March
HEART and SOLE GALLERY
Preraring for a new roof at St. Edmund’s Southwold
Archdeacon Ian joins Clergy & People past and
present at St. Margaret’s Reydon
Celebrating the Dedication of
Reydon Church with Bishop
David and Archdeacon Ian
John Cooper (Cooper & Denny Ltd., contractors), Rev
Lizzey Gregory Curate, The Right Revd Dr David
Thomson (Acting Bishop of St. Edmundsbury &
Ipswich), Revd Rich Henderson, Brian Haward
(Architect), James Hasall Sec to Diocesan Advisory
Committee
from Revd Rich Henderson
SPRING INTO LENT
March often sees winter becoming spring and in this month we continue our journey
through Lent.
Lent is like - a springtime for our spiritual lives, a time of reflection and renewal as we
look forward to the celebration of the Good News of the Passion and Resurrection of
Christ.
It is not your doing or mine that causes the Spring! That is how the world is made,
one season makes way for another. And everything on earth is linked together so that
spring "happens" - plants grow; everything gets warmer (hopefully!) as the earth
moves closer to the sun, and people cheer up!
Something similar is going on in our spiritual lives. But we have a choice - not of
whether spring can happen but whether we allow it to change us. God longs to work
in us and with us, so let's welcome that transformation firstly by being willing to allow
God to work rather than insisting on our own independence and then doing what we
can, to be in the right place at the right time, for us to be changed by him so that we
grow in faith.
The church calendar moves on in Lent. Just as the shops started displaying Christmas
merchandise from early summer so too you could buy your Easter eggs before Lent
had even started!! We often want to cut out the waiting and jump straight to the main
event. But the time of waiting can be such a richly productive one. For many people
Lent is associated with giving something up. It is seen as an opportunity, perhaps, for
kicking that unwanted habit, for finally going on that long-intended diet, or for
denying oneself those unnecessary extra luxuries. All such acts of discipline may have
their place, but they give a very one-sided view on this season for, if anything, it
should be about taking something on; committing oneself, in the manner of Jesus, to
going the extra mile. That doesn't mean taking work on for work's sake, rather, it is
about resolving to follow Christ more faithfully, a determination to give him our
wholehearted discipleship. It might mean more disciplined devotion, perhaps more
practical loving service, maybe more effective witness, or possibly the offering of
previously unused gifts. Whatever it is, Lent encourages us to give something back to
the one who gave us everything.
Consider today what Christ has done for you, then ask what you can do for him, and
then use Lent as an opportunity to respond in a way that makes a difference for you.
May we seek to grow deeper in our discipleship this Lent.
Blessings
Rich
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Monday to Saturday 9.00am to 5.30pm
Sunday 12.00am to 2.00pm
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SOLE BAY TEAM NEWS
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LENT LUNCHES
Friends from all the Churches in Southwold & Reydon, will serve Homemade Soup,
with bread and cheese, followed by tea and coffee. Lunches will be served every
Friday from 20 February until 27 March 12.30pm to 2.00pm in St Edmund's Hall,
Cumberland Rd. Just Drop in! No charge - DONATIONS ONLY
CHRISTIANS TOGETHER WORSHIPING TOGETHER DURING LENT
6pm on Sunday Evenings. Theme- Wilderness Time
1 March at Southwold United Reformed Church,
Fr Roger Spencer - A time of challenge
8 March at St. Margaret's Church, Reydon,
Revd. Christine Kennel - A time of dependence
15 March at Southwold Methodist Church,
Revd. Simon Pitcher - A time of doubt
22 March at The Sacred Heart Church, Southwold,
Revd. Charles Croll - A time of comfort
Our Lenten collections & Lunch donations will go to the Southwold Voluntary Help Centre.
SOLE BAY ALPHA
Christians Together in Southwold & District are hosting an Alpha course this
spring/summer.
The Alpha Course is a 10 week practical introduction to the Christian faith. It
started in the early 90's at Holy Trinity Church Brompton, London and has been a huge
success, so much so that that last year it was being run in over 8000 churches in Britain
and in over 130 countries worldwide.
What is an Alpha Course?
It is an opportunity to explore the Christian faith in a relaxed, non-threatening, low
key, friendly and fun way. Alpha is a place where no question is too simple or too
hostile. Listen, learn, discuss and discover. Ask anything. The course consists of a
series of talks (by local church Ministers) looking at topics such as "Who is Jesus?" and
"Why and How Do I Pray?" After each talk there are small groups for discussions.
Who is Alpha For?
Alpha is for people wanting to explore Christianity, new Christians, and those who
want to refresh their faith. In summary, Alpha is for anybody!
Do think and pray about who you might invite. If you have done Alpha before, bring
someone else along or, be part of the team that offers welcome and hospitality.
