Isaiah 49.1-7; 1 Corinthians 1.1-9; John 1.29-42

It has been said that there were two words used a great deal by Jesus in the Gospels. One is “Come” and the other is “Go”, and that it’s no use coming unless you go, and it’s no use going unless you come.

Come and see; go and tell. Those too are calls to us. John the Baptist’s task and message was as a witness to Jesus. We see him at the beginning of this Gospel, pointing towards Jesus, and testifying that he is the Son of God. John, through his going and telling, causes others to come and see. We know that John built up a considerable body of disciples. And it was John’s teaching that led the two disciples in this morning’s passage to become disciples of Jesus.

Come and see the Lamb of God; Go and tell. John himself had done that - we read this morning “And I myself have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

It’s infectious. The two disciples also followed John’s advice to behold the Lamb of God. This led them to Jesus who then invited them to Come and See where he was staying. Their trip to his residence obviously turned into more than that, and they remained with him for the rest of the day.

William Temple in his Readings in St John’s Gospel, first published in 1939, says this: “These were the first in the long roll of followers. And they follow, as do most of us, because of what they have heard another say. We are Christians because we have been taught; and those who taught us were taught themselves; so the line runs back to Christ and those about him.”

It’s his way of saying the same thing - at the time of Jesus people went and saw - and, of course, in the phrase “Come and see” the seeing is of a type that is broader than seeing merely with one’s eyes - and then passed on what they had seen, and that has been happening for generations and generations.

Without those two calls to come and see and to go and tell, the good news of the Gospel would struggle to be spread.

I wonder who first told you about Jesus. For many of us it was a combination of people - parents, church, school - but for others the first time they heard the Gospel will have been from a friend or even a professional evangelist. Who it was who told us of Jesus is perhaps less important than that they did. Who will look back over their lives and cite us as those who taught them about Jesus? It’s something worth thinking about.

William Temple called Andrew “the first Christian missionary”. And he points out that, although we know less about Andrew than about his brother Simon Peter, without that first act of Andrew’s, Peter’s great and powerful ministry would never have happened.

God chooses some of us to work in the public sphere as Peter did; others have no less important roles to play but ones which may be more hidden. Andrew’s role in Peter’s conversion was a more hidden role, but the important thing is that he took his chance to sow a seed, to share what he had discovered.

We British Church of England Christians often find it very hard to share with others our faith. Certainly, if I told you all that you must leave church this morning and go and knock on all the doors in the village and tell the people inside the houses about the good news of Jesus, I suspect most of you would recoil with horror.

But there is more than one way to share God’s good news. The important thing is that we continue to do so, for, if we don’t, how will others know?

Evangelism is something that people seem to struggle with. We become embarrassed about talking about our faith. Many people see faith as something purely personal and not for sharing, and, yet that is not a way of being a Christian that Jesus would ever have recognised. His task for the disciples after he had risen and just as he was to leave again and ascend into heaven was to go and make disciples of all people. That is a call for each one of us, not just for the first Twelve, or eleven as it was at that point.

Many people lack confidence in their own faith, and so struggle to share it with others.
There are three important things to say here - first, that with even a small amount of faith, God can move mountains. Jesus’s saying was probably a form of hyperbole, but the point is that God does not despise those of little faith but can do great things with people who have even a mustard-seed sized faith, if they are willing to be used by him.

To use our lack of faith as an excuse for not sharing it is in one way a failure to trust God to take what we offer and use it.

Related to that is the way in which people compare themselves with others. They see someone who outwardly appears to be more holy than them or more confident in their faith and assume that they couldn’t possibly do anything because they are not as good as the other person. What a load of rubbish!

God has given each one of us gifts to be used by him. We can all share God’s good news - we just have different ways of doing it. Think about Moses and Aaron - Moses shrank from speaking in public, so God gave him Aaron to do that part, while he carried out a great ministry as leader of the people of God.

And the third thing to say is that, of course, if we give time and energy to our faith, then our confidence can grow. It seems hard for people in this day and age to make time for their faith, but the bottom line is that it is only a question of priorities. If we are serious about wanting our faith to grow, then that becomes a priority, for our faith will only deepen, if we take time to pray and read Scripture, to study God’s word and have fellowship one with another.

