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CONTACT US
THE PARISH CHURCHES
St Mary’s Hadleigh In the diocese of St
Edmundsbury & Ipswich.
St Andrew’s Layham
St Mary’s is a member of
All Saints’ Shelley Churches Together in
http://www.stmaryshadleigh.co.uk Hadleigh
Correspondence Address:
Hadleigh Benefice Office, St Mary’s Church, Church Street,
Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk IP7 5DT
01473 824987 office@stmaryshadleigh.co.uk
CLERGY
Very Revd Jo Delfgou 01473 822218 delfgou@live.co.uk
Administrator
Mrs Claire Woods 01473 824987 office@stmaryshadleigh.co.uk
CHURCHWARDENS
Hadleigh
Mr James Wilding james4margaret@gmail.com 01473 822550
Mrs Jess Janas jessicanevard@btinternet.com 01473 822671
Hadleigh Assistants
Miss Aileen Ker
Mr John Parry-Williams johnparrywilliams@gmail.com 01473 823233
Layham
Mrs Christine Hempstead hempstead91@hotmail.com 01473 810171
Shelley
Mrs Anna Dobson
Mr Andrew Scott asshelley@clara.net 01473 823676
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READERS
Mr Graham Brook g_brook_1999@yahoo.com 01473 823723
Mrs Hilary Griffin 01473 823100
Mrs Olive Martin olanbimartin@hotmail.co.uk 01473 871296
Mr Brian Hempstead b.hempstead@hotmail.co.uk 01473 810171
ELDERS
Mrs Christine Coe christine.coe28@yahoo.com 01473 652440
Mrs Jackie Cork
Mrs Jane Crowe janecrowe@me.com
Mrs Trish Pitt trish17@sky.com 01473 828393
CLERGY WITH PERMISSION TO OFFICIATE
Revd Canon David Atkins atkins.d@hotmail.co.uk 01473 822535
Revd John Druce john.glenda@jgdruce.plus.com 01473 827242
Revd Eric Fisher
Revd Joyce Willis joycewillis26@gmail.com 01473 823165
Revd Janice White wheeze4god@talktalk.net 01473 808835
ORGANISTS / CHOIR
Hadleigh
Mr Jonathan Woods music@stmaryshadleigh.co.uk 07973 748782
Mr Bob Smith
Mrs Sandra Brook sjb4601@yahoo.com 01473 823723
Layham
Mrs Daphne Parsons
Shelley
Mr Andrew Scott asshelley@clara.net 01473 823676
Mrs Jane Hudson jane.hudson@theoldfoxinn.co.uk 07803 077779
GUIDES AND BROWNIES
Mrs Gloria Powell gloriahadleighguides@gmail.com 01473 828063
MOTHERS’ UNION
Mrs Alison Crockett am@crockett95.plus.com 01473 829044
Praying the roads in Hadleigh:
4 April Boswell Lane + Red Hill Road + Freeman Close
11 April Aldham Road + The Square, The Terrace, & Monastery Close
18 April Angel Street + Bell Mews
25 April Long Bessels + Joseph Close + Threadneedle Street + Weavers
Close
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FROM THE MINISTRY TEAM
Dear Friends,
April is the cruellest month
T S Eliot began the poem The Wasteland with this line. The poem focusses
on a world that was recovering from the First World War. In the poem there
is a listlessness and a jaded over compensation for a time of pain and
destruction caused by humanity’s inhumanity.
Whilst we cannot compare the pandemic to the horrors of the trench
warfare of the early twentieth century, there is little doubt that we have all
been affected. The lengthening days and the emerging spring offer some
relief as we continue to make sense of easing restrictions with the ominous
shades of the pandemic lurking beneath.
Easter is a time of new life. The Feast of the Resurrection points us to a
redeemed world in which the frailties and stupidities of the human race are
once and for all forgiven. Jesus’ death in the place where the cry ‘My God,
my God, why have you forsaken me?’ from the cross places God truly at the
heart of human suffering and abandonment. And so, with confidence, we
can see clearly that we are treasured and loved by a God who cares and
steps with us.