Our local Alpha course starts on Wednesday 22 April 7.15pm at St.Margaret's
Church, Reydon (The first evening will include a meal). If you are interested and
would like to book a place please add you name to any of the sign-up sheets in local
churches from the end of March or contact Revd Rich Henderson 01502 722192 email:
[email protected].
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FOODBANK COLLECTIONS
Thank you for the support of all the congregations and communities in Southwold,
Reydon and District for your support of East Suffolk Foodbank. A generous amount of
1668.96kg of food has been donated in 2014. During the last year East Suffolk
Foodbank fed 3885 people of whom 1042 were children. Philip Riley Charity Manager
WOMEN'S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
Our local Women's World Day of Prayer service will be held for the first time, in
over 40 years, at St. Margaret's church in Reydon.
It is an international and interdenominational service written this year by the
Christian women of the Bahamas, and prepared by our local ecumenical team.
We welcome men, women and children and are very happy to be able to offer lifts
to St. Margaret's from surrounding villages, plus refreshments beforehand.
Please put this date, Friday
6th March, 10.30am 2015 in
your diaries. It will be a short
colourful service in the morning, followed by the usual
30 March ²5 April 2015
Lent lunch in St. Edmunds
Hall, Southwold. Please ring
Monday
Compline Service
7.30pm Sotherton
Sue Puddifoot 01502 725496/
Tuesday
Taize Service
7.30pm Wangford
07740286553 if you would like
to be involved in car sharing
Wednesday Morning Prayer
8.45am Reydon
Eucharist
10am
Walberswick
or refreshments. Thank you.
Reflective Service
REFLECTIVE DAY
A Reflective Day on Being Over
50 is being held on Saturday 18th
April at the Chapel of St. Felix's
School, Reydon. Led by Revd.
Elizabeth Baxter and Revd. Joan
Lyon. This day will provide a
relaxed space to share day-today and spiritual experience of
the life we have been given as it
is stretched to new dimensions
as we mature. Registration with
coffee at 9.30am, finishing at
4pm. The cost of the day is £10
with lunch provided. To register
please pick up a leaflet at the
back of church or contact Jenny
Whines on 01502 722293 or
email: [email protected]
Maundy Thursday Holy Communion
Eucharist & Vigil
7.30pm
Blythburgh
10am Southwold
7.30pm Reydon
Good Friday Ecumenical Service & Walk of Witness
10am
One Hour Devotion
12 noon
One Hour Devotion
1pm
Liturgy of the Cross
2pm
One Hour Devotion
& Music
2pm
One Hour Devotion
2pm
Southwold URC
Uggeshall
Reydon
Reydon
Southwold
Walberswick
Easter Saturday Easter Vigil
7.30pm Walberswick
Easter Sunday
7.30am
8am
8am
9.30am
9.30am
9.30am
9.30am
11am
11am
11am
6pm
Eucharist (BCP)
Holy Communion (BCP)
Holy Communion (BCP)
Parish Eucharist (CW)
Parish Eucharist (CW)
Family Worship
Parish Eucharist (CW)
Holy Communion (BCP)
Holy Communion (CW)
Holy Communion (CW)
Evening Prayer (BCP)
Reydon
Southwold
Uggeshall
Reydon
Sotherton
Southwold (Hall)
Walberswick
Blythburgh
Southwold
Wangford
Uggeshall
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7th - GONE GIRL
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28th - EFFIE GRAY
PARISH NEWS
Holy Trinity
Church, Blytburgh
Church Lane, IP19 9PL
BACK IN BUSINESS
Blythburgh's popular monthly cafe and
mini-market is back after its winter break.
It is held on the mornings of the first
Friday of the month, so please join us on
27 March from 10.30 to 12.30, for coffee,
cake and the chance to buy handcrafted
goods.
HAPPY COUPLES
We look forward to welcoming 12 couples
who have chosen Blythburgh Church for
their wedding services between April and
October. This increase has arisen partly
because of major renovations at St.
Edmund's, Southwold, but other couples
also have a long-standing family connection with Blythburgh. Look out for the
swirling confetti across the marshes (biodegradable of course!).
MUSICAL NOTES
Blythburgh and Wangford Churches are
delighted to announce that we have
received a donation totalling £9000 from
Music in Country Churches as a result of
our wonderful musical weekend in Blythburgh last August and the generosity of
the participating artists. After the deduction of expenses, this will be split proportionately between the two churches. A big
thank you to everybody who took part in
the preparations, and those from across
the Sole Bay Team who helped with stewarding, or in any other way. It was a
mammoth task, and we are particularly
grateful to Jenny Allen from Blythburgh,
and Sue Ives from Wangford and their
teams of helpers.
KEEP ON GLOWING
Last month Holy Trinity launched a
support scheme, asking people to sponsor
the popular floodlighting of the church (it
costs £100 a month just for the electricity).
