources and ideas as they prepare to
engage with the Games
The prayer composed by the Revd Christopher
Woods the Church of Englands National Worship
Development Officer reads as follows
Eternal God
Giver of joy and source of all strength
we pray for those
who prepare for the London Olympic and Paralympic
games
For the competitors training for the Games and their loved
ones
For the many thousands who will support them
And for the Churches and others who are organising
special events and who will welcome many people from
many nations
In a world where many are rejected and abused
we pray for a spirit
of tolerance and acceptance of humility and respect
and for the health and safety of all
May we at the last be led towards the love of Christ who is
more than gold today and forever Amen
The Church of England podcast is available here
httpwwwchurchofenglandorgmedia-centre
follow-us-onlinepodcastsaspx
For more on More Than Gold visit
wwwmorethangoldorguk
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 4
Christian Aid partners are responding Our partners in Ethiopia Sudan and Kenya are
closely monitoring the situation This appeal will
fund urgently needed life-saving measures such as
emergency tanks and distribution of water
for villages experiencing the worst of the
drought conditions
construction of additional water points
food for families who currently are not
reached by the World Food Programme
response
extra nutrition for malnourished children and
pregnant women
animal feed to protect livestock that are so
crucial to survival
helping communities become more resilient
to future crises
Activities will be carried out by partners across the
region Our partners Christian Community Services
Mount Kenya East Northern Aid and Ukamba
Christian Community Services are responding in
north eastern and eastern Kenya In Ethiopia our
partners Action for Development and Agri-Service
Ethiopia are currently working with local
communities in the south to help them to withstand
the effects of crises such as drought
To make a donation to Christian Aidrsquos East Africa
Food Crisis Appeal call 08080 004 004 or visit
wwwchristianaidorgukeast-africa-appeal
C hristian Aid has launched an emergency
humanitarian appeal to help people across the
east and Horn of Africa after two failed rainy seasons
have left ten million on the brink of starvation
Drought and displacement Drought and displacement combined with rising food
prices has left the east and the horn of Africa
especially Kenya and Ethiopia in need of urgent
humanitarian support
UNOCHA reports that the situation is the worst food
security crisis in the world today and some parts of
the region are experiencing the driest conditions in
60 years
After two poor rainy seasons in 2011 drought in
countries affected has left 10 million people in need
of humanitarian assistance
At the same time Christian Aid is concerned that
large numbers of people who have been displaced
within Sudan and from Somalia that are also facing
food shortages
Christian Aid staff in the region are reporting cases
of malnutrition in children and adults and people
begging for water on the side of the road
Even animals which are normally resistant to drought
such as camels donkeys and goats are suffering
Due to the lack of water some schools and hospitals
have been forced to close and people are travelling
for miles to collect water to drink
I s there any point in my struggling to live
sustainably when so many - including
emerging nations - are indifferent to the
earths worth and restraints Nearly 10
of precious European soil is covered and
sealed And the bulldozers continue to
roar I care but what good does it do
Are not my actions like myself and
my thoughts dismissed like seeds in a gale
What good are my frail efforts at personal and
community sustainability Mother Teresa agreed
that ones efforts were only a drop in the ocean but
added that the ocean would be smaller without that
drop The anthropologist Margaret Mead when
asked if the actions of a few committed persons
could change the world replied Its the only thing
that ever has Robert F Kennedy said that each of
us can work to change a small portion of events in
the least of these actions will be written the history
of this generation When we live sustainably locally
in community with others who share our ideals and
efforts we are part of a holistic countercultural
movement offering hope and light
July 2011
Christian Aid is responding to the east Africa food crisis and has launched an emergency appeal to help people affected across the re-
gion
pound130000 has been released for partners to respond as the situation intensifies in Kenya and Ethiopia
Please give now to help us reach those most in need
East Africa food crisis appeal
Light one candle When families who have lived on ancestral land for
centuries leave their hereditary fields as they do in
parts of Africa Asia South America and even in
the west today the world and its future grow darker
As Indian farm woman Chandramma said sadly A
farm without seeds is like a home without light But
each of us can be a candle And we all know the
saying Its better to light one candle than to curse
the darkness
People of all religions and of none wonder if they
make a difference Do my little acts matter The
biblical scholar CFD Moule said he was asked this
question more than any other He replied Nothing is
wasted all good acts contribute to the approaching
kingdom In the words of the Colossians hymn so
loved by the Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de
Chardin In Him all things cohere (Col 117) Even
in dark times all good actions no matter how slight
burn brightly
We may be a drop in the ocean a candle lit in the
dark but in Christ and together we can win
Edward Echlin (Author of Climate and Christ A
Prophetic Alternative Columba 2010)
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 5 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 5
Sunday School Party
The Sunday School party on June 30th will possibly be over by the time the Magazine is in the hands of subscribers It is to be held in a field at Coundon very kindly lent for the occasion by Captain Miller In view of the food restrictions and the recently reported utterance of the Food Controller against school teas there was some hesitation about providing a tea this year But in view of a more recent utterance of the Food Campaign Department of the national war Savings Committee it appears that our decision to give a tea on strictly economical lines was a highly patriotic action The following is the reply of the above Department to an enquiry from the Willenhall Local Central War Savings Committee ldquoThe Department could not give approval (to school feasts) unless they were assured of the strictest economy and an avoidance of all display and excess In the case of childrenrsquos treats for the occasion offers excellent opportunities for bringing before they youthful mind the aims and principles of the food campaign in a practical manner If a public meal can thus be made to serve as a valuable object lesson the Department are of opinion that to hold it may perhaps be morally and materially of advantagerdquo This is our own view of the matter and it is gratifying to find that two such important bodies as the National War Savings committee and the Keresley Sunday School teachers think alike upon the weighty subject of unlimited buns
Sunday Schools
Saturday June 2nd was a red letter day for our Sunday Schools and more particularly for the Infantsrsquo department for on that day we were favoured with a visit from Miss Phyllis Dent one of the Sunday School experts of the Church of England Sunday School Institute It is now recognised that teaching is an art as much in the Sunday School as in the Day school the Secondary School and the University Men and women who choose teaching for their profession need to study not merely the subjects but also the methods of education The question ldquoWhat am I going to teachrdquo is not more important than ldquoHow am I going to teachrdquo The answer to the latter question varies according to the age of the pupil It is just as necessary for Sunday school teachers as for other teachers to know what these methods are if their teaching is to be effective and although some people are by nature alone better teachers than
others yet there are none who could not by studying the art of teaching improve upon their natural gifts and very few who by the same means could not make up for the lack of natural gifts and turn themselves into efficient teachers
It is one of the aims of the Sunday School Institute to help Sunday School teachers to acquire some knowledge of the methods of teaching It was in order to give such hep and advice to the kindergarten teachers that Miss Phyllis Dent visited us and although the teacher had already been able to gather much on these subjects from the Sunday School magazine yet the practical assistance give by Miss Dent was of very great value She made it plain that for infants up to seven years of age the kindergarten is the best possible method because it is exactly suited to the minds of infants Objections have sometimes been heart to the kindergarten Sunday School that ldquoit is only teaching the children to playrdquo Nothing could be farther from the truth or more unjust to the teachers For instance the teacher has been telling the children a story from the Bible and it is required to find out how much they have learned form the lesson With older children this could be done by question and answer or by getting them to write down in their own words what they had learned But this will not do with a class of infants They cannot frame their ideas in words and writing is out of the question But let the kindergarten teacher give them a pencil and paper and they will readily produce a drawing of the scene and objects and persons which the teacher has told them about It is surprising what an amount of thoughtfulness sometimes appears in these crude drawings ndash thoughtfulness which is thus afforded means of expression instead of being suppressed as it otherwise would be
Another point in the justification of the kindergarten is that the children are not permitted to become fidgety or listless They are so occupied and the programme is so varied that they are kept interested and alert all the time and yet they see and hear and do nothing that is not directly connected with religious instruction
