Contents
Services
Minister’s
Letter
Back
to Church Sunday
Buildings
Fund Summary
Children’s
Bible Stories and Prayer Books
The
Trinity Men’s Walk
September
Church Meeting
TRINITY
CHURCH MEETING AGENDA
Wanted:
Your Junk!!!
Church
Directory
Building
Snagging Book
Open
Weekend 6-7 October
Help
Needed
Get
on your bike (or horse!)
Poem
of the Month
Back
to School / Uni?
Events
Chalfont
Club
Earley
Youth Net
Church
Walk
Parents
& Toddlers
Pilots
Nursery
Service
Community
Drumming
Empty
Nest Group
Trinity
Fun Day
Quiz
Night
News
in Brief
Pastoral
Pages
Prayers
for the Parish
Diary
Deadline
for October Diary and Magazine:
SEPTEMBER
2007
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2
September
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Holy
Communion
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Ven
Norman Russell
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8.00am
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Family
Worship
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Ven
Norman Russell
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10.00am
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Evening
Worship
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Anna
Hedley,
Gemma Keeley, Joanna Hassan et al
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6.00pm
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5
September
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Nursery
Service restarts
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2.00pm
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9
September
Junior
Church
Sunday
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Holy
Communion
&
Healing
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Rev
Jon Salmon
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10.00am
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Evening
Worship
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Rev
Jon Salmon
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6.00pm
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12
September
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Nursery
Service
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2.00pm
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16
September
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Holy
Communion
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Rev
Jon Salmon
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8.00am
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Family
Worship
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Rev
Jon Salmon
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10.00am
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Evening
Worship
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Mrs
Kate Robinson
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6.00pm
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19
September
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Nursery
Service
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2.00pm
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23
September
Disability
Sunday
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Family
Worship
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Rev
Jon Salmon & Mr Graham Looker
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10.00am
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Holy
Communion
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Rev
Jon Salmon
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6.00pm
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26
September
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Nursery
Service
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2.00pm
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30
September
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All
Age Communion
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Rev
Jon Salmon
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10.00am
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Back
to Church Sunday
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Evening
Worship
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Sarah
Keeley &
Kay
Slack
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6.00pm
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3
October
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Nursery
Service
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2.00pm
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7
October
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Holy
Communion
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Rev
Jon Salmon
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8.00am
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Harvest
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Harvest
Parade
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Rev
Jon Salmon
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10.00am
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Harvest
Supper
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Rev
Jon Salmon & Mr John Medcraft
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6.00pm
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10
October
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Nursery
Service
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2.00pm
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Please
note that there is a Nursery Service every Wednesday during termtime.
A
Time of Prayer:
Every
Sunday, 9.30-9.45am, in the Crèche Room
WEEKLY
PRAYERS:
9.45am
Wednesdays (Communion 4th Wed)
Hello!
It seems odd to be writing this when I’ve only a met about a dozen of
you and my first Sunday isn’t until 9 September, but I was keen to get in
touch. We’re excited about being
here and are looking forward to settling into life in Lower Earley, and over
the next few weeks meeting you all and beginning to get to know you.
We appreciate your prayers as we settle in and our kids, Jack, Lily and
Nancy begin gearing up for the new term.
So far we’ve
unpacked a stack of boxes and are enjoying making our new home.
Having a garden is fab and a garage (a double one even) is like seventh
heaven!! It was quite emotional
when we drove away from our house in
Bradford
last week. We lived in a row of
tall thin terraced houses and all the neighbours were out (in the rain!) to
wave us off. Our four years in
inner city
Bradford
have left us with many memories and friends, and many lessons learned.
The need and challenge to be real with one another and God, to listen
to and follow Him, as well as having fun are among them.
God has
brought us to
Lower Earley
along a winding and adventurous route and we trust that the next 8 years at
Trinity will be equally, if not more, adventurous and stimulating.
We feel very blessed since hearing about and being offered the post at
Trinity. So many things fell into
place very smoothly, so we agree with Richard and Roger in July/August’s
magazine that our coming here “must have been meant to be”.
