HolyTrinityNews The Newsletter for Holy Trinity Church, East Finchley April 2015 Easter Services Easter Church Services are as follows: - 1 April Wednesday in Holy week 7.30pm Communion - 2 April Maundy Thursday Holy Trinity 7.30pm - 3 April Good Friday 10am Liturgy of the Passion - 4 April Easter Day 10am Paschal Eucharist The Maundy Thursday service is both very symbolic and thought provoking. It commemorates the Last Supper and we remember Jesus as the servant who washed his disciples’ feet. We are invited to have our own feet washed as a symbol of what Christ has done for us. And we will have guest speakers. Radha has promised to serve hot cross buns after the service on Good Friday and on Easter Sunday, the Queen of all Festivals, we will deck the church with flowers, ring bells in the Gloria, sing the Easter Anthems, trundle out our magnificent choir and end it all with an Easter Egg hunt for the children. Please don’t forget to bring your bells! Do your best to come along. It won’t be the same without you. Winter Shelter As you probably know for 3 years it was our pleasure to work with the New North London Synagogue, providing a place for people to stay overnight at Trinity Church in Nether Street. Volunteers provided meals, met the guests and slept overnight. The Shelter scheme itself continued over last winter, with a number of churches and synagogues across the borough covering every night. However, The Shelter is now in danger. Paddy Lyons, who was instrumental in setting it up over 10 years ago, and has worked tirelessly to provide all the considerable back up it needs ever since, is retiring. It is extremely unlikely that anyone will take on the large task of organising bedding and daily liaison, plus helping get guests rehoused etc etc, on a voluntary basis. That needs money. There will be a sponsored Sleep Out at Barnet Football Club on the night of 18 April. If you would like to take part, take a look at the Homeless Action in Barnet website. The aim is to raise £2,000 from each of the centres involved to make this possible. If you would be prepared to make a donation all you have to do is follow this link: https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/ homelessActioninBarnet_1/sleepoutdonation.html Your credit or debit card does the rest! This is a vital cause. Please do help if you can. Stephen Hiscock Letter from the Acting Bishop Holy Trinity School received a letter from Pete Broadbent, the Acting Bishop of Edmonton, regarding the recent outstanding SIAMS evaluation last month: “I have just received a copy of your SIAMS report from 3rd Feb 2015. It was extremely encouraging to see the “outstanding” aspects of the report. I was glad to hear that Christian Values are so strongly embedded in the life of the school and that both Collective Worship and RE are working well to underpin this, It was also excellent to see how well the link with the parish church is working.” “It is always good to hear that a church school has reviewed its values and made them something which is a point of curriculum, so that the children understand something of the grammar of the Christian faith and how Christianity can enrich the whole of their lives.” Prayer for Easter When we are despairing, when the world is full of grief, when we see no way ahead and hope has gone away - roll back the stone! May the good news of Christ’s resurrection bring joy to our hearts and transform the world. Amen Life Begins at 60? East Finchley Altogether Better have launched a Silver Service Restaurant scheme on Tuesdays in East Finchley. Restuarants taking part in the Silver Service scheme will offer set meals for £5 to customers over 60 years of age, plus their guest (of any age), every Tuesday. Restaurants taking part in East Finchley so far are the Bald Faced Stag, Barracuda, Big Chef, Costi’s, New Local Café and Seasons, with each offering their own special menu on Tuesday lunchtimes. The restaurants will seat diners together for a more sociable experience. What’s not to like…? H T News April 2015 Edmonton Area Leadership Conference 2015 A group from Holy Trinity went along to experience the delights of shared fellowship with other Edmonton church members, to learn new ways of offering leadership and pastoral care and to eat pastries. Not necessarily in that order of importance! The theme was Jesus as good shepherd, with all of us being called to care for each other in the church family. Bishop Pete Broadbent, acting Bishop of Edmonton, explained something of what his role involves and Richard James spoke about the cure of souls. We saw a very enthusiastic and influential talk given by Bill Hybels via a video link in which he pointed out that, as well as the initial 12 disciples, Jesus also commissioned a further 70 people to act as followers who also cared for those needing it, in other words we are all called to be ministers. There was a very good choice of workshops: - Do leaders really collaborate? - Envisioning and equipping for everyday, everywhere discipleship. - Are we really making everybody welcome? - Community compassion: prayer and care I found the last one particularly helpful as we considered those things for which we might need support such as bereavement, isolation, redundancy, ill health and so on. The ways in which support might be offered, by visiting and keeping in Did you know Tony Anthony? APP-ly Within (Part 2) Sarah Tyner received an email recently from a prison chaplain living in France, called David Buick, who is trying to find information about a Tony Anthony. It is believed that he was a pupil at Holy Trinity Primary, leaving in 1981 or 1982 to go to Christ’s College Finchley. Holy Trinity school doesn’t have records of pupils attending during this time, however, might you recognise him from this photo? Were you a pupil at Holy Trinity during this time? Did you perhaps know him from the area? Or from Christ’s College? How do you read the bible? If you think you might remember Tony, please can you let Sarah know, so she can pass your details on to David? Many thanks. touch with people at home, in church, in the church hall and this can be done by anyone, including individuals, visiting teams, healing teams, young people’s groups and lay Eucharistic ministry. Those of us from Holy