Songs of Praise factsheet for Sunday 20 July 2008

Ealing

Presented by Pam Rhodes

General:
 Pam Rhodes is in the money as she meets the millionaire who wants to share his good fortune, a couple who gave it all up to become missionaries and a woman whose debts inspired her to help others.
Music from St Mary's Church Ealing includes, O Jesus I have Promised, Spirit of God Unseen as the Wind and As the Deer Pants.

Producer: Joanna Malton
Editor: Hugh Faupel

Conductor: Noel Tredinnick
Organist: Stephen Disley
Clarinet/Sax/Flute: Mike Haughton
String Bass/Bass Guitar: Matt Ridley


Interviews:
 HEATHER KEATES
Heather Keates talks about her experience of being in debt through a series of unexpected circumstances. She tells how, after she and the family came through that experience, she decided she wanted to set up something to help people in similar circumstances - initially in her own church - but how she felt that God wanted her to do something bigger - to help the whole Community. Community Money Advice started with just one Debt Advice Centre in her own church. It's now grown to over 60 Debt Advice Centres around the Country. The Centres are all linked to local churches and help people with all sorts of money issues from filling in forms to personal insolvency. All the Debt Advice is Free. The idea is to not just help but to educate people so that they never find themselves in that situation again.

Community Money Advice have a website - www.communitymoneyadvice.com


PHILIP RICHARDS
Philip Richards heads one of the City's most successful Hedge Fund Groups. He is a multi-millionaire and in the programme he talks about RAB Capital - the Investment Company he heads up. He also talks about his views on making money and being wealthy. He talks about why he gives money away and who he gives it to - particularly Christians who are suffering persecution.

RAB Capital have a website: www.rabcap.com


BRIAN AND ANNE SLOAN
Brian and Anne Sloan work for Youth with A Mission - the world's largest international and interdenominational Mission sending organisation. YWAM are involved in all sorts of projects around the world - church planting, working with refugees, working in schools and hospitals, bringing emergency relief, agricultural work, relief and development work, work with the homeless and prostitutes etc etc. Brian heads up Marine Reach Ministries - the Maritime arm of Youth With A Mission. Currently they have a ship called the Pacific Link which travels around islands in the Pacific Ocean giving dental and medical care to poor and remote communities. They also have a sailing vessel called the Next Wave which they use to train young people who will be working on YWAM's projects around the world. Being on board a ship helps young people to learn teamwork, leadership skills and stickability. Brian and Anne talk about how they gave up a salary and comfortable lifestyle to go and work for YWAM - and how they now don't receive any income and have to raise their own financial support. They talk about how their faith in God has grown because they have had to rely on Him to provide.

YWAM have a website: www.ywam.org


SIMON PINCHBECK
All his life Simon Pinchbeck has been driven by money. He wanted to be a millionaire by the time he was 21. He joined the Metropolitan Police - because it enhanced his macho image - and during that time saw how rich people lived in smart areas of London, as well as dealing with criminals who had achieved wealth through crime. After leaving the police he got involved with guys he'd met in a gym and started doing things illegally with them which enabled him to make thousands and thousands of pounds. But although he had now achieved his 'dream' of having lots of money - enabling him to have a wonderful lifestyle - nice holidays, expensive cars etc - the money never satisfied him. Eventually he was conned out of all his money and was left the lowest he had ever been in his life. He met up with an ex-drug baron in the gym who had turned his life around through his faith in Jesus Christ. He started going to his church and became a Christian. His desire for money has gone and he now feels a complete person through his faith in Jesus Christ. He now works with a group of guys called Tough Talk who've been through the mangle of life - ex bouncers, body builders and ex-criminals. They go into schools and prisons telling their stories - in the hope of helping people to understand that you don't need to be a certain way to be a Christian because God will meet you wherever you are.

Tough Talk have a website: www.tough-talk.com


Music:
 "SONGS OF PRAISE" SIGNATURE TUNE

Composer: Robert Prizeman
Performers: Robert Prizeman, Maurice Murphy, Steven Geraghty
Sheet music for the Songs of Praise signature tune is published by Chester Music, catalogue number CH55835. You can listen to the theme tune on CD 2 of the Songs of Praise Album.


O MY SOUL ARISE AND BLESS YOUR MAKER

Words: Stuart Townend
Music: Stuart Townend
Arranger: Geoff Ellerby, specially arranged for the programme
Source: Songs of Fellowship #1481
Copyright: © 1999 Thankyou Music/Adm. by worshiptogether.com songs
excl. UK and Europe, adm. by kingswaysongs.com
Performed by: Langham Arts Choir


SPIRIT OF GOD UNSEEN AS THE WIND

Words: Margaret Old (b 1932)
Music: Scottish traditional melody, Arr James Whitbourn (b 1963)
Tune: Skye Boat Song
Arranger: Geoff Ellerby, specially arranged for the programme
Source: BBC Songs of Praise Hymnbook #165 © 1997 Oxford University Press
Words by Margaret Old (1932-2001) © Scripture Union
Performed by: Langham Arts Choir


TREASURE

Words and Music: Lou and Nathan Fellingham and Busbee
Performed by: Vocals: Lou Fellingham, Drums: Nathan Fellingham,
Keyboards: Mike Sandeman, Guitarist: Jos Wintermeyer
Copyright: © 2005 Thankyou Music/The Livingstone Collective/Adm by Kingswaysongs.com
This song is available on CD "Lou Fellingham, Treasure" CD KMCD2642


AS THE DEER PANTS FOR THE WATER

Words: Martin Nystrom (b 1956)
Music: Martin Nystrom (b 1956) arr James Whitbourn (b 1963)
Tune: As the Deer
Source: BBC Songs of Praise Hymnbook #212
© Copyright 1983 Restoration Music Ltd/ Sovereign Music ltd
PO Box 356, Lieghton Buzzard, LU7 3NP, UK
sovereignmusic@aol.com
Performed by: Langham Arts Choir



ALL THAT MATTERS

Words and Music: Judy MacKenzie Dunn
Performed by: Jonathan Veira
Copyright: © Judy MacKenzie Dunn
This song is available on CD "Jonathan Veira, All That Matters" CD ICC0890D
www.jonathanveira.co.uk



O JESUS I HAVE PROMISED

Words: J E Bode (1816-74)
Music: W H Ferguson (1874-1950)
Tune: Wolvercote
Source: BBC Songs of Praise Hymnbook #339
Copyright: © Oxford University Press
Performed by: Langham Arts Choir


Locations:
 All music items recorded at St Mary's Church, St Mary's Road, Ealing. W5 5RH
Tel: 0208 579 7134
managerstmarys@tiscali.co.uk



Other Information:
 OTHER LOCATIONS WERE:

Barclays Bank
44 Castle Street, Shrewsbury. SY1 2BU

Barnabas Church Shrewsbury
The Barnabas Centre, Longden, Coleham, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. SY3 7DN
Tel: 01743 364101

The Metropolitan Police Chigwell Sports Club
Chigwell Hall, High road, Chigwell, Essex. IG7 6BD
Tel: 0208 500 2735

Coq D'Argent
1 Poultry, London. EC2R 8EJ
Tel: 0207 395 5006

HSBC
City Branch, 60 Queen Victoria Street, London. EC4N 4TR

Bluewater Shopping Centre
Greenhythe. Kent. DA9 9ST

YWAM HQ
Highfield Oval, Harpenden, Hertfordshire. AL5 4BX