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CHURCH NEWS
Weekly Prayer Roster
Each week during the year the Churches, in their prayers, remember the residents of particular streets in the village, those
who work in the parish and village organizations. Those to be remembered this month are:
1st February
Church Street, Mill Road, The Barns, The Old Four Mills
8th February
The Parish Council, The Village Hall and Playing Field Trust; those who help to run the Village
Hall, and the activities there
15th February
Greenway, Aragon Close, Hoo Close, Bishops Way
22nd February
Village shops, and those who work in them; businesses based in the village, hotels, inns, and
those who work at home; homemakers, carers, the unemployed and underemployed, and all
visitors to the village
STUDY LUNCHES
The next Study Lunch will be on Monday 9th February, 12.30 to 2.00 pm
in the Methodist School Room. Everyone welcome.
Lent Study lunches will be on Mondays - Feb 23rd, March 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd.
See page 13 for further details.
Contact:
Ann Brittain
on
812012
Thought for the month
Love is …….
As we enter the month of February it seems as though romance is in the air and, in the words of a popular song,
‘love is all around’. Songwriters and poets tell us that it is love that makes the world go round. It is love that sets
the world on fire and motivates us. The world would be a very sad place without love for love lifts us up and brings
us joy and happiness. Many of us will be thinking about how we can find simple but meaningful ways of express-
ing our love for someone special on St Valentine’s Day.
One of the most well-known passages in the bible is all about love. The apostle Paul writes:
“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it
is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” (1 Corinthians 13 verses 4-8)
In these words St Paul paints a picture of what love is and consciously or unconsciously he draws us a portrait of
a person – Jesus himself. He is the living embodiment of this outgoing, long-suffering, self-giving love which re-
flects God’s nature.
The love that we see in God is unselfish, it is a love that seeks to give rather than to get and involves wholeheart-
ed self-giving of one for another. The self-giving love of God is the pattern for all our relationships and especially
marriage and family life. Relationships that have God’s love as their source and foundation will be able to grow
strong and stand firm in times of difficulty.
Jesus calls all those who love him and seek to follow him to love one another:
“My command is this, love each
other as I have loved you”
(John 15:12). To live this out in our daily lives is not easy. It takes commitment, hard
work and dedication and we need the constant strength and inspiration from God who loves and cares for each
one of us every day of our lives.
So let us offer each day to God and seek his help in loving one another not just on one special day in February
but all through the year.
God bless you all
Revd Tricia Williams (Minister: Buckden Methodist Church)