Hazelwell Weekly Contact 9th November 2025
14 Nov 2025 • Weekly Notices
All-age Remembrance Service
Led by Rev’d Matt Churchouse
Please remember in your prayers:-
Residents of Listowell Road and Haytor Avenue.
Please pray for Matt as he prepares the service for this week
Please pray also for John, Debbie, and Val
Give thanks for All members of our rainbows, brownies, guides and ranger groups and for their leaders who devote time and energy to preparing for and leading their activities
Parish Update
This Sunday 9th November,
10am Remembrance Sunday, (all-age service)
Not Long To Go!
Reflection for remembrance Sunday
By Sue Say, assistant church warden, in the Team Parish of St Luke in Liverpool.
“Remembrance Sunday means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Some think it's a complete waste of time and merely creates an atmosphere of nationalism, militarism and signifies an unwillingness to forgive and to forget. Some believe the past is gone and is no longer relevant.
For me, Remembrance Sunday is a day to, yes, remember the sacrifices of those who fought against fascism but also a day to remember the total devastation that war creates. All the horror and the suffering. Soldiers and civilians alike. My granddad was a quiet gentle man. His words echo in my heart, every day. He was a Methodist, who was persuaded to put his bible down, and with God's commandment 'thou shalt not kill', ringing in his ears, he went to join the 'war to end all Wars.'
Watching his sons and daughters march off to war, just 20 years later; in truth, it simply broke him. My granddad had been injured in the first world war, he was shot in the head and they were unable to remove the shrapnel. He suffered from epileptic fits every time the shrapnel shifted. He had been told he had only a few months to live and was given a piece of farmland in Dagenham to see out his days. Grandad married his childhood sweet heart and went on to have 13 children; my mother being his eldest girl. My granddad rarely spoke about the war but he believed that the world should look back and feel ashamed.
I loved my Grandad and hung on his every word.
He told me to remember 3 things.
1. That I should hold peace in my heart and the Bible in my hand and never let go.
2. Always look to the past and use wisdom and courage to guide my steps.
3. Love is the only truth.
I decided at the age of eight to carry my granddad's words to the grave.