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‘Maureen’s Musings’
The Vicar’s monthly letter for the Parish News
August 2018
So how are you enjoying the holidays?
I am writing this in the middle of July and it is baking hot…. but knowing the UK’s weather we might be enjoying a monsoon or worse by the time you read this! And just as I began typing, came the news flashing up on my phone that the dream is over and England are out of the World Cup – Oh dear! I hope that hasn’t ruined the summer for too many of you!… What was that poem by Rudyard Kipling “If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same ….” or words to that effect.
This August our Holiday Club has a strong sporting theme. Which means lots of trips for our youngsters across to the Playing Field and back to church. And although I am happy that we have just enough adults to keep our youngsters safe, it would not hurt to have a few more pairs of eyes and ears, so if anyone has some time to spare on August 21, 22 and /or 23, please get in touch with me or better still with Anna Davies on 07968 891927.
While thinking about people giving their time and resources, I must say a bit THANK YOU! to everyone who helped to make the Fete and Classic Car Show another outstanding occasion. Of course the weather always helps and it was brilliant. And even though the timing was changed at almost the last minute (back to thinking about that football completion!) it does not seem to have been much of a disadvantage, financially speaking. Well done Kate and Russ and team for organising another cracking afternoon.
And next year Kate and Russ hope to have moved away from Pattingham to the Lake District (boo-hoo! – but lovely for them!) So we will need a new team to take on the challenge (or should that be opportunity?) that is the annual Church and Village Fete!
Someone was talking with me recently about the difference between gifting and volunteering. I’d never really thought about that, but they had a point. If we ask for volunteers, there is always a slight sense of coercion; of people doing something out of a sense of duty and obligation. But if I ask “What do you think is your gifting? And how could you use that to benefit the community / church? It’s a rather different thing – somehow it feels lighter and more enthusiastic – being enabled to use and develop one’s gifting is as much to the advantage of the individual as the organisation. – Do you see? So somewhere out there will be someone who senses that their gifting might be in organising the team that puts on the Fete….. who will it be, I wonder? How exciting!
Happy Holidays and every blessing,
Maureen.
PS Remember to renew your Century Club Subscription this month please!!!!