October 2014
The Signal
The Churches’ Magazine for Sandwich
www.stclementschurchsandwich.org.uk
50p
THE PARISH
OF SANDWICH
HARVEST
BUFFET
SUPPER
SATURDAY
11th OCTOBER 2014
6.30 pm
in St Clement’s Hall
Tickets : £8
available in St Clement’s Church and
at Carpenter’s
Bring your own drinks … Wine Bar also available
The Parish Church of St Clement Sandwich
Our Mission Statement – to worship, serve and make known to all the living Jesus Christ
www.stclementschurchsandwich.org.uk
Rector: The Revd Canon Mark Roberts, AKC
Rector of Sandwich and Worth
The Rectory, Knightrider Street, Sandwich, CT13 9ER
Tel: 613138 Email: [email protected]
(The Rector is also a surrogate for the granting of Marriage Licences)
Assistant Priests:
The Revd Howard Pashley, 56 New Street, CT13 9BB 612018
The Revd Robin Bendall, 24 Delfside, CT13 9RL 617458
Deacon:
The Revd Jasmine Roberts, The Rectory, Knightrider Street
613138
Reader:
Mrs Maureen Collins, 18 Church Street, St Mary’s, CT13 9HL
614506
Churchwardens:
Dr Kathy Bennett, Alwoodley, John’s Green, CT13 ODE
614067
Mr Hugo Jordan 28 Whitefriars Meadow, CT13 9AS
614513
Deputy Churchwarden:
Mr Bruce Eccles, 87 Sandwich Road, Whitfield, CT16 3LV
826716
PCC Secretary:
Mrs Susan Pashley, 56 New Street, CT13 9BB 612018
Parish Treasurer and
Gift Aid Secretary:
Mr Richard Palmer, Little Acorns, King’s Avenue, Sandwich Bay, CT13 9PG 614583
Free–Will Offering:
Dr Frank Andrews, 14 Stone Cross Lees, CT13 0BZ
613476
Electoral Roll Officer:
Mrs Maggie Kasap, 12 John’s Green, CT13 0DE
615207
Organist & Choirmaster: Mr Julian Sampson, Keymer Cottage, Longmete Road, Preston
01227 721697
Assistant Organist:
Mr Robert Tapsfield, Maxton, Carlton Road, Kingsdown
373005
PARISH MAGAZINE – ‘THE SIGNAL’
Editor:
The Rector
613138
Advertising:
Miss Meg Coates, Courtyard Offices, Harnet Street, CT13 9ES
629017
Distribution:
Mrs Beryl Sampson, Keymer Cottage, Longmete Road, Preston 01227 721697
Churchwatch
Toddler Group:
Pastoral Care Group:
Catering Committee:
‘Coffee Pot’:
Bellringers:
Servers:
Flowers:
The Children’s Society:
ST CLEMENT’S HALL
Secretary (Bookings):
Mr David Senior, 3 Mill Close, CT13 9JD
Mrs Carole Brown, 78 New Street, CT13 9BD
Mrs Brenda Turnbull, 67 Strand Street, CT13 9HN
Mrs Judith Scollard, 40 Moat Sole, CT13 9AU
Mrs Gillian Robertson, Hedges, St Georges Lees, CT13 9JS
Mrs Carole Brown, 78 New Street, CT13 9BD Mr David Robertson Hedges, St George’s Lees, CT13 9JS
The Revd Jasmine Roberts, The Rectory, CT13 9ER
Mrs Tessa Sale, St Clement’s House, 14 Knightrider Street, CT13 9ER
Mrs Gillian Robertson, Hedges, St Georges Lees, CT13 9JS
612782
614120
611389
614349
612876
614120
612876
613138
612288
612876
Mrs Carole Brown, 78 New Street, CT13 9BD
614120
SERVICES
SUNDAYSWEEKDAYS
8.00am Holy Communion (BCP)
10.00am
Wednesdays – Holy
9.30am Sir Roger Manwood’s School Service
Communion (BCP)
(in term time)
10.30am The Parish Eucharist (Common Worship)
6.30pm
Evensong and Sermon
For other services and events see Church Notices
Enquiries concerning Baptism and Marriage should be made to The Rector.
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Other Churches Contact Details
THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, CATTLE MARKET, SANDWICH
Minister
Revd Dr Alan Spence 01304 768745
Local Contact
Kath Gifford 617834/07790299394
www.sandwich-urc.co.uk
ST ANDREW’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, ST GEORGE’S ROAD, SANDWICH
Priest in Charge
Father Christopher Lindlar, 149 St Richard’s Road Deal
THE CARPENTER’S ARMS, SANDWICH
Anna Upton
374870
01304 614894
e-mail: [email protected]
ST PETER & ST PAUL, WORTH
Rector
The Revd Canon Mark Roberts
Assistant Priest
The Revd Howard Pashley, 56 New Street, CT13 9BB
612 018
CHURCHES TOGETHER IN SANDWICH
Chairman
The Revd Canon Mark Roberts
Secretary
Mrs Anna Upton
Treasurer
Mr John Cuss
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Please note that if you have any copy for the next issue of The Signal it should be either:
Delivered to:
or emailed to:
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The Rectory
[email protected]
10th October 2014
This month’s cover
ST BART’S DAY AND THE BUN RUN
The St Bartholomew’s Hospital Patronal Festival - 22nd August 2014
Photographs: Georgina Maddox
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The Rector Writes
21:5
FORGIVE – AS HE FORGIVES US
Recently in Church the Gospel passage on which we reflected (St Matthew Chapter 18)
was about FORGIVENESS.
