The Ven.

David Garnett
The Vicarage, Edensor, Bakewell,
Derbyshire DE45 1PH Tel: 01246 582130
(Church website - www.stpetersedensor.org )
August 2008
Dear Friends

Bishop Jonathan used to say the best thing about becoming a bishop after
being an archdeacon is that people understand better the role!

I thought you might find it helpful if I put pen to paper on the role of
archdeacon so you can understand my combination of parish priest and
archdeacon better.

The Role of Archdeacon

In Acts 6 the Apostles appointed deacons in order to enable them in their
apostolic task. The bishop is in the tradition of the Apostles (pastor, teacher,
evangelist) and the archdeacon is in the tradition of Acts 6: seven deacons
appointed “full of the spirit and wisdom”.

Today we have a similar division of labour: the archdeacon assists the bishop
and frees him for his apostolic task. The regime amounts to a sharing between
first order and second order questions: -

First order : worship, mission pastoral care, ministry, etc.

Second order : resources and arrangements to achieve the first order tasks.

If worship (first order) is to be effective, the church roof (second order) needs
to be in good order. If mission (first order) is to be effective, stipendiary
ministers need to be financially secure in their appointments (second order),
etc. If pastoral care is to be effective so must be the correct working of the
Pastoral Measure.

First order beliefs inform second order behaviour. An archdeacon has a

distinctively spiritual and priestly ministry here. The archdeacon though
generally occupied with second order questions (parish boundaries, delivery of
ministry, interpretation of legislation, finance, housing, reordering of church
interiors, etc.) has as an experienced priest, rooted in the first order agenda, the
experience to make and communicate the connections. Connections
humorously summed up by Henry Scott Holland, “the more you believe in the
Incarnation, the more you care about drains”!
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An archdeacon as a keystone gives the whole building strength. He/she is a
key person, giving strength to the whole building.

He/she strengthens the bishop’s ministry. Canon 22 uses the phrases “under
the bishop” and “assist the bishop”. Therefore, the archdeacon holds a brief
for the bishop in the business life and policy making committees of the
diocese and in the parishes.

In turn, the bishop must be disciplined to work through and listen to the
archdeacon in any of these matters. He learns from the archdeacon because
he/she has been there and met the people.

The archdeacon is also a communicator. The itinerant Sunday ministry of an

archdeacon has been described as Rome to Geneva and back in a Sunday. As
a priest, the archdeacon has a wonderful opportunity to work and relate across
the archdeaconry. It makes the link between the first order and second order
agendas: the chance to teach the faith with clarity and to share in worship puts
his/her working relationship on another plane. The same archdeacon
preaching about, say, the Transfiguration on a Sunday, is negotiating the
following Tuesday with the PCC about being linked with another parish, or
communicating on say, the Clergy Disciple Measure or Churchwardens
Measure. He/she knows the clergy, not least in his/her concern for their
housing and has a special relationship with the churchwardens.

Four separate Canons have set out the archdeacon’s own authority to visit and
also exercise discipline. He/she is described as an “ordinary”, which means
that he/she has these powers in his/her own right, and it is not a matter of
waiting to be given them, they come with the job.

It has well been said that the archdeacon is down in the engine room with the
mechanics and alongside the crew, but also on the captain’s deck. This is a
good picture of the relationship between first and second orders.

The Archdeaconry of Chesterfield covers the area from Glossop and

Eckington in the north down to Idridgehay and Pinxton in the south. It
includes the Peak District, Derbyshire Dales and the ex mining parishes in the
east of the county, and includes 141 parishes and 180 churches.

