mottram parish magazine · 2020. 8. 21. · december/january 2019/20 page 1 sponsored by kate best...

December 2019 and January 2020

Printed: 55p monthly or download from the website

Mottram Parish Magazine

We aim to be

~ a growing fellowship of believers ~ warm in welcome ~ reverent in worship ~ gracious in witness ~

and joyfully serving God and our community ~

Churchwardens David Russell 01457 765165 Dejan Melovic 07763962477

Mottram Parish

USEFUL CHURCH CONTACTS IN MOTTRAM PARISH Churchwardens David Russell 01457 765165 Dejan Melovic 07763962477

Readers John Walker (Emeritus) 01457 763292 Allen Standeven (Emeritus) 01457 857331

PCC Secretary Kate Best 01457 857248

PCC Treasurer Brian Seaborn 0161 336 8089

Parish Administrator Juliet Edwards 07935 498208

Prayer Contact Allen Standeven 01457 857331 email [email protected]

Children’s Work Coordinator Pat Hall 01457 861827

Baptism Coordinator Cathy Laycock 0797 147 9903

Weddings Margaret Taylor 0161 494 8071

Pastoral Visiting Coordinators Christine Brandreth 01457 238268 Kath Higgins 01457 765690 Christine Kershaw 01457 765350 email [email protected]

Safeguarding Coordinator Claire Bibby 01457 763758 secure email: [email protected]

Funeral coordinator Kate Best 01457 857248

Organists John Brandreth 01457 238268 Nigel Crookall 0161 338 6790

Friends of Mottram Parish Church Ian Roebuck 01457 763179

Bellringers Captain Christine Broadley 07810 560796

email: use the person’s name - eg: [email protected]

www.mottramparish.org.uk the Church of England in Mottram Parish, serving the communities of

Mottram, Broadbottom and Hattersley East together “seeking to know Christ and to make Christ known”

OUR MAIN SUNDAY WORSHIP IS AT 10.30am (see page 11) St. Michael & All Angels, Warhill, via Church Brow, Mottram, SK14 6JL

MAGAZINE CONTACTS Editor: Polly Brown 01457 865278 [email protected] or [email protected] Distribution: Adrian Davis 01457 764727 Advertising: Chris Poyser 0161 3660931 [email protected]

Subscriptions [email protected]

Community Groups & Charities - advertise free on our notice boards Email: [email protected]

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Mottram Parish Magazine www.mottramparish.org.uk

A Season To Reflect . . . .

The media calls this time of year ‘the run-up to Christmas' and that is what it is, but the other day one of the well-known furniture manufacturers gave this season a new twist in its advertisement. Order now, it said, and your new sofa would be delivered in time for Christmas, the hosting season. Pardon? Hosting season? Did we mishear? Try googling it and you will find lots of tips for making your “hosting season” a success. One particular article titled “Getting Ready for the Hosting Season” explains that this is the season when “welcoming friends and family for celebrations is the name of the game”. It gives a checklist to make sure nothing is overlooked and concludes with “get in plenty of food and drink to achieve that sense of holiday cheer”. The article runs to 592 words, but nowhere is Jesus or Christmas mentioned – not even once!

Now forgive us if we’ve got this wrong but aren’t we entering, not the hosting season, but the season of Advent, a season of joyful expectation as we prepare to celebrate the coming into the world of Jesus Christ, our Saviour. It is an important devotional season during which, even though the world is filled with the ‘busy’ of Christmas, we need to go against the grain, slow down and reflect.

So let’s reflect on this - on the night when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a small group of shepherds were quietly tending their flocks of sheep in the nearby fields. They were looking up at the stars, as we all tend to do on a clear night. Nothing seemed different. But what was about to happen would transform not only the lives of these shepherds but the lives of countless others as well. The world would never be the same. When we talk of ‘looking forward to the birth of Jesus', we know that this is only a figure of speech. The birth of Jesus took place some two thousand years ago, and what we are now preparing for is Christmas, our annual celebration of His birth.