However, we will still be beset with the difficulties and trials of a broken
world. I find it saddening that already we are desperate to climb into
airplanes and ignore the shouts of joy we gave out when we could hear
birds in Chinese cities, see dolphins in Venice and breathe in the fresher air
of the carless countryside. The pandemic has focussed us away from the
horrific poverty in parts of our world, has allowed us to potentially ignore
injustices both at home and abroad.
Like our Christian faith, April is the cruellest month. Our Christian faith
makes us more sensitive to the brokenness of our world, the need for
compassion and the joys and sadnesses.
I hope that you will find the emerging spring, the emerging from lockdown
and reflecting once again on the Resurrection a time of refreshment and
optimism. I also hope that, with me, you will feel renewed in praying for,
challenging and loving in a world that sometimes feels too harsh.
Fr Jo
4READINGS FOR APRIL
Sunday 4 April Acts 10.34-43 or Isaiah 25.6-9
Easter Day Psalm 118.1-2,14-24
1 Corinthians 15.1-11 or Acts 10.34-43
John 20.1-18 or Mark 16.1-8
Sunday 11 April Acts 4.32-35
Easter 2 Psalm 133
1 John 1.1 - 2.2
John 20.19-31
Sunday 18 April Acts 3.12-19
Easter 3 Psalm 4
1 John 3.1-7
Luke 24.36b-48
Sunday 25 April Acts 4.5-12
Easter 4 Psalm 23
1 John 3.16-24
John 10.11-18
Some of us who have been here a long time will remember Brother Philip
Bartholomew from the Society of St Francis, who came here initially to
help with a Benefice Mission way back in 1976 and has visited many times
since. He is now at Alnmouth Friary in Northumberland. In a recent
email to me he sent his love and prayers to all who would remember him
in this community and assured us of his prayers for the people of Layham,
Shelley and Hadleigh as we continue through these difficult months.
Joyce Willis
5FROM THE REGISTERS – March 2021
Funerals
2 March Terence William Wiles
At Ipswich Crematorium
25 March Christine Mary Napier
At Seven Hills Crematorium
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LOCKDOWN UPDATE
We hope that we can now work towards a more normal pattern
of services. There are currently 8am and 10:45am services at St
Mary’s, and services will resume gradually at Layham and
Shelley after Easter.
The Tuesday 11am (‘Row Chapel’) Matins service begins again
after Easter, as does the Friday 10am Eucharist. We hope that
we will be able to re-start Café Church on a Friday as soon as
‘indoor mixing’ is allowed (provisionally after 17 May).
St Mary’s is open daily (12noon – 3pm) for private prayer.
All Saints’ and St Andrew’s are also open every day.
The Benefice Office reverts to its traditional 10am-12noon
opening hours after Easter.
To all Clergy and Treasurers 9 March 2021
Dear Friends
“All shall give as they are able, according to the blessings of the Lord your
God that He has given you” Deuteronomy 16.17
We want to thank every one of you across the Diocese for your incredible
generosity, hard work and prayer, and we thank God that all our efforts
have been blessed and our prayers answered.
Last October we asked individuals and parishes to give generously and
sacrificially and make all possible efforts to overcome the projected deficit
6we were facing of £1.9m. The Church Commissioners had generously made
a grant of £600,000, but that still left a £1.3m projected shortfall. Above all,
we asked every parish to pray, and particularly throughout the month of
October to All Saints Day the prayer we have placed at the end of this letter.
We can now tell you that everyone’s hard work, generosity and prayer has
resulted in a near break-even end-of-year result, almost eliminating the
deficit, a truly miraculous outcome! This extraordinary result for 2020
comes from the combined efforts of parishes and individuals across the
diocese.
We are immensely grateful to your parish for the generosity you have
shown in your contribution towards Parish Share. The Share goes principally
to providing stipends for clergy and without everyone’s contribution to this
effort we would not be able to retain our stipendiary clergy numbers.
We are delighted that more than 60% of parishes met their full contribution
and more than 30 parishes paid over their Share allocation to support those
unable to meet their commitments. Everyone’s effort, creativity,
determination and sacrifice, undergirded and strengthened by persistent
prayer, has enabled us to reach this goal.
We know that we are not out of the woods yet, and 2021 is going to be a
considerable challenge too. We appreciate that for many parishes 2020 may
have left your financial situation weakened and our Stewardship team are
here to help and support you during the coming months as we continue to
adapt and change in ways that only a year ago, no one thought would be
possible.
