MARCH DIARY

March 1 SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT 9.30am Rise & Shine!

Monday 2 2pm ‘Let’s get together’.

7.30pm Evening Study Group at 6 Howard Walk Tuesday 3 2.30pm Women’s Guild in St. Barnabas House

7.30pm Fitness and Fun

Wednesday 4 10am Holy Communion

Thursday 5 7.00pm Meet and Greet

7.30pm Evening Study Group at 7 St. Anne’s Drive, Oldland Common Friday 6 2pm Women’s World Day of Prayer In The United Church, Longwell Green

March 8 THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT 10.30 Family Communion

12.15 Holy Baptisms (2)

2pm-4pm Warmley Woollies

6pm Evening Prayer

Monday 9 7.30pm Evening Study Group in the Vicarage

Tuesday 10 1pm Open The Book in St. Barnabas School

7.30pm Fitness and Fun Wednesday 11 10am Holy Communion

Thursday 12 7.30pm Evening Study Group at 7 St. Anne’s Drive, Oldland Common March 15 MOTHERING SUNDAY

10.30 All-age Worship

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Monday 16 2.15pm Service at Warmley House

7.30pm Evening Study Group in the Vicarage

Tuesday 17 3.30pm Messy Church in St. Barnabas School

7.30pm Fitness and Fun

Wednesday 18 10am Holy Communion Thursday 19 9.30am-11am and 1.15pm-2.45pm ‘Experience Easter’ in church

7.30pm Evening Study Group at 7 St. Anne’s Drive, Oldland Common

Friday 20 9.30am-11am and 1.15pm-2.45pm ‘Experience Easter’ in church

Saturday 21 9.30am-12 noon ‘Experience Easter’ in church

7.30pm Concert by The Cameo Orchestra See details on page 8

March 22 FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT 10.30am Parish Communion

2pm Warmley Woollies

6pm Holy Communion

Monday 23 7.30pm Evening Study Group in the Vicarage

Tuesday 24 7.30pm Fitness and Fun

Wednesday 25 10am Holy Communion

6pm School Easter Service

Thursday 26 7.30pm Evening Study Group at 7 St. Anne’s Drive, Oldland Common

March 29 PALM SUNDAY 10.30am Parish Communion with Palm Sunday Procession

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REFLECTIONS ON LENT

As I write this article the last glowing embers of Christmas are beginning to turn into the ashes of Lent and the beginning of the second reflective season of the church’s year. Ash Wednesday marks the point where reflection on the Christmas Incarnation gives way to Redemption and the Easter event and this second theme lasts us the rest of the year. Often Ash Wednesday’s burning question is ‘what are you going to give up for Lent’ and I am afraid this has taken on a rather commercial feel to it with diet and exercise plans and gym membership coming to the marketing fore after an overindulgent Christmas. Really, the point of giving up things is about our ability to focus on God and we therefore try to remove the things that distract us from this task; if we over indulge in food to the extent that we love it more than God, then we need to temper our habit for example. This year there is a rich vein of remembering significant spiritual people and significant historic events to mine and there is much to commend reflection on both of these topics in Lent. It is 8oo years since the signing of Magna Carta and there are all sorts of events going on to remember and celebrate this occasion. For the Church and Christians alike, we might do well to reflect on issues of justice and law in our global society, many of which were founded on the principles introduced by Magna Carta. As for spiritual people, I was very interested to read about Thomas Merton in the Church Times this week. This is especially because he was born 100 years ago this year and his writing has a universality that continues to appeal in our own times. He was not a saint, but he does offer a model of Christian discipleship which is open, questioning, passionate and engaged. Esther de Waal writes, ‘Those of us who know Merton return time and time again to that elusive, many layered, complex and contradictory figure’. I, for one, have gained much from his writing and look forward to a new book called ‘Divine discontent: the prophetic voice of Thomas Merton.’ If you have not discovered Merton before this might be a good place to start.