Yours ever,
David

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 Weddings in August
St. Peter’s, Edensor
1st August ~ 11am
Edward Douglas Bond & Emma Suzanne Neale
8th August ~ 12noon
James Barrett & Katie Tasker
9th August ~ 12noon
Luke Cooper & Alexandra Fairclough
9th August ~ 1.30pm
Mark Stanley & Helen McGee
23rd August ~ 4pm
Adam Johnson & Vicky Griffiths
St. Anne’s, Beeley
30th August ~1pm
Stephen Reeve & Paula Dempsey

Useful Telephone Numbers

St. Anne’s
Wardens:- Rupert Turner 01629 732794
Vernon Mather 01629 732317
Treasurer:- Gloria Sherwood 01629 732983
St. Peter’s
Wardens:- Elizabeth Bradshaw 01246 582421
Duncan Gordon 01629 734099
Treasurer:- Andrew Flemming 01246 583315

From the Registers

St. Peter’s Wedding
20th June Jacob Taylor & Frances Mansfield

St. Anne’s Wedding

28th June Scott Lindsay & Amy Louise Ward

Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

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On 17th July Jake Hill, of Pilsley, was presented with his Gold Duke of
Edinburgh’s Award Scheme badge at St. James’ Palace. Well done Jake.
FUNDRAISING EVENTS
S t. P e ter ’ s R oof Ap p ea l

T h e ‘ C o n c e r t f o r a S u m m e r E v e n i n g ’ b y D o r e M a l e Vo i c e
Choir on 7th June raised £245.

St. Peter ’s Church 100 Club

June 2008
1 s t pr ize £3 0 no .3 9 E m ma Ne a le
2 nd pr ize £ 2 0 no.3 1 Je a n Ti nda le

£4 4 t o C hur c h f u nds t his m ont h .

We s t ill ha ve va c a nc ie s f or new m e m ber s .

DATES TO NOTE

6/7 Aug Bakewell Show

9/23 Aug SKIP: Baslow Council Houses 7.45-8.15
Nether End Car Park 8.20-10.45
9 Aug SKIP: Edensor The Green 7.45-9.30
Pilsley Garage Yard 9.45-10.45
16 Aug Chatsworth Horticultural & Produce Show
Doors open 2pm
24 Aug OXFAM Event ‘Secret Gardens of Bakewell’ 2-6pm

August weather

Whether the weather be

hot,
or whether the weather be
not,
4 we'll weather the weather,
whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not!
 FAVOURITE HYMNS
More favourite hymns from St. Peter’s
1 ‘VOTE’ EACH
JESUS LIVES! THY TERRORS NOW (82)
WERE YOU THERE (523)
THERE’S A SPIRIT IN THE AIR (515)
LORD OF THE BOUNDLESS CURVES (493)
GIVE ME JOY IN MY HEART (459)
WHEN I NEEDED A NEIGHBOUR (433)
LORD OF ALL HOPEFULNESS (394)
LORD JESUS CHRIST YOU HAVE COME TO US (391)
JESUS GOOD ABOVE ALL OTHER (378)
LORD OF THE DANCE (375)
ALL MY HOPE (336)
ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS (333)
ALL GLORY LAUD (328)
HOW BRIGHT THESE GLORIOUS SPIRITS SHINE (306)
FOR ALL THE SAINTS (305)
COME YE THANKFUL PEOPLE (289)
LORD ENTHRONED IN HEAVENLY SPLENDOUR (263)
ALLELUJAH SING TO JESUS (262)
HARK MY SOUL IT IS THE LORD (244)
STAND UP STAND UP FOR JESUS (221)
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT (220)
TO BE A PILGRIM (212)
OFT IN DANGER (210)
THROUGH ALL THE CHANGING SCENES OF LIFE (209)
O HAPPY BAND OF PILGRIMS (208)
PRAISE TO THE LORD, THE ALMIGHTY, THE KING OF CREATION (207)

Sweet dreams
If you are going on holiday with a woman this
summer, here’s a tip to keeping everyone happy:
let her have her sleep. Or – be prepared for some
trouble!
Women are grumpier than men after a bad night’s
sleep. An over-tired woman feels more hostile,
depressed and angry than a man does, according
to recent research at Duke University in North

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 Carolina. Her psychological distress is real, and so any man who tells
her to ‘pull herself together’ had better watch out.
BAKEWELL OXFAM SUPPORTERS GROUP
SECRET GARDENS OF BAKEWELL
Sunday August 24th 2008
2pm. -6pm

The gardens are situated around Bridge Street, Bath Street, Castle Street,
Milford and Holme Lane. There are gardens large and small, interesting
plant collections and wonderful views. Refreshments will be served at the
Medway Centre, where there will also be stalls selling plants and Traidcraft
goods. One charge of £4 paid at any of the garden entrances will give access
to all the gardens. There will be a free shuttle bus service provided from
Rutland Square. All proceeds will support the continuing work of Oxfam.
For
further details please ring 01629 813392.

