Newsletter
November 2004
News
You may want to consider some of the useful courses being offered by the YHA. All the following are being offered at Edale hostel:
Wilderness First Aid - 2 days of training and assessment, dealing with incidents where there is no immediate help. There are practical sessions, both indoors and out.
Next courses 10 December £159 and 18 Feb £168.
MLTE Walking Group Leader Award
Training - 3 nights providing a practical course covering the main elements of the syllabus such as route finding, navigation, group management, and emergency procedures.
Next courses 28 Nov, 13 Feb, 27 March £166
Assessment - 3 days in the hills/moorlands covering the main part of the syllabus with an opportunity to prove competence.
Next courses 3 Dec, 15 Feb, 29 March £170
Congratulations
Births
To Nigel and Joan Kinnings-Smith on the birth of Amy in August (see page 17 for Amy’s first CRC event).
Marriages
To Christian Jones and Catherine Ganley, both CRC members, were married on 18 July 2004.
Reading CRC Group
Many thanks to Val Givan who has just stepped down from organising the Reading CRC group in her 20th year in the job!
Prayer Focus: Single Status
Sometimes we may feel beleaguered by our single state - surely there must be more to expect?
• Lord, thank you for your faithfulness to us in every situation, in knowing your love in our lives, particularly through the storm when we have sought you in desperation. You are sovereign, almighty, and Lord of all, and worthy of our praise.
• Lord we are sorry for the negative view we often have of our status, when we have rated our situation poorly against the world’s eyes. Thank you that nothing is a mistake when we are walking with you, and that you can bring good out of everything. Please help us to get our focus onto you and off our own circumstances, and to be expectant of how you can work in the situation. Please give us grace to enter into it positively.
• Thank you for the extra time we may have - please help us to make good use of our time with you. Lord, thank you for life in all its fullness, for the richness, the variety, the spontaneity; thank you that we can meet with others in ways our married friends may not, due to home responsibilities.
• Please help us in our church fellowships to be ourselves even if others may have difficulty understanding our experience of life. Help us to appreciate the different path we currently have to our married friends.
• Whether never married, divorced, or widowed, please help us not to fear to continue to grow while single, nor worry about ourselves, as you are in control. Please help those for whom this is painful at present, who may battle with thoughts; please give relief and enabling to look to you to resolve loss and emptiness.
• Please help those in different cultures for whom being single is frowned upon, and where there is an expectation for marriage.
• Thank you that life with you can feel an adventure, as we learn to tune into the things you want, for us to be aware of. Please help those who shrink from being single to walk out into your glorious purpose leaning on you. Amen.
…Take my life and let it be,
All you purpose Lord for me…..
Thoughts for the Walk
This month we
hold Remembrance Sunday, not just to remember the many millions killed in the
two world wars, but the millions who have died since in the many conflicts
around the
world.
‘Blessed
are the peacemakers’
Are you a peacemaker, in your home, in your church, in your neighbourhood?
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