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Another person with universal appeal is C.S Lewis and both his Narnia Novels and books like ‘The problem of Pain’ offer the reader a solid engagement with Lent and Easter’s redemptive theme. (Lewis’ biography by Alistair McGrath is also very well worth the effort). For those of us with less time and more technology there are daily reflections from C.S Lewis and others on Twitter @CSLewisDaily. Others I have found helpful are Eugene Peterson @PetersonDaily and Brother Ivo’s blog at brotherivo.com/blog. These are short sound bites to reflect on through the day. Of course there is nothing like spending time with other people and reflecting together and we are offering a number of house groups on different days and at different venues and you would be very welcome to join any of them. (Details at the back of Church and on notice Boards) I hope some of these suggestions are helpful to you as we begin our Lenten reflections and prepare for Easter and I look forward to speaking to some of you about your Lenten journey. With every blessing Jeremy

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FLOWER ROTA

DATE HIGH ALTAR LADY ALTAR MEMORIAL ALTAR March 7 - - - March 14 - - Eileen Penny March 21 - - - March 28 - - Kath Palmer

EASTER

April 4 Muriel Allen Flower Fund Flower Fund

Pam Draper

COFFEE ROTA March 1 Nicola and Bethany March 8 Carol March 15 Pam March 22 Nicola and Bethany March 29 Sheila

Many thanks for all your help with the coffees after church. If you are unavailable for your turn please arrange for someone else to do your session and change the master copy in church (and let me know if possible).

Thanks, Nicola 01179 616629

CLEANING ROTA Week Commencing: March 2 Mrs. J. Brooks, Mrs. A. Haynes March 9 Mr. & Mrs. T. Wilshire March 16 Mrs. J. Simper, Mrs. E. Salt March 23rd Mr. & Mrs. J. Standerwick March 30th Mr. & Mrs. L. Lovell

Thanks, Pam Draper Volunteers for any of the rotas would be very much appreciated, if you can help, please contact Brian Draper on 9326276

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WELCOMER’S ROTA

DATE MORNING EVENING

March 1 Rise + Shine No Service

March 8 Karen Mayo June Simper Lydia Hughes

March 15 Helen Willcox No Service Michele Heap

March 22 Margaret Hill Eileen Salt Martin Hanney

March 29 Chris Eames No Service Rex Allen

COPY DATE Copy for our April 2015 edition of the magazine should be with me by Sunday 15th March at the latest please.

Brian Draper, Magazine Editor

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WARMLEY WARBLINGS

We have several reasons to celebrate this month! First, we congratulate Terry and Gloria Wilshire on the occasion of their golden wedding which will be celebrated at Centre Parks, Longleat on March 6th. Secondly, Roy and Carol James have also celebrated their golden wedding. To both of these couples we send our love and best wishes for many more happy years together. Thirdly, Dave Broomfield and Emily Allen will be travelling to St. Ives in Cornwall to be married on March 27th, Emily will also be celebrating her birthday on that day. We wish them a long and happy married life together.

On a more somber note, neither John Sibley or Chris Jetzer are enjoying the best of health at the present time and we send them our love and get well wishes. Despite their health issues, they both continue to carry on with their commitment to St. Barnabas, Chris in the choir and John Sibley in his Lay Ministry. Hazel Jobbins is in Southmead hospital and we send her our best wishes also.

Vera Sage has passed away, she was a lovely lady and very popular with the customers when she worked at Warmley Post Office when David and Marjory Cox were running it.

As many of you know, Warmley Golden Hours used to take place in Warmley Community Centre for a great many years. For the last several years, before it closed on 18th December last year, it was run by Irene Cooper who used to submit an article each month for this magazine. Irene is now 90 years old and no longer able to continue in this work. We send our love to Irene and our thanks for all of the work she did at Golden Hours that was so appreciated by the local community.

We congratulate 15-year old Will Cole from Oldland Common who has been selected to represent England at swimming at an event in Russia in April. Will is one of Soundwell Swimming Club’s star members and is the son of Laura and Ron Cole and the grandson of Mike and Grace Watson. Before flying out to Russia Will is competing in the British Championships at The London Aquatics Centre for which he has qualified for 11 events. We wish him every success in both London and Russia, Muriel Allen

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St. Barnabas Church invites you

to a Concert by

The Cameo Orchestra playing a selection of classical music

and songs from the shows and films

on

SATURDAY 21st MARCH

7.30pm

in St. Barnabas Church

Tickets £5 Available in church or at the door

or by contacting Brian Draper on 9326276

bwddraper@yahoo.co.uk

All proceeds to the St.Barnabas Church Roof Appeal

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EVENTS CALENDAR FOR 2015

The Social & Fundraising Committee have been working hard to put together an interesting and hopefully enjoyable calendar of events for 2015, below is a list of the events we have planned. DATE VENUE EVENT

March 21st St. Barnabas Church Cameo Orchestra Concert

April 25th St. Barnabas Church Craft Fair

May 9th St. Barnabas Church Quiz Night

June Date TBA TBA Duck Race

July 11th Various Safari Supper

July 17th-19th St. Barnabas Church Hall Art Exhibition

August 7th Warmley Community Centre Skittles

September 26th St. Barnabas Church Hall Harvest Supper

September Bring & Share 27th St. Barnabas Church Hall Lunch

September 29th The White Hart, Bridgeyate Harvest Auction

October 3rd St. Barnabas Church Concert with organ and Oldland Brass

November 7th Warmley Community Centre Autumn Fayre

December 9th St. Barnabas Church Nominee Concert

December TBA St. Barnabas Church Hall Race Night

NOTE: The talk planned for February on a talk about India by Margaret Fletcher will be re-arranged and details published in the magazine. For any queries regarding events, please call Brian Draper on 9326276 or Nicola Eaton on 916629.

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EXPERIENCE EASTER

On Thursday 19th March and Friday 20th March and we will be setting up an Easter Trail in Church for our local schools to learn about and reflect on the meaning of Easter. This will involve the children visiting five “stations” in groups of six where there will be the opportunity to hear different aspects of the Easter story and message and to engage in a practical activity that will reinforce this learning. We are looking for volunteers to help with this which will involve being at a station to welcome the children and help them and the school staff and helpers to engage with the activity.

The sessions will run from 9.30-11 am and from 1.15- 2.45 on the Thursday 19th March and Friday 20th March.

The trail will also remain in Church for the Saturday morning 21st March for families and the regular congregation to “Experience Easter”

If you are able to help in anyway with this exciting project please contact Catherine on 01454314858 or at ivor.coster@btinternet.com

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RISE AND SHINE CHANGE OF DATE

This year, Easter Sunday falls on the first Sunday of the month, April 5th, when we would normally have Rise & Shine at 9.30am. As this is an important festival in church, there will be a Holy Communion Service at 10.30am on that date. Rise and Shine will be held on the second Sunday, April 12th at 9.30am, just for this one month only. If you or anyone you know regularly attends Rise and Shine can you please make sure they are aware of this change.

Brian Draper

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ADDRESSING THE DEFICIT

A year ago I heard Paula Gooder speak on the subject of discipleship. She began by pointing out that a unique marker of our faith is that all Christians are called to be disciples. From the beginning this stood in clear contrast to Judaism where being a Jew did not oblige a person to become the disciple of a Rabbi; some did but many did not. For those who wish to be known as Christians, from the earliest times to today, there has been no alternative option – commitment to the Christian faith necessitates becoming a disciple of Jesus and the following of his way. The words of the risen Jesus recorded in Matthew chapter 28 make this plain: “Go and make disciples of all the nations”.

Having said this Dr Gooder then went on to point out the gap between the foundational understanding of what Christian life entails and its reality in practice. She gave the example of a trainer in a Church of England Diocese (unnamed) who said he was hitting his head against a brick wall in his work among congregations. “We just do not seem to be learners!”, he despaired. Considering that we are meant to be a community of learners from Jesus – learning which flows from following his pattern and example – we do not appear to get much past square one.

These observations on discipleship were brought to mind during my recent period of Extended Ministerial Development Leave when I spent a few hours with a Baptist colleague, Steve Henderson. Steve said that in his view what has been called ‘the deficit in discipleship’ is as true of Baptist as Anglican churches and it should come as no surprise. As leaders, Steve observed, we do not encourage our congregations to become disciples by setting expectations and supporting them in ways which help them to grow through reflection and action. There are various ways this could be done but Steve offered three questions that church members could be asked which might enable this.

The first was this: “How has your understanding of the gospel changed?” This question not only invites a Christian to articulate what they believe the gospel to be but how their grasp of it may have deepened or widened over the years, or perhaps become sharper or less clear-cut.