And look out for the green balloons on the day!

PILGRIM PLACES: Canterbury – part 3

Thomas Becket, the courtier turned priest, was a man of high principle and made
it clear that his first loyalty was to God and not to Henry (II). In a moment of
anger Henry expressed the wish that Becket should be silenced. Four knights took
the king at his word, broke their way into the Cathedral and murdered the
Archbishop on 29 December 1170.

Within months of his death Becket was hailed as a holy martyr and soon pilgrims
began to arrive in Canterbury from across England and the Continent to pray at
Becket’s shrine. There have been many written accounts of Becket’s death but
none have been so powerful and dramatic as T S Eliot’s 1935 work in verse,
Murder in the Cathedral.
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The visit of pilgrims to Canterbury in honour of Thomas Becket is the scene for
one of the nation’s most famous literary compositions, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The
Canterbury Tales. Chaucer began the work sometime in the 1380s and worked on
it for at least ten years. There are sixteen Tales in all and a Prologue. The Tales
are stories told by pilgrims making their way from Southwark in London to
Canterbury, and they are told by a range of people from many walks of life,
including a knight, a miller, a merchant, a squire, a physician, a cook, a friar, a
nun, etc.

When Henry V111 ordered the dissolution of the monasteries Becket’s tomb in
Canterbury was destroyed in 1540. The priory was dissolved and many of the
monks formed the reconstituted cathedral foundation. These were turbulent times
in the land. The Reformation begun by Martin Luther in Germany reached
England in the 1520s and for two decades it was tightly controlled by Henry who
wanted reform in the Church but not a Reformation.

The last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury was William Warham who
died in 1532. Bishop Gregory of Rome had appointed Augustine as Canterbury’s
first Archbishop and for more than 900 years all Augustine’s successors had
acknowledged the Pope as Supreme Head of the Church. Now in the 1530s
Reformation winds were blowing in England and on Warham’s death, Henry
appointed Thomas Cranmer as Canterbury’s first Reformed Archbishop. In the
17th century England was embroiled in the Civil War between King and
Parliament. Oliver Cromwell’s parliamentary army smashed much of the
Cathedral’s stained glass.

In the 19th and 20th centuries the Anglican Church spread around the world and
Canterbury Cathedral came to be recognised as the Mother Church of the
worldwide Anglican Communion. In 1867 a gathering of Anglican archbishops
and bishops from many parts of the world met in London. The venue was
Lambeth Palace, the London home of the Archbishops of Canterbury since the
1300s. These Lambeth Conferences meet every ten years and thirteen have
convened since their beginning. When the fourteenth Lambeth Conference meets
in July and August this year Archbishop Williams will preside. The Anglican
Communion around the world is deeply split on a number of theological and
pastoral questions, not least its attitude to same-sex marriages.

So Canterbury remains, not the earliest Christian site in England, but one of the
earliest. From Augustine to Rowan Williams, Canterbury Cathedral has mirrored
the highs and lows, the changes, turmoil, Reformation and agitations that have
marked Christianity in England for 1400 years.