As I said, forgiveness is quite probably the hardest, if not the hardest thing. As
Christians we are told to forgive, but we don’t find it easy. Sometimes, often, we feel it
is impossible.
Some years ago the son of a Priest was killed quite randomly, an act of appalling
violence. The Priest was grief stricken and deeply angry about the son’s death. I recall
that the Priest decided to step down from ministry because of a great feeling that, in
the immediate aftermath at any rate, there could be no sense of understanding, let
alone forgiveness. How can you preach about it if you can’t begin to do it yourself?
Peter asks Jesus in the Gospel ‘How often should I forgive?’ The reply is ‘Not seven, but
seventy times seven.’ In other words, as much as possible, if not always.
There then follows the story of the king who wishes to settle accounts with his slaves.
One owes him ten thousand talents, which we are to believe is a vast amount of money.
The slave cannot possibly repay the debt so the king judges that he and his wife and
children are to be sold. The slave in desperation falls before the king, crying ‘Have
patience with me, and I will pay you everything,’ at which the king instantly changes his
mind and lets him off without sanction.
The story moves into a second scene in which the forgiven slave meets a fellow slave
who owes him one hundred denarii. This is a small sum. However, the slave who has
been forgiven so much, despite pleas for patience, throws the debtor into prison. When
other slaves hear what has happened they report back to the king, who is furious and
says to his slave ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with
me. Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave as I had mercy on you?’ The
wicked slave is marched off to captivity. ‘So my heavenly father will also do to everyone
of you’ says Jesus, ‘if you do not forgive your brother or your sister from your heart.’
I spoke in church about the remarkable change in the life of Dr Ian Paisley, a miracle
of the twentieth and twenty first century. His journey from ‘Never, Never,’ to sharing
power and to reconciliation had to do, as he said, with the prospect of, as he moved
towards the end of his life, of having to give account to His Lord.
We have heard of the remarkable moments when former prisoners of war are able to
shake hands with their former captors.
We think of ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ in South Africa.
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The Rector Writes
21:5
Forgiveness is hard. Some of the events going on in the world at the moment make
it seemingly impossible. However, as St Paul tells the Romans, each of us will be
accountable to God. There is always the possibility of change and a new way.
Jesus approaches the issue of forgiveness in the radical way of setting our forgiveness
of those who wrong us in the context of God’s immense forgiveness of those who
sin against Him, meaning of course, all of us. We sin, so often against Him, yet he is
prepared to forgive, as Jesus ultimately Himself did on the cross.
This is God’s unconditional love. In response our love and our forgiveness although it
can be truly hard are a must do. Then we, and our world, can move forward.
Mark Roberts
Rector
St Clement’s Church – Diary of Events
October 2014
Wednesday1st 10.00 am Holy Communion
Friday
3rd
8.30 am St Augustine Pilgrimage from Sandwich to Canterbury leaving from Sandwich Quay
8.50 am Sir Roger Manwood’s School Harvest Assemblies - School
Saturday4th
9.30 am Churches Together Outing to Tenterden - leaving from
the Guildhall
SUNDAY5th THE SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
8.00 am Holy Communion
9.30 am Sir Roger Manwood’s School Service
10.30 am Parish Eucharist
6.30 pm Evensong and Sermon
Tuesday7th Pastoral Visit by the Bishop of Dover to the Sandwich Deanery
Wednesday8th 10.00 am Holy Communion
Saturday11th 6.30 pm HARVEST BUFFET SUPPER in St Clement’s Hall
SUNDAY12th HARVEST THANKSGIVING
8.00 am Holy Communion
9.30 am Sir Roger Manwood’s School Service
10.30 am FESTIVAL EUCHARIST
6.30 pm Festival Evensong and Sermon
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St Clement’s Church – Diary of Events
October 2014
Wednesday15th 10.00 am Holy Communion
Saturday18th Feast of St Luke
SUNDAY19th THE EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
8.00 am Holy Communion
9.30 am Sir Roger Manwood’s School Service
10.30 am Parish Eucharist
6.30 pm Evensong and Sermon
Wednesday22nd 10.00 am Holy Communion
Thursday23rd 2.00 pm Infant School Harvest Festival - St Mary’s
SUNDAY26th THE LAST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (CW)
THE NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (BCP)
(NB British Summertime ends - Clocks go back on Saturday night)
8.00 am Holy Communion
10.30 am Parish Eucharist
No Evensong
( 6.30 pm Evensong at Worth)
Tuesday28th Feast of St Simon and St Jude
Wednesday29th 10.00 am Holy Communion
CHOIR PRACTICE is held in St Clement’s Church on Friday evening from 7.15pm.
