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From the Vicar
Dear All, I’m afraid that this might be a rather perfunctory email, because it’s been a busy week, and there’s lots going on this weekend as well. Firstly, though a big thank you to everyone who helped in so many different ways at Neville’s funeral service yesterday. Especially a big thank you to those who did the catering. It was lovely that so many were able to help in and after the service, and above all to pray for Neville and his family. Today, St Barnabas will be open in the morning for anyone who wants to bring a decoration into the Church for our Harvest Festival on Sunday. The Cross and Crown and our usual All-Age Order of Service is on this website. In the late afternoon and evening, the church is being used by Leighton Buzzard Music, in preparation for a concert at 7:30 pm given by Ensemble Renard, a wind quintet. Tickets for that concert are available on the Leighton Buzzard Music website or on the door. Also today, the Beds & Herts Historic Churches Trust annual Bike ‘n Hike runs from 9 am to 5 pm. It is the Trust’s main fundraising event. People taking part are sponsored to visit churches on foot, by bike or by other transport. For further information, please visit: www.bedshertshct.org.uk. On the subject of hikes, Emma is making her last 'Mighty Hike' today in aid of Macmillan cancer research. Please do sponsor her by speaking to Pam in church. Tomorrow we celebrate our Harvest Festival, with lunch in the hall afterwards, and I think it would be nice if we could also use our Harvest celebrations, not just to collect for the local food banks, as we always do, but also as a way of encouraging donations for the charities the PCC has decided to support this year. These comprise Kids Out, the Rukungiri Orphan Partnership in Uganda, and Leighton-Linslade Helpers. If you would like to donate to these causes, you can do so at the Lunch, or by giving donations to me. Also this week, the Team Council meets in All Saints’ Church on Tuesday evening, our PCC meets on Thursday evening at 7:30 pm in the Lady Chapel, and the Bible Book Club meets at 7 pm on Friday in the Saunders Room upstairs round the back of the Hall to discuss the First Book of Samuel. Next week, on Wednesday the 25th there will be a Julian Meeting for silent prayer at 4 pm in the Lady Chapel, and our Walsingham Pilgrimage runs from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th September. If you have prayer requests for the Shrine, please let me know beforehand. I will take the prayer leaves from the back of church with me when we go. The subject of prayer is a big one. Like most things in Christianity, I think we do well to recognise that we make the same mistake repeatedly, in that we think that everything is about us and what we are doing, when really everything is all about God and what He is doing. We imagine that prayer is something we do, when we come to God. But really, prayer is something God draws us to do, and something that He does through us and in us. We think that we are the ones in charge, and often behave as though that were so, but really, God is in charge, doing everything in and through love; which is why we so often don’t notice Him, or take Him for granted! God bless Fr Bernard The Rev'd Dr B Minton Team Vicar of Linslade Ouzel Valley Team |
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