If you're someone who reads this magazine from cover to cover, you may recall a story in December's edition entitled A Girl with an Apple.  In his own words it told the remarkable story of Herman Rosenblat, a Polish Jew who, as a boy of 11, was sent to the concentration camp.  One day, walking near the perimeter fence, he saw a girl on the other side. She threw an apple over the fence to him, and from then on, every day she would come and bring him apples, until he was transferred to another camp.  He survived the war, and ended up in New York. 

We've just come back from a break in our touring caravan.  The children get so excited and love it when we go away.  The weather has been cold and wet and one night, because the gas ran out at nine o'clock, we had no heating (there was frost on the windscreens in the morning).  We stayed at a site with a swimming pool and indoor play facilities and the children were able to roam wherever they pleased in safety. 

Everyone at Weybourne School is busy preparing for our Christmas celebrations.  We are looking forward to the Nativity Play, the Christmas Fair and, of course, the Christmas Party.  We would like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas as well as good wishes for the New Year.

I expect most of you by now will know that we have appointed the Revd Carol Wilson-Barker to be the next Team Vicar in the parish, with special responsibility for St George's and Badshot Lea.  I will not spend time here telling you about Carol; she does that for herself elsewhere in this magazine.  But I do want to say how delighted I am that Carol is coming to the parish.

The following articles are just a taster of what's in the April 2007 magazine - make sure you get your copy today, and every month! Contact the Parish Office for more details.

• Where do I begin? - An Easter message from the Rector
• Mothers Union visit Coldingley Prison
  
• A Prayer for Lent
• Beyond Belief - A new Parish group discussing tricky questions that Christian faiththrows up
• Do you mind if we smoke in Church? 
• A visit to St Michael, Great Torrington
• Profile of Jim Miller

Where do I begin?
To tell the story of how great a love can be......
The simple truth about the love he brings to me
Where do I start?

These words by Carl Sigman, which readers of a certain age will recognize as the theme song from the 1970s film Love Story, play in my mind as I sit down and attempt to write this Easter message for the magazine.

A Christian approach to a topical question.

At one level the climate change we are now beginning to experience is the result of increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere.  At another level it is the result of human activity, mainly through burning fossil fuels like coal, gas and oil.  So carbon dioxide concentrations have increased by one third since 1750, the start of the Industrial Revolution, and the United Kingdom has provided 15 per cent of this.

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