Paul gave thanks that the Corinthians had been enriched and strengthened and given spiritual gifts. For Paul, it was not someone’s race or status that was important, but whether they were growing in faith.

Being holy requires following a call to be different, to put God first in everything. Being holy means relying on God’s resources, not human ones. It means trusting in God and not the temporary things of this world. It means working for God’s values and living them out in our lives.

As with many things, the more we practise, the better we become. The more we open up and start talking about our faith in God, the easier it will become. If that is something that you find really hard, why not start by talking with other Christians about faith before you talk to people who don’t share belief in Christ.

We don’t keep quiet about other things that are important to us. We talk about our spouse or parents or interests or friends as a daily part of conversation, but are much more reticent about our faith. We might ask someone to come to a concert or a play with us, but rarely would we consider asking someone to come to church with us.

Sharing our faith is not about drawing attention to ourselves or to our behaviour. It is about drawing attention to Jesus. It is about saying to people Come and See. It’s about pointing others to the light of Christ.

Once we have pointed people towards the light of Christ, in one sense, our work is done. We cannot make the decision for them whether to follow Christ’s call to discipleship or not. That has to be their choice.

But we can issue an invitation to share in something good. Jesus’s Come and See is not a command to learn a particular doctrine or to follow a particular law. It is to have our eyes opened to the light and love of God in the world around. And, when we call others to Come and See, it is not a way of bullying them into sharing what we believe but a way of inviting them too to share in the grace of God.

Come and See; Go and Tell - the two go hand-in-hand. These are not safe invitations but whoever said following God was about being safe. A God who risks his life for others is not a God who plays safe.

But, we have nothing to lose. For we also have God’s promises that whatever happens, nothing can separate us from his love in Christ Jesus. However, far we fall in human terms, God’s arms will be outstretched to hold us in love and welcome us home.

Isaiah 60.1-16; Ephesians 3.1-12; Matthew 2.1-12

The decorations come down today; the cribs are packed away; the trees put outside for recycling; and Christmas is at an end for another year.

We enjoyed opening our presents 12 days ago. But in some cultures, presents are given at Epiphany rather than at Christmas. And in many ways that makes sense, since one of the reasons we give gifts is a remembrance of the gifts that the Wise Men brought to the child Jesus, though, of course, they help us also to remember the greatest gift of all - the gift of God to his people.

And that gift, we remember, is a gift for all time, not just for Christmas. When we pack away the decorations, we certainly should not be packing away our faith for another year.

What is a gift? It is something that we give to another.

There are many different sorts of gift - some we give out of duty - I have one or two people who get presents from me each year, if I’m honest, not because I want to give them something but because I feel I ought; some we give out of tradition - for instance when a person leaves a job or company; some we give because we feel obliged to - so-and-so bought me a birthday present so I feel I should get them one; some gifts are given in gratitude for a meal or other hospitality; and some are given out of pure love.

Of course, much of our gift giving has a combination of one or more of these elements. We may give a present on a traditional occasion to someone as a sign of our love for them. How about Valentine’s Day gifts, for instance?

What about the gifts of the wise men: gold, frankincense and myrrh. These were gifts fit for a king. These were gifts that were unexpected. These were gifts with symbolic significance. Gold for a king; incense for a God; myrrh for suffering and death, a reminder that even at the joyous celebration of a child the shadow of death is with Jesus.

These were gifts given in homage by men who had followed God’s guiding through a star. They were people who gave time and energy to following that gift of a star. They were people who gave great riches to a child. They were people who acknowledged something of the gift of God to us all, the gift of a child born to be king.
They were men who then obeyed the gift of a dream warning them not to return via Herod’s palace.

These wise men gave much, but God has given us more. There is, of course, the gift of the child in a manger, the gift that brings salvation through the life and death and resurrection of Christ. There is the gift of the Holy Spirit with us and in us.

What other gifts do we have from God: the gift of other people; the gift of the beauty of creation; the gift of God’s grace and forgiveness, God’s compassion and love. There is the gift of the skills and talents with which we have been bestowed. There is the gift of the opportunities with which God presents us for sharing his love, his good news, in word and action.

