The Sodbury Vale Benefice
O U T LO O K
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Chipping Sodbury, Old Sodbury, Horton & Little Sodbury
March 2013 1 50p Jane is enrolled as a Companion of the Society of St Francis by Brother Damian.
Old Sodbury
Contacts
Val Walker 16A Melrose Avenue, Yate, BS37 7AL 01454 318286 Tony Dixon 16 Chatterton Road, Yate, BS37 4BJ 01454 321528
Rector The Revd. Canon Jane Kenchington, 01454 313159 email jane@kenchington.plus.com
Associate Priest The Revd. Yvonne Brae, 79 Westerleigh Road, Yate, BS37 4BN, 01454 850682, Mob. 07908 513098 [Day Off Monday] email jmyr@blueyonder.co.uk
If you would like to know more about Little Sodbury the Christian faith or are thinking Nancy Nagle about baptism or confirmation please Winchcombe Cottage,Little Sodbury End speak to Jane or Yvonne BS37 6QE, 01454 319798
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Horton
Monday 8.45am Morning Prayer, St John’s Chipping Sodbury 7.30pm Bell Ringers’ practice Church Tower Chipping Sodbury Tuesday 8.45am Morning Prayer, Wednesday 8.30am Morning Prayer, Thursday 8.45am Morning Prayer, 10.00am Holy Communion St John’s Chipping Sodbury 7.00pm Choir Practice, St John’s Chipping Sodbury Friday 10.00am Tubbie Tots Church Centre Chipping Sodbury 7.00pm Youth Club (age 11-18) Baptist Church Centre Saturday 9.00am Benefice Prayers Church Centre Chipping Sodbury
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Dear Friends, “Behold how good and pleasant it is to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard, running down upon the collar of his clothing. It is like the dew of Herman running down upon the hills of Zion. For there the Lord has promised his blessing: even life for evermore.” (Psalm 133) The question of unity has been occupying my mind recently. Every January, the Christian churches traditionally observe the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, where we pray for unity amongst our different Christian denominations. In St. John’s gospel, we find Jesus praying that the disciples will be “one” – unity was certainly on Jesus’ heart because he knew that when his followers lived in unity with one another, then God’s glory/character would be seen by others. Disunity between the Christian denominations is a scandal and although unity on an institutional level seems to go at a snail’s pace, there have been encouraging developments at the grass roots level for many years. When I was growing up, it really was a “big deal” to meet a Methodist minister and hear him preach in the Anglican church…and discover that he believed what we claimed to believe in the C of E! Within our own churches in this Benefice, it’s a scandal to God when we are not united. One hears of people who won’t talk to certain other people, for instance. We have the challenge of learning to face and live with each other, recognising that we are broken, sinful and wounded people striving to learn how to live, work, worship, fellowship and engage in mission together. Thomas Merton, the late Trappist monk wrote: "As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our every contact with one another, because this love is the resetting of a Body of broken bones. Even saints cannot live with saints on this earth without some anguish, without some pain at the differences that come between them. There are two things people can do about the pain of disunion with other people. They can love or they can hate.” Since we are now in the penitential season of Lent, can I invite you all to look deeply into your hearts and ask yourselves whether you are helping to contribute to disunity in the church? The truth of the matter is that every one of us is in some way or other – because we are all flawed human beings and we all get irritated at times. But God longs for us to be filled with his love and forbearance; God yearns for our Christian communities to be places of unity and love. “Take away, good Lord, the sin that corrupts us; give us the sorrow that heals and the joy that praises and restore by grace your own image within us, that we may take our place among your people; in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (CW prayer at the end of Psalm 51) With my love and prayers,
Rev. Canon Jane, Kenchington, 01454 313159, email:jane@kenchington.plus.com
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educated, even with money, and you needed to be from a very wealthy background to have enough to pay for tutors. It was thought that the girls were not really worth spending too much money on; they could get a husband, wealthy if they were really lucky, or from their own poor background and join the same poor circle.
Baptisms: We welcomed into the Church: Jacob Grayson Harvey on 27 January 2013 at St James’ Church, Horton
Marriages: We send our congratulations to:
Tiffany Lilley and David Newport on 19 So what you might say, things are different January 2013 at St John’s Church, now, but are they? We still have poverty Chipping Sodbury in this country, children are going to school Funerals:We extend our sympathy to the family hungry, and not all parents have a fair wage job. That is where help from the and friends of: Rudolf Sinclair Parris on 28 January at Mother’s Union, and from you, is needed. One way to help is to support the Food St John’s Church, Chipping Sodbury Frances Blandford on 31 January at St Bank by giving food that can be distributed to families around here who have fallen John’s Church, Chipping Sodbury short of money for many reasons such as redundancy, no job prospects or just that welfare payments have not come through.
