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Telephone 0118 934 4841 Dear Friends,

Christmas will soon be upon us! At the place where I work part-time in

Oxford, we will be having a Christmas party a couple of weeks or so

before 25th December. But this will be a party with a difference! I

work at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS), and we have

over 100 research students registered with us, from 20 or more different

countries. They are all committed Christians, doing research to equip

the Christian church for mission and outreach today, in their culture and

context. OCMS is a very vibrant place to be. So our Christmas party

will embrace a wide range of cultures: I expect people will be there

from the UK, Tonga, India, Kenya, Uganda, Malaysia, the USA, and

South Korea – to name but a few!

In terms of food – essential to any party! – the basis of the meal will be

traditional British turkey, with roast potatoes and all the trimmings. If

you think about it, this is a bit odd. Why would people from Tonga,

India and Kenya celebrate Christmas in British style?

How many of us will be celebrating Christmas in the style of some

other culture than our own?

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Now obviously our students are not coerced or forced to do this against

their will (!). They gladly choose to come and celebrate in this way

(e.g. enjoying roast turkey). But why? Well, I think the answer is a

very profound and important one. As Christians move out in mission to

new and different cultures and contexts – to proclaim the good news of

Jesus Christ and to show his love to those around them – they realise

that they must adapt to the culture to which they move. If a Korean

man travels to Kenya to share the Christian message – as my friend

Joshua has done – he needs to learn the local language and customs.

It’s not much use preaching in Nairobi in his native tongue! And so our

OCMS students from abroad live out this same principle whilst they are

based in Oxford. If the UK Christmas involves turkey, then adapt and

enjoy it!

But there’s more to the OCMS Christmas party than roast turkey!

Another wonderful feature of this celebration is that the host country

food (Christmas pudding and brandy butter, etc) will be supplemented

with contributions from Malaysia, South Korea and so on. It will be a

very varied feast! So here is another lesson for us all. The British way

of celebrating the birth of Christ is not the only way of celebrating. It’s

lovely that we live in a world with such a variety of cultures, languages

and traditions. No one culture needs to dominate the rest. Each culture

has its own validity (so long as it doesn’t go against God’s

commandments, of course).

And in this way the multi-faceted OCMS Christmas party points us to

the best lesson of all: Jesus Christ came to this earth to save and rescue

people from every culture and every country. How do you respond to

him?

Andy Hartropp

Associate Vicar


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Monday 13th December 2010

7.30pm

Adults £3.00. Children £1.50.

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2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. alternate Wednesdays Contact: Jennifer Glennie,19 Burcot Gardens, Maidenhead, SL6 7UR.

Telephone: 01628 626939.

The club restarted on the 1st September.Various matters were discussed about

our future plans for next year 2011.

The General Knowledge Quiz was won by Ann & Myrtle.

On September 15th Mrs Dorothy Kemp a former Mayor of Windsor &

Maidenhead Council came and gave us a very interesting talk about her year

in office.There were many Photographs and her Medal for service. Jenny was

in charge of the meeting as Albert and Myself were holidaying in Scotland.

On 13th October Mrs Joan Hobson told us how the club was started as she was

a founder member.The club was the inspiration of the Shottesbrooke

Needlework Guild of which Joan was Chairwoman and Mrs Val Batt-Rawden

was Secretary. So it is with great pleasure to say that the Everwelcome Club

started on 12th September 1962. Thanks go to the Guild and 48years later we

are still active.

Our outing a drive through Windsor Great Park with a stop at the Windsor

Farm Shop and a welcome cup of tea was enjoyed by members.

By the time you read this we will have had our AGM. I would like to say a big

Thank You especially to Jennifer for all her help during the past year and wish

everybody a Happy Christmas and New Year. I look forward to the 26th

January 2011 with the new Programme.

Future Plans

December 1st Xmas Lunch at Maidenhead Golf Course will be enjoyed

by 35 members.

January 26th Club Resumes

Ursula McAndrew.


Cox Green Townswomen’s Guild Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7.45 p.m.

at Cox Green Community Centre

For further information please contact the Secretary, Jean Chant, 17 Stratford Gardens, Cox Green, Maidenhead, Berks, SL6 3DT

Tel: 01628 639583

Our trip to Salisbury Cathedral and Sir Edward Heath’s House on October

12th was a really wonderful day. Lovely sunshine enabled us to see his house

and wander round his garden at leisure.

Our Programme for December – January is as follows:-

December 16th Christmas Social.

