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April 2013
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Newhold Trading Estate, Aberford
Road, Garforth, Leeds, LS25 2LD
Tel: 01132 868588 or 867617
• Family run business—est. 40 yrs.
• Personal attention from the
Carrigan family of Stanley.
• Specialists in car body work.
• No job too small or too large.
• Private, insurance and company
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• Well equipped premises with all
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• Courtesy cars available.
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• Painting
• Tiling
• Garden Maintenance
• General DIY jobs
• Child proofing homes and
nursery preparation
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The Minister writes:
We are in interesting times in the church worldwide. We have
just witnessed the appointment of a new Pope and a new Archbishop of
Canterbury. The new pope comes with a reputation for avoiding pomp
and a palace life and being concerned for the poor. The new arch-
bishop is not well known, but I was fortunate to be at a conference
recently where he was speaking. I was very encouraged by the confer-
ence as a whole and what he said in particular.
At the conference we recognised that difference and therefore
conflict is normal. It is OK to disagree passionately, but it is important
to stay in relationship with those we disagree with. This gives me hope
for the future of the church. We may not be able or even expect to
agree with each other about everything; but we can recognise that as
children of the same heavenly father we are brothers and sisters togeth-
er in His family. We are therefore called to love each other, like it or
not. We must pray for these new leaders that the hope they bring may
be fulfilled.
The events we remember at Easter are, I
would say, the most decisive events in human
history. They contain the deepest tragedy and the
greatest hope. As we enter into this story once
again, we are given strength to face our own
difficulties and confidence to embrace our times
of joy.
Jesus was called to the home of his dear
friend Lazarus who was on the point of death.
But he does not go straight away. By the time he arrives, Lazarus has
died. His sisters Martha and Mary, both say “If only you had been
here”. But Jesus transforms the situation, he claims to BE the resurrec-
tion and the life. Then he demonstrates it by raising Lazarus from the
dead. At this Easter may we know the transforming power of Christ,
and that we might experience the hope of new life in whatever we face.
Rev Bill Henderson
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St Peter’s Church Services All services are held at the Church Centre,
Lake Lock Road, Stanley
Sunday 10am Family Communion
4pm Evensong (on the first Sunday of every month)
Wednesday 9:30 am Holy Communion
5pm Prayers
Thursday 9:15 am Children’s Ark
Other Christian Worship
ZION CHRISTIAN CENTRE
466a Aberford Road, Stanley,
www.zionchurch.co.uk, telephone: 01924 872262
Sunday: 10:30am Service
11:00am Sunday School & crèche
Tuesdays: 7:30pm Prayer meeting
Wednesdays: 7:30pm Bible Study, discussions
Minister: David Dixon, telephone: 01924 872262
METHODIST CHURCH: Lee Mount Chapel
Sunday: 10:30am service, including junior church
Minister: Rev Naomi Kaiga BD MA
email: [email protected], tel: 01977 705100
Steward: Mrs Doreen Abson, telephone: 01924 824577
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DATES FOR APRIL
Weds 27th Mar
7:30pm
Taize Worship Service with meditative and
prayerful music as we prepare for Easter.
Thur 28th Mar
7:30pm
Maundy Thursday Passover Meal: please phone
the church office on 835746 to book your place.
Fri 29th Mar
Good Friday
10am Hot Cross Bun Service at St Peter’s
2pm Hour at the Cross at St Peter’s
7:30pm Evening service at Mount Road Chapel
Sun 31st March
10am
Easter Sunday Family Communion Service:
Everyone welcome.
Weds 3rd April
2pm-4pm
Mount Road Methodist Chapel: Coffee & Chat
meeting. Please see page 10 for details.
Sun 7th April
4pm
Evensong: join us for the monthly afternoon
service based on the Common Book of Prayer.
Thurs 11th Apr
6pm
Moorhouse Community Action Group meeting
at the church centre, see p10 for details.
Fri 12th April
7:30pm
Film Club:‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’
starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, p16.
Sat 13th April
10am-12pm
Spring Fayre at the Community Centre with
tombola, cake stall, and much more, see p9.
Sun 14th April
4pm
Memorial Service: a special service for anyone
suffering bereavement. No invitation needed.