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The second question related to a more specific time period, for example 12 months, and asked: “Over this given period, how do you sense you have grown as a Christian disciple and what examples would you give to illustrate this?” Answering this could ‘put flesh’ onto a person’s feeling that their spiritual life was becoming more vital, or owning that the fire was dying out. The final question was this: “What has the Christian culture or environment brought that is either challenging or perturbing to me?” This might benefit from different phraseology but seeks to explore how a person felt the Church (locally or more widely) is providing an impetus or impediment for Christian life and witness. What I liked about Steve’s approach was the way in which these questions would help congregational members and their Ministers to take stock of their individual and collective spiritual engagement and vitality. It also provided potential for more accurately assessing how a church might be ‘growing in commitment’ – one of the four core dimensions of our Diocesan Growth Programme. It could work in all types of context, too. Steve envisaged giving time and space for congregations to consider this together and to feedback individually, and perhaps anonymously, their perspectives to the Ministers. There could be no more appropriate season than Lent to take up Steve’s suggestion and maybe reduce a deficit that is at least as significant as the one we usually so much hear about. +Lee

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JIMMY AND KATIA ROCKS

At the November PCC meeting it was agreed that we as a church would support Jimmy and Katia rocks in their work in Brazil with CMS. Jimmy will be coming to speak to us at the 10.30 service on April 26. Initially we are offering prayer support. Please read below for more information. .

From Stoke Gifford to South America. It sounds like a great story doesn’t it? Meet Jimmy and Katia Rocks who are from Bristol – this is their story.

Jimmy and Katia are currently preparing to work with the church in Brazil with CMS (Church Mission Society). The Anglican (Episcopal) church in Brazil is relatively small and short of resources. It occupies an important place in between the Roman Catholic Church and a multitude of large Pentecostal denominations that have minimal theological training. The bishops are hoping to expand and plant many new congregations throughout this vast country and would like more mission partners to help them.

Jimmy and Katia Rocks are well prepared to answer this call to pioneering ministry in Brazil. The needs are massive and the hope of CMS is that its mission partners can help to teach by example and raise up many more who will take the Gospel to Brazil in new and exciting ways. Jimmy and Katia are not yet finally assigned to a diocese or a ministry so would value your prayers as they and CMS seek to discern where God is calling them.

Jimmy and Katia are a perfect fit for this ministry. Jimmy came to faith at the age of 16, encountering Jesus after a rocky background. As a result Jimmy has a passion to see people come to faith in Jesus and for believers to take hold of all that God has for them. When Jimmy and Katia got married, Jimmy was working as a SAMS mission volunteer in Recife, where they spent their first year of marriage. Both now feel a strong sense of calling to go back to Brazil.

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Jimmy’s calling to Brazil started with a dream at the age of 18, and then after two visits there at the age of 22, he sensed that God was calling him to leave his job in the UK. He worked in Brazil for two years. Katia became a Christian while at university and has always had a desire to use her gifts to positively impact lives of children and families. She worked as a family lawyer for four years prior to getting married.

For the last six years both have been in the UK as Jimmy trained for ordination at Trinity College, Bristol, and is now doing a curacy. Katia is currently completing a part-time theology course at Trinity. As a family they are excited about returning to Brazil and using their gifts to extend God’s kingdom, partnering with local churches to reach out to those on the edge and sharing the reality of Jesus to new church communities.

CMS considers Jimmy and Katia as highly trained and motivated professionals with a clear call to a much needed ministry.

Helen Willcox

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TRAIDCRAFT AT ST. BARNABAS 2006-2014 St Barnabas Church has been supporting Traidcraft as a Christian charity since 2006. This has been possible through the generous gift of time and space offered by Beryl Holder at her home, where sales were managed and hosted on a monthly basis. We are indebted to her for this sterling work on our behalf. Without it, we would not have supported their mission in the significant way we have. We have now ceased to run Traidcraft afternoons in the same way and we thank Beryl for her commitment to the cause and her kind hospitality every month. Since 2006 we have supported Traidcraft suppliers by purchasing goods to the value of £10,716.87– thank you all who have bought from us. We have raised a total of £2,063 for St Barnabas, of which £1114.92 was from donations for refreshments generously provided for us by Beryl at Traidcraft sessions. The monies have been raised with the intention of supporting the refurbishment fund to help improve our facilities, enabling those less mobile, or able, to attend services more easily. The final cheques of £170 from refreshments and £600 from sales have been handed to Phil Heap, treasurer. In addition to our thanks to our loyal customers, I would like to add my personal thanks to Beryl who has managed the whole affair with a little backup by me, remaining tolerant when I slipped, continuing even when under the weather, and did all this with good humour. Thank you. Margaret Fletcher Supporting Beryl Holder