January 20th Pampering Evening.

Friday December 10th

Some of our members will be attending a carol concert in aid of the National

Rheumatoid Arthritis Society at All Saints Church Boyn Hill Road from 7 -

9pm.The admission charge of £10.00p (£6.00p for concessions and Children)

will include a glass of wine and a mince pie.

Saturday December 11th

Carol Concert (Federation) at St Peters Church Marlow at 11.00am

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Arts & Crafts, Card Games, Walk & Pub Lunches continue.

For further details contact me on 01628 639583.

Jean Chant.

Found

One Pair of Children’s first Shoes along the Waltham Road. Can be collected

from Woodlands Park Village Centre. Telephone Jan on 01628 823964


Project Rainbow is White Waltham church’s building project which will construct purpose built accommodation for the church’s children’s and young people’s activities.

Throughout October and November members of our congregation worked on Project Rainbow’s 10-10-10 initiative. They used their skills and talents to raise money for the project by offering products and services to friends, relatives and members of their local communities. We would like to thank everyone who supported Project Rainbow’s 10-10-10 initiative. Go to our website for the latest news on 10-10-10.

Now available is our first Project Rainbow Quiz Sheet – a cryptic quiz to challenge you and your friends over the festive season! You can download the quiz sheet from the Project Rainbow website or pick up a copy from the Church or the village Centre. Just do your very best with the quiz and return it to The Vicarage by the end of January. There is no charge but we are asking for a donation for each quiz sheet and suggest about £1.

Coming up on Friday 21st January is an Antiques Evening with

Bonhams of Henley. For information and for tickets contact Jane on 0118 934 3704 or Bridget on 01628 670338. For more details see page 11 or the Project Rainbow website.

On Sunday 13th February there is a concert at White Waltham Church

from 4pm. Entry is by donation on the door and includes refreshments which will be served in the interval. The concert features musicians Peter Dodsworth, Neil Pennock and Jennifer Miles. For more information see page 29 or the Project Rainbow website.

If you would like to give to Project Rainbow there are giving packs available from the Church, The Vicarage and Woodlands Park Village Centre. You can also give online via our website.

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WOODLANDS PARK SCHOOL

The Autumn Term has been a busy and exciting one at Woodlands Park

Primary School. During September and October all key stage two classes

were able to experience outdoor and adventurous activities such as the high

ropes course at Berkshire College of Agriculture, canoeing and kayaking at

Hurley.

The children have also been busy harvesting produce from the allotment. We

were able to celebrate the harvest with a special harvest lunch, where parents

and family members joined the children as they ate a beautiful roast dinner

prepared by our cook, using produce from the allotment.

Many new and exciting things have been happening in the school grounds as

well. SAP, a computer company, sent a large group of volunteers to help clear

our wild area in preparation for a new pond. Bird boxes have been put up in

the area, equipped with web cams. This all adds to our development of an

outstanding curriculum, using outside learning to develop pupils’ skills and

knowledge. A new cycle shelter has been installed to encourage as many

families as possible to leave their cars behind and cycle or scooter to school.

A new soft play area has been installed in the outside area of the Foundation

Unit.

We continue to work towards our Forest School status, using Beechgrove

Wood and surrounding land in Marlow. An orienteering course has been set

up and the pupils are already using the area for shelter building, team building

and science and geography lessons to complement their work at school.

Once again, we can celebrate a rise in standards at Woodlands Park, with our

progress levels being above average and the best they have ever been.

Progress rates across the whole school have been greatly improved in the last

two years.

As Christmas is fast approaching, the pupils have been busy rehearsing for

various productions. The nursery and infants will be doing their traditional

Nativity and Christmas stories. Key stage two will be performing ‘Scrooge’

and have been busy rehearsing songs. Some key stage two pupils will also be

performing with pupils from White Waltham at the community centre in

December.

Alison Penny

Headteacher


Rainbow

Bike Ride 2011

Next summer the vicar and his family will be setting off on a sponsored

two tandem bike ride to raise money for Project Rainbow, pedalling a

1000 mile circuit around Britain.

We see ‘building bridges’ between our church and our community as

an important aspect of the vision for Project Rainbow so we are

taking bridges as the theme for our ride and we want to cross as many

as possible!

We’ve decided on four major bridges as the ‘corners’ of our route –

Severn, Menai, Humber and Tower Bridge – but we want to include lots

of others, and we’re looking for suggestions of interesting places to

visit. So if you know of any interesting bridges around the country,

large or small, old or new, please tell us about them and we will see if

we can fit them in. Thank you!