There is every reason for gratitude to the Sunday school Institute for providing such help and to Miss Dent herself for the obvious insight and sympathy which she showed for the problems and difficulties of Sunday school work
St Thomasrsquo Keresley and Coundon
In these current times of financial cutbacks I found ths item within an article on the Sunday school from
June 1917 An interesting take on a partymdashthat its austerity should be morally of advantage to young
minds The rest of the article is a treatise on Sunday school teaching It surprises me that at a time when
all things German were deplored the word rsquokindergartenrsquo to describe a style of teaching was not
July 2011
Christian Aid is responding to the east Africa food crisis and has launched an emergency appeal to help people affected across the re-
gion
pound130000 has been released for partners to respond as the situation intensifies in Kenya and Ethiopia
Please give now to help us reach those most in need
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 6
lsquoThe Psalms have a unique place in the Bible because
most of the Scripture speaks to us while the Psalms
speak for usrsquo (Athanasius of Alexandria)
The Book of Psalms contains 150 prayers or songs of
praise (thallium is the Hebrew title meaning lsquopraisesrsquo)
The majority of the psalms (73) are attributed to
David although some were composed around the
exilic period
The majority of the psalms were composed for
liturgical worship and follow a distinct pattern There
are songs of praise in which people joyfully express
their praise of God for his work of creation and
sustenance (eg Psalms 135 amp 136) Another form is
the thanksgiving psalm in which the psalmist
recounts a desperate situation and tells of how God
has answered his prayer (eg Psalms 30 amp 116)
There are significantly psalms of lament which may be
individual (eg Psalms 3-7 22) or communal (eg Psalm
44) Although they usually begin with a cry for help
they develop in various ways Some clearly refer to
deliverance from sin (Psalms 51 amp 130) Other
laments end on a note of certainty that the Lord has
heard the prayer (Psalm 7 but contrast Psalm 88) in
a movement from lament to praise In other cases the
theme of trust is the central thrust of the psalm
(Psalms 23 62 amp 91)
The lsquoroyal psalmsrsquo address the situation of a currently
reigning king (eg Psalm 20 21 amp 72) They were
preserved even after kingship had disappeared
because they point to the promised Messiah under the
Davidic covenant For Christians of course they point
to the coming of Jesus the true Son of David
Sunday 14th 1030am Holy Communion Rev Robin Trew
Sunday 21st 1030am Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 28th 1030am Morning Worship Rev Ian Worsfold
Regular Meetings Mondays 5-6pm Trailblazers Childrens Club
Tuesday afternoons 130-245pm First Steps for babies and pre-school children with their
parents and carers during term time
Wednesday 730-9pm lsquoDrop-inrsquo Centre for teenagers
Fridays 5-630pm monthly Friday Church usually meets on the first Friday of the
month
P AGE 6
July Sunday 3rd 1030am Family Service Mr Neil Bolus
All invited to the Parish Barbecue in the vicarage
garden after the service
Sunday 10th
1030 Holy Communion by Extension Mr Pete
Hudson
Sunday 17th 1030 Morning Worship
Sunday 24th 1030 Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 31st 1030 Morning Worship Miss Mary Coles
August Sunday 7th 1030am Family Worship
KERESLEY VILLAGE COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICES
Re
v P
au
l H
ard
ing
ha
m
Re
cto
r o
f B
olt
on
Whatrsquos the Big Idea - An Introduction to the Books of the Old and New Testament Psalms and 1 Timothy
There are also psalms which teach wisdom (eg
Psalms 37 49) lsquotorahrsquo psalms in which the torah
(instruction law) of the Lord is central (eg Psalms
1 19 amp 119) and psalms which celebrate the
history of Israel and Godrsquos faithfulness (eg Psalms
78 105 amp 106)
It has been rightly said that the psalms are a school
of prayer Many Christians have learnt to pray using
the psalms as they not only provide us with models
to follow but also voice our own deepest feelings
and aspirations as we come into Godrsquos presence
lsquoThe Lord is my shepherd I shall lack nothing He
makes me lie down in green pastures he leads me
beside quiet waters he restores my soulrsquo (Psalm
231-3)
1 Timothy Paulrsquos Pastoral Epistles (1 2 Timothy ampTitus) were
written to young leaders in the local church Paul
wrote this first letter to Timothy around c 63ndash65
instructing him to care for the church at Ephesus
(13) to challenge false teaching (13ndash7 41ndash8 63
ndash5 20ndash21) and to oversee the life of the growing
Ephesian church incl their worship ( 21-15) the
appointment of leaders (31ndash13 517ndash25) and their
attitude to money (63-10 17-18) This section
includes the often misquoted verse lsquothe love of
money is the root of all kinds of evilrsquo (610)
Paul writes to Timothy lsquomy true son in the
faithrsquo (12) Timothyrsquos father was Greek while his
mother was a Jewish Christian (Ac 161) Paul led
him to faith in Christ during his first visit to Lystra At
the time of his second visit he invited Timothy to join
(Continued on page 7)
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7
PARISH REGISTER
THANKSGIVINGS 19th June
Kyle Harvey Liggins Darcey Rose Lee
WEDDINGS June 18th
Sharon Tracy Crisp amp Paul Graham Colson
BURIAL 10th June
Phyllis Mason aged 93 of Charnwood House
at St Paulrsquos
17th June
Clifford Reginald Barrell aged 90 of Keresley Wood
him on his missionary travels circumcising him so
that his Greek ancestry would not be a liability in
working with the Jews (Ac 163) Although somewhat
timid and often unwell Timothy was faithful servant
of the Lord and Paul
The primary purpose of the letter is to urge Timothy
to deal with false teaching in the church It also
provided written authorisation to allow Timothy to
carry out this task The false teachers were primarily
insiders not teachers from outside the church They
taught a strong emphasis on Jewish myths and
genealogies They were legalistic about the about
Jewish laws while downplaying the importance of
marriage It would also appear that they taught that
the resurrection had already come and Christians no
longer needed to look forward to Christs coming
judgment and resurrection of the dead They were
so immersed in speculative controversies that they
were neglecting the very core of the Christian faith
Not an unfamiliar situation today
Therefore this letter teaches us that we should all be
an example of faithfulness and not a stumbling block
to those God has called us to reach Like Timothy
we are called to build the church in a way that will
bring glory to God lsquoBut you man of God flee from all
this and pursue righteousness godliness faith
love endurance and gentleness Fight the good fight
of the faith Take hold of the eternal life to which you
were called when you made your good confession in
the presence of many witnessesrsquo (I Timothy 61112)
(Continued from page 6) 1 Thessalonians
Regular Activities in the Church Hall NB the Church Hall is not usually available for late night
Discos
Pre-school Playgroup
Mondays to Fridays 9am - 1130am and
1230pm ndash 3pm
Brownies Guides Cubs and Scouts meet on
weekday evenings See page 2 for details
I dreamt that I went to
Heaven and an angel was deputised to show me around
Our first stop was at a large room filled with angels They were unfolding reading and stacking thousands of bits of paper of all sizes My angel guide explained ldquoThis is the Receiving Section Here all petitions to God said in prayer are received‟ I looked around the area and it was terribly busy Angels were sorting out petitions from all over the world Some were long and involved and weighty others merely a sigh on a scrap of paper
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section
The angel said to me This is the Packaging and Delivery Section Here the graces and blessings that have been asked for are processed and delivered to the people who need them I noticed again how busy it was there The angels were working hard to package and send back to earth all the blessings that had been requested
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station To my great surprise only one angel was seated there doing nothing much This is the Acknowledgement Section my angel friend said quietly He seemed a bit embarrassed How is it that there is no work going on here I asked
The angel sighed Well after people receive the blessings that they ask for it seems very few think to send back any acknowledgement
How does one acknowledge Gods blessings I
asked
Simple the angel answered ldquoJust say bdquoThank
you Lord‟ And mean itrdquo
What happens in heaven when you pray
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 3
Churchyard Update
M any of you who have visited the churchyard will
see the wonderful work Coventry City Council
has done to improve our pathways and the work
that the probation service has done in maintaining
the shrubbery
Unfortunately we need to report that we have been
the victim of vandalism in our churchyard and there
has been considerable damage to a number of
headstones
We share your distress and to prevent further
damage we have laid the headstones flat If you see
a headstone laid flat can you please leave it as is
We need to make sure that the graves are mended
correctly to make sure that we do not have any
Health and Safety issues with unstable stones
We are working closely with the local police and we
ask you all to be vigilant and to report anything you
may see or hear If you have any queries around this
matter please contact one of the Churchwardens
Claire McArthur Margaret Potter
Refreshment for all Tuesday afternoons 130-230pm in the Galilee
Room Fortnightly
If you need transport or would like to
request prayers please contact
Margaret Bosworth on 7633 7932
leaving a message if necessary
with your name and telephone number
and she will ring you back
Be patterns be examples in all
countries places islands nations
wherever you come that your
carriage and life may preach among
all sorts of people and to them then
you will come to walk cheerfully all
over the world answering that of God
in every one George Fox
400m gold medallist reads Olympic
prayer 400 days ahead of 2012
Games ndash and counting Coventry is one of the venues for Olympic events
next year This summer with a year to go to the start