Trinity found that we scored ourselves quite highly in relation to welcoming people, but of course there is always room for improvement and new ideas included producing leaflets about the church to leave in the library and in cafes and producing a welcome card for people to fill in if they wish to join the church. It was a very interesting and enlightening day, full of energy and new ideas for all of us to think about. Angela Anderson Did you know that there are plenty of ways of reading the bible on your phone, tablet or computer? See last month’s article for some ideas. Some are free, some cost a little. Most are incredible compared with trying to find what you were looking for using a Concordance (What’s that?!) or Commentary (surprisingly, not just used by preachers). There are lots of ways of finding what you are looking for, or learning about things you never thought of trying to find. Here is something you might like to try: Reflections for Daily Prayer It’s Official! In other words they are daily bible notes published by the Church of England. Following the Common Worship lectionary cycle of readings, Reflections for Daily Prayer, helps you to join your thoughts and prayers with those of thousands of Anglicans worldwide, as well as follow a balanced pattern of Bible readings that draws upon both the Old and New Testament. You can either just look at the bible readings, or follow the short order of service, which gives prayers to ‘wrap round’ the readings. The best bit is that there is a short reflection each day written by someone who knows what they are talking about and can give you something to think about, without being too clever. You can save your favourites and come back to them another day. The bible readings do require an internet connection, so not quite so good for using on the Tube. However, check out last month’s article to take the whole bible with you and solve that problem. Reflections for Daily Prayer is available from the Apple App Store and Google Play. Buy a year’s worth and it works out at about a pound a month, plus there is a free trial. Next month, a preview of ‘Guardians of Ancora’ – an exciting new game for 8 – 11 year olds, coming in the autumn. Stephen Hiscock Annual Parochial Church Meeting 26 April 2015 Do come and find out what has been going on and hear about plans for the future. Would you be interested in helping to plan that future and get more involved? We will be electing our churchwardens and members of the Parochial Church Council and existing members will need to sign a nomination form. H T News April 2015 Electoral Roll Call Spring Cleaning! Please sign up to the church Electoral Roll before Friday April 10th, if you are not already a signed up member. Church cleaning event: volunteers are invited to turn up at the church on Easter Saturday to do a spot of cleaning ready for the main festival of the church calendar. Any help is always appreciated: vacuum-cleaning, dusting, wood polishing, brass polishing, cob-web chasing, glass cleaning. It is a great help if you can bring your own cleaning materials. Do come along any time between 11am and 1pm on April 4th. Forms are available to download from the HT website or hard copies are on the table at the side of the church, or speak to Gray. All new members need to be signed up by the Church AGM, on April 26th. For more information, you can also email Paula at [email protected] Diocese of London Lent Appeal This year we support the Bishop of London’s Mission Fund. The BLMF aims to fund 20 more youth, family and children workers in the diocese. Tea & Coffee Servers We will be doing work in the churchyard on Saturday mornings on the following dates: April 18th and 25th, May 2nd and 30th and June 20th and 27th. If you would like to help maintain ‘God’s Acre’ please come along between 11am and 1pm, preferably with gloves and any useful tools, and we will be very pleased to see you. One additional project that needs attention is the temporary repair of the grave near the wheelie bins. It has just fallen apart but a casual visitor might think that the area had been vandalised which it hasn’t. Speak to David Smith if you can help with this task. We now have a complete set of wheelie bins. Please make full use of the black bin for general waste, blue for recycling, and green for vegetation, dying flowers, etc. We are grateful to the L.B. Barnet for supplying a new black bin free of charge after the previous one was stolen. David Smith We are short of volunteers to man the ever popular refreshments bar, after the services on a Sunday. Can you help out? Please see Gray if you would like to put your hand up. Many thanks. Sarah, Russell, Alan, Cerys and Henry the dog Easter Flowers The Church will be full of beautiful flowers for Easter. If you would like to contribute any monies towards them (we all have anniversaries to commemorate or people to celebrate), please see Sonia or Gray. And finally... We would like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who sponsored us. We raised over £2300 which is an amazing result and definitely kept us going as we were reaching the end. It was a glorious day for the walk and after planning snacks with military precision everyone made it to the finish line without a single whinge. Thanks for the amazing support from everyone. It was a fitting tribute to our dear friend Jan. Please Sign In! New Church Register The number of applicants to Holy Trinity school has never been higher and as one key factor of the admissions criteria is to attend church at least once every calendar month, the PCC have decided to introduce a Church Register. This will soon be available to sign, at the back of the Church, for all prospective parents (wishing to have the school Supplementary Information Form authorised). A diary of forthcoming events. March 31st 7.30pmCommunion April 1st 7.30pm Communion followed at 8pm by Choir Practice April 2nd 7.30pm Maundy Thursday, Communion with Hymns April 3rd 10.00am Good Friday - Liturgy of the Passion April 4th 11.00am to 1pm Holy Saturday and Church Cleaning Day April 5th 10.00am Easter Sunday - Paschal Eucharist April 26th 11.30am Annual Vestry and Church Meeting (after the service) May 14th Ascension Day
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