Thurs 18th Apr PCC Meeting at the Church Centre at 7:30pm
Sun 21st April
10am
Family Communion and Parade Service with the
uniformed organisations.
Sun 21st April
12pm
St Peter’s Church AGM: come hear about our
plans for the future at St Peter’s.
Weds 24th Apr
7pm
Ladies Society Meeting: at Stanley library. New
members always welcome.
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STANLEY LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY CENTRE
Stanley Library offers a wide selection of books, talking books,
selected language tapes, videos/DVDs for hire, as well as a photocopi-
er/A4 colour photocopier, fax machine, newspapers and selected
magazines. There are also public access computers, offering free
internet access, basic computer programs (i.e. word processing) and
CD Roms. There are also free UK Online computer courses available
offering internet training and Introduction to Computers —please ask
in the library.
OPENING HOURS
Monday 10am-1pm and 2pm-7pm
Tuesday 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm
Wednesday Closed all day
Thursday 10am-1pm and 2pm-7pm
Friday 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm
Saturday 9am-1pm
Activities for Children
There is a Tiny Tots Storytime for under 5’s, 11:30-12pm on certain
Mondays: check with the Library for dates. Other activities for chil-
dren are organised in most school holidays—please ask for details.
The Community Centre
The hall, two rooms and well equipped kitchen are available for hire.
Contact the Librarian on 01924 303130 to book in advance.
Coffee Morning
There is a coffee morning at the Community Centre every Thursday
morning, 10am-12 noon. Come and relax with friends over a cuppa.
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Spring Fayre Spring Fayre Spring Fayre Spring Fayre ---- new date!new date!new date!new date! Saturday 13th April, 10am—12:30pm
Sadly the Spring Fayre had to be cancelled at the last minute
because of the heavy snow, and will now take place alongside
the monthly coffee morning on Saturday 13th April at the
Community Centre. There will be refreshments and lots of
stalls so please come along and support it and hopefully the
weather will be be"er this #me!
Tombola Chocolate egg tombola Crafts
Toy stall Children’s Tombola Raffle
Greetings cards Cake Stall
Bottle tombola Handbags
Knit and Natter, Sew and Chatter!Knit and Natter, Sew and Chatter!Knit and Natter, Sew and Chatter!Knit and Natter, Sew and Chatter!
At St Peter’s Church Centre, every Thursday, 1pm-3pm Enjoy a cuppa, company and a ‘crafty’ afternoon!
Please come and join this established group of ladies as they knit, sew, compare ideas and patterns and share conversation and friendship. Just turn up: you will be very warmly welcomed.
Phone the church office on 835746 for more information.
Following the clock change, Evensong will now take at 4pm.
Evensong now only takes place on the first Sunday of each
month, the next service being on Sunday 7th April at 4pm.
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Mount Road Methodist Chapel Events
• On Good Friday there will be a special evening service at the
Chapel starting at 7:30pm. Everyone is very welcome to join in
with this service as we think about the significance of Easter.
• The Easter Celebration family service will take place at 10:30am
on Easter Sunday, 31st March.
• The next ‘Coffee & Chat’ meeting will be held on
Wednesday 3rd April from 2pm—4pm. These
monthly meetings are held on the first Wednesday of
every month. Come along and enjoy a coffee, cake,
and a friendly chat!
• The next Jumble Sale at the Chapel will be on Wednesday 8th
May at 1:30pm with cakes, tombola, refreshments and various
other stalls.
• There are rooms available to hire at Mount Road Chapel. Please
contact Joyce on 01924 825658.
Moorhouse Community Action Group
The next meeting of the Moorhouse Community Action Group will
be on Thursday 11th April 2013 at 6pm at the Church Centre.
Please come along and raise any issues specific to Moorhouse and
join in with the plans for the new Centre on Moorhouse Grove.
Stanley Community Singers
The Stanley Community Singers continue to meet every
Monday afternoon in term time at St Peter’s Church Centre from
1pm-3pm with singing from 1:30pm-2:30pm and time before and
afterwards for refreshments and chat. The group sings a variety
of music and is open to anyone who enjoys singing—no previous
experience required! Please come and join us: make some new
friends, learn some new songs and enjoy singing! The next date
for singing will be Monday 15th April.
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Coffee morning thank-you: Thanks to everyone who organised, donated items for, and supported the coffee morning on 9th March.
