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Minister
Reverend Ken Hague Tel: 01724 343702
Email: [email protected]
Secretary
Mrs Joan Anderson Tel: 07710 612064
Treasurer
Mrs Debbie Taylor Tel: 01636 689352
If you wish to be added to this section, please give your contact details to the editor before the
deadline for the next edition.
Website: newarkcongregational.com
Organist
Mr Steve Caddy Tel: 07753 743786
51 Worthington Road, Balderton Email: [email protected]
Bible Study & Film Club
Mr Mark Taylor Tel: 01636 689352
Email: [email protected]
Magazine Editor
Mrs Lorna Caddy Tel: 07965 631882
51 Worthington Road, Balderton Email: [email protected]
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Front Cover: The Flying
Scotsman from Lorna Caddy
Back Cover: An Evening with
Steve Caddy (tickets available
from Lorna Caddy)
If you have any photographs you
think may be suitable for our
magazine cover, we would love to
receive them. Please email them
to the editor.
Church Directory 2
Services 3
Calendar for May 4
Calendar for June 5
From the Minister 6
From the Fellowship 7
Derrick Woods 7
Noticeboard 8
Newark Foodbank Update 9
Children’s Corner 10
Puzzles 11 - 12
In Exchange by Steven M. Caddy 13
Churches Together 14
Messy Church Taster Day 14
Beaumond House Events 15
Sunday 11am — Morning Worship
Holy Communion is celebrated during Morning Worship on the first
Sunday of each month.
Café Service is held in the church hall at 10.30am. Breakfast is on offer
with tea or coffee, and followed by a sincere service with a difference.
Please see the calendars for more details about when each service will be
taking place.
Anyone is welcome to attend the services.
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Sunday 1st — 11am Morning Worship with Communion
Preacher: Reverend Ken Hague Communion Duty: Joan and Mark
Flowers: Sugar Reader: Joan Deacon’s Duty: Gary
Thursday 5th 10am Parents and Toddlers
Friday 6th 10am Friday Focus Saturday 7th 10am Just Sing Community Choir
in the church hall
Sunday 8th — 11am Morning Worship
Preacher: Arranged by Reverend Ken Hague
Flowers: Tina Duckmanton Reader: Gary
Thursday 12th 10am Parents and Toddlers Friday 13th 10am Friday Focus
Sunday 15th — 11am Morning Worship
Preacher: Reverend Ken Hague Flowers: Val Franks Reader: Stan
Thursday 19th 10am Parents and Toddlers Friday 20th 10am Friday Focus
Saturday 21st 10am Just Sing Community Choir
in the church hall
Sunday 22nd — 11am Members’ Service
Flowers: Joan A
Wednesday 25th 7pm Bible Study Thursday 26th 10am Parents and Toddlers
Friday 27th 10am Friday Focus
Sunday 29th — 10.30am Café Service
Preacher: Mark Taylor Flowers: Mrs Martin
Reader: Julie
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Thursday 2nd 10am Parents and Toddlers Friday 3rd 10am Friday Focus
Saturday 4th 10am Just Sing Community Choir in the church hall
Sunday 5th — 11am Morning Worship with Holy Communion
Preacher: Reverend Ken Hague Communion Duty: Joan and Mark
Flowers: Jean Reader: Sugar
Tuesday 7th 7pm Church Meeting Wednesday 8th 7.30pm Film Club
22 Ringrose Close, Newark Thursday 9th 10am Parents and Toddlers
Friday 10th 10am Friday Focus
Sunday 12th — 11am Morning Worship
Preacher: Reverend Yvonne Campbell Flowers: Sugar
Reader: Jean
Thursday 16th 10am Parents and Toddlers Friday 17th 10am Friday Focus
Saturday 18th 10am Just Sing Community Choir in the church hall
Sunday 19th — 11am Morning Worship
Preacher: Reverend Ken Hague Flowers: In memory of Eileen Dowse Reader: Debbie
Wednesday 22nd 7pm Bible Study
Thursday 23rd 10am Parents and Toddlers Friday 24th 10am Friday Focus
Sunday 26th — 10.30am Café Service
Preacher: Mark Taylor Flowers: Gary
Reader: Julie
Thursday 30th 10am Parents and Toddlers
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Dear Friends,
I would like to share with you the thoughts of another minister; he said there was a
scientist who studied bees for years. The scientist would weigh and measure and
analyse them. Finally, he decided that with the bee’s shape and weight and the
form of its wings, it was impossible for it to fly because it broke all the rules.