How do we respond to these gifts? If we think about our own gift-giving, we can remember the excitement we feel when we have chosen a present lovingly and carefully when the receiver opens it and enjoys it. I wonder whether you’ve ever had the experience of giving a gift you feel sure will be appreciated and then realising that it’s not something the receiver wanted or liked.

It’s not a happy experience. You’ve put time and effort into choosing something that you are sure they will treasure, and their response makes it clear that that is not the case. Ebay, even on Christmas Day, was full of unwanted presents.

And what when that gift is the gift of a child? How, I wonder, does God feel when his greatest gift to us all is forgotten, overlooked, seen as a bind and not a treasure?

God has given us so many gifts - the best response we can offer is to receive those gifts and to recognise them. Different kinds of gift need different kinds of recognition. God’s gift of forgiveness requires only that we receive it; God’s gift of a Son that we acknowledge him and make that gift our own by accepting Jesus into our hearts.

God’s gift of creation, all around us: how can we respond to that? We can stop and take time to notice the beauty of the world around, which can lead us into praise and thankfulness. We can learn not to take it for granted. We can treat it well and not abuse it. We can allow ourselves to stop and stare and treasure what God has created. And goodness knows, in this part of the world that should be an easy task.

What about God’s gifts to us of other people? How do we treat them and receive them? Do we see them as God’s gifts? Do we treat them as such? Do we wish to spend time only with those whom we like and who are like us, or are we willing to take risks and discover the treasures that those who we don’t like and those who are different from us can bring?

A very topical issue is that of the travellers’ sites. Is our attitude towards the possibility of these sites, and more importantly the people they would bring into our midst if they go ahead, a Christian one? Have we asked ourselves what Jesus would do and how Jesus would respond? I suspect, in many cases, the answer is no.

God’s gifts to us are not confined to only one area of our lives; they are for the whole of our lives, not just those parts of our life where acknowledging the gifts is easy and not a risky business.

God gives us gifts of compassion and love, and enables us, if we remain centred in him, to be people where these gifts grow and develop.

And God gives us gifts of our talents and skills. Later this morning we will be celebrating the skills of those who have out the new floor in Barley church; in December 2006 we celebrated in Reed with the bishop the skills of those who had restored the east window.

And, of course, it’s not just the big projects we can celebrate - week-by-week our flower arrangers and cleaners, our fabric committees and Friends, our lesson readers and intercessors, our treasurers and churchwardens, and many, many others use their gifts in the service of God and the church.

And God’s gifts to us are not confined to the church, and nor should they be. If we think about our lives, we can see many ways in which our gifts can be used and are being used outside the church. Many people have the job that they do because that is where their giftings lie. In our villages - and one of the wonderful strengths of village communities - is the way in which people use their gifts of time and money and care to visit those who are sick or lonely, to shop for those who cannot get out, to offer help to one another.

And other gifts we have which sometimes can be harder to offer - our time, something that in days gone past was much easier to give to others; our presence, can we allow God to teach us that our presence can be a gift to another; our prayers for the world and for those whom we love; our money; our compassion; time to listen - it was Paul Tillich who said that the first duty of love was to listen. And we listen not only to words but to situations and unspoken signs.

God’s gifts also include the transformation of situations. God can bring light out of darkness, and hope out of despair. God can bring joy out of pain and life out of death. God can transform hard and horrible situations into opportunities for blessing and joy. But, we often, sadly miss these signs of God’s presence - it’s so easy to become bound up in our sorrow and grief.

And God won’t blame us for that, because God is a God of love and compassion, a God who know what it is to suffer, a God who watched his own Son die an excruciatingly painful death on the cross.

But God will be longing too for that moment when our focus shifts and we can begin to look again to his love and his light, and allow it to seep back into the dark places of our hearts. An all-too familiar reaction when we suffer is to shut God out of the pain and the darkness; when we allow God in, gently and lovingly that can be transformed.

The pain may live with us - the pain of bereavement is an obvious example - but that pain can be transformed. It is, after all, only a sign that we have loved someone when we grieve their death.