Mother’s Union
Friday 1st March will be The Women’s World Day of Prayer to be held in St John’s Church Chipping Sodbury.
There are many other projects run by the Mother’s Union in this country and overseas. I will tell you more about these in future articles in this series on Mothers Union.
The beginnings of Mother’s Union
The Local Mother’s Union.
When Mary Sumner founded the Mother’s Union she was the wife of a vicar, a grandmother and she saw the need to help women in the home and family
One of the objectives of the Mother’s Union is to support our local churches. We recently helped to provide catering for a marriage preparation day held at the Turn the clock back to 1867; we had no church centre, and we provide and National Health Service, - alright we all prepare the posies given out on Mother’s complain at the time it takes to get an Day appointment now, but then you either got Our last meeting was an interesting talk better or you died. Only if you had money, by a representative of the Children’s lots of money and could afford to pay for Society, which the church supports, and help could you get action, and even then details of this year’s collection can be things did not always go the right way. found later in this magazine. If you did not have a job you had no money, no home, no food and very little hope. You could not borrow; everyone was in the same position. Children were not
Our next meeting is “Meditation” for Lent and will be held in the Lady Chapel at St. John’s at 7-30pm on Monday 11th March. 4
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Chairs of the Houses of Clergy and Laity, the Dean of Women Clergy and our General Synod Representatives.
Good Friday Walk of Witness
This year, we are starting a new venture with our friends at Chipping Sodbury March 6 at St Lawrence Church Centre Baptist Church. Both the Baptist Church in Cirencester minister, Paul Harding and I have felt that we have no Christian witness in the March 13 at the Abbey Hall/Café in town on Good Friday and thought we Tewkesbury needed to correct this. So we are proposing a small scale Walk of Witness March 20 at St. James Church Hall in from the Baptist church to the War Dursley Memorial, where we will then have a short act of worship which will include a April 9 at St. John’s Church Hall in hymn, a reading and a prayer. Churchdown We are invited to join the people at the Baptist church for refreshments from April 15 at Holy Trinity Church Hall in 11.30 – 11.50 and then we will walk (with Drybrook our large cross) to the war memorial for the act of worship which will start at 12 Questions? Contact Robbin Clark noon. rclark@glosdioc.org.uk or phone 01452 547469
Women Bishops Unpacking the General Synod Vote You are invited to share your thoughts, feelings and questions about the no vote to the Women Bishops’ Measure last November and to learn more about the rules and processes of synodical process at a number of meetings around the diocese. Topics include:
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The Children’s Society collection 2011/12 The annual box opening has taken place and this year we have raised £755.45 in this Parish. Thank you all for your most generous donations. The next count will take place in January 2014. Hilary Hurley 01454 311515
Farmer plants willow trees to create a maze in the shape of a Bible verse.
A farmer has created a maze out of trees that spells out the words of Jesus when seen from above. The Daily Mail reports that Peter Gunner had the idea more than 20 years ago. The heavenly message reads: “Jesus I am the way, the truth and the life'” The father of five’s dedication went largely unnoticed – bar a few comments from pilots – until it was spotted recently on Google maps. Mr Gunner, 63, who lives with his wife Faith and their dog Peace near Chiddingly, East Sussex, said: ‘The idea just came to me one day. 7
New Curate on Placement
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The Rev Elizabeth Sidwell, who is a curate in Bath and Wells diocese, will be coming for a month’s Placement with us from around 20 May. Here she introduces herself in advance of her arrival: The eldest of 3 girls I’m one of those people who had a happy childhood in a loving family. My parents lived in Surrey as my father worked in London, but both came from further west, and slowly moved back towards Somerset through their married lives. After Secondary School in Reading, I went up to Girton College Cambridge to read History (my knowledge of which largely finishes in 1485, with a bit of post revolutionary France) and then got a job with the Central Electricity Generation Board purchasing and transporting coal from pit to Power Station, an obvious job for an historian. This was followed