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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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| February 7th | Rev Phil Stone’s Licensing Service and Friend’s Update
(Please contact the office if you would like to attend) | | February 21st | Service to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4
(More information to follow...) | 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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Notes from the December Council Meeting |
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Prayers The meeting began with prayerful reflection on Romans 4 – the faith that endures, and remembering before God Scargill connections, naming some who have suffered bereavement or are ill at this time. The Words ‘Courage’ and ‘Trust’ came out of the reflection time. |
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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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Letter from +Chris Edmondson, Chair of Council |
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On behalf of the Council I am delighted to announce the appointment of the Rev.Phil Stone to be the new Director (Warden) of Scargill House. |
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Director Appointed for Scargill House |
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 Following formal announcement on Sunday we are able to introduce the new Director Phil Stone and his wife Di.
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New full time administrator for The Scargill Movement at Scargill House, Sarah Sellers started on August 10th, |
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Chris Edmondson (Chair of Council) offers this poem wirtten by Tim Ashworth - a former Scargill House chaplain - at the time of the closure of the House last year, with a growing sense of its prophetic edge.. |
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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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