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Issue 313
Churches of the Cley Hill Villages
Through the Open Doors
17th April 2015
Our Benefice This Week
Church Calendar for the Benefice
Around and About in the Benefice
Our Friends in South Sudan
Benefice Contacts
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From the Editor’s Chair
Last Wednesday we held the Church Annual Parish Meeting. The first item was
election of Churchwardens and we are delighted to report that John Helliar was
elected as Churchwarden and that Charlie Thackway continued as Churchwarden
so we now have two Churchwardens!! At the Annual Meeting we re-elected our
three Deputy Churchwardens so we now have a much stronger team. Joining the
Parochial Church Council we welcome Ian and Janet Buick.
This was the first APCM since Pauline came to our Parish and she commented
how she had been so warmly welcomed but was still discovering the many people
who assist with all the jobs across the Parish. In 2014 we managed to pay our
Share and also to clear the arrears from a previous year but we are still living
hand to mouth in meeting all our costs. So that everyone is made aware of the
financial position there will be a quarterly report in this newsletter. Our thanks
to everyone who help us to provide mission and worship across the parish in so
many different ways.
We are still awaiting the telephone for our Benefice office but hope for
progress this next week. Fingers crossed!!!!
Keith Muston
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Next week’s Church Calendar
for the Benefice of Cley Hill Villages
Sunday 19th April – Third Sunday of Easter
9am at St Mary’s, Temple, Corsley
1662 Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion
President – Reverend Pauline Reid
Welcome – David Carruthers & Nick Charlesworth
10.30am at St Margaret’s, Corsley
Family Parish Worship led by the Worship Group
The theme for this Sunday is “Faith and Commitment”
10.30am at St Michael the Archangel, Brixton Deverill
Eucharist
President – Reverend Pauline Reid
Readings
First Reading:
Acts 3: verses 12 to 19
Second Reading:
1 John 3: verses 1 to 7
Tuesday 21st April
7.30pm at Honeysuckle Cottage, Corsley
After Alpha Home Group – Mark 6: verses 1 to 56 – Busy Lives
Please contact Richard on 832594 for further details
Wednesday 22nd April
12.30pm to 1.30pm at Corsley Reading Rooms
Light Bites Bread and Soup Lunch
No charge, but donations in aid of the Disaster Emergencies Committee Vanuatu appeal
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Date
Time
Service or Event
Sun 26 Apr
Mon 27 Apr
0930
1030
1030
Date
Time
Service or Event
Place
Sun 3 May
1662 BCP Holy Communion
Eucharist
Morning Worship
After Alpha Home Group
Rogation Eucharist
Eucharist
Rogation Eucharist
Ascension Day
Time to Think Home Group
May Fayre
1662 BCP Holy Communion
Family Parish Worship
Eucharist
After Alpha Home Group
Church & Community Coffee Morning
Eucharist
Eucharist
Light Bites Bread & Soup Lunch
Benefice Eucharist
St Mary the Virgin, KD
St Margaret’s, Corsley
St Peter & St Paul, LD
Tue 5 May
Sun 10 May
Sun 10 May
Sun 10 May
Thu 14 May
Mon 11 May
Sat 16 May
Sun 17 May
Sun 17 May
Sun 17 May
Tue 19 May
Thu 21 May
Sun 24 May
Sun 24 May
Wed 27 May
Sun 31 May
0800
0930
1115
1930
1000
1030
1800
1800
1030
1430
0900
1030
1030
1930
1000
0930
1030
1230
1030
Three Horseshoes
St Philip & St James’, Ch
St Peter & St Paul, LD
Corsley Reading Rooms
St John the Baptist, H
Place
Eucharist
Eucharist
Time to Think Home Group
Date
Time
Service or Event
Mon 1 Jun
Tue 2 Jun
Sun 7 Jun
Sun 7 Jun
Sun 7 Jun
Tue 9 Jun
Sun 14 Jun
Sun 14 Jun
Sun 14 Jun
Mon 15 Jun
Tue 16 Jun
Thu 18 Jun
Sun 21 Jun
Sun 21 Jun
Sun 21 Jun
Wed 24 Jun
Mon 29 Jun
Sun 28 Jun
Sun 28 Jun
Tue 30 Jun
1030
1930
0800
0930
1115
1930
0930
1030
1100
1030
1930
1000
0900
1030
1030
1230
1030
0930
1030
1930
Time to Think Home Group
After Alpha Home Group
1662 BCP Holy Communion
Eucharist
Morning Worship
Parochial Church Council
Family Eucharist
Eucharist
Matins
Time to Think Home Group
After Alpha Home Group
Church & Community Coffee Morning
1662 BCP Holy Communion
Family Worship
Eucharist
Light Bites Bread & Soup Lunch
Time to Think Home Group
Eucharist
Eucharist – Patronal Festival
After Alpha Home Group
Place
St Philip & St James’, Ch
St Peter & St Paul, LD
High House Farm, Cors
St Mary the Virgin, KD
St John the Baptist, H
St Peter & St Paul, LD
