Bedford Beat Oct 2007

Soul Jam Soul Jam is a singing group for those who enjoy singing that’s good for the Soul – Black Gospel music. We meet Wednesday nights 7:30pm. Cnr Rosebery & Park St Bedford. Call Eliot for more info – 0423525932, [email protected]

Recipe Book for sale @ Spring Fair $5 each!

Coffee Jam Coffee Jam is a great time for Mums to go out & enjoy conversation without children. Our next get together is coming up 4th week October, details see Sandy or Melinda. We will be organising our Christmas break up soon too , let me know if you have any good ideas for venues, we look for somewhere not too noisy! We need to be able to chat!

Her-Time “ “Determine God’s will for your life, & How to stay Positive in Difficult Circumstances.”

Tuesday 9:30 am @ Rosebery St, we meet pray for each other, learn how to handle life’s pressures with the Bible as our guide. We have a guest speaker coming along for the second half of term 3, she will be running a 5 week course titled, _ Marie & Betty run a kid’s club at the same time. See Sandy – 0448525932 for more details. Taylor Made Photography Kaylene Taylor for studio or on location photos – 0416078879. (our resident Thurs. T.Jam photographer) Elegance Fine music for all occasions. Flute, Oboe, Cello, Keyboard, Guitar. Duo, Trio or Quartet. Classical & Popular Music Yonna Sunderland – 93716630/ 0417916665 Add a touch of elegance to your event Reserve Our Day Wedding DJ Services Experienced owner/operator DJ providing quality and yet affordable, personalised disc jockey services for the Perth wedding market. Simply contact Rod on 0400 214 244 or visit www.reserveourdaydj.com.au.

Bedford Beat Dear Jammers & Friends, Hi guys, we hope you have enjoyed your holidays! This edition of “Bedford Beat” is dedicated to telling you all about our Bedford Baptist/Toddler Jam Spring Fair. The event is to be Saturday October 27th, 2:30 to 5:30pm. We have chosen this time because we would love to have a concert of sorts with the Jammers at 5pm. Hopefully those who need one will have had a sleep before you come & will be ready to “jam” with Eliot & the band at that time. This is a great chance for you to show the rest of your family what you & your jammer get up to on a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday! As a bonus their will be - Barn Babes; Bouncy Castle; Art for Kidz; Jewellery Stand; Book stall; New Children’s clothing stand; Light Stand; Tupperware stand; Silent Auction; Café - Devonshire tea. Sausage Sizzle. Soul Jam will be performing. love to receive your donations of home-made cakes for the cake-stall, 2nd hand books & toys for the stalls in the hall. Feel free to bring books/toys along to Toddler Jam/Bedford Baptist Church to donate. (Please see Anne-marie Taylor – 94547607 for more info on cake stall) Love Sandy

The Kingdom Its not easy getting to the movies when you have kids. Most of our dvd collection includes such gripping dramas as “Thomas the Tank Engine goes to the Island of Sodor”. But because my wife is leaving us to go to Singapore for 4 days of credit card hurting, I got a free pass to go see a movie with the ‘lads’. We went and saw a great movie called “The Kingdom” starring the surprisingly good actor, Jamie Fox. It is an incredibly violent movie about terrorism, hostages, American response and other ‘deep issues’ If you can handle the violence, I encourage you to see it, it makes you think. Afterwards, the lads and I discussed what on earth we could do about the trouble overseas. Our response was, not much. But what we did agree upon was that we could either let the hopelessness of overseas conflict overwhelm us, or we could do something local. Our church has welcomed refugees into our church family. We also support local community works. I encourage you to never let fear rule your life, instead make positive, life affirming choices for the world you live in.

Cheers Pastor Mark Edwards

Please Toddler Jammers! • •

Please ensure your childs shoes are removed for the session, it stops squashed toes! Please return all Toddler Jam books and DVD’s as soon as you have finished with them so others can use them

Sunday Mornings @ Roseberry St Sunday Mornings @ Rosebery St 10am http://www.bedfordbaptist.org.au Sunbeams – Meets in the Sunroom. Walking to 3 years. Short punchy stories & colouring in & lots of play. K.F.C. Junior – Meets in the “Parable Room” Kindy/pre-primary kids enjoy learning values to live by presented in a fun interactive way. K.F.C – Meet in the Space Hall. Active fun programme, continuing their study of Peter the fisherman – “Totally hooked on Jesus.” BLAST – meet in “Purple Room” Sandy has been treating this age group to hot drinks & chocolate biscuits. This is our tween to teen age group; we look at relevant life issues. Currently studying “The Purpose Driven Life.” SCRAP-BOOKING The scrap-booking Club meets on the 2nd Friday of the month. E-mail Melinda – [email protected] for our theme each month.

Toddler Jam Theme Term Four “Summer & The Beach” We start back October 17th, 18th & 19th (Eliot’s B’day) of October.

Wed.24th/Thurs 25th./Fri. 26th Oct – Grandparents Morning For those of you with Grandparents feel free to bring them along this day. We will have a story from a Grandparent & try & make them feel special. Christmas Party Friday December 14th More Details to follow. Toddler Jam Christmas DVD Kaylene will be taking photo’s over the next month for our . Please let her know if you do not wish for your child to be photographed. Dear Aunty Jasmine Recently I took my children to the Royal Show, it was hard because it was a continuous day of “wants”. Children are happier when they learn to be thankful. Envy is a perpetual wanting more. Related to envy, entitlement is when someone feels as if people owe him things or special treatment simply because he exists. The opposite of entitlement & envy is gratitude. Gratitude & envy have little to do with what the person actually receives, but rather the heart attitude or character of the person. The balance of gratification & frustration tempers the extremes of neediness & entitlement. In order to give your child balance you must gratify some needs and some wants, and frustrate others. Expressing gratitude is an important aspect of development. Envious people think they deserve everything, but in the end have nothing. Envy is basically pride. The envious are those who want more but get less. The grateful are those who are thankful for what they already have, and receive more. So help your child become a grateful person. (Information from “Boundaries with Kids” available from Toddler Jam Library)