Harpley, My Life is my Message." Mahatma Gandhi
Revd. Sue Martin Assistant Priest
OCTOBER 2025
Dear Friends,
Across our ten parishes, from Ashwicken to Harpley, we have children and young people in our schools. It’s a new term, a new school year. Our primary schools are a unique part of our villages; Ashwicken CE Primary, Gayton CE Primary Academy. Harpley CE Primary, Holly Meadows Primary and Gt Massingham CE Primary. They are bursting with life; children and staff working together. We have an abundance of creativity, amazing skills, a sense of exploration and a love of learning.
Every step of our lives is involved in learning. Every day, every waking minute, wherever we are, and however old we may be, we are still learning. Education is the key! It is the key to our understanding, the foothold on which our ‘ladder of life’ is based. It fills our minds to grow, our hearts to understand and our souls to be refreshed.
We all have a part to play in education, in our own lives and our families. Our education system is free from 4-18 years. In further education, young people can follow their hopes and dreams finding a pathway to a career.
Education is more than just finding a way to a good career choice, it is about finding ourselves: exploration, creativity, imagination, adventure, discovery, all of which can take us beyond our own lives and engage with the wide world. It is the way to finding our place in God’s world.
In Mark’s Gospel chapter 8, verse 31, Jesus spends time teaching the disciples and thousands of people too. Jesus is recognised as a teacher and shows the power of teaching and learning.
We are working in all our schools’ bringing children and parents into our churches. We have Harvest Festival Services with children taking part, being involved, bringing gifts for the Food Bank.
Most of my working life has been as a teacher in primary schools and it never leaves you, that sense of buzz in a young person’s learning, still love it!
God Bless and have a good October.
Rev’d Sue Martin
Father, help us to follow our dreams to learn something new every day, to explore this wonderful world around us full of diversity, we can make such a difference to those we meet, if we follow your word and your teaching. Amen