trinity church honley newsletter march 2014

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Newsletter March 2014

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Trinity Church March 2014

SERVICES

Junior Church. Trinity has a Junior Church which takes place during the latter part of the service, except on the Sundays when

there’s All-Age Worship. The children's corner in church is always av ailable for the younger ones and their carers. It also has a second-hand book shelf in the west transept. All

books 25p each. Eggsibition Junior church will be hosting a

decorated Easter egg display on Easter Sunday

20th April. Everyone is invited to join in by bringing their decorated egg to church in time for the service.

LENT SOUP LUNCHES The Lent Lunches this year begin on Thursday 6th

March and continue on Thursdays until April 17th. They are held in the Parish Rooms, Church Street and the

proceeds from the lunches go to the Honley Aid in Sick-ness charity. Sylvia Hallas would be grateful for help

on any one of these Thursdays.. Please ring her on 662929 if you can help. Thank you.

Food Bank at Honley Library- update There are now two food bank volunteers in Honley

Library every Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 4 pm for anyone with a voucher to collect a bag of food supplies

put together by the Food Bank Volunteers (Holme Val-ley). This is in addition to the Methodist, Full Life and

Parish churches in Holmfirth. The Holme Valley Food Bank was set up in No-

vember 2012 and depends on voluntary donations of time, money and 'in date' food. It receives support from

many local organisations, including local churches, schools, retailers, health and social care providers and

is a fully inclusive, non-political, non denominational and non judgemental organisation.

Vouchers for the bags are issued through Elm-wood and Oaklands health centres in Holmfirth and the

Honley surgery in Marsh Gardens (Joe Hodgson)

Date Time Minister/Organiser Vestibule Stewards

Church Stewards Flowers Coffee team

Sy lvia Hallas +

2 1030 Michael Taylor* Marina & Roger

Woodhead Margaret Sheppard

Pam Redfearn Mary Noble

Linda Crav en Rachel Boothroy d

9 1030 David Brook** Linda & Steven

Crav en Glenys Pallister

Pat Waite Jane & Bob Armitage

Ann Hirst Jean Wood

16 1030 Keith Kitson Jean Wood

Di Harris Bob & Jane Armitage

Margaret Sheppard

Doreen Sykes Kathleen Kennedy

23 1030 Rev Tim Moore

(incl. communion) Marian Bainbridge Rachel Boothroy d

Margaret Armitage Penny Winterbottom

Barbara Hartley Margaret Armitage

Di Harris

30 1030 Steve Harvey Peter & Linda

Webb Hilary Turner

Caroly nne Roberts Ann Fisher

Jean Wood Audrey Hawkswell

Day Date Church Events in March

Tuesday 4 Women’s Fellowship Meeting in The Arthurs’ Room 2.30pm. Speaker: Peter Marshall ‘Michael and me’. Chairlady: Margaret Sheppard.

Weds. 5 Fairtrade event Fair & Funky ‘Go Bananas’ at Holmf irth Methodist Church

Friday 7 Women's World Day of Prayer.– Serv ice led by Rev Jenny Barnes at 2.00pm at St Mary's Church. This

y ear the service has been prepared by the Christian Women of Egypt. All are welcome.

Sunday 9 Fairtrade Family Fun Day, Holmfirth market

Tuesday 11 Circuit Leisure Group Meet at Shepley Methodist church at 11am f or a 2 hour walk, picnic lunch and talk.

Saturday 15 The Spring Concert with Honley Band 7.30pm Tickets are £5 av ailable on the door.

Sunday 16 Spring Social 12.15 pm. in the Upper Hall. Meat and Potato Pie lunch f ollowed by quizzes, £5. Please sign up for this enjoy able ev ent on the list on the notice board..

Tuesday 18 Women’s Fellowship Meeting in The Arthurs’ Room 2.30pm: Speaker:Jane Eley ‘Cake Decorations’.. Chairlady Margaret Armitage

Sunday 23 Trinity Church / Civic Society ’Map Reading’ Walk. Meet at 2.15pm outside Trinity for a walk to Stirley Community Farm led by Bert Neary.

FAIRTRADE Fortnight continues until 9th March

APRIL 18th Good Friday Service on the Green, Westgate, at noon, preceded by communion at Trinity at 1115

* Mike Taylor was born in Brighouse but has lived in various

parts of the country. He came to live in Huddersfield from Kentish

Town in 1990, settled in Almondbury and became a member of

the Methodist Church having formerly been a Congregationalist/

URC. He has preached for a long time and was once, many years

ago, best man when a friend of his married a girl from Honley,

at Honley Congregational church!

