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FEBRUARY 2014

PARISH STAFF
Team Curate:
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Associate Priest:
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Missioner:
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Churchwardens (St Barnabas):
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**5.00pm 1st Sunday-Requiem Eucharist
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WEEKDAY WORSHIP
Morning Prayer:

Monday 8.45am at St Barnabas

Wednesday 8.45am Christ Church
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23rd December Brian John Harris
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THIS IS THE EULOGY GIVEN BY THE VEN BILL JACOB,

ARCHDEACON OF CHARING CROSS
on 29th November 2013: Peter Haddleton, RIP
We are here to remember and
give thanks for Peters life, to
thank God for all our memories of
him, as a husband, a father, a
son-in-law, a friend, a priest.
Nancy has already recollected
memories of Peter as parish
priest for the past six years here
at St Barnabas. My challenging
task is to try to collect up more
memories of Peter to help us to
give thanks to God for him, for the
good he did, and for the love and
affection that we received from
him.

supporting himself working on

Leeds market, and then a year as
a pastoral assistant on a council
estate parish in Norwich, there
supporting himself working in a
bakery. By the time I met him we
could see the person and priest
he was going to be fiercely
intelligent and committed to God
and to people, especially those
who are disadvantaged, and
willing to work hard, alongside
people in all sorts of situations.
He was an admirable and
stimulating student, relating
prayer, deepening his knowledge
and understanding of the Bible
and Christian tradition, engaging
with ethical and pastoral issues,
and - great fun. He had a surreal
sense of humour, and could be
excruciatingly embarrassing to be
with; if his monkey act came on
when walking with some of us
along the street or on a
pedestrian crossing, or, even
worse, his dog act in a pub ... He
nev e r
seemed
to
be
embarrassed. His linguistic skills
came in useful to produce,
overnight, an apparently authentic
Middle English scene that
may have been lost from
the cycle of medieval
mystery plays. He was
totally committed to our
co llabo rative learning
project, so much so that in

It must be about thirty-seven

years ago that I first met Peter; I
interviewed him for a place to
train for ordination at Salisbury
and Wells Theological College.
He struck me as a really
interesting ordination candidate.
He had grown up in the leafier
parts of Birmingham Harborne
and Knowle. Improbably, as a
sixth former, he had been a
cocktail waiter, which as I got to
know him better, that may have
been interesting for customers.
At the University of East Anglia he
did European Studies, including
French and German,
wondering whether to be a
priest or a social worker.
To test this, he spent a
year with the Cyrenians in
Leeds, wo rking with
homeless people, while
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thirty-four years he only missed

three bi-annual meetings of his
college group. He recognised that
real learning and priestly ministry
is a collaborative project.

memories of Peter galloping along

the road through the mists rising
from the river to catch a lift to
Morning Prayer. At Thamesmead
Peter developed further his
capacity and insights in linking
theology and life, for working with
others for the good of people in
the community, and his pastoral
care for the needy and lost.

In the midst of all that he met

Vanessa. She was training to be
a teacher on the other side of the
Cathedral close. In those far off
days of the 70s, when it was
much better to be young than
current commentators allow,
romance blossomed.
Heaven
knows what her parents thought
when she took him home.... but
they were the perfect foil for one
another, and their wedding at
Berkeley stays in my mind as one
of those marvellously memorable
days, though there too, as in
anything to do with Peter, there
were surreal moments.

And then, a complete contrast,

Peter and Vanessa moved to
Bridgnorth, in rural Shropshire,
where, as well as being part of the
team ministry, he looked after two
villages, Quatford and Oldbury.
There Siobhan and Christa were
born, and a new aspect of Peter
emerged the family man. They
testify that he was a marvellous
father, and, as one might expect
with his capacity for the surreal
great fun, often including them
and their belongings in his
sermons.
He had endless
patience, for example in the long
enterprise of teaching Christa to
ride a bike. He was never too
busy to take time out to listen, to
be interested, to have a laugh, or
offer comfort, and to share
marvellous moments. He let them
make their own decisions, and
hence their own mistakes, but
never said I told you so. He told
them that he was proud of them,
which parents often forget to do,
and made sure that they knew he
supported them in the paths they
took. He was, for Vanessa, as
she has said, her rock, the person