by a job involved in budgeting and strategic planning. On the privatisation of the industry in 1992 I accepted voluntary redundancy . An MSc at Swansea took me into the field of international Community Development and I spent 3 years as country director for Christian Outreach Relief and Development in Vietnam. This was a fantastic job – I was funded to do a 9 month feasibility study to identify where to work and what issues needed to be tackled, then we got on with the projects. After this I worked for 6 years in Ghana working for the Anglican church through USPG (United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel - now called “Us”), firstly as Diocesan Development Officer in Koforidua-Ho diocese. . This took me, with two very good local colleagues, out to parishes to see how the churches could
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help their congregations develop their livelihoods. Quite a lot of the best work I did was to help people organise themselves so they did not get half way through something and find they could not finish it. Then, when the new Diocese of Ho was established, I moved across to set up the diocesan secretariat and treasury. By this stage, my sister was working with Avon Bulbs, a mail order nursery near South Petherton in S Somerset, and my parents had moved to Martock to be closer to the grandchildren. So when I returned to UK I sold the flat I had kept on in London, and moved to S Somerset myself. I went through the “discernment” process with the Diocese of Bath and Wells, and went to Ripon College, Cuddesdon in 2008 to train for ordination in the C of E. Ordained deacon in 2010, and priest in July 2011, I work in St. Cuthbert’s parish church in the city of Wells, together with St. Mary Magdalene’s, Wookey Hole. 8
and two different homes where we have had the opportunity to offer hospitality especially to a succession of clergy – Staverton especially has been great for this. We have made many friends; we shall carry with us into the future many rich memories. Above all we have been deeply conscious of God’s faithfulness and the privilege of serving Christ, his church and the wider community. We hope many of you will join us in Gloucester Cathedral on Saturday 2nd March at 4.30 for what will be a relaxed all-age eucharist when we will be giving thanks for the privilege of ministry here over the past 17 years and committing ourselves to the next stage of ministry as a “house for duty” priest (a priest who works part-time unpaid in return for a house to live in) in Latimer in Buckinghamshire. In the words of a former United Nations General Secretary “for all that has been thanks; for all that is to be, yes!” John Bishop of Tewkesbury
Bishop John’s Retirement Message Rosemary and I have very mixed feelings as we approach the end of our time in Gloucester diocese. It’s been a huge privilege sharing in ministry here for 17 years as a colleague of two diocesan bishops, a succession of archdeacons, three deans, numerous gifted clergy and a vast number of lay people serving as Readers, in Local Ministry Teams and a rich variety of other ways. I have been privileged to be involved at so many different levels of diocesan life. I have enjoyed enormously meeting with potential ordinands in preparation for a national selection conference; it has been very moving to sit and listen to an account of God at work in their lives leading them into deeper discipleship and forward on an exciting journey. I have greatly valued leading faith-sharing ventures in parishes, some over a long week-end, some for a week long. Sharing in confirmation services has been a great privilege and in more recent times with the Common Worship service often having candidates share how they came to a living faith; I’ve often thought their testimony much more effective than anything I might communicate in a sermon. It’s been great to share in the life of parishes; to spend time alongside clergy; to be there in a supportive and encouraging role for Readers. We have enjoyed living in two very different communities, Hempsted and Staverton
New Book Published: “Soul Pain” “Soul Pain” is a book published by The Canterbury Press which was launched in Church House, Gloucester on the 5th February. The editor, Professor Jenny Tann, was conscious that many clergy spend time with people who are facing death or suffering from critical illness and she was intrigued as to how clergy cope when they face this sort of experience themselves. So she invited some clergy who had faced such an experience in their own life to write an essay. The book is a collection of these essays – and one of the contributors is Jane Kenchington. The book can be bought through Amazon.co.uk/books for £16.14. 9