Despite the very cold weather, it was a very busy morning and a bril-
liant total of £222.70 was raised. The next coffee morning will be
combined with the rescheduled Spring Fayre on Saturday 13th April
10am—12.30pm at Stanley Community Centre with lots of great stalls:
cakes, greetings cards, tombola, children’s tombola, raffle and more!
Donations of small children’s toys, soft toys, books and jigsaws
would be gratefully received. Please contact Mavis Darlington on
822251 or bring your items to the office at St Peter’s Church Centre.
Thank you to whoever left some jigsaws at the community centre for
the coffee morning last month—it was much
appreciated.
Please join us on 13th April for a very
pleasant and enjoyable morning. We would
love to see you there.
A new Salsa class is starting at St Peter’s
Church centre!
Wednesday, 17th April, 7pm-9pm
Lessons are fortnightly (1st May, 15th May, 29th May…) and cost £5
Make new friends, learn a new skill, enjoy the music, keep fit!
Kind, friendly instructor
For more information contact Dickson on 01924 384920
Salsa!
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From the Stanley Parish Register
Funerals
Baptisms
Jeffrey Smith
Renee Holdroyd
Sarah Pearson
8 February 2013
21 February 2013
15 March 2013
Charlie Leslie Alan Davenport
Lewis Paul Scollan
Ryan Thomas Hobkirk
Cara Harris
Jordan Judge
Frankie-Joe Maloney
2 December 2012
10 February 2013
17 February 2013
24 February 2013
24 February 2013
10 March 2013
Food Banks – a sign of the times?
The rising cost of food and fuel, combined with static income,
unemployment and changes in benefits have seen increasing numbers of
people turn to food banks in the UK. Retired archbishop Rowan Williams
has even become patron of one in the city of Cambridge.
The Trussell Trust, a Christian charity, now oversees 250 local food
banks on a franchise basis. Food banks typically provide boxes of three
days of emergency food to tide people over and puts them in touch with
agencies that might be able to help in the longer term.
Many food banks are located in or around church premises and
across the UK, thousands of people give time and money to gather food
supplies and distribute them to those in great need.
The Trussell Trust was founded in 1997 by Carol and Paddy
Henderson when they were working for a UN feeding programme in
Bulgaria. In the UK, the Trust’s network feeds over 128,000 people each
year, distributing 1,225 tonnes of food donated by the public, schools and
businesses.
If you wish to help a food bank locally, there is one run by St
Catherine’s Church on Doncaster Road in Wakefield.
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It’s time for the Annual General Meeting!!
St Peter’s church will hold it’s Annual General meeting on
Sunday 21st April at 12pm at the Church Centre. It is an important
event in the life of the church: it sets out the church’s plans for the year
ahead, as well as reviewing what has happened over the past year.
One of the important tasks is to elect the churchwardens for the
year. They are the Bishop’s agents in the parish and represent all
parishioners. The members of the Parochial Church Council (PCC)
which helps run the church, are also elected. Everyone who is on the
electoral roll of the church is entitled to vote in these elections.
Anyone who lives in the parish of Stanley can ask to join the electoral
roll (you also have to be over 16, and have been baptised): you don’t
have to be a regular attendee at church.
The church’s financial accounts will also be presented and dis-
cussed at the AGM. You can discover how much we will need to pay
the Diocese next year and how the church proposes to meet these costs.
Rev Bill Henderson will report on what has happened in the past
12 months and his plans for the future. Various other reports will be
presented e.g. by the PCC, the Cubs & Scouts, Brownies, Rainbows,
the Ladies Society, and the church wardens.
If you want to learn about what St Peter’s church does, what it’s
ministry is all about, where we get out money from and how we spend
it, and what the various church officers do, please come along to our
AGM. You may be surprised to learn how much goes on!
Memorial ServiceMemorial ServiceMemorial ServiceMemorial Service
On Sunday 14th April at 4pm there will be a Memorial Service at St
Peter’s Church Centre for anyone suffering from bereavement. It will
be an opportunity to remember and pray for friends
and family who have died recently or in the past,
and for ourselves, who are facing feelings of loss,
sadness and grief.