of the London Olympics the Church of England
released a prayer for those preparing for the 2012
Games It asks God to be with the athletes their
supporters and families and the thousands of
churches preparing to organise Olympics-themed
events in their communities and it is read on a new
podcast by GB Olympic 400m gold medallist
Christine Ohuruogu MBE
The Church of England is a member of the
ecumenical organisation More Than Gold which
supports churches of all denominations around the
UK with resources and ideas as they prepare to
engage with the Games
The prayer composed by the Revd Christopher
Woods the Church of Englands National Worship
Development Officer reads as follows
Eternal God
Giver of joy and source of all strength
we pray for those
who prepare for the London Olympic and Paralympic
games
For the competitors training for the Games and their loved
ones
For the many thousands who will support them
And for the Churches and others who are organising
special events and who will welcome many people from
many nations
In a world where many are rejected and abused
we pray for a spirit
of tolerance and acceptance of humility and respect
and for the health and safety of all
May we at the last be led towards the love of Christ who is
more than gold today and forever Amen
The Church of England podcast is available here
httpwwwchurchofenglandorgmedia-centre
follow-us-onlinepodcastsaspx
For more on More Than Gold visit
wwwmorethangoldorguk
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 4
Christian Aid partners are responding Our partners in Ethiopia Sudan and Kenya are
closely monitoring the situation This appeal will
fund urgently needed life-saving measures such as
emergency tanks and distribution of water
for villages experiencing the worst of the
drought conditions
construction of additional water points
food for families who currently are not
reached by the World Food Programme
response
extra nutrition for malnourished children and
pregnant women
animal feed to protect livestock that are so
crucial to survival
helping communities become more resilient
to future crises
Activities will be carried out by partners across the
region Our partners Christian Community Services
Mount Kenya East Northern Aid and Ukamba
Christian Community Services are responding in
north eastern and eastern Kenya In Ethiopia our
partners Action for Development and Agri-Service
Ethiopia are currently working with local
communities in the south to help them to withstand
the effects of crises such as drought
To make a donation to Christian Aidrsquos East Africa
Food Crisis Appeal call 08080 004 004 or visit
wwwchristianaidorgukeast-africa-appeal
C hristian Aid has launched an emergency
humanitarian appeal to help people across the
east and Horn of Africa after two failed rainy seasons
have left ten million on the brink of starvation
Drought and displacement Drought and displacement combined with rising food
prices has left the east and the horn of Africa
especially Kenya and Ethiopia in need of urgent
humanitarian support
UNOCHA reports that the situation is the worst food
security crisis in the world today and some parts of
the region are experiencing the driest conditions in
60 years
After two poor rainy seasons in 2011 drought in
countries affected has left 10 million people in need
of humanitarian assistance
At the same time Christian Aid is concerned that
large numbers of people who have been displaced
within Sudan and from Somalia that are also facing
food shortages
Christian Aid staff in the region are reporting cases
of malnutrition in children and adults and people
begging for water on the side of the road
Even animals which are normally resistant to drought
such as camels donkeys and goats are suffering
Due to the lack of water some schools and hospitals
have been forced to close and people are travelling
for miles to collect water to drink
I s there any point in my struggling to live
sustainably when so many - including
emerging nations - are indifferent to the
earths worth and restraints Nearly 10
of precious European soil is covered and
sealed And the bulldozers continue to
roar I care but what good does it do
Are not my actions like myself and
my thoughts dismissed like seeds in a gale
What good are my frail efforts at personal and
community sustainability Mother Teresa agreed
that ones efforts were only a drop in the ocean but
added that the ocean would be smaller without that
drop The anthropologist Margaret Mead when
asked if the actions of a few committed persons
could change the world replied Its the only thing
that ever has Robert F Kennedy said that each of
us can work to change a small portion of events in
the least of these actions will be written the history
of this generation When we live sustainably locally
in community with others who share our ideals and
efforts we are part of a holistic countercultural
movement offering hope and light
July 2011
Christian Aid is responding to the east Africa food crisis and has launched an emergency appeal to help people affected across the re-
gion
pound130000 has been released for partners to respond as the situation intensifies in Kenya and Ethiopia
Please give now to help us reach those most in need
East Africa food crisis appeal
Light one candle When families who have lived on ancestral land for
centuries leave their hereditary fields as they do in
parts of Africa Asia South America and even in
the west today the world and its future grow darker
As Indian farm woman Chandramma said sadly A
farm without seeds is like a home without light But
each of us can be a candle And we all know the
saying Its better to light one candle than to curse
the darkness
People of all religions and of none wonder if they
make a difference Do my little acts matter The
biblical scholar CFD Moule said he was asked this
question more than any other He replied Nothing is
wasted all good acts contribute to the approaching
kingdom In the words of the Colossians hymn so
loved by the Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de
Chardin In Him all things cohere (Col 117) Even
in dark times all good actions no matter how slight
burn brightly
We may be a drop in the ocean a candle lit in the
dark but in Christ and together we can win
Edward Echlin (Author of Climate and Christ A
Prophetic Alternative Columba 2010)
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 5 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 5
Sunday School Party
The Sunday School party on June 30th will possibly be over by the time the Magazine is in the hands of subscribers It is to be held in a field at Coundon very kindly lent for the occasion by Captain Miller In view of the food restrictions and the recently reported utterance of the Food Controller against school teas there was some hesitation about providing a tea this year But in view of a more recent utterance of the Food Campaign Department of the national war Savings Committee it appears that our decision to give a tea on strictly economical lines was a highly patriotic action The following is the reply of the above Department to an enquiry from the Willenhall Local Central War Savings Committee ldquoThe Department could not give approval (to school feasts) unless they were assured of the strictest economy and an avoidance of all display and excess In the case of childrenrsquos treats for the occasion offers excellent opportunities for bringing before they youthful mind the aims and principles of the food campaign in a practical manner If a public meal can thus be made to serve as a valuable object lesson the Department are of opinion that to hold it may perhaps be morally and materially of advantagerdquo This is our own view of the matter and it is gratifying to find that two such important bodies as the National War Savings committee and the Keresley Sunday School teachers think alike upon the weighty subject of unlimited buns
Sunday Schools
Saturday June 2nd was a red letter day for our Sunday Schools and more particularly for the Infantsrsquo department for on that day we were favoured with a visit from Miss Phyllis Dent one of the Sunday School experts of the Church of England Sunday School Institute It is now recognised that teaching is an art as much in the Sunday School as in the Day school the Secondary School and the University Men and women who choose teaching for their profession need to study not merely the subjects but also the methods of education The question ldquoWhat am I going to teachrdquo is not more important than ldquoHow am I going to teachrdquo The answer to the latter question varies according to the age of the pupil It is just as necessary for Sunday school teachers as for other teachers to know what these methods are if their teaching is to be effective and although some people are by nature alone better teachers than
others yet there are none who could not by studying the art of teaching improve upon their natural gifts and very few who by the same means could not make up for the lack of natural gifts and turn themselves into efficient teachers
It is one of the aims of the Sunday School Institute to help Sunday School teachers to acquire some knowledge of the methods of teaching It was in order to give such hep and advice to the kindergarten teachers that Miss Phyllis Dent visited us and although the teacher had already been able to gather much on these subjects from the Sunday School magazine yet the practical assistance give by Miss Dent was of very great value She made it plain that for infants up to seven years of age the kindergarten is the best possible method because it is exactly suited to the minds of infants Objections have sometimes been heart to the kindergarten Sunday School that ldquoit is only teaching the children to playrdquo Nothing could be farther from the truth or more unjust to the teachers For instance the teacher has been telling the children a story from the Bible and it is required to find out how much they have learned form the lesson With older children this could be done by question and answer or by getting them to write down in their own words what they had learned But this will not do with a class of infants They cannot frame their ideas in words and writing is out of the question But let the kindergarten teacher give them a pencil and paper and they will readily produce a drawing of the scene and objects and persons which the teacher has told them about It is surprising what an amount of thoughtfulness sometimes appears in these crude drawings ndash thoughtfulness which is thus afforded means of expression instead of being suppressed as it otherwise would be
