The Cross Country Parishesof

Acton, Church Minshull,Wettenhall & Worleston.

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Dear Friends

Giving thanks for the sun and the rain

Writing in mid-August, it is all too obvious thatthe season has turned. Sunrise is considerablylater than in the height of summer, and theevenings definitely drawing in. The sun is lowerin the sky in the mornings and there’s arefreshing, but definite autumnal nip in the air even on bright sunny mornings.Riding recently both on Wenlock Edge and around the lanes of Acton, it hasbeen clear that the season has turned. Signs of nature’s harvest were much inevidence. Blackberries were beginning to ripen; albeit bright green, but acornsare visible on the oak trees; sweet chestnuts on the sweet chestnut trees. Therowan trees have been thick with ripe berries for weeks.So what about the harvest we rely on for food. As we might expect given thedecidedly mixed weather over the summer months, harvest too is mixed.In Lincolnshire, a wet spring followed by a dry spell means the brassica harvestis poor. We can expect to pay a premium for cauliflower roasts and Christmasdinner sprouts may be scarce. Oilseed rape yields are down, affected bychangeable weather, pigeons and flea beetle, but the winter feed barley yield isexceptional, with a much higher yield than expected. In Cambridgeshire, NFUDeputy President, Guy Smith reports wheat yields at a 10-year high, while inDevon the same crop is yielding 20% less than expected, although the barleyharvest is above average. In Northumbria barley and oilseed rape yields aregood. And we must not forget the agricultural community in the YorkshireDales where severe flooding has washed away miles of dry-stone walling,livestock has been drowned and winter forage carefully stored for the winter hasbeen washed away and ruined. In other words, what kind of harvest it is,depends on where you are.The rain has been extreme. The heat has occasionally been extreme. Largelyin the pleasant climate of South Cheshire we have escaped the worst of theextremes. Nonetheless, we have had enough of rain and heat to remind usboth that we need both and that God sends both, not always in the rightamounts or at the right time.For a good harvest, whether of cultivated crops, or of nature, or even of ourlives, for the harvest to be good we need both the sun and the rain. Harvesttime is as good a time as any to give thanks to God who sends us both.

Amen

Revd Anne

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Acton 6th Oct 11 am Harvest, 5 pm Evensong13th Oct 8 am Communion,11 am Morning Prayer, 5 pm Evensong20th Oct 10 am Messy Church, 5 pm Communion27th Oct 8 am Communion,11 am Morning Prayer, 5 pm Evensong 3rd Nov 11 am Communion, 5 pm Commemoration

Church Minshull 6th Oct 9:30 am Communion13th Oct 11 am Cafe Church20th Oct 11 am Communion27th Oct 11 am Messy Church 3rd Nov 9:30 am Communion

Worleston 6th Oct 9:30 am Harvest13th Oct 9:30 am Communion20th Oct 9.30 am All Age27th Oct 9:30 am Communion3rd Nov 9:30 am Morning Prayer

Wettenhall 6th Oct 11 am Morning Prayer13th Oct 11 am Communion20th Oct 11 am All Age27th Oct 6:30 pm Communion3rd Nov 11 am Morning Prayer

SundayServices

October 2019

ContentsPage

Letter 2Sunday Services 3Wettenhall News 4, 5 & 6Birthdays 5Recipe 14Worleston News 15Contacts 23

Pentecost

9th June 2019

Dont Forget !!

to turn your clocks backBritish Summer time ends

at 1 am onSunday 27th October

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St David’s ChurchWettenhall

Visit: www.wettenhallchurch.org.ukSidespersons 6th Oct Mrs A Brooks13th Oct Churchwardens20th Oct Brownies/Guides27th Oct Informal3rd Nov Mrs M SherryCleaning & Flowers6th / 13th

OctMrs A Brooks

20th / 27th

OctMrs A Hignett &Mrs A Hancock

3rd / 10th

NovMrs H Wilson &Family

Diary DatesNovember 9th

Don Reid comedy evening at7:30pm in church (see back page)

Mobile LibraryThe Cheshire East Mobile Library calls atSt. David's Church, Wettenhall on a threeweekly cycle: Tuesdays 12.05-12.20pm .The next visits are on 1st October, 22nd

October and 12th November.

A service of remembrance will take placeon 10th November at 10:50 am.

Our earlier start is to enable us to stand intwo minutes silence with the rest of thenation.

Darnhall & Wettenhall WI

We Will Remember Them

Darnhall & Wettenhall WI met at St.David's for the August meeting due tothe refurbishment of the Village Hall.They had a great evening with BrianCullen who had been a DJ on RadioCaroline. He gave a talk and showed afilm on it's history. The vote of thanks wasgiven by Marjorie Sherry and the rafflewas won by Pauline Hassall.

