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Churches Together Newport Pagnell
A Letter From A Minister
s I write this we are three days into the Olympic games and I am enthralled by it and following every UK athletes progress. It is inspiring and gives me more of a hunger to play my own sports of football and swimming even though
I know that at my age and ability level I shall never win any medals! For an athlete, years of training leads to a few minutes of competition in a race. In a few seconds dreams are made or shattered. Training the body to peak condition is tough and requires huge amounts of self discipline and yet by the time a person is past thirty years old they are usually not considered t or young enough to compete at the top level. The good news for all of us is that we can train our spiritual muscle at any age. All of us have the chance to do this. You are never too old or young to learn more about God and to make choices about whether we want God to be part of our lives or not. Even when we fail in life God will always pick us up since, unlike our physical tness levels, God’s
Great War Remembrance
Here, we continue to publish the names of the fallen, from our local war memorials, exactly 100 years ago to the month. Having worked with the Royal British Legion, we have the names of the men, alongside their unit and rank, below.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age Shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
love for all of us is eternal. His love is constant for all people including those who don’t believe in Him!
I nd that knowing God is exciting and thankfully I haven’t got to be super physically t in order to know Him.
The big step in beginning this relationship with God is to be hungry to know more and to ask Him into your life. Then see what happens! Nick Evans, Rector of Newport Pagnell Bene ce
RNLI Quiz
We are holding a quiz on Saturday, 8th October at Newport Pagnell Methodist Church, High Street, Newport Pagnell, MK16 8AQ. It starts at 7pm and the cost is £5 per person with a maximum of six people in a team. Contact Linda and Geoff Morris, 01908 617050 for more information. All proceeds to RNLI MK
For more information about Churches Together in Newport Pagnell, go to our website at www.ctnp.org.uk
Royal British Legion
Name
John Millward Sidney Davis
R Morris
Caleb Herbert Vincent Stapleton Arthur Wadsworth Harold Sawford Cecil Lawrence W Page
Bertam Pepper Lancelot Sim Alfred Millward Charles Freeman William Nichols William Chater Charles Bull Herbert Beard Wallace Ingram
Date of Death Age
01/09/16 29 03/09/16 22 03/09/16 21 03/09/16
03/09/16 31 04/09/16 30 04/09/16 23 10/09/16
10/09/16
11/09/16 25 14/09/16 21 15/09/16
16/09/16 44 17/09/16
25/09/16
25/09/16
25/09/16
26/09/16 24
Rank
Private
Private
Lance Sergeant Private
Private
Private
Private
Private
Staff Sergeant Private
2nd Lieutenant Private
Private
Private
Private
Private Guardsman Private
Unit
1st/4th Btn, Oxon and Bucks Light Infantry 8th Btn, Princess Charlotte of Wales
14th Btn, Hampshire Regiment
9th Btn, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment “D” Company, 13th Btn, Sussex Regiment 2nd Btn, Northants Regiment
6th Btn, Beds Regiment
11th Battalion, Royal Munster Ri es.
Farrier Army Veterinary Corps
1st Btn, Queen’s Own
1st Btn (Special Reserve), Grenadier Guards. 8th Btn, Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Btn, Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Btn, Oxon and Bucks Light Infantry.
8th Btn, Bedfordshire Regiment
5th Btn, Oxon & Bucks Light Infantry
4th Btn, Grenadier Guards
2nd Btn, Grenadier Guards
Memorial
Olney
Olney
Gayhurst Hanslope Newport Pagnell Newport Pagnell Sharnbrook Lavendon Sharnbrook Sharnbrook Newport Pagnell Olney
Lavendon Haversham Olney
Newport Pagnell Stagsden Newport Pagnell
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