ST KIARAN'S

CHRONICLE

AUGUST 2016

Thank you to our

photographers
Jess Hawkridge who
captured the Glossy
Starling, on the cover,
at the Letaba Rest
Camp in the Kruger
National Park
and
Inky Suter for her
photograph of the
Elephant and
Gemsbok in the Etosha
National Park in
Namibia

All things bright and beautiful,

All creatures great and small,

All things wise and wonderful:

The Lord God made them all.
He gave us eyes to see them,
And lips that we might tell

How great is God Almighty,

Who has made all things well.

Dear friends and family of St Kiarans

Matthew 6:19-21 (The Message)
Dont hoard treasure down here where it
gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or
worse!stolen by burglars. Stockpile
treasure in heaven, where its safe from
moth and rust and burglars. Its obvious,
isnt it? The place where your treasure is, is
the place you will most want to be, and end up being.
Every person runs their life according to a set of priorities. That
is, they will engage in activities that are most important to them
and perhaps pay attention to those activities that they view as
less important if time permits!
Why is this so? It seems that it has to do with investments. But
an investment is not really confined to the world of finance. It
could involve an outlay of expertise or giftedness; it could also be
an outlay of time or even love, care and affection. Where we
invest of ourselves ultimately becomes the place that attracts a
great deal of our attention on an ongoing basis. It will also be the
place you will most want to be, and end up being.
You can see from this passage and others like it (Matt.6:33) that
Jesus expected his followers to reprioritize their lives. But such
reprioritizing requires that we withdraw the investment of
ourselves in fruitless endeavours and other activities that
encroach on our spiritual lives and then to give God the
investment of our resources that He requires and deserves.
Until we move our investments and place them firmly in Gods
kingdom a contradiction between what we say and what we
actually do will be ever-present. This kind of doublemindedness is exactly what Jesus is trying to get us to face and,
with his help, resolve.
Where and how we invest in Gods kingdom are important
questions we are called to address. It makes sense to hear Gods
Word on this matter - after all, we do have a sure promise of an

excellent return on our investment.

Take care, be generous and continue to love one another.
With much love
Mike

Church Family News

It is with great sadness that we record the death of
Barbara Tunbridge on 1st July 2016.
Barbara's meeting with the Lord came quite late in
her life, but it was real. Her evangelistic
heart impacted many in Fish Hoek and her
friendliness to all was special.
St Kiaran's was her family!

Cliff and Sybil Loock!

There are people in the life of every minister who are
unforgettable. Here is the story of two such persons.
Douglas (Muller) had been serving in the Pinetown
Presbyterian Church for about 3 years when it happened. He was
busy in his study when there was a knock at the door. There
stood Cliff Loock! Little did he know what lay ahead.
He and Cliff had served together on the Session of the
Ladysmith Church about 10 years earlier. Their paths had not
crossed since.
Come in! said Douglas and offered him a chair. Before he
could say anything further Cliff announced that he had recently
retired from the Natal Blood Transfusion Service and that he was
ready for service and where would Douglas like him to go! He
had a pension and a car all he would need would be
accommodation and petrol money. Just like that!

Luckily Douglas had a year to sort it out. During that time

Cliff took himself off to the Stellenbosch Seminary while his wife,
Sybil, chose the Rosebank Bible College.
This was mainly a language decision
English or Afrikaans.
As it happened the Pinetown church had
recently started a morning service in
Hillcrest. Douglas had a heavy Sunday load
as he was doing 3 services each Sunday:
8am at Pinetown; then a race up to Hillcrest
to do a 9.30 service there; then
Confirmation class in the afternoon; the day
finishing with an Evening service in
Pinetown. Clearly some help was needed
and it seemed that help might just have
Cliff and Sybil Loock
arrived.
So to Hillcrest they went. The self-termed Presbyterian
Bishop of Hillcrest and his wife had arrived! For two years he
and Sybil laboured as they laid the foundations for a
congregation for what is now one of the strong churches in that
area. At the end of that time Pinetown had a Student for the
Ministry ready to take over in the person of Arnold Mallinson. So
what about Cliff and Sybil? The Lord still had something for them
to do.
The new port at Richards Bay was opening. A member of the
Pinetown congregation was also the Town Planner and able to
secure a church site. Several lay preaching members of the
Pinetown congregation had been faithfully making the trip from
Pinetown to Richards Bay each Sunday for nearly 2 years by now.
A nucleus of a congregation had been established. What was
needed though was more sustained input if that congregation
was to grow. So guess who? Yes, our two church-planting
pioneers, their task at Hillcrest now complete, and they were
ready to go. Off they went to serve the Lord in the new place.
Together with their pension and car they did in Richards Bay what
they had done in Hillcrest.
After another few years Tim Sawyer, then ready for
Ordination, and his wife Julie, took over at Richards Bay. Cliff and
Sybil now looked for something new. Where do you think they
found it this time? The boundaries were moving. Mauritius! The