The September meeting was held in St.David's church. Chris Moseley, theCheshire Ranger gave an interesting talkon his work. He leads walks throughMarbury Park, Whitegate Way and manyother delightful areas. He described goingon a 'Bat Walk' and gave us a harvestmouse talk. (Very appropriate at Harvesttime in church!) The vote of thanks wasgiven by Marjorie Sherry. The competitionwas won by Kay Reade & Lesley Simonsand the raffle was won by Marianne.

We are extremely grateful to Peter & ChrisHamblin for the generous donation of anew bench in the churchyard. It's a lovelyreminder of a special couple whocontributed greatly to the life and fellowshipof St. David's Church. We miss them bothbut will always have happy memories oftheir time amongst us.( See front coverphoto, Peter Hamblin with Edith Carr tryingout the bench).

In Memory ofJohn & Beryl Hamblin

From the RegistersBaptism25th August 2019 Elliot RogerNicholas. We welcome Elliot into thefamily of the church.

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Coffee & CakeHappy BirthdayThis Month to:

Antonia Adlington Oliver Latham

Emeilia Bond Olivia Palin

Ingrid Jackson Thomas Ablard

Stanley Alexander Reuben Spencer

Luke Jones Sophie Bowes

Megan Farrall

The next meetings are onThursday 3rd October and

7th November. Times are from 10 am-12 noon &everyone is very welcome for as

little or as long as they wish.

Also celebrating special birthdays thismonth are Ann Hignett and RobertBrooks best wishes to them both.

Belated birthday greetings to RichardDonaldson, Alan Williams & RogerNicholas who (along with Robert) areall members of the ‘49ers!

In spite of Roger being absent on his 70th birthday, the celebrations went ahead with cake& candles! Thanks to everyone for their kind thoughts as we celebrated at the same timeacross the Channel!

Celebrating in Style

PCC Meeting

Tuesday 22nd October

7:30 pm in Church

Childrens SocietyAnyone with a home collection box is invited to return it to the All Age service on 20thOctober.

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Darnhall Brownies

Darnhall Brownies held their Septembermeeting in St. David's Church. Theyhad a great time cleaning the brass &putting on a spectacular performancefor their friends. Thanks for all your hardwork in making the brass sparkle!

At the United Service at St.David's we were delighted towelcome our friends from theother three parishes in thebenefice & Elliot RogerNicholas for his baptism. Rev.Anne reminded us of the racewe are running in our dailylives, as we strive for our goalin heaven. It was alsoencouraging to be reminded ofall those who are supporting usalong the way - not just in ourchurches but by all those whohave gone before us. It was athoroughly uplifting service,rounded off with deliciousrefreshments and time to catchup with friends.

Running the Race

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Chester Cathedral

Saving the Deep – an installation by Jacha PotgieterA stunning, topical and thought provoking installation in the cloisters of the cathedral. Thisinstallation has now been extended to Thursday 31 October 2019.Created by north Wales artist, Jacha Potgieter, Saving The Deep features over tensculptures each created from waste collected from just three beach visits. The artist hasdonated his time creating the installation in order to raise awareness of pollution in ourseas, as part of the cathedral’s year of extraordinary special events.

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on Tuesdays1 October, 5 November and

3 December 2019 from 10.30 am

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MEMORABILIA EXHIBITION St Oswald’s Church Worleston CW56DNSat/Sun 19th/20th October 11am - 4.30pm.

Featuring WORLESTON, WETTENHALL, POOLE,CHURCH MINSHULL and ACTON parishes.

Everyone invited to a display of fascinating articles,school photographs (will you recognise yourself?),

farming, fashion, paintings, and artefacts fromthe

Cavaliers to the Swinging 60’s.Plus music, ongoing film show, coffee and cake

Entry free - Donations welcome!

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RECIPE

85g soft butter or marg.85g sugar125g SR flour25g oats1tsp cinnamon1 heaped tsp baking powder2 large eggs3tbsp milk.1 diced Bramley appleHandful of flaked almonds

▪ Heat oven to 180c/160c fan/gas 4▪ Lightly grease 20cmx16cm oven dish.▪ Put butter, sugar, flour, oats, cinnamon &

baking powder in a bowl.▪ Break in the eggs & add milk. Beat well until

smooth.▪ Stir in apple then scrape into dish & scatter

with almonds.▪ Bake for 35-45 mins until risen & golden.▪ Serve with cream or custard & enjoy!

Apple Sponge Pudding

Ingredients Method

Serves: 6

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Harvest

Thanks

We would welcome gifts of food at ourharvest services. If you care to bringthem on Friday evening or Sundaymorning it will help to make the churchmore colourful. The gifts will be taken toNantwich FOOD BANK where we knowthat they will be gratefully received. TheFood Bank is carefully controlled andrecipients have to have a voucher fromtheir GP or vicar or social worker. Helpof this kind is intended to be short term.Our congregation’s been very generousin the past. Tins and packets areobviously easier to deal with but pleasemake sure that they are within their 'sellby' date!

THANKS to everyone and anyone whoworked so hard to make the Fete thisyear a great success. At St Oswald'swe are very grateful to the FeteCommittee who have donated £1000 tous from the profits. Thank you!

