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38 The Link Maaazine • June 1999
JUST THE JOB Jubilee 2000: a call on the rich to relieve the debt of the poor
Domestic Services Agency The campaign to persuade the gov- Cologne with a cargo of messages, don Bus Station at 8.40am. Cost:
ernments of rich nations to release banners and petitions. Adults £8, children £5
requires For more information, call
Domestic Cleaners & Ironers the burden of debt from poor coun- A coach leaves Ashington Way,
tries by year 2000 to enable them to West Swindon at8.30amandSwin- Phillada Ware on 729592.
Flexible hours,
concentrate resources on health,
good rates of pay education and the wellbeing of
Phone Jill or Sue on 861112 their citizens moves to the world Church heading for homelessness
leaders summit in Cologne on 19 The Church of Christ the Servant Abbey Meads looks as if it will have
June. nowhere to meet in August and probably most of September.
An international demonstration
is planned and to set the scene, a Last month The Link reported for some services and also organ-
• Same clay service l huge event takes place in London that the temporary community ise outdoor services at Abbey
• Guaranteed repairs iQ' centre is to be removed from Meads village green until the com-
• For a friendly, helpful on Sunday 13 June with speakers, Elstree Way so that building of the munity facilities at the new pri-
service, call J Martin music, church services and a hu-
0 second primary school can start. mary school are available some-
1 Alnwick, Toothill man chain to give a great and col- Deaconess Maureen Spinks said time in September.
ourful send off to a boat sailing to
the church would probably join St Plans for a childrens summer
Andrew'sCofEChurch, Blunsdon holiday club have been p ut on hold.
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FAMILY CHURCH peoples lives Today Briefly, Sikhism believes in the
o^Evange11c unity of the one God, humanity as
Live with integrity one race (also meaning egalitari-
Love wholeheartedly y SO Worsley Road anism), attaining the love of God
Trust God in all things (rather than salvation) through
I Z mm m n meditation, service and self sacri-
SUNDAYS 10.30AM ^, m cn m=g fice in aid of the oppressed, the
AT THE LINK CENTRE weak and defenceless. The founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak
building with people
(Community Suite) Renunciation of the world is not this regard the story of Bhai
Come and join us
& PINEHURST PEOPLE'S Sunday at 10am & 6.30pm recognised; rather social and fam- Kanaiya is often quoted showing
ily life is given prominence. Al-
belief in humanity as one race. This
CENTRE For further information of
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All ages of children & teens cared for gion, it developed a martial tradi- Guru on charges of helping the
or call at the Church office
Information: Call Brian on 849731 tion during its growth - the world enemy on the battlefield. Sikhs
in association with Jesus said: "I have come chat YOU might was becoming shameless, turning complained he had been helping
NEW FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL have LIFE and have it in its fulness" the other cheek no longer sufficed. and handing water to the enemy.
What of now though - 1999? His reply that he only saw the
I returned in April from a visit to spirit of his Guru not any friend or
India to celebrate the 300th anni- foe, brought a smile to the Guru's
LWCAL CHURCHES versary (1699 - 1999) of a major face who said few could under-
Sikh festival -Baisakhi. This marks stand the spirit of this Sikh. This
Al Saints' Lydiard Millicent - 10:30am
the birth of a new religious order, took place some a hundred and
Revd Peter Knight: 772417 (for the Village & Roughmoor)
the Khalsa (pure) when Sikh (dis- fifty years before the creation of
HolyTrinityShaw-10:30amRevdAndrewHetherington:770568 '- o ciple) became Singh (lion). the Red Cross.
((he Church is at Shaw Village Centre) The new initiation ceremony in- A book of prophecies (Soh Sakhi)
St Mary's Lydiard Tregoze - 9:00am, 10:30am N o cluded'nectar of the sword' (kande is reputed to exist but its wherea-
Revd Ann Mackenzie: 870244 a° S. ki pahul) - the sword being very bouts are unclear. It is accepted
symbolic and deemed protector of however that the end of the Dark
Toothill Church - 10:45am Revd Mark Roper: 692620
dharma. It is written that only the Age would be marked by the break
(also Free Church minister for the parish)
Khalsa shall remain, as in Christi- up of the family structure (brother
Westlea Church - 10:00am Revd Peter Walker: 872932
anity that the meek shall inherit fighting brother) and lapse into
(this Church meets in Westlea School Hall, Langs(one Way)
the earth. immorality with children bearing
The Parish of West Swindon and the Lydiards The celebrations are aptly timed children.
when many are engaged in evalu- Some believe this is happening
Baptist • Church of England • Methodist • United Reformed Church
ating the progress of humanity. In now.