For £20 per week anyone can choose a
specific week to sponsor the lights. To
take up this opportunity, please pop into
the Blythburgh village shop or the
church, and pick up a sponsorship form.
TIME OUT
The Revd Malcolm Doney, the Associate
Priest of Holy Trinity, Blythburgh is
taking a nine-month sabbatical from his
church duties, from 1 April to 31
December 2015. He will still be around
and about in the village, but he will not be
available to undertake specific church
functions and services. We wish him well,
as he takes this break.
St. Margaret’s
Church, Reydon
Wangford Road,
IP18 6PB
What a wonderful weekend we had at the
beginning of February in St. Margaret's
Church - sharing with our community
and people from beyond the completion
of the beautiful re-ordering of our
building. Too many thanks and "well
dones" are due to list here, but the various
- and very varied organists on Friday
were brilliant, Sing-a-long a Sound of
Music, great fun, didn't go to the
Children's Scratch Choir workshop and
activities (Gerald and I didn't qualify for
this one!!!) but gather it went very well,
the superb Wrentham Band and then in
the evening, Mike Webb, Joanne Knight
and Eliza Stammers provided wonderful
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but is now a registered home for the elderly. We
offer a permanent home to those needing help
and support from our caring, qualified staff.
For those living in their own home we offer
day care which includes lunch/refreshments,
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PARISH NEWS (...continued)
entertainment, North Suffolk Youth Choir
on Sunday were excellent and add in the
services at 9.30 am and 6 pm on Sunday
which were truly inspirational with the
whole congregation (large) joining in to
the full was uplifting and magnificent.
The work of the craftsmen (for that is
the only way to describe them) who
completed the works provided us with a
setting which would be hard to equal.
Then there were the flowers, the soup
and cake makers, the team work behind
the scenes, so much to enjoy! Plus the
children's model of the church, I do hope
you took time to look at it, a real masterpiece of which they should be proud!
So HUGE thank-you's to all involved in
the organising and to Rev Rich for his
inspired leadership. They worked so
hard to achieve this as well as the lead-up
and carrying out of the re-ordering.
FROM BISHOP DAVID'S BLOG
Wow! What a good job Rich Henderson
and the people of Reydon Church have
made of their reordering. Sanctuary
cleared and new seats and altar rail put
in. Great new tiled floor. Walls painted,
new lighting and sound system, new
organ, new vestments. And the church
was heaving (and full of smoke!) as we
rededicated it all this morning. Jacob's
Ladder was our reading, and all the renovations offer a all spiritual leg up for
regulars and visitors. But how can we be
sure it's for real? Going to make a real
difference? The ladder needs securing at
both ends. Into the reality of Jesus Christ,
his life, his astounding teaching, his
death, his resurrection. And into the reality of reaching out into the world around
us in all its need. Are we each doing both
of those! Now that is a rededication that
will make a difference. We, you can
change the world!
FESTIVAL THANKS
Thank you to all who supported the
Reydon Church Festival weekend and
joined in celebrating completion of the
reordering. Huge thanks to all who worked so hard in welcoming and serving
others over the three days, to all the
singers, musicians who performed and all
involved in two very special acts of
worship.
Revd Rich.
The ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH
MEETING will take place on Sunday 12
April at 11am. As part of our review of
2014 we will be producing a booklet of
annual reports. If you usually write a
report for the APCM please send to Sarah
Britten by 1st March preferably by email:
[email protected]. Reports are
to reflect the year ending 31 December
2014.
ELECTORAL ROLL
The Church electoral roll is the foundation of the whole structure of synodical
government in the church. It contains the
names and addresses of everyone who
can vote at the Annual Parochial Church
Meeting.
If you would like to be added to the roll
please collect an application for enrolment form from Sarah Britten.
COFFEE & CONVERSATION
Come along to the church room on
Wednesday 4 March for a chat, a cuppa
and great cakes! All welcome.
FEAST ALL-AGE WORSHIP
On Sunday 22 March our theme at Feast is
'Journey to the Cross' as we creatively
think about the events of Holy Week.
Breakfast from 9.15am, Worship from 9.45am.
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PARISH NEWS (...continued)
St. Andrew’s
Church, Sotherton
East of village off
A145, NR34 8ES
It is with great joy after many cake stalls
and quiz nights the fund to repair the
church bell has been raised and first time
in months the church bell will be ringing
again at the Sunday service at St.
Andrew's.
The APCM will be held at Red House
Farm Westhall IP19 8NY on the 26th
March 2015 at 7.30pm by kind permission
of Mrs Pearl Flaxman.
St. Lawrence’s Church,
South Cove
On B1127, NR34 7JD
The well-known weather proverb,
"March comes in like a lion and goes out
like a lamb" has been in common place
since the latter part of the 17th. Century.
Already this year, we have experienced a
variety of weather conditions.