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WOMEN’S GUILD

Our meeting on 3rd February began with June Simper leading us in prayers. She followed this by introducing our speaker for the afternoon John Penny. He had brought along archive film from the Architects Department of Bristol Council. The film illustrated the city of Bristol as it was rebuilt and altered after the end of the second world war at the end of the 1950’s and the beginning of the 1960’s. The film included some of the war damage to Park Street in the city centre. John described some of the various areas on the film while playing some background music from that era. Our next meeting will be on 3rd March in the lounge of St. Barnabas House, all are welcome

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MOTHERS DAY

A Mother loves right from the start. She holds her baby close to her heart. The bond that grows will never falter. Her love is so strong it will never alter.

A Mother gives never ending Love. She never feels that she has given enough.

For you she will always do her best. Constantly working, there's no time to rest. A Mother is there when things go wrong.

A hug and a kiss to help us along. Always there when we need her near.

Gently wipes our eyes when we shed a tear. So on this day shower your Mother with Love.

Gifts and presents are nice but that is not enough. Give your Mother a day to have some peace of mind.

Be gentle, be good, be helpful, be kind.

Happy Mothers Day.

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MARCH 17 – ST. PATRICK’S DAY Beloved apostle to Ireland

St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. If you’ve ever been in New York on St Patrick’s Day, you’d think he was the patron saint of New York as well... the flamboyant parade is full of American/Irish razzmatazz.

It’s all a far cry from the hard life of this 5th century humble Christian who became in time both bishop and apostle of Ireland. Patrick was born the son of a town councillor in the west of England, between the Severn and the Clyde. But as a young man he was captured by Irish pirates, kidnapped to Ireland, and reduced to slavery. He was made to tend his master’s herds.

Desolate and despairing, Patrick turned to prayer. He found God was there for him, even in such desperate circumstances. He spent much time in prayer, and his faith grew and deepened, in contrast to his earlier years, when he “knew not the true God”.

Then, after six gruelling, lonely years he was told in a dream he would soon go to his own country. He either escaped or was freed, made his way to a port 200 miles away and eventually persuaded some sailors to take him with them away from Ireland.

After various adventures in other lands, including near-starvation, Patrick landed on English soil at last, and returned to his family. But he was much changed. He had enjoyed his life of plenty before; now he wanted to devote the rest of his life to Christ. Patrick received some form of training for the priesthood, but not the higher education he really wanted.

But by 435, well educated or not, Patrick was badly needed. Palladius’ mission to the Irish had failed, and so the Pope sent Patrick back to the land of his slavery. He set up his see at Armagh, and worked principally in the north. He urged the Irish to greater spirituality, set up a school, and made several missionary journeys.

Patrick’s writings are the first literature certainly identified from the British Church. They reveal sincere simplicity and a deep pastoral care. He wanted to abolish paganism, idolatry, and was ready for imprisonment or death in the following of Christ. Patrick remains the most popular of the Irish saints. The principal cathedral of New York is dedicated to him, as, of course, is the Anglican cathedral of Dublin.

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MARCH 1 – ST. DAVID’S DAY Guiding the Church in Wales through turbulent times

On 1st March Wales celebrates its patron saint, David - or, in Welsh, Dewi or Dafydd. He is indisputably British, and is revered wherever Welsh people have settled. As with most figures from the so-called ’Dark Ages’ (he lived in the sixth century), reliable details about his life are scarce, but there are enough for us to form a picture of a formidably austere, disciplined and charismatic leader, who led the Church in Wales through turbulent years and fought tenaciously for the faith. It’s likely that he was strengthened in his ministry by time spent in Ireland, where the Church was stronger and more confident. Early records tell of a meeting of Irish church leaders with three ‘Britons’, as they were described, among them ‘bishop David’. His mother, Non, is also celebrated as a saint in Wales, where a number of churches are dedicated in her name.