Another point in the justification of the kindergarten is that the children are not permitted to become fidgety or listless They are so occupied and the programme is so varied that they are kept interested and alert all the time and yet they see and hear and do nothing that is not directly connected with religious instruction
There is every reason for gratitude to the Sunday school Institute for providing such help and to Miss Dent herself for the obvious insight and sympathy which she showed for the problems and difficulties of Sunday school work
St Thomasrsquo Keresley and Coundon
In these current times of financial cutbacks I found ths item within an article on the Sunday school from
June 1917 An interesting take on a partymdashthat its austerity should be morally of advantage to young
minds The rest of the article is a treatise on Sunday school teaching It surprises me that at a time when
all things German were deplored the word rsquokindergartenrsquo to describe a style of teaching was not
July 2011
Christian Aid is responding to the east Africa food crisis and has launched an emergency appeal to help people affected across the re-
gion
pound130000 has been released for partners to respond as the situation intensifies in Kenya and Ethiopia
Please give now to help us reach those most in need
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 6
lsquoThe Psalms have a unique place in the Bible because
most of the Scripture speaks to us while the Psalms
speak for usrsquo (Athanasius of Alexandria)
The Book of Psalms contains 150 prayers or songs of
praise (thallium is the Hebrew title meaning lsquopraisesrsquo)
The majority of the psalms (73) are attributed to
David although some were composed around the
exilic period
The majority of the psalms were composed for
liturgical worship and follow a distinct pattern There
are songs of praise in which people joyfully express
their praise of God for his work of creation and
sustenance (eg Psalms 135 amp 136) Another form is
the thanksgiving psalm in which the psalmist
recounts a desperate situation and tells of how God
has answered his prayer (eg Psalms 30 amp 116)
There are significantly psalms of lament which may be
individual (eg Psalms 3-7 22) or communal (eg Psalm
44) Although they usually begin with a cry for help
they develop in various ways Some clearly refer to
deliverance from sin (Psalms 51 amp 130) Other
laments end on a note of certainty that the Lord has
heard the prayer (Psalm 7 but contrast Psalm 88) in
a movement from lament to praise In other cases the
theme of trust is the central thrust of the psalm
(Psalms 23 62 amp 91)
The lsquoroyal psalmsrsquo address the situation of a currently
reigning king (eg Psalm 20 21 amp 72) They were
preserved even after kingship had disappeared
because they point to the promised Messiah under the
Davidic covenant For Christians of course they point
to the coming of Jesus the true Son of David
Sunday 14th 1030am Holy Communion Rev Robin Trew
Sunday 21st 1030am Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 28th 1030am Morning Worship Rev Ian Worsfold
Regular Meetings Mondays 5-6pm Trailblazers Childrens Club
Tuesday afternoons 130-245pm First Steps for babies and pre-school children with their
parents and carers during term time
Wednesday 730-9pm lsquoDrop-inrsquo Centre for teenagers
Fridays 5-630pm monthly Friday Church usually meets on the first Friday of the
month
P AGE 6
July Sunday 3rd 1030am Family Service Mr Neil Bolus
All invited to the Parish Barbecue in the vicarage
garden after the service
Sunday 10th
1030 Holy Communion by Extension Mr Pete
Hudson
Sunday 17th 1030 Morning Worship
Sunday 24th 1030 Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 31st 1030 Morning Worship Miss Mary Coles
August Sunday 7th 1030am Family Worship
KERESLEY VILLAGE COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICES
Re
v P
au
l H
ard
ing
ha
m
Re
cto
r o
f B
olt
on
Whatrsquos the Big Idea - An Introduction to the Books of the Old and New Testament Psalms and 1 Timothy
There are also psalms which teach wisdom (eg
Psalms 37 49) lsquotorahrsquo psalms in which the torah
(instruction law) of the Lord is central (eg Psalms
1 19 amp 119) and psalms which celebrate the
history of Israel and Godrsquos faithfulness (eg Psalms
78 105 amp 106)
It has been rightly said that the psalms are a school
of prayer Many Christians have learnt to pray using
the psalms as they not only provide us with models
to follow but also voice our own deepest feelings
and aspirations as we come into Godrsquos presence
lsquoThe Lord is my shepherd I shall lack nothing He
makes me lie down in green pastures he leads me
beside quiet waters he restores my soulrsquo (Psalm
231-3)
1 Timothy Paulrsquos Pastoral Epistles (1 2 Timothy ampTitus) were
written to young leaders in the local church Paul
wrote this first letter to Timothy around c 63ndash65
instructing him to care for the church at Ephesus
(13) to challenge false teaching (13ndash7 41ndash8 63
ndash5 20ndash21) and to oversee the life of the growing
Ephesian church incl their worship ( 21-15) the
appointment of leaders (31ndash13 517ndash25) and their
attitude to money (63-10 17-18) This section
includes the often misquoted verse lsquothe love of
money is the root of all kinds of evilrsquo (610)
Paul writes to Timothy lsquomy true son in the
faithrsquo (12) Timothyrsquos father was Greek while his
mother was a Jewish Christian (Ac 161) Paul led
him to faith in Christ during his first visit to Lystra At
the time of his second visit he invited Timothy to join
(Continued on page 7)
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7
PARISH REGISTER
THANKSGIVINGS 19th June
Kyle Harvey Liggins Darcey Rose Lee
WEDDINGS June 18th
Sharon Tracy Crisp amp Paul Graham Colson
BURIAL 10th June
Phyllis Mason aged 93 of Charnwood House
at St Paulrsquos
17th June
Clifford Reginald Barrell aged 90 of Keresley Wood
him on his missionary travels circumcising him so
that his Greek ancestry would not be a liability in
working with the Jews (Ac 163) Although somewhat
timid and often unwell Timothy was faithful servant
of the Lord and Paul
The primary purpose of the letter is to urge Timothy
to deal with false teaching in the church It also
provided written authorisation to allow Timothy to
carry out this task The false teachers were primarily
insiders not teachers from outside the church They
taught a strong emphasis on Jewish myths and
genealogies They were legalistic about the about
Jewish laws while downplaying the importance of
marriage It would also appear that they taught that
the resurrection had already come and Christians no
longer needed to look forward to Christs coming
judgment and resurrection of the dead They were
so immersed in speculative controversies that they
were neglecting the very core of the Christian faith
Not an unfamiliar situation today
Therefore this letter teaches us that we should all be
an example of faithfulness and not a stumbling block
to those God has called us to reach Like Timothy
we are called to build the church in a way that will
bring glory to God lsquoBut you man of God flee from all
this and pursue righteousness godliness faith
love endurance and gentleness Fight the good fight
of the faith Take hold of the eternal life to which you
were called when you made your good confession in
the presence of many witnessesrsquo (I Timothy 61112)
(Continued from page 6) 1 Thessalonians
Regular Activities in the Church Hall NB the Church Hall is not usually available for late night
Discos
Pre-school Playgroup
Mondays to Fridays 9am - 1130am and
1230pm ndash 3pm
Brownies Guides Cubs and Scouts meet on
weekday evenings See page 2 for details
I dreamt that I went to
Heaven and an angel was deputised to show me around
Our first stop was at a large room filled with angels They were unfolding reading and stacking thousands of bits of paper of all sizes My angel guide explained ldquoThis is the Receiving Section Here all petitions to God said in prayer are received‟ I looked around the area and it was terribly busy Angels were sorting out petitions from all over the world Some were long and involved and weighty others merely a sigh on a scrap of paper
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section
The angel said to me This is the Packaging and Delivery Section Here the graces and blessings that have been asked for are processed and delivered to the people who need them I noticed again how busy it was there The angels were working hard to package and send back to earth all the blessings that had been requested
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station To my great surprise only one angel was seated there doing nothing much This is the Acknowledgement Section my angel friend said quietly He seemed a bit embarrassed How is it that there is no work going on here I asked
The angel sighed Well after people receive the blessings that they ask for it seems very few think to send back any acknowledgement
How does one acknowledge Gods blessings I
asked
Simple the angel answered ldquoJust say bdquoThank
you Lord‟ And mean itrdquo
What happens in heaven when you pray
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 4
Christian Aid partners are responding Our partners in Ethiopia Sudan and Kenya are
closely monitoring the situation This appeal will
fund urgently needed life-saving measures such as
emergency tanks and distribution of water
for villages experiencing the worst of the
drought conditions
construction of additional water points
food for families who currently are not
reached by the World Food Programme
response
extra nutrition for malnourished children and
pregnant women
animal feed to protect livestock that are so
crucial to survival
helping communities become more resilient
to future crises
Activities will be carried out by partners across the
region Our partners Christian Community Services
Mount Kenya East Northern Aid and Ukamba
Christian Community Services are responding in
north eastern and eastern Kenya In Ethiopia our
partners Action for Development and Agri-Service
Ethiopia are currently working with local
communities in the south to help them to withstand
the effects of crises such as drought
To make a donation to Christian Aidrsquos East Africa
Food Crisis Appeal call 08080 004 004 or visit
wwwchristianaidorgukeast-africa-appeal
