Newsletter

May 2006

News and Views

 

 

25th Annual General Meeting

 

The meeting was held on Saturday 29th April at Windermere Youth Hostel.   Various reports were received and the minutes of the last meeting and the accounts were accepted.  A new committee was elected; this included two new members - Julie Excell as resources officer and Kevin Pryor as secretary, while Pauline Horwill moved from being secretary to the post of newsletter editor.   Alison spoke of the various ways in which we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the club, and asked for people to continue the silver theme in events for the rest of the year.

 

The 25th Anniversary event was very well attended, and it was great to see so many friends from over the years.  More details will be in the report in the next edition.

 

Retirements

 

The club’s thanks go to Stephen Bennett for his hard work as resources officer and committee member for the last two years, and also to Ann Arnold for her extended time as temporary newsletter editor.

 

25th Anniversary Items

 

They include a commemorative book ‘Ramblings, Recipes and Reflections’ - a collection of contributions from  members including walks and recipes.  There are also sit mats with the club’s name embroidered on them.  These can be obtained from Julie Excell - contact information inside front cover.  Cheques should be made payable to CRC

 

Books       £4 + 70p p&p
Mats          £4 + 90p p&p

 

Also included in this mailing is a bookmark as an individual gift for members.  If any members who receive their mailing via email would like a bookmark, could they need to send a stamped, addressed envelope to Julie.

 

Deaths

 

We are sorry to have to report the deaths of a number of members this year: Bill Jenkins, John Britland and Derek Jepson - our thoughts and prayers are with their families and friends.

 

Prayer Focus: Travel

 

Travel broadens the mind” - an indulgent luxury or part of the Lord’s gift to us to help us out of narrow-thinking? It certainly brightens and highlights a week or a few days in a year, which can be pivots and paeans of experience and delight in otherwise sameness of our daily lives.

 

Lord, thank you for your world which you beckon us to explore, and give us a thirst to know. Thank you for all the opportunities and experiences you have given us up till now, for the uplift and rich wonder when you have led us somewhere... and planted a place in our thoughts… Thank you for leading us to see the beauty of your world, the mountains, the deserts, but also to meet the people whom you have made for your glory, formed in your image. Thank you for difference, for our languages and for creativity and adaptability.

 

Thank you for often leading us to the developing or emerging world, where peoples’ resourcefulness, hope and resilience under oppressive circumstances challenge us to the core. Our heart goes out to them Lord, remembering them in the places where you have shown us;  thank you for the contact with particular individuals, and for bringing their plight to our attention.

 

Lord, thank you for unity with believers across the world - a foretaste of eternity, praising you from every tribe and nation before your throne. Please help us to be an encouragement and a blessing to people of other cultures and languages - both at home and abroad, acknowledging them before you, and also in our respect for courage in difficult circumstances. Thank you for our multi-cultural communities and neighbourhoods - please help us share interest and discover friendship. 

 

Thank you for your promptings to go somewhere, and for those who encourage us to go, and who will who can ‘hold the fort’. Lord, thank you for our resources and for the privilege of living in the West - for our religious freedom, incomes, and jobs. Please help us to share these benefits, and to be good stewards. Please help us to be positive supporters of those who are seeking your confirmation, and provision of people to go with. Please give them peace that you will supply their need, including strength and company, and enlarge their vision. 

 

Thank you for these times of travel, which have become pinpoints of wonderful experience, of new awareness and personal horizons, as well as recreation. It’s your world Lord, and we embrace your leading in Jesus name.

Amen.

 

Thoughts for the walk

 

Pilgrimage of life

 

Pilgrimage is a sacrament; an outward and visible sign of an inner spiritual grace.

 

Life is a purposeful pilgrimage , not an aimless meandering trail

 

Jesus never said he was the destination, he said “I am the Way”.

 

The destination is, in fact, the journey itself, and the journey is, in fact, the destination.

 

We cannot keep relying on the spiritual experiences of the past.

 

We are called to travel light both to possessions and programmes

 

Our life is a pilgrimage with and into the heart of God.

 

Celtic Reflections - Martin Wallace

 

 

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