There are a number of significant days
in the church's calendar which are celebrated this month. Two Patron saints are
remembered; St. David of Wales, a sixthcentury monk and bishop, on Sunday, 1st.
March and, on 17th. March, St. Patrick of
Ireland c.390 - c.461.
Mothering Sunday occurs on the fourth
Sunday in Lent, 15th. March. One of the
earliest references is from a diary of
Richard Symonds, published in 1644.
"Every mid-Lent Sunday is a great day in
Worcester, when all the children and godchildren meet at the head and chief of the
family and have a feast. They call it
'Mothering - Day.' " This is not to be
confused with Mother's Day which was
first suggested in 1907 by Miss Anna
Jarvis, a schoolteacher in Philadelphia. In
Britain, the new Mother's Day got tangled
up with the existing Mothering Sunday
and for sometime the two existed side by
side. It is probably true that Mother's Day
has gained the upper hand today.
There will be a service of Holy
Communion at St. Lawrence Church at
3p.m. on Sunday 15th. March, Mothering
Sunday, also known as Refreshment
Sunday. By some it is referred to as
Laetare Sunday, from the anthem 'Laetare'
(Rejoice). Flowers may be placed in
church and children give bunches of
flowers to their mothers. The Rev'd Rich
Henderson will be the Celebrant. All are
welcome.
St. Edmund’s
Church, Southwold
Bartholomew Green,
IP18 6JA
ANNUAL PAROCHIAL
CHURCH MEETING St. Edmund's, Southwold
Friday 24th April in St. Edmund's at
7.30pm in St. Edmund's Hall
During January and February scaffolding
for the roof restoration work has been
gradually sprouting inside the church,
filling the space like an intricate metal
forest of trunks and branches. The south
aisle has been left clear, and once the
scaffolding is all in place it will be
possible to use St Edmunds in a limited
way for services by using the south aisle
and Lady Chapel.
Whilst the scaffolding has been going
up the church congregation has met in
both Southwold Methodist Church and in
St Edmunds Hall. We are very grateful to
March 2015 | CHURCH SERVICES DIARY
1
0800
0800
0800
0930
0930
1100
1100
Second Sunday of Lent
Reydon
Eucharist (BCP)
Southwold
Holy Communion (BCP)
Uggeshall
Holy Communion (BCP)
Reydon
Parish Eucharist (CW)
Southwold
Family Service
Southwold
Morning Prayer (BCP)
Walberswick
Parish Eucharist (CW)
Joined by Blythburgh
1100 Wangford
Holy Communion (CW)
1800 Uggeshall
Evening Prayer (BCP sung)
1800 URC Southwold Lent Worship
8
0800
0800
0930
0930
1000
1100
1100
1800
1800
1800
15
LECTIONARY
Genesis 17.1-7,15,16
Psalm 22.23-31
Romans 4.13-25
Mark 8.31-38
Third Sunday of Lent
Reydon
Eucharist (BCP)
Southwold
Holy Communion (BCP)
Reydon
Parish Eucharist (CW)
Sotherton
Holy Communion (CW)
Southwold
All Together (HC)
Blythburgh
Holy Communion (CW)
Joined by Walberswick
Wangford
Holy Communion (CW)
Uggeshall
Evening Prayer (BCP sung)
Walberswick
Choral Evensong
Reydon
Lent Worship
LECTIONARY
Exodus 20.1-17
Psalm 19
1 Corinthians 1.18-25
John 2.13-22 11
Matthew 26.14 - 27.66 or
Mothering Sunday
0800 Reydon
Eucharist (BCP)
0800 Southwold
Holy Communion (BCP)
0930 Blythburgh
Holy Communion (BCP)
0930 Reydon
Family Eucharist
1000 Southwold
Mothering Sunday Service
1100 Wangford
Mothering Sunday Service
1100 Walberswick
Mothering Sunday Service
1500 South Cove
Holy Communion (BCP)
1800 Uggeshall
Holy Communion (BCP)
1800 Methodist Southwold Lent Worship
LECTIONARY
Exodus 2.1-10 or
1 Samuel 1.20-28
Psalm 34.11-20 or
Psalm 127.1-4
2 Corinthians 1.3-7 or
Colossians 3.12-17
Luke 2.33-35 or
John 19.25-27
22
Fifth Sunday of Lent
0800 Reydon
Eucharist (BCP)
22
Fifth Sunday of Holy
LentCommunion (BCP)
0800 Southwold
0800
0915
0800
0930
0915
0930
0930
1000
0930
1100
1000
1600
1100
1800
1600
1800
1800
1800
LECTIONARY
Jeremiah 31.31-34
Psalm 51.1-13 or
Eucharist
(BCP)
Feast All-Age
Worship
LECTIONARY
Psalm 119.9-16
Jeremiah 31.31-34
Holy Communion (BCP)
Hebrews 5.5-10
Psalm 51.1-13 or
Feast
All-Age Worship
Holy Communion
(CW)
Psalm 119.9-16
