Prayer Meeting: Tuesdays at 7.30 pm – meeting in various homes. Part of the
“Cornwall Prayer Initiative” (Contact Derek 290188 or Mary 290476)
Golow dhe’n Lysardh
CONTACTS
Minister:
Rev Sylvia Burgoyne
01326 240200
Stewards:
Edwin Carter
01326 290724
John Normington
01326 290476
Courtney Rowe
01326 290051
Rachel Tonkin
01326 290781
Secretary:
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‘The Christmas message is that there is hope for ruined humanity – hope
of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory….’
JI Packer
But Charlie is no more;
The monthly newsletter of The Lizard Chapel
December 2010
Footnotes
‘Charlie was a chemist.
Light at The Lizard
Verse for this month
‘She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he
will save his people from their sins.’
Matthew chapter 1 verse 21 (New Living Translation)
What Charlie thought was H2O
Was H2SO4!’
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SUNDAY
SERVICES
IN
DECEMBER
“Who will go for us?”
Let’s take it as read that Christmas is about much more than tinsel and turkey –
even more than thinking about others and giving to them. Ultimately, it’s about
Someone – given to us. Let me say more.
Date:
Time
Event:
Venue:
5th
11 am
Morning Worship led by Mr Colin
Combellack
The Lizard
Chapel
12th
11am
Family Carol Service at St
Wynwallow
St Wynwallow
19th
11 am
Family Carol Service led by Rev
Sylvia Burgoyne
The Lizard
Chapel
26th
11 am
Morning Worship led by Mr Ken
Mills
The Lizard
Chapel
DIARY DATES
Date:
Time
Event:
Venue:
5th
7.30 pm
Treverva Male Voice Choir: an
RNLI fundraising event
The Lizard
Chapel
19th
11am
Family Carol Service for all the
village
The Lizard
Chapel
25th
10.30am
Christmas Day Celebrations
Mullion Chapel
Recently, we’ve seen instances of hostage taking by Somali pirates capturing
foreign sailors in the waters off their coast. It’s a wicked and scary development
in a country wrecked by poverty and lawlessness. Usually, the hostages are
released only after the payment of considerable ransoms. Our hearts go out to all
caught up in it. The experience of being hostage to threatening forces, is one way
of understanding the ‘cosmic’ meaning of Christmas. Isn’t there a sense in which
the human family is in hostage to powerful forces threatening to destroy us;
irresponsible speculations by financial institutions, relentless encouragement from
advertisers to consume more, the steady drift away from precious institutions such
life-long caring marriage, and increasing demands on our environment threatening
the very survival of our intricately inter-dependent planet? Is there anyone who
can rescue us from such forces?
Celebrating Christmas, christians reply ‘Yes, there most definitely is!’ and that
Someone is Jesus Christ. His coming was an extraordinary surrender of status,
glory and love which he knew when everything began. He made an enormous
investment of self, in care toward all sorts of people. His dedication to living out
truth became a sacrifice which took him from a cradle to a cross; a sacrifice that
has power to renew human hearts and minds. Making room for this powerful and
transforming One, in every aspect of life, starting with ourselves, would really
defeat all the captivating forces which hold us and our world. Isn’t it time for us
to receive and cherish the best gift the human family has ever been given .... and
find ourselves freed and restored. That always makes for a happy Christmas.
Rev Geoffrey Thorpe