So many gifts for us to receive from God and so many gifts to offer to God and to others. Let’s ask for our eyes to be opened and our ears unstopped so that we won’t miss the gifts with which God blesses us, and so that we too can arise and shine, knowing that the light and love of God has come upon us, that we can partake in his glory, and shine as lights in the world.

Sunday 27th January - 4th Sunday of Epiphany
9.00 a.m. Parish Communion, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley
10.30 a.m. Parish Communion with baptism of Mollie Macfadyen and Junior Church, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway

Monday 28th January
8.15 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway
8.00 p.m. Barkway VA First School governors meeting

Tuesday 29th January
8.15 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway

Wednesday 30th January
8.15 a.m Morning Prayer, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley
10.00 a.m. (-3.30 p.m.) Countryside Management Service hedging in Reed churchyard, volunteers welcome
7.30 p.m. Barley PCC, 3 Cambridge Road

Thursday 31st January
8.15 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Mary’s, Reed
8.00 p.m. ICES Couse introductory evening, The Rectory

Friday 1st February

Saturday 2nd February
9.00 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley

Sunday 3rd February - Presentation of Christ
9.00 a.m. Parish Communion (said), St Mary’s, Reed
10.30 a.m. Parish Communion with baptism of Flynn Richmond and Junior Church
6.00 p.m. BCP Evensong, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway

THE COMING MONTH
(Morning Prayer usually takes place each day: Monday and Tuesday in Barkway; Wednesday and Saturday in Barley and Thursday in Reed)

Monday 4th February
10.00 a.m. Discover Sunday planning meeting, The Rectory

Tuesday 5th February - Shrove Tuesday
10.00 a.m. (-noon) Pancake Coffee Morning, The Barn, Elms Farm, Barkway
12 noon (-4p.m.) Pancake event for Save the Children, Town House, Barley

Wednesday 6th February - Ash Wednesday
10.30 a.m. Holy Communion, Margaret House, Barley
8.00 p.m. Holy Communion with imposition of ashes, St Mary’s, Reed

Thursday 7th February
10.00 a.m. (-3.30 p.m.) Countryside Management Service hedging in Reed churchyard, volunteers welcome
10.45 a.m. Holy Communion, Wheatsheaf Meadow House, Barkway

Saturday 9th February
1.30 p.m. Interment of ashes of Frank Clough, Barley churchyard

Sunday 10th February - Lent 1
10.30 a.m. Parish Communion, St Mary’s, Reed, with address by Peter Gough

Monday 11th February
2.00 p.m. Lent Course, The Rectory

Wednesday 13th February
12 noon (- 2p.m.) Lent Lunch, Town House, Barley
7.45 p.m. North Buntingford Group Lent Course, Rushden Village Hall

Sunday 17th February - Lent 2
9.00 a.m. Parish Communion, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway
5.00 p.m. All-age Service, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley

Isaiah 63.7-9; Hebrews 2.10-18; Matthew 2.13-23

Every Who down in Who-ville
liked Christmas a lot…

But the Grinch, who lived
just north of Who-ville,
did not! 

But, whatever the reason,
his heart or his shoes,
he stood there on Christmas Eve,
hating the Whos,
staring down from his cave
with a sour, Grinchy frown
at the warm lighted windows
below in their town.

For he knew every Who
down in Who-ville beneath
was busy now,
hanging a mistletoe wreath.
“And they’re hanging their stockings!”
he snarled with a sneer,
“tomorrow is Christmas!
It’s practically here!”

Then he growled, with his
Grinch fingers nervously drumming,
 ”I must find some way
to stop Christmas from coming!”

And the story continues . . .  the Grinch makes up what he thinks is a stupendous plan. He dresses himself up as Santa Claus, his dog Max as a reindeer, and descends to the town to remove everything to do with Christmas from the people’s homes. He pinches presents from stockings, empties fridges, puts out fires, and lies to a child who catches him at it.

The next morning, he gears himself up for the cries of dismay that he expects to hear emanating from the houses.
But, the Grinch ends up astounded when he hears not wails and tears, but singing, one of the things he most hates.

And the Grinch,
with his grinch-feet
 ice-cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling:
“How could it be so?”
“It came without ribbons!
It came without tags!”
“It came without packages, boxes or bags!”

