All Saints Church, Burbage

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South Side Entrance	View from South West
Tower Above Main Entrance	Main Door

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If you're School Year 7 to 11; Please come and join us at the Church Centre, Burbage.
Sunday the 19th February 6pm – 8.30pm
At our Youth Group
Fun, Friendship, Food (Chilli) and delve into the Bible!

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16th Annual Burbage Christmas Tree Sale, 10th and 11th December 2011

Wow, the 2011 event was our biggest yet and a huge success thanks to the fifty volunteers from our community who put in the work to make it happen.  Lots of new people came forward to help run the sale and assist our established team, many thanks to you all.  Help was also received from the Burbage youth council who were very energetic and useful.  About two thousand visitors came to get their Christmas trees and enjoy the festive atmosphere, meet Father Christmas and enjoy refreshments and 25 Christmas market stalls.  Comments made were very complimentary and we showed Burbage in a good light to our visitors.  The excellent sunny weather on Saturday helped the large turnout and the rain held off on Sunday until lunchtime.

Our trees were excellent British quality trees.  Spruces were grown on a farm only 9 miles away from Burbage and were cut down the day before the sale,  Fir trees came from Somerset.   Many trees sold elsewhere are imported now and can often be six weeks old when they are sold, having been transported thousands of miles.  Spruce trees we sold on Sunday were cut at dusk on Saturday night to accommodate our request for extra trees. 

We sold 420 trees two years ago and a record 538 last year after being mentioned on BBC1 so it was tricky to predict tree numbers needed for 2011.  In the end we ordered 500 trees with options on extras.  In fact we sold 600!  Arms were twisted and there was some rushing about but extra trees were collected to ensure we never ran out.
 
Tree quality was excellent, and all of the 600+ trees eventually sourced were sold with a handful of leftovers that were refunded by the supplier as a condition of our purchasing contract.  All buyers received a free prize draw ticket with their tree and an invitation to purchase further tickets.  Many thanks for the prizes donated by Burbage Garage, The White Hart, Burbage Londis and the star prize of the 32 inch Panasonic flat screen TV donated by Haine and Smith opticians.  The draw boosted takings by over £1,300 so thanks to everyone for buying extra tickets.  The event was kindly sponsored by Equilibrium Wealth Management  of Marlborough who contributed £1,500 towards our running costs in the third year of their sponsorship package.  Further funds were raised by the efforts of the teams in the kitchen and on our wreath and foliage stall plus stallholder rents making a total combined net profit of just over £11,500 breaking the previous records of £10,000 in 2010, £7,000 in 2009 and £6,000 in 2008.

Building on the efforts of those who established the 16 year old venture we promote our brand with the above logo and put a laminated brand tag on every tree to remind people that their money goes to Burbage Church funds.  Please display your tree’s brand tag to encourage your visitors to get their tree from Burbage in future years!  Free tree recycling takes place on Saturday 7th of January when your tree can be chipped into garden mulch free of charge courtesy of village resident Simon Last. 

A big ‘thank you’ to everyone who bought trees to support the event and to all the volunteers who worked so hard.  Any comments or suggestions for next year would be very welcome!  Please email or ring me if you would be willing to volunteer in the future. 

George Gordon

email: george.gordon@lkl-services.co.uk

 

 

 

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Remembrance Service 2011

 

 

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Ammerdown- Parish Weekend

A Parish Weekend with Don Brewin by Dickie Davis On the weekend of 7/9 October quite a few members of All Saints’ Church, Burbage went away to Ammerdown for a ‘Parish Weekend’ of teaching and fellowship , including some mountain biking! What follows is an attempt to capture the essence of the weekend in a brief article. I was struck by a thought briefly mentioned by Don during the weekend: “Am I still Scottish in heaven?”  I want you to hold that thought for a minute for I will return to it. I was also struck the other day by a conversation with one of my Middle Eastern friends “But Dickie I do not understand why you Westerners think that what is going on in the Middle East is an ‘Arab spring’? It started in January, which is winter, it has resulted in many people being killed and injured, it is still not over and it is nearly winter again, its immediate effect is greater instability.  For Christians it has led to increased persecution. It is not an Arab spring it is an Arab winter.” Why was this view surprising to me?  This is not the story in the media. Don Brewin set out to tackle some of the big issues that we face in the world, to prick our consciences and to get us to consider how we might respond more effectively. It is impossible to do justice to the weekend, but it was really engaging stuff and the time flew by very quickly. The headlines: We talked a lot about the challenges facing society and even though I study this a lot I realised how much more there is to learn. Understanding is key, to engage in the world around us we need to be educated Christians. We are in a time of major change; financial crisis, climate change, conflict, persecution; how do we react? What is the future of renewal? Don suggested some opportunities: Pattern ourselves on God’s future, not on our past. Focus on the world, rather than just our church. As a church we should not get too comfortable; we should live distinctive, sacrificial lives that challenge the communities in which we are set. We should stand out by generosity of spirit. We should develop our commitment to community transformation. So how do these big issues relate to life in Burbage? Can we make a difference and if so how? Well I would argue that to make a difference the first step is understanding, for then we can make our small efforts really count, be that speaking out as a Christian in the work place or the community, or undertaking more tangible actions such as the Sudan Project. Don urged us to become transmitters not receivers. The eighteenth century Irish statesman, philosopher and political theorist, Edmund Burke, is credited with the remark “evil prevails when good men do nothing". It is a thought provoking comment. We never really got round to answering the question “Am I still Scottish in heaven” but on reflection we do worry and put effort into some strange things when there are such big issues out there.

Parish Weekend Handouts

Click on the links below:

Ammerdown 1 The Future
Ammerdown 2 Renewal needs to grow up
Ammerdown 3 Global Finance lessons
Ammerdown 4 Our broken society
Ammerdown 5 Living as a Prophetic Community
Building Bridges in Sudan

 

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Dates For Your Diary Ladies Day at Harnhill on the 26th May 2012, as follows: Ladies Day "Releasing your full potential with Bryony Springate. What traps us, and stops us firing on all cylinders? How can we be set free to realise all that God has for you?  Click Here for the Ladies Group page Men's Breakfast • 4th February – Breakfast – Speaker: Paul Smith For the next Mens' Breakfast we are very blessed to have as our speaker Paul Smith, who is the Managing Director of Hayden's Bakeries, of Devizes. He will talk about his journey with Christ, in particular how he applies his Christian faith to his work. (Those of you who were at the last breakfast will recall that Justin is Chaplin to this bakery.) This promises to be an interesting and relevant talk and should give you all early encouragement in the New Year. When: 0730 hrs Saturday 4th Feb 2012 Where: The Church Hall What: A Mens' Breakfast with a talk by Paul Smith the Managing Director of Hayden's Bakeries in Devizes. Why: To receive encouragement in your journey with Christ Please let any of the Mens' Group leadership know if you can make this event, it would be great to see you there. Dickie Click Here for the Men's Group page   LATEST NEWS ! Fill The Gap Fill the Gap is a regular Thursday lunchtime event in the church Centre in Burbage. Run by a small group from All Saints with plenty of co-opted help, we serve homemade soup with fresh rolls through the winter, changing to Ploughman's for May to July. (August is a holiday!) Numbers vary, usually about 35 people, all ages, babies to nineties! .......Click on the link Here to read more! Annual General Meeting Reports The reports presented at the Annual General Meeting which was held on Sunday the 20th March can be viewed by clicking Here. Seed and Tools Project for Southern Sudan Following on from the success in reaching our £11,000 target to fund an HIV/AIDS awareness and education project in the Yei Diocese of southern Sudan, All Saints' Church are now embarking on a new project in association with Tearfund, to raise £10,000 which will be used to provide seeds and tools to families in Melut County, Upper Nile State, South Sudan. To read more on this exciting new project, Click Here or visit the Sudan Projects link at the side of the page. Nick Nelson-Piercy aims to raise £500 for the Tools and Seeds Project by cycling a stage of the Tour de France course (after the race has finished of course.. he's not that good!) click Here to read more and possibly sponsor Nick. Building Bridges Updates Building Bridges, our Sudan link, has become a major part of the life of All Saints' Church Burbage. As most of you know, this all arose from a visit by myself and Liz with Lord and Lady Carey to Yei in southern Sudan. The visit was to attend the First Bishops' Conference in southern Sudan and to look at Tearfund projects there..... Click Here to read more on this and some of the recent events to raise money for the sudan appeal, including a Jewellery evening and 'Nearly New' clothes sale.   Please click on the dedicated 'Sudan Projects' link at the side of this page.

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Service Timetable

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