** David Brook for many years was a chemistry teacher,

mostly in Kenya. On returning to England, he worked with a group producing online learning material for engineering

students.

WHAT’S BEHIND THE DOOR? The proceeds from the Activities’ Committee Spring

Social on March 16th will see the start of fund-raising to get new doors for the church. The present front doors

are uninviting, with peeling paint no draught-proofing and hiding the interior of the church. They form a bar-

rier rather than a welcome. It’s time to modernise. It should be possible to get a matching grant if we can

prove we are actively fund-raising. Enjoy the social!

Trinity Church Honley Newsletter March 2014 3

Minister’s Message

Lenten laughter By Rev Tim Moore

Two down, ten to go. In other

words we are now in March and before long we will be enjoying

Easter and some spring sun-

shine.

I think we can sometimes approach

Lent like this – looking forward to

it being over rather than under-

standing how it might enrich us.

As I write, the Sochi 2014 winter Olympics has just started and all the hard work put in by the athletes

is now being drawn upon and put

into practice in the competitions. If the preparation were just seen

solely as a toil and grind then com-

petitors would soon give up. They have to enjoy the practices and re-

hearsals.

On the first Sunday morning of the competition I eagerly watched

the Women's Snowboarding and it

made me stop to think. Usually just before competing the athletes

are focused and concentrate on

what comes next. However, some of the Snowboarders were quite

different. They were truly enjoy-

ing the occasion and getting as much out of being in the Olympics

as they could and competing seemed to be the privilege rather

than getting a medal. They were

relaxed and soaking up the mo-

ment.

On reflection I wonder if during

Lent we can slow the clock down and try to get out of these five

weeks as much as we can and not

try to rush through them looking to Easter morning. We will all have

an opportunity to be involved with

a Lent course this year and I hope we can enjoy it . The Church has

fixed Lent into our year asking us

to reflect upon Jesus’ route to the cross. Even Jesus needed the com-

panionship and laughter of his

friends on the journey. So in this

serious season perhaps we can

allow ourselves the opportunity

to laugh and smile as we journey

with God.

Tim Moore mobile: 07837 128611

email: [email protected]

New local preacher Jez Hackett was inaugurated as a

local preacher at a ‘recognition ser-vice’ in Kirkheaton Methodist / URC

Church on Sunday 2nd Feb.

The sermon, delivered by the Chair-

man of the West Yorkshire Method-ist District, Rev Roger Walton, gave

Jez three main points to follow:

1. You are a Mission Partner, not a

missionary. You don’t just preach to, but work along-

side, the people you meet

2. You need to be bi-lingual. You need to understand

two languages- the secular and the spiritual.

3. You need to be creative; using old methods as well

as new ones to put across the Good News.

Prayer-does it make any difference?

On two Tuesday evenings a little group of us, led by

our minister Tim Moore, met to discuss prayer and to consider some of the thoughts and ideas of Philip

Yancey expressed in his book Prayer-does it make any difference? These were not prayer meetings as

such, though we did have a brief time of prayer, but

Tim challenged us with some searching questions:

Was it easy to pray? Why do we pray? What did we

pray for? Was it worth it? Does God answer prayer?

Tim explained some of Yancey's thoughts (and it was-n't necessary to have read the book) and encouraged

us to air our own thoughts and feelings. We also talked about the language of prayer and Tim provided us with a

list of prayers from different characters in the Bible.

Finally, he recommended a website and book from the

Northumbria Community that he had found useful: www.northumbriacommunity.org/offices/how-to-use-

daily-office/ which included written prayers for morn-ing, midday, evening and

compline. Several of these prayers are beautiful and well

worth reading.

A big thank you to Tim for

leading the meetings and making us think - I certainly

found it a useful experience. We are hoping to meet once

more in a few weeks time and you would be welcome to join

us. Merran Smith

Majority of Christians in Britain and Europe do

not go to church over Easter

Despite Easter being the most important Christian festi-val most Christians in European countries will not be

attending church services over the Easter weekend.

According to YouGov’s latest EuroTrack poll, just under

a quarter (24%) of British Christians plan to attend church services on Easter Sunday, and only 5% say

they will go to church on another day around Easter.

In Britain, 49% of Christians say spending time with

friends and family is the most important part of Easter,

compared to 30% who say it is its religious significance.


Invitation Sunday / More from the Minutes

Cover Story

Sunday 16th February was our ‘Invitation

Sunday’ when we brought along someone

else to the morning service. Our minister

brought his son George, who was to be an

essential part of the celebrations. Tim

writes:

It was good to see so many people at the

Sunday service and that they enjoyed it so

much. We were thinking about the twists

and turns of life and how much of an impres-

sion others had made to the maps of our

lives. We also thought about how much of an impression we had made to others' lives - a bit like leaving our hand-

prints on the world.