David, Caroline, Naomi & Thomas Andrew


White Waltham C E Primary School

As the days shorten and Christmas approaches, the school is

a hive of activity with children’s voices ringing out to nativity

songs in preparation for our lower school nativity, and our

annual Church Service at St. Mary’s at the end of term.

On Friday November 5th, Year 6 at White Waltham had their

4th 11 Million Day, a day when thousands of children across

the country step into the shoes of chief executives, MPs and

professionals in all walks of life, as part of the Children’s

Commissioner for England’s Takeover Day. Takeover Day/11

Million Day is a national event offering children and young

people across the country the chance to work alongside

adults, to gain first-hand experience and get involved in

decision-making in a wide range of organisations. At White

Waltham Year 6 pupils had the opportunity to teach in groups

throughout the school, supervise playtime and lead a

Collective Worship. We hope this experience gives them an

understanding of the role and enjoy listening to their

comments and suggestions.

Many classes, have also been benefiting from trips to a

variety of places to enrich their learning e.g. Planetarium,

Imperial War Museum, Synagogue. We have also been able to

support two of our pupils who are talented ice-skaters by

taking some of our Year 3 – 6 pupils to ‘Cinderella on Ice’ in

which they performed.


Our choir has been very busy rehearsing for a number of

‘Christmas Events’ they will be performing in: carolling around

White Waltham, a combined Christmas Concert to

Woodlands Park Community with Woodlands Park school, as

well as performing at the ‘National Rheumatoid Arthritis

Society Christmas Concert’. Furthermore, our Year 3 pupils

took part in the Maidenhead Festival of Music, Dance &

Speech singing Space ….Jam and were awarded a Commended

Certificate.

Our pupils continue to keep fit and have been competing in

netball tournaments and football matches. Other children

have been enjoying football and basketball with Wycombe

Wanderers and hockey with Miss Southerden.

Our pupils love sharing their school experiences and would

welcome visitors to show around. So, please feel free to pop

in and visit our school. Contact the school office on 01628

822533 or by email [email protected] to arrange a

visit or for any further information.

Isabel Cooke Headteacher


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Different Like You

I went to our local Post Shop to send some letters and was given Christmas stamps for each letter. How fast each year goes by. As I write, Guy Fawkes is tomorrow (why on earth do kiwis celebrate this? I have never understood!). And Christmas will be here again very soon.

You’ll realise that we celebrate Christmas in summer time but we still send cards with robins, snow sleighs etc., on them. How little these symbols have to do with Christmas itself.

Earlier this week we decided to drive out to a local beach with our dog. The weather was gloriously fine and there was very little wind. We arrived at Aramoana and started on a gentle walk the full length of the beach which reaches out into Otago Harbour. Across from us lies Taiaroa Head with its lighthouse and colony of breeding Royal Albatross. This is the only such colony in the world on the mainland so it is very special to all Dunedin residents . . . and many New Zealanders.

But we weren’t there for the albatrosses. As we walked slowly along, Heath, our Springer Spaniel was constantly wanting a stick to be thrown into the surf. He’d leap across the breaking waves (they were not too high!), find the stick and swim back with it for the next throw. He never seems to tire of swimming at the beach.

We reached the end of the beach and started back to where we’d parked the car and the light lunch and hot drinks we’d brought. It was idyllic and as we talked we each realised that the same thought had occurred to both of us. Liz loves to find beautiful and unusual sea shells and indeed, she did find a few. But the thought was that despite the fact that although there are literally millions of sea shells on this and so many other beaches, each one is different.

We all seem to know that no two snowflakes are identical and it is also true for blades of grass. The next day we were doing some shopping at a local supermarket which has the title of this newsletter as its marketing symbol at present. I suppose they are trying to indicate that they are as different from other supermarkets as we are from each other.


It is true that each one who reads this is unique. Even so called identical twins differ from each other. Isn’t God amazing in His creation? He chooses to make these differences. Sadly, although different, we do share some similarities. We are all imperfect, we all do things, say things, that we’d rather not. Words we sincerely wish we’d left unsaid, things we wish we’d never done. But once said or done they can’t be taken back. These are the things that mean we fall short of God’s standards.

At Christmas time we recall the birth of the Christ child in Bethlehem over 2000 years ago. Many will know that, unlike you and me, he was born specifically to die. In fact, after a perfect life, to die to pay the price for those things we cannot undo or “unsay”.

