Churches September 2025

PCC Meeting

The next PCC meeting will be on Wednesday 12th November at 7pm.

St Helen's Contact Details

Revd Elaine Jones revelainejones@gmail.com 07521 106158

www.mitfordandwansbeckchurches.com

People can also get in touch via the Benefices administrator at 

Wansbeckvicarhelp@gmail.com or on 01670 943414.

Their hours are Monday 9.00am - 5.30pm, Tue and Wed 9.00am - 1.00pm.

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Other Sunday services by arrangement, information thereof being available from our Contact below.

For our other group meetings, please see the Group Activities sections.

Visitors are always very welcome to all our events.

Contact Ian Pagan 788263 idpagan@btinternet.com

Website: www.longhorsleymission.org.uk

Thought for the Month - Needing Rescue?

One of the most well-travelled personalities on our television screens must be Michael Portillo. His multi-series of “Great Railway Journeys” seems to have taken him pretty much everywhere! 

Two or three years ago a new variant of his travels entitled “Great Coastal Railway Journeys” came to our screens. And early in series one we found ourselves in Tynemouth!

They work closely with both HM Coastguard and RNLI. During the original broadcast Michael Portillo referred to ‘their’ motto. He quoted it as “To Search, To Rescue, To Save”. However, the edited 10 minutes shorter version in BBC iPlayer omits this. Possibly because the TLB does not have a motto as such, though HM Coastguard use the phrase on the ‘About Us’ page of their website.

But, as all Christians know, searching, rescuing and saving are precisely why Jesus Christ, God’s Son, came to earth, through dying on Calvary’s cross as the substitute for everyone who believes in him. Disciple Peter, later wrote “Christ suffered for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring us to God”. There he died, three days later rising from the dead. And before ascending back to heaven 40 days later, he entrusted the message of salvation to his followers to share ‘to the end of the earth’. And soon we read of Paul in Athens telling his hearers “Now God calls all people everywhere to repent”.

Three well-known Bible examples of searching and finding, a lost coin, a lost sheep and the prodigal son are found in Luke chapter 15. Or, for a contemporary account, get hold of the autobiography “Surprised by Oxford” by Canadian Carolyn Weber. Arriving at Oxford University as a sceptical agnostic, her past taught her to rely on reason and intellect, not faith.  But all was to change…… Consider this riddle, then read the book –  

I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew

He moved my soul to seek him, seeking me,

It was not I that found, O Saviour true,

No – I was found by you!

David Marlow – Longhorsley Mission

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