It is a challenge for us as Christians to live this Advent Season when the commercialism and materialism of the world around us has already begun its annual bombardment. We’ll all be busy with our own preparations for Christmas, but we must remember to put aside some time each day, be it only a few minutes or an hour, to be with God, to reflect on the miraculous birth of Jesus, the gospel stories and the mission of Christ.

Wishing you all a Blessed and Peaceful Christmas,

David and Dejan Churchwardens

The Churchwardens Write

NOTICE BOARD Community Groups and Charities

You can advertise on our notice boards - it’s free! Contact the magazine editor - details inside the front cover.

Deadline for the February issue is Thursday 23rd January 2020

Walking With The Walkers

Come and join us in the great outdoors; for fresh air, a bit of exercise and good company. Meet at Church gates.Our walks are mostly on Saturdays, but our new programme includes a special scooter/buggy/family friendly walk on a Sunday afternoon. Pick up a printed programme in church or visit the parish website at www.mottramparish.org.uk

December/January 2019/20 page 2 sponsored in memory of Ernest Nash


Holy Dusters to assist Jacky, Brenda, & Paula on Friday mornings

Sound Desk Assistants to join Tony & Barry

on Sundays.

Saturday 7 December 10:30am start

Christmas Meal Table booked for 12.30pm at The Devonshire Arms, Longhurst Ln. Mellor, Stockport SK6 5PP There may be a short walk before the meal, depending on demand.

Wednesday 1 January 11am start. New Year’s Day walk - Longdendale Reservoirs. Easy, led by Bob & Sue Joy 0161 368 2706

New walkers always welcome. Car share if necessary.

We meet on Sundays 6.30 - 7.45pm At the Magdalene Centre Broadbottom

SEE YOU THERE!

NOTICES (CONTINUED)

December/January 2019/20 page 3 sponsored by The Friends of Mottram Church


The Trefoil Guild 3rd Thursday

of every month

19th December Christmas celebration

Open to anyone over 18 years who is sympathetic to the aims of Guiding. For more information contact [email protected]

Longdendale Women’s Institute

Monday 9th December Members’ Christmas

Social Evening 7.45pm at

Mottram Cricket Club

(Contact telephone numbers inside back cover.)

Join us on Mondays 1.30 -3.00pm

at Mottram Community Centre, Church Brow. Everyone is welcome. For more information

Contact Pat or Charmian at [email protected]

Baby & Toddler Group

Mottram Parish Christmas

Lunch

Wednesday 11th December

at Windy Harbour

Glossop

Contact

Dorothy Stringer or Sandra Gateley in church.

Sunday School We have enjoyed hearing some of Jesus’ parables and talking about what they might mean to us today. We are now looking forward to our nativity service. We’ve booked the donkey, chosen the narrators and are hoping that we have enough children to fill the other parts! I wonder why we always have trouble finding shepherds??? Rehearsal dates are: Sunday 17th November, Sunday 24th November Sunday 8th December Please continue to pray for our children and their teachers. - Pat.


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NOTICES (FURTHER CONTINUED)

Mustard Seed Group This group has been meeting for 30 years(!) for Bible study in each other's homes.

All are welcome - please contact Monica Powell on 01457 763035

if you'd like to join us.

Monday Book Group!

Grab the opportunity to read and discuss the bible with like-minded people. Book Group returns with the shorter New Testament letters.

We meet at 2pm on the third Monday of each month at the home of Jean and Peter Hey, 21 Tollemache Road, Mottram.

The meeting lasts for about an hour.