5 Brimhill Rise
Manor Farm
St Mary’s, Temple
St Margaret’s, Corsley
St Michael’s, Brix Dev
St Michael’s, Brix Dev
St Margaret’s, Corsley
St Peter & St Paul, LD
St Margaret’s
St Philip & St James’, Ch
St Mary the Virgin, KD
St Mary’s, Temple
Three Horseshoes
St Mary’s, Temple
St Margaret’s, Corsley
St Michael’s, Brix Dev
Corsley Reading Rooms
St Philip & St James’, Ch
St John the Baptist, H
Date
Time
Service or Event
Place
Thu 16 Jul
Wed 22 Jul
1000
1230
Church & Community Coffee Morning
Light Bites Bread & Soup Lunch
Three Horseshoes
Corsley Reading Rooms
Date
Time
Service or Event
Place
Thu 20 Aug
Wed 26 Aug
1000
1230
Church & Community Coffee Morning
Light Bites Bread & Soup Lunch
Three Horseshoes
Corsley Reading Rooms
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Date
Time
Service or Event
Place
Wed 16 Sep
Thu 17 Sep
Wed 23 Sep
1930
1000
1230
Parochial Church Council
Church & Community Coffee Morning
Light Bites Bread & Soup Lunch
Chapmanslade School
Three Horseshoes
Corsley Reading Rooms
Date
Time
Service or Event
Place
Thu 15 Oct
Wed 28 Oct
1000
1230
Church & Community Coffee Morning
Light Bites Bread & Soup Lunch
Three Horseshoes
Corsley Reading Rooms
Date
Time
Service or Event
Place
Wed 18 Nov
Thu 19 Nov
Wed 25 Nov
1930
1000
1230
Parochial Church Council
Church & Community Coffee Morning
Light Bites Bread & Soup Lunch
St Margaret’s
Three Horseshoes
Corsley Reading Rooms
Date
Time
Service or Event
Place
Wed 16 Dec
Thu 17 Dec
Sun 20 Dec
Thu 24 Dec
Fri 25 Dec
1230
1000
Light Bites Christmas Lunch
Church & Community Coffee Morning
Carol Service
Christmas Eve Crib Services
Christmas Day Eucharist
Corsley Reading Rooms
Three Horseshoes
Date
Time
Service or Event
Place
Thu 21 Jan
Wed 27 Jan
1000
1230
Church & Community Coffee Morning
Light Bites Soup Lunch
Three Horseshoes
Corsley Reading Rooms
Date
Time
Service or Event
Place
Thu 18 Feb
Wed 24 Feb
1000
1230
Church & Community Coffee Morning
Light Bites Soup Lunch
Three Horseshoes
Corsley Reading Rooms
Around and About in the Benefice
Warminster & District Foodbank
We continue to deliver food donations to the Foodbank on a weekly basis. Thank you
everyone for your continued support. Please leave all donations at any of our three
churches at the end of a service. We shall arrange for delvery to the foodbank in
Warminster.
Urgently needed!
Warminster Foodbank always requires donations of foodstuffs but at the current time very
much needs donations of fruit juice (1 litre packs) and tinned vegetables. We collect at all
services at St Margaret’s, Corsley and deliver to the Warminster Foodbank shortly
afterwards. Please leave all your donations at any of the churches in Corsley or
Chapmanslade.
As a reminder the following basic foods go into food boxes:- Cereals, long life milk, pasta,
pasta sauce, tea bags (40s or 80s), instant mash potatoes, fruit juice, biscuits and rice. Tins
of:- Puddings (milk or sponge), tomatoes, vegetables, fruit, fish, meat, soup and baked
beans
It is also nice to be able to give people a treat e.g.: Snack noodles, chocolate bars, jam,
pickle, sauce and tinned spaghetti.
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Deverills mini-fest 2015
TICKETS NOW ON SALE!
Join us for a weekend of music, comedy and more in the unique rural venues of the
beautiful Deverill valley.
Saturday 2nd May
The brilliant 'Kepow! Theatre' returns to perform their new show 'On the Edge!' in The Barn
Theatre, Kingston Deverill, 7.30pm. £10 adults / £5 under-17s. "Wonderful improvised
comedy … about all those moments in life when we are On the Edge!” The Times *****
Sunday 3rd May
Bath Philharmonia Wind Ensemble with Jacquelyn Bevan, piano, in Kingston Deverill
Church, 7.30pm. Programme includes Mozart’s Quintet in E Flat for Piano and Winds, K452
and Beethoven’s Quintet in E Flat for Piano and Winds, Op 16.
Plus works by Bruch and Schumann. £15 adults / £7.50 under-17s.
Accompanying entertainment
Walk and talk with David Stratton - Celebrating 150 years of farming in Kingston Deverill
(2nd May, The Barn Theatre, Kingston Deverill, 11am, £5)
White Horse Morris (2nd May, Outside The George Inn, Longbridge Deverill, 2pm)
St George and The Black Knight with the Langport Mummers (3rd May, The George Inn,
Longbridge Deverill, 3pm, free of charge). A gripping tale, slapstick, music and general
hilarity for all. Traditional mumming with a contemporary twist.
