The Net - Embleton Churches Together bulletin - November 2002

The Net
Embleton Churches Together community bulletin

DIARY OF WHAT'S ON IN NOVEMBER 2002

3rd Embleton Village Bonfireopp. Bluebell 5.30pm. Donations towards fireworks welcome. Rubbish can be collected the week before. Contact The Shop, Embleton.
5th Embleton Womens Club Renee Murfitt Verses I have collected.
7th Craster W.I. AGM WIA Mrs Porteus. Comp. Last rose of summer.
8th John Fyffe & Friends Creighton Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets at the Post Office, Embleton.
11th Embleton Flower Club "in the Bleak Mid Winter" Mrs Enid Smith OPEN MEETING in Creighton Hall 7pm.
12th Embleton W.I. Mrs Alison Pryde - Poetry Comp Object J.
12th Craster Women's Fellowship 2.30pm Speaker Rev. K. Parr.
13th Embleton Mothers Union Rev. Keith Parr.
14th SOIREE Christon Bank Methodist Church with The Berwick Male Voice Choir 7.30pm. Plus Supper.
15th Quiz Night Embleton First School 7pm.
16th OXFAM Coffee Morningat the Bogie Craster 10.30am - 1pm Christmas Cards, Trade Food, Crafts and Raffle.
20th Embleton Local History Society Local Farming in the Last Century. Mr Scott Smith O.B.E.
23rd Football Club Christmas Bingo 7.30pm.
23rd Coffee Morning in Craster Memorial Hall 10-11.30am in aid of the Cancer Unit, RVI. Bottle stall, Cakes, Produce, Bric a Brac and Raffle. Donations to Doris Clarke or Joyce Shaw.
26th Craster Women's Fellowship 2.30pm. Speaker Mrs Janet Purvis of Alnwick.
29th Christmas Bingo at Rennington Village Hall. Eyes down 7.30pm, all welcome.

Advance Notices
7th December Christmas Fayre Embleton 1st School 10am.
25th January Burns Night Supper Creighton Hall, tickets from Embleton P.O.
16th, 17th, 18th January Village Panto. Tickets on sale from December.

LOCAL NEWS

Trinity Club 19th. For the uninitiated this is Embleton's Over 60's club and it meets monthly in the Creighton Hall at 2pm. Why not come along? There's always a raffle and a great tea.

Requiem for the Departed
As last year, we are inviting all who have experienced a bereavement in the Benefice to this special service which many find helpful. If you have experienced a bereavement and have not received an invitation, please take this as yours. We have done our best to follow up all the families of funerals taken in The Benefice, but some may have attended funerals elsewhere. It will be at 3pm on All Souls Day, November 2nd at Embleton Church, ending with a cup of tea, and we hope you will all be able to come.

Coffee Morning
Saturday, November 30th at the Old School Rennington in aid of USPG, the Church Overseas, following 10am Holy Communion at Rennington.

The Grange Residential Care Home, Rennington.
We offer a high standard of 24-hour care, cater ing for short and long stay. Lovely rooms with en-suite facilities. Our carers are highly trained and the atmosphere is warm and friendly.
Details from our Care Manager on 577602.

From the Parish Registers

Holy Baptism
Amy-Skye Burton, October 20th, Embleton.

R.I.P.
Mary Scott, Embleton, August 20th.

THE HEART OF THE MATTER

"Why me?" asked Mary in wonder.
"Why us?" exploded Joseph in anxiety.
"Where can we stay?" they asked the inn-keeper.
"What in heaven's name?" wondered the shepherds.
"Where is the one who has been born King of the Jews?" asked the wise men.
"What is the threat to my throne?" thundered Herod.
"Why us?" sighed Joseph for umpteenth time.
"Why us?" cried the mothers of Bethlehem.
"What now?" ask the people of Embleton as another URC minister makes her appearance.

Revd. Joan Grindrod-Helmn is currently minister of St. James' URC in Alnwick and in December will take up an additional, oversight, ministry to Embleton United Reformed Church.

"What does this mean" - another question!

Some of our questions at the beginning of a new ministry will be answered sooner, some later, some never. All will be answered in God's good way as together you seek and find his way forward for you. My prayer is that God will help you together to find ways of worship and witness that are right for today; to find a relationship that is right for you; and to find him ever more strongly speaking to you and working through you in your community.

Colin H. Biggs.
URC Interim Moderator.

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