My thanks goes to the children who helped us to make the morning such fun. They spent a lot of time making

Plaster of Paris handprints to symbolise that we can make a permanent impression on those around us. How-

ever, it was interesting to see that not all the handprints set! It made me realise that God says the mistakes we

make in life can be changed and need not be permanent - praise God for that!

Pictures: (L) George organised the plaster of Paris hand moulding with the kids, assisted by Marion Bainbridge;

(R) A lovely sloppy mess which didn’t have quite enough time to dry.

FROM THE MINUTES of the February Church Meeting– not as boring as you might think!

Tour de France Sunday 6 July 2014

Bob Armitage, Jane Armitage and Carolynne Rob-

erts have been attending meetings led by the Honley

Business Association which is taking the lead on or-

ganisation. It is suggested that we open up the church

for tea and cakes and make toilet facilities available.

A market will be held on Church Street on the Satur-

day and Sunday. A concert will be held in the park at

4.00pm on Saturday. The race will be shown on a large

screen in the Market Place.

Bob suggested that we spell out the name of the

church in plants; this is to identify us from the air.

Plant suggestion is geraniums in red and white –

colours of ‘King of the Mountain’ shirt. The idea was

accepted by the meeting. Bob will pursue further.

Night Shelter provision

Fifteen members have expressed an interest in in-

volvement in the pilot project in March. Trinity has not

been chosen to accommodate people but we will help

at other churches. Hilary proposed we offer our time

collectively. We would need to be led by an experi-

enced team leader from another church. Jane will take

application forms to the mission on Friday.

Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Discussion took place at Church Council about this

year’s members’ AGM. It was agreed to hold it on a

Sunday after the morning service. A soup and roll

lunch will be provided, following the meeting, to those

attending. It is hoped this will encourage more people

to attend and hopefully to consider attending future

members’ meetings. Non-members will be warmly

welcomed but will not be eligible to vote.

The AGM will be on Sunday 29th June.

Circuit walk

The walk around the enlarged Huddersfield circuit

has been arranged for March. We have been asked to

open up Trinity at 2 pm on Saturday March 8th.for

those walking. Alan offered to do this and Glenys of-

fered to co-ordinate refreshments. The walkers (not

staying overnight) will set off next morning, Sunday

9th , from Trinity for Netherton and Meltham at 10 am

Playgroup

Playgroup is thriving. 25 children are enrolled and

by Easter it will be full. Currently they are in a good

financial position being in receipt of funding for 2 year

olds and 3 to 4 year olds.

A number of parents visited the Christmas tree fes-

tival, the pram service led by Tim was ‘wonderful’ and

17 children attended the Christmas party with parents

and grandparents enjoying the time together. Caro-

lynne Roberts, who runs the Playgroup, is to be con-

gratulated.

Church Away Day

To be held at Blackley Christian centre on 3rd May

10am -4.00pm.David Bidnell will be ‘leading’ the day

which it is hoped will be relaxing and fun. A meeting is

to take place with David toward the end of March.

Catering provided by Blackley would be preferred to

self-catering. Jane has prepared a notice which invites

members to ‘sign up’.


High Street history comes home

THE CASE OF THE RETHE CASE OF THE RETHE CASE OF THE RETHE CASE OF THE RE----APPEARING TABLE CLOTHAPPEARING TABLE CLOTHAPPEARING TABLE CLOTHAPPEARING TABLE CLOTH

It all started when the Newsletter edi-

tor received an email from the Ashgate

Hospice Shop in Dronfield, near Shef-

field. Someone had donated a very

beautifully embroidered table cloth,

but more interestingly, a table cloth

emblazoned with the name HONLEY

HIGH STREET METHODIST CHURCH

GIFT DAY 1954. How clever of the

manager, Sue, to find the Trinity web-

site and get in contact.

We had a word with Sue and for a small donation the table cloth has now arrived back in Honley and is with us

at Trinity. High Street Methodist Church has long since disappeared– it joined with Southgate Methodists and

Moor Bottom Congregational Church to become Trinity Church in 1969 (See below). Not only is the cloth of

great historic interest but it also contains at least two names of current attendees here at Trinity. A good look

through the embroidered names will uncover who they are! (in colour on the website) Jane Armitage February 2014

JESUS

Martin Hirst was only eight

years old in 1954 but remem-

bers writing his name on the

cloth for his mother to em-

broider over. She embroi-

dered the whole Hirst family.

Every family in the church,

Martin says, was asked to em-

broider their names on the cloth.