Please share this letter and the attached certificate with your PCCs, to all
those who have given so generously and more broadly. It can also be
printed for your noticeboard and displayed somewhere prominently.
Once again, our grateful thanks for your continued and generous support
for the mission, ministry and work with which we are together engaged.
Our prayers are with you for all that you are continuing to do as we support
one another through these times of unprecedented uncertainty.
Yours sincerely
Bishop Martin Bishop Mike Anna Hughes Mark Pendlington
Diocesan Bishop Suffragan Bishop Diocesan Secretary DBF Chair
7Prayers for April
Christ is risen!
Let us pray for those who do not share our Easter joy:
We pray for those who live in the shadow of
darkness and despair;
for those who live with the hopelessness of
shattered dreams, trust betrayed, opportunities lost,
love denied;
for those who live without faith or hope or love;
who see no resurrection,
no hope of new beginnings
for themselves or for the world.
If Christ be truly risen, let us show forth his resurrection
so that all who meet us shall know that he is risen indeed!
— from Easter Reflections by Pat Baker from The Billabong: a worship resource following
the Revised Common Lectionary.
After looking at the issues surrounding modern slavery in the Clewer Initiative
Lent Course we pray…
For victims of trafficking
Lord of the lost, we pray today for all those who are victims of human trafficking:
people lured from their homes and families; people deceived while trying to find
a better life; people who are desperate to trust anyone. Help us to be more
vigilant and watchful; to be aware of those who may need our help, and those
who do not know where help may lie. Amen
For traffickers
Lord of changed hearts, we pray today for those involved in trafficking and
human slavery. We pray that in their heart of hearts they know that what they
do is evil. We pray that they will give up the lures of money, greed, control and
repent the harm they have done and the suffering they have caused. Amen
For all who work against modern slavery
Lord of creation, we thank you for all who are working to combat modern
slavery: for governments and agencies, for Church and other faith leaders, for
charities and individuals. Help us to be part of love’s movement, to work for a
world where human beings are valued, free to come and go, where no one is
enslaved, no one used against their will for another’s pleasure or need. Amen
8Dear Friends,
You are probably shocked as we are by the British government’s reduction
of our Overseas Aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5%, that is approximately from
£15 billion to £10 billion. One thing we can each do is write to our MP,
James Cartlidge, to ask him to join with others from all parties to reverse
this reduction. When writing to James please give your address, so he
knows you are from within his constituency.
The letter below is just an example of what you might wish to write but
please change and put in your own words as you wish. It is probably best to
send him an e-mail. HIs address is: james.cartlidge.mp@parliament.uk
With Best Wishes
The Tuesday Home Group
Dear James,
UK’S OVERSEAS AID BUDGET SHOULD BE RESTORED.
As a constituent of South Suffolk I would urge you to join with other MPs of
all parties to reverse the recent decision by the government to reduce the
UK’s Overseas Development Aid (ODA) from 0.7% to 0.5%.
In 2015 the UK parliament passed the International Development Act that
enshrined in law that 0.7% of our gross national income would be spent on
overseas aid. The Act states that the responsible Secretary of State has ‘a
duty’ to ensure this amount is spent on ODA. The 0.7% amount was
proposed by the UN as a way to work to meet the UN Millennium
Development Goals for poorer countries. The UK has paid this amount since
2013 to now.
On the 26.11.2021 the Chancellor formally reduced this amount to 0.5% in
his Spending Review saying it was temporary but giving no date for its re-
installment. According to the judgement of Lord Macdonald this is unlawful
as it has not been authorised by a change of the Act. Five former Prime
Ministers oppose this cut and the Archbishop of Canterbury has described it
as ‘shameful and wrong’. International development experts warn that
‘Britain is rapidly becoming a parochial rather than a progressive presence
in the world’. This cut comes when according to the World Bank 88-115
million people will be pushed into extreme poverty because of COVID-19. As
a result of this cut the UK government has decided to cut aid to the Yemen
9by 50% where the humanitarian crisis is among the worst in the world and
also to war-torn Syria, Lebanon, Somalia and S. Sudan by 66%.
