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Please pray for: On each day of the month at our weekly services we pray for all residents of the roads of our parish in turn. Please use this list in your own prayers at home, and if you can, come along to Church as a representative of your road on the day, when you and your neighbours are specially remembered. Crosscrake Parish Preston Patrick Parish 1st Riverside Main Road, Endmoor 2nd Cooper Hill Nutting Hall Lane 3rd Sedgwick Main road and Wilson Terrace Gatebeck Road 4th Old Row Low Cottages 5th Sedgwick Mews, Back Lane Enyeat Road and Garden Cottages 6th Family Life Woodbank /Crescent 7th Well heads Lane Birchfield 8th Hill Close Woodside 9th Orchard Close Woodside Close 10th Castle View and Railway Cottages Elm Grove 11th Shyreakes and Humphrey Cottages Gatebeck 12th Wharfe Lane Cooperage Yard 13th Stainton Lane Millness 14th Stainton and Stainton Cross Milton 15th Halfpenny Lane Crooklands 16th Millbridge Lane Farming Community 17th Helm Lane Mothers Union 18th Barrows Green Age Concern 19th Staff and Children of Staff and Residents of Barnados, Barrows Green St Gregory's House 20th Concrete Cottages Parish Organisations 21st Summerlands Childrens Playgroup 22nd Gatebeck Lane Young families and Teenagers 23rd Low Park Lane Goose Green 24th Greenways Drive Lupton Road 25th Meadowside Close Old Hall Area 26th Moorside Road Springfield 27th Moss Lea Dove Nest Lane 28th Staff and Children of Staff and Pupils of Crosscrake School Endmoor School 29th Parochial Church Council P.C.C. 30th Brownies and Rainbows Friends Meeting House Beavers, Cubs and Scouts Village Shops and Clubs 31st Parish Organisations Park End Area |
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness to the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, not of the will of men, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father,) full of grace and truth. [John 1: 1-14] |
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Usually there are 10am services at Crosscrake every month. The family service on the first is full of fun, participation and is kept short. Its good for families, friends and a good time ! All welcome. The 2nd and fourth of the month services are more serious, more "choirful" and a joy to go to. A Sunday School is run at Crosscrake on the 3rd Sunday of the month. Liz runs this and its really great Christianity. All children welcome. We have a lot going for us in Crosscrake now - the fellowship is sound, the joy of worship astounding, and with the music, the friends, the flowers in the churchyard, and Crosscrake's great history, you could not come to a better place. You have to be a follower to live here ! |
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FROM THE VICARAGE It seems that there is little we like better than sitting down to a cosy murder. If you try to do a quick body count you will discover that this is how many of us try to unwind. You can find around 40 hours a week of detective drama on terrestrial TV plus six of the current best selling hardbacks and four of the top ten paperbacks are concerned with crime of one sort or another. I have just finished reading the latest Dan Brown thriller "Lost Symbols" which has quite a high body count just on its own. Yet for most of the book I was completely hooked, needing to know what came next. I found a compulsion to read it even when I knew I should have been doing something worthy like preparing a sermon. If I took time to analyse the plot in terms of the real world and his extensive use of Masonic symbols and very selective Christian symbolism I am pretty sure that I could argue the book is fantasy, illogical and nonsense. Perhaps the well known crime writer P D James has one answer when she said, "What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order". Detective fiction and thrillers present a challenge to our sense of despair and hopelessness. And that is also what the church season of Advent is about; waiting in hope and expectation that God will provide a way forward out of the messiness of this world. We know that hope is fulfilled in the baby in the manger. We know our hope is in Christ, crucified yet risen. We know there is still much to do to bring God's kingdom in. This particular story in the real world will only reach its denouement when Christ comes again. Robert Langdon in Lost Symbols is determined in his pursuit of answers to various puzzling symbols. Any detective is committed to a dogged pursuit of the truth and a refusal to be distracted. Any detective is attentive to clues others miss and makes daring leaps of imagination. Surely this is the same for us as we continue our own pilgrim journeys in our Christian faith. As we wait in hope this Advent and as we wait in expectation for Christ to come again perhaps we should add to our familiar Christmas texts one from Paul's second letter to the Corinthians Chapter 4, verse 18: "Fix your eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" May God bless you all as you journey towards the joyful season of celebrating Christ's birth into our world, Terry |