
The Parish Church of St James, Little Milton
The Rector: Victor L.
Story 01844 279 498029)
CHURCH
CLEANING ROTA FOR JULY
W/E
3rd July
-
Mrs. G. Taylor/Mrs H Ridley
W/E
10th July
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Mrs A. Hawkins/Mrs E Summers
W/E
17th July
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Mrs. M. Davies/Mrs S A Dennis
W/E
24th July
-
Mrs L. Lovegrove/ Mrs C Coward
W/E
31st July
-
Mrs A Jones/ Mrs S Holifield
S.
A. Dennis
We’re
all fine and had a great evening out at the Lamb, during which one of the newer
members of the team was heard to remark ‘I never expected the Church
Cleaner’s party would be so much fun’!!!!
CHURCH
FLOWER ROTA FOR JULY
W/E
4th July
-
Teresa Quested
W/E
11th July
-
Teresa Quested
W/E
18th July
-
Teresa Quested
W/E
25th June
-
Teresa Quested
W/E
1st August
-- Teresa
Quested
BELL
RINGING PRACTICE DURING JULY
Tuesday
6th July
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7.30 pm to 9.00 pm
Sunday
11th July
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10.30 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.
Quarter
Peal 12.15p.m. – 1.15 p.m.
Tuesday
13th July
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7.30 pm to 9.00 pm
Tuesday
20th July
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7.30 pm to 9.00 pm
Sunday
25th July
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9.30 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.
Tuesday
27th July
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7.30 pm to 9.00 pm
Wednesday
28th July
-
11.45
a.m. – 12.45 p.m. Quarter Peal by visiting
ringers
Raymond Fergusson 279150
GRASS CUTTING ROTA FOR JULY
W/E
4th July
-- Phil
Jones
W/E
11th July
-
Tim Robinson
W/E
18th July
-
Stuart McGill
W/E
25th July
-
W/E
1st August
-
Dave Arnold
W/E
8th August
-- Raymond
Fergusson
COMMUNITY POLICING: CHALGROVE AREA NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM
The
July “Have Your Say Meetings” for the Chalgrove neighbourhood is on the
following dates:
Stadhampton
The Village Green, Thame Road
Fri 23/07/10
14:00 to 15:00
Little
Milton
In the post office, Thame Road
Fri 23/07/10
15:30 to 16:30
Chalgrove
outside the village shops, High Street
Sat 24/07/10
10:00 to 12:00
PCSO Rebecca Freeman will
be available at the Stadhampton and Little Milton meetings and PC Mel Stafford
will be available at the Chalgrove meeting during these times.
These meetings are an ideal
opportunity for local residents to speak to their local police officers and
PCSO’s about any local issues, no appointment is necessary just turn up and
speak to your local officers. Further meetings will be publicised locally and on
the force website at www.thamesvalley.police.uk.
FROM
THE RECTORY
LITTLE
MILTON CHURCH FÊTE, 2010.
This was held in the
Grounds of Little Milton Manor by very kind permission of Mr. & Mrs. Oddie
on the 19th June. All of the stalls and side shows were kept busy all
of the afternoon, and people have said to me just how much they enjoyed
themselves. Surely, this is most important, that we all come together to simply
enjoy ourselves, and by the feel of it, enjoy ourselves we certainly did.
The total amount raised was in excess of £4000 which I think is a
wonderful achievement.
A lot of people put in a
lot of effort to make the day that it was. Whether you were on the Fête
Committee, whether you came along in
the morning to set things up, manned a stall, ran a side show,
helped our children with their dancing, packed away at the end of the
afternoon, or came simply to enjoy
yourself, you all deserve and get our heartfelt thanks.
RYCOTE
CHAPEL SERVICE.
Each year, at the end of
August, Mr. and Mrs. B. Taylor kindly invite us all to Rycote Chapel for our
Festival Eucharist. It’s always a lovely occasion and Rycote Chapel is set in
such magnificent countryside. This year the Service will be on the 29th
August, and will begin at 10.00 a.m. Please do come along if you are able. A
warm welcome will await us.
RECTORY
GARDEN PARTY.
Each year I have warmly
invited everybody in our three parishes to the Rectory for a Garden Party, and
this year will be no exception. The most probable date this year is Saturday 21st
August, from 3.00 p.m., but I shall be writing to you all to confirm this.
May
the Summer holiday bring rest, relaxation, and refreshment to you all.
Victor
Story
01844
279498
JOURNEYING
TO HEAVEN
In my experience standing
on platforms in railway stations in this country, is not the most exciting of
occupations to be undertaken. But on the continent it’s different.
A couple of years back, I
happened to have just arrived in Cologne in Germany, and looking for the exit, I
happened to glance up at the destination board, and there I discovered or
rediscovered that I could get a train to almost all of Europe’s capital cities
and many places in between. Moscow, Berlin, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Rome, Paris,
they were all there as well as all points in between. In that I found
excitement, and a little adventure. If I got on the wrong train, easily done, I
could wake up in a distant land, far from my intended destination.