Presbyterian Church there needed a stand-in minister for 6

months while their own minister took long leave. I guess this
time they had to leave their car behind, but they did take the
pension.
I think that theirs is a unique record - helping to establish
two new congregations, both in KZN, and both thriving
congregations today. I am sure that the Presbyterian Church
abounds with the stories of those who have given their lives in
without-boundaries service throughout the years.
Let us tell these stories to each other. We are indeed blessed.
Doug. and Avril Muller

Please join us for the Annual Triangular

Quiz contest between:
TOC H
the L IONS
and ST KIARAN'S
to be held in St Kiaran's Hall, at 2.30p.m. on
Saturday 20th August 2016 . All welcome!!

Our Recent Trip

John and Jenny Strickland
We cruised for three weeks aboard the MSC Sinfonia, a large
very comfortable luxury liner carrying more than 2000
passengers, sailing round the bulge of the West Coast of Africa,
eventually disembarking in Venice. We spent nearly a week there,
sketching, exploring, and enjoying the canals, with their
reflections. The gondolas, the great master paintings and other
ornate decorations from the Golden Age of Venice and the
strange-shaped chimneys make this a most enchanting city.
En route - we visited the scruffy, poverty-stricken city of
Dakar in French-speaking Senegal. They are 95% Muslim. Next
stop was to the delightful Island of Las Palmas in the Grand

Canaries. Then, on to Malta. The Co-Cathedral of St Johns has,

thanks to the Knights' Templar, rich, extravagant, ornate
decoration, gilding and paintings.
From Venice, by train to Sirmione on
the southern end of Lake Garda for five
restful days. We spent the mornings
exploring the historic old town, its castle
and the surrounding country, including
Verona. In the warm late afternoons, we
enjoyed the serenity, the sunsets and the
water-birds among the reeds at the lake
edge.
By train we moved on to Milan. The
highlight was visiting Milans most
marvellous Cathedral the Duomo
intricately carved and massive. It took over
600 years to build and holds 40,000.
We flew on to Split in Croatia and visited
small and ancient Trogir, where we spent
the morning ambling through its cobble
stone streets and narrow, winding alleys.
In the afternoon, we joined a walking tour round the old
Roman area of Split. These are not ancient ruins but is a bustling
port with lots of people and shops. There is also a busy and
rowdy market, with stalls loaded with shiny fresh fruit and the
most gorgeous veggies. Then, to our ship a most luxurious
Motor Yacht - the Futura. Cruising on the way South to
Dubrovnik, we stopped at the island of Korula. Each day we
sailed the clear blue waters, stopping somewhere to swim in a
quiet bay and later to visit a quaint village.
Dubrovnik: A fascinating town with its narrow alleyways
and old buildings and a cable-way to the mountain top behind
with wonderful views over the town.
Among the islands we stopped at, was Mljet known to the
Romans as Melita. It is very likely that this was the island where
Paul was ship-wrecked. We also stopped at the ports of Hvar and
Bol. We fed like kings, slept well, loved the peoples we met in
Italy and Croatia had a holiday to remember - and - ate lots of
gelati (ice-cream).

St Kiaran's Women's Fellowship

On the 24 August
Barry Buret will present a Musical Morning
and
on the 28th September
there will be a screening of an
Andre Rieu Concert
For more information call:
Anne McLeod on 021 7823415

SHE WAS LARGE AND FAT AND JOLLY

Yes, she was large and fat and jolly and in fact that was her
name: Jolly, June Jolly. We became friends at London University
even though we were doing different courses. We had met at the
Christian Union meetings. She had already received a degree in
Social Studies at Southampton University and was now embarked
on a specialist course in child care. Since that time I had been in
touch with her, on and off, until her death earlier this year.
A mutual friend sent me a copy of her obituary in the London
Times. The London Times.......Now to be included in the obituary
columns meant that you had really achieved something during
your life. Her story needs to be shared with others. The article
was entitled: NURSE WHO TRANSFORMED THE EMOTIONAL CARE
OF CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL.
Bit by bit she changed the
sterile-looking wards she worked in.
Standardized curtains were pulled
down to be replaced by bright
cheerful ones (bought from her own
saved-up Green Shield Stamps).
Clinical nursing-aprons were changed
to colourful ones and so on.
She was quick to realise the
emotional needs of sick children and

