FAREWELL TO EDITOR
SANDFORD LINK EDITOR Mr. Max Hobbs will be at the end of
this month leaving the village to move to pastures new,
writes Geoffrey Hedge.
Max will be remembered as the founder editor of the Link;
a community newsletter, which has, in a short space of
time, gone from strength to strength under his editorship.
He has set a high standard for his successor to follow!
Sandford will also he saying farewell to Don and Jeanette
Edwards who have also played an important part in village
life.
Recently Miss Elizabeth Burra has put pen to paper and
acknowledged the tremendous contribution that Max,
Barbara, Don and Jeanette have made to community activities.
"Sandford is very sorry to be saying goodbye in April to
two families who have lived here for 11 and 8 years respectively
and have become part of village life through their
friendliness and helpfulness. Max and Barbara Hobbs and
Don and Jeanette Edwards have contributed to Sandford's
life in many various ways. Max has served as parish Clerk
and Chairman of the Parish Council, and is still a Parish
Councillor. Barbara, with Jeanette Edwards started our
Mothers and Toddlers' Group which has flourished for 2½
years.
Don is Chairman of the Youth Club and has produced
beautiful scenery for all our pantomimes. His appearance
as chief scene shifter in the "Ali Baba" pantomime brought
the house down and will be remembered for many years. All
four have worked very hard in different ways towards the
fund-raising and organising for the new Village Hall, and
for all their activities we would like to thank them very
much indeed. We shall miss them all for themselves, not
only for their hard work, and we wish them and their
children (all Sandford born) the very best in their new
homes."
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SANFORD YOUTH GROUP (CONT'D)
So Mum's and Dad's dont' be shy - come and see what they get
up to on a Thursday night. We hope to have another weekend
away and some day trips during this year, but as yet we
haven't finalised them. If you feel you can cope with our
'mob' on any of our ventures, please come and see us any
Thursday evening. It will be very much appreciated.
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ST. ANDREW'S
That short statement of Christian
belief called the Apostles' Creed
says of Jesus Christ: He "...was
crucified,dead and buried...: the third
day He rose again from the dead."
These facts of history will be occupying
the minds of Christians for the
next two weeks or so. Why was the word
'dead' included in the Creed ? It was
put in to emphasise that Christ really
did die. Certain people at the time who
were hostile to the proclamation of the
Resurrection tried to make out that He
didn't really die but merely swooned.
We have, however, the testimony of the
Roman soldiers who "saw that He was
dead already" - men who were used to
the sight of death and who would not
have been mistaken.
But why did Christ have to die? Well
in Jesus we see what God is really
like - and in Jesus we see love - for
the sick, the hungry, the sad and for
those with whom 'respectable' people
would have nothing to do. If Jesus had
stopped short of the Cross it would
have meant that there was a point beyond
which the love of God would not go; in
other words, some limit to His love.
The life and death of Jesus Christ, the
Son of God, are the demonstration and
the proof of the limitless and undefeatable
love of God for us men and
women.
On the evening of the first Good
Friday the disciples of Jesus were
despairing and frightened men who shut
themselves away in that upper room in
Jerusalem "for fear of the Jews" - in
case a similar fate to that of Jesus
overtook them. Yet three days afterwards
they were completely changed
and were testifying to the fact that
their Master, Who they knew had died on
the Cross, was alive and had shown
Himself to them. The New Testament tell
us that later on "He appeared to above
five hundred people at once". They
couldn't all have been mistaken!
Christianity affirms that Jesus Christ
Who really did die on the first Good
Friday 'for us men and for our salvation'
rose again on the first
Easter Sunday and is alive for evermore.
That great fact is what the
Church celebrates with thanksgiving
and joy at Easter and why the Easter
Communion is the most important one of
the year and should not be missed by
any confirmed member of the Church.
Here at St. Andrews, there will be
celebrations of the Holy Communion at
8.0 a.m. (said) and 10 a.m.(sung) and
Festival Evensong at 6.30 p.m.
Donald Fehrenbach
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