On Cologne station that
day, there were crowds of people moving about in all directions, and I was one
of them. At that moment, in pulled another train. This time full of people
returning from a pilgrimage to Rome, and Cologne was their last stop before
going to somewhere I couldn’t remember. They were certainly happy and cheerful
and singing joyful songs. Clearly their pilgrimage was for them exhilarating.
They like me were tourists,
and they, also like me, were visiting the city on that day.
It was a long while since I
was in Cologne, and despite the devastation of the last war, it has never lost
its charm. A wonderful cathedral, narrow lanes, beautiful shops, a colourful
market, and a river which can take you all over Europe as far as the Black Sea.
It wasn’t long before we
were outside the cathedral, and there was a huge poster advertising a concert
for the following Saturday, and the Concert was of Bach’s ‘Heavenly’ Organ
music, in celebration of All Saints Day which fell at that weekend. I wish I
could have gone. Strange to say, we found ourselves sitting outside a cafe by
the river, having something to eat, and then along came a man giving out
leaflets, and the leaflets were invitations to go to a Club called ‘Heaven’.
On enquiring of the man I found out that Heaven was a very well respected Café,
with a fine reputation for meeting people, getting to know them, making friends,
eating with them. Enjoying the
companionship of others.
That posed a question for
me, How does heaven relate to all that. It’s got something to do with meeting
our deepest needs, as well as our surface ones, as well as our ultimate
destination: heaven. But also whilst sitting there in the autumn sun, I thought
and pondered on that phrase ‘invitation to heaven’. An invitation to heaven,
a beckoning to heaven. A calling to heaven, an invitation to journey to heaven.
We are all invited to
journey to heaven, All of us, that includes all those on that pilgrimage, the
man giving out the leaflets, though their invitation to heaven may be coming to
them a different way from mine, or for that matter yours. Remember Walter
Raleigh’s words, “Everyone comes to God by his secret stair”. And it makes
me want to add another word to the list of words that cluster around invitation
to heaven, and calling and vocation, and that word is journey. I started on a
railway platform, reminding me that we are all on a journey, through this world.
There is Pilgrims’ way,
running all along the North Downs from Winchester to Canterbury, and if you
follow that route, you come upon stones, marking the way, so that the pilgrims
didn’t stray off course.
I re-read the book called
Markings written by Dag Hammarskjold recently, the Swedish secretary general of
the United Nations in the late 50’s. He wrote:” The longest journey is the
journey inwards”. Dag Hammarskjold discovered that, and all of us have to
discover that.
We have all received our
invitation to heaven; we are all called to journey on to heaven. And that
involves the journey inwards. What that means is that we are to examine
ourselves, forget ourselves, ‘dying to self, living and loving for others.
Seeing what we have in common with Jesus and what separates us from him. What
comes along and squeezes him out, how can we resolve that conflict? What are my
true motives? .Are they me, or Jesus?
But we Christian people are
called as Paul puts it, to put
on the new man in Christ. Rejecting earthly ways and irrelevant things, and put
on the values and norms and ways of heaven. Jesus
reminds as to look towards heaven, and to seek after the things that belong to
heaven.
We all need constantly to
look at those things which impede our inward journey to heaven, and see those
things which have caused us to stray off course, miss a stone on the pilgrim
way, and to seek after the sometimes painful way back.
Pray
god, that as we journey on, we may be at all times, in all places, worthy of our
calling, worthy of our invitation to our ultimate destination. HEAVEN.
Victor
Story
GREAT
MILTON METHODIST CHURCH
Minister:
Revd. Derick Chambers Tel: 212019
SUNDAY
SERVICES IN JULY
|
4th |
11.00 a.m. |
Morning Service led by: Mr. Peter Honeyball |
|
11th |
9.30 a.m. |
Sacrament Service led by: Rev Derick Chambers |
|
18th |
11.00 a.m. |
Morning Service led by: Mrs. Betty Blake |
|
25th |
11.00 a.m. |
Morning Service led by : Mr. Colin Watts |
BENEFICE SERVICES FOR JULY
|
GREAT MILTON St Mary’s |
LITTLE MILTON
St James’s |
GREAT
HASELEY
St Peter’s |
|
|
Sunday 4th
July Trinity
5 |
Holy
Communion BCP 8.00
a.m. |
Sung
Communion CW 9.30
a.m. |
Family
Service 11.00
a.m. |
|
Sunday 11th
July Trinity
6 |
Sung Communion CW 9.30
a.m. |
Family Service 11.00 a.m. |
Holy
Communion BCP 8.00
a.m |
|
Monday 12th
July |
Fullers
Field Ecumenical
Service 6.00
p.m. |
|
|
|
Sunday 18th
July Trinity
7 |
Family
Service With
Baptism 11.00
a.m. |
Holy
Communion BCP 8.00
a.m. |
Sung
Communion CW 9.30
a.m. |
|
Wednesday
21st
July |
Great
Milton School leavers service 2.00
p.m. |
|
|
|
Sunday 25th
July St
James the Apostle |
|
Benefice Sung Communion Service 10.00
a.m. |
|
|
Sunday 1st
August Trinity
9 |
Holy
Communion BCP 8.00
a.m. |
Sung
Communion CW 9.30
a.m. |
Family
Service 11.00
a.m. |