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St George—our patron saint who isn’t English! by Canon David Winter, former Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC
We will celebrate St George’s Day on 23rd April, and it’s perhaps
typical of the English that they should have a patron saint who isn’t
English, about whom next to nothing is known for sure, and who may not
have existed at all. That didn’t stop him being patriotically invoked in
many battles, notably at Agincourt and in the Crusades, and of course it is
his cross that adorns the flags of English football fans to this day.
It’s most likely that he was a soldier, a Christian who was martyred
for his faith somewhere in Palestine, possibly at Lydda, in the early fourth
century. At some point in the early centuries of the Church he became
associated with wider military concerns, being regarded as the patron saint
of the Byzantine armies. There is no doubt that he was held as an
example of the ‘godly soldier’, one who served Christ as bravely and truly
as he served his king and country.
The story of George and the dragon is of much later date and no one
seems to know where it comes from. By the middle ages, when George
was being honoured in stained glass, the dragon had become an invaluable
and invariable visual element, so that for most people the two are insepa-
rable. Pub signs have a lot to answer for here: ‘The George and Dragon’.
However, it’s probably more profitable to concentrate on his role as
a man who witnessed to his faith in the difficult setting of military service,
and in the end was martyred for his faithfulness to Christ.
The idea of the ‘Christian soldier’ was, of course, much loved by
the Victorian hymn-writers - ’Onward, Christian soldiers!’. The soldier
needs discipline. The heart of his commitment is to obedience. The battle
cannot be avoided nor the enemy appeased. He marches and fights
alongside others, and he is loyal to his comrades. In the end, if the battle
is won, he receives the garlands of victory, the final reward of those who
overcome evil.
St George’s Day presents a challenge and an opportunity. The
challenge is to distance the message of his life from the militarism and
triumphalism that can easily attach itself to anything connected to soldiers
and fighting. The opportunity is to celebrate the ideal of the ‘Christian
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Do you like to….. Be creative? Chat with others? Support a good cause?
Then come to St Peter’s Church Centre on Thursday 2nd May at 7pm
For just £10 (£5 for under 16’s) you have
the chance to make a beautiful, unique bracelet and have a fun social evening with
good company, wine and nibbles.
All proceeds to World Challenge
Booking helpful but not essential For more information contact Yvette on 07790 039626
soldier’ - one who submits to discipline, sets out to obey God truly, does
not avoid the inevitable battle with all that is unjust, wrong and hateful in
our world, and marches alongside others fighting the same noble cause.
Discipline, obedience, courage, fellowship and loyalty - they’re not
the most popular virtues today, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t
deserve our gratitude and admiration.
The Bishop of Wakefield, the Rt Rev Stephen Platten, has called on people to pray for the whole food production chain, from struggling farm-
ers to those who are going hungry. “"The world produces enough food for
everyone, yet nearly a billion people are starving," said Bishop Stephen.
Backing the ‘Enough Food For Everyone If’ campaign, the Bishop
emphasised the call for governments, companies and individuals to work
together to reduce hunger and food-wastage worldwide.
Those who produce food “also need prayers”. Farmers in the UK,
for example, are facing cuts in their income of up to 50 per cent due to
weather damage, according to latest estimates from the Department for
the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. “Such crop failures can happen
anywhere, so, while we pray for an end to global hunger, we should pray
for those who produce the food, too."
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St Peter’s Church
Friday evening, 12th April, 7:30pm
‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ (2012) 12 Rating
Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely
Loud and Incredibly Close is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind
of Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker
whose discovery of a key in his deceased father’s belongings sets him off on
an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open.
A year after his father (Tom Hanks) died in the World Trade Center on what
Oskar calls “The Worst Day,” he is determined to keep his vital connection to
the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears. Now, as
Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock—
encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their
own way—he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to his
mother (Sandra Bullock) who seems so far away from him and to the whole
noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him.
Free admission, tea & coffee, but bring your own popcorn!
Film shown at the Church Centre, Lake Lock Road, doors open 7pm
The Silver Fish Company
The Silver Fish Jewellery Company makes exquisite silver jewellery
inspired by the Bible. It was founded in 2002 in Birmingham by Norma
Jean Murrain who found that she had a talent for jewellery design and
combined her talent with her desire the share the gospel with others.