Further details from Julian Sampson - Organist and Choir Master.
BELLRINGERS’ PRACTICE is held on Saturday mornings from 9.15am. For security
reasons the church door is locked at 9.30am. Further details from David Robertson,
01304 612876. [email protected]
COFFEE POT takes place every Friday in St Clement’s Hall from 10.00 am until 12
Noon. Meet and chat over coffee – Everyone welcome.
The TODDLER GROUP meets every Tuesday afternoon (in term time) from 1.30pm
until 3.00pm in St Clement’s Hall. We are delighted to see any parents, carers and
your children.
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United Reformed Church
Sunday Morning Worship is held each Sunday at 10.30am.
Sunday5th Mr Gordon Harrison
Sunday12th Revd Sue Marsh
Sunday19th Mr Tim Corke
Sunday26th Revd Dr Alan Spence (Holy Communion)
Following worship tea and coffee will be served
You will be made most welcome at any or all of our Services
Visitors are welcome at the Monday 10.30 am Bible Study led by Revd Alan Spence and
now located in the lounge at Age Concern.
The Thursday Coffee Mornings in the church run from 9.45 am to 12 noon. There is a
cake stall on the first Thursday of each month while books and bric-a-brac are available
every week.
St Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church
Sunday Mass is Celebrated at 9.00 am
For other Mass times please visit http://www.catholicmass.com/theweekahead.htm
The Carpenter’s Arms – Sandwich
The Phoenix Centre, Jubilee Road, Sandwich
Sundays at 10.30 am
5th
12th
19th
26th
St George’s Deal
Café Church and making cards for the Shoe Boxes at the Phoenix Centre
Messy Church with Lunch Filling the Shoe Boxes at the Phoenix Centre
Exploring other churches
St Bart’s Chapel
Sunday5th
Sunday12th
Sunday19th
Sunday26th
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10.30 am
10.30 am
9.30 am
10.30 am
Morning Worship
Morning Worship
Holy Communion
Morning Worship
St Peter and St Paul – Worth
Sunday5th
Sunday12th
Sunday19th
Sunday26th
9.30 am
9.30 am
8.00 am
6.30 pm
Parish Communion
HARVEST FESTIVAL SERVICE
Holy Communion
Evensong
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Blessed are the Peacemakers
The Sermon Preached by The Revd Canon Rob Mackintosh in St Clement’s Church on
Sunday 7th September 2014 (The Twelfth Sunday After Trinity)
Jesus said, “Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called the children
of God.”
On September 11th this coming week, many people will pause to remember the attacks
launched upon the United States by Al-Queda, 13 years ago. The world has not been
the same since, neither at home, nor abroad. And at the present time, another terrorist
group is displacing hundreds of thousands of people and murdering without mercy, as
it attempts to form an Islamic State across the Middle East. This seems an opportune
moment for us to reflect for a few minutes on the Christian hope for peace.
St Paul writes to small Christian groups meeting in and around the city of Rome, his
letter was written in the age of Pax Romanum, the Roman Peace. This had little to do
with God’s peace. Roman peace was achieved through brutal killing and subduing
countries around the Roman world. It was a false peace and did not last.
Paul writes to the first Christian community in Rome, and exhorts them to live out a
different kind of peace –
This is the peace that is called ‘Shalom’ in Hebrew. Shalom is more than a general greeting.
Shalom is God’s gift to us. It means ‘completion’, for without peace there is no rest.
The Risen Christ is the Prince of Peace, not by force of arms, not by taking the lives of
others. Jesus gave his own life on the Cross, overwhelming the power of Death itself.
All of God’s requirements are summarized in the words, “Love your neighbour”, for this
is the fulfilling of the divine Law. St Paul adds, “Live honourably as in the daytime ..
not in conflict and resentment… Put on the Lord Jesus.” Matthew’s Gospel is both the
Story of Jesus, and at the same time, a ‘Rule of Life’ for this small Christian Community
in ancient Damascus. There is no hierarchy of leadership in their Damascus church
– no apostle is mentioned, no bishop, no priest. Instead, the only role mentioned in
Matthew’s gospel is Peacemaker – “Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called
the Children of God” (Matt. 5).
Peacemaking begins at home. It spreads to our neighbours, and to our community, and
beyond. Jesus warned his disciples” The one who lives by the sword will also die by the
sword.” For this reason, Matthew gave his church a 3-step process for handling conflict
—- so that disagreements do not descend into violence, and end up with a drawn
sword. In the Early Church, Christian communities saw themselves as citizens of God’s
Kingdom. Their purpose was to make God’s Kingdom of Peace visible through the
manner of their lives, and in many cases, through the manner of their death.