That he founded a monastery at Menevia, in Pembrokeshire, seems beyond doubt. It later became the site of St David’s cathedral and the settlement which is now the smallest city in the United Kingdom. From Menevia David embarked on preaching and teaching missions across Wales, and probably beyond. His eloquence was legendary. At a famous Synod of the Church, held at a Carmarthenshire village called Brefi, he preached passionately against the Arian heresy - indeed, so passionately that he was (according to some accounts) immediately named as archbishop of Wales. The village is now known as Llandewi Brefi - brefi in Welsh is a hillock, and legend claims that it appeared miraculously in order to provide the eloquent bishop with a pulpit.

His monks avoided wine and beer, drinking only water. Indeed, he and they lived lives of rigorous austerity and constant prayer, in the manner of the Desert Fathers of the Eastern Church . The date of David’s death is disputed - either 589 or 601. It wasn’t until the twelfth century that he was generally accepted as the patron saint of Wales, and pilgrimages to St David’s were highly regarded in the following centuries - including two made by English kings, William I and Henry II.

It’s traditional for Welsh people to wear daffodils on St David’s Day (Gwyl Dewi Sant in Welsh) - but there seems no particular reason for it, beyond the fact that they tend to make their early Spring appearance round about his day - oh, and they look nice!

by David Winter

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FIVE GOOD THINGS ABOUT LENT

In case you’re thinking at this time of the year that Lent is (as one writer recently described it) ‘all purple and prohibitions’, here are five good things about it. 1 It only lasts 40 days. Fasts, by their very nature, can’t last forever, but Lent has a very manageable forty days. (If you’re thinking at six weeks and a bit it’s longer than that, see Item 2)). New Year Resolutions simply stretch off into some impossibly distant horizon, but our Lenten attempts at discipline (chocolate, cigarettes, daily prayers, being kind to the cat) have an end date to them. 2. Sundays in Lent are ‘as oases’. Sunday is never a day of fasting, but a weekly celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. So - and this is official! - Sundays don’t count in Lent. 3. A bit of self-denial is better than a lot of self-indulgence. We live in a very self-indulgent society. Just for forty days it’s no bad thing to deny ourselves something that is a minor luxury or a bit of self-pampering - especially if it saves some money which could go to people in the world who have no ‘little luxuries’. 4. It’s a journey towards Easter. Lent goes somewhere, and that somewhere is the empty tomb of Easter morning. It’s daffodils in the churchyard and new life all around us. 5. The days get longer. The English word for this season is the only one that has no religious significance at all. ‘Lent’ is simply an abbreviation of the Old English word ‘lencten’, which means ‘lengthen’. On these islands, where weather is always a major topic of conversation, it’s not surprising that what people noted about the days of Lent was that they got longer - no more of those ghastly dark tea-times. But the ‘lengthening’ is all part of Item 4, really - moving towards new life. (Sadly, Items 4 and 5 don’t apply in Australia and New Zealand. Doubtless they have compensations.) Given those five splendidly positive things about Lent, which covers the whole of March this year, I trust readers will approach its rigours with joyful hearts.

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A LITTLE HUMOUR

Expensive boat A vicar was planning an Easter pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and was aghast when he found it would cost him £50 an hour to rent a boat on the Sea of Galilee. He protested to the travel agent that the cost was ridiculous. “That might be true,” replied the travel agent, “but you have to take into account that the Sea of Galilee is water on which our Lord himself walked.”

“Well, at £50 an hour for a boat, I am not surprised!”

Helping If it's true that we are here to help others, what are the others doing here? Hard to find Curate’s wife: I’d like to open a joint account.

Bank staff: With your husband?

Curate’s wife: Heavens, no. With someone who has some money!

Mothers and teenagers A woman was confiding in her neighbour just how hard it was for her to get her teenagers out of bed in the morning. The neighbour replied that she never had any trouble at all with her son. “I just open the door and throw the cat on the bed,” she explained. The woman was puzzled, and asked how that might help. “Easy. My son sleeps with the dog.” Mother’s reward A man was decorating his new den and decided it was a good place to display all the awards he and his two sons had won at various athletic competitions. When he had filled two whole walls, he remarked to his wife that it was a shame she had no awards to contribute.

