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CHRIST CHURCH - PORT SUNLIGHT
Founded 1904
Telephone: 0151 645 3870
Issue No. 96: October & November 2019
Remembrance
Issue
Our Mission is to
offer our best to God
through Worship,
Fellowship
and Care for the
Community
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Free - please take a copy!
Sunday Services
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3pm
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WELCOME!
Welcome to the Remembrance issue of
The Magazine, from Christ Church Port Sunlight.
The Magazine is
produced six times a
year by volunteers and
is available free of
charge at the back of
church.
It is also available in
large print and in colour
on our website:
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Many thanks for all
contributions and
assistance in producing
this edition.
We hope you enjoy
reading The Magazine.
We hope you feel part
of this beautiful church.
CONTENTS
3 The First Word
5 Bible readings for worship
6 David Heaney Wilde
8 For the Fallen
9 Christmas Charity Concert
10 Here for a season…
11 Social and Fundraising
11 Macmillan cancer support day
12 Food bank weigh-in
13 Quarterly church meetings 2019
13 Social media
13 Carers’ meeting
14 Weddings
15 Baptisms
16 Funerals and interment of ashes
17 Meeting times of our organizations
17 Editorial details
18 Contacts
19 The Magazine by post
20 Services in October and November
20 The Last Word
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THE FIRST WORD
Dear Friends,
One of the things that has received a great
deal of comment over the last year has been
our ‘Perspex Man’. Whether it be from visiting
tourists, families at wedding rehearsals or staff
working with Funeral Directors, the comment
is often the same – I didn’t see it at first, and it
was like it just appeared!
He has sat in the same pew for almost a year
- There But Not There. Depending on the light
and the position of the viewer, he is sometimes visible and sometimes not. You
forget that he is there, and then you glimpse him, There But Not There. He is
there to remind us of those 888,246 British and Commonwealth Service men
and women who lost their lives in the First World War.
The Absent by Edwin Muir
They are not here. And we, we are the Others
Who walk by ourselves unquestioned in the sun
Which shines for us and only for us.
For They are not here.
And are made known to us in this great absence
That lies upon us and is between us
Since They are not here.
Now, in this kingdom of summer idleness
Where slowly we the sun-tranced multitudes dream and wander
In deep oblivion of brightness
And breathe ourselves out, out into the air –
It is absence that receives us;
We do not touch, our souls go out in the absence
That lies between us and is about us.
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For we are the Others,
And so we sorrow for These that are not with us,
Not knowing we sorrow or that this is our sorrow,
Since it is long past thought or memory or device of mourning,
Sorrow for loss of that which we never possessed,
The unknown, the nameless,
The ever-present that in their absence are with us
(With us the inheritors, the usurpers claiming
The sun and the kingdom of the sun) that sorrow
And loneliness might bring a blessing upon us.
2018 was a particularly poignant Remembrance Sunday, coinciding as it did
with the Centenary of the Armistice. 2019 does not carry the same significance,
but the need to remember with thanks is no less important.
Rev Ian Smith
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BIBLE READINGS FOR WORSHIP DURING OCTOBER,
NOVEMBER AND EARLY DECEMBER
With ‘Christ the King’ Sunday we reach the end of Year C and our journey
through Luke. Year A begins on Advent Sunday and will focus on readings
from Matthew.
Ian Smith
6 October Lamentations 1:1-6 Psalm 37:1-9 2 Timothy 1:1-14 Luke 17:5-10 13 October Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 Psalm 66:1-12 2 Timothy 2:8-15 Luke 17:11-19 20 October Jeremiah 31:27-34 Psalm 119:97-104 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 Luke 18:9-14 27 October Joel 2:23-32 Psalm 84:1-7 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 Luke 18:9-14 3 November Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4 Psalm 119:137-144
2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 Luke 19:1-10 10 November Haggai 1:15b-2:9 Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 Luke 20:27-38 17 November Isaiah 65:17-25 Psalm 98 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19 24 November (Christ the King) Jeremiah 23:1-6 Psalm 46 Colossians 1:11-20 Luke 23:33-43 1 December (Advent Sunday) Isaiah 2:1-5 Psalm 122 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:36-44
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DAVID HEANEY WILDE
1938-2019
My lovely Dad, David Heaney Wilde, died on 5th
August 2019. Despite his many health problems
he died quite suddenly as a result of a fall, after
tripping up the kerb in his road.