Holy
Communion
(BCP)
All Together
Morning
Worship Hebrews 5.5-10
Reydon
Southwold
Blythburgh
Reydon
Walberswick
Blythburgh
Southwold
Walberswick
Holy Communion (CW)
Wangford
Southwold
All
Together
Morning Worship
Reydon
Choral
Evensong
Wangford
Holy
Communion
(CW)
Uggeshall
Evening Prayer (BCP)
Reydon
Choral Lent
Evensong
Sacred Heart, Southwold
Worship
Uggeshall
Evening Prayer (BCP)
Sacred
Heart, Southwold Lent Worship
Palm Sunday
LECTIONARY
Liturgy of the Palms:
0800 Reydon
Eucharist (BCP)
Mark 11.1-11 or
22
Palm
Sunday
0800 Southwold
Holy Communion (BCP)
LECTIONARY
John
12.12-16
Liturgy
of the Palms:
0800
Eucharist
(BCP) (BCP)
0930 Reydon
Blythburgh
Holy Communion
Psalm 118.1-2, 19-24*
Mark
11.1-11
or
0800
Holy
Communion
0930 Southwold
Reydon
Parish
Eucharist (BCP)
John 12.12-16
0930 Blythburgh
Holy Communion (BCP)
Walberswick
(CW)
Psalm 118.1-2, 19-24*
0930
Parish
Eucharist (CW)
1000 Reydon
Southwold
Holy Communion
0930
Holy Communion (CW)
1100 Walberswick
Wangford
1000
Holy
Communion
(CW)
1800 Southwold
Uggeshall
Evening
Prayer (BCP)
1100 Wangford
Holy Communion (CW)
1800
Uggeshall
Evening Prayer
(BCP)
REGULAR
MIDWEEK SERVICES
Festival
Days and Seasons may result in change
St Margaret's, Reydon
Tuesdays
1830SERVICES
Eucharist
REGULAR
MIDWEEK
Festival Days and Seasons may result in change
Third Tuesday – Healing Eucharist with Laying-On of Hands and Anointing
St Margaret's, Reydon
Wednesdays 0845
Morning Prayer
Tuesdays
1830
Eucharist
St Edmund’s, Southwold
Third
Tuesday1000
– Healing Eucharist
with
Laying-On of Hands and Anointing
Thursdays
Eucharist
(BCP)
Wednesdays
0845
Morning Prayer
Second Thursday
– Healing Eucharist
with Anointing (CW – said)
St Edmund’s,
FridaysSouthwold
1600
Evening Prayer
Thursdays 1000
Eucharist (BCP)
St Andrew’s, Walberswick
Second Thursday – Healing Eucharist with Anointing (CW – said)
Tuesdays
1700
Evening Prayer
Fridays
1600
Evening Prayer
Wednesdays 1000
Eucharist (BCP)
St Andrew’s, Walberswick
First Wednesday – Healing Eucharist (CW – said)
Tuesdays
1700
Evening Prayer
St Peter and St Paul’s, Wangford
Wednesdays 1000
Eucharist (BCP)
Last Wednesday of month 1200 Eucharist (CW –said)
First Wednesday – Healing Eucharist (CW – said)
Holy
Trinity,
Blythburgh
Wednesdays 1700
Service of Night Prayer (Compline)
St
Peter
and St
Paul’s, Wangford
Last Wednesday of month 1200 Eucharist (CW –said)
Holy Trinity, Blythburgh Wednesdays 1700
Service of Night Prayer (Compline)
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PARISH NEWS (...continued)
everyone at Southwold Methodist
Church for their warm welcome and kind
hospitality during what is quite a
challenging time for everyone at St
Edmunds.
During 2015 some of the big services
that traditionally take place in St
Edmunds will not be able to do so. The
first of these is the ecumenical service on
Good Friday, which this year will take
place in Southwold United Reformed
Church on Southwold High Street at
10.00.
Hopefully by the time you read this the
long awaited restoration of the weather
vane will be completed, and that this will
once again adorn the tower.
On 22nd and 23rd January an exhibition
was held in Buckenham Galleries in order
to present the plans for providing new
facilities in the west end of St Edmunds.
Over 160 people attended on the two
days and we received a good number of
comment cards that were positive and
encouraging about the things we hope to
do. It is intended that in due course the
exhibition display boards will be placed
in St Edmund's for visitors to see.
THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
The grand total from the annual collection
box count in November was £392.76, an
increase on 2013. These funds go towards
the Society's work and projects; supporting vulnerable children and young
people, such as runaways and young
carers.
If anyone would like to start saving their
small change for The Children's Society,
please telephone Kate Assmann 01502 722
600 for a collecting box.