The following day, she produced, neatly framed, the birth certificates of their two sons, and added them to the display.

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WHO’S WHO

PRIEST IN CHARGE The Rev. Jeremy Andrew The Vicarage Church Avenue 9672724 HON. CURATE The Rev. Catherine Coster 31 Vayre Close, Chipping Sodbury 01454 329377

HON. CURATE The Rev. Jillianne Norman 74 Blackhorse Road, Mangotsfield 9561551

LAY MINISTERS Mr. Leslie Wilcox 29 Neville Road, Kingswood 9405086

Mr. John Sibley

94 Cock Road 9679478

CHURCHWARDEN Mr. Brian Draper 15 The Keep, North Common 9326276

TREASURER Mr. Phillip Heap 9 Mitchell Walk, Bridgeyate 9353996

PCC SECRETARY Mrs. Christine Eames 2 Roseland Gardens 9614422

DIRECTOR OF Mr. Shaun Weeks MUSIC 6 Gregory Court 9605206

STEWARDSHIP Mr. Michael Watson SECRETARY 29 Tower Road South 9674128

CHURCH FLOWER Mrs. Pamela Draper ORGANISER 15 The Keep, North Common 9326276

MAGAZINE EDITOR Mr. Brian Draper 15 The Keep, North Common 9326276

HALL BOOKING Mrs. Terri Lavis 28 Stockton Close 9327039

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ACTIVITIES (around Warmley) BEAVERS, CUBS, SCOUTS, BROWNIES AND GUIDES Each group meets at the Scout H.Q., London Road BEAVERS (age 6-8 years}, Meet Fridays, 6.30pm to 7.30pm

N.B. It is advisable to put the boy’s name on the waiting list at 4 years old. Contact: R. Pace on 932 8498

CUBS Meet Thursdays 6.45pm to 8.15pm

SCOUTS Meet Tuesdays 7.15pm to 9.15pm

GUIDES Meet Mondays Guide Leader: Mrs. Elaine Roch Tel: 937 3153

BROWNIES (24th Kingswood) age 7-10 years

Meet on Mondays Leader: Sarah Alder Tel: 947 8997 It is advisable to put the girl’s name on the waiting list at 5 years of age.

COMMUNITY CENTRES: North Common - Secretary: Mrs. Carol Fowler Tel: 9602999 Warmley - The Administrator: Tel: 9674282 Email: warmleycentre@btconnect.com

ORCHESTRA The Cameo Orchestra rehearse in Church on Tuesdays from 7.45pm-9.45pm String and brass players above Grade 5 always welcome Contact: Denise Clark on 0117 9497864

OLDLAND Music for your Garden Party or Fete. BRASS Contact Bob or Terri Lavis on 932 7039 QUINTET or email lavis28@btinternet.com

SUGARCRAFT 3rd Monday each month at 7.30 p.m. in the Church Hall.

LADIES’ FRIENDSHIP GROUP: meetings are held on 3rd Monday of every month at the Warmley Community Centre at 7.45pm Secretary: Mrs Maureen Shaw Telephone 9675336.

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ACTIVITIES (Church based)

BELLS Practice: Every Wednesday in the Belfry from 7.30pm-9pm

Captain: Mr. D. Wilkins-Smith - Tel: 9676226

CHOIR Newcomers always welcome.

Contact: Shaun Weeks Tel: 9605206.

PARENT AND Meet in the Church Hall in School term time on TODDLER Thursday 10.00am - 11.45am GROUP

WOMEN’s Meets on the first Tuesday of each month GUILD at 2.30pm in St. Barnabas House New members are always welcome Contact: Mrs. June Simper Tel: 9322514 RISE AND SHINE Meet 1st Sunday of each month in Church Contact: Fiona Rogers on 07714 100092

FITNESS FUN Meet on Tuesdays at 7.30pm in the Church Hall Contact: Margaret Fletcher on 9616629 MESSY CHURCH Meet at 3.30pm on the third Tuesday of each month in

term time in St. Barnabas Church of England School. Contact: Catherine Rev. Coster on 01454 314858

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