Lily and Nancy are off to the
Piggott
School
and Jack is to start a BTEC National Diploma in Sport.
We all love the leisure centre being so close and will be using it as
much as possible. I’m a keen
runner (and have many other hobbies!) so you may see me out and about.
I hope to do the London Marathon again next year and would love your
company, so how about it? The
closing date is 19 October!
Anyway, I’d
better get back to some boxes, but despite these we’ll begin inviting you
over soon (not all at once!).
I love 2
Timothy 1:6-11 and Philippians 3:12-14. Why
not have a look?
Looking
forward to meeting you all, as this new chapter begins for us all.
Every blessing.
Jon
The
Churchwardens invite you to the Licensing
of
the
Reverend Jonathan Salmon
as
Anglican Priest-in-charge
at
Trinity Church, Lower Earley
by
the Bishop of Reading, the Right Reverend Stephen Cottrell
on Thursday 6 September 2007 at 7.30pm
followed
by light refreshments in the Church Hall.
Please sign the list in the hall,
or on the clipboard in the church, if you wish to attend.
(We need to know how many people to expect at this
important service.)
Sunday 30
September 10.00am
The Great Commission……….. Matthew 28:16-20: Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in
heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to
obey everything I have commanded you. And
surely I am with all of you, to the very end of the age.”
We may not all display the passion of John Wesley or possess
the evangelical gifts of Billy Graham but every
single one of us has the opportunity to ‘make
disciples of all nations’
by inviting, encouraging and bringing just one person to church with us on
Sunday 30 September, and by giving them all a warm, Trinity welcome.
The idea is for churches to invite people in their parishes
who have had some connection with the church, and also those who have never
been churchgoers, to come and see what they are missing. The
key to success, say the organisers, is ‘personal invitation and attention’,
which is why we are asking for your help in encouraging these future disciples
to come to church and to come back to God.
Invitations will be available in church throughout September
and you are asked to:
à
Prayerfully consider just one
person whom you could encourage to come to church with you, and
invite them.
à
Pray for them
and for all others who will be invited.
à
Come with them
or offer to meet them before the service.
à
Stay and introduce them to others after the service.
à
Let them know they are welcome
to come again.
“And surely I am with all of you, to the very end of the
age.”
For more information about BTC Sunday, contact Ann Baker.
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Total
target to raise
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£231,000
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Raised
or pledged so far
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£223,500
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(97%)
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Money
still required
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£7,500
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(3%)
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Number
of weeks to completion of work
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3
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Recent
highlight: £3,000 raised from the men’s sponsored walk
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We
are nearly there!
After
a slow start to the year, the period from March onwards has seen significant
progress and we are now getting close to our target. Please
help us to raise the remaining monies in any way that you can.
A big thank you to all who have helped in any way so
far!
For
Sale in aid of the Buildings Fund
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Title
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Author
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Cover
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My
Very Own Bible
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Stories
retold by Betty Fletcher
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Hardback
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Animal
Tales
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Nick
Butterworth & Mick Inkpen
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Hardback
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Stories
Jesus Told
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Nick
Butterworth & Mick Inkpen
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Hardback
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David
& Goliath
(Usborne
Bible Tales)
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Story
retold by Heather Amery
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Softback
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The
Good Samaritan
(Usborne
Bible Tales)
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Story
retold by Heather Amery
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Softback
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Bright
Star Night
(Christmas
time prayers)
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Lois
Rock & Louise Rawlings
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Hardback
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Sad
News Glad News
(Easter
time prayers)
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Lois
Rock & Louise Rawlings
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Hardback
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The
Lion Storyteller Book of Animal Tales
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Bob
Hartman
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Softback
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God’s
Quiet Things
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Nancy
Sweetland
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Softback
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Animals
of the Bible
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Mary
Hoffman & Jackie Morris
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Softback
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Please
contact Helen Dyson if you are interested in purchasing any of the above.
Well,
we did it! A week before the
deluge, we had perfect weather for the walk along the Kennet from Thatcham. One
pretty straight route, but how we did it was not totally straightforward.