The company now makes over 100 designs, and is in the process of
setting up a jewellery project in Southern India. The jewellery makes
ideal Christian gifts for christenings, weddings,
birthdays, anniversaries, etc. See all the products
on their website: www.silverfishjewellery.co.uk.
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Reports from our local schools
Stanley Children’s Centre Long Causeway, Stanley, Wakefield, WF3 4JB, Tel: 01924 303181,
Centre Manager: Gill Sheldrake Open: Monday to Friday 8:30am—4:30pm
The Children’s Centre offers support services to families with children
under 5 and parents-to-be: advice on parenting, childcare, education, hous-
ing, benefits and finance; links with Job Centre Plus; support for childmind-
ers; adult courses; antenatal care; child health promotion clinic; breastfeeding
support; home safety equipment; and fun activities for under 5’s.
Please see below for details of the regular groups and clinics at the
Children’s Centre and news of some special events and courses.
• There will be a Holiday Stay & Play session on Monday 8th April, 10am-
11:30am at Outwood Memorial Hall
• There is a Weaning Party on Tuesday 9th April from 1:45pm—3pm.
Please book your place.
• There will be a Jo Jingles Music & Craft Session on Thursday 11th April
from 10:30am—12on for children aged 18months—5 years.
• Call in for a Creative Stay & Play Session on Friday 12th April from
10am—11:30am for children aged 18months—5 years.
(Continued on page 18)
Day Time Group
Monday 9:30am—12pm
9am—4:30pm
10am—3:30pm
1.30pm—3pm
Dial Drop-in
Health Trainers: appointment needed.
Child Health Reviews: by appointment. Stay & Play for ages 18 months—5 years.
Tuesday 10am—12pm
1:30pm—3pm
Child Health Reviews: appointment needed.
Baby Time from birth—crawling.
Wednesday 9:30am—4pm
1:30pm—3pm
Rightsteps: booking required.
Toddler Time from crawling—18 months.
Thursday 1pm—3:30pm Child Health Reviews by appointment.
Friday 10am—12:30pm
9:30—11:30am
2pm—4pm
Child Health Reviews by appointment.
Childminding Support Group
Midwife Drop-in Clinic
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• There is a First Aid Course on Wednesday 17th April from 9:15am—
11:15am. A crèche will be available.
• There is a free Fluoride Varnishing Session on Friday 19th April from
9:30am—4pm for children aged 2-4 years old. Please book a place.
• The Triple P Parenting Course starts on Tuesday 23rd April from
9:15am—11:15am. This is a 10 week course to help carers improve their
parenting skills and build positive relationships with their children.
• The Job Centre Plus Adviser will be visiting the centre on Wednesday,
24th April from 9am—12pm. Please book an appointment.
• The next Parents’ Forum will be on Monday 29th April from 9:30am—
11:!5am. Please call in with your ideas about the centre.
• Tempest Photography will be visiting the centre on Monday 29th April
from 1pm-4pm. No booking required.
• There are new English courses, and also Infant Massage and Baby Yoga
courses starting in April. Contact the centre for more information.
Stanley Grove School Aberford Road, Stanley, Wakefield, WF3 4NT
Tel: 01924 303805, Headteacher: Mrs J Frost
It has been a short, but very busy and productive term at Stanley
Grove. The Early Year’s Unit has been reading books about the Easter story
and have also been learning about firemen, and other people who help us.
Class 1’s topic has been ‘the jungle’. They have written jungle poems, and
have even been using the PE apparatus as a jungle! Class 2 have learned all
about islands; they’ve made lighthouse models and had a ‘Katie Morag’ day
when they dressed up.
Class 3 have been looking at weather around the world, and have also
been studying different artists such as Monet and Van Gogh. Class 4’s topic
this term has been the Anglo Saxons. They have written their own accounts
of the daily lives of Anglo Saxons and have been doing some weaving. Class
5 has been studying the Tudors: they’ve looked at Tudor portraits, and also
enjoyed a very fascinating visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
We have had some very successful fundraising initiatives recently.
Our ‘Bags for School’ collection raised £150 and a sponsored read raised
£513! Thank you to everyone for your support. Our Red Nose Day events
were organised by the school council and raised £160.70.
(Continued on page 19)
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After the Easter holidays, there will be a couple of drop-in sessions for
parents wanting some advice on their child’s behaviour or emotional develop-
ment. Details are available on posters in school or from the school office.