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Dr Herbert McGonigle is Senior Lecturer in Historical Theology, Church History &
Wesley Studies, Nazarene Theological College, Manchester
Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist
change places.
Christian Basics: What On Earth Is The Church?
‘The local church is the hope of the
world’ (Bill Hybels). Our experience
of church can be disappointing or
frustrating; yet we mustn’t lose this
vision of God’s purpose for the
church. The New Testament offers us
a number of pictures to explore this
purpose:
1. The People of God
The New Testament word for ‘church’
is ekklesia, which describes an
assembly of people. This makes the
point that church is not essentially
buildings or services, but a community
of people belonging to God and
committed to sharing his love in the
world. ‘But you are a chosen people, a
royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
people belonging to God, that you
may declare the praises of him who
called you out of darkness into his
wonderful light’ (1 Peter 2:9). With
people increasingly experiencing
‘belonging before believing’, it is vital
to provide both a congregational
experience and small groups in our
church life.
2. The Body of Christ
The church is Christ’s body on earth,
‘The body is a unit, though it is made
up of many parts; and though all its
parts are many, they form one body.
So it is with Christ’ (1 Cor 12:12).
What am I?
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While every Christian has a vital part
to play in the life and growth of the
body, Paul warns us (1 Cor.12) about
the wrong attitudes that will stop the
body from working effectively. We
have to avoid both feelings of
inferiority (i.e. ‘I have nothing to
offer’) or superiority (i.e. ‘I don’t need
you’). We all have a unique
contribution to make, using our
different gifts, experience and
perspective.
3. A Holy Temple
The church is also described as a holy
temple, the expression of God’s
presence on earth. ‘You also, like
living stones, are being built into a
spiritual house to be a holy priesthood,
offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable
to God through Jesus Christ’ (1 Peter
2:5). As living stones, unlike bricks,
we don’t uniformly fit together.
Instead, like in a dry stone wall, we
are hand-selected and shaped in order
to fit with each other. The church is a
place where our lives are shaped to be
increasingly more like Jesus, as the
edges are knocked off through our
relationships with others. This is why
our experience of church is sometimes
painful; however let’s not forget that
God is still committed to work
through his church to bring hope to
our world!
 A teacher gave her young class a lesson on the magnet and what it does.
The next day in a short written test, she included this question: "My full
name has six letters. The first one is M. I am strong and attractive. I pick up
lots of things. What am I?"
When the papers were turned in, the teacher was astonished to find that
more than half her students had answered the question with the word:
"Mother."
Do as you would be done by …
“Therefore all things you would that men should do to you, do even so to them: for
this is the law and the prophets.”

The mark of a child is the absence of any lag between a desire and its satisfaction. No
sooner does a want or a need come into the mind of the child than it seeks immediate
satisfaction. This is one of the reasons why children cry so readily. We want what we
want. And we want it now.

Every human being is prone to selfishness. Oscar Wilde once said: “To love oneself is
the beginning of a lifelong romance.” The selfishness may manifest itself in boasting,
in vain display, in pushing to the front, in boring others, for a bore has been described
as a man who deprives one of solitude without ever giving company.

There has never been a person who monopolized a conversation without at the same
time monotonizing it. A little girl, seeing another alongside of her at a party take a
piece of cake, said. “How greedy you are to take the largest piece. I wanted that for
myself!”

As Francis Thompson put it:

“Nothing begins and nothing ends
That is not paid with moan,
For we are born in other’s pain
And perish in our own.”

Peace is not something that is given; peace is something that is made: “Blessed are the
peacemakers.” We want to live in a give-and-take world and to have done to us what is
to our greatest good and benefit. We want to live our lives in peaceful surroundings, to
raise our children and enjoy the simple pleasures of being alive. At least that is what
we think we want if we in the West weren’t so consumed by the desire always to have
more.

But peace is made only by war – war not against others but against sin and selfishness
and egotism, not only in ourselves but in international relationships as well. War is
waged with the cross, not one that fights outward like Peter’s sword, which cuts off
the ears of others, but rather a sword that is thrust inward to cut out selfishness which
destroys the brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God and the redemption of
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his Son. Perhaps we have to think more about living simply in order that so many
millions across the world may simply live.
Olave Snelling is a former producer and presenter on Premier Radio in London. She
is currently Chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Council.

