Village Voice Oct / Nov 2019 Issue 194

Remembrance Sunday falls on November
10th this year with acts of remembrance at the
War Memorials at St Margaret’s and Holy
Trinity after the 9.30am and 11am services.
Please note that the 11am service at Holy Trinity
starts at 10.50am that morning to allow for the
silence at 11am. The Royal British Legion
Service of Remembrance is at Holy Trinity at
3pm and the service will be followed by
refreshments in the hall.
I will be leading the 11am short Act of
Remembrance on the Back Common at 11am
on Monday the 11th and this will be followed
by a cuppa in the Sanctuary. Blessings, Revd Mike
Bisset, www.holytrinityandstmargartes.co.uk
Penn Free Methodist Church
We will hold our annual Britain’s Only Hope
- the Gospel Conference on Saturday October
5th, from 11:30 - 4pm, with lunch from around
1 - 2:20pm (refreshments provided; please bring
packed lunch). There are four addresses entitled
as follows: 1) The state of the nation and the
only remedy; 2) Why I am a creationist (given
by a fellow of the Geological Society of
London); 3) Why abortion is wrong in God’s
sight and why Christians must speak out; 4) The
conference sermon on national righteousness.
All are most welcome.
Please visit our dedicated Facebook page for
updates on our open air ministry - www.
facebook.com/britainsonlyhope. as well as our
main church website - www.realchristianity.org.
Our Sunday School for ages 4-14 operates
from 12:30-13:30, straight after the morning
service. Please contact the Minister for further
details (revps@icloud.com).
Our Sunday services are at 11am and 6:30pm
and our midweek Prayer meeting and Bible
Study is at 8:00pm on Wednesdays.
Recordings of sermons can be accessed at
www.soundcloud.com/penn-free-methodists.
One recommended sermon is an address based
on 1 John 2:15-16 entitled ‘One cannot conform
to this world’s thinking and be a true Christian’.
Pastor Peter Simpson, www.realchristianity.org
www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk
Village Voice October/November 2019
Tylers Green Methodist Church
As I write (on September 1st) the beginning of a
period running into October with Harvest
Festivals is being celebrated in both urban and
rural communities around the country.
My memories date back to the 1940s when
working heavy horses were still earning their
keep on at least one of the local farms in
Wiltshire where I grew up. In those days farms
were labour intensive and there was always a
need for extra people for the harvest. Children
who had been evacuated to our village would
return after the war to assist with the harvest
alongside those from the village school. No pay
was expected and no one had heard of Health &
Safety - I don’t remember any accidents.
The Harvest Festival was central to village
life and every part of every church and chapel
would be decorated with the produce of farm
and garden, and on the big day places of
worship were packed out thanks to those who
only came at Christmas, Easter and Harvest!
Many things about farming and the wider
issue of what constitutes a harvest have changed
beyond recognition from those days and have
changed significantly during the 40+ years we
have lived in Tylers Green; but the Harvest
Festival goes on and the services are always
well worth attending. By the time you read this
the Festival at TG Methodist Church will have
taken place with our donated gifts going to the
Whitechapel Mission’s work amongst London’s
homeless.
We have no Harvest Supper but the parish
churches do a wonderful job and invite the
whole village. However, we have a simple
lunch to support Action for Children on
Saturday 12th October at our church in Coppice
Farm Road beginning at 12 noon. If you would
like to come along speak with any of our
members or phone me on 815256. This will
help with the catering arrangements. On 9th
November our ‘open to all’ monthly Coffee
Morning relocates to Hazlemere Library at
10.15 am for a craft morning. Blessings, Peter
Stevens, Senior Church Steward
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