Wine/beer and soft drinks will be available at all events.
Tickets and information
telephone: 01985 844385
e-mail:[email protected]
www.deverillsfestival.com
Letters to the Editor
This newsletter is now over six years old but receives few contributions. If you wish to
contribute an article for the newsletter or would like to read about a particular subject in the
newsletter please do let us know. The newsletter is our way of reaching over 120
households across the Parish on a weekly basis and we constantly seek to present
information on our life in our Church Parish that is useful to you. Please do let us know if
there are any gaps!!
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Our Friends in South Sudan
Dear friends
Today has been Election Day in Sudan but no-one has thought the election would be free and fair; the
EU did not even send election monitors as they declared there "was doubt that it would produce
credible results". President Bashir was the only candidate and all the opposition parties boycotted the
poll - which was variously described as a farce, illegitimate, and profoundly fraudulent. The election
was intended to provide an appearance of legitimacy to attract support from Western Governments.
Meanwhile there has been more fighting in South Kordofan and Blue Nile areas as the government
continued to attack civilian settlements. And Sudanese planes this week attacked various locations in
West and Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal in South Sudan, destroying buildings including a school and killing
four civilians. It has also been declared again by the South Sudan Government that Sudan is arming
and supporting the rebel forces of Riek Machar. Pray for a change of heart and mind in this ruthless
and brutal administration, and for courage and persistence in those working for justice and equity.
In South Sudan, away from the areas of fighting, longer-term problems persist: In Leer county of Unity
state, 783 children have been diagnosed as severely malnourished. In Akobo county, on the eastern
border with Ethiopia, students completing primary school cannot proceed to secondary education
because there are no teachers; since the county came under the control of rebels, the government
has stopped teachers' salaries so they have had to find other means of livelihood. Climate change is
also affecting South Sudan: since 1970 the annual rainfall has dropped by between 10 and 20%, and
the temperature has risen by 1 degree Celsius. There are more droughts in May/June and more
floods in August/September - and the government has yet to work out a coherent response. Pray for
wisdom for those in authority responsible for finding a response to these issues.
But there are gleams of humanity in the darkness: in Abyei, 4 children aged 6-12 who were abducted
by gunmen recently have been released after mediation by local tribal leaders in support of the UN
interim security force. And in Warrap State the Committee for National Healing, Peace and
Reconciliation is rolling out its national plan:. A training programme will take place in May 2015 during
which 50 peace mobilisers will be trained to facilitate and document consultations held at the Payam
(parish) level in each county of Warrap state. Particular emphasis will be placed on ensuring the
voices of women as well as other important stakeholders are heard and included. Pray for this
process to be fruitful, and to show the way for other states.
Please continue to pray also for Bishop Justin and the Diocese of Maridi; for the Chaima Christian
Institute, its staff and the s tudents we sponsor; and this week for the Kozi Archdeaconry
This Archdeaconry falls in the extreme northern part of the diocese of Maridi about 55 miles from the
main town of Maridi. It is extremely difficult to access Kozi during rainy seasons. The Archdeaconry is
led by Rev. Charles Yeremiah.
Ø Pray for Rev. Charles and all pastors in the Archdeaconry that they will be committed to their call
amidst all the challenges in the area.
And please pray earnestly for our fund-raising quiz evening on 24 April - for a good take-up of tickets
and for an enjoyable and fruitful evening. Have you got your tickets?
With every blessing
Jane
The Revd. Jane Shaw
Manor Farm House
Corton, Warminster
Wiltshire BA12 0SZ
Tel: 01985 850141
Mobile: 07908 118543
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Benefice Contacts – www.cleyhillchurches.org
Clergy
Rural Dean
Reverend Pauline Reid
01985 841290
e-mail – [email protected]
Reverend Di Britten
01373 832515
Associate Priest
Lay Pastoral Assistants
Barbara Hughes
Claire Tanner
Richard Dean
01373 832273
01985 218099
01373 832594
Churchwardens
St John the Baptist, Horningsham
St Margaret of Antioch, Corsley.
ditto
St Mary the Virgin, Kingston Deverill
ditto
St Michael the Archangel, Brixton Deverill
St Peter & St Paul, Longbridge Deverill
ditto
St Philip & St James’, Chapmanslade
ditto
Tim Moore
Charles Thackway
John Helliar
Bill Knowles
Robert Shuler
Richard Lucas
Guy Ratcliffe
Tim Young
Charles Thackway
John Helliar
01985 844336
01373 832048
01373 832803
01985 844476
01985 844291
01985 841164
01985 219456
01985 840477
01373 832048
01373 832803
Deputy Churchwardens
St Margaret’s, Corsley.
St Mary’s, Temple.
St Philip & St James’, Chapmanslade.
Judith Helliar
Harcourt Gough
Janet Aylesbury
01373 832803
01373 832039
01373 832752
Administrator
Safeguarding Officer
Webmaster
Marion Muston
Marion Muston
Ian Buick
01373 839026
01373 832755
01373 832318
For all Parish officers and contacts please refer to contacts section of the Benefice website
www.cleyhillchurches.org
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