good news with children and young people. However the posters and flyers issued to Mrs. E.J. Gauntlett every church don’t specify that M.Ch.S. ‘Experience Easter’ is an event to which schools are invited. They simply invite HPC REGISTERED everybody to Experience Easter. To CHIROPODIST / PODIATRIST experience something is to be directly involved, to participate. To participate in Easter is to get involved with the person 6 Beaufort Mews of Jesus Christ. It is to understand, as best 7 Horse Street we can, the journey to the cross, the betrayal and suffering, his death and Chipping Sodbury resurrection, and not just understand but South Glos. to find our life, our experience within the BS37 6DA life and experience of Jesus. St Paul writes, ‘Consider yourselves dead Telephone: (01454) 319083 to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.’ This is what it means to participate in Easter – it is not Tuesday, Wednesday, about what we & Saturday Mornings know, or what we say, it is about how we live – as people of hope, as people What does it mean to of the resurrection. experience Easter? Archdeacon Jackie I have a special bag in my study that has some of my ‘treasures’ from my last Archdeacon of parish, among them a handmade booklet Gloucester, the Ven Jackie Searle of thank yous from all the children who came to ‘Experience Easter’ at our church. Confirmation and Baptism at They heard the story of Easter and St John’s Chipping Sodbury entered into it through the activities at each station and by sharing their thoughts th and feelings. In the booklet afterwards one On Sunday 10 of February, at a service child wrote, ‘It was very cool and helped presided over by Bishop Michael, the me understand the story better,’ and a following candidates were baptised and teacher said, ‘Thank you for all the hard confirmed. work to prepare Experience Easter. It was Tanya Cooper-Fussell was fantastic for the children to get a better Baptised & Confirmed. understanding of Easter (and staff too!)’ Andrew Ledger, Sarah Ledger, If your church is running ‘Experience Kathryn Thompson and Katie Easter’ and you have invited local schools Nyandoro were Confirmed. to come and participate, I hope it goes Tamzin Brenn was Received into the immensely well, and thank you for giving Communion of the Church of England: your time and efforts in sharing the Easter 10
Benefice Retreat 2013
The Service of Penitence and Reconciliation: Sunday 10 March at 6pm in St John’s Church, Chipping Sodbury
During the penitential seasons of Lent and Advent, Christian communities may like to respond to the call of the gospel to a deeper repentance, A retreat for members of all churches of possibly as an expression of a desire for renewal or as a preparation for the Sodbury Vale Benefice. Easter (in the case of Lent) or Friday 5th - Sunday 7th July 2013 Llangasty Retreat House in the Brecon Christmas (in the case of Advent). Beacons -Stunning location! We will be holding a service of £130 per person Penitence and Reconciliation on 10 March at 6pm in St John’s Church, See www.llangasty.com for more inforChipping Sodbury. All are welcome – mation. even if this is new to you – do come Please email ianyemm@gmail.com asap along. if you are interested. 11
2013 Lent Course Bishop Michael recently published a book entitled, “Jesus and Peter: Growing in friendship with God.” A study course has been written to use with this book and we have decided to use it for our Lent course. The Lent course itself will take place on Wednesday evenings and be repeated on Thursday mornings during Lent in the way we have usually run the course in the past. Details are shown below. An additional exciting thing about this course is that it continues beyond Easter looking at post-resurrection stories of Jesus and Peter. It is proposed that House Groups will follow this course after Easter. If you do not belong to a House Group at the moment, then here is your chance to join one – new groups will be forming. The dates of the meetings are listed below. All the meetings will take place in St John’s Church Centre in Wickwar Road. Week 1 Wednesday 20 February 7.30pm – 9pm Thursday 21 February 11am – 12 noon Week 2 Wednesday 27 February 7.30pm – 9pm Thursday 28 February 11am – 12 noon Week 3 Wednesday 6 March 7.30pm – 9pm Thursday 7 March 11am – 12 noon Week 4 Wednesday 13 March 7.30pm – 9pm Thursday 14 March 11am – 12 noon Week 5 Wednesday 20 March 7.30pm – 9pm Thursday 21 March 11am – 12 noon