There was a man, though some did count him mad,

The more he cast away, the more he had. – John Bunyan
Raffle Reminiscences ~ 2008 by Tony Gray
Having dodged Duncan for several Sundays, he finally caught up with me and popped
the question “How many books would you like?” I hate selling raffle tickets – always
have done and so my immediate reaction was “Oh, Dear Lord and Father of
Mankind…!” We settled for two, with Duncan scowling, metaphorically, at my
insouciance. By midday on Monday I had ten pounds in cash and was quite enjoying
the challenge. I called for another six books and headed up to the garage twenty yards
away and made my pitch in the office, above the yapping of a small mobile mongrel
dog. I scored and my prey put down her tray of takeaway lunch of some sort to hand
four pound coins to me. Quick as a flash, the dog jumped up onto the desk and
proceeded to eat part of the meal and adulterate the rest. Tracey, my benefactor, did
not echo the refrain “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”. It was nearer to “I vow to
Thee”

Inspired by events and a little success, I raised the question of St. Peter’s Garden Party
Raffle with my dentist, Nicho Van Wykj. He asked the price and I told him £5 per
book*, but that I was permitted to split a book for anyone down on their luck! He said
he would buy two and I gave him a Duncan look. He meant two and bought two –
BOOKS. My very last ten tickets.

On my recent visit to his surgery, I carried with me a cardboard egg holder with six
eggs inside. I announced to him that he had won a prize in the St. Peter’s Raffle and
asked him if he liked eggs. He did. “Well, Nicho” I said “I’m sorry to disappoint you
but you have not won eggs. You have won the star prize – a stay at The Devonshire
Arms at Bolton Abbey”. He was speechless but I thought I heard him humming “Dear
Lord and Father of Mankind…” he has promised to buy from me next year!

*The star prize for selling tickets goes to a dear friend who sold his/hers (no names)
for £5 EACH! A superb salesperson indeed.

‘Now Thank We All Our God’

You love me

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 O flame of the Holy Spirit, you pierce the very substance of my soul and
cauterise it with your heat. You love me so much, that you have put into my
heart the hope and the knowledge of eternal life....you have chosen to come
to me, and my love burns with such passion that I know you hear my every
prayer. I pray what you want me to pray; I desire what you want me to
desire; I do what you want me to do. You have freed me to be your slave.

A prayer of John of the Cross (1542 – 1591), a Carmelite friar famous for
his mystical writings
Send a Cow celebrates 20 years
20 years ago someone had the
bright idea of sending a cow to
Africa.
Soon Send a Cow was born – and
a small group of dairy farmers
began by sending pregnant cows
from their own herds to poor
families in Uganda. They wanted
to help poor farmers in Africa to
become self-sufficient by providing
them with livestock, training and
advice.
20 years on, the charity still works
with some of the most vulnerable
groups in Africa, including children
orphaned by war, families affected
by AIDS, and
disabled people.
All families helped by Send a Cow
pledge to pass on the skills and
benefits they gain to another family
in need – meaning that just a little
assistance from the UK goes a
long, long way.
Nowadays, Send a Cow works in
10 countries across Africa, giving
hope by providing a variety of
locally bought animals and other
assistance.
For more details visit:
www.sendacow.org.uk

Home & Family becomes Families First

Britain’s biggest selling Christian magazine, Home & Family, is re-launching

in August as Families First.

Produced by Mothers’ Union to promote good parenting, encourage loving

and lasting marriages, and to support people in an active, Christian faith,
Families First will be a lifestyle magazine for people who care about family
life in their own communities and around the world.

With a focus on relationship – with real people facing real issues - each
edition will include interviews and articles on marriage, family life, parenting,

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 Christian faith in action, stories of lives changed, community action ideas,
campaign issues and reviews of books, music, films, DVDs, and websites
for children.

“Families First will appeal not just to Mothers’ Union members but to all
people who want to support a positive, supportive approach to families and
communities” said editor Catherine Butcher. “Politicians and statisticians
paint a gloomy picture of family life in the UK, but working through churches
Mothers’ Union and many other Christians are making a tangible difference
to family life in communities.”
To subscribe, or to view a sample copy of Families First visit
www.familiesfirstmagazine.com.
14th August Maximilian Kolbe –
Christian witness amidst 20th century suffering

