Our Summer Sale on 16th August raised £280 for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). Thank you to all those who helped, or supported, this event.
Diana Holland

INNER WHEEL CLUB OF ELTHORNE HILLINGDON

IWCEH invite you to a Charity Craft Fair on Thursday 3rd November from 12 noon to 2 p.m. in Ickenham Village Hall. There will be a variety of stalls and refreshments available. Proceeds from this event will be donated to the Disability Association, Hillingdon, and Air Ambulance.

WHY GO TO CHURCH?

A churchgoer wrote a letter to the editor of a local newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. “I've gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So I think I am wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all.”

This started a real controversy in the 'Letters to the Editor' column, much to the delight of the Editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

“I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But for the life of me I can't recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: they all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me those meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!”
Author unknown

CHURCH IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH

How often do you go to church? It seems that the more you go, the better it is for you.
Certainly some recent research in the States has found that regular churchgoers live longer than non-believers.

A 12 year study tracking mortality rates of more than 550 adults over the age of 65 has found that those who attended services at least once a week were 35 per cent more likely to live longer than those who never attended church.

The research also found that going to church boosted an elderly person's immune system and made them less likely to suffer clogged arteries or high blood pressure.

Susan Lutgendorf, a psychology professor at the University of Iowa, carried out the study. She says: “There's something involved in the act of religious attendance - whether it's the group interaction, the world view or just the exercise to get out of the house - that seems to be beneficial.”

A Church of England spokesman said; “For some people, the fact that there is a greater power whom we are confident loves us, and has our best interest at heart, must remove the daily stresses and worries of those who do not believe.”

HILLINGDON FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

Presents “People and Places; Past and Present” on Saturday 22nd October from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hillingdon Park Baptist Church, Hercies Road, Hillingdon. This event and exhibition will show the changing face of this part of Middlesex from country to suburbia focussing on its people, and the places where they lived and worked. Admission is free and refreshments will be available.

For more information contact Gill May on 01753 885602.

PARISH PUMP

Receipt is acknowledged, with grateful thanks, of the following donations towards the cost of I.C.N.:
Ickenham Afternoon Townswomen's Guild, Anonymous of Eleanor Grove, via editor, Ickenham District Guides, Friends of Guiding, Patricia Self from Farnborough Village, Kent, Wendy Fray (neé Ackroyd) from Cambridge, Ms E. Hundley from Ruislip.
Copy for the November edition should be with me by 13th October.