Six Centuries earlier, the Prophet Jeremiah had written words of wisdom to exiles in
Babylon. God says: “Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and
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pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.” (Jer. 29:47) Or, another way of putting it, “In its peace, you will have yours.” The early Christian
communities saw themselves put on the earth as Ambassadors of the Prince of Peace.
They showed an alternative to Roman peace achieved at the point of a sword. And they
chose to live-out their lives as exiles in a foreign land. A second century letter says of
these first Christians: “They dwell in their own countries, but simply as sojourners. As
citizens, they share in all things with others, and yet endure all things as if foreigners.
Every foreign land is to them as their native country, and every land of their birth as
a land of strangers.... They pass their days on earth, but they are citizens of heaven.
They obey the prescribed laws, and at the same time surpass the laws by their lives”.
Both St Paul and St Matthew exhort the disciples of Christ to make this way of living
characteristic of their own communities. Blessed are the Peacemakers.
We all need a dream, a purpose, a meaning greater than ourselves, to live by. Especially
when one is young and grappling with the meaning and purpose of one’s own life.
Thomas Macaulay, an MP, historian and poet, in 1848 summed up what happens when
our best dreams descend into violence: “The experience of many ages proves that men
may be ready to fight to the death, and to persecute without pity, for a religion whose
creed they do not understand, and whose precepts they habitually disobey.” This is as
true today as it was 170 years ago.
So what is the driving force for those who descend into a life of violence?
The Archbishop gave this answer a few days ago: “They have been converted to” a
misshapen presentation of faith”. Their dream for a better life have been captured,
enslaved. Aggression is somehow made noble. It is justified by an overlay of religious
beliefs that promotes violence, murder and genocide. Many of the converts to Jihad
for the so-called “Islamic State” are recent converts, rather than members of a local
mosques. They have no deep experience of the faith they claim to fight for:- eg. The
last two books that one Birmingham convert to ISIS ordered from Amazon before he
left for Syria, were: “Islam for Dummies”, and “The Koran for Dummies.” They need our
prayers. And already, prayers are being heard. On Friday, the news broke that a group
of 30 British Jihadis want to return home. They said, “‘We came to fight the Syrian
regime, and instead we are involved in gang warfare”.
Others, however, march to a different drum; their dreams take them another Way.
A dream of a better world has inspired thousands of teachers, social workers, nurses,
engineers or doctors, to take up the challenge of working for charities abroad. They are
motivated by a principle at the root of Christianity and Judaism, and in Islam: Do unto
others as you would have done unto yourselves.
Will Pooley is one of these. A 29 year old male nurse who volunteered for duty in Sierra
Leone to care for Ebola victims, and until Wednesday this last week, lay in a London
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hospital receiving treatment for the Ebola virus. Pooley made sure that a hospital at the
centre of the outbreak remained open. Only a few weeks ago, he said: “It’s the easiest
situation in the world to make a difference. I’m not particularly experienced or skilled,
but I can do the job and I am actually helping.”
Blessed are the Peacemakers, indeed!
But being at peace with oneself, with one’s neighbour, and with God, doesn’t always
require a ministry abroad.
God has also put us in this place and in this culture for a purpose – to seek the welfare
of the community where we live. The Resurrected Christ came to his terrified and
confused disciples in an Upper Room in Jerusalem, and spoke a word for ALL of us here
today: “Shalom! My peace I give to you, my peace I leave with you, be not afraid.”
Amen
ST CLEMENT’S CHURCH
PASTORAL GROUP
Would you like to know more about what we do?
Do you know anyone who would like to have a friendly visit?
Contact either:
Brenda Turnbull 01304 611389 or
Judith Scollard 01304 614349
The New St Clement’s Lottery
Winners for: September
1. J. Fuller £50
2. H. Pashley £30
3. J. Keeling £20
If anybody is interested in taking part in the Lottery please contact me on
01304 615081 or 07836 754594 – e-mail: [email protected] and I will happily
send an application form.
Paul Graeme, Lottery Administrator*
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*(Licensed with Dover District Council)
Deal Area Foodbank Update
On behalf of the Foodbank organisers many thanks to all those who continue to donate
food regularly, either at the collection point at St Clement’s Church or the Co-Op store
in Sandwich. Also of course a big ‘thank you’ to those who give money donations.
During the months of April to June this year, 375 adults and 215 children were given
emergency food assistance by the Deal Area Foodbank. The main reasons people gave
for finding themselves in a financial crisis were benefit payment delays, low income and
benefit changes. For those on a low income these months have been slightly ‘easier’
because of the warm weather with less having to be spent on heating. However as
winter approaches once again the problem of rising energy costs will be felt.
So please do continue to donate food items and look out for the ‘food needed’ lists.
The latest DAEF newsletter is also available for more details on the working of our
local Foodbank.
Maggie Kasap 615207 Wendy Thompson 619776
Is anyone
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There is a Christmas section and also fashion, home,
play time, stationery and food.
Please get in touch on 01304 617924 if you would
like to see the catalogue.