C hristian Aid has launched an emergency
humanitarian appeal to help people across the
east and Horn of Africa after two failed rainy seasons
have left ten million on the brink of starvation
Drought and displacement Drought and displacement combined with rising food
prices has left the east and the horn of Africa
especially Kenya and Ethiopia in need of urgent
humanitarian support
UNOCHA reports that the situation is the worst food
security crisis in the world today and some parts of
the region are experiencing the driest conditions in
60 years
After two poor rainy seasons in 2011 drought in
countries affected has left 10 million people in need
of humanitarian assistance
At the same time Christian Aid is concerned that
large numbers of people who have been displaced
within Sudan and from Somalia that are also facing
food shortages
Christian Aid staff in the region are reporting cases
of malnutrition in children and adults and people
begging for water on the side of the road
Even animals which are normally resistant to drought
such as camels donkeys and goats are suffering
Due to the lack of water some schools and hospitals
have been forced to close and people are travelling
for miles to collect water to drink
I s there any point in my struggling to live
sustainably when so many - including
emerging nations - are indifferent to the
earths worth and restraints Nearly 10
of precious European soil is covered and
sealed And the bulldozers continue to
roar I care but what good does it do
Are not my actions like myself and
my thoughts dismissed like seeds in a gale
What good are my frail efforts at personal and
community sustainability Mother Teresa agreed
that ones efforts were only a drop in the ocean but
added that the ocean would be smaller without that
drop The anthropologist Margaret Mead when
asked if the actions of a few committed persons
could change the world replied Its the only thing
that ever has Robert F Kennedy said that each of
us can work to change a small portion of events in
the least of these actions will be written the history
of this generation When we live sustainably locally
in community with others who share our ideals and
efforts we are part of a holistic countercultural
movement offering hope and light
July 2011
Christian Aid is responding to the east Africa food crisis and has launched an emergency appeal to help people affected across the re-
gion
pound130000 has been released for partners to respond as the situation intensifies in Kenya and Ethiopia
Please give now to help us reach those most in need
East Africa food crisis appeal
Light one candle When families who have lived on ancestral land for
centuries leave their hereditary fields as they do in
parts of Africa Asia South America and even in
the west today the world and its future grow darker
As Indian farm woman Chandramma said sadly A
farm without seeds is like a home without light But
each of us can be a candle And we all know the
saying Its better to light one candle than to curse
the darkness
People of all religions and of none wonder if they
make a difference Do my little acts matter The
biblical scholar CFD Moule said he was asked this
question more than any other He replied Nothing is
wasted all good acts contribute to the approaching
kingdom In the words of the Colossians hymn so
loved by the Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de
Chardin In Him all things cohere (Col 117) Even
in dark times all good actions no matter how slight
burn brightly
We may be a drop in the ocean a candle lit in the
dark but in Christ and together we can win
Edward Echlin (Author of Climate and Christ A
Prophetic Alternative Columba 2010)
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 5 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 5
Sunday School Party
The Sunday School party on June 30th will possibly be over by the time the Magazine is in the hands of subscribers It is to be held in a field at Coundon very kindly lent for the occasion by Captain Miller In view of the food restrictions and the recently reported utterance of the Food Controller against school teas there was some hesitation about providing a tea this year But in view of a more recent utterance of the Food Campaign Department of the national war Savings Committee it appears that our decision to give a tea on strictly economical lines was a highly patriotic action The following is the reply of the above Department to an enquiry from the Willenhall Local Central War Savings Committee ldquoThe Department could not give approval (to school feasts) unless they were assured of the strictest economy and an avoidance of all display and excess In the case of childrenrsquos treats for the occasion offers excellent opportunities for bringing before they youthful mind the aims and principles of the food campaign in a practical manner If a public meal can thus be made to serve as a valuable object lesson the Department are of opinion that to hold it may perhaps be morally and materially of advantagerdquo This is our own view of the matter and it is gratifying to find that two such important bodies as the National War Savings committee and the Keresley Sunday School teachers think alike upon the weighty subject of unlimited buns
Sunday Schools
Saturday June 2nd was a red letter day for our Sunday Schools and more particularly for the Infantsrsquo department for on that day we were favoured with a visit from Miss Phyllis Dent one of the Sunday School experts of the Church of England Sunday School Institute It is now recognised that teaching is an art as much in the Sunday School as in the Day school the Secondary School and the University Men and women who choose teaching for their profession need to study not merely the subjects but also the methods of education The question ldquoWhat am I going to teachrdquo is not more important than ldquoHow am I going to teachrdquo The answer to the latter question varies according to the age of the pupil It is just as necessary for Sunday school teachers as for other teachers to know what these methods are if their teaching is to be effective and although some people are by nature alone better teachers than
others yet there are none who could not by studying the art of teaching improve upon their natural gifts and very few who by the same means could not make up for the lack of natural gifts and turn themselves into efficient teachers
It is one of the aims of the Sunday School Institute to help Sunday School teachers to acquire some knowledge of the methods of teaching It was in order to give such hep and advice to the kindergarten teachers that Miss Phyllis Dent visited us and although the teacher had already been able to gather much on these subjects from the Sunday School magazine yet the practical assistance give by Miss Dent was of very great value She made it plain that for infants up to seven years of age the kindergarten is the best possible method because it is exactly suited to the minds of infants Objections have sometimes been heart to the kindergarten Sunday School that ldquoit is only teaching the children to playrdquo Nothing could be farther from the truth or more unjust to the teachers For instance the teacher has been telling the children a story from the Bible and it is required to find out how much they have learned form the lesson With older children this could be done by question and answer or by getting them to write down in their own words what they had learned But this will not do with a class of infants They cannot frame their ideas in words and writing is out of the question But let the kindergarten teacher give them a pencil and paper and they will readily produce a drawing of the scene and objects and persons which the teacher has told them about It is surprising what an amount of thoughtfulness sometimes appears in these crude drawings ndash thoughtfulness which is thus afforded means of expression instead of being suppressed as it otherwise would be
Another point in the justification of the kindergarten is that the children are not permitted to become fidgety or listless They are so occupied and the programme is so varied that they are kept interested and alert all the time and yet they see and hear and do nothing that is not directly connected with religious instruction
There is every reason for gratitude to the Sunday school Institute for providing such help and to Miss Dent herself for the obvious insight and sympathy which she showed for the problems and difficulties of Sunday school work
St Thomasrsquo Keresley and Coundon
In these current times of financial cutbacks I found ths item within an article on the Sunday school from
June 1917 An interesting take on a partymdashthat its austerity should be morally of advantage to young
minds The rest of the article is a treatise on Sunday school teaching It surprises me that at a time when
all things German were deplored the word rsquokindergartenrsquo to describe a style of teaching was not
July 2011
Christian Aid is responding to the east Africa food crisis and has launched an emergency appeal to help people affected across the re-
gion
pound130000 has been released for partners to respond as the situation intensifies in Kenya and Ethiopia
Please give now to help us reach those most in need
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 6
lsquoThe Psalms have a unique place in the Bible because
most of the Scripture speaks to us while the Psalms
speak for usrsquo (Athanasius of Alexandria)
The Book of Psalms contains 150 prayers or songs of
praise (thallium is the Hebrew title meaning lsquopraisesrsquo)
The majority of the psalms (73) are attributed to
David although some were composed around the
exilic period
The majority of the psalms were composed for
liturgical worship and follow a distinct pattern There
are songs of praise in which people joyfully express
their praise of God for his work of creation and
sustenance (eg Psalms 135 amp 136) Another form is
the thanksgiving psalm in which the psalmist
recounts a desperate situation and tells of how God
has answered his prayer (eg Psalms 30 amp 116)
There are significantly psalms of lament which may be
individual (eg Psalms 3-7 22) or communal (eg Psalm
44) Although they usually begin with a cry for help
they develop in various ways Some clearly refer to
deliverance from sin (Psalms 51 amp 130) Other
laments end on a note of certainty that the Lord has
heard the prayer (Psalm 7 but contrast Psalm 88) in