Before the Easter holidays, the children will be enjoyed an egg hunt
for the main school and an Easter bonnet parade for the Early Years Unit or-
ganised by the PTA and also an egg decorating activity organised by the
School Council. We would like to wish all our children, parents and staff a
very happy Easter break.
St Peter’s Community CaféSt Peter’s Community CaféSt Peter’s Community CaféSt Peter’s Community Café At: St Peter’s Church Centre, Lake Lock Road
Open Mondays—Fridays 10:30am—2pm
Special meal of the day, baked potatoes, hot and cold sandwiches, all-day breakfasts, children’s menu, desserts, refreshments
TUESDAYS: Senior Citizens discount on meal deal THURSDAY: £1 off all children’s meals
(when accompanied by full-paying adult)
Mary and the team look forward to welcoming you!
What a hoot! One evening the bird loving vicar strolled over to his huge country churchyard, and just for fun, hooted softly, like an owl. To
his delight and astonishment, an owl hooted softly back. The next night
the same thing happened, and again, the night after that. Soon it became
a regular habit, and every night for the following year, no matter what the
weather, the vicar would go to the churchyard and hoot back and forth
with his feathered friend. The hoots became longer and more complicat-
ed, and the vicar kept a careful log of the "conversation."
Just as he thought he was on the verge of a real breakthrough in
interspecies communication, his wife had a chat with the neighbour who
lived in a big house and garden next door to the church. " My husband
comes here each night,” she said, “to hoot to the owl in the churchyard.”
"“That's odd,” the neighbour replied, “so does my husband."
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No shelter
No hope, no love, no shelter,
No arms to keep me warm,
I search the long and lonely night,
Through rain and wind and storm.
I have no one to turn to,
No help along the way,
So I just keep on walking,
As night returns to day.
One day I found a shelter
Whose doors were open wide,
Someone came out to meet me:
“My child just come inside.
Come warm your hands and rest here,
Sit, eat and rest and sleep,
We’re here to give you shelter,
A place to find God’s peace.”
We sat and talked in comfort,
The time went, oh! so quick.
They even gave me breakfast;
Dry clothes to keep me warm.
Then told me I could return to shelter in a storm.
As I walked on in comfort
A man came by my side:
“I’ll always walk beside you”
He spoke gently in my ear;
“My name, my son, is Jesus,
Just say you’ll come back here.”
Written by Margaret
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Cartoon Corner
Pamela found herself elected
to Deanery Synod
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Please contact the editor, Eleanor Plant, with items for the next magazine on
01924 835746, or by email: [email protected]
Prayers for April
A Prayer for Easter-tide Dear Father, life can be difficult. Sometimes it feels as though the sun
has stopped shining, just as it did on that first Good Friday. Sometimes
it can feel as though we are stuck in the darkness and it seems
impossible that the light will ever shine again. And yet the reality is
that Friday did move on, into the most glorious Sunday. The Son did
rise - and his light shines on, transforming the darkest of times, holding
out hope and peace and life to all who will turn and look into his face.
He is alive. He will help us. Thank you Father, for Jesus. Amen
Daphne Kitching
The God who
answers prayer There is a God who answers prayer
Who intercedes before the throne,
The Son of God who ever cares,
Do not believe you walk alone.
When life seems hard, no answers come
He knows the path that you now tread
Believe on Him though all seems lost
He knows about the tears you shed.
Hold on to Him who is your strength,
Although it seems there’s no way through,
Though pain and heartache both are near,
Who holds the world holds also you.
There is a day when all is clear
A day when we all understand
That all our lives but marked a way
That led us to the Promised Land.
By Megan Carter
The Josephs It began and it ended
With a Joseph,
The life of Jesus.
One laid him in a manger,
The other laid him in a tomb.
One named him Jesus
And brought him up.
The other asked for Jesus,
And brought him down from
the cross.
They were both men
Who stood firm
When life said, Run.
They both turned
disappointment and despair
Into stepping stones of trust,
And walked on, as witnesses
That to God,
Darkness is a light switch.
By Daphne Kitching
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Tuition in French WITH FRENCH NATIVE SPEAKER
Fully qualified, many years experience in pre
and post 16 education, and adult education
1-to-1 or small groups, all levels welcome!
