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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 vil-
lage, those who work in the parish and village organizations. Those to be remembered this month are:
5th June
Park Road, Falcon Way; The Marinas, and those who live and work there
12th June
Field Close, Lincoln Close, Silver Street, Beaufort Drive, St Hugh’s Road
19th June
School Lane, Buckden Primary School (pupils, teachers and teaching assistants, governors,
volunteers, midday supervisors, lollipop lady, all support staff)
26th June
Scouts, Cubs and Beavers, Guides, Brownies and Rainbows, Playgroup and Day Nursery,
Buccaneers after school club, Buckden Towers Youth Retreat Centre
STUDY LUNCHES
The regular monthly study lunches continue on Monday June 13th,
and then on Monday July 11th
Methodist Church Hall 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm Contact:
Ann Brittain
on
812012
Thought for the month
The much-quoted and sagacious Clive Lewis (CS to most of the world) once said that, “Faith is the art of holding
onto things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”
The very nature of our moods, or our emotions, is that of change. We have welcomed in the spring and now hope
that the fleeting season of summer will last longer than the blossom on the cherry trees. And as the budding tree
has brought forth the beauty of blossom, in turn giving way to the promise of ripe fruit, so we may hope that God is
using the changes in our lives in the same way.
The mature trees that delight us with blossom, shade and the sweetest fruit will be laid bare by the chill of autumn,
their leaves showing flashes of colour before they wither and fall, leaving the jagged bones of those once-fruitful
branches to lacerate the bleak skies of winter.
Like the seasons of the trees, our emotions and hopes can bloom and flourish, wither and fall. The world around
us can seem sometimes comfortable and sometimes harsh but, thank God, Jesus is always the same: ‘yesterday,
today and forever’. Deeply rooted in him, our faith can be even firmer and more secure than the roots that anchor
the trees against the winter storms.
Writing in the New Testament, in the fifth chapter of his first book, the apostle Peter encourages his readers to,
“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxie-
ty on Him, because He cares for you.”
When our feelings flutter like withering leaves and circumstances threaten to drag us to the ground, let us remem-
ber the hope we had and be certain that even though everything around us may fail, Jesus Christ will not.
Baptist Church.
Friends in Deed will be running their usual Bottle Stall at the
Village Fair. Please donate of bottles of all shapes and sizes
(but in-date for 2
nd
July, please!) to Jane Scott, 9 Bishops Way,
811468, as soon as possible.
Will collect by arrangement.
Cut-off date for donations Friday 24
th
June.