I hope you will give a lead in parliament to restoring the UK as one of the
world’s leaders in working to reduce global poverty, due to conflict and
famine, and its effects on the provision of basic services.
Yours Sincerely,
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From our ‘Mann in the High Lands!’
At present, it seems that every time I dip my quill pen into the ink, or, if you
like, decide to put pen to paper to write my monthly epistle, the sun shines.
Today, Sunday 7th March is no exception.
Now, if you refer back to March’s OMitHL (Our Mann in the High Lands)
page 11, and I will finish my story…
Our music master, Merlin Channon, told a small group of 2nd Formers (Year
8) that he proposed to take us in his car to an evening service in Ipswich,
because Ralph Vaughan Williams (RVW) would be there to give a short
homily to mark the 80th birthday of his long-time musical friend, Martin
Shaw. I am not sure why the date 22nd October 1955 was chosen, because
Shaw’s birthday was 9th March! (Incidentally, both Shaw and RVW died in
1958. RVW on 26th August, and Shaw on 24th October.)
However, perhaps the ‘treat’ of the evening, at least for me, was to taste
‘home-cooked’ spaghetti, prepared by Merlin’s wife, Ann, in the little galley
kitchen on the barge they rented on the River Orwell. For me, having been
reared on Heinz 57 spaghetti (tinned variety,) this, indeed, was something
special.
Anyway, off we went to St.Mary-le-Tower Church, and the rest, as they say,
is history… especially as the next day (Sunday 23rd October 1955) my old
Dad and Grandma were coming to school to see me and take me out for
lunch – two non-school meals in two days; I thought I was in heaven!
The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed that in the March issue I
mentioned September 1955; oh dear, how I miss my old proof-reader –
she’s probably marking ethereal exam papers by now!
Finally, it remains to say God bless us all – Spring is on its way…
A Happy Eastertide to everyone,
Love from Philip
10The May issue of the magazine will be available on Friday
30 April. Anyone is very welcome to contribute articles for
the magazine, and anything for inclusion should be
emailed to the office please, by Tuesday 27 April at the
latest.
Churches Together in Hadleigh
In 2019 B.C. (Before Covid) and for several years prior, the Churches
Together in Hadleigh committee met regularly once a month, chaired
by Rev David Atkins. The committee consisted of representatives
from St Mary’s, the U.R.C. the Roman Catholics, Salvation Army and
the Methodists. Together we planned united events such as the Week
of Prayer for Christian Unity, the World Day of Prayer, Christian Aid
services and collections, prayer for the streets of Hadleigh, united
services and pulpit exchanges etc. Although we came from different
churches with varied ways and formats of worship, we all respected
each other and felt as if we were just one big family.
I have just been reading one of Christine’s study books –
Reformation, by Diarmaid MacCulloch, and it made me realize that if I
had lived in the 16th century no such committee would have been
possible. Basically, no separate denominations would have been
allowed. There was a desperate need for the church to be reformed
and for people to be able to worship God in accordance with their
conscience, but no freedom of thought or expression was permissible.
Any objections would have been met with a stock answer that the
church was governed by tradition stretching back centuries, and that
the Pope was in a long line of succession reaching right back to St
Peter and therefore could not be questioned. Religion was closely
linked with politics. The Pope saw himself as superior to all other
earthly rulers and any dissent was regarded as treason, leading more
than likely to the death sentence.
Attempts had been made in the past to reform the church but without
success. At last, with Martin Luther everything seemed to come
together. He was a well-educated man who trained to be a lawyer, but
his desperate quest for God led him down the path of becoming an
11austere monk. As a scholar he understood Latin and so was among a
favoured few who were able to read the Bible. His studies, particularly
in the book of Romans, revealed to him that the church had indeed
strayed far from the simple message of the Gospel – that we are
saved purely by God’s grace through faith in Christ and not by the
works of the law. His 95 theses pinned to the door of the Cathedral at
Whittenburg were designed not as the basis for a new movement, but
simply as an outline for debate with his fellow scholars. His ideas,
however, soon spread like wildfire, aided by the recent invention of
the printing press. He was branded as a heretic but managed to avoid
the death sentence mainly through the protection of a sympathetic
nobleman.
