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May is upon us once again and we can see signs of change
all around. Gardens growing faster than we can maintain them and glimpses of
Spring becoming fullness of Spring. It is no surprise that this is the month in
which Christian Aid Week is celebrated, as it directly reflects Spring seeding
and growth. With many ideas being turned into community action, many dreams
becoming reality, and countless lives improved in so many different ways.
All of this possible, because of the efforts and giving
of people like yourselves and all for people we most likely will never meet, but
whom we know are our world neighbours.
We will be having a concert and a Bowls Club fund
raising open green, and the yearly open garden day will, I am sure, be as good
as ever. Our Parade Family Service will be Christian Aid Week themed around,
‘the right tools for the job’. You are lovingly invited to any and all of these
occasions.
This is most apt as it is what we strive to do all the
time here at St John’s; use the correct resources in the right areas, recognise
the gifts of our family and embrace those gifts by encouraging our brothers and
sisters to use them in their serving of our local neighbours and our family. It
is pleasing to note that we have a new Assistant Treasurer, Mary Aldous, and a
new Editor of this very magazine, Greta Kerridge; we rejoice in their
discipleship and promise them our full support and prayers. Not, I hasten to
add, because they need them, but because we appreciate and recognise that
discipleship is brought about by our knowledge of God and anyone responding to
that discipleship is to be brought before God in our prayerful love.
I have written before about Christian Aid reminding us
that we all need Christ’s aid daily in our lives and I make no apology for
referring to it again. The wonderful thing about this aid is that it doesn’t
need masses of organising, or monetary offerings it only needs us to take the
time to stop and ask Him for it.
May this month of newness and renewal be reflected in
your life.
God Bless you all.
Ivor.
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