a movement from lament to praise In other cases the
theme of trust is the central thrust of the psalm
(Psalms 23 62 amp 91)
The lsquoroyal psalmsrsquo address the situation of a currently
reigning king (eg Psalm 20 21 amp 72) They were
preserved even after kingship had disappeared
because they point to the promised Messiah under the
Davidic covenant For Christians of course they point
to the coming of Jesus the true Son of David
Sunday 14th 1030am Holy Communion Rev Robin Trew
Sunday 21st 1030am Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 28th 1030am Morning Worship Rev Ian Worsfold
Regular Meetings Mondays 5-6pm Trailblazers Childrens Club
Tuesday afternoons 130-245pm First Steps for babies and pre-school children with their
parents and carers during term time
Wednesday 730-9pm lsquoDrop-inrsquo Centre for teenagers
Fridays 5-630pm monthly Friday Church usually meets on the first Friday of the
month
P AGE 6
July Sunday 3rd 1030am Family Service Mr Neil Bolus
All invited to the Parish Barbecue in the vicarage
garden after the service
Sunday 10th
1030 Holy Communion by Extension Mr Pete
Hudson
Sunday 17th 1030 Morning Worship
Sunday 24th 1030 Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 31st 1030 Morning Worship Miss Mary Coles
August Sunday 7th 1030am Family Worship
KERESLEY VILLAGE COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICES
Re
v P
au
l H
ard
ing
ha
m
Re
cto
r o
f B
olt
on
Whatrsquos the Big Idea - An Introduction to the Books of the Old and New Testament Psalms and 1 Timothy
There are also psalms which teach wisdom (eg
Psalms 37 49) lsquotorahrsquo psalms in which the torah
(instruction law) of the Lord is central (eg Psalms
1 19 amp 119) and psalms which celebrate the
history of Israel and Godrsquos faithfulness (eg Psalms
78 105 amp 106)
It has been rightly said that the psalms are a school
of prayer Many Christians have learnt to pray using
the psalms as they not only provide us with models
to follow but also voice our own deepest feelings
and aspirations as we come into Godrsquos presence
lsquoThe Lord is my shepherd I shall lack nothing He
makes me lie down in green pastures he leads me
beside quiet waters he restores my soulrsquo (Psalm
231-3)
1 Timothy Paulrsquos Pastoral Epistles (1 2 Timothy ampTitus) were
written to young leaders in the local church Paul
wrote this first letter to Timothy around c 63ndash65
instructing him to care for the church at Ephesus
(13) to challenge false teaching (13ndash7 41ndash8 63
ndash5 20ndash21) and to oversee the life of the growing
Ephesian church incl their worship ( 21-15) the
appointment of leaders (31ndash13 517ndash25) and their
attitude to money (63-10 17-18) This section
includes the often misquoted verse lsquothe love of
money is the root of all kinds of evilrsquo (610)
Paul writes to Timothy lsquomy true son in the
faithrsquo (12) Timothyrsquos father was Greek while his
mother was a Jewish Christian (Ac 161) Paul led
him to faith in Christ during his first visit to Lystra At
the time of his second visit he invited Timothy to join
(Continued on page 7)
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7
PARISH REGISTER
THANKSGIVINGS 19th June
Kyle Harvey Liggins Darcey Rose Lee
WEDDINGS June 18th
Sharon Tracy Crisp amp Paul Graham Colson
BURIAL 10th June
Phyllis Mason aged 93 of Charnwood House
at St Paulrsquos
17th June
Clifford Reginald Barrell aged 90 of Keresley Wood
him on his missionary travels circumcising him so
that his Greek ancestry would not be a liability in
working with the Jews (Ac 163) Although somewhat
timid and often unwell Timothy was faithful servant
of the Lord and Paul
The primary purpose of the letter is to urge Timothy
to deal with false teaching in the church It also
provided written authorisation to allow Timothy to
carry out this task The false teachers were primarily
insiders not teachers from outside the church They
taught a strong emphasis on Jewish myths and
genealogies They were legalistic about the about
Jewish laws while downplaying the importance of
marriage It would also appear that they taught that
the resurrection had already come and Christians no
longer needed to look forward to Christs coming
judgment and resurrection of the dead They were
so immersed in speculative controversies that they
were neglecting the very core of the Christian faith
Not an unfamiliar situation today
Therefore this letter teaches us that we should all be
an example of faithfulness and not a stumbling block
to those God has called us to reach Like Timothy
we are called to build the church in a way that will
bring glory to God lsquoBut you man of God flee from all
this and pursue righteousness godliness faith
love endurance and gentleness Fight the good fight
of the faith Take hold of the eternal life to which you
were called when you made your good confession in
the presence of many witnessesrsquo (I Timothy 61112)
(Continued from page 6) 1 Thessalonians
Regular Activities in the Church Hall NB the Church Hall is not usually available for late night
Discos
Pre-school Playgroup
Mondays to Fridays 9am - 1130am and
1230pm ndash 3pm
Brownies Guides Cubs and Scouts meet on
weekday evenings See page 2 for details
I dreamt that I went to
Heaven and an angel was deputised to show me around
Our first stop was at a large room filled with angels They were unfolding reading and stacking thousands of bits of paper of all sizes My angel guide explained ldquoThis is the Receiving Section Here all petitions to God said in prayer are received‟ I looked around the area and it was terribly busy Angels were sorting out petitions from all over the world Some were long and involved and weighty others merely a sigh on a scrap of paper
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section
The angel said to me This is the Packaging and Delivery Section Here the graces and blessings that have been asked for are processed and delivered to the people who need them I noticed again how busy it was there The angels were working hard to package and send back to earth all the blessings that had been requested
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station To my great surprise only one angel was seated there doing nothing much This is the Acknowledgement Section my angel friend said quietly He seemed a bit embarrassed How is it that there is no work going on here I asked
The angel sighed Well after people receive the blessings that they ask for it seems very few think to send back any acknowledgement
How does one acknowledge Gods blessings I
asked
Simple the angel answered ldquoJust say bdquoThank
you Lord‟ And mean itrdquo
What happens in heaven when you pray
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 5 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 5
Sunday School Party
The Sunday School party on June 30th will possibly be over by the time the Magazine is in the hands of subscribers It is to be held in a field at Coundon very kindly lent for the occasion by Captain Miller In view of the food restrictions and the recently reported utterance of the Food Controller against school teas there was some hesitation about providing a tea this year But in view of a more recent utterance of the Food Campaign Department of the national war Savings Committee it appears that our decision to give a tea on strictly economical lines was a highly patriotic action The following is the reply of the above Department to an enquiry from the Willenhall Local Central War Savings Committee ldquoThe Department could not give approval (to school feasts) unless they were assured of the strictest economy and an avoidance of all display and excess In the case of childrenrsquos treats for the occasion offers excellent opportunities for bringing before they youthful mind the aims and principles of the food campaign in a practical manner If a public meal can thus be made to serve as a valuable object lesson the Department are of opinion that to hold it may perhaps be morally and materially of advantagerdquo This is our own view of the matter and it is gratifying to find that two such important bodies as the National War Savings committee and the Keresley Sunday School teachers think alike upon the weighty subject of unlimited buns
Sunday Schools
Saturday June 2nd was a red letter day for our Sunday Schools and more particularly for the Infantsrsquo department for on that day we were favoured with a visit from Miss Phyllis Dent one of the Sunday School experts of the Church of England Sunday School Institute It is now recognised that teaching is an art as much in the Sunday School as in the Day school the Secondary School and the University Men and women who choose teaching for their profession need to study not merely the subjects but also the methods of education The question ldquoWhat am I going to teachrdquo is not more important than ldquoHow am I going to teachrdquo The answer to the latter question varies according to the age of the pupil It is just as necessary for Sunday school teachers as for other teachers to know what these methods are if their teaching is to be effective and although some people are by nature alone better teachers than
others yet there are none who could not by studying the art of teaching improve upon their natural gifts and very few who by the same means could not make up for the lack of natural gifts and turn themselves into efficient teachers
It is one of the aims of the Sunday School Institute to help Sunday School teachers to acquire some knowledge of the methods of teaching It was in order to give such hep and advice to the kindergarten teachers that Miss Phyllis Dent visited us and although the teacher had already been able to gather much on these subjects from the Sunday School magazine yet the practical assistance give by Miss Dent was of very great value She made it plain that for infants up to seven years of age the kindergarten is the best possible method because it is exactly suited to the minds of infants Objections have sometimes been heart to the kindergarten Sunday School that ldquoit is only teaching the children to playrdquo Nothing could be farther from the truth or more unjust to the teachers For instance the teacher has been telling the children a story from the Bible and it is required to find out how much they have learned form the lesson With older children this could be done by question and answer or by getting them to write down in their own words what they had learned But this will not do with a class of infants They cannot frame their ideas in words and writing is out of the question But let the kindergarten teacher give them a pencil and paper and they will readily produce a drawing of the scene and objects and persons which the teacher has told them about It is surprising what an amount of thoughtfulness sometimes appears in these crude drawings ndash thoughtfulness which is thus afforded means of expression instead of being suppressed as it otherwise would be