The main bone of contention from then on was how much church
policy and doctrine should be governed by the teachings of the Bible
or by centuries-old tradition and the authority of the Pope. It may
seem obvious to us that the Bible should be the main rule of life for
the church, but it took centuries and much conflict before this was
generally accepted. It may seem amazing to us but in 1606 Pope
Paul V declared “Do you not know that so much reading of Scripture
ruins the Catholic religion?” In 1596 in Italy Bibles were publicly
burned. From 1567 and for the following two centuries not a single
edition of an Italian-language Bible was printed anywhere in the
Italian peninsula. Things in England took a different direction,
however, aided by Henry VIII’s contention with the Pope over his
desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn.
Although he remained a Catholic to the end, he made himself head of
the church in England and eventually permitted an English translation
to be used in the churches. His appointed Archbishop of Canterbury,
Thomas Cranmer, became the architect of the prayer book which
became the basis of what we still use today.
It is good that such conflicts are largely a thing of the past, and that
we can now regard each other as “all one in Christ”. I hope we can all
support the work of Churches Together in Hadleigh. (Check out the
website – hadleighchurches.com)
Brian Hempstead
12Tuesday 11am Matins Service
As is well known the Tuesday 11am service at the Row Chapel was
extremely successful but the pandemic and the need for social
distancing changed all that, so after lockdown we tried for a while
holding the service in the south chapel, then came subsequent
lockdowns.
Now with vaccinations increasing and infections decreasing, things are
looking more hopeful. So, the plan is to restart the 11am Matins service
in the South Chapel beginning on Tuesday 6 April, and continue that way
until such time as we can return to the Row Chapel.
Graham Brook
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Where are they now? The Church wardens Jimmy and Jess are
on a mission - sparked by entries in the visitors’ book - to find
those who can trace their ancestry back to people who have
had a strong past connection to St Mary's.
Maybe you know of someone who lived here and has now
moved away, or descendants from older Hadleigh
families? The idea is to build a database reaching back in time
as far as possible to bring the stories of
St Mary's to life. Rowland Taylor is a
particular example; he has many,
many descendants, mostly in the US,
and these descendants are often keen
to visit and make the connection.
So, if you enjoy researching family trees
or can help with detecting please get
in touch with Jimmy or Jess via the
church office.
13What blows your mind? And what triggers it?
It seems that as we get older we are more prone to dip into the deep
well of memory. The problem for some is that they live in those
memories. Sometimes, however, those memories can trigger
thoughts and actions relating to the “now” rather than the “then.” For
me, that could lead to many positive things – if we let them.
One of my triggers is words from a hymn I first encountered while
leading a school assembly some 40 years ago and which still
resonates so strongly in this difficult time. And the words?
“Colours of day dawn into the mind” and “Open your eyes, look into
the sky.”
It is so easy for words of hymns, prayers, Bible verses and worship
songs to become so repetitive and mechanical that they cease to live
– yet when they do a different world can open up – sometimes in a
way we had never considered before.
I have been waiting for 6 months for a Cataract operation and it
happened last Monday (22nd March). I had been living with a, “cloud
of unknowing” – a dark yellowy/brown fog when suddenly there was a
brilliant white light and flashes of colour round the edges. I can almost
say I know how St Paul felt! It will take time for any definition to return
but those words came flooding back and brought hope along with
light. A world of colour is a marvellous thing, something so often taken
for granted. I know that this time has given me a much better
understanding of those who have any kind of visual impairment.
So “Open your eyes” – and the past year has certainly done that – as
the discovery of things and people, often on our doorstep, has been,
for many, a revelation. My full diary suddenly wasn’t and although my
personal “cloud” made serious reading all but impossible. It has
meant I have been able to reconfigure our essentially potted garden
by re-locating spring bulbs from big flower pots and preparing those
pots to grow vegetables. The aforesaid bulbs are showing their
appreciation by putting on the most incredible spring display. Nor has
the trigger ended there as I acquired a mini greenhouse, conveniently
placed in front of the, never used, front door where seedlings will get
maximum light. The next arrival will be a decent sized compost bin
that looks like a Dalek that will introduce culture into the garden along
with horticulture.
14But this doorstepping necessity has opened the eyes to an even
greater phenomenon – The Birds!