THANKS to Diane Darlington andSarah Parker who have made ourCoffee mornings on the first Saturdayof each month such a great success,We have had a steady stream ofpeople coming in to have a coffee anda chat. They keep coming back so theymust feel welcome!

CongratulationsCONGRATULATIONS to RichardAlexander who was 50 on September14th. Many happy returns!

St Oswald’s ChurchWorleston

Visit: www.worlestonchurch.org.uk

Sidesmen6th Oct Mrs J Alexander &

Mrs D Darlington13th Oct Mrs A Stokes20th Oct Mr & Mrs

G Kaufman27th Oct Mrs P Haigh3rd Nov Mr & Mrs D BoothFlower Rota6th Oct Mrs K Alexander20th Oct Mrs L Ablard3rd Nov Mrs J BaileyChurch CleaningOctober Mrs K Alexander &

Mrs L GaterNovember Mrs S HeapCoffee Rota6th Oct Mrs M Booth13th Oct Mrs J Alexander &

Mrs D Darlington20th Oct Mrs S Kaufman27th Oct Mrs J Bailey3rd Nov Mrs A Fletton

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Courage to ChangeThis is the title of a little book published by Al-Anon, and to quote from the preface , 'Al-Anon has but one purpose: to help the families and friends of alcoholics.'Help comes through meetings of people who are all affected in some way by alcoholabuse. There are no subs; you can remain anonymous; and you do not have to speak atthe meeting. If you do speak then only Christian names are used, and what you say isconfidential within the group.You do not have to attend every week but just when you feel the need.Every meeting ends with the Serenity Prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept thethings I cannot change, courage to change the things I can,and the wisdom to know thedifference.There are meetings in Sandbach during the day and evening meetings at Middlewich andAlsager.If you think that Al-Anon might help you then ask the vicar who will pass on details ofwhere we meet and any other information you may need.

Shoe Boxes (all Parishes)Please start to collect items to fill a shoe box with goodies, in time to be sent to a child inneed at Christmas. Many of you are old hands at this and need no prompting. More boxesare always welcome of course.We are not quite sure yet who will collect our contributions this year but it seems likely thatwe will join up with Nantwich Parish church.Watch this space!

Be AwareIn April of this year we published an article on these pages, warning about the “TVLicensing Scam” Just to remind you that the scam is still going on with a recent high profilevictim, TV presenter Helen Skelton received the email warning her that the TV license hadexpired, distracted by looking after her children she clicked on the link and paid theoutstanding amount with her debit card. A few days later she received a phone callpurporting to be from her bank, saying there had been suspicious activity on her account,she checked her account while on the phone with the “bank” and saw that there had beenwithdrawals and purchases she knew nothing about, unwisely she gave the caller securityinformation she was asked for and this enabled the thieves to wipe out her savingsaccount completely, A figure of around £70,000. She went in to the bank and reported it assoon as she realised what had happened. At first the bank wouldn't refund the moneybecause she had facilitated the theft by handing over her details they later relented andrefunded the money stolen (the benefit of being a TV presenter). So be warned it canhappen to anyone!!REMEMBER● Don’t click on the links or attachments in suspicious emails and never respond

to messages that ask for your personal or financial details.● Don’t assume a phone call or email is authentic, even if someone knows your

basic details (such as your name or address). Remember, criminals can spoofphone numbers and email addresses to appear as companies you know andtrust, such as TV Licensing.

● Your bank will never call and ask you for your PIN, full banking password, orask you to transfer money out of your account.

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Ladies LunchTuesday 8th October at

The Thatch, Faddiley 12.30pm - Cost: £10

(No need to book)All welcome including gents who gather to enjoy lunch.

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Coffee & Cake

St Oswald’s WorlestonSaturday October 5th from 10 am - 12 noon

Come along to enjoy a Coffee & Cake and a chat.Everyone welcome for as little or long a time as you wish.

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Contacts for Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals etc are as followsRev’d Anne Lawson 01270 628864 The Vicarage, Chester Road

Acton, Cheshire, CW5 8LG Email revanne@uwclub.net

Parish Office open at the Vicarage - Tuesday & Thursday 9:30 am - 12 NoonEmail: crosscountryparishes@outlook.com

Licensed Readers Isobel Burnley 624521 reader@marshlane.f2s.comAnn Nicholas 528273 annnicholas0@gmail.com

St David’s St Oswald’sChurchwardens

Mr R Nicholas 528273 Mr M Alexander 624404Mr R Brooks 528278 Mrs I Burnley 624521

Other Parish Office HoldersPCC Secretaries

Mrs H Pope 528755 TBAPCC Treasurers

Mrs G Ward 01606 554869 Mr D Booth 627277Organists

Mr R Nicholas 528273 Mr G Heap 620199Magazine Reps

Mrs Ann Nicholas 528273 Contact the Churchwardens

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