This Christmas make it your plan to go to church, to hear afresh the wonderful story of those events, to sing the beautiful carols... but above all to realise that this babe grew to manhood and died for you and me, and to ask Him into your life. You’ll still be unique, still different from everybody else in the world, but you’ll be in God’s family with your eternal future safe and secure. Above all you’ll be different from everyone who has never taken that step, whose eternal future is bleak and away from God.

Have the happiest Christmas ever and a New Year which is prosperous according to God’s standards.

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The Royal British Legion The Woodlands Park Branch held a Quiz Night with Fish and Chip Supper.

The evening went very well. We raised £116 for the on-going work that the branch provides serving and ex-serving men and women.

We would like to express our grateful thanks to those who donated raffle prizes: Seiko, Cornish Carpets, Raymond Thatcher, Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck Bray, and Waitrose.

A great night was had by all and we look forward to seeing you at our next event.

Look out for posters advertising it and watch this space in the Parish Magazine.

Simon Graves


If You want to cause a fiasco, declare Santa Claus to be non-existent. A

few years ago the Rev. Lee Rayfield (Lee Rayfield not Lee Enfield!)

did just that and caused considerable consternation nationwide with the

exposure. Children were extremely distressed and the anguish amongst

parents can only be imagined. “He ought to be unfrocked!” said some.

It was only resolved when he climbed down saying “Don’t worry

kiddies, I was only joking.”

It was a great blow to me, when at the age of about 18, I had to finally

concede that Santa was a fiction. The pillow case I’d put out every

Christmas Eve had always been filled, the glass of sherry I’d left for the

kindly soul, emptied, and the carrot for his reindeer, taken, but it was

nothing but a delusion. I’d really believed he’d climbed down the

chimney with a great sack of toys, and in a few hours visited every

other child in the world, his transport being a sleigh drawn by reindeer.

He could do the impossible, something I never questioned. So it was all

a fantasy, a myth, to which I’d clung but very reluctantly had to

relinquish. Something very reassuring had to be dismissed.

Similarly, in parallel with the above, since early childhood, I’d

acknowledged God’s existence, through having trusted those who’d

assured me of his loving care. Following Sunday School I’d become a

habitual churchgoer, and prayed to him; so for over thirty years I

cherished my belief. I have spoken of my dismay when the myth of

Santa became apparent to me, but of my belief in God the converse

proved to be true. I cannot easily describe my elation at receiving

corroboration that my God was real. There can be nothing like hoping

something is the truth and the finding that it is — this is true revelation!

The bubble did not burst.

What had always been a loose hope of God’s existence had, in a very

brief time, become total conviction.

Belief, surely has to depend on actual experience, but for the absolute

assurance that we are encountering the truth, documentary backup is

essential.


I was enthralled, but was moved towards a necessary study of the Bible.

What I read affirmed things that I was already beginning to accept. It

became clear that to appreciate God and his ways, such study was

essential; this is comparable with the computer’s monitor, without

which we’d be utterly confused.

The Holy Bible told me more; those things I’d been hearing for decades

acquired a new significance for me because I’d become convinced of

their truth. Jesus, who hitherto had been a remote being, an exalted but

awesome ‘celebrity’, became someone I didn’t just ‘know of’ but had

actually come to know. The maker of the universe who’d come to earth,

had called me to him as a friend, and as a friend to me he laid down his

life - by dying on the cross he’d died for my sins, died in my place. I

knew that through faith in him I was being offered eternal life - the

Bible’s vital message, not just to me but to all who trust its words. It

becomes clear that we can trust the Bible, and in doing so we can trust

Him; he keeps his promises. And those essential passages, some so

familiar, are worth calling to mind; “…God so loved the world that he

gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not

perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) “But God demonstrates

his love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

(Romans 5:8), and the fulfilment of those countless Old Testament

prophesies respecting the Lord Jesus – to be the son of God (Luke 1:

32) of his working miracles (Matthew 11:4-6), of his tenderness and

compassion (Matthew 12:15), and the intensity of his suffering (Luke

22:42-44), but above all, of his resurrection, necessary to the

forgiveness of sins (Luke 24:6,31,34).

I had heard for myself, Like those Samaritans in John 4:42 who said

“Now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is

the Saviour of the world.” I felt I’d met with something resembling

‘The Mountain Top Experience’ (Matthew 17:1-9).

