Wendy Wilkins shared this Valentine with the gathered church in WIveliscombe
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Recent conversation in Espresoworld has included comversation around the dispute between the computer giant ‘Google’ and the Chinese goverment over the alleged hacking of the email accounts of dissidents. A customer in Espressoworld asked why the Chinese goverment act as they do . . . and this led to a ‘Pause for Thought’ on the local radio station ‘10Radio‘ - So why not listen in right now . . .
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Alan visits the 10Radio studio with a balloon, cake and candle. Celebration is in the air, yet in Espressoworld there is concern about members of parliament and their expenses.
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The fields are hedgerows in Espressoworld are alive with the sound of . . .
Ursula Millar on Shepherds and sheep on 10 Radio and Pause for Thought
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Here in Wiveliscombe life has been busy for this part of Summer Lands (Somerset). In addition to all the preparations for our Easter Celebrations, we had visitors from Bulgaria. Stojan, Zhani and their daughter are from the town of Sliven in south-east Bulgaria, at the foot of the Blue Mountains, about 200 miles east of the capital Sophia. Stojan Slavchevi is the pastor of the Congregational Church in Sliven and Zhani has a God-given gift of song.
However, in the words of a good old Scottish saying, ‘It is back to auld claithes and purridge’. For a translation - listen to this edition of ’Pause for Thought’ from 10 Radio.
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Life has been chaotic for many in espresso world with the credit crunch hitting hard. Not only are there empty stores and shops in our High Streets and Shopping Centres, many of us are facing unemployment and house repossession. This is not just limited to the UK or the USA, it is affecting the poor. In fact the poor are hit the hardest.
This is Fairtrade Fortnight and the Global Poverty Prayer Week. I think it was Augustine, an early church leader who said, “Pray as though everything depended on God and work as though everything depended on you.”
What follows is “Thought for the Day” from 10 Radio in Wiveliscombe.
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The Mousetrap
A Christmas ‘Sideways Look at Life’, the Mousetrap featured in Carols for Christmas at the Congregational Church in Wiveliscombe.
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May you experience God’s peace in your life at this Christmas time and in the New Year.
“We all know about the real Christmas. Don’t we? Mary and Joseph. Away in a manger. Donkey. 3 wise men and the shepherds. Of course you do. You probably even played a shepherd or a wise man when you were 5.
Now you’re older and it’s all Noel Edmunds, booze, bills and unwanted visits to relatives.
This film brings Christmas back to it’s roots. The real Christmas. Where the manger mings, the baby cries and where a star really shone. The Christmas that is for everyone, everywhere.”
Andy Pearce (St Helen’s Bishopsgate, London)
With warnings from Trading Standards about counterfeit goods, Ursula Millar speaks on 10 Radio’s ‘Pause for Thought’ about ‘A Real Flesh and Blood Baby’.
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At this time of the year, Christmas and New Year, trials of any kind, but especially bereavement are poignant. Here then is ‘When Trials Come’ by Keith and Kristyn Getty.
