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Wing Parish Council set their precept at £40,000 for the year 2009-10 at the parish council meeting on January 27th 2009. The precept has been kept at this figure for the last three years.

AVDC have also decided on only a modest 2% increase in their precept figure, the lowest rise in 10 years.

Bucks county council are due to announce the council tax rates for 2009-10 on the 25th February.

The table top sale that was organised for the 7th Feb has had to be postponed due to the weather conditions. The sale will now occur on the 21st February at 10am. Apologies for the inconvenience.

The Jubilee Green Management Commitee.

My feet are cold, my pension is shrinking, employment prospects for my family are precarious, I can’t afford any shopping therapy to cheer me up, there is conflict in Gaza, starvation in Zimbabwe, violence in Uganda, fighting in Afghanistan, terrorism, flu and a long way to go to summer! At times like this people ask me ‘Why can’t God sort it out and take away our suffering?’ Good question.

One year there was a terrible flood that deluged a small Midwestern town. Two rivers had burst their banks and the rain continued to fall day and night. Everyone was evacuated, except for one old man who refused to leave his house—which would soon become completely submerged.

“My child, I heard your prayers. I sent you a 4x4 truck, a rowing boat, and a helicopter. Why did you send them away?”

What I’ve been learning is that we can sit around and blame God for our misfortunes, throwing unanswerable questions at him, or we can decide to be part of the answer. Part of God’s answer. In the garden of Gethsemane Jesus asked his Father God to take away his suffering, to find another way that would avoid his death on a cross. It took him a whole night of struggle to realise that he had to become part of the answer. More recently Bono, who spent 6 weeks working in an African orphanage, found his prayers changing from ‘God, don’t you care about the 13 million orphans? How can you let them suffer?’ to ‘how can I be part of the answer to my prayer?’

How can you be part of the answer to your prayers?

Shalom

Revd Derek Witchell 01296 682320

Overnight Wednesday 7th to Thursday 8th January, offenders gained entry to a premises in Church Street, Wing, via the rear door. Property including a wallet and a television were stolen. OIC:- PC 5169 CROSLAND

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