How did it get to be in a charity shop in Dronfield?How did it get to be in a charity shop in Dronfield?How did it get to be in a charity shop in Dronfield?How did it get to be in a charity shop in Dronfield?

It seems that Kath Waddington , an exile member of

Trinity now living in Dronfield had decided to have a

clear-out, as we all intend to do, sometime. She

found a large plastic bag of stuff, mostly linen, which

had been her husband Ian’s mother’s and without

more than a glance inside, took the whole bag to the

Dronfield Hospice shop, where the manager, Sue, dis-

covered the cloth and did a bit of detective work on

the internet.

A bit of history:A bit of history:A bit of history:A bit of history: In 1954 there were three non-conformist churches in

Honley; High Street Methodist, Southgate Methodist

and Moorbottom Congregational. In 1967 the British

Council of Churches instituted a project called “The

People Next Door” . This brought members of the

three churches closer together in house group fellow-

ships and provided the impetus for the unification

which was to follow.

In December 1968 it was agreed (with only two votes

against) that the three churches should unite and that

the premises at Moorbottom would be the most suit-

able for the new church.

On Sunday September 7th 1969 there was a service of

covenant and Commitment at the new Trinity Meth-

odist / URC Church. It was known as a Local Ecumeni-

cal Project and was one of the first such. The name

used now is Local Ecumenical Partnership, as the pro-

ject stage has, we hope, been successfully completed.

Yet more history, further back:Yet more history, further back:Yet more history, further back:Yet more history, further back: High Street Methodist Church began life as Ebenezer

Wesleyan Methodist Church† and was established

about 1770, using a large outhouse belonging to Ben-

jamin Littlewood for meetings. A Sunday School was

established in 1790, using Upper Steps Mill* and was

jointly run by Wesleyan Methodists, Church of Eng-

land and Independents. (An even earlier LEP!)

A new chapel was built at Green Cliff in 1806*. The

Wesleyan Methodist scholars at the Sunday School

moved from Upper Steps into it in 1814. Then a new

chapel, High Street Methodist, was built between

High Street and Cuckoo Lane in 1827. It ceased to be

used in 1969, when the amalgamation took place and

it was demolished in 1970. But the embroidered

cloth remains to remind us of our long non-conformist

history in Honley.

* Commemorative blue plaques are on these build-

ings. †The Ebenezer foundation stone is now by the

playgroup garden.


Out and about

Twitching in the Wind- Circuit Leisure Group

Report by Joan Vevers, 11th February.

The weather forecast for the morning

was atrocious but John Hardy, our leader from Meltham, emailed to sug-

gest that as it was due to brighten up at 1pm he would give his talk on The

Practicalities of Bird Watching first and then take a look at the weather after we’d eaten

our lunch. So that is what we did.

John gave an interesting talk about bird feeders and

bird watching to the five people who turned out in the sleet. Three of us had our lunch with John and the sun

came out so, off we went up Mill Moor Road out to-wards the snow line. The wind was fierce and the

track a stream but we spotted quite a few birds and a

few interesting looking geese and ducks on a pond.

We decided we had gone far enough at a junction of catchments for Blackmoorfoot reservoir, following one

of them back towards Meltham and spotting yet more birds. After about an hour we arrived back at the

Church having spotted a total of 12 different breeds of

bird. An exhilarating walk on a blustery day.

The next group outing is on March 11th, from Shepley,

setting off at 11 am in lovely sunny weather.

Legacies We have been very touched and grateful that two

members and friends of Trinity have remembered us in their wil ls.

We received £1000 from the late Annie Penning-ton in October 2013 and £500 from the late Edith

Edna Seed in December 2013. These donations are very welcome in the current

difficult financial climate. Please consider if you could make a bequest to Trinity in your will.

Hilary J Turner, Treasurer, Tel 01484 684704

Honley Aid in Sickness –

registered charity number 237203

The charity Honley Aid In Sickness awards small

grants to individuals or families who are suffering fi-nancial hardship and fall outside the help the NHS or

Social Services are able to offer.

Examples of how the charity has helped Honley resi-dents in recent years include: providing contributions

towards ramps for wheelchair users to get in and out of

their house; help towards energy costs for families cop-ing with increased heating and washing costs due to

serious illness or debilitation; grants for household aids

for individuals with limited mobility,or ability to assist independent living; and help with transport costs visit-

ing seriously ill relatives in distant hospitals.

The charity relies on donations to maintain the fund

and has received contributions from Honley Churches

Together Lent Lunches, Honley Carnival Committee

and the Yorkshire Building Society recently.

Referrals for Honley residents are accepted from GPs,

other Health Professionals or agencies and self refer-

rals.