Bob Packer


Tales from the Bells

Firstly I’d like to congratulate Naomi Andrew who rang her first quarter peal inside. In the previous magazine I mentioned about Harvest and reaping the rewards of experience gained when learning to ring and becoming more competent.

A Quarter Peal was rung on Sunday 3rd October 2010 at White Waltham just before the Harvest Festival service.

1260 changes of Plain Bob Doubles in 44 minutes

1. Lesley A Graves 4. Derek R Smith

2. Naomi G Andrew* 5. Caroline S Andrew (Conductor)

3. Simon D Smith 6. Roger C Martin

Rung for Harvest Festival. * First inside, 2. To commemorate, 21 years to the day these bells were rung for the first time after being recast.

As you will see from above it shows who rang in the quarter peal and what method we rang and how long it took. Also who the conductor was, with most quarter peals they are rung to celebrate something and this is shown in the footnote. Hopefully we will be ringing more quarter peals before the end of the year.

By this time of the year the busy wedding season has finished (although we do have the odd wedding at the end or beginning of the year). So we now practice ringing for the forthcoming Christmas services and then the New Year.

It is at this time of year we recall a method called St Nicholas. This Saint is normally marked on the 6 December and is known to be the bringer of gifts. Therefore, we try to ring it during Christmas in celebration of Jesus’ birth. It is nice to ring as it is a change from some of the other methods we generally ring.

We will also be ringing out the old year of 2010 and ringing in the New Year of 2011 at the stroke of midnight. So, see if you can hear us if you are awake.


We also have quite a few visiting ringers at this time of the year from other towers who like to ring the bells at both White Waltham and Shottesbrooke. They do this to gain more experience on different bells. Remember if you are interested in learning to ring we practice on Friday nights from 7.30pm till 9pm. Initial training is given at White Waltham. If your New Year’s resolution is to take up bell ringing, please phone or email me for more details. My details are at the back of the parish magazine.

The Bell Ringers of White Waltham and Shottesbrooke would like to wish you a Happy Christmas and New Year for 2011.

Lesley Graves, Tower Captain, White Waltham

Calling all Ladies of the Parish…… Would anyone be interested in the setting up of a new branch of the Women’s Institute in White Waltham?

If so, please contact me. My details are in the back of the Parish Magazine where you will find my telephone, address and e-mail address.

This is only to find out the initial expression of interest in the area. If enough women are interested we will go from there.

The web address to the National Website of the Women’s Institute is www.thewi.org.uk in case you would like to find out more about the W.I. Lesley Graves


Please join us for a

TEA-TIME CONCERT The first half will feature international

Clarinettist Neil Pennock, graduate of the

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama,

accompanied by Peter Dodsworth on the piano.

And after the interval,

during which afternoon tea will be served,

Peter Dodsworth will perform on the Bassoon,

accompanied by Jennifer Miles on the Piano.

Both are graduates of the Royal Academy of Music.

Sunday 13th

February

White Waltham Church

4.00 pm

Entry by donation on the door

raising funds for


Hurley & Walthams Ward

Your three Ward Councillors

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Hazel Wilson 01628 823610 [email protected]

Local News

Time passes so quickly and we are now coming up to Christmas. We

were pleased to hear the Halloween and Bonfire Nights passed very

successfully with no reported accidents.

Just a couple of items locally for you to be aware of:

Watch out for any strangers in your area. We have had lead removed

from buildings, and several reported burglaries. On the whole our area

has not had the amount of crime elsewhere in the Borough but please do

watch out and report any inconsistencies to the police – 0845 8 505 505

With the cold weather approaching, the council have allocated salt bins

and at present there are two in the area – one at the Community Centre

and one at the car park for the village hall in White Waltham. The

Parish Council are endeavouring to get another for Church Hill but as

yet it is unknown whether this is both feasible and practicable. Please

do watch out for the very dangerous bend on the Waltham Road going

into Broadmoor Road. This bend has a dip and gets black ice.

As you know there is a stand for a temporary speed camera on the

Waltham Road between the airfield and the Community Centre. Many

drivers have been caught driving over the 30mph limit and we have

been questioned as to the distance from the 40mph stretch on this road

to the 30mph as the camera picks up speeding just shortly after the sign.

The Council’s Highways Officers have checked this out and all the

distances are correct.


Council News

The Big Society

You will have heard of ‘The Big Society’ and Windsor & Maidenhead

are one of the four authorities in the country chosen to spearhead this

initiative. The Big Society aims to make it easy for people and

communities to take control and do things for themselves on the issues

that matter to them.