Peter had by then been ordained

in Southwark, pursuing his
commitment to work with others,
in the service of God, in the
ecumenical team ministry in
Thamesmead, a pioneer new
town on the southern mudflats of
the Thames, opposite a vast
cement works, and if I remember
rightly, the then largest sewage
farm in Western Europe, whose
shopping centre featured as a set
in Stanley Kubricks Clockwork
Orange. Peter and Vanessa
began married life on the fifth floor
of one of those vast horizontal
blo cks, with a po werf ully
odiferourous lift. Keith Pound, the
Team Rector, still treasures

Handmade bespoke fine furniture,

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CONGRATULATIONS!
Ever since the day the first nurse
s t ar t e d wo r k i ng i n t he
community, careful thought and
planning has been given to how
St Richards can reach even
more patients and families who
need their care. They now have
185 staff and 1,200 volunteers
helping to achieve their goals.
They care for 2,400 patients and
families during each year and
have wonderful supporters who
allow St Richards to continue
caring for friends and relatives
and
the
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of
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It is for the people of Worcestershire, to ensure that St Richards

Hospice is here in the years to
come to continue the care for
patients and their loved ones.
As they celebrate, may the
passion and enthusiasm of those
associated with St Richards be
ever present. To give someone
else time, love, care and support
are among the best gifts you can
offer.

Students will be on a fulltime programme

from Monday to Saturday and at home on
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They thank all their supporters

as they celebrate the very
special - St Richards Hospice.

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has died, is not only a proof of the

goodness of God through which
we all exist, he is also a token of
our hope for immortality, of our
hope that all does not end with
death. Our affection and regard
feels Peter to be there. Gods
creating love makes him to be
there. When we remember with
affection and esteem Peter,
though he has died, we are
looking, as well as we humanly
can, through the eyes of God. We
are calling to mind someone
whom God loves and cares for, as
we love and care for Peter.
It is our faith as Christians that we
are all dear to God, that all human
beings are dear to God. We
believe that God cares for us in
every detail of our lives. That is
what the Gospels tell us, and what
human experience shows.
In
whatever befalls us, God knows
and suffers with us; through Jesus
he experienced human loss and
suffering. But, not only does God
suffer with us, God offers us
strength and comfort when we
turn to him in our loss and
desolation. God is infinitely caring
and understanding. Gods love
and care for us knows no bounds,

not even death.

We trust and believe that nothing
can separate us from Gods love
and care. We trust that God sees
what is good in us, as we have
seen what is good in Peter, that
as we treasure o ur good
memories of Peter, whom we
have esteemed and loved, so God
will treasure for always all those
whom he has called into existence
and loved, and that, one day,
beyond death, we may be united
not only with God who loves us,
but with all those other people
whom he has loved and whose
memories, like Peters, we
treasure.
We believe and trust that this is
not the end, for Peter, or for us.
We trust in Gods love, a reflection
of which we have experienced in
knowing Peter.
As T.S. Eliot put it:
... time past and time future;
what might have been and
what has been
point to one end, which is
always present.
The Venerable Bill Jacob,
Archdeacon of Charing Cross

THE CHALLENGE IS THROWN DOWN

WILL WE PICK IT UP?
percentage idea, though, the fairer
it is on everyone concerned and
our parish finances are more
stable as a result!

In the spring, if the PCC wants me

to, I will be appealing to all St
Barnabas and Christ Church
members to conduct an annual
review of what you give to God
through the church. Its been an
annual task for me for over ten
years, during which time weve
had a steady period of gentle
growth in our finances and met
our bills without too many crises!

So why do I say in my title The

Challenge is thrown down?
Have you seen all those adverts
where the small print says
so mething like B eware
payments can go down as well as
up? Or You can lose your home
if you dont keep up repayments?
Here at St Barnabas with Christ
Church we are heading for a
period of reduced income. People
retire or lose their jobs and their
income goes down, or some folk
move out of the parish. Weve
never been more aware than in
2013 that, sadly, some of our
dearest friends die. All of these
factors have a bearing on the
overall level of giving to the
church.