Further information is available from the Chair (Diana

Kaye) 666424 or Secretary (Alison Dean) 323832.

C. S. Lewis:

The risks of love

To love at all is to be vulner-

able. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung

and possibly broken. If you

want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your

heart to no one, not even to an

animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and litt le luxuries; avoid all entangle-

ments; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your

selfishness.

But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless-it will

change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreak-

able, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation.

The only place outside heaven you can be perfectly

safe from all dangers and perturbations of love is hell.

The Four Loves, by C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963) Lewis

was an English author who wrote fantasy, science fic-

tion, and Christian apologetics. Picture- John Murray

Spiders give me the creeps

From the President of the Methodist Conference

I don’t like spiders. Their fast, unpredictable move-ments unnerve me. The big ones are the worst, so

quick to escape into the nearest dark place, from which

they will eventually emerge stealthily to surprise again.

Silent, scuttling creatures but from them comes such

beauty. The finely woven web that glistens with dew

in the morning light; intricate and deadly, strong in its fragility. Spider silk, that cannot be made except from

the silk glands of the living creature. And, wonder of

wonders, silk harvested and woven into beautiful gar-

ments, naturally golden.

I am challenged to look again at spiders. They still

unnerve me but I see fragile beauty; glimpses of glory.

Ruth M Gee. (Reflection on seeing a garment made of

silk from the Golden Orb Spider)


Woodbine Willie - bringing love with cigarettes and the Bible

The Rev . Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, MC, a

popular much-loved army chaplain on the Western

Front, was better known as ‘Woodbine Willie’

Studdert Kennedy (27 June 1883 – 8 March 1929)

had been born in Leeds as the seventh of nine children.

After reading divinity and classics at Trinity College

Dublin, he’d studied for ordination at Ripon Clergy

College, and served his curacy at Rugby. By the time

war broke out in 1914, Studdert Kennedy was vicar of

St Paul’s Worcester. He soon volunteered to go to the

Western Front as a chaplain to the army.

Life on the front line in the trenches was a desperate

affair, but soon Studdert Kennedy had hit on a way of

bringing a few moments of relief to the stressed out

soldiers: as well as good cheer he gave out copious

amounts of ‘Woodbines’, the most popular cheap ciga-

rette of the time.

One colleague remembered Kennedy: “He'd come

down into the trenches and say prayers with the men,

have a cuppa out of a dirty tin mug and tell a joke as

good as any of us. He was a chain smoker and always

carried a packet of Woodbine cigarettes that he would

give out in handfuls to us lads. That 's how he got his

nickname.

“He came down the trench one day to cheer us up.

Had his Bible with him as usual. Well, I'd been there

for weeks, unable to write home, of course, we were

going over the top later that day. I asked him if he

would write to my sweetheart at home, tell her I was

still alive and, so far, in one piece… years later, after

the war, she showed me the letter he'd sent, very nice it

was. A lovely letter. My wife kept it until she died".

Kennedy was

devoted to his men,

so much so that in

1917 he was

awarded the Mili-

tary Cross at

Messines Ridge,

after running into

no man’s land in

order to help the

wounded during an

attack on the Ger-

man frontline.

During the war,

Kennedy supported

the British military

effort with enthusi-

asm, but soon after the war, he turned to Christian so-

cialism and pacifism. He was given charge of St Ed-

munds in Lombard St, London, and took to writing a

number of poems about his war experiences: Rough

Rhymes of a Padre (1918) and More Rough Rhymes

(1919). He went on to work for the Industrial Christian

Fellowship, for whom he did speaking tours. It was in

Liverpool in 1929, on one of these tours, that he was

taken ill and died . He was only 46.

His compassion and generosity in the face of the

horrors of the Western Front was immortalised in the

song ‘Absent Friends’: "Woodbine Willie couldn't rest

until he'd / given every bloke a final smoke / before the

killing." He himself had once described his chaplain’s

ministry as taking “a box of fags in your haversack,

and a great deal of love in your heart.” PP

I know not

where they’ve laid him

I wouldn't mind if I only knowed The spot where they'd laid my lad; If I could see where they'd buried 'im, It wouldn't be arf so bad. But they do say some's not buried at all, Left to the maggots and flies,

Rottin' out there in that no man's land,

Just where they falls — they lies.

Parson 'e says as it makes no odds, 'Cause the soul o' the lad goes on, 'Is spirit 'as gorn to 'is Gawd, 'e says,

Wherever 'is body 'as gorn. But Parson ain't never 'ad no child, 'E's a man, not a woman, see? 'Ow can he know what a woman feels, And what it can mean to me? For my boy's body were mine — my own,

I bore it in bitter pain, Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh, It lies and rots in the rain.