Dad was born on 4th November 1938 to Kath and
Bill Wilde and from 1946 he lived along with his
elder brother Peter (now married to Pam) in Pool
Bank, Port Sunlight.
Dad loved Christ Church - he was baptised here
and on 6th June 1959 he married our Mum,
Leta Georgina Sayce. They had two daughters,
Lynda and me (married to Andrew), three grandchildren Rachel (married to
David), Jenny (married to Mark) and my son Joe, and four great-grandchildren:
Lewis (his first who was born asleep), Charlotte, Lucy and Daniel.
Mum was the love of my Dad's life, but there was another - and that was rugby.
Mum said that if you cut my Dad in half the word 'rugby' would be running
through him like a stick of rock. He first played for St Helen's and was later
heavily involved in Birkenhead Park and then Anselmians Rugby Club.
Dad represented Calday Grange Grammar School in boxing, rugby, hockey,
waterpolo and swimming. To watch him swim the butterfly stroke was just magic,
and he narrowly missed being chosen to swim freestyle in the 1956 Olympic
Games. Dad excelled at athletics and he also played rugby three times for
England Under 19s.
Dad worked first as an apprentice marine engineer at Cammell Lairds, then he
became a local government officer managing many leisure venues including
Byrne Avenue Baths and Heswall Hall. In later life he worked as a chauffeur for
Unilever which handily combined his love of driving and airports.
Dad was an associate member of the Royal British Legion for a number of years
and was a driving force behind the Festival of Remembrance at the Floral
Pavilion in New Brighton. This annual event was initiated by his father in 1982
and over the years it raised over £20,000 for the Poppy Fund.
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Over the years Dad had many health problems and medical procedures which
he faced with great courage and patience. He was loved by the people who
treated and cared for him and we have been told many times by medical staff
that he was a true gentleman. This description has been confirmed more
recently in the cards and kind words we have received. The family would like to
thank his friends for caring about him, for talking and listening to him, for taking
him to meetings, waterpolo and rugby matches. We would also like to thank his
good neighbours for watching over and helping him.
Dad's funeral took place on 21st August. He had already chosen his favourite
hymns, poems and processional music. Tributes were read by his grandchildren
and by Trevor Petterson of Anselmians RUFC. When the time came for Dad to
be lifted and taken out of church, June Berry led the singing of 'Swing low sweet
chariot' which has become the anthem for England rugby matches. The spirit of
Twickenham came to Christ Church.
There followed a short service at Landican Crematorium and a reception at
Hulme Hall where Mum and Dad's wedding reception was held all those years
ago. Dad's ashes were later buried with
Mum in St Andrew's churchyard. The
family would like to thank Rev Ian Smith
for his comfort and support, Jonathan
Bowden (organist), June Berry, Sue
Frowe and all those who helped with the
funeral. We would also like to thank Dad's
friends at Christ Church who cared about
him and made him feel welcome in the
place he loved so much.
Dad was a good and gentle man. He was
hugely kind-hearted and generous; he
was very thoughtful and he wanted those around him to have the best time
possible. Dad will be sorely missed by many people, not least by regular
members of 'Wilde's Rugby Tours'. His family are, quite simply, heart-broken.
Jan Burrell
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FOR THE FALLEN With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres. There is music in the midst of desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England’s foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound, Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, To the innermost heart of their own land they are known As the stars are known to the night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain, As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, To the end, to the end, they remain.
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
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HERE FOR A SEASON…
So, summer takes its leave and autumn comes
With all its golden glowing loveliness –
A paler sun gilds each morning.
A cooler air blesses each eve,
Gardens prepare for sleep
Trees let fall their leaves as confetti;
Carpeting the ground with dying beauty.
A sound! – excited twittering –
Swallows, tiny jewels, gathering on telephone wires –
Something within telling them – time to leave our English barns
And travel to warmer climes,
God speed their flight!