And he puzzled three hours,
till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something
he hadn’t before!
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought,
“doesn’t come from a store.”
“Maybe Christmas…perhaps…
means a little bit more!”

And what happened then…?
Well…in Who-ville they say
that the Grinch’s small heart
grew three sizes that day!

And the minute his heart
didn’t feel quite so tight,
he whizzed with his load
through the bright morning light.
And he brought back the toys!
And the food for the feast!
And he . . . he himself  - the Grinch  -
carved the roast beast!

Christmas is a tough time for those with small hearts, but it can also effect changes in those who allow themselves to be caught up in the joy of it all. The Grinch is one story - yes, of course, it’s not real - but it makes a point, the same point that Dickens made in the story of A Christmas Carol and the conversion of Ebenezer Scrooge from miser to philanthropist.

But sometimes, of course, that conversion experience never comes. Matthew’s chronology is not quite clear, but the arrival of the wise men seems to occur in Matthew before the holy family have returned home to Nazareth. As we know, they stop off to visit Herod on their way to Bethlehem, and, it is at this point, that Herod begins to feel threatened by the baby born in Bethlehem, the baby the wise men say is to be king of the Jews.

Herod was a cruel man, who during his lifetime killed not only those who meant nothing to him, but also his three sons, his wife and his mother-in-law. It is said that he gave orders that at his death some of the leading citizens of Jericho were also to be killed so that there would be weeping on the day of his funeral.

For Herod, this small, vulnerable child was not a God to be worshipped but an inconvenience to be destroyed. His jealousy and obsessive longing for power led him to commit acts of atrocity against anyone who got in his way.

There is no independent witness to the story of the slaughter of the innocents that Matthew tells us about, but scholars all agree that it was the kind of thing that Herod would not think twice about doing.

It sounds ludicrous - Herod scared of a tiny child. Yet, of course, it was what that child was destined to become that caused Herod to worry, and we can hear echoes of Jesus’s own words: I come not to bring peace but a sword. Not that Jesus himself was going to kill anyone, but that reaction to him would lead to others wanting to destroy his goodness, and the goodness of those who follow him.

Feeling threatened by the power of another can be a deadly force. It causes people to seek to destroy others - only this past week we have heard of the death of Benazir Bhutto, by someone or a body of people who opposed her, though we don’t know exactly whom yet. Herod’s jealousy and envy of what the Christ-child was to become caused him to act in a destructive way.

It’s easy to look at this story and to decry Herod’s actions, but we too can be caught up in this jealousy and envy, if we are not careful. Jesus was very clear that he came as a servant not some to lord it over us. And Jesus was able to live this out because he was secure in who he was - a child of God. Jesus didn’t feel threatened by the power of the national and religious leaders; he didn’t feel jealous of what they had.

Envy and jealousy can eat one up. They don’t usually affect the one of whom we are jealous in any great way unless we act out or envy, but it can certainly cause us to suffer, and it can destroy the relationship between us.

Jealousy leads us to a place where we struggle to be thankful for what God has given us. It causes us to be always looking for something else, rather than learning to be happy with who we are. It can cause us to become bitter; it can separate us from God. Envy can lead us to becoming distrustful and unloving; it can make the focus of our lives something other than God.

No wonder then that the last of the Ten Commandments was do not covet your neighbour’s possessions.

Envy undermines relationships and increases hostility between people. It can also lead to some bizarre behaviour - the sales on Boxing Day this year were worse than ever our newspapers tell us, with people being injured, and selfishness rife as people tried to snap up bargains so that they could emulate those whom they admire, and join with them in seeing designer labels as a sign of being successful.

If we shape our longings by comparing ourselves with either what others have got or with who they are then our lives become distorted. We end up always disappointed, often sad, and out-of-kilter with God our Creator.

At heart, envy is caused when we are not happy with ourselves, when we are not aware of our worth and value in itself because we are God’s children.

Envy often reveals the gaps in our lives; gaps that are hard to fill and which probably won’t be more than plastered over, if we get our heart’s desire.

Envy can disguise our unhappiness with ourselves, our unhappiness with our relationships, our loneliness, our lack of fulfilment in our faith, our wanting others to think well of us. So, if we are aware of things or people of which we are envious, it might be worth looking a bit deeper, and asking why we’re not happy with our lives as they are.