St. Mary’s Church,
Uggeshall
Wangford Road,
NR34 8BD
ANNUAL PAROCHIAL
CHURCH MEETINGSt Mary's, Uggeshall
Tuesday 21 April at 2pm
In the School Hall, Uggeshall
UGGESHALL SCHOOL HALL
Uggeshall School Hall is becoming a buzz
of regular activity - coffee mornings, fish
and chip lunch, gardening club - and
many other ideas are flowing in.
The hall is available for private and
community events for residents and the
wider community. If you have an idea,
first of all check your date with Elaine
Watts
([email protected]).
She will give you a booking form, the
Terms of Use and a list of what is available
for you to use (i.e. number of plates,
teapots, tables etc).
The church will be responsible for the
upkeep of the hall and the provision of
catering items (e.g. cups, plates, teapots,
cutlery etc). Elaine has an inventory and
will also give you a copy of the Terms of
Use. Then it's up to you! We do not have
a team of helpers to publicise and set up
for events. There is expertise around if
you need help and we can all do our bit in
sharing that.
Publicity posters can be put up on the
noticeboards at the church gate and on
the road outside the School Hall. Tony
Watts ([email protected]) is
keeping an email list of those who would
like to receive regular updates about what
is going on so please send him an email
asking to be included.
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PARISH NEWS (...continued)
The use of the hall is free to residents up
until November this year for private and
community events. Thereafter hiring
costs will be £6 per hour with an all day
hire fee of £30.
St. Andrew’s
Church,
Walberswick
The Street, IP18 6UZ
ANNUAL PAROCHIAL
CHURCH MEETING St Andrew's, Walberswick
Sunday 19th April at 12.15 In Church
At St. Andrew's we're reaping unexpected
benefits from the new church rules on
eligibility for weddings. A second couple,
who do not fulfil the existing conditions
enabling them to hold their wedding
here, has now agreed to worship with us
on a regular basis for 6 months in order to
meet the requirement Simon set down. It
seems to be a win/win situation, since we
will have the pleasure of their company.
The first was from Essex, this couple are
from outer London. I am waiting for a
really dramatic distance next!
Joanna Saunders
St. Peter and St.
Paul’s Church,
Wangford Church
Street, NR34 8RR
ANNUAL PAROCHIAL
CHURCH MEETING St Peter & St Paul,
Wangford with Henham
Thursday 23 April at 7pm
In Wangford Community Centre
An appeal to all shoppers Drink up for Lent
Please support WaterAid along with the
congregation of Wangford Church.
Visit Wangford Village Store where you
can take a free bottle of lovely, clean
water, drink it mindfully and then fill the
bottle with your coins. Make this a
family project to show your children the
importance of having clean water to keep
us all healthy.
Give 5p for every tap you have in your
house and garden.
Give 10p every time you have a shower or
bath.
Give 10p every time you boil the kettle.
Give 20p for every time you replace a glass
of juice, wine or beer with a drink of water.
Or think up your own ways of giving to
help others who do not have the luxury of
clean water. This appeal will support
specific projects to provide water wells in
Ethiopia.
Bring your filled bottles to the
Mothering Sunday service in the church
on Sunday 15 March at 11am or hand
them into the village up until Easter Day.
OTHER LOCAL CHURCHES
CATHOLIC
CHURCH
OF
THE
SACRED HEART, SOUTHWOLD
The Common, Southwold, IP18 6AH
Parish Priest: Fr Roger Spencer 723207
Regular Masses (times occasionally vary)
at Sacred Heart Church , Southwold
11.00am
9.00am
Sunday
Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday
10.00am
Saturday
6.00pm
Saturday (until October)
Vigil Mass for Sunday
at St. Edmund’s Church , Halesworth
9.00am
10.00am
Sunday
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OTHER LOCAL CHURCHES (...continued)
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, S’WOLD
Minister: Revd Charles Croll 01728
684052
Sunday Worship 10.30am.
Holy Communion on the first Sunday.
Activites for young children are available
- either in church, or under supervision in
the adjoining church hall. Please speak to
one of the Welcome Team on arrival at
church.
SOUTHWOLD METHODIST CHURCH
BOOKS 'N BRIC-A-BRAC SALE
AT SIBTON
The Friends of St Peter's are holding a
spring Books 'n Bric-a-Brac Sale at Sibton
church on Saturday 28th March from
10.30am until noon.
There will also be clothes and toys, and
admission is free. Refreshments will be
available. Parking will be on the Glebe
Meadow the Yoxford side of the church.
For details and to donate items please
telephone Rosie on 01728 660369 or Diana
on 01728 660236.
Saturday 21st March 2015 from 10.30am
to 4.15pm: the Southwold branch of the
W.E.A. is holding a one day course
'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier .....? An Introduction
to Family History' tutored by Rosemary
Steer in the Methodist Church Hall, East
Green, Southwold.