Scent of woodsmoke drifts from bonfires of summer’s faded largesse,
A memory of childhood – ‘candles’ on horse chestnut trees
Conkers, toffee apples, nature table at school
But that was long ago.
I, too, am autumn,
I, too, have faced the challenge of each season of life.
Yet as nature looks to new life in spring
Resting through the dark, hoar-frost days of winter
So I remember One to whom I look for new life,
His promise that I, even I, will share His eternity,
A different life in all its golden, glowing loveliness
Of peace and the benediction of His presence
Who, as seed buried in the earth.
Rested in darkness in a borrowed tomb
And rose again to a glorious spring of new life –
And lives forever.
Olive Burns
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SOCIAL AND FUNDRAISING
The Cream Teas and Bacon Bap events have been very successful this year,
with a further Bacon Bap day to come (on 5th October).
The last Cream Tea was our best ever! A sincere thank you must go to all of
those involved in helping to put these events on, especially since quite a few of
them don't even attend our Church.
We had a new recruit at
this year’s Cream Teas.
Young Master William
Tesseyman (left)
wanted to make some
scones for his Mum and
Dad, and made a really
good job of them. He
passed the test. Might
see more of him in the
future.
MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT DAY
The MacMillan Cancer Support day was held on Sunday 29th September.
Considering there was an electrical fault at the Church and there was no heating
or lighting, meaning we could not make tea or coffee, we had a really good
result. Thank you to all those who contributed to this worthwhile cause.
JimTesseyman
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FOOD BANK WEIGH-IN
I was curious to know just how much you have donated to Wirral Foodbank since
my first delivery in February. I added up all the weigh-in receipts to the end of
September – and was amazed at the total of 542 kilograms. To make it easier
to understand, imagine 240 x 5lb bags of potatoes stacked in the collecting
corner in church. Thank you for your generosity. If you have not yet joined our
regular givers, please ask yourself whether you, too, can help. The current list
of priorities includes:
tinned meat, tinned fish, pasta sauces, coffee, tinned fruit, squash, long-
grained rice, UHT milk, custard, rice pudding, sponge pudding and
deodorants.
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need, but has no
pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 1 John 3 v 17
Barrie Bradburn
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QUARTERLY CHURCH MEETINGS 2019
Tuesday 19th November 7.30pm
The church meetings are open to all who attend Christ Church. The meetings
are held in the church hall and last for about an hour. At these meetings we,
the congregation, have the opportunity to discuss and make decisions that
affect our church life. Please join us if you are able.
Samantha Hawkes
SOCIAL MEDIA
Keep up-to-date with events on Facebook: Christ Church Port Sunlight URC
Twitter: @ccpsurc Please ‘like’ and ‘follow’ us!
CARERS’ MEETING
The Carers’ Meeting is held at 12.15pm for 12.30pm every third Tuesday in the
month at Christ Church Community Centre, Kings Road, Higher Bebington. A
sandwich lunch is provided free of charge. If you are a Carer then do come and
join us – you will be made most welcome.
Carol Wright, Carers’ Contact, Christ Church Port Sunlight
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WEDDINGS
Please uphold in prayer the following couples, as they begin their married lives
together:
August
Michelle Serridge and Christopher Drew
Sarah Cross and Stephen Hughes
Leisa Clark and Sam Wynne
Alexandra Perrin and Allan Brooker
Jenna Leay and David Fairfield
Helen Callaghan and David Williams
Robert Tarbath and Val Tarbath (vow renewal)
September
Lisa Allen and Tom Harvey
Laura Murphy and Stephen Piercy
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BAPTISMS
The following children were baptized recently at Christ Church. We remember
the parents, god-parents and the children themselves in our prayers.
August
Isla May Olive Blanthorne
Conor Mark Mitchell
David Malcolm Nye
Jacob Brinley Walsh.
September
Dusty Carole Curtis
Betsy Giuliana Hughes
Penelope Clarke-Roberts
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FUNERALS
In our prayers we give thanks for these folk and remember their loved ones in
their grief that they may know the peace of God.
August
James Clampit 84
David Heaney Wilde 80
September
Annie Hood 80
INTERMENT OF ASHES
June
Ruth Perry 94
August:
None
September:
Marion Bellis 93
Albert Metcalfe n/k
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MEETING TIMES OF OUR ORGANIZATIONS
The Bellringers’ practice is held every Wednesday at 7.30pm in the Bell
Tower.