arranged for parents to spend more time with their children. She
felt desperately for those unfortunates whose mothers were
unable to visit regularly and devised a scheme called ADOPT A
GRANNIE. She asked recently retired women to visit one child
regularly.
When Junes mother died she moved back home to look after
her Dad but didnt waste a moment to bring across to the
authorities and the general public the need to transform
childrens nursing. Her father woke up at 8 a.m. so June spent
6am 8 am writing THE OTHER SIDE OF PAEDIATRICS; A
GUIDE TO THE EVERDAY CARE OF SICK CHILDREN. After
her fathers death she was back in the wards.
Towards the end of her life she unfortunately spent many
years in a wheel-chair and on the occasions when I phoned her
was always positive and grateful for the help she received from
friends. To sum up: June was a wonderful Christian. She was not
one who withdrew from the contaminations of this wicked world
but immersed herself in it bringing healing and practical help to
children and their parents.
Lucy Centlivres

On TUESDAY 9 AUGUST there will be NO

Prayer meeting or Bible Study, however
here at St Kiarans at 2.30pm we will be
having our

CHARI-TEA - raising awareness

and support for the work being done in the
Venda by Mission Aviation Fellowship's
Flying for Life programme.
Tickets are R50 pp and all monies raised
will be going to MAF - (the work of our
Mission Group supports MAF pilot, Mark Liprini)
We would like EVERY WOMAN in our congregation to take part
in this afternoon of fun and fellowship.
Tickets are available from Les today or during the week in the office.

Meet Dawn Fish!

I was born on the 5/02/1945 in
Springs, Transvaal the eldest of five and
the only girl. Later we came to live in the
Cape, in Southfield, attending Kenilworth
Presbyterian Church where Rev Hector
McDonald was our friend and minister.
My parents encouraged us to love our
Lord Jesus and to know our Bible. Every night we would gather
round as a family to read the scriptures and to show how we
understood what we had read.
Most school holidays were spent on the farm in
Stellenbosch with my aunts and family members. In the June
holidays I always attended the CSSM meetings, often held in the
park near our home. It was here that I first gave my life to our
Lord Jesus. In 1958 we moved to Simonstown where my Dad
became The Simonstown Bus Transport Manager. As most of my
new friends were either Anglican or Roman Catholic I attended
church with them. Mum and Dad, with the Scoulars, attended
church services in the Moth Hall in Fish Hoek, which is where St
Kiaran's began.
I went to catechism classes at the RC church with my
friends. It was there that I fell in love with our Lord Jesus, and
actually prepared to convert to Catholicism, with plans to become
a postulant when I turned 18. My parents were wise enough to
give me time to sort my priorities out. When about 16 years old I
felt that this was not the right thing for me. When I told the nuns
and the priest how I felt they gave me their blessing wishing me
well in my further walk with our Lord.
By this time St Kiarans church hall was completed. My
eldest brother, Michael, and I were among the first group who
went to confirmation classes run by Rev Hector MacDonald. The
actual confirmation service was held in Kenilworth. We were all in
church a month later when he passed away in the pulpit after his
Sunday evening service.
I married my first husband in August 1964. Sadly, I lost
our baby in November 1965, and my husband died Jan 1966. By
this time I had qualified as a hairdresser and beautician.
I left Cape Town shortly afterwards to became an in-house

