January 2015 - South Kilworth Village Website

SOUTH KILWORTH NEWS
January 2015
DIARY
No. 452
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Epiphany, Holy Communion at stanfors
Half hour said Communion, St Nicholas’ Church
Mobile Library (School 12.00, Leys Crescent 12.30, North Road 12.50)
Korks Planning Meeting, The White lion, North Kilworth
Youth Club, Village Hall
Baptism of Christ, Family Service, St Nicholas Church
Parish Council, Village Hall
Half hour said Communion, St Nicholas’ Church
Youth Club, Village Hall
2nd Sunday of Epiphany, St Nicholas’ Church
W.I. Village Hall
Half hour said Communion, St Nicholas’ Church
Mobile Library (School 12.00, Leys Crescent 12.30, North Road 12.50)
Youth Club, Village Hall
Village Hall AGM, Village Hall
Burns Night, Village Hall
St Paul’s Conversion, Avon Swift Group Service at Gilmorton
Half hour said Communion, St Nicholas’ Church
Youth Club, Village Hall
The South Kilworth News is edited by Ann Saunders
Please send copy for the February edition by 23rd January to
Ann Saunders Smithy House, Welford Road
Tel: 575 332
Email: am.saunders@virgin.net
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SOUTH KILWORTH W.I.
MEETINGS FOR 2014 / 2015
20th January
Faith Supper and Quiz
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17 February
Matthew Morris “The Butchers shop”
17th March
Ann Charlton “How the Wildlife Trust was created”
21st April
Walk or outing to be arranged
19th May
Sally Henshaw “Richard III and Greyfriars Dig”
16th June
Sandy Leong “Hey Diddle Diddle – the History and meaning of Nursery Rhymes”
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21 July
Elizabeth Robinson “Fun and Games”
18th August
Outing to be arranged
15th September
Speaker to be arranged
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20 October
Maggie Dexter “Canapes for Christmas”
17th November
A.G.M.
8th December
Christmas Outing
VILLAGE HALL BOOKINGS
Contact Michael Murphy on 01788 861877 or 0777 6065385
CLERGY NEWSLETTER
A New Resolution?
Here we are, once again, at the beginning of a new year. It’s a time when people are often encouraged to
make New Year Resolutions. In our success-driven culture we may feel some pressure to do away with the
‘bad’ habits of last year and to make sure we perform a bit better in 2015. We try to improve ourselves by
setting goals to eat less, exercise more, give up smoking or whatever, be nice to people . . . the list goes on.
Unfortunately, for most of us, the task of making New Year Resolutions will involve a sense of guilt as we
realise that, despite our best intentions, the resolutions we made at the beginning of 2014 were not kept. If
you recognise this scenario, take heart – you are not alone! A study by the University of Bristol a few
years ago found that nearly 9 out of 10 people did not stick to their New Year Resolutions and, indeed,
only about half of people thought they would when they made them! So, although we may be determined
to make a fresh start again this year, and there’s nothing really wrong with that determination,
unfortunately the chances are that we’ll fail again.
It seems to me that New Year Resolutions put too much emphasis on our own strength and a belief that the
power is in our hands to shape all that we can be. It’s all around us in our culture, that sense that we can be
all we want to be and all it takes is a bit of effort. As a Christian I’m quite saddened by that outlook,
because it puts all the focus on ourselves and limits who we might be to our own vision. It also undermines
our sense of self-worth when we do not succeed at becoming the people we think we ought to be. I suggest
that we’re only looking at it in one dimension. We are only part of the equation. Life, well-lived, is a
partnership also with God, who promises to be with us always. God is the giver of life, the creating one,
who continues to create us and to create through us. God knows us, faults and all, and loves us regardless.
God can see potential in all of us, can see things that we could do and be of which we can only dream. If
we are open to his presence, God will continue to create us into the people he knows we can become.
That’s far more exciting than the limited view we have of ourselves and our abilities. It lifts the burden of
self-improvement from our shoulders and it opens up untold possibilities.
So, as we enter 2015 I’m advocating that you make just one New Year Resolution: resolve to remember
each day that God is with you and ask God to show you how to live this day in the best possible way you
can. Live like that and you won’t have that familiar sense of guilt when 2016 dawns, but you will have
much to marvel at and much to look forward to.
I wish you a blessed New Year as you journey on with God by your side.
Emma Davies
SUPPORT FOR SYRIAN AND IRANIAN CHRISTIAN REFUGEES
Hunger lunches were held at Swinford Rectory (Avon Swift benefice) on the four Tuesdays of Advent,
linked to a time of Bible study on the themes of the Advent candles.
CHRISTIAN AID will be receiving a cheque for £300 from those lunches, in support of Christian refugees
from Syria and Iraq.
Further hunger lunches at the Rectory, linked with Bible study, are already planned for 2015…Tuesday
lunchtimes in Lent 24 Feb to 24 March inclusive..
Canon Chris Oxley
ST. NICHOLAS’ CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
THANK YOU to everyone who supported, in any way, the recent bazaar.
£1,252.99 was raised for church funds.