Unfortunately, nobody told the bees, so they will continue to fly this summer as
they always do, and prove that we can do the impossible every day.
Doing the impossible is a Christian commitment. Loving your neighbour is
possible, depending on your neighbour, but loving your enemy? Not retaliating to
insult is just possible, but turn the other cheek? Can you really give your coat to
the man who has already taken your shirt? Is this just too much to ask? Yet, Jesus
sees it as everyday life for his disciples.
Imagine some scientist from outer space looking at the situation. Setting human
behaviour and actions against the demand of our Christian faith makes us think
deeply. There are plenty of people who tell us a Christian life doesn’t work and
can’t work. But if we look around us, many individuals’ lives prove it does work.
Those who overcome instinctive defence, selfish response, and live for something
things better. You can’t easily define it, but you can feel it. You can’t weigh it, but
you know it’s there.
Experience tells us life contains values that can’t be measured and which modify
facts in ways we can’t always understand. It’s one result of God living in us. God
in human life? Not impossible, but true. A God of the resurrection, something that
doesn’t happen, but did. The fact that it can happen means a real change in our
lifestyle is achievable, believable and possible.
Paul writes ‘I can do everything through him who gives me strength’. He was
writing from personal experience, not theory, and we can call on that same
strength. Beloved in Christ, let us leave room in our lives for the impossible.
Every blessing
Reverend Ken Hague
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At the AGM, Jean and Stan, two of our Deacons, retired. Debbie was the only
member nominated as a Deacon, and after a ballot she was elected to serve for
three years.
Ken remains as Chairman, Joan as Secretary and Debbie as Treasurer. These
positions have to be voted on annually. The rest of the positions were voted for as
one with current holders agreeing to continue.
Gail hopes to have a fund raising event to celebrate the Queen’s official 90th
birthday. Details will follow later.
The church of the year this year doesn’t need financial help, so we agreed to send a
donation from the Harvest Supper to Beaumond House Hospice instead.
It is nice to see those of our Fellowship who have been ill are back with us, though
Joan and Derrick still find it difficult to attend every week.
The AGM of the East Midlands area was held at our church in March, with our
members providing refreshments. We later received thanks from the Area
Secretary.
It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Derrick Woods. Our thoughts
and prayers are with his family. Funeral arrangements will be announced in
church.
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Magazine Articles
We are always grateful to receive ideas or articles from you all for the
magazine.
Please help us to keep you informed, and keep the articles coming in.
Thank you.
Magazine material for the next edition should be submitted to the
editor by 12th June 2016.
Church Directory
If anyone wishes to be added to
the church directory, please get
in touch with the editor.
Sunday 3rd July — 11am Morning Worship
Preacher: Reverend Ken Hague Communion Duty: Gary & Debbie
Flowers: Maureen & Janet Reader: Gail
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The items urgently needed at the time of print are listed in order below. Please
keep an eye on the board in the church hall for up-to-date lists.
Other items required at the moment, though not as urgent, are as follows:
Please do not donate items containing alcohol. Items not needed at the moment are
baked beans, dried pasta, coffee and soup.
The foodbank is short of carrier bags following the introduction of 5p per bag.
Please put good used carrier bags into a single bag and put them in a local
collection box.