Jennifer Bradley
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St Clement’s Coffee Pot – A Special Coffee Morning
We are holding a Coffee Morning in St Clement’s Hall on Friday 3rd October, in aid of
MacMillan Cancer Support. The Hall will be open from 10.00am until 12.00 noon. We would
welcome any donations of cakes and biscuits. We are also having a Bring and Buy Stall.
We would love to see a crowded hall for such a worthy cause.
Many thanks.
Carole Brown
Sandwich Infant School
We started the new academic year welcoming 39 children to our Elephants and
Penguins classes and we also welcomed 4 children to Years One and Two. All the
children have settled very quickly and are enjoying their new topics. Reception are
“Learning to Learn”, Year One are learning about “Holidays” and Year Two have been
studying the “First World War” with great interest. It will make Remembrance Day
far more significant for them this year so we are planning for them to visit the War
Memorial on that day after we have held our usual two minutes silence at the school.
At the end of this term we will be taking all the children to St Mary’s Church for
Harvest Festival. Once again, we will be collecting donations of food for the Deal Area
foodbank which distributes from the Phoenix Centre. You can find out more about it at
www.dealarea.foodbank.org.uk
Libby Wood
01304 612228
WANTED
Property for short term let for professional couple and
2 well behaved dogs, returning home to Sandwich.
Required for 2 months from late October
whilst property purchase completes.
Sandwich area.
Please contact 07855 251514
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News from Saint Andrew’s Catholic Church
October – Month of the Rosary
October is traditionally marked by the saying of the Rosary, followed by the Litany of
Our Lady. Recitation of the Rosary is a form of meditation on particular saving events
in the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, known as ‘Mysteries’ and collected together in four
groups of five Mysteries each.
Those who recite the Rosary in church, or as a family, or as a group of the faithful, may
gain a plenary indulgence, that is to say the remission of the temporal punishment
due, in God’s justice, to sin that has been forgiven, which remission is granted by
the Church in the exercise of the power of the keys, through the application of the
superabundant merits of Christ and of the saints, and for some just and reasonable
motive, such as in this instance reciting the Rosary.
The Mysteries of the Holy Rosary will be recited on Thursdays in October from the 9th
at St John’s Church, Mongeham CT 14 9LD at 7.00pm (after Adoration of the Blessed
Sacrament at 6.00pm and Mass at 6.30pm). All are very welcome to join in celebrating
this, perhaps the most popular of Catholic Devotions.
Sunday Mass at St Andrew’s Church is at 9.00am; for details of weekday celebrations,
please visit http://www.catholicmas.com/theweekahead.htm
St Andrew’s is part of the Catholic Parish of Mongeham and Sandwich, covering the area
from the Discovery Park (Pfizer) to Ash, Tilmanstone, Studdal, Martin Mill, Upper Deal, Worth
and Sandwich; the Parish is part of the Dover Deanery in the Archdiocese of Southwark.
The Parish is also the home of the Deal Mission of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of
Walsingham, which exists to conserve those elements of the Anglican tradition which
are consonant with the Catholic Faith as a treasure to be shared and as a prophetic
gesture toward the ultimate goal of all ecumenical activity: the restoration of full
ecclesial communion.
St Andrew’s Catholic Church, St George’s Road, Sandwich CT14 9LE
Parish Office: St. John’s Presbytery, 149 St. Richard’s Road, Deal, Kent CT14 9LD,
(01304) 374870
e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.catholicmas.com
Father Christopher Lindlar
Sandwich Local History Society
The next meeting for the Sandwich Local History Society is to be held on 16th October
in the Guildhall at 7.30 pm. The lecture entitled ‘Protest and Rebellion in England. The
Crowd in History’ will be given by Maureen Clayton.
All are very welcome to attend.
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JILL LUCAS – RIP
The Funeral and Burial of the late JILL LUCAS took place in
St Clements Church and Churchyard on 20th August. Jill was the
wife of the late PB -‘Laddie’ – Lucas. She died on 4th August 2014.
Laddie Lucas will be remembered as a famous and
distinguished RAF hero of World War Two, always remembered
locally here for notably landing his Spitfire on one of the greens
of Prince’s Golf Club after his plane was hit by an ME109. After
the war he went on to become Member of Parliament for
Brentford and Chiswick from 1950 until 1959.
Laddie’s father was the co-founder of Prince’s Golf Club and he was born in the
Clubhouse. He is remembered each year at Prince’s in the tournament that hears his
name. Jill Lucas was also involved in the club, regularly playing golf in Sandwich after
the war. She was told off by Lady Nancy Astor for playing golf in shorts. Lady Aster
playing in a full-length dress and veil.
For fifty years Jill Lucas lived in South Kensington in London. She is survived by her two
sons David and Jeremy, five grand children and two great-grand children. Her brother
was John Addison, an Oscar-willing composer who produced the soundtrack for ‘A
Jill in her twenties with her sister Thelma, and brother-in-law, Douglas Barder
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Bridge too Far’ and in particular ‘Reach for the Sky’ the famous film based on the life of
Sir Douglas Barder. It just so happens that as well as being married to Laddie Lucas, Jill
was the sister-in-law of Douglas Barder who married Jill’s sister Thelma.