But even a Father never knows The ache in a Mother's 'eart, When she and the body 'er body bore

Are severed and torn apart

The men wouldn't make these cursed wars If they knowed of a body's worth,

They wouldn't be blowin' 'em all to bits If they 'ad the pains ov birth. But bless ye—the men don't know they're born, For they gets away scot free.

'Ow can they know what their cruel wars

Is costin' the likes ov me?

But I'd like to know just where it's laid, That body my body bore, And I'd like to know who'll mother ‘im

Out there on that other shore.

Gawd, is it you? Then bow you down And 'ark to a Mother's prayer. Don't keep it all to yourself, Good Lord,

But give 'is old Mother a share. Gimme a share of the travail pain Of my own son's second birth, Double the pain if you double the joy

That a mother feels on earth.

Maybe the body as 'e shall wear

Is born of my breaking heart, Maybe these pains are the new birth pangs What'll give my laddie 'is start. Then I'd not trouble 'ow hard they was, I'd gladly go through the mill,

If that new body 'e wore were mine, And I were 'is mother still.

G. Studdert Kennedy


Wordsearch / Letters

February Wordsearch Lif e is f ull of ups and downs- after blessings, hard times

often follow. They are not meant to destroy us but to help

us grow spiritually by deepening our f aith and depend-

ence on God. The Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilder-

ness to be tempted by the dev il – to give him the opportu-

nity to stand f ast against the enemy. The devil’s tempta-

tions were based on half -truths, which Jesus rejected by

standing firm on the whole truth of Scripture. The truth

sets us f ree!

HOLY

SPIRIT

JORDAN

WILDERNESS

JESUS

TEMPTED

DEVIL

FASTED

HUNGRY

BREAD

ME

ALONE

KINGDOM

WORLD

AUTHORITY

GLORY

WORSHIP

SERVE

JERUSALEM

PINNACLE

TEMPLE

STONE

FOOT

ANGELS

BEAR

STRIKE

TEST

TEMPTATION

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mail- 27 Moorside Rd, Honley, HD9 6HR

email- [email protected]

PLEASE PUT YOUR ADDRESS AND

THE DATE on your letters.

From Pamela Muir, Croft Drive, 7 February I would like to thank everyone who has enquired after

my husband following his recent hip replacement operation.

He is progressing very well and hopes to be back

cycling this summer. It was kind of Sylvia to call with flowers from the Church and much appreciated by

both of us.

There’s a word in the list below which is not in the square. This ‘rogue word’ is hidden elsewhere in the Newsletter. You’ll have to search for it.

Just Food – Recipes

Christian Ecology Link- Ordinary Christians, Extraordinary Times.

‘Joy in Enough/ conference, January 2014 As part of our contributions to the “Just Food” work-shop in the conference many people brought food

they had made themselves or sourced locally. Here is one of the day’s local organic recipes:-

Cheese Flapjacks In a saucepan on a low heat, melt some butter, mar-

garine or non-dairy bread spread.

Stir in paprika powder, mixed dried green herbs,

pumpkin seeds, and sunflower seeds.

Turn off the heat and stir in a handful of grated dairy

or vegan cheese.

Fold in as much porridge oats as you can. If the mix-

ture is too dry, add some sunflower oil or olive oil, organic if possible, and from a co-operative or Fair

Trade supplier. (Like Holmfirth fair trader, opposite)

If you have a freshly-laid hen’s egg, break this into the

mixture and fold in – this will help the jacks stick to-

gether but is not essential.

Drizzle some oil into a baking tray, and press the mix

down into it.

For extra flavour, add some drops of soya sauce

(Tamari) on top before baking.

Bake in an oven for 25 to 30 minutes at around

175ºC, or until the top is golden brown.

Score into pieces just after taking from the oven, but

let the jacks cool in the tray.

www.greenchristian.org.uk, the website of Christian Ecol-

ogy Link

Overseas Missions Group is holding the traditional Easter breakfast on Easter Sunday—April 20th Proceeds from all our ev ents are for Phakamisa

and Commitment f or Lif e. and we hav e collec-tion boxes available!

Glenys Pallister, Pam Redfearn, Margaret Sheppard, Pat Waite and Jane Armitage.


Notices etc

Booking a room at Trinity Church

The Upper Room

9.5m x 7m.Capacity 60 seated. Kitchen facilities. Access by stairs, not suitable for wheelchairs. £38.50 per 4 hr session

The Arthurs’ Room Ground floor room size 9m x

5.5m. Capacity 35 seated. Facilities for refreshments.

Access for disabled. £38.50-£44.00 per 4 hr session.