Part of our success in conquering envy is found in where we place the centre of our lives. If God is at the centre, and we are able to acknowledge that and be thankful for all that we have, then our lives will be fulfilled and fulfilling, and we will find that we give much to others, through what we say, through what we do, and through being ourselves. If our desire for something other is the focus though, we will never be satisfied or fulfilled.

Herod found his value in his desire for power. That desire was so strong that he destroyed anything that blocked his path. It is unlikely that our envy will take us that far, but it can cause us to become bound and not liberated to be the people God has made us. No one else in the world who has ever lived or who will come will have exactly the same role as you or me. 

As Rosemary Lain-Priestley puts it in her book The Courage to Connect: “One antidote to envy is accept that you are your own unique and singular self. You are the only person who can reflect God in the world in precisely the way you have been positioned to do. The interconnection of lives, circumstances, events, happenings that makes you truly what you are is yours alone. God can act in and through you in a way that God cannot act in and through anyone else.”

How liberating that can be - that we don’t need to try to be anyone else but ourselves, and that by doing that, God will use us to be constructive in building his kingdom, and that we will not cause destruction as Herod did because his desire for power over others was so great. Herod longed to hold on to his power, whatever it took; God divests power, to a small human child born in Bethlehem and to each one of us.

May God be praised! Amen.

Sunday 6th January - Epiphany
9.00 a.m. Parish Communion (said), St Mary’s, Reed
10.30 a.m. Parish Communion with Junior Church, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley
6.00 p.m. BCP Evensong, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway

Monday 7th January
8.15 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway
8.00 p.m. Deanery Standing/Pastoral Committee, The Vicarage, Great Hormead

Tuesday 8th January
8.15 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway
12 noon North Buntingford Group clergy meeting, Therfield Rectory
7.30 p.m. Barley VC First School Governors’ meeting

Wednesday 9th January
8.15 a.m Morning Prayer, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley

Thursday 10th January
8.15 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Mary’s, Reed
9.15 a.m. Bell ringers in Barley church
11.00 a.m. Bell ringers in Barkway church
7.45 p.m. for 8 Barkway VCC, Manor Farm

Friday 11th January

Saturday 12th January
9.00 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley

Sunday 13th January - Baptism of Christ
10.30 a.m. United Benefice Sung Eucharist, St Mary’s, Reed, with the Revd Canon Michael Sansom

Monday 14th January
No Morning Prayer

Tuesday 15th January
No Morning Prayer

Wednesday 16th January
8.15 a.m Morning Prayer, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley
11.00 a.m. Bell-ringers at St Mary Magdalene, Barkway
8.00 p.m. North Buntingford Prayer Group, Westfields, Barley

Thursday 17th January
8.15 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Mary’s, Reed

Friday 18th January

Saturday 19th January
9.00 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley

Sunday 20th January
9.00 a.m. Parish Communion, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway
10.30 a.m. Morning Service, St Mary’s, Reed, with Ros Holbrow
5.00 p.m. Discover Sunday, Sand and Stars, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway
5.00 p.m. Parish Communion, with the Revd Richard Morgan

Monday 21st January
8.15 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway

Tuesday 22nd January
8.15 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway
a.m. Barkway Home Communions
12 noon Deanery chapter, Weston

Wednesday 23rd January
8.15 a.m Morning Prayer, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley
8.00 p.m. North Buntingford Group Copuncil meeting, Therfield Rectory

Thursday 24th January
8.15 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Mary’s, Reed
a.m. Home Communions, Reed
7.45 p.m. Reed VCC, High Bank

Friday 25th January

Saturday 26th January
9.00 a.m. Morning Prayer, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley
12 noon Memorial Service, Mana Sedgwick, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley

Sunday 27th January
9.00 a.m. Parish Communion, St Margaret of Antioch, Barley
10.30 a.m. Parish Communion with baptism of Mollie Macfadyen and Junior Church, St Mary Magdalene, Barkway

THE COMING MONTH
(Morning Prayer usually takes place each day: Monday and Tuesday in Barkway; Wednesday and Saturday in Barley and Thursday in Reed)