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‘The Bible gives me peace’ Temperatures have fallen well below zero in London recently. But a blue sleeping bag is all that keeps the cold out for 40-yearold Mark Alder. His home, during daylight hours, is the pavement of Victoria Street. People stream pass him as if he’s invisible. ‘People think that if you’re homeless it’s your fault,’ he says. ‘And it’s true that there are some people who get into drink and drugs and all that and end up making themselves homeless. ‘But it’s not true. It just happens to some people.’ And Mark is one of those people. Mark carries two large bags that are mostly full of bedding. But deep in one bag is his Bible. He was given it a few months ago by Chas Bayfield, a Christian who works in one of London’s top marketing agencies. He reads it eight hours a day and is now on his 14th read through. ‘The thing that sticks out to us is how much of a nice bloke Jesus was. That’s the only way I can put it, nothing was a bother to him. I would like to be like that.’ Reading the Bible he says, ‘gives us peace, it gives us solace, it gives us something to believe in. What else have I got? ‘I went to a Roman Catholic school,’ he says. ‘But the way the Bible was explained went straight over your head. But now I’m understanding it. I like what I’m reading.’ Slowly, Mark is re-building his life. He’s found a place in a hostel, which keeps him out of the cold winter nights. It also gives him a much-needed address with which to apply for jobs. 13
Sodbury Vale Benefice Calendar March 2013 Sat
2nd
Sun 3rd Third Sunday of Lent
9.00am
Benefice Prayer Meeting
Church Centre C/S
8.00am
Holy Communion
St John’s C/S
9.30am
St John’s Praise
St John’s, C/S
11.15am
Mattins
St James’, Horton
11.15am
Family Communion
St John’s O/S
6.00pm
Evensong (BCP)
St Adeline’s L/S
Tue
5th
3.00pm
Meditation Meeting
Ring 314409 for venue
Wed
6th
1.20pm
Women’s Fellowship
Church Centre C/S
7.30pm
Lent Course
Church Centre C/S
Thurs
7th
10.00am
Holy Communion
St John’s C/S
10.45am
Coffee Shop
Church Centre C/S
11.00am
Lent Course
Church Centre C/S
7.30pm
CS PCC
Church Centre C/S
9.00am
Benefice Prayer Meeting
Church Centre C/S
Family Communion
St John’s C/S
Morning Prayer
St James’ Horton
St John’s Praise
St John’s O/S
Service of Penitence and Reconciliation
St John’s, CS
6.00pm
Evensong {BCP}
St Adeline’s L/S
Sat
9th
Sun 10th 9.30am FourthSunday of 11.15am Lent / Mothering 11.15am Sunday 6.00pm
Mon
11th
7.45pm
Mothers’ Union,
Church Centre C/S
Weds
13th
7.30pm
Lent Course
Church Centre C/S
Thurs
14th
10.00am
Holy Communion
St John’s C/S
10.45am
Coffee Shop
Church Centre C/S
11.00am
Lent Course
Church Centre C/S
9.00am
Benefice Prayer Meeting
Church Centre C/S
9.30am
Parish Communion
St John’s C/S
11.15am
Holy Communion
St James’ Horton
11.15am
Holy Communion
St John’s O/S
6.00pm
Evensong {BCP}
St Adeline’s L/S
Sat
16th
Sun 17th Fifth Sunday of Lent / Passion Sunday
Tue
19th
3.00pm
Meditation Meeting
Ring 314409 for venue
Wed
20th
1.20pm
Women’s Fellowship
Church Centre C/S
7.30PM
Lent Course
Church Centre C/S
Thur
Sat
21st
23rd
10.00am
Holy Communion
St John’s C/S
10.45am
Coffee Shop
Church Centre C/S
11.30am
Lent Course
Church Centre C/S
9.00am
Benefice Prayer Meeting
Church Centre C/S
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Sodbury Vale Benefice Calendar March 2013 cont. Sun 24th Palm Sunday
Thur
28th
Fri
29th
Sat
30th
Sun 31st Easster Sunday
9.30am
Parish Communion
St John’s C/S
11.15am
Holy Communion (CW)
St James’ Horton
11.15am
Morning Praise
St John’s O/S
6.00pm
Holy Communion
St Adeline’s L/S
10.00am
Holy Communion
St John’s C/S
10.45am
Coffee Shop
Church Centre C/S
7.30pm
Maundy Thursday Service
St John’s, C/S
11.30am
Walk of Witness
Baptist Church, CS
2.00pm
Good Friday service
St John’s,CS
9.00am
Benefice Prayer Meeting
Church Centre C/S
Dawn
Easter Service
St John’s OS
8.00am
Holy Communion
St John’s, CS
9.30am
Parish Communion
St John’s C/S
11.15am
Holy Communion (CW)
St James’ Horton
11.15am
Parish Communion
St John’s O/S
6.00pm
Holy Communion
St Adeline’s L/S
Sodbury Vale Benefice Forthcoming Events Wed 22nd
May
7.30pm
Archdeacon’s Visitation for the Wotton Deanery
St John’s, C/S
Sat
25th
May
10am
Vintage Craft flea market
Church Centre, C/S
25th
May
7.30pm
Yate Choral Society Concert
St John’s, C/S
Celebrating of the 60th Anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation with “Zadock the Priest”, “I Was Glad” by Parry, other coronation anthems and pieces Fri
14th
June
Fri
5th
July
7.30pm
Harp Concert (as part of Chipping Sodbury Festival Week)
St John’s, C/S
Benefice Retreat Weekend
Away
If you don’t see your event in the list above please let me know, once it is on this calendar other people can put it on theirs! All times are subject to change look out for further details closer to the date. Michelle 01454 325160 sodburyvalebenefice@gmail.com 15
Snowdrops appear
Spring struggles through in Hillesley
Perhaps we can look forward to this before too long?
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