If you know of an organisation looking for a space please

recommend Trinity Church. Good for birthday parties, meetings, rehearsal rooms etc.

Contact Karen Stannard 01484 664648 .

For weddings, baptisms, funerals, etc contact Rev Tim Moore 01484 608913

Great for parties!

Regular room bookings at Trinity

Playgroup- Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri (morning)

Contact- Carolynn Roberts 661024

Mums & Toddlers- Tuesday morning

Contact- Deborah Fawcett 663966

Drama Groups- Friday evening, Saturday morning

Contact- Natalie Haigh 340859 / 07840800601

Brownies- Wednesday evening

Contact- Ann Dove 665669

Zumba-(seated Zumba—Friend-to-Friend group) 2nd & 4th Thursdays Contact tel 687773, also

Tai Chi- Weds 1-3pm fortnightly 6 & 20 Nov, 4 Dec

A box containing 1.44 kg of stamps has been donated to Kirkwood

Hospice. Thanks to all our collec-tors - especially those who don't

cut off the edges of the stamps! KEEP GOING! . Colin Hill.

This is your cooperative! The Toll House, 32-34 Huddersfield Road, Holmfirth.

Fairtrade Fortnight 24 Feb - 9 March UNDER THE RADAR -

WHAT ROOM FOR REFUGEES? Churches' Refugee Network Conference 2014 Saturday 5 April 11.00 -3.30 pm (registration from 10.30)

Central United Reformed Church, Norfolk Street, Sheffield (5 minutes walk from Sheffield Station; NCP nearby)

Main speakers: Richard Vautrey, NHS Leeds North, Deputy Chair BMA GP Committee, Vice-President of the Methodist Conf erence 2009;

Ruth Grove-White, Policy Director, Migrants' Rights Network

Theological reflection: Fleur Houston, minister of the United Reformed Church,

currently writing a book on The Bible, Ref ugees and Asylum.

Workshops: Destitution; Housing; Health; Campaigning; Legal Matters

£10; £5 unwaged, free for asylum seekers Wendy Cooper, Church and Society, United Reformed

Church, Phone: 020 7916 8632

Honley Library Tel 222340

One-off event- a ‘Poetry Readaround’

with musical interlude from saxophone quartet 'The Sax Pots' Monday 31st March,

7.15— 9.15pm. Free event with refreshments.

Story time for the under 5s- 2.30 pm Friday afternoons in

term time. Stories and craft activity. Come on in!

BITS – introduction to using a computer

Getting started with IT – Wednesday sessions stating at 10

am every 2 weeks from March 5th. Please book in advance.

Honley library book group– Every 2nd Wednesday of the

month at 10.30. Pick up the choice of the month in advance.

Family history- help and advice with an expert. Plus free use of www.ancestry.co.uk to card

holders every 2nd Weds of the month 2 – 4pm Knit and natter. Every Monday 5 to 7pm Bring

your knitting / sewing/ craft work, chat & free refreshments.

Friends of Honley Library’ group. For information please

contact Suzanne Dufton. 661214

THE MOVIES ARE BACK IN HONLEY!

At Southgate Theatre - as part of the ongo-

ing Holmfirth Film Festival –at 7pm and for

one night only, two classic films

Cinema Paradiso on SATURDAY 15 March- (Dir.

Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy, 1988, 124mins) A classic gem of nostalgia and one of cinema’s most loved classics for all the

family about a film-maker who recalls how he fell in love with

films as a child. It’s funny, absorbing and moving. .

Song for Marion on SATURDAY 12th APRIL- (Dir. Paul Andrew Williams, UK, 2013, 93mins. Uplifting com-

edy drama with powerful performances from Terence Stamp as the dull husband and Vanessa Redgrave, the ill wife who

introduced him to a local singing group that celebrates life.

Tickets , both shows, £4.50 on the door

Yorkshire Traction & Honley Band Spring Concert will be held on Saturday 15th

March 7.30pm at Trinity Church

Playing well known favourites as well as new pieces. An entertaining evening

of music suitable for all the family.

Tickets £5 on the door.

Easter with Honley Churches Together Thursdays from March 6th to April 17th 11.30am-

12.45pm Soup Lent Lunches in the Parish Room, Church Street.. Proceeds to Honley Aid in Sickness

April 18 Good Friday service on

The Green Westgate, at noon

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April Newsletter

Will be available on Sunday March 29th (DV)

Contributions to Vera Stanley

or John Murray by Sunday March 16th

Photocopier

Jane ArmitageAssemblers

Joan Vevers Ann Hirst

Taylor’s Foodstore Fairtrade March Crossword This puzzle is sponsored by Taylor’s Foodstore Meltham

Road, Honley, a local store which supports local charities. The winner will get a voucher to take to Tony Washington at the store

and get a big block of Cadbury’s Fairtrade Milk Chocolate!

