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Notes from the Council Meeting February 25th |
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The meeting began with a reading from Psalm 84 |
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Service broadcast on BBC Radio 4 |
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Message from the Chair of Council |
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I'm sure there will be more on the event in due course, but I take this opportunity to say a huge 'thank you' to everyone who was at Scargill on Sunday 7th of February for that very special service, as we welcomed Phil and Di ‘officially’ into their new life, roles and responsibilities. |
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Council Meeting January 14th 2010 |
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Notes from the Council Meeting on January 14th Some Council members were unable to attend due to the icy conditions, and after much email negotiation and inspection of weather forecasts, the meeting went ahead but was relocated to Manchester. |
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Adrian Plass offers a prayerful thought for January
ANOINTED WITH OIL
Scargill has been anointed with oil, several thousand litres of it. Thank God and Bayford Oil for that. |
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| | | | | May 7-9th
| Friends’ and Companions’ Weekend
(More information to follow...) | May 9th
| Christian Aid Service, Scargill Chapel |
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It was a sort of guinea-pig convention. Thirty or so generous souls actually paid money so that we could practice our organising, cleaning, cooking, serving, decorating, hosting, entertaining and pool playing skills. |
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Adrian and Bridget Plass are here - What can they do for You? |
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Three months ago Bridget and I lived near Eastbourne in Sussex. We don’t any more. We live in North Yorkshire now, near the village of Kettlewell, home of the famous Calendar girls. Walk a mile from Kettlewell in the direction of Conistone, and you will find the entrance to Scargill House. Just inside the big black gates at the bottom of the drive you will discover two semi-detached cottages. We live in the one on the right. |
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How Scargill became a Movement |
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A Personal Reflection
Bishop John Finney This is the Lord’s doing: it is marvellous in our eyes’ PS 118.23 Last July Chris Edmondson made waves even before he had properly arrived as Bishop of Bolton. He wrote to the Church press deploring the closure of Scargill and hoping that some way would be found of reopening it. Within a few weeks the response to that letter and the dismay of many people at the shutting of this beautiful and deeply meaningful place led to three initiatives being taken. ... |
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