2 bird tables have encouraged visitors as Wendy has, to date, logged
30 different species in our little garden. We look forward to the nesting
season and what it may bring in the way of chicks and
Sparrowhawks.
And, of course, there’s people. Wendy’s long wait for a knee
replacement and her shielding has limited her mobility somewhat but
her lockdown buddy called a “Rollator” has enabled her to trundle the
half mile round our block most days. The outcome has been meeting
many people she would never have encountered had we been
leaving home in the car. Confinement can bring unexpected positive
opportunities if we are open to them.
Two little things that have blown my mind – memories that have
triggered happenings in the present. Has something triggered yours?
Literally – God only knows where it will lead.
I wish you Easter Joy along with a renewed life
David Atkins
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Living in Love and Faith
This year the Church of England is offering this course to help Christians to
think deeply about what it means to be human and how we understand
Christian teaching of identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage.
The course is designed for small groups and flows through five sessions
based in prayer, bible study and reflection and enabling open and honest
discussion. It is hoped that this will inform the important debates that the
Church of England will be engaging with in 2022.
So, I hope that you will feel comfortable to engage with this and find it
enriching. If you wish to find out more, I would direct you to the Church of
England website and their links to the course.
Fr Jo
15My lockdown time
As many of you may know I do have a passing interest in railways both full
size and model. I suppose this started because I was born and grew up in
Tunbridge Wells near the railway line from Tonbridge to Hastings, not too
far from where we lived was the local recreation ground with the usual
attractions plus the fact it was adjacent to the railway goods yard and it
used to fascinate me seeing the steam engines shunting lines of wagons so
of course it was only natural that I had a train set.
Over the years this interest continued to a greater or lesser extent, then
came marriage and family so naturally time and resources were limited so
not much for a model railway.
Retirement brought supposedly more time but I’m not sure that was the
case because since like most who are retired there always seems plenty to
do, anyway it was about that time I changed tack from modelling British
Railways to modelling the Santa Fe railroad in Arizona, complete with a
desert scene and those large saguaro cacti often seen in western cowboy
films.
So coming up to the most recent lockdown with long nights and cold
weather, working on the layout improving the scenery, adding vehicles and
people, detailing shopfronts and interiors, painting rolling stock, relaying
track and updating wiring has provided a welcome distraction. I’m not alone
in this, I belong to the Ipswich Railway Modellers Association and have the
post of club secretary so as such keep in regular contact with other
members of the committee who have also been updating their projects.
It seems interest in the hobby has grown as people discover or rediscover
the hobby, the shops I deal with say that this is the case with an increase in
online business, there was even a recent news report of Rod Stewart
moving his layout from the US to Britain.
There’s also an interesting sideline here, all of us want our layouts to work
perfectly with no need to touch anything but inevitably sometimes
something goes wrong and a hand has to reach in to put something back on
the track or make a coupling work. In the model railway world this is almost
universally known as the hand of God.
I’ll leave you to work out the theology.
Graham Brook
16ECCLESIASTICAL INSURANCE OFFICE plc.
Most of you will probably be aware that, like most parish churches
in England, St. Mary’s Church is insured with the Ecclesiastical and
for the past 15 months (or thereabouts) I have been the PCC
contact with the insurance company.
As a consequence I receive all sorts of marketing material & the like
& should there be anything which I feel to be of wider interest I
pass it on to Claire, as the PCC Secretary to put on the church
noticeboard for all to read.
I have recently received notification of a special promotion, Trust
130, where Ecclesiastical are encouraging parishioners to insure
their own residences & contents with them; the attraction being
that for every new home insurance policy commencing on or
before 31st December 2021 taken out Ecclesiastical will donate
£130 to St. Mary’s or any other Anglican church or cathedral of the
policy holder’s choice.
To qualify requests for a Quotation must be made by telephone on
0800 7830 130 or online at www.ecclesiastical.co/trust130.
I have discussed this promotion with Father Jo who has agreed with
my suggestion that I write this short article for inclusion in the April
Parish Magazine but, like me, emphasises that no-one should feel
obliged to pursue this unless you wish to do so. Most importantly
you should not feel under any pressure to obtain an insurance
quotation from Ecclesiastical just to obtain the £130 donation from
insurers for St. Mary’s or any other Anglican church of your choice.