The Borough are holding a Big Society Event on Saturday 4th

December at Desborough School, Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead

from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm and everyone can drop in, including children.

The enthusiasm and involvement of residents and the voluntary sector

are crucial to the Big Society’s success and this event will give them the

opportunity to have a look at what the council is doing and come

forward with their own suggestions about how the Big Society can

work in their communities.

The one-day event which you can attend for the whole day or drop in

for a short while will be a mix of:

• stalls on the borough’s Big Society projects

• displays staged by the council, its partner organisations and the

voluntary sector

• presentations and entertainment

Cashless Car Parking

Drivers can now avoid pay and display machine queues by using their

mobile phones to pay for parking

The council have introduced a new scheme to the Stafferton Car Park in

Maidenhead and the River Street Car Park in Windsor which if

successful will hopefully be extended to all the car parks and on street

parking.

At the long-stay Stafferton Way, motorists activate a parking session

lasting until midnight, when it automatically expires. If they are

unexpectedly delayed and need to buy another day’s parking, they can

do this via their mobile – there is no need to return to the car park.


In the busy short-stay River Street car park, motorists call to activate

their parking session on arrival and call again to deactivate it when they

are ready to leave. There’s no need to guess the length of their stay and

no need for coins.

Motorists first have to register with Parkmobile, the company

commissioned to run the mobile parking system, on 020 3003 2526 or

at www.parkmobile.co.uk.

Then at the car parks they simply call 020 3003 2526 and use the 6051

location code at Stafferton Way or 6001 at River Street.

Smartphone users can register and pay for parking by texting ‘park url’

to 66644, while iPhone users can download Parkmobile’s app from the

App Store.

Registering is free and there is a 20p charge each time the service is

used. Advantage Card discounts don’t apply.

Community Recycling Rewards

The Royal Borough is to introduce a pioneering community solution

that will make recycling rewards available to those who don’t have

access to a wheelie bin – enabling all residents to benefit from the

pioneering scheme by January.

The solution enables RecycleBank rewards to be made available to

residents who don’t have their own individual wheelie bin – including

those who live in flats with communal recycling facilities, narrow

streets which are inaccessible to refuse collection vehicles or older

properties where there is not enough bin storage space. Once

households have activated their accounts, residents will tell

RecycleBank each week that they have recycled either online, by phone

or through apps on their Blackberry or iPhone.

Points will then be allocated to participating residents based on an equal

share of the total amount recycled within the area. Points will be

deposited into members’ accounts and then can be redeemed for goods

and services provided by more than 100 national and local businesses.

All affected households will get letters explaining how they can

participate and earn valuable reward points.


The letters will include information about when households can expect

the scheme to start in their area.

Adopt a street

Adopt-a-Street encourages residents to volunteer to care for their

communities and local environment by collecting litter and helping to

keep streets clean and tidy. Schools, youth groups, adults and local

businesses are involved in this scheme in other Wards and if any of the

above are interested please contact:

Adopt-a-Street, call 01628 796459 or visit www.rbwm.gov.uk

Community Crime Fighter

The police are looking for volunteers to become Home

Office ‘Community Crime Fighters’, who will work alongside the

Police, Royal Borough Community Wardens, Councillors, Partner

organisations and local residents to tackle the issues which matter most

to people who live and work in the area.

The overall role of a Community Crime Fighter, is to help forge closer

links between local people and the authorities, as well as encouraging

others to get involved in the policing of their Neighbourhood.

Community Crime Fighters have a list of responsibilities, including

attending, or setting up local community meetings, liaising with police,

the council and local residents, taking part in local initiatives and

contributing to community newsletters. The police would like to see community fighters in every

Neighbourhood; helping to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour as

well as improving the quality life, for other people. This sort of work

can be very rewarding and is an excellent way of getting involved. If

you think you have what it takes, or you’d like some more information,

please get in touch via the 24-hour Police Enquiry Centre on 0845 8 505

505 and ask for your Neighbourhood Sergeant: Sgt Adrian Blades

Our very best wishes for a peaceful and happy Christmas

Cllr Maureen Hunt, Cllr Paul Etherington and Cllr Hazel Wilson


Gardeners available for grounds

and garden maintenance

High standards of service

A friendly, capable and local company

Telephone – White Waltham

0118 934 5184

or daytime on 07775 93348

ALLEN ELECTRICAL SERVICES

AES

Your Local Electrician All Types of Electrical Work No Call-out Charge Emergency Service Re-Wires Fully Insured

Security Lights Shower Installations

Extra Sockets & Lights Part P Approved

Please call 01628 621342 or 07860 701320 (Mobile)


Glory to God in the High Street

Many years ago in Finchley, north London there was a local Methodist

Church which would offer various inspirational messages in illuminated

lights to the passers-by on the main road. Their Christmas one, very

appropriately, was the song of the angels: ‘Glory to God in the highest’.