The fee for the course including buffet
lunch is £22.50. The fee for those who
would prefer to provide their own lunch
is £15. Tea and coffee will be provided for
all.
All are welcome. Further details and
application forms can be obtained from
Shirley Burnett on 01502 725489 or Mary
Rowan-Robinson on 01502 725223.
Minister: Rev Christine Kennell
TrinityLowestoft, Corton, Southwold
8 Corton Road, Lowestoft, NR32 4PL
email [email protected]
Sunday Services: March
1
10.30am
Rev Val Burgess Holy Communion
8
10.30am
Worship at URC
Southwold
15
10.30am
Conducted by the
Worship Group
6.00pm
United Service Rev Simon Pitcher
22
10.30am
Rev Robin Searles
29
10.30 am Rev Christine Kennell
Please send us your pictures of
Sole Bay events
(always keep a camera
in your pocket!)
Email them
(if possible in 300dpi)
to:[email protected]
Charles and Alice Bunbury are so
grateful to so many friends who have
helped and supported them in many
different ways since early December.
"Praise be; £1000 was raised by selling Christmas
cards and Reydon Knitters knitted a blanket, 50
school hats and scarves. Everything has now
arrived at Amasango School. Grateful THANKS to
all who contributed."
Alison Evans
PRAISE and THANKSGIVING
for the marvellous and enjoyable 3 days of various
activities to celebrate and dedicate the re-ordering
of St. Margaret's Reydon. Many congratulations to
everyone involved.
There is so much more one can add....not to
mention the feast of cakes !!!
Special thanks go to you, Rich, Sarah and Pat for
all their hard work in planning and delivering the
Festival.
Email [email protected] with
your messages of Thanks and Praise (circa
25 words) by the 10th of the month.
Inclusion is at our discretion and vagaries of
space.
This photo is of a
confirmation at St
Edmunds, probably
in the 1930s.
Do you know
which year it
was? Do you
recognise anyone
in this photo and
can you tell us a
little about their
lives?
We would be interested to hear from you either by contacting the team office on 01502
724 115 or emailing us at [email protected]
The Southwold Dementia Support Group is held on
the second Wednesday of every month from 2pm 3:30pm. The next group is on 11th March 2015.
The group provides a safe and supportive environment for people with dementia and their carers. You can share your personal experiences of dementia with others who understand, as much as possible, what you are
going through. You can also use the meetings as an opportunity to relax, to take part
in group activities, to talk about other things and to have a break from the routine of
daily life. Refreshments are provided.
For more information regarding the venue and any other questions regarding the
support group, please contact Jonny Hawes on 01502 514712 or email
[email protected]
SHOPPING HABITS CHANGE
How often do you shop for food? These days, chances are that you are buying 'little
and often', popping into your mini-supermarket several times a week, and buying
only what you need for the next couple of days. It is a thrifty way of living; the trend
has helped to reduce food wastage by as much as a fifth, compared with seven years
ago. According to a survey by Waitrose, one in four of us is visiting a 'convenience'
store at least once a day. Perhaps it gives a whole new insight into 'Give us today our
daily bread...' (Luke 11:3)
Heart and Sole
TUESDAY MARCH 10TH: Southwold
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LENT WORDSEARCH
Lent lasts for 40 days. Sundays in Lent are 'oases'; as Sunday is never a day of fasting,
but a weekly celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. Christians have used Lent as their
'40 days in the wilderness', when they set aside the indulgences of life and instead
look inward, seeking spiritual renewal and growth. Lent looks towards the Cross and
the Empty Tomb, with the assurance of redemption and new life in Christ. The
daffodils in our gardens are golden trumpets to proclaim the wonderful message of
Easter! The English word for Lent is not at all religious; it is an abbreviation of the Old
English word 'lencten', or 'lengthen'. At last
winter is over, and the days are getting longer...
Lent
Forty
Days
Sundays
Fasting
Weekly
Celebration
Resurrection
Jesus
Wilderness
Indulgences
Inward
Spiritual
Renewal
Growth
Cross
Empty
Tomb
Redemption
Daffodils
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• & much more ...
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HYMN: The story behind ... Dear Lord and Father of mankind
Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
forgive our foolish ways!
Reclothe us in our rightful mind;
in purer lives thy service find,
in deeper reverence, praise.
In simple trust like theirs who heard
beside the Syrian sea
the gracious calling of the Lord,
let us, like them, without a word,
rise up and follow thee.
...Drop thy still dews of quietness,
till all our strivings cease;
take from our souls the strain and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of thy peace.
This is the nation's second favourite hymn, according to a poll taken by the BBC Songs
of Praise programme in 2013. But it did not originate in the UK, nor did it begin life as
a hymn. It began in the USA, as part of a poem about a drug-induced religious frenzy.