Finally, I would add that there is no possibility of commission or
other financial inducement to me personally to be a beneficiary
should you elect to proceed.
Brian L. Richardson
22.03.2021
17Mission Partner with YWAM: Charlotte Bowden's News
Greetings to everyone at St Mary's, St. Andrew's and All Saints Shelley. Thank
you so much for your prayers. I hope you are all well and enjoying this warmer
weather and a new season.
The week of 26th - 30th April I will be teaching the books of Joshua, Judges,
Ruth and Psalms on zoom to a Discipleship Bible School in Wiler, Switzerland. I
greatly value prayer for wisdom and good interaction as we relate to one
another over the internet. I am now preparing teaching for 1 and 2 Samuel
and 1 Chronicles for the same school in May. I greatly value prayer for wisdom
and God to guide me to speak into the students' lives. The online courses I
lead and administer are going well with a few dedicated students taking the
Online Greek, Hebrew and Biblical teaching and preaching schools.
I continue to volunteer at the foodbank and pray and read the Bible at the
local hospital chapel each week. Also, as part of my Masters degree, I am
leading a small group of people with weekly meetings on zoom in a book club
for lent. We are reading 'liturgy of the ordinary' by Tish Harrison Warren. It is
about being aware of God's presence in the ordinary everyday routine of daily
life. There are ten of us who meet every Friday afternoon.
The Saints Project, https://saintsnuneaton.org/ is a local project I have been
involved with for some time. Some years back YWAM and the churches
had been praying for a building in the centre of Nuneaton and we are
extremely excited about what God is doing here. Some of what they are
currently involved with are:
• distributing hampers to families in need during this time
• NHS staff who work with Covid patients at the local hospital come to the
centre where they can talk with a counsellor
• School children can come to receive help and a computer to do their
homework.
I meet with a small group to pray every week (currently on zoom) for
Nuneaton and for what Saints is involved with. There is now a prayer room at
'Saints' and so we hope to have a rota and pray for anyone who would like to
receive prayer. I very much value your prayer for what God is doing through us
and within Nuneaton and Bedworth District. They recently received a massive
government funding to renovate this beautiful, neglected building in the
centre of the town.
I pray Christ's love and joy embraces you as you live for him and I wish you a
very joyful and blessed Easter. with love and prayers, Charlotte
18A Prayer in Spring
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Submitted by John Parry-Williams
19MONTHLY SERVICE PLAN
April 2021
DATE SERVICE PLACE
1 April
7.30pm Liturgy of the Last Supper Hadleigh
Maundy Thursday
2 April
2pm At the Cross Hadleigh
Good Friday
Saturday 3 April 7pm Easter Vigil Hadleigh
8am Said Eucharist (BCP) Hadleigh
Sunday 4 April 9.15am Eucharist Layham
Easter Day 9.15am Eucharist Shelley
10.45am Eucharist Hadleigh
Tuesday 6 April 11am Matins Hadleigh
Wednesday 7 April 8.30am Morning Prayer Hadleigh
Friday 9 April 10am Eucharist Hadleigh
8am Said Eucharist (BCP) Hadleigh
Sunday 11 April 9.15am Eucharist Layham
Easter 2 9.15am Morning Worship Shelley
10.45am Eucharist Hadleigh
Tuesday 13 April 11am Matins Hadleigh
Wednesday 14 April 8.30am Morning Prayer Hadleigh
Friday 16 April 10am Eucharist Hadleigh
8am Said Eucharist (BCP) Hadleigh
Sunday 18 April
9.15am Eucharist Shelley
Easter 3
10.45am Eucharist Hadleigh
Tuesday 20 April 11am Matins Hadleigh
Wednesday 21 April 8.30am Morning Prayer Hadleigh
Friday 23 April 10am Eucharist Hadleigh
8am Said Eucharist (BCP) Hadleigh
Sunday 25 April
9.15am Eucharist Layham
Easter 4
10.45am Eucharist Hadleigh
Tuesday 27 April 11am Matins Hadleigh
Wednesday 28 April 8.30am Morning Prayer Hadleigh
Friday 30 April 10am Eucharist Hadleigh
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