Unfortunately some inclement weather or a simple technical failure put

out one of the lights. Just as appropriately, however, it now read, ‘Glory

to God in the High St’. An electrical fault, perhaps – but how

wonderfully true it was. In fact, nothing could better sum up the deep

meaning of Christmas than that splendidly distorted message.

Those same angels told the shepherds in the fields that the ‘sign’ to

identify the special baby to be born that night in Bethlehem would be

that they would find him ‘lying in a manger’. Well, ‘manger’ is a fancy

word for a simple thing. The truth is that they would find the infant Son

of God lying in a feeding trough.

At Bethlehem the Creator entered the Creation. ‘The Word became

flesh and dwelt among us’ - and the ‘Word’, John’s Gospel tells us,

‘was God’. In Jesus the divine became human. ‘In him (Jesus) all the

fullness of deity dwells bodily’, St Paul tells us (Colossians 2:9). ‘Hail

the incarnate deity’, we sing - but it’s hard sometimes to recognise his

identity in the bonny baby in the traditional crib scene. It’s a pity that

the Christmas story can so easily be sentimentalised, because in fact this

was the most radical and revolutionary action of God since the creation

itself. God, in Jesus his Son, actually came among us - not as a super-

being, not even as a fully grown adult, but as a baby.

‘You will find the baby lying in a feeding trough.’ Exactly. Right where

we are, in all the mess and muddle of ordinary life, in the fun and tears,

in the feasting and the poverty, the glory of God was seen in a tiny

scrap of human flesh. In that helpless baby God showed how far he was

prepared to go to bring us back to himself. When God took flesh he did

it properly.

Glory to God in the High Street!


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SPECIAL OFFERS ALWAYS AVAILABLE ON HAIR & BEAUTY

Phone for details on this month's offers. Tel: 01628 824 723

4 FURROW WAY, OFF FARMERS WAY, COX GREEN.

Want a lift to St Mary’s services?

Contact Joan Hobson, our car rota co-ordinator on

01628 635770 by 6.00 pm the previous day.

Joan would also like to hear from regular attenders

who are able to offer lifts.

GRASS CUTTING

St. Mary’s Church, White Waltham, has a

large churchyard which looks very nice

when the grass is cut. Should anyone like

to join the voluntary team who carry out

this work we would be very grateful to hear

from them!

Please ring 0118 934 3704


Register

Marriage

At White Waltham

September 10th Daniel Roger Christian Luft & Kiri Alyson Butler

Funeral

Burial at Oakley Green Cemetery following service at White

Waltham

September 9th Stanley Jones, aged 85 (Cookham Road)


Church Service Rota

December & January

8.00 am White Waltham

9.30 am Shottesbrooke

11.00 am White Waltham

Evening

Sunday 5 December

Holy Communion BCP

Morning Prayer BCP

Family Service

Sunday 12 December

Holy Communion BCP

Holy Communion BCP

Morning Prayer

Sunday 19 December

Holy Communion BCP

Morning Prayer BCP

Family Carol Service with Christingles

Christmas Eve Friday 24 December

6.00 pm Carol Service

White Waltham 11.30 pm Midnight Communion

Christmas Day 25 December

9.00 am Holy Communion BCP

10.30 am Family Service followed by short Holy Communion

Sunday 26 December

Holy Communion

Shottesbrooke 6.30 pm Traditional Carol Service

Sunday 2 January

Holy Communion BCP

Morning Prayer BCP

Family Service

Sunday 9 January

Holy Communion BCP

Holy Communion BCP

Morning Prayer

Sunday 16 January

Holy Communion BCP

Morning Prayer BCP

Holy Communion

Sunday 23 January

Holy Communion CW

Holy Communion BCP

Morning Prayer

Sunday 30 January

Holy Communion BCP

Morning Prayer BCP

Holy Communion

Sunday 6 February

Holy Communion BCP

Morning Prayer BCP

Family Service


The Who’s Who

Telephone codes are 01628 unless stated otherwise

Vicar David Andrew, The Vicarage,

Waltham Road, White Waltham

SL6 3JD 822000

email:[email protected]