I wont go into too much detail

here about how we plan our
giving, or at least, how we should
plan our giving, as I dont want it
to seem as if Im getting two bites
at the same cherry within a couple
of months of each other. Suffice it
to say, the theory is that we
should all give a percentage of
our income on a weekly or a
monthly basis, with a suggested
target level of 5% to aim at.
Some people are very committed
to this principle and give at a fairly
sacrificial level, other folk find it
more difficult and find the target
too big thats life I guess, and
everyone gives to the church
acco rding to his o r her
conscience. Some people even
give more than the
suggested 5%. They are
probably guided by the
biblical principle of tithing
10%!

I recently estimated (and warned

the PCC and the Treasurer) that
by early 2014 our monthly income
as a parish from our regular givers
will be around 500 less than in
2013. Thats around 6,000 a year
less than before, and it
could give us serious
problems in the future if we
dont do something about it.
As I write this were entering
a New Year, hopefully with
a sense of excitement and

The more we manage to

wo r k
to war ds
t hi s
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challenge. Were still in mourning

for Peter, of course, and I for one
was not sorry to see the back of
2013 which had its ups but rather
more downs overall. But, as
ever, life goes on and we have to
look forward to the future. We
want to retain our basically stable
financial footing as a parish. Most
of our expenses are stable and
very well controlled, but some will
inevitably rise, and we want to
present our new Rector in due
course with a firm basis for new
ministry.

are not as high as Worcestershire

on average, but where the giving
came in at 4.6%!
Food for
thought?
So Im asking you all this New
Year when you come to look at
your giving in the Annual Review,
please think of the 500 per
month reduction, and challenge
YOURSELF to move your giving
forward, if only a little bit, to cover
inflation plus a little bit more if you
can.
Each of you must give as you
have made up your mind, not
reluctantly or under compulsion,
for God loves a cheerful giver
writes St Paul. Lets all try to put
the sadnesses of 2013 behind us
and look forward to what 2014 will
bring as cheerfully as we can, and
when the challenge comes, lets
do something about it.
John Dentith
Planned Giving Co-ordinator

Back to the annual review in the

spring. In the last few years, its
been clear that some church
members have acted on the
annual review and moved their
giving forward a little closer to
their 5% target. But a significant
number of folk have found
themselves unable to do so and
have marked time with their
giving. Thats no criticism at all, I
promise you; as I said, we all give
according to our conscience. But
its a fact, nonetheless. And it has
an impact. Our bills dont mark
time.

WELL DONE
SINGERS!!
Carol singers over
the Christmas period
raised money for two charities:
Christian AidSing for Change
raised 370 during the day.
Maggscarol singers in local
pubs and clubs collected 240 for
the Maggs (this was in addition to
church collections on Christmas
Eve and Christmas Day).

Im not a great lover of statistics,

but some recently published
figures for giving in 2011 are quite
interesting. Looking at figures for
committed and Gift-Aided planned
giving, a figure of 3.2% was
quoted for Worcester Diocese.
Not bad you might say, moving on
towards the 5% target. But how
abo ut Birmingham Diocese,
where you might suspect incomes

Thankyou to everyone who sung.

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Continued from page 2

our lives and in Gods world. He

was inspiring, imaginative,
moving, insightful, exhilarating,
deeply sensitive to others,
so m et i me s a ma zi ng , b ut
sometimes, of course, utterly
e xa s p e r a t i n g , i nf ur i a t i ng ,
frustrating .... We are all the
better for having known him,
especially for the way in which he
faced the approach of death. His
openness in expressing his
hopes and fears, his honesty in
seeking to make sense of his
destructive illness in the context
of Gods love, for himself, for his
family, for his friends, for his
colleagues and parishioners,
demonstrated how he lived out
his trust in God.

she could always depend on, to

give her the security to be her
own person.
And then from Bridgnorth to St
Martins Hereford, which had
some of the characteristics of
Bridgnorth, and many of the
characteristics of Thamesmead,
for much of the parish is 1930s,
50s and 60s social housing, to
be first Team Vicar, then Team
Rector. There, as well as being
chaplain to the SAS, he worked
with his colleagues and the laity to
witness to Gods love in Christ
and to meet the needs of a
multiply deprived parish, including
restoring St Martins and then
tackling the worn out 1960s St
Francis Centre. For this he
conceived a vision, with the
disting uis hed p la nner a nd
designer, Thomas Heatherwick,
for a new communal spiritual hub
to capture peoples aspirations for
God and enhance their lives.
Sadly, very sadly, Peter failed to
communicate this community
transforming visio n to the
diocesan hierarchy. Where ever
he worked, he wanted to take part
in building Gods kingdom among
people.

