Title: Annual BBQ
Location: Rushford
Description: BBQ, tombola, games refreshments and raffle
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2008-08-02
Annual BBQ
Friends of East Harling Church AGM
Title: Friends of East Harling Church AGM
Location: Rudd Room
Description: Annual General Meeting and talk on Benefactors of Harling Church by Sue Dolling
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2008-07-11
Concert
Title: Concert
Location: East Harling Church
Description: Petersfield Chamber Choir
Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2008-09-07
Floodlighting
ST PETER & ST PAUL’S CHURCH, EAST HARLING, FLOODLIGHTING
You are invited to sponsor the floodlighting of St Peter & St Paul’s to help with the day-to-day running expenses of our parish church. You can choose to commemorate a personal event, an anniversary, or any other special occasion. Alternatively you can simply make a donation. For the month of June the lights will be on between dusk and midnight. A night’s floodlighting costs £5. Please make cheques payable to “East Harling PCC”. .
JUNE 2008 SPONSORSHIP
not previously acknowledged
25th Wedding anniversary congratulations to Jan & Gary love from mum, dad and Caroline
26th Remembering a very dear mum - Alice Martin - who died 26/06/07 love Bruce, Jenny, Geraldine, Maurice and family.
JULY 2008 SPONSORSHIPS
Donation: Thanks be to God for Karen’s safe return home from the Chinese earthquake, May 2008
7th Remembering Ruth Lee on the anniversary of her birthday; forever in our hearts and minds - Dennis and Wendy
10th Congratulations to George & Sylvia Colman on their diamond wedding anniversary, much love from Liz, Nick and all the family
12th Keith Seeley - remembering you on your birthday love Janet, Amanda, Tracy and families xx
21st Happy Birthday Darling - all our love Brett and Catie xxx
23rd Birthday memories of my dearest mum - Joan Kidd - buried at Larling church, loved always - daughter Jenny -
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All bookings and payments please to :-
Lynda Kennedy, 9 Market Street, East Harling, Norfolk (Tel: 01953 717188)
Please note: for sponsorships to be recorded in Contact on the month requested, details must be received before the 12th of the previous month (eg 12th June for inclusion in July edition). Details received after this date will be published in the next available edition.
Curate’s Corner
Curate’s Corner …..
What’s so special about getting married in church?
This month in Harling church we are setting up an exhibition of wedding dress, flowers and memorabilia covering over 100 years. If you visit this exhibition, and I hope you will – entrance is free! – think how society and family life have changed over that time, both for men and their wives. At the beginning of the 20th Century, women had very few ‘rights’, they didn’t even have the vote. Great grandmama could look forward to a married life of home-making and child rearing. Some had to work outside the home but their wages would have been very low.
Nowadays couples enter marriage as equals – no promising to obey for today’s brides.
Q. So, why get married and why in a church?
A. Christians believe that marriage is a gift from God. In the marriage ceremony, a couple make a public declaration of lifelong commitment to love each other, come what may. The Bible compares married love with the love Jesus has for his followers – amazing, unconditional love. Jesus never said, ‘I love you but ….’And in our marriages we can try to follow his model by loving our partners in the same self-sacrificing way, putting their needs before our own. Marriage gives a legal status as husband and wife and a stability in which the relationship can grow and flourish.
Getting married in church gives an added dimension – the assurance that God cares about your relationship and that his resources and strength are available to you. It doesn’t mean that you will avoid the ups and downs that occur in all marriages but you can look to God for strength to guide you and his love to sustain you.
(from: ’Your marriage in the Church of England’ CHP)
Q. How do we go about getting married in church?
A. First thing is to make arrangements to speak with the minister. In this group of parishes it is best to do this by contacting Val, the Benefice Administrator, who will put you in touch.
There are lots more questions you may need to ask and one benefit of a church wedding is that you have plenty of time to talk things through with the minister who will be taking the service and to know that he/she will be there to help after the wedding if things get difficult.
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Congratulations to all who are getting married this year! Come and get inspired by the exhibition.
Varlie.
Services in July 2008
Sunday 6th July: 9.00am Family Communion at Rushford
9.45am Parish Communion at East Harling
10.30am Holy Communion at Bridgham
3.00pm Thanksgiving Service at East Harling Church for the ministry of Caryll & Richard Brown to the Junior Church, followed by tea.
Sunday 13th July
9.45am Parish Communion at East Harling
11.15am Morning Prayer at Larling
12 noon Baptism at East Harling
Sunday 20th July
8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) at East Harling
9.45am All Age Communion at East Harling
10.30am Family Service at Bridgham
10.30am Family Service at Bridgham
6.30pm Songs of Praise at Bridgham
Sunday 227th July
9.45am Parish Communion at East Harling
11.15am Holy Communion (BCP) at Larling