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Buckden Roundabout

October 2019

Church News

Weekly Prayer Roster

Each week during the year the Churches, in their prayers, remember the residents of particular streets in the village, those who

work in the parish and village organisations. Those to be remembered this month are:

6th October

Scouts, Cubs and Beavers, Guides, Brownies and Rainbows, Playgroup and Day Nursery, Buck-

den out of Schools Scheme, Buckden Towers Youth Retreat Centre

13th October

Mayfield, Springfield Close, The Osiers, Stirtloe

20th October

Vineyard Way, Burberry Road, Swan End, Lark End, The Library and its librarians

27th October

The churches of the village: St Hugh’s, St Mary’s, Buckden Methodist Church, also Perry Baptist

Church, members of home groups from these and other local churches, ministers and all who

make our churches welcoming and worshipful places

Thought for the Month

Dear friends,

The following thought for the month is not original but

was written by the late Paul Williams in our Church

newsletter some years ago.

One of my favourite stories is about John Fletcher (1729

-1785) who was one the early Methodist preachers.

John Wesley planned that Fletcher should succeed him

in the leadership of the Methodists, though as it hap-

pened Fletcher died before Wesley. Fletcher’s biog-

rapher wrote of him that “He was more than Christian;

he was Christ-like.”

On one occasion Fletcher made an important public

statement about an issue that was causing concern in

the country at the time, and his comments proved very

helpful to the Government of the day. That wasn’t his

aim – he had merely said what he believed to be true –

but it had that result, and it was noticed. Fletcher was

not only a Methodist preacher, but like John Wesley was

also a clergyman of the Church of England, and it oc-

curred to the Lord Chancellor that some preferment

(what people would describe as ‘promotion’) might be

offered in recognition of Fletcher’s help. So, a messen-

ger was sent to Madeley to call on Fletcher. The visitor

tried delicately to hint at his mission, but Fletcher was

slow to take the hint! Then messenger had to be more

direct and asked if there was anything that Mr Fletcher

wanted? The Government would be very happy…if…

At last some understanding broke, and John Fletcher

said: “How kind! How very kind! But I want nothing…

except more grace.”

What a great aspiration – we might say it’s a desire to

be more like Jesus! Would that this might be the

“heart’s desire” of each one of us.

May God bless you all.

Yours in Christ,

Tony Whitlock, Perry Baptist.

Methodist Macmillan Coffee Morning

27th September 10am

Every year we like to give over our Friday Coffee Morning at

the end of September to this worthy cause.

There will be the usual stalls including cakes so do come

along with your friends and neighbours for an enjoyable

morning in generous support of this vital charity.

Thank you.

Buckden Village Hall - Annual

General Meeting

1 October 2019 at 7.30 pm

We welcome any Buckden resident who would be interested in

joining as a trustee as well as representatives from groups that

regularly uses the Hall: schools, youth clubs, churches, volun-

teer organisations, etc. Being a trustee is not a major time

commitment. If you are interested in getting involved and im-

proving the facilities in our Village, please get in touch.

Cynthia Alers, Chair chair@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk

Jo Harvey, Hall Manager admin@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk