Bishop Steven's pilgrimage, THURSDAY 5th September

The Bishop travelled 17 miles by boat on 1 September across Maidenhead and Windsor Deaneries. Then walked around 50 miles from Monday to Thursday across the Deaneries of Bracknell, Sonning, Reading and Bradfield. On Sunday 8th, the team cycled 16 mi…

The Bishop travelled 17 miles by boat on 1 September across Maidenhead and Windsor Deaneries. Then walked around 50 miles from Monday to Thursday across the Deaneries of Bracknell, Sonning, Reading and Bradfield. On Sunday 8th, the team cycled 16 miles or so across the Newbury Deanery from Hungerford to Thatcham and completed the final couple of visits by car.

Bishop Steven will be pilgrimaging round the Benefice on THURSDAY 5th September.
1-2 pm Join Bishop Steven at St Stephen’s for Holy Communion & Lunch in Basildon

Bishop Steven is then continuing his pilgrimage on foot aiming for

3:30 pm at St Clement’s Join Bishop Steven in Prayer in Ashampstead.

BASILDON OPEN GARDENS SUNDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2-5PM

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TICKETS FOR OPEN GARDENS in advance from Clive Williams on 01491-671631 or e-mail clivewilliams@gmx.co.uk

Tickets can be bought on the day at St Stephens, the village hall or any of the gardens. Cost £6 per adult (children free).

11 Garden owners are participating as in the map above: 6 in the Village/Triangle area; 4 in Bethesda Street/Aldworth Road area and one in Beckfords. Teas will be available at several locations and to add even more variety, there will be a number of exhibition - Art, Photography and Local History. NO dogs please.

The proceeds will be divided between the Church and Village Hall.

The Basildon Horticultural Society are holding their show the day before, so we look forward to an enjoyable and successful Basildon community week-end.

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The Toughest Place To Be?

The Toughest Place To Be?

Did you see the TV Series –“The Toughest Place to be a............”?

  • A London binman with semi-destitue Indonesian binmen in Jakarta;

  • A Cornish Fisherman in Sierra Leone;

  • Sussex firefighter in Brazilian forests;

  • Devon dairy farmer with subsistence cattle farmers in Kenya;

  • A London Cabbie in Mumbai.

Being in someone else’s shoes is not something we can easily do.

It may be fun, challenging, or exciting, to receive insights into a different life!

Swapping jobs is one thing, how about bodies? How might we fare if we had to suffer the disability of the woman in the Luke's story:

"On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all."