Text Box: The Messenger—a New Editor for the New Year The most welcome visitor is the one who knows when it is time to leave. As Editor of the Messenger, I have had the privilege of visiting all your homes on a regular basis, and (as far as I know!), you have made me welcome. Twelve years is a long time, and I am in danger of outstaying my welcome, so from the next edition (February/March), the Messenger will have a new Editor. Mr Gareth Jenkins has volunteered (silly man!) to take over. Gareth has plenty of new ideas and I’m sure that his journalistic experience will be of benefit to both the content and appearance of the Messenger of the future. I would like to take this opportunity of saying a very big thank you to all the people who have helped me during my time as Editor. Regular and occasional contributors have kept me well-supplied with varied material, and I’m especially thankful to those who kept us going during nearly three years without a Minister of our own. I’m very grateful to all those who have spent hours over a hot photocopier, and whose fingers are raw after folding 2,000 copies of each edition. Thank you, too, to those who have been encouraging and those who have been kindly critical when editorial judgement wavered. However, I’m sure you will concur that the greatest contribution is made by those stalwart individuals who turn out in all weathers to deliver your Messenger. Without their efforts, no-one would get to read what we have to say—to understand what the Messenger is all about. Lyn Owen

What does your horoscope hold for you in the New Year?

You may not believe that your horoscope can really foretell what will happen in the future, but this one is a bit different, and a little more certain:

For all those born under the sign of the Cross, the future is bright.

There will be many minor irritations, but no disasters.

You will triumph in everything so long as you obey your Father and do as He says.

You will be long-lived and the greater part of your life will be spent in peace, friendship and harmony under ideal conditions.

- from St Mary’s Davyhulme

If there is something you own that you can’t give away, you don’t own it—it owns you.

- Albert Schweitzer