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May 22nd, 2011.

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honoured by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”

Matthew 6:1-4, NIV

The music used in the opening and closing sequences of this podcast is called ‘Frescoes’, by Alexandr Filippov.
It is released under a Creative Commons licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) and is available from http://www.jamendo.com.

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Link Back to the 1940s was a great success with 100 people coming through the door of the Methodist chapel to see what it was all about.

We had a 1940s school room in the entrance, complete with desk and slates and a dvd of life as a child in the 40′s with clothes to try on and games to play…..

In the chapel we had  displays on School, living, sport, faith, farming, fashion and the forces.

Many photographs, articles and memorabilia, from gas masks to telephones to a ewbank cleaner to a set of old bowling woods and many old archives from the decade…the school admission register, the school log. The bowls club minutes, the methodist chapel trustees minutes, PCC minutes and many more.

We had some fantastic conversations with people throughout the day as they looked at the old photographs and documents, one special moment was when one lady read a letter dated from 1937 and she suddenly realised it was about herself, from the headmaster to her Mother, and she had never seen it before!!

The documents had come from the treasure house in Beverley. Mike and myself had spent 4 hours one morning / afternoon photogaphing 180 pages from the different archives. They all then had to be cropped, printed and placed in large files for viewing.

In the chapel we also had video interviews on a big screen of local peoples memories from the ’40s. This proved very popular as people just sat in the pews listening to the tales from the ’40s……a local farmer complaining that the children employed to help with potato picking got too much money and messed about throwing the potatoes at each other…….one of the “children” complaining that they didn’t get paid much money potato picking, so they used to throw “spuds” at each other!! The interviews gave a fantastic insight into life back in the 1940′s.

Mike and Don had spent many hours interviewing people and then the editing process began, many, many, many hours of careful editing work by Mike. The finished article was a very professional and excellent DVD which we do hope we will be able to post on the site at some point.

In the chapel hall we had our area on cooking and food from the ’40s where you could sample the delights of mock apricot flan, dripping cake and eggless fruitcake. plus many articles on food. The back wall was transformed into a very large map of the village from 1937 with 70 or so photograhs of houses from the decade ti try and identify.

Our tearoom was a great success with many cakes and buns and gallons of tea and coffee…………plus 50 newspapers from the war to period to browse whilst having a cuppa…..

We all enjoyed dressing up in 1940′s clothes. I had a spivs suit on, Sue had a lovely tweed suit and played the role of a school teacher, Alison was a 40′s housewife, Don became a local 4o’s farm labourer and Jayne was our resident American moll!!  

All in all a fantastic day and £50 raised for the Red Cross.

Our latest podcast of our evening talk on Sunday May 8th,  by Jayne, is now available in themultimedia section of the site under Audio sermons. The talk is titled “Love your enemies” which just happens to be very apt at this moment in time.

May 8th, 2011.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

“If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

Matthew 5:43-48, NIV

The music used in the opening and closing sequences of this podcast is called ‘Frescoes’, by Alexandr Filippov.
It is released under a Creative Commons licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) and is available from http://www.jamendo.com.

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