October 2008
VICAR: The Revd. Martin Fredriksen Tel: 694109
PARISH OFFICE (Mondays to Fridays 9.30am - Noon) Tel: 697641
FROM THE VICAR: It has been a difficult year for all of us in so many different ways - fuel prices rising alarmingly and affecting the cost of everything in the shops; house-prices falling; companies making staff redundant and going into liquidation. Added to all this, the weather has been awful with the wettest August on record. Those of us who have taken holidays at home this year have returned brown – but with mud and rust, not a suntan! Locally, I’m sure we shall find out, it cannot have been a good year for those in the holiday industry – many ice-creams unsold!
Harvest time seems to have come round very quickly this year and it is clear that farmers have had a very difficult time. Fields have been ruined by excesses of water, prime crops beaten down by the weather – at best, producing lower-grade yields and at worst, rotting in the ground. Global warming? – certainly not that warm in our own country, but some places abroad have been sweltering and water supplies have been running dangerously low.
There was one year in this Parish, when Harvest Festival was nearly cancelled because there was little in peoples’ minds to give thanks for. Despite so much advance in scientific knowledge and technology, we are reminded that there is so much still that is beyond our control – and always will be.
Poverty is relative and we are so richly blessed in this part of the world compared with many other places. Come and join us on the first Sunday in October to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for his blessings.
Martin Fredriksen.
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