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Uley Parish Council Chair: Anne Sutcliffe 860223 Vice Chair: Gill Cathles 861106 Janet Wood 860236 Margaret Groom 860579 Adam Rogers 07969834884 Charles Goldingham 860974 Melanie Paraskeva 07929360221 <strong>District</strong> Councillor Graham Travé 549919 County Councillors Dennis Andrewartha 547251 Brian Tipper 547015 Clerk to the Council Shani Baker 07582216374 The Parish Council meets in the <strong>Village</strong> Hall on the first Wednesday of the month at 7pm. You are very welcome to attend. Details of the meetings can be found on the notices at either end of the village. Uley village website can be found at http://www.uley.eu Parish of Uley with Owlpen and Nympsfield Churches of St Giles, Holy Cross and St Bartholomew Rector: Rev’d Diana Crook Telephone 01453 860444 Parish days off-Usually Thurs & Fri Messages listened to daily Churchwardens Mrs. J Rymer 860265 Mr. D Valentin 860245 Assistant Church Wardens Mr. D Hart-Davis 860239 Ms. E Rymer 860520 Mrs. A Hardy 860876 All bookings for the Church and St Giles Room to Marion Kee 860364 or email:marionkee@fsmail.net St Giles’ is open for prayer 9-9.30am Normal church opening times are 10am-6pm or dusk whichever is earlier Posada Mary, Joseph and the donkey will be travelling around the village during December. Leaving St Giles' Church after the morning service on Advent Sunday, 27th November, they will stay each night at a different location, returning to church for the Christingle Service on Christmas Eve. This recreates the journey made by Mary and Joseph who travelled from their home in Nazareth to Bethlehem. If you would like to host the holy family please add your name to the rota in St Giles' Church. Those who host are asked to complete a diary and if possible take a photograph to create a record of the journey. 2
A Christmas Letter from Rev’d Diana the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God….and you will bear a son, and you will name him Jesus.” Luke 1. 30-31 In a few weeks time all our preparations for Christmas will be over. Pantomimes, children’s nativities, presents and Christmas wrapping paper, all back in the box for another year. Life will be almost back to normal, and yet the message of Christmas is one that comes to change and transform us- it is a message which says God is with us. In his Christmas Message to the Diocese Bishop Michael writes to us in these words: Christmas I sometimes get frustrated at how often we hear that “Christmas is for the children”. Clearly it is for children, but its message, its good news, is equally for adults too. Where children are greatly at an advantage, is that they have a beautiful sense of wonder. They stand in awe and delight in something that entrances them with a facility we sometimes seem to lose when we grow older. There are several key messages in the Christian gospel for Christmas time. Jesus is born in a stable among the poor and, at the end of a year that has seen economic bad news dragging many people down into poverty and others left there, that is gospel. The birth of Jesus was heralded by angels greeting the arrival of a Prince of Peace and, in a world where there is violence and tyranny, that is good news too. And there are more such messages. But none of these, however, important as they are, get to the heart of Christmas. The heart of Christmas is Emmanuel, literally, God with us. It is the truth that in Jesus it was God, the Creator of heaven and earth, who became one of us - didn’t just look like one of us, but became one of us, lived our life, joined heaven and earth. Looking at all the representations of that birth in cribs and Christmas cards, singing that story in carols, watching children re-enact it in their nativity plays, ought to bring us all, adults, as much as children, back to a sense of wonder, full of gratitude, awestruck by a profound and lifegiving mystery. As we read Bishop Michael’s words, let us remember that the shopping days will come to an end- and yes there really will come a moment when we can’t do any more. Let us pray that when we reach that point we will find the child in the manger, Jesus Christ, and know in our hearts and in our deepest longings, that the God of Love reigns. This Christmas do come and join the journey to Christmas Day. Come with the children and sing carols on the Green, come and light Christingles at the Christmas Crib Services, feel welcome at all the many different services in our three beautiful churches over the Christmas Season. And may the love and the light of the Christ Child be with you this Christmas and always. Emmanuel- God with us With love Diana 3
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