Some people's lives seem to tuberculosis as well - most people

epitomise the suffering of millions,
but also to shine with a Christian
response to it. One such person
was Maximilian Kolbe, 1894 -
1941, a Franciscan priest of
Poland, and publisher
extraordinary.
Maximilian was born at Zdunska
Wola, near Lodz, where his
parents, devout Christians, worked
in a cottage weaving industry. Like
thousands of others at the time,
the family and their village was
ground into poverty by Russian
exploitation. In 1910 Maximilian
entered the Franciscan Order, and
studied at Rome. After his
ordination in 1919, Maximilian
returned to Poland, where he was
sent to teach church history in a
seminary. But a new factor had
entered his life: he diagnosed with
tuberculosis.
Living in post-war Poland was
difficult enough, but with
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would have quietly withered away.
Not Maximilian Kolbe.
Instead, the tuberculosis gave
Maximilian a sense of urgency - a
sense of the brief transitoriness of
this life. He knew his time was
slipping away. Instead of teaching
history, he determined to do
something to help the Christians
living in Poland now, in the tatters
of Europe after the First World
War. And so he founded a
magazine for Christian readers in
Cracow, who badly needed
effective apologetics to help them
hold to their faith in a chaotic
world.
Soon, the obsolete printing
presses (which were operated by
Maximilian's fellow priests and lay
brothers) were working overtime -
the magazine's circulation had
leapt to 45,000. Then the printing
presses were moved to a town
near Warsaw, Niepokalanow,
where Maximilian now founded a
Franciscan community which
combined prayer with cheerfulness
and poverty with modern
technology: daily as well as weekly
newspapers were soon produced.
The community grew and grew,
until by the late 1930s it numbered
762 friars.
Then in 1939 the Germans
invaded Poland. Maximilian sent
most of his friars home, to protect
them from what was to come. He
turned the monastery into a
refugee camp for 3,000 Poles and
1,500 Jews. And the presses
continued: taking a patriotic,
independent line, critical of the
Third Reich.
Kolbe was arrested by the
Gestapo along with four friars.
They were taken to Auschwitz in
May 1941. Their names were
exchanged for tattooed numbers;
and they were sent to brutal forced
labour.
But Maximilian Kolbe continued his
priestly ministry. He heard
confessions in unlikely places, and
smuggled in bread and wine for
the Eucharist. His sympathy and
compassion for those even more
unfortunate than himself was
outstanding.
Then came the final scene in his
hard life. At the end of July, 1941,
several men escaped from his
bunker at the camp. The Gestapo,
in revenge, came to select several
more men from the same bunker
who were to be starved to death. A
man, Francis Gajowniczek, was
chosen. As he cried in despair,
Kolbe stepped forward.
"I am a Catholic priest. I wish to die
for that man. I am old; he has a
wife and children." The officer in
charge shrugged his shoulders -
and obliged.
So Maximilian went to the death
chamber of Cell 18, and set about
preparing the others to die with
dignity by prayers, psalms, and the
example of Christ's Passion. Two
weeks later only four were left
alive: Maximilian alone was fully
conscious. He was injected with
phenol and died on 14 August,
aged 47.
He was beatified by Paul VI in
1971. In 1982 he was canonised
by Pope John Paul II, formerly
Archbishop of Cracow, the diocese
that contains Auschwitz. Present at
the ceremony that day was Francis
Gajowniczek, the man whose life
Maximilian Kolbe had saved.

31st August John Bunyan

After the Bible, John Bunyan's wonderful Christian allegory, the Pilgrim's Progress, is
one of the most celebrated and widely read books in the English language. It has been
translated into more than one hundred languages around the world and keeps its place
as a Christian classic.

Names of people and places from its pages have been commonplace wherever English
is spoken. We need only re-call Mr Great-Heart, Mr Valiant-for-Truth, Giant Despair,

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Madame Bubble, the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, the Delectable Mountains, the
Hill Difficulty and the Celestial City.

Bunyan was born on 28 November 1628, at Elstow, near Bedford, England, of a poor
family. He had little formal education and his father taught him to be a metal worker.
His first wife died young. His second wife, Elizabeth, helped him considerably with
his blossoming literary career. His conversion was the result of reading the Bible, and
the witness of local Christians. From that time the Bible became the great inspiration
of his life. He wrote more than fifty books on Christianity. A Baptist by conviction, he
had little time for the Established Church.