For more information talk to Allen Standeven (01457 857331) or Claire Bibby (01457 763758)

What’s on at St. Barnabas, Hattersley Tuesday Café 8.30 -11.00am. Sunday 1st Dec. 10.30am Advent Service with Holy Communion. Friday 6th Dec. 4-8pm Christmas event at the Hub . St Bs will have a craft stall, also Christmas Tree lights switch on, Hattersley brass band, Father Christmas Grotto and plenty more. Saturday 7th Dec. 8.30am Men’s Breakfast all men welcome, come along and enjoy a cooked breakfast and friendly chat. Wednesday 11th Dec. General Election Prayer Event, St Barnabas will be open 8am -8pm for people to come along and pray for our nation.(10.30am Communion as usual.) Sunday 8th Dec. 10.30am Dressing of the Crib with Holy Communion. Sunday 15th Dec. 10.30am Christingle with Holy Communion. Wednesday 18th Dec. 12.00 noon. Holiday@Home joint Christmas lunch, with Mottram church and St Barnabas. Sunday 22nd Dec. 10.30am Carol Service with Holy Communion. Christmas Eve 11am Holy Communion in St Barnabas. Christmas Eve 11.15pm Holy Communion Mottram Parish Church. Christmas Day 9.30am Holy Communion St Barnabas.

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Helping Out


December/January 2019/20 page 7 sponsored by Janette Baxter

Can you help support Mottram Parish Magazine in 2020? We need

DISTRIBUTORS Would you be able to spare about an hour each month delivering a bundle of magazines to homes in the parish? If so please contact Adrian Davies now – in church at the 8.30am service, or ring 01457 764727 or email [email protected]

PAGE SPONSORS Would you like to sponsor a page? Only £20 for the year. If you are already a sponsor you will need to let us know whether you wish to renew your sponsorship. Please contact Polly Brown now – in church at the 10.30am service, or ring 01457 865278 or email [email protected]

ADVERTISERS Businesses Would you like to advertise in the Parish Magazine? We are now renewing the advertising for the 2020 issues. Competitive rates – delivered to over 400 homes in Mottram, Broadbottom and Hattersley, plus online edition. Ten issues per year - advertise in as many or as few as you wish. Please contact Chris Poyser – in church, on 0161 366 0931 or email [email protected]

WILL YOU HELP THE HOMELESS AT CHRISTMAS?

Spotlight is a charity providing meals and support to the homeless in Manchester and surrounding districts. Earlier this year we helped by providing blankets, socks etc., and they are now asking for our help at Christmas. In addition to providing meals they would also like to give each person a Cadburys selection box (about £1 each) and they are asking us to help provide these. Will you help a homeless person this Christmas? Donations of selection boxes can be left in the collecting box in church (NOT the Foodbank box) For further information contact Claire Selby.

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God in the Sciences This series is written by Dr Ruth M. Bancewicz, Church Engagement Director at The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge. Ruth writes on the positive relationship between Science and Christian faith.

The Incarnation: fearfully and wonderfully made

‘My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.’ Psalm 139:15-16

You began life as a single cell. For a few hours you were a miniscule but highly complex blob of jelly, until it began to divide: two cells, four, eight, sixteen, a ball, a hollow ball, and then something more recognisably like a living organism. You were still tiny, but developing a nervous system, a head, a body, arms and legs.

Until recently I hadn’t thought much about Jesus being an embryo. Somehow, I find that thought even more shocking than His birth. How could God, who made the universe, have become something so completely and utterly vulnerable? Maybe in the past, when the development of a child happened in ‘secret’, it was possible just to let that part of the Christmas story go untold.

Today, when we see images of a developing child, or even embryos outside the womb, it is harder to ignore the process of Jesus developing into a baby. The incarnation meant that God’s Son went through all the stages in the diagram in my developmental biology textbook: ‘zygote’, ‘morula’, ‘blastocyst’, implantation, and so on.

Jesus was there in the beginning, and all life owes its existence to Him. But instead of remaining aloof, He chose to become one of us. The Son of God shared the same kind of DNA as every other organism on the planet. He knows what it feels like to have a body, to feel hungry and thirsty, pain and pleasure, dark and light.

In Psalm 139, the writer is meditating on God’s intimate knowledge of Him, which began when He was an embryo. There is nothing God doesn’t know about Him, and even darkness cannot obscure Him from God’s sight. The incarnation means that God’s intimacy with us now extends even further. He became one of us, lived alongside us, and shared our very fragile material nature.