But now, all we have are

memories to treasure, but, in
those memories we have a
bridge over that terrible gulf of
death. The liking and loving we
have for Peter is all the reason
we have for believing in his
immortality.
If we, with our
prejudices and limitations, have
seen so much to treasure in Pete,
which we now hate to be without,
how much more will God have
seen to immortalise. There is no
ground for hoping for immortality
except the love of God. If our
love and esteem can preserve
such vivid memories of Peter,
though he is dead, how much
more can Gods love do?

Peter was inspirational. He had a

capacity to draw the best out of
people, to engage all sorts of
people at all sorts of levels, to
help us transcend ourselves, to
help us see Gods love active in

Someone like Peter, who we

have loved and valued, but who
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INTERREGNUM

CRAFTERNOON

The PCC has now started the

process of appointing a new
Rector.
If you have any
particular points you would like
considered, please speak to a
churchwarden or write them on a
slip of paper and leave in the
tray at the back of church.

Crafternoon will start up again

on Monday 10th February in the
Church Hall from 2.30-4.30pm.
All welcome to come along for
an afternoon of knitting and
nattering!

MESSY CHURCH
The next Messy Church is on
Saturday 15th February 10.3012.30pm in the Church Hallall
children welcome to come along
and join in the fun!

In any case, please pray for

guidance for the PCC with the
prayer below:

CHURCH HALL
The Church Hall is available for
hire on a regular basis on
Wednesdays and Fridays from
2.30pm till late. For more details
call Jackie Ratcliffe on 330118.

ST BARNABAS
CHURCH HALL

Lord, call to this

your church and ours
a true shepherd,
a person of God,
a minister of Christ;
and make us a church
joyful in worship
united in witness,
working, caring,
praising and loving,
to the glory of your name;
through Jesus Christ our Lord
Amen

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CHRISTMAS
BOXES
FOR THE HOMELESS

MAGDEBURG VISIT 2014

By the time this magazine is out
we will have had the Burns
Night Supper and had some
discussions about our visit to
Magdeburg this year.

Thank you so much

for the fantastic
number of boxes
you made up for the
homeless people in Worcester
this Christmas. They were
be a utif ully wr a ppe d a nd
presented and were full of lovely
gifts showing the love and time
that has been given for those
less fortunate than us. Also
thanks to all those who donated
items to be put into boxes

We will be looking at how many

people are interested in coming
to Magdeburg with us and ways
of getting there!
Our hosts would like us to go at
the end of May as this fits in
with the celebrations being held
in Hanover to celebrate 400
years since George was made
king of Hanover (he later
become George 1 of Great
Britain hence the link). It seems
that we can fit this in with the
May half term as we have done
before and this means we are
going in school holidays.

We had a great response to our

appeal and received the greatest
number of boxes we have ever
had. We had 290 boxes which
were distributed on Christmas
day at St. Pauls hostel, Maggs
day centre, & the night shelter,
the Worcestershire Homeless
Intervention team and the
Resettlement project. Large
bags of womens & childrens
clothes and bath/shower items
plus shoe boxes were given to
the Womens Refuge and 40
boxes went to the YMCA.

A notice will be going up at the

back of church with more details
(after the supper) so if you are
interested please sign this and if
you haven't been before talk to
those of us who have enjoyed
many visits of fun, fellowship
and friendship.
Contact Lyn Crowther for more
details.

Once again, many, many thanks

for such a tremendous effort
from all those who helped sort &
pack boxes on 16th December. I
think we were all tired but glad to
have done a good job.

Call Jackie Ratcliffe

01905 330118
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LENT GROUPS
Lent Groups are being planned
for the beginning of March
watch out for details in church.

Very well done to you all.

Mary James
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ST BARNABAS