The Funeral at St Clement’s ended with the music from ‘Reach for the Sky’ and it was
special that Jill Lucas was laid to rest in the Churchyard where Laddie Lucas and their
son Christopher, aged three, also rest. The reception afterwards was held in the Prince’s
Clubhouse, Laddie’s birthplace, now ‘Prince’s Lodge’.
MR
Christmas Shoe Box Appeal
For the 4th year running the Carpenter’s Arms Church will be supporting The
Blythswood Care Charity and their Christmas Shoe Box Appeal. On the 19th
October The Carpenter’s Arms ‘Messy Church’ will offer a warm welcome
to anyone who would like to help decorate shoe boxes and pack them
with items suitable for children aged between 3 and 16 years .There will be
refreshments all morning and a light lunch for those who would like to stay.
The Boxes are sent overland to Albania, Bulgaria, Hungry, Moldova, Romania
in time for Christmas. If you have any of the following items that you would
like to donate please bring them along on the day or drop them off at 5
Dover Road Sandwich before the 19th October.
Toothbrushes
Brush/ comb
Rulers
toothpaste
small toys
hat
soap
pens/pencils
gloves
shampoo
notepads
scarf
face cloths
rubbers
socks/tights
The morning starts at 10.30am at The Phoenix Centre, Jubilee Road,
for more information ring Anna Upton on 614894.
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St Mary’s
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Strand Street, Sandwich
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for booking or enquiries
01304 629015
tel 01304 612 888
[email protected]
www.stmarysartscentre.org.uk
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TUITION FOR STUDENTS OF ALL AGES
Laura Sandys MP
for Thanet South
Laura holds regular advice clinics across the
constituency. If you would like an appointment
to discuss any problem, please do contact us on
01843 589434
or write to Laura at
The House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
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OF THE ‘SWINGING 60s’
A fun and invigorating dance class
in a relaxed and encouraging atmosphere
for those age 60 and over.
Come and relive the songs of yesteryear
to easy dance steps while making new friends.
St. Clement’s Church Hall,
Church Street, Sandwich.
Wednesday afternoons – 13:15 to 14:15.
£5 pay-as-you-go or £4 with block booking.
For more information
contact Miss Els Van Hoof:
01304-449 705 or 07513-438801
or e-mail her at [email protected]
Always welcome to give it a try!
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If so why not come along and enjoy our
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We meet at The Guildhall, Sandwich on the first
Monday evening of the month at 7.30pm
01304 629017
For more information please contact
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THE BEGINNING
A PERSONAL VIEW AND STORY
A story must start at the beginning and not at the end and I wrote the following story
just after I had become a committed Christian in 1988. I was with a group of other new
Christians and it had been suggested it would be a good idea to have a meeting once
a month to have time to be alone with God and see what He might want to say to us. I
wasn’t at all keen and kept thinking as to what I was to do with my new notebook and
pen and how awful it would be if I returned from seclusion with nothing written. Our
group met in a wild garden within sound of the sea and I found a convenient fallen
tree that was comfortable to wriggle myself on. I looked at all the others in the group
who were isolating themselves as I had done and, feeling absolutely nothing, I sat and
watched the butterflies, birds and small insects that were all round me. Lazily I picked up
my notebook and pen and suddenly felt I wanted to write what came into my head and
the following is the result.
Feel what it is you are sitting on and know people will sit on you if you allow it. Come
before Me in faith and believe in My strength and through that strength you will overcome
the wishes that they have for you. Have confidence that this will be so. Remember, I have
opened a door that no man can shut and I am sitting beside you on this branch.
Realise the tree fell a long time ago but its branches have swept up from a recumbent position
and the roots are deep and very much alive. There are creepers using it as a foothold but they
are weak in comparison, there are also insects but they can easily be dislodged.
Remember I told you I could use your life for My glory and what you have given Me don’t
try and take back or the wheels will come off. My arm is around you as we sit on this branch
together and I will never let you go. Remember, too, that it is a low branch that we are
sitting on and can easily be reached by others. With Me beside you no-one can overcome
you. Believe this and have peace in your heart, the peace that brings serenity of mind and
calmness of spirit. This is a time of testing you are going through but I have everything
under control. Nothing is too difficult for Me to handle and I tell you to relinquish all fear
and doubt that you will be overcome. Remember Job? He was sorely tried but never lost
his faith and so it is to be with you. Because you have comfort from Me others will get help
and comfort from you through Me-not from yourself but through Me and this realisation
is always to be held before you. Remember too that the first thing you hear or are aware
of in your heart comes from the Holy Spirit the second comes from you and the third from
the devil. Nothing can disturb the serenity of God but I can and am provoked to anger by
those who do not know my ways or who know them and refuse to obey them.
You are judged by what you know and to those to whom knowledge and wisdom is given
greater is the punishment if the Word has not been acted upon. Remember, it is better to
be approachable as this branch is than to be unclimbable.