The transcendent God is also immanent, longing for us to relate to Him as Father. He became as fragile as we are so He could rescue us from the messes we so often find ourselves in. With His help, we can remember what it means to be fearfully and wonderfully made.

Reproduced by permission from Merry Christmas Everyone: A festive feast of stories, poems and reflection, Edited by Wendy H. Jones, Amy Robinson & Jane Clamp (Association of Christian Writers, 2018)

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December/January 2019/20 page 9 Sponsored by Jack & Sandra Kenworthy

Newsletter We have bad news and good news. Our data shows we are having to give out food to more people in need, however donations and help from the local

community have meant we have had enough food to feed everyone. A large donation from Mottram Parish Church arrived just when the shelves were looking very bare. Compared to this time last year, we have given out food for 1,368 more meals.

Thank you for your continuing support. The government report on the possible impact of Brexit, Operation Yellowhammer, says Brexit ‘will increase [food] price, which could have an impact on vulnerable groups’. We think that this will mean a further increase in the demand for foodbanks. Please keep remembering us in the run up to Christmas.

Christmas is a time for giving and you can change someone’s Christmas by completing our Reverse Advent Calendar. Simply add an item to a bag for 24 days, then bring the bag to our foodbank during opening hours (see below) or put it in the collection box at Tesco Extra Hattersley. The food items you give will go into a Christmas food parcel that will help people in crisis over the festive season. Please ensure all donations get to us by 14th December so we can distribute the food in time for Christmas. You can download copies from the news article we have on our website.

Susan Ayers Project Co-ordinator Tameside South and Longdendale Foodbank Hattersley Baptist Church Melandra Crescent Hyde SK14 3RB Mob. 07901786905

FOODBANK OPENING HOURS Hattersley Baptist Church Tuesday 12:00-1:00pm

Friday 2:00-3:00pm St Mary’s Church, Hollingworth Monday 11:00am -12:00 noon.

Tameside South & Longdendale Foodbank

Thank you

Over the past months, I have been helped by the knowledge of your love and prayers. I would like to thank every one of you and wish you all a happy, healthy and blessed Christmas. Janette Baxter

Katherine Elwood wishes everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year and thanks people for visiting and writing to her.

We are writing in response to the very kind donation towards the work of the Bible Encounter Trust. This is very much appreciated - please pass on our sincere thanks to the PCC of Mottram Parish Church. Assembly visits continue to go well and we are now preparing busily for the Christmas Story Trail, this year at All Hallows Church, Cheadle. We very much value your continuing support for the work, not only financially, but in prayer and encouragement. We look forward hopefully to being with you all again in 2020! With our love and thanks.

Julie and Peter Fraser (Bible Encounter Trust)

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A big ‘thank you’ to Gwen Cousins. She has been a tower of strength and a steadying influence, keeping her shoulder to the wheel and leaving no stone unturned to keep her fellow editor on the straight and narrow of the steep learning curve that has been our first year on the Parish Mag. This dreadful stack of mixed metaphors, which Gwen would never have let me get away with, boils down to ‘Thanks for all your help, Gwen, and very best wishes for the future’. Polly Brown (editor - now flying solo)

Christmas Cartoon Corner

December/January 2019/20 page 11 Mottram Parish Magazine www.mottramparish.org.uk

Parish Prayer Rota

Month by month, we invite you to pray with us for all the residents of the parish, asking for God’s blessing or healing touch wherever it is needed.

December 2019

Regular prayers

Every Monday In church 7 – 7.45 pm Focusing on Church and Ministry

First Tuesday in the month Tuesday 3rd December 8-9pm At the home of Betty Gadd

Quiet, informal prayers for the church, ourselves, friends, neighbours and the world.

Please let Betty know you are coming. Tel. 0161 368 5131


December/January 2019/20 page 12 Sponsored by Alf & Sue Wilkinson

Let’s Pray

Every week in Mottram Church:

Most Fridays 10.30–11.30am Church open. (Chapel available for private prayer.)

