Methodist Church
Chapel Lane, Rolleston-on-Dove

The schoolroom is extensively used by village organisations, and can be booked for events like children's parties by contacting Jane Millward. Tel.813015.

Services during June, all at 10.30 am.

For further details of services at the Methodist church please consult the notice board outside the church.

Holiday Club

Plans for the children's Holiday Club to be run in July by both churches in the village are going ahead well. It will run from 27th. July to31st., each morning, at the John of Rolleston Primary School, School Lane site. There will be the usual menu of songs, stories and crafts, and publicity is already out. Watch for more, and forms for registration are available from Mrs. K. Potts or from members of the churches. The cost for the week is £6 for the first child in the family and £1 for subsequent family members.

Pause for Thought

I'm always glad we don't have to trim a twelve foot high hedge twice a year, as our neighbours do. We just have shrubs to prune, and that keeps us busy enough, though I enjoy it. The aim, of course, is to take out dead wood, reduce weak growth and keep a shapely bush that will please the eye with its abundant flowers next spring.

John's gospel speaks of God as a gardener, this time pruning a vine so that it will produce good, healthy grapes. Jesus calls himself the Father's vine, and says his disciples are the vine's branches. Those that don't bear fruit are pruned away, to encourage the good, fruitful branches to develop. Discarded branches have no life of their own and, once cut off, they shrivel and wither, whereas those that are left attached to the main plant draw strength and vigour and flourish.

So what fruit should develop in our lives? Are we gentle, patient, full of self-control, joy and peace? These are the fruits produced by Jesus the vine, and they need space to grow. If, for example, we are miserable, irritable, always ready to pick a quarrel, those characteristics will have to be taken away, "pruned," so that life and vigour can nourish the other qualities.

We must stay close to Jesus, in our thoughts and prayers, and in the way we live. Then from him we will receive strength to honour him by the fruit shown in our daily lives.

Joyce Lockley

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