Jane Bremner
Elder, Sandwich United Reformed Church
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Churches together in Sandwich
St Andrew’s/St Clement’s/The Carpenter’s Arms Sandwich/The United
Reformed Church
OUTING TO TENTERDEN
Saturday 4th October
Leaving the Guildhall at 9.30 am
Visit to Smallhythe and Prayers
with Refreshments in Tenterden
Time to visit the Tenterden Folk Festival
returning for approximately 5pm.
£10 per person
List to Sign up in our Churches
FESTIVAL PRAISE 2014
Churches together in Sandwich
St Andrew’s/St Clement’s/The Carpenter’s Arms Sandwich/The United
Reformed Church
This year’s Churches Together FESTIVAL PRAISE
at St Mary’s on Sunday 24th August during the Sandwich Festival was very good.
It was one of the best.
A sincere thank you to
all who made it happen, took part and to those who came.
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A night to remember at a Marburg Dance in support of
St Luke’s
Richard Linning on one night of many spent in Australia
The time: mid-morning on a hot, sunny Sunday. The place: the Darling Downs,
Queensland, Australia. Bill caught my eye as he emerged from behind the Altar Screen.
“ Ya didn’t expect ta see me wearing a frock taday, did ya, Dick?” Welcome to Sunday
Worship at the Anglican church of St Luke at Rosewood.
Rewind to the night before. I first met Bill at a famous Marburg Dance. ‘Marburg
dances’ have been held every Saturday night in the showgrounds hall for the last sixtythree years.
Marburg is a small town – a mere 536 souls – located 60 km west of Brisbane, the State
capital. Day’s Café in Edmond Street was once the “The Half-Way Café”, the midway
stop for hungry travellers on the main Brisbane to Toowoomba road before the
Warrego Highway bypass was built in the 1960s. German settlers – including my great
grandfather – settled the area in the 1860s. The story goes that the station master of
nearby Walloon railway station asked the settlers where they lived – ‘ober dar’ they
replied. He felt that ‘ober dar’ should have a proper name: Marburg, a town mentioned
in an article on Germany he was reading at the time. The name stuck. Because of
anti-German sentiment in WWI however Marburg was changed to Townshend for the
duration, after the long forgotten hero of Kut-al-Amara.
But back to Saturday night. A notice in the Ipswich News in the mid 2000’s reads
Marburg – Dance the night Away with the Push Rods and Rockers with live band
Midnight Curfew. Hotdogs and drinks available, with a lucky draw prize for vehicles
over thirty years old. That particular Saturday night a competing local attraction
was the inaugural Peak Crossing pig races and country music bash at the Peak Pub, a
fundraiser for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. On the night that Bill and I met it was a
60/40 dance.
My invitation came from my cousin, Gerald. One hundred and twenty men and women
of all ages paid their AUD $10 to enter – most regulars, a quarter of them over 90, I was
told. They come from miles around.
Gerald introduced me to Bill. We shot the breeze as blokes do. Aussies vs the Poms –
rugby (the Lions won), the Ashes (Green caps were winning), rugby league world cup
(yet to be decided).
Bill and I were not there to dance. Or drink. For no alcohol is ever served at a
Marburg dance. Each week a different volunteer group takes on responsibility for the
organisation of the dance, the raffle and the all important catering. This Saturday it was
the parishioners of St Luke’s. Bill and I and my wife Jacqui were there to help butter,
fill and serve sandwiches. Small mountains of sandwiches. And oceans of tea, served
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A night to remember at a Marburg Dance in support of
St Luke’s
in industrial sized teapots, ten of them, each with its own cryptic notation BW, BW2S
... black with, black with two sugars. Heaven protect anyone who makes the wrong
mixture in the wrong pot!
Marburg dance regulars always sit in their own part of the hall, some even bring their
own cups and plates, and yes, even linen serviettes for the supper service. And just to
demolish the myth about chauvinism in Oz, the blokes and sheilas do sit to together,
not congregate at opposite ends of the room. All dance. The energy, the evident
enjoyment as couples do the Galop, Gavotte,Mazurka and Shotese is infectious. I was
tempted, but with two left feet not properly equipped. The same spirit was evident
among the volunteer washers and driers-up in the kitchen. The profit on the night for
St Luke’s – $1000 or roughly £600. Not a bad night’s work.
A final note, my new mate Bill – the Reverend Bill Ellem – is the popular avuncular priest
who conducted Sunday Worship at the Anglican church of St Luke at Rosewood for the
normal congregation of six, plus two visitors – Jacqui and myself – the morning after
the memorable night before.
SINGING FOR LIFE
Singing for Life will meet at the United Reformed Church, Sandwich at 2.15pm on the
following dates this term:
September15th
October
6th
October20th
November
3rd
November17th
December
1st
December15th
13th December – Provisional date for Carols at St Peter’s
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SANDWICH COMMEMORATES THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
15th September 2014
Photographs: Lou Martin
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Sandwich and Deal Branch
The Bi Monthly Meeting of the Sandwich and Deal Branch of
the Royal Air Forces Association was held on 5th September at
the Sandwich Centre for the Retired.