Sundays 8.30am Holy Communion. (10am Join us for a short time of prayer before the service.) 10.30am Sunday Service (crèche in church).

Every week at St. Barnabas, Hattersley:

Wednesday 10.30am shared Mid-week Communion.

Silver Sunday Service 3pm at Balmoral Nursing Home. All are welcome to come along and join in the worship. Next service: Sunday 15th Dec. (3rd Sunday this month only)

First service of 2020: Sunday 12th January (2nd Sunday as usual)

Lodge Court Old Road Spout Green Roe Cross Green Old Hall Lane Old Hall Close Hall Close Hall Drive Tollemache Close Tollemache Road

January 2020

Ash Close Elm Close Oak Close Four Lanes Rushy Croft Littlefields Meadowcroft Waterfoot Cottages Stalybridge Road The Croft

A prayer for the church during the parish vacancy God, who in generous mercy sent the Holy Spirit upon your Church in the burning fire of your love: grant that your people may be fer-vent in the fellowship of the gospel that, always abiding in you, they may be found steadfast in faith and active in service; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

Collect for the 1st Sunday of Christmas. Almighty God, who has given us Thy only begotten son, to take our nature upon Him, and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin; grant that we, being regenerate, and made Thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by Thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end, Amen.

December/January 2019/20 page 13 sponsored in memory of Bernice Pickford Hills

Let’s Pray (continued)


Luke’s story of the birth of Jesus is brilliantly told – the angel’s visit to Mary to tell her she would be mother of the long-promised Messiah, the old priest in the Temple told by another angel that his wife would have a son to be called ‘John’, who would prepare the people of Israel for that event, and then Mary and Joseph making the 60 mile journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, as required by the Roman census. When they got there, no room at the inn, and they settled instead for a convenient stable, where Mary gave birth to a boy child. Suddenly, Luke changes the tone. ‘And there were shepherds …’ – that’s what he actually wrote, just like that. ‘And there were shepherds’, doing exactly what shepherds do, looking after their flocks by night. But this night was different: yet another angelic message – a call to abandon their sheep and go into Bethlehem to see the baby Messiah. They were given directions and a ‘sign’ to identify Him. He would be lying in a feeding trough. Well, at least they would recognise that. And why the shepherds, in this glorious story of our salvation? Because the event needed witnesses, and the chosen witnesses would be this bunch of scruffy, smelly shepherds straight from the sheep-pen. Nothing could speak more eloquently of God’s purpose than that. This was not a Saviour for the strong, rich and powerful, but for everybody. The carpenter and his wife guarded the Saviour of the world, and the very first witnesses were not kings or priests but a handful of shepherds. By David Winter

Holy Days - Christmas Day

December/January 2019/20 page 14

Remembrance Sunday - 10th November


SUNDAY BIBLE READINGS

Dec. 1 Romans 13 v 11 to end Matthew 24 v36 - 44 8 Romans 15 v 4 - 13 Matthew 3 v 1 - 12 15 James 5 v 7 - 10 Matthew 11 v 2 - 11 22 Romans 1 v 1 - 7 Matthew 1 v 18 - end 24 Acts 13 v 16 - 26 Luke 1 v 67 - 79 25 Hebrews 1 v 1- 4 5 - 12 John 1 v 1 - 14

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DecembmbmmbmbberWORSHIP DIARY

Sunday 1 1st Sunday in Advent 8.30am Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer) 10.30am All Together Worship 4pm Choral Evensong

Sunday 8 2nd Sunday in Advent 8.30am Holy Communion (Common Worship) 10.30am Holy Communion with prayer ministry

Sunday 15 3rd Sunday in Advent 8.30am Holy Communion (Common Worship) 10.30am Morning Praise with Nativity

Thursday 19 6.30pm The Big Sing at the Magdalene Centre

Sunday 22 4th Sunday in Advent 8.30am Holy Communion (Common Worship) 10.30am Holy Communion 6.30pm Nine Lessons and Carols