Bunyan became a popular preacher, but because of his opposition to the Established
Church and because he did not have a Church of England preaching licence, he was
imprisoned in 1661. It was in prison that he wrote Pilgrim's Progress. It was not only
Bunyan's greatest book but was destined to become one of the most popular Christian
books in the world.

Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory, using the names of people and places from the Bible
to teach spiritual lessons. The vivid and unforgettable imagery in the Pilgrim's
Progress covers the whole Christian gospel from sin and condemnation all the way
through faith, repentance, grace, justification, sanctification, and perseverance to
heaven itself.

Bunyan died on 31 August 1688. His portrayal of the death of Mr Valiant For Truth is
Bunyan at his allegorical best. This brave old soldier of Jesus Christ has received his
summons to 'go home.' Calling his friends together he says, 'My sword I give to him
who shall succeed me in my pilgrimage … My marks and scars I carry with me, to be
a witness for me, that I have fought His battles, Who will now be my rewarder.' … So
he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Five tomatoes a day helps keep the sunburn

away

Eating five tomatoes a day can help prevent sunburn and

even premature ageing. It seems to provide a ‘sunscreen
factor’ of 1.3 for your skin.

Although of course it is still vital to use sunscreens, shade and protective

clothing, tomatoes do seem to improve the skin’s ability to protect itself
against ultraviolet light.

Experts at Manchester and Newcastle universities also found that tomatoes

can boost the skin’s procollagen levels, a molecule which gives skin its
structure and elasticity.
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Noah opened up the ark and let all the animals out, telling them to
"Go forth and multiply!" He began to close the great doors of the ark
when he noticed that there were two snakes
still sitting in a dark corner. Concerned, he
said to them: "Didn't you hear me? You can
go now. Go forth and multiply."
“We can't," said the snakes sadly. "We're
adders."

SERVICES & ROTAS FOR AUGUST 2008

St. Anne’s, Beeley
Flowers & Brasses
3 Aug 9.30am Holy Communion Mrs Homer
10 Aug 9.30am Holy Communion 6pm Evensong Mrs Hopkins
17 Aug 9.30am Holy Communion " "
24 Aug 9.30am Holy Communion 6pm Evensong Mrs D Evans
31 Aug 9.30am Holy Communion " "
3.45pm Service at the Country Fair
7 Sept 9.30am Holy Communion Mrs K Reeve

St. Peter’s, Edensor

Sidesmen
3 Aug 10.30am Holy Communion R A Gray/J Bowns
10 Aug 10.30am Holy Communion R Bemrose/Jayne
Boyd
17 Aug 10.30am Matins Mrs Thomas/Mrs
Bemrose
24 Aug 10.30am Holy Communion Mr & Mrs Gordon
31 Aug 10.30am Holy Communion Mr & Mrs Jackson
3.45pm Service at the Country Fair
7 Sept 10.30am Holy Communion Mr & Mrs Machin
Coffee Cleaning Flowers
3 Aug Mrs Mather Mrs Machin/Mrs ThomasWedding Flowers
10 Aug Mr & Mrs Sherwood ------------------------------ Wedding Flowers
17 Aug Mrs Bradshaw Mr & Mrs Jackson Wedding flowers remain
24 Aug Mrs Cooper/Mrs Clarke ----------------------------- Wedding Flowers
31 Aug Pat Cree Mrs Bateman/Mrs Robinson Wedding flowers remain
7 Sept Mrs Mather ----------------------------- Sarah Dowding
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 Readings at St. Peter’s
Epistle Gospel Reader
3 Aug Isaiah 55.1-5 Matthew 14.13-21 Diana Walters
Trinity 11 Feeding the thousands
10 Aug I Kings 19.9-18 Matthew 14.22-33 Margaret Thomas
Trinity 12 Walking on the water
17 Aug Matthew 15.10-28 ------------------------- Diana Symonds
Trinity 13 “We do not presume…”
24 Aug Psalm 145.1-12 Luke 22.24-30 Tony Gray
Trinity 14 St Bartholomew
31 Aug Romans 12.9-21 Matthew 16.21-28 David Jackson
Trinity 15 “Take up your cross”
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