Contact Fabienne Broome 07837 458866
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Servicing, Repairs, Crypton Tuning, Tyres, Batteries, Exhausts, M.O.Ts and Valeting,
Paint & Body repair centre New and second-hand vehicles bought and sold
Old Halfway Garage, 509 Leeds Road, Robin Hood, Wakefield, WF3 3AL Tel: 0113 2887700 www.jwmorris.net
Proprietor: John W. Morris
Councillors Surgeries
Cllr Clive Hudson Tel: 01924 220710 Email: chudson @wakefield.gov.uk
Cllr Jacqui Williams Tel: 01924 278007 Email: jacquelinewilliams @wakefield.gov.uk
Cllr Matthew Morley Tel: 07719 904085 Email: mmorley @wakefield.gov.uk
1st & 3rd Tuesday of each month 6pm—7pm Stanley Community Centre
2nd & 4th Saturday of each month 9:30—10:45am Stanley Community Centre
2nd & 4th Saturday of each month 11am—12 noon Bevin Close Community
Centre, Outwood
Excludes bank holidays, no appointment necessary, home visits can be arranged
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♦ Birthdays
♦ Weddings
♦ Funerals
♦ Helium balloons
With over 10 years experience
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The new florist in Stanley is now open
♦ FREE Delivery service*
♦ Corporate events
♦ Contemporary to traditional
♦ Flowers for all occasions
For a friendly, efficient service
Mobile: 07887 851059 Telephone: 01924 835973 Telephone orders welcome
*Terms & conditions apply, please call for details
Please note that flowerfrenzy has moved to Lime Pit Lane, next door to Stanley Café
• All Gas Appliances Serviced
• Central Heating systems
installed, incl. Showers
• Extra Radiators and Towel
Warmers
• T h e r m o s t a t i c v a l v e s ,
and new controls fitted to existing systems
• Appliance, Cylinder and
Leak Repairs
• Landlord Safety Certificates
• Gene r a l p l umb i ng t o
bathrooms and kitchens
• No Job too small
M. Sambrook Heating and Plumbing
Services
Mob: 07826 329001
Home: 01924 820009
No call out charge and no VAT
Registered with Gas Safe Register which replaced Corgi registration for gas work as of April 2009. Reg. No. 502812
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OUTWOOD
Cheers, Newton Lane
Mondays 10am, 12noon, 5pm & 7pm
Keela: 01924 372287
LOFTHOUSE
Christ Church, Leeds Road
Tuesdays 7:30pm
New Consultant: Gemma, 07427 595061
STANLEY
St Peter’s Church Centre,
Lake Lock Road
Thursdays 7pm
Lynne, 07968 535484
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ST PETER’S CHURCH DIRECTORY
Vicar Rev W Henderson
379 Aberford Road, Stanley 822143
Assistant Priest Rev J Kilsby 824396
Readers Vicky Wilson 835746
and Calli McKenna 835746
Lay Pastoral Ministers Ray Rushworth: 07906 882433 or 835746
and Margaret Woffendin 835746
Church wardens Don Somerville 377884
Barry McCarthy 835746
Church Office Eleanor Plant 835746
email: [email protected]
Treasurer Contact Rev W Henderson
Church Flowers Angie Daniel 376343
Musical Director Julie West 829098
Electoral Roll Eleanor Plant 201644
Prayer Chain Glenda Oakes 820222
House Groups Rev W Henderson 822143
Ladies Society Contact Church Office 835746
Magazine Editor Eleanor Plant 201644
Child Protection Yvette Shaw 822344
Co-ordinator
YOUTH GROUPS Children’s Ark Viv Henderson 822143
Crèche Rev W Henderson 822143
Sunday Gang & Viv Henderson 822143
Explorers
UNIFORMED ORGANISATIONS Rainbows Mrs Kath Shooter 274244
Brownies Mrs Lisa Brown 835746
Cubs/Scouts Mark Pringle 07944 288601
(Boys & Girls) [email protected]
For information regarding weddings and baptisms please contact the Vicar
after any church service or by telephone on 01924 822143.
Contact the Church Office on 835746 (answer phone out of office hours)
or by email: [email protected]
Please note that St Peter’s Church does not endorse any of the
services offered by our advertisers.