Tuesday 24 Christmas Eve 4pm Christingle Service 11.15pm Midnight Communion

Wednesday 25 Christmas Day 10.30am All Together Worship

Sunday 29 1st Sunday of Christmas 8.30am Holy Communion 10.30am Holy Communion

REGISTERS & RECORDS

Flowers

No flowers during Advent

29 December 1st Sunday of Christmas. R. Leigh

Would you like to pay for the altar flowers for a special occasion or anniversary? If so, please contact

Kath (01457 765690), Judith (01457 762362) Sue (0161 368 2706) or [email protected]

Flag Flying

Sunday 10 November 2019 In remembrance of all who served or suffered during WW1, WW” and other conflicts since.

Sunday 1 December 2019 Birthday memories of Geoff Pickford

Friday 13 December 2019 50th wedding anniversary of Helen and Allan Whittaker

Saturday 14 December 2019 In loving memory of Eileen Monks

Wednesday 18 December 2019 Happy 80th Birthday Stephen Franks

Wednesday 25 December 2019 In loving memory of Harold Monks

Wednesday 15 January 2020 Birthday memories of Terry Robinson Would you like the flag flying for a special occasion or anniversary? Contact Tony Kershaw on 01457 765350 or [email protected]


December/January 2019/20 page 16 sponsored by June Lamb

Funerals

Wednesday 6 November 2019 Eileen Broadbent

Friday 8th November 2019 Audrey Webb

Tuesday 12 November 2019 Christopher Bill

Contacts for arranging baptisms, thanksgivings, weddings, wedding blessings and funerals can be found inside the front cover.

Parish Vacancy The PCC has now published our Parish Profile, which is a comprehensive description of the Parish, the Church congregation and what we are looking for in a new vicar. This is now available to applicants and the post has been advertised on the diocesan website and in the Church Times. You can see the advert and the parish profile on the church website: www.mottramparish.org.uk

There are printed copies of the parish profile in church. If you would like to borrow a copy to take home please see Tony Kershaw.

ETHEROW CENTRE BROADBOTTOM

Providing sport and leisure activities for people with disabilities.

Hire our large indoor arena.

Contact Claire Bibby 01457 763758


Lymefield Outdoor Learning Centre Workshops • Parties • Meetings

Contact Jane Redshaw on 07470 001261 or info@ lymefieldcentre.org.uk

Run for the community by the community

MOTTRAM COMMUNITY CENTRE Church Brow, Mottram

• Two large halls and stage • kitchen • soft outdoor play area children’s parties, meetings, etc. Contact Janis Bond on 01457 763504

BROADBOTTOM COMMUNITY CENTRE Need to find a venue for an event, a party or a regular group activity?

Contact Mandy Pluck on 07967567420 Email [email protected]

Website: www.broadbottomvillage.com

Mottram Primary School 01457 763368 [email protected] Broadbottom Primary School 01457 762382 [email protected] Arundale Primary School 01457 762328 [email protected]

Longdendale Pre-school in Mottram 07594 640487

Broadbottom Pre-school 01457 764423

Mottram Brownies 07928 575865 Mottram Guides & Rainbows 07884 183129, 07921266168 Broadbottom Brownies 07884 006484 Broadbottom & Mottram Beavers, Cubs and Scouts 07912 387358

Longdendale Women’s Institute 01457 763319, 01457 766517

Longdendale Neighbourhood Police 0161 856 9484 Tameside Police (non emergency) 0161 872 5050

Tameside Council www.tameside.gov.uk Councillor Janet Cooper 01457 763319 Councillor Chris Buglass 0161 342 3021 Longdendale Town Council 0161 342 2346

Member of Parliament Jonathan Reynolds MP, 0161 367 8077 [email protected]

Tameside Local Studies & Archives 0161 342 4242 Hattersley Library, in the Hub 0161 342 2552

COMMUNITY CONTACTS IN MOTTRAM PARISH

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Friends of Mottram Parish Church Ian Roebuck 01457 763179

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