Harvest Festival

Choral Evensong

We had a wonderful service of choral evensong at Ashendon church last night. I would really like to thank Charles Wheatley and all the members of Brill choir, and also that really nice organist chappy from Oxford who stood in for us, as all our organists in the Benefice either had the dreaded lurgy or were away.

It is my first choral evensong and only the third time I have been at a service with the choir there, it makes a huge difference to me to have the choir leading the singing, and a huge difference to the congregation as well! I also appreciate the willingness of the choir to go round all the churches, it is so gracious and things like that make us feel genuinely like a Benefice working together to serve God rather than seven individual churches.

So on behalf of all of us that benefit thank-you and please keep up the good work.

Ashendon Carols in the Pub

Thanks to Kevin for these photos of a great
Sing Song in the Gatehangers. It was a bit of
a challenge for me leading carols
unaccompanied with a chest infection.

Great news the auction raised a staggering £1900
for Charity, well done to Andy and Tans and
all the others for organising such a good evening.

Christian Ethics

Have you ever wondered how we make ethical decisions, especially in a Christian context? Do we use the Bible as a rule book, or throw away rules and base it all our decisions on love, or perhaps we are pragmatic and think about results.. How do you make decisions?

Do you use the RULES route

or the MOTIVES route

or the RESULTS route?

From January the Ashendon Home group will be looking at an Introduction to Christian Ethics using material from ICES. These will be the topics:
 14th Jan- Week 1 Introduction to three routes of ethical decision making.
Moral Issue: Euthanasia.
28^th Jan Week 2 – Using the Bible in Moral Decision Making.
Moral Issue: Abortion
11^th Feb Week 3 – Natural Law: Theory and critics
Moral Issue: Birth Enhancement
25^th Feb Week 4 – Human sexuality in God’s scheme
Moral Issue: Sexuality and Censorship
11^th Mar Week 5 – The lesser evil principle
Moral Issue: Divorce and Remarriage
25^th Mar Week 6 – Situation Ethics
Moral Issue: War


Contact Lesley Fellows to find out more.