Another point in the justification of the kindergarten is that the children are not permitted to become fidgety or listless They are so occupied and the programme is so varied that they are kept interested and alert all the time and yet they see and hear and do nothing that is not directly connected with religious instruction
There is every reason for gratitude to the Sunday school Institute for providing such help and to Miss Dent herself for the obvious insight and sympathy which she showed for the problems and difficulties of Sunday school work
St Thomasrsquo Keresley and Coundon
In these current times of financial cutbacks I found ths item within an article on the Sunday school from
June 1917 An interesting take on a partymdashthat its austerity should be morally of advantage to young
minds The rest of the article is a treatise on Sunday school teaching It surprises me that at a time when
all things German were deplored the word rsquokindergartenrsquo to describe a style of teaching was not
July 2011
Christian Aid is responding to the east Africa food crisis and has launched an emergency appeal to help people affected across the re-
gion
pound130000 has been released for partners to respond as the situation intensifies in Kenya and Ethiopia
Please give now to help us reach those most in need
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 6
lsquoThe Psalms have a unique place in the Bible because
most of the Scripture speaks to us while the Psalms
speak for usrsquo (Athanasius of Alexandria)
The Book of Psalms contains 150 prayers or songs of
praise (thallium is the Hebrew title meaning lsquopraisesrsquo)
The majority of the psalms (73) are attributed to
David although some were composed around the
exilic period
The majority of the psalms were composed for
liturgical worship and follow a distinct pattern There
are songs of praise in which people joyfully express
their praise of God for his work of creation and
sustenance (eg Psalms 135 amp 136) Another form is
the thanksgiving psalm in which the psalmist
recounts a desperate situation and tells of how God
has answered his prayer (eg Psalms 30 amp 116)
There are significantly psalms of lament which may be
individual (eg Psalms 3-7 22) or communal (eg Psalm
44) Although they usually begin with a cry for help
they develop in various ways Some clearly refer to
deliverance from sin (Psalms 51 amp 130) Other
laments end on a note of certainty that the Lord has
heard the prayer (Psalm 7 but contrast Psalm 88) in
a movement from lament to praise In other cases the
theme of trust is the central thrust of the psalm
(Psalms 23 62 amp 91)
The lsquoroyal psalmsrsquo address the situation of a currently
reigning king (eg Psalm 20 21 amp 72) They were
preserved even after kingship had disappeared
because they point to the promised Messiah under the
Davidic covenant For Christians of course they point
to the coming of Jesus the true Son of David
Sunday 14th 1030am Holy Communion Rev Robin Trew
Sunday 21st 1030am Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 28th 1030am Morning Worship Rev Ian Worsfold
Regular Meetings Mondays 5-6pm Trailblazers Childrens Club
Tuesday afternoons 130-245pm First Steps for babies and pre-school children with their
parents and carers during term time
Wednesday 730-9pm lsquoDrop-inrsquo Centre for teenagers
Fridays 5-630pm monthly Friday Church usually meets on the first Friday of the
month
P AGE 6
July Sunday 3rd 1030am Family Service Mr Neil Bolus
All invited to the Parish Barbecue in the vicarage
garden after the service
Sunday 10th
1030 Holy Communion by Extension Mr Pete
Hudson
Sunday 17th 1030 Morning Worship
Sunday 24th 1030 Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 31st 1030 Morning Worship Miss Mary Coles
August Sunday 7th 1030am Family Worship
KERESLEY VILLAGE COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICES
Re
v P
au
l H
ard
ing
ha
m
Re
cto
r o
f B
olt
on
Whatrsquos the Big Idea - An Introduction to the Books of the Old and New Testament Psalms and 1 Timothy
There are also psalms which teach wisdom (eg
Psalms 37 49) lsquotorahrsquo psalms in which the torah
(instruction law) of the Lord is central (eg Psalms
1 19 amp 119) and psalms which celebrate the
history of Israel and Godrsquos faithfulness (eg Psalms
78 105 amp 106)
It has been rightly said that the psalms are a school
of prayer Many Christians have learnt to pray using
the psalms as they not only provide us with models
to follow but also voice our own deepest feelings
and aspirations as we come into Godrsquos presence
lsquoThe Lord is my shepherd I shall lack nothing He
makes me lie down in green pastures he leads me
beside quiet waters he restores my soulrsquo (Psalm
231-3)
1 Timothy Paulrsquos Pastoral Epistles (1 2 Timothy ampTitus) were
written to young leaders in the local church Paul
wrote this first letter to Timothy around c 63ndash65
instructing him to care for the church at Ephesus
(13) to challenge false teaching (13ndash7 41ndash8 63
ndash5 20ndash21) and to oversee the life of the growing
Ephesian church incl their worship ( 21-15) the
appointment of leaders (31ndash13 517ndash25) and their
attitude to money (63-10 17-18) This section
includes the often misquoted verse lsquothe love of
money is the root of all kinds of evilrsquo (610)
Paul writes to Timothy lsquomy true son in the
faithrsquo (12) Timothyrsquos father was Greek while his
mother was a Jewish Christian (Ac 161) Paul led
him to faith in Christ during his first visit to Lystra At
the time of his second visit he invited Timothy to join
(Continued on page 7)
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7
PARISH REGISTER
THANKSGIVINGS 19th June
Kyle Harvey Liggins Darcey Rose Lee
WEDDINGS June 18th
Sharon Tracy Crisp amp Paul Graham Colson
BURIAL 10th June
Phyllis Mason aged 93 of Charnwood House
at St Paulrsquos
17th June
Clifford Reginald Barrell aged 90 of Keresley Wood
him on his missionary travels circumcising him so
that his Greek ancestry would not be a liability in
working with the Jews (Ac 163) Although somewhat
timid and often unwell Timothy was faithful servant
of the Lord and Paul
The primary purpose of the letter is to urge Timothy
to deal with false teaching in the church It also
provided written authorisation to allow Timothy to
carry out this task The false teachers were primarily
insiders not teachers from outside the church They
taught a strong emphasis on Jewish myths and
genealogies They were legalistic about the about
Jewish laws while downplaying the importance of
marriage It would also appear that they taught that
the resurrection had already come and Christians no
longer needed to look forward to Christs coming
judgment and resurrection of the dead They were
so immersed in speculative controversies that they
were neglecting the very core of the Christian faith
Not an unfamiliar situation today
Therefore this letter teaches us that we should all be
an example of faithfulness and not a stumbling block
to those God has called us to reach Like Timothy
we are called to build the church in a way that will
bring glory to God lsquoBut you man of God flee from all
this and pursue righteousness godliness faith
love endurance and gentleness Fight the good fight
of the faith Take hold of the eternal life to which you
were called when you made your good confession in
the presence of many witnessesrsquo (I Timothy 61112)
(Continued from page 6) 1 Thessalonians
Regular Activities in the Church Hall NB the Church Hall is not usually available for late night
Discos
Pre-school Playgroup
Mondays to Fridays 9am - 1130am and
1230pm ndash 3pm
Brownies Guides Cubs and Scouts meet on
weekday evenings See page 2 for details
I dreamt that I went to
Heaven and an angel was deputised to show me around
Our first stop was at a large room filled with angels They were unfolding reading and stacking thousands of bits of paper of all sizes My angel guide explained ldquoThis is the Receiving Section Here all petitions to God said in prayer are received‟ I looked around the area and it was terribly busy Angels were sorting out petitions from all over the world Some were long and involved and weighty others merely a sigh on a scrap of paper
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section
The angel said to me This is the Packaging and Delivery Section Here the graces and blessings that have been asked for are processed and delivered to the people who need them I noticed again how busy it was there The angels were working hard to package and send back to earth all the blessings that had been requested
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station To my great surprise only one angel was seated there doing nothing much This is the Acknowledgement Section my angel friend said quietly He seemed a bit embarrassed How is it that there is no work going on here I asked
The angel sighed Well after people receive the blessings that they ask for it seems very few think to send back any acknowledgement
How does one acknowledge Gods blessings I
asked
Simple the angel answered ldquoJust say bdquoThank
you Lord‟ And mean itrdquo
What happens in heaven when you pray
JULY AUGUST 2011 P AGE 6
lsquoThe Psalms have a unique place in the Bible because
most of the Scripture speaks to us while the Psalms
speak for usrsquo (Athanasius of Alexandria)
The Book of Psalms contains 150 prayers or songs of
praise (thallium is the Hebrew title meaning lsquopraisesrsquo)
The majority of the psalms (73) are attributed to
David although some were composed around the
exilic period
The majority of the psalms were composed for
liturgical worship and follow a distinct pattern There
are songs of praise in which people joyfully express
their praise of God for his work of creation and
sustenance (eg Psalms 135 amp 136) Another form is
the thanksgiving psalm in which the psalmist
recounts a desperate situation and tells of how God
has answered his prayer (eg Psalms 30 amp 116)
There are significantly psalms of lament which may be
individual (eg Psalms 3-7 22) or communal (eg Psalm