Associate Vicar Andy Hartropp, The Parsonage, School Road, West End, Waltham St Lawrence,

RG10 0NU 0118 934 4841

Licensed Lay Ministers Carol Perkins, 1 Kendall Place,

Cox Green, Maidenhead, Berkshire,

SL6 4GA 623445


Claire Hartropp, The Parsonage, School Road, West End, Waltham St Lawrence,

RG10 0NU 0118 934 4841

Churchwarden – Shottesbrooke Bob Packer, Corner Cottage,

Shottesbrooke Park SL6 3SW 823774

Churchwarden – White Waltham Liz Atlay, 39 Tithe Barn Drive,

Maidenhead SL6 2DF 778462


Treasurer - Shottesbrooke Richard Sykes, Coltmans, The Street,

Waltham St Lawrence

RG10 0JJ 0118 934 3228


Treasurer - White Waltham Andy Eden, 15 Heywood Avenue,

Maidenhead SL6 3JA 823992


Secretary to Parochial Church

Council Stuart Diack, 1 Matthews Chase,

Temple Park, Binfield, Berks.

RG42 4UR 01344 311090

Deanery Synod Representatives Bob Packer, Corner Cottage,


June Brayne, 2 Orchard Cottages, Drift

Road, Hawthorne Hill, Maidenhead

SL6 3ST 625462


Roger Sparrow, Merion House,

White Waltham, Maidenhead

SL6 3RU 822693

Sunday School Coordinator June Brayne, 2 Orchard Cottages, Drift


SL6 3ST 625462


Crèche Alison Mills, Meadow View, Green

Lane, White Waltham, Maidenhead

SL6 3JR 0118 934 4501

Pathfinders (11-14s) Caroline Andrew, The Vicarage,


SL6 3JD 822000

Revelation (14-18s) Andy & Claire Hartropp, The Parsonage, School Road, West End, Waltham St

Lawrence

RG10 0NU 0118 934 4841


The Publishers do not accept responsibility for products or services

advertised in this magazine

Secretary for Gift Aid & Stewardship

Envelopes Tony Hill, Homewood, Innings Lane,

White Waltham SL6 3RU 822654

Captain of Bells - Shottesbrooke Bob Packer, Corner Cottage,


Captain of Bells - White Waltham

Lesley Graves, 2 Heywood Cottages,


SL6 3JD 828408

[email protected]

Lesson Reading Rota (Shottesbrooke)

Bob Packer, Corner Cottage,

Shottesbrooke Park, Maidenhead

SL6 3SW 823774

Lesson Reading Rota

(White Waltham) Catherine Gass, 16 Hearne Drive,

Holyport, Maidenhead SL6 2HZ 625621


Events Committee Chairman Andrea Greenwood, 15 Bedford Close,

Maidenhead SL6 3UP 822532


Project Rainbow

Jenny Murphy, 7 Merton Road, Princes

Risborough, Bucks.

HP27 0DR 01844 275261


Car Parking Simon Graves, 2 Heywood Cottages,


SL6 3JD 828408

Bookstall + Bible Reading Notes June Brayne, 2 Orchard Cottages, Drift

Road, Hawthorne Hill, Maidenhead SL6

3ST 625462


Flower Guild

Jane Nottage, 46 Littlefield Green,

Maidenhead SL6 3JL 0118 9343704

Wedding Flowers Pam Bray, 74 London Road, Twyford

RG10 9EY 0118 934 3792


Coffee Rota Barbara Day, 62 Foliejohn Way,

Woodlands Park, Maidenhead

SL6 3XB 825108

Church Cleaning Rota

(White Waltham) Jane Nottage, 46 Littlefield Green,

Maidenhead SL6 3JL 0118 9343704

Children's Birthday Card Distribution Vivienne Low, 4, Norreys Drive,

Maidenhead SL6 4BU 627136

Magazine Production Derek Smith, 16 St Patricks Close,

Maidenhead .SL6 3BD 776181


Magazine Advertisements Bob Crittenden, 10 Stratford Gardens,

Maidenhead SL6 3DT 676117


Magazine Distribution Derek Brayne, 2 Orchard Cottages, Drift


SL6 3ST 625462


Web Master Mark Stanger, 3 Caswall Close, Binfield.

RG42 4EF 01344 455206


www.stmaryswhitewaltham.co.uk

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