Newsletter

September 2005

News and Views

Club Tithe


The CRC traditionally gives 10% of its subscription income to charities each year.  We try to choose good causes which have links with CRC members.  This year £570 will be divided between 3 charities:

KisNzi Hospital, a mission hospital run by the Church of Uganda where Margaret MacWilliam has worked in the past.

Mercy Ships working in West Africa, where Janet Hiles has been teaching.

CMS mid Africa region, where Nick Fane has been involved in their work in Burundi and Rwanda, which includes youth ministry, peace and reconciliation work, bible schools etc.

Ideas for next year’s tithe are always welcome.

 

Photographs and the website

 

If members wish to have a photograph with people in it put onto the CRC website they must include with it an accompanying letter confirming that all the people in the photograph have given their permission for it to be screened.  The letter must be signed and dated.  The member submitting the photograph will then be responsible for any problems that arise, not the CRC Committee or the website manager.

 

Newsletter Editor Wanted

 

I have now been editing the newsletter on a temporary basis for the last 5% years. Due to my work and church commitments I am finding it increasingly difficult to do the magazine and as much as I enjoy doing it I would like to stop.  Anyone who believes that they may have the talent and calling (and access to a computer) to do the magazine would they like to get in touch with me.

Programme editor

 

New Committee Members

 

Sue Frost - Programme Secretary

 

Sue became a Christian in 1986 after quite a dramatic conversion whilst working in a Jersey hotel.  Ever since, her somewhat nomadic lifestyle has continued to flourish despite efforts to settle, which she says helps to keep her ‘young and flexible’!  However, one thing which has remained constant is her love for CRC through which she has met some wonderful people and made some good friends.  Late last year she felt that she wanted to give something back, and embarked on a navigation course in February, only to receive a phone call a few weeks later inviting her to consider the position of Programme Secretary.  “How could I refuse?” she said, grinning apprehensively.

 

Pauline Horwill - Secretary

 

Pauline lives in Weston-super-Mare where she works full time as an ecologist for the local council.  She attends an Anglican church in the town with her father and also has 3 adult children, Di, Ben, Phil and his wife, Cheryl.  Pauline agreed to serve on the committee as the CRC has helped her so much and this is the one job she felt she could do.

 

 

Keith Stephenson

 

Keith Stephenson, died on Monday 13 June whilst out jogging on the heath near his home.  He had a heart seizure.  The family and I are absolutely devastated.

He recently returned to England after completing the YHA Great Wall of China sponsored trek, from which he raised £1800 for the YHA Give Us a Break Fund.  If he could have chosen the way he would die, it would have been just as it happened - doing something he loved in a place that he loved on a beautiful summer morning, active till the end.

 

Prayer Focus: Renewing our vision in the hard places

 

We often think about refocusing our direction during the Autumn.

 

Lord thank you for this opportunity to start out with you again,  Thank you for the special burdens projects and issues you have placed within us, uniquely fitted to the way we see things, and our background and experiences,  Thanks for often providing support from others who share this longing,  Thank you for the things you will complete in our lives.

Lord we often think we need to muster our strength for some ambition or project you’ve highlighted in the past,  Please cause us to rise up again knowing it was a idea you gave us,  But maybe it’s keeping an open mind in quiet expectancy of you working things out according to your promises,  Please help us to wait patiently until you open doors, when we will see that it is only you that could have done it, and the glory is yours.

 

Please give us courage to ‘pick up’ again even though it was hard last time,  Sorry we may have made ‘heavy-weather’ of it all and become disillusioned or negative,  Thank you for the encouragements you bring - just enough to remind us that you are still working things out despite seemingly closed doors,  All things work together for good to them that love God...’

 

And Lord, please help us to continue to provide what is needed in the meantime, keep us at it, aware of your timing and often-hidden progress.

Please help us continue to work out our ‘vocation’ while the doors seem closed,  We see time and time again that when we waited upon you that even more came about, and we came to see what you were wanting all along,  Lord please help us to press out again on the things you have called us to and enjoy doing them,  Thank you that you are in charge.

 

Lord, please help those we know who may be struggling and discouraged through seemingly closed doors,  Please keep them in the vision you have given to trust you in all circumstances for what seems needed,  Give us all the will to keep wanting your outworking, as you work it out in a different and better way, to honour your Name,  Thank you for restoring our focus on you and what you are doing,  Please help us to continue our part with expectation.

‘Be thou my vision ...‘ In Jesus’ name,  Amen.

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