Food Non-Food
Long Life Juice (very urgent)
Tinned or Microwavable Sponge Puddings
Tea Bags (all sizes excluding 240)
Instant Mashed Potato
Jars of Pasta Sauce
Tinned Fruit
Shampoo
Deodorant
Washing Up Liquid
Food Non-Food
Tinned Fish — sardines, pilchards, salmon,
mackerel
Tinned Custard
Tinned Meat — hot and cold
Long Life Milk (not evaporated)
Cereal
Laundry Liquitabs/Tablets
Dog Food
Cat Food
Toilet Rolls
Shower Gel
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Answers for the last editions’ crossword and Sudoku.
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Michael Morgan is no ordinary boy. His life is an experiment, the first boy to be
raised in space. Two hundred and fifty miles above the planet’s surface, on the
space station Daedalus, Michael dreams about visiting earth for the first time. On
the earth below, Peter Davies dreams about going into space.
When the two meet, adventure is not far behind, as well as plenty of danger.
Experiencing earth and space for the first time, the two boys discover something
that will change both of their lives.
A cracking adventure story!
It would seem that space is having something of a renaissance. First we had Chris
Hadfield shooting a music video in orbit, then we watched Tim Peake present a
BRIT Award to Adele live from the ISS. Space is cool again. But, much more
importantly, NASA and other space programs have finally embraced the concept
of space belonging to everyone. Space exploration is no longer a race between
warring nations, but a joint, global venture to discover, learn and tweet cool
pictures.
So, no better time for Steven M. Caddy to release his debut novel, In Exchange.
The novel follows Michael Morgan, the first ever human raised in space, as he
comes down to Earth to meet Peter Davies. The two boys are part of an
experiment, an exchange. Peter will show Michael what it’s like to live on Earth,
and, after some gruelling training, Michael will lead Peter back to the space station
Daedalus.
Michael and Peter are likeable leads and watching their friendship grow is a real
pleasure. Especially during a trip full of camping-related capers anyone who
embarked on such adventures in their youth will immediately recognise. The novel
is also beautifully researched. You will learn so much about space (for example,
sleeping in orbit is troublesome because of phosphenes; spontaneous flashes of
light visually perceived by astronauts), but the facts are never overwhelming.
Technical detail never takes precedence over story and this is good to see.
On top of that the novel dishes out plenty of exciting catastrophes and the ending
comes with a sizeable twist. Whether you’re on board with the second Space Age,
or just looking for a good adventure story, In Exchange is the book for you.
Review by Jack Croxall, author of the Tethers Trilogy
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After being elected as a representative to CTIN at the church AGM, Mark Taylor
attended a meeting on Thursday 14th April 2016 to help plan an event to be held in
the summer at Newark Castle.
On Sunday 26th June 2016 at 3pm, it is planned to hold a ‘Church in the Castle’
event. There should be music from the Salvation Army band, hymn singing, drama
and other activities, provided the weather is fine. People will be encouraged to
bring a picnic along to eat afterwards. More planning meetings have been
arranged, and more details will follow.
Last year’s ‘Church in the Castle’ event attracted 150 people, but as far as we
know, London Road weren’t represented. Why not pencil the date into your diaries
now, and we’ll arrange for a group of us to be there this year.
On Saturday 2nd April 2016, several church members welcomed Jane and
Margaret from Sherwood Methodist Church in Nottingham to tell us more about
Messy Church, which is something we are thinking of starting at London Road.
We were joined by someone from Belper Congregational Church, who have the
same idea.
We learned about how Messy Church, which is a church for families with children,
comprises 3 values — Creativity, Celebration and Hospitality. These are reflected
in craft activities and a short act of worship linked to a theme and followed by a
shared meal. The sessions are usually held once a month and have brought lots of
new people into a relationship with Christ at Sherwood; often people who have
had nothing to do with church before.
Jane and Margaret were hugely knowledgeable and enthusiastic, and it was a great
session that convinced us it would be a wonderful thing to consider for our church
if we could manage it. We’ll think about it further at a church meeting soon.
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