Across

1 The earth is such a one (6) 4 ‘On a hill far away stood an old — cross’ (6)

7 ‘I am the — vine and my Father is the gardener’ (John 15:1) (4)

8 Caesar who was Roman Emperor at time of Jesus’ birth (Luke 2:1) (8) 9 ‘Your — should be the same as that of Christ Jesus’ (Phil 2:5) (8)

13 Jesus said that no one would put a lamp under it (Luke 8:16) (3) 16 Involvement (1 Corinthians 10:16) (13)

17 Armed conflict (2 Chronicles 15:19) (3) 19 Where the Gaderene pigs were feeding (Mark 5:11) (8)

24 What jeering youths called Elisha on the road to Bethel (2 Kings 2:23) (8)

25 The Venerable — , eighth-century Jarrow eccl esiastical scholar (4) 26 8 Across issued a decree that this should take place (Luke 2:1) (6)

27 Come into prominence (Deuteronomy 13:13) (6) Down

1 Where some of the seed scattered fell (Matthew 13:4) (4) 2 Sexually immoral person whom God will judge (Hebrews 13:4) (9)

3 Gospel leaflet (5) 4 Physical state of the boy brought to Jesus for healing (Mark 9:18)

5 Tugs (anag.) like the wind (4) 6 To put forth (5)

10 Nationality associated with St Patrick (5) 11 Leader of the descendants of Kohath (1 Chronicles 15:5) (5)

12 ‘After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping — heel’ (Genesis 25:26) (5)

13 At Dothan the Lord struck the Arameans with — at Elisha’s request (2 Kings 6:18) (9)

14 ‘Peter, before the cock crows today, you will — three times that you know me’ (Luke22:34) (4)

15 Spit out (Psalm 59:7) (4) 18 ‘When I — , I am still with you’ (Psalm 139:18) (5)

20 Concepts (Acts 17:20) (5) 21 Thyatira’s dealer in purple cloth (Acts 16:14) (5)

22 Does (anag.) rhymes (4) 23 The 2nd set of cows in Pharaoh’s dream were— (Gen 41:19) (4)

The back page

February solution: ACROSS: 8, Cross-examined. 9, Ash. 10, Apocrypha.

11, Sci-fi. 13, Typical. 16, Visited. 19, Offer. 22, No account. 24, RAC. 25, Sovereign Lord.

DOWN: 1, Oceans. 2, Hophni. 3, Islamist. 4, Exhort. 5, Omar. 6, On spec. 7, Add all. 12, CBI. 14, Plotting. 15,

Awe. 16, Vanish. 17, Starve. 18, Daub it. 20, Furrow. 21, Recede. 23, Cure.

The winner is Alison Booth. Send your entries for this month - cut out, printed-out, or email a list of answers, to

the editor by March 16th

SOME TRINITY CHURCH CONTACTS From outside Hudders field prefix UK area code 01484 For a full list of all the officers and contacts see the website- www.trinitychurchinhonley.org.uk

Secretary Jane Armitage, 26 Lower Hall, Healey House, Netherton, HD4 7DG 665990

Treasurer Hilary Turner, Rydal Mount, Mearhouse, New Mill, HD9 7EX 684704

Pastoral Team Sylvia Hallas / Pam Redfearn / Joyce Draper 662929

Room Bookings / Activities Cttee Karen Stannard, 6a Marsh Gardens, Honley HD9 6AF 664648

Email addresses Secretary: [email protected], Newsletter: trinity.news@ntl world.com

Newsletter (Editor) John Murray, 27 Moorside Road, Honley HD9 6HR. (Coordinator) Vera Stanley, 46 Stoney Lane, Honley HD9 6DY.

662635 663670

Minister: Rev Tim Moore, 6a Marsh Lane, Shepley, Huddersfield HD8 8AE. Tel 608913 / 07837 128611

Name

Address

or tel no

Our Minister is the Rev Tim Moore He also looks

after the Methodist chapels in Scholes, Shepley, Gatehead and Brockholes.

Climate Week Climate Week on 3-9 March is Britain's largest cli-mate change campaign, with half a mill ion people

attending over 3,000 events. Climate Week is about how people can live and work more sustainably.

Godly Parking A business man was driving down the street worried be-

cause he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking place. Looking up toward heaven, he prayed in desperation: "Lord, take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to church every Sunday for the rest of my life and worship you forever." Miraculously, a parking place appeared. The man looked up again and said, "Never mind Lord. I just found one."

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