The Chairman opened the meeting by reading the official
dedication of the RAF Association the Chairman Leslie Nower. Following the Dedication
prayers were said by the Branch Chaplain the Revd Robin Garden. In doing so the
Chaplain made special reference to those who died in World War 1, the anniversary of
which was that day.
Arising from the minutes of the last meeting the Chairman reported that four members
had attended the Annual Get Together Lunch of the former East Kent Region held at
the Swingate Inn and arranged by the Dover Branch. The cup awarded to the Branch
which had collected the highest amount per member in the past year for the Wings
Appeal was presented to the Headcorn Branch. They collected £67.46 per member with
a total Branch membership of 38.
Correspondence was read from SE Area HQ were read and action taken as necessary.
This contained notice that in conjunction with events to mark the 70th Anniversary of the
Normandy Landings, the French Government had advised the Ministry of Defence that it
wishes to award the Legion d’Honneur to all surviving veterans. This includes veterans,
including Royal Air Force personnel, who operated in support of the landings, who have
not already received this award from the French Government. Any Branch member who
would like further information should contact the Chairman on 01304 613421.
Dr Frank Andrews gave the up to date details of the Wings Appeal, collectors were
urgently needed for the collections on Wings Day Saturday 20th September.
Battle of Britain arrangements were discussed. The Chairman and Secretary were
meeting the Mayor’s Secretary to tie up arrangements. This year’s Wreath Laying
Ceremony took place on Monday 15th September at the Town War Memorial with HW
The Mayor, HW The Mayor of Deal, the Chairman of Dover District Council and members
of Sandwich Town Council in attendance.
Future events include the Annual Christmas Lunch which has been provisionally
booked for Wednesday 9th December and further details will follow.
The next Branch Meeting will be held on Wednesday 5th November at the Sandwich
Centre for the Retired. New members would be very welcome.
Leslie Nower, Chairman
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Sandwich Town Diary October 2014
Thursday 2nd - Sunday 5th
Sandwich Guitar Festival - St Mary’s Arts Centre
Friday3 10.00am-12 Noon St Clement’s Coffee Pot Coffee Morning for MacMillan Cancer Support - St Clement’s Hall
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Saturday4th 9.30 am
Churches Together Outing to Tenterden
Monday6 2.15 pm
7.30 pm
Singing for Life - United Reformed Church
SEDFAS - Guildhall
Tuesday7th 10.15 am
10.30 am
Library Guild Thames Paddle Steamer Outing - Depart from Margate
D&DDFAS - Guildhall
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Wednesday8th 7.00 for 7.30pm French Cinema Evening - Empire Cinema
Saturday11th 6.30 pm
Parish Harvest Buffet Supper - St Clement’s Hall
Tuesday14th 7.00 pm
Women’s Institute - United Reformed Church
Thursday16 7.30 pm
Local History Society - Guildhall
Friday17th 7.00 pm
Quiz Evening for St Peter and St Paul, Worth - Worth Village Hall
Monday20th 2.15 pm
7.00 pm
Singing for Life - United Reformed Church
Town Council - Guildhall
Thursday23rd 2.00 pm
Infant School Harvest Festival - St Mary’s
Friday24th 1.45 pm
7.00 pm
7.30 pm
Sir Roger Manwood’s School Speech Day
Townswomen’s Guild - Guildhall
Becker Ensemble Concert - Guildhall
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Note: If organisations would like their events announced on this page of The Signal each month,
please forward details of your programme to The Editor at The Rectory.
Available for Hire
ST CLEMENT’S CHURCH HALL
Currently Friday evenings: for regular bookings or Social Events
Saturday evenings: for Social Events
Kitchen also available for catering
Contact Mrs Carole Brown: 614120 for details
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Calling all Mums, Dads and Carers of toddlers!
Have you thought of coming along on Tuesday afternoons
to St Clement’s Toddlers Group in the Church Hall?
There are lots of toys and activities for your little ones to keep them busy,
and there is the chance for Mums and Dads (and carers) to enjoy a cup of tea
or coffee and to have a chat with other parents.
Do come along! Tuesday afternoons from 1:30 to 3:00.
You will be very welcome.
From the Parish Registers
BAPTISM
We welcome into God’s Family
August31st POPPY GRACE KEMP and
RUBY BERYL KEMP of 29 Woods Ley, Ash
September14th SOPHIE AMELIA SECKER of 5 Laburnum Avenue
FUNERALS
We commend to God
August20 JILL DOREEN LUCAS of Flat 2, 11 Onslow Square, London SW7,
aged 93 years
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26th JOAN MARGARET PRICE of 6 Fordwich Place, aged 83 years
29th PATRICIA MARY CASTLE of 13 Wantsume Lees, aged 77 years
September8th ERIC GEORGE SPICER of 20 Hazelwood Meadow, aged 81 years
We offer our sympathy to their families at this time
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