44) Although they usually begin with a cry for help
they develop in various ways Some clearly refer to
deliverance from sin (Psalms 51 amp 130) Other
laments end on a note of certainty that the Lord has
heard the prayer (Psalm 7 but contrast Psalm 88) in
a movement from lament to praise In other cases the
theme of trust is the central thrust of the psalm
(Psalms 23 62 amp 91)
The lsquoroyal psalmsrsquo address the situation of a currently
reigning king (eg Psalm 20 21 amp 72) They were
preserved even after kingship had disappeared
because they point to the promised Messiah under the
Davidic covenant For Christians of course they point
to the coming of Jesus the true Son of David
Sunday 14th 1030am Holy Communion Rev Robin Trew
Sunday 21st 1030am Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 28th 1030am Morning Worship Rev Ian Worsfold
Regular Meetings Mondays 5-6pm Trailblazers Childrens Club
Tuesday afternoons 130-245pm First Steps for babies and pre-school children with their
parents and carers during term time
Wednesday 730-9pm lsquoDrop-inrsquo Centre for teenagers
Fridays 5-630pm monthly Friday Church usually meets on the first Friday of the
month
P AGE 6
July Sunday 3rd 1030am Family Service Mr Neil Bolus
All invited to the Parish Barbecue in the vicarage
garden after the service
Sunday 10th
1030 Holy Communion by Extension Mr Pete
Hudson
Sunday 17th 1030 Morning Worship
Sunday 24th 1030 Holy Communion Rev Andrew de Ville
Sunday 31st 1030 Morning Worship Miss Mary Coles
August Sunday 7th 1030am Family Worship
KERESLEY VILLAGE COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICES
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Whatrsquos the Big Idea - An Introduction to the Books of the Old and New Testament Psalms and 1 Timothy
There are also psalms which teach wisdom (eg
Psalms 37 49) lsquotorahrsquo psalms in which the torah
(instruction law) of the Lord is central (eg Psalms
1 19 amp 119) and psalms which celebrate the
history of Israel and Godrsquos faithfulness (eg Psalms
78 105 amp 106)
It has been rightly said that the psalms are a school
of prayer Many Christians have learnt to pray using
the psalms as they not only provide us with models
to follow but also voice our own deepest feelings
and aspirations as we come into Godrsquos presence
lsquoThe Lord is my shepherd I shall lack nothing He
makes me lie down in green pastures he leads me
beside quiet waters he restores my soulrsquo (Psalm
231-3)
1 Timothy Paulrsquos Pastoral Epistles (1 2 Timothy ampTitus) were
written to young leaders in the local church Paul
wrote this first letter to Timothy around c 63ndash65
instructing him to care for the church at Ephesus
(13) to challenge false teaching (13ndash7 41ndash8 63
ndash5 20ndash21) and to oversee the life of the growing
Ephesian church incl their worship ( 21-15) the
appointment of leaders (31ndash13 517ndash25) and their
attitude to money (63-10 17-18) This section
includes the often misquoted verse lsquothe love of
money is the root of all kinds of evilrsquo (610)
Paul writes to Timothy lsquomy true son in the
faithrsquo (12) Timothyrsquos father was Greek while his
mother was a Jewish Christian (Ac 161) Paul led
him to faith in Christ during his first visit to Lystra At
the time of his second visit he invited Timothy to join
(Continued on page 7)
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7
PARISH REGISTER
THANKSGIVINGS 19th June
Kyle Harvey Liggins Darcey Rose Lee
WEDDINGS June 18th
Sharon Tracy Crisp amp Paul Graham Colson
BURIAL 10th June
Phyllis Mason aged 93 of Charnwood House
at St Paulrsquos
17th June
Clifford Reginald Barrell aged 90 of Keresley Wood
him on his missionary travels circumcising him so
that his Greek ancestry would not be a liability in
working with the Jews (Ac 163) Although somewhat
timid and often unwell Timothy was faithful servant
of the Lord and Paul
The primary purpose of the letter is to urge Timothy
to deal with false teaching in the church It also
provided written authorisation to allow Timothy to
carry out this task The false teachers were primarily
insiders not teachers from outside the church They
taught a strong emphasis on Jewish myths and
genealogies They were legalistic about the about
Jewish laws while downplaying the importance of
marriage It would also appear that they taught that
the resurrection had already come and Christians no
longer needed to look forward to Christs coming
judgment and resurrection of the dead They were
so immersed in speculative controversies that they
were neglecting the very core of the Christian faith
Not an unfamiliar situation today
Therefore this letter teaches us that we should all be
an example of faithfulness and not a stumbling block
to those God has called us to reach Like Timothy
we are called to build the church in a way that will
bring glory to God lsquoBut you man of God flee from all
this and pursue righteousness godliness faith
love endurance and gentleness Fight the good fight
of the faith Take hold of the eternal life to which you
were called when you made your good confession in
the presence of many witnessesrsquo (I Timothy 61112)
(Continued from page 6) 1 Thessalonians
Regular Activities in the Church Hall NB the Church Hall is not usually available for late night
Discos
Pre-school Playgroup
Mondays to Fridays 9am - 1130am and
1230pm ndash 3pm
Brownies Guides Cubs and Scouts meet on
weekday evenings See page 2 for details
I dreamt that I went to
Heaven and an angel was deputised to show me around
Our first stop was at a large room filled with angels They were unfolding reading and stacking thousands of bits of paper of all sizes My angel guide explained ldquoThis is the Receiving Section Here all petitions to God said in prayer are received‟ I looked around the area and it was terribly busy Angels were sorting out petitions from all over the world Some were long and involved and weighty others merely a sigh on a scrap of paper
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section
The angel said to me This is the Packaging and Delivery Section Here the graces and blessings that have been asked for are processed and delivered to the people who need them I noticed again how busy it was there The angels were working hard to package and send back to earth all the blessings that had been requested
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station To my great surprise only one angel was seated there doing nothing much This is the Acknowledgement Section my angel friend said quietly He seemed a bit embarrassed How is it that there is no work going on here I asked
The angel sighed Well after people receive the blessings that they ask for it seems very few think to send back any acknowledgement
How does one acknowledge Gods blessings I
asked
Simple the angel answered ldquoJust say bdquoThank
you Lord‟ And mean itrdquo
What happens in heaven when you pray
OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7 OUR COMMUNITY P AGE 7
PARISH REGISTER
THANKSGIVINGS 19th June
Kyle Harvey Liggins Darcey Rose Lee
WEDDINGS June 18th
Sharon Tracy Crisp amp Paul Graham Colson
BURIAL 10th June
Phyllis Mason aged 93 of Charnwood House
at St Paulrsquos
17th June
Clifford Reginald Barrell aged 90 of Keresley Wood
him on his missionary travels circumcising him so
that his Greek ancestry would not be a liability in
working with the Jews (Ac 163) Although somewhat
timid and often unwell Timothy was faithful servant
of the Lord and Paul
The primary purpose of the letter is to urge Timothy
to deal with false teaching in the church It also
provided written authorisation to allow Timothy to
carry out this task The false teachers were primarily
insiders not teachers from outside the church They
taught a strong emphasis on Jewish myths and
genealogies They were legalistic about the about
Jewish laws while downplaying the importance of
marriage It would also appear that they taught that
the resurrection had already come and Christians no
longer needed to look forward to Christs coming
judgment and resurrection of the dead They were
so immersed in speculative controversies that they
were neglecting the very core of the Christian faith
Not an unfamiliar situation today
Therefore this letter teaches us that we should all be
an example of faithfulness and not a stumbling block
to those God has called us to reach Like Timothy
we are called to build the church in a way that will
bring glory to God lsquoBut you man of God flee from all
this and pursue righteousness godliness faith
love endurance and gentleness Fight the good fight
of the faith Take hold of the eternal life to which you
were called when you made your good confession in
the presence of many witnessesrsquo (I Timothy 61112)
(Continued from page 6) 1 Thessalonians
Regular Activities in the Church Hall NB the Church Hall is not usually available for late night
Discos
Pre-school Playgroup
Mondays to Fridays 9am - 1130am and
1230pm ndash 3pm
Brownies Guides Cubs and Scouts meet on
weekday evenings See page 2 for details
I dreamt that I went to
Heaven and an angel was deputised to show me around
Our first stop was at a large room filled with angels They were unfolding reading and stacking thousands of bits of paper of all sizes My angel guide explained ldquoThis is the Receiving Section Here all petitions to God said in prayer are received‟ I looked around the area and it was terribly busy Angels were sorting out petitions from all over the world Some were long and involved and weighty others merely a sigh on a scrap of paper
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section
The angel said to me This is the Packaging and Delivery Section Here the graces and blessings that have been asked for are processed and delivered to the people who need them I noticed again how busy it was there The angels were working hard to package and send back to earth all the blessings that had been requested
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station To my great surprise only one angel was seated there doing nothing much This is the Acknowledgement Section my angel friend said quietly He seemed a bit embarrassed How is it that there is no work going on here I asked
The angel sighed Well after people receive the blessings that they ask for it seems very few think to send back any acknowledgement
How does one acknowledge Gods blessings I
asked
Simple the angel answered ldquoJust say bdquoThank
you Lord‟ And mean itrdquo
What happens in heaven when you pray