John Greenleaf Whittier had been born in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1807. His
family were part of a pious Quaker community, and so the young John had grown up
in an atmosphere of reverence, of waiting upon God in prayerful silence. Whittier
wanted to be a poet, but his father directed him to journalism instead, in order to be
sure his son could earn a living. Obediently, Whittier took up his pen and began to
write for the papers. He was soon engaged in the fight against slavery, which he called
the 'national crime'. He was frequently abused and criticized for his stand, and found
his solace in turning to his first love, poetry.
In 1872 he wrote a 17 verse 'hymn-poem' called 'The Brewing of Soma'. It was an
attempt to depict the futile ways in which mankind tries to engage with God. The story
line is of priests of the Vedic religion (close to Hinduism) brewing soma, a sacred
ritual drink with hallucinogenic properties. The priests are hoping that Soma will give
them an experience of the divine, but instead they simply get drunk. This failure is
then compared to some Christians' use of "music, incense, vigils drear, And trance, to
bring the skies more near, Or lift men up to heaven!" But all their effort is in vain. It is
mere intoxicated folly.
And so the poem runs for 11 verses. Then, in verse 12, the whole scene changes, and
we are not using props any longer, but simply looking into the loving face of the God
of the Bible. We come to Him in penitence, and are met with grace and love. We
encounter Jesus, and follow Him in obedience. The result is peace, stillness, and
eternal life.
The poem became the hymn in 1884, when Garrett Horder took the poem's final five
verses and made them the hymn we love today. Here in the UK we sing it to the tune
'Repton', by C Hubert H Parry.
(From the Parish Pump)
TEAM CHURCHES’ PARISH DIRECTORY
Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh Church Lane IP19 9LP
Churchwardens – Jenny Allen (478314); PCC Secretary – Roselyn Crane (478648);
PCC Treasurer – Jenny Allen (478314); Church Bookings – Jenny Allen (478314);
Organist – Patsy Murray (722022); Tower Correspondent – Peggy Meredith (478580)
Church of St. Margaret, Reydon Wangford Road IP18 6PB
Churchwardens – Peter Britten (724617), John Reaney (726125)
Churchwarden Emeritus – Raymond Harvey (722141)
PCC Secretary – Sarah Britten (724617); PCC Treasurer – Neil Holloway (723706 )
Organist – Ruth Chapman (722639); Tower Captain – Michelle Williams (723829)
Church of St. Andrew, Sotherton East of village signed on A145 NR34 8ES
Churchwardens – Gerard Walker (01986 874248), Stephen Flaxman (01986 873123)
PCC Secretary – Karen Flaxman (01986 873123); PCC Treasurer – Jane Walker
(01986 874248); Organist – Sue Taylor (578408)
Church of St. Lawrence, South Cove On B1127 NR34 7JD
Churchwardens – Alison Evans (675610), Richard Wood (722861)
PCC Secretary – Richard Wood (722861); PCC Treasurer – Alison Evans (675610)
Church of St. Edmund, Southwold Bartholomew Green IP18 6JA
Churchwardens – Joan Goldsmith (722422/725726 ), Jane Ackroyd (724951)
PCC Secretary – Ruth Clarke (01502 725116); PCC Treasurer – Michael Carter (724900)
Director of Music – Victor Scott (723775); Tower Captain – Julia Johnson (723781)
Church of St. Mary, Uggeshall Wangford Road NR34 8BD
Churchwardens – Giles Crisp (578251), Colin Hill (578206); PCC Secretary – Stella King
(578771); PCC Treasurer – Giles Crisp (578251); Organist – Sue Taylor (578408)
Church of St. Andrew, Walberswick The Street IP18 6UZ
Churchwarden – Chrissie Reeves (723351); PCC Secretary – Julia Josephs (722828);
PCC Treasurer – Kevin Murphy; Organist – Julia Josephs (722828)
Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Wangford Church Street NR34 8RR
Churchwardens – Sidi Scott (578711), Valerie Beckett (578987);
PCC Treasurer – Lorraine Davison (578645); Organist – Sue Taylor (578408)
HEART & SOLE PARISH CORRESPONDENTS
Emails can be addressed to the relevant village name plus @solebaymagazine.org.uk
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Where telephone numbers have no area code, please precede with (01502)
Holy Trinity Blythburgh Malcolm & Meryl Doney 07812 566520 / 07976 574703
St. Margaret’s Reydon Sue Cole 725307
St. Andrew’s Sotherton Karen Flaxman 01986 873123
St. Lawrence’s South Cove Alison Evans 675610
St. Edmund’s Southwold Lin Le Versha 722111
St. Mary’s Uggeshall Colin Hill 578206
St. Andrew’s Walberswick Joanna Saunders 722413
St. Peter & St. Paul’s Wangford Peter White 578636
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