The Handbell Ringers’ practice is held every Tuesday at 7.15pm in Church.
The Choir practises every Thursday at 6.30pm in Church.
The Elders meet every 1st Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm in the BB HQ
Men’s Fellowship meets every Wednesday at 1pm in the Church Hall
Editorial Team: Jan Burrell and Rosie Potter
Items for the next issue should be handed in as soon as possible, and
NO LATER THAN Sunday 3rd November
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[email protected] or handed in to a church elder.
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We regret that we cannot include adverts or any promotional material
for events not associated with Christ Church Port Sunlight.
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Opinions do not necessarily reflect the official policy of Christ Church
URC Port Sunlight or the United Reformed Church
Copyright for all photographs in The Magazine belongs to Christ
Church Port Sunlight URC, unless otherwise stated
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CONTACTS * = Serving Elder
Christ Church URC
Church Drive, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5EF
Minister
Rev Ian Smith
Baptismal Secretary *Sue Frowe [email protected]
Bereavement Pastoral Care Assistant and Funeral Coordinator
*Maureen Jones
Carers’ contact Carol Wright
Choirmaster Jonathan Bowden [email protected]
Church Secretary *Samantha Hawkes [email protected]
Church Treasurer *John Lindsay [email protected]
Fabric Committee Convenor Vacant
Flowers / Church Bookings *June Berry
Housekeeper *Val Young
Local Church Leader for Baptism & Young Families
*Sue Frowe
Local Church Leader for Outreach & Discipleship
*Lisa Scott
Magazine editor Jan Burrell / Rosie Potter [email protected]
Men’s Fellowship Leader David Peacock
Organist Jonathan Bowden [email protected]
Prayer Chain Joyce Howell
Pulpit Supply / Elders’ Rota *Lisa Scott
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Readers’ Rota Barrie Bradburn
Serving Elder *Shelly Hayes
Serving Elder *Chris Maple
Social and Fundraising Convenor *Jim Tesseyman
Stewards’ Coordinator *Val Young
Student Minister Sarah Fitton [email protected]
Sunday Worship Club Leader / Messy Church
*Samantha Hawkes [email protected]
Synod Representative *Lisa Scott
Tower Captain (Bellringers) David Hocker [email protected]
Webmaster
Peter Humphreys [email protected]
Weddings and Funerals Administrator Rachael Hardcastle [email protected]
Weekly Bulletin Editor *Mark Williams [email protected]
THE MAGAZINE BY POST
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October Services
Friday 4 10:00 am Revd Ian Smith Communion Service
Saturday 5 10:00 am Messy Church
Sunday 6 10:30 am Revd Ian Smith Communion Service
6 3:00 pm Revd Ian Smith Afternoon Service
Sunday 13 10:30 am Revd Ian Smith Morning Service - HARVEST
13 3:00 pm Revd Ian Smith Afternoon Service
Sunday 20 10:30 am Paul Franklin Morning Service
20 2:00 pm Revd Ian Smith Baptisms
20 3:00 pm Revd Ian Smith Communion Service
Sunday 27 10:30 am Olive Burns Morning Service
27 3:00 pm John Lindsay Afternoon Service
November Services
Friday 1 10:00 am Revd Richard Hambly Communion Service
Saturday 2 10:00 am Messy Church
Sunday 3 10:30 am Revd Liz Byrne Communion Service
3 3:00 pm Revd Ian Smith Afternoon Service
Sunday 10 10:45 am Revd Ian Smith War Memorial
10 11:15 am Revd Ian Smith Morning Service - REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
10 3:00 pm John Lindsay Afternoon Service
Sunday 17 10:30 am Revd Ian Smith Morning Service
17 2:00 pm Revd Ian Smith Baptisms
17 3:00 pm Revd Ian Smith Communion Service
Sunday 24 10:30 am Mark Williams Morning Service
24 3:00 PM Revd Ian Smith Afternoon Service
THE LAST WORD: Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is your refuge,
And underneath are the everlasting arms.