Beauty consultant for Yardley of London, and later a travelling

Consultant in the Transvaal, OFS and Northern Cape. I enjoyed
the isolation and freedom of the open road, feeling closest to our
Lord Jesus there. I never felt afraid. Not even when I was caught
up in the floods and washed away in the rush of a breaking
bridge. I was once chased by a bakkie load of baddies on a dirt
road outside Wepener. All I did was call for Jesus to help me. Out
of the blue a helicopter landed in between me and the baddies,
who then sped away. Once when trapped in mud with not a soul
in sight, out of the blue, a man appeared on horseback. He pulled
me out of the bog then rode off before I could find out his
name.
I successfully applied to be an area representative and
manager for Yardley in the field a rare thing for a female at
that time. While based in Bloemfontein I
attended the Presby. Church situated at the
base of Naval Hill. I also joined the
Kenilworth Riding School where I made
many friends and helped to teach beginners
to ride. A riding accident in February 1979
left me semi-paralysed for about 7/8
months. In the National Hospital in Bloem. I
had two very big spinal ops and in October
that same year learned to walk all over
again.
Dawn on "Kroon"
In 1981 a job was created for me in the
office. In 1982 I married Ivan Clarke and became a stepmother.
My Catholic learning helped as I now had a Catholic family to
look after. Sadly, during the course of our marriage, I lost 2
babies. I returned to St Ks in 1989. For a short time my husband
accompanied me to church on Sunday mornings but sadly
somewhere along the way I lost him. We were divorced in 2000.
I lead a full life. In 1999 I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid
Auto Immune disease. I manage it very well but some days the
pain gets the better of me. I keep occupied enjoying sewing and
making cards. I work two days a week.
In the past 15 years I have had to learn to live with pain
and to readjust to being single. I was fortunate that soon after
my husband left me I took a Lay Counselling Course. The most
wonderful people supported me at the time when I most needed

them. Ive had to learn to rely on others for help, which I found
(and still do) very difficult to do, always having been an
independent person. We only have to open our hearts and our
eyes to all the blessings and love that our Heavenly Father
bestows upon us on a daily basis and all troubles, fear and pain
just become little bumps in the road.

A REAL PAIN
A clergyman was standing in for a vicar who was ill. The
parish was in a rough part of town
and most of the church windows had
been broken and were boarded up
with cardboard.
On his last Sunday he said to
the congregation, "I have enjoyed
being with you, but of course I am
not your vicar; rather like those
pieces of cardboard in your windows
they're not real panes, they are a
substitute, and I have been a
substitute."
At the end of the service the church
warden thanked him for helping and said, "We want you to know
sir that to us you have not been a substitute, you have been a
real 'pane'."
Thanks to Mike M.!

POINTS TO PONDER
Importance of Number 7 in Scripture
* Naaman had to bathe 7x in the Jordan river to be healed
* Joshua and the chosen people had to march around the walls
of Jericho 7x before they tumbled down
* There were 7 pairs of 'clean' animals in the ark
* There are 7 branches on the tabernacle's lampstand
* Isaiah 11:2 list 7 qualities of the Messiah
* Proverbs 6:16 lists 7 things that God hates
* Matthew 13 tells us about 7 of Jesus' parables
* Matthew 23 lists 7 woes
* In Jeremiah 29:10 it is predicted that the Babylonian
captivity would last 70 years
* Jesus told Peter to forgive 70x7 times
* In the Book of Revelation the number 7 is used more than 50
times
We therefore learn that the number 7 in the Bible means
divine completion, perfection and wholeness.
Contributed by Miranda Moisey

 Memory-Improvement-Tips.com

Miranda Moisey's

VINNIGE VETKOEK
(Quickly-made Fat Cake
in South Africa)

Heat half a cup (or more) of milk and a pinch of salt in a medium-sized bowl in the
microwave oven until lukewarm.
Stir in bran-rich self-raising flour until you have a sloppy dough.
Fry both sides in shallow oil until cooked.
Serve with butter and syrup or cheese.
LEKKER! (Delicious!)

Some Thoughts On Baking!

Mother took the pie out of the oven and it hissed fragrant apple, maple, cinnamon steam through

the knife cuts in the top crust. She was making her world beautiful. She was making her world
delicious. It could be done, and if anyone could do it, she could.
J.J. Brown, Death and the Dream

Baking and love go hand in hand, for as one bakes a tasty treat and fills the room with its sweet
aroma, the true joy is to take what has been made and share it with another.
Heather Wolf, Kipnuk Has a Birthday

I always say a little prayer when I put cakes in the oven, remarked Eve, as she
stopped to kiss Rose good-bye.
What do you say?
I say, Please, God, dont let me forget Ive put that cake in the oven.

Hilary McKay

St Kiaran's Presbyterian Church

Cnr. Central Circle and Recreation Road
P.O.Box 22146, Fish Hoek, 7974
Church Phone: 021 782 6118

Minister: Rev. Mike Muller

All are welcome at our

Regular Sunday Services
Sunday Worship Services at 9.30a.m. & 7p.m.
Holy Communion is served on the 1st Sunday of the month at both services

CHURCH PRAYER MEETINGS

Tuesdays: 11.45 a.m. in the Craig Room

Prayer is offered after services for healing or other needs, by members of our Prayer
Ministry