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Totnes & Bridgetown Parish Magazine, Oct 2014

www.stmaryandstjohns.com

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Music at St Mary’s Parish Church, Totnes High Street

Sat 4 10:30-12:00 FOSM Coffee Concert

Totnes Jazz Workshop

Entry £5

Coffee & cakes available for sale

Sat 11 10:30-12:00 FOSM Coffee Concert

Sam Richards, piano recital & improvisations

In aid of Amnesty International and the Friends

of St Mary's

Entry £5

Coffee & cakes available for sale

Sat 11 7:30pm Totnes Early Music Society

With Steven Devine et. al.

Including music by Handel, Vivaldi & Bach

Tickets for non-members £12, students & under 18s £5

Sun 19 6.30pm

Choral Evensong

Details to be announced in Music Bulletin

Thurs 23 19:30-21:00 Classical Guitar concert

(Alison Smith)

Tickets £9 on the door.

At St John’s Church, Bridgetown, Totnes

Fri 31 6p.m. – 11 p.m. Acoustic Haven concert

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In September, we have been enjoying an “Indian Sum-mer,” the term used to de-scribe a period of unseasona-bly warm weather in late September, October, or No-vember. The expression was first coined in America from the mid-19th century on-

wards but did not gain widespread currency in Brit-ain until the 1950s. The term, may also refer to the weather patterns in the Indian Ocean, where ships' hulls were marked "I.S." to indicate the level at which they should be loaded during that season.

I love Autumn. Brambles bite but yield sweet black-berries, spiky cases fall from horse-chestnut trees yielding polished conkers. The air is crisp & the trees are clothed in yellow, gold, and red robes. As September draws to a close, the evenings are be-coming cooler, the nights are drawing in and I know that it won`t be long before the trees shed their coats, leaving a carpet of leaves that crunch and rustle underfoot and the air will be scented with the aroma of log fires, the smoke indistinguishable from the grey cloud.

It`s a reminder for me that time doesn`t stand still. Henry Cloud once said, "Everything has seasons and we have to be able to recognise when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season." I think there is deep wisdom in his words.

In “Sacred Space” at St John`s, Bridgetown on Octo-ber 5th from 6.30-7.30pm we shall be reflecting on “Changing Seasons.” The Seasons have much to teach us about birth, growth, decay and death, as Spring blooms into Summer, Summer fades into Autumn and Autumn yields to Winter before the whole process begins again.

“Changing Seasons” is a good metaphor for life, re-lationships, health, employment or unemployment.

What season are you experiencing in your life? Is a relationship blossoming or dying? What season are you experiencing in your health? Are you working for an organisation or institution that has died but hasn`t yet had the sense to lie down? Has some-thing's time passed? Are you ready to move into the next Season and to trust that only through end-ings can we experience new beginnings? What are you struggling to let go of? What green shoots do you hope for?

The Totnes Team is experiencing change, as Marisa Cockfield moves to Dart Valley Mission Community to begin her curacy, Angela Sumner leaves the Tot-nes Team to continue her curacy closer to home, Tony Gregg completes his Reader training, Julian & Jane are married and Archdeacon John retires. Our warmest congratulations go to them all, as they each move into a new Season in their lives.

With every blessing,

Deborah Parsons

Totnes & Bridgetown Parish Magazine, Oct 2014

www.stmaryandstjohns.com

Changing Seasons

Sunday 5th October

6.30pm St John’s

Church, Bridgetown

SACRED SPACE

Theme: Changing Seasons

A continuing initiative of St Mary’s and St John’s

churches, held bi-monthly – an opportunity for al-

ternative and creative worship.

These Spaces may particularly suit anyone who

finds they do not relate to conventional, traditional

forms of worship but who is looking for different

ways to encounter God and to respond to a sense

of the Holy.

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It’s just a thought

It was a very hot day in Totnes and I was driving but hardly moving in the traffic. What worried me was not the time but the temperature of my car engine. The gauge was showing danger and as I didn’t want to go to heaven in a cloud of steam I pulled into China Blue for some respite care. In the end the car had to go into the garage. They fixed it and I paid up with a smile. But what really upset me was when the garage man told me the car wasn‘t worth very much because over the years it had lost its value.

I suppose that most things loose their value over the years; they just wear out through sheer use. We might think of our possessions in that way, especially as we live in a throw away world and nothing much is worth mending these days.

But I am not thinking here of things that wear out and lose their value, I am thinking of words, because words wear out and lose their value too, although we often don’t notice. Perhaps more than any other word to have lost its true value is the word ‘love’. We dribble the word love all over everything like some modern artists dribble paint all over a canvas. In today’s society the word love seems to be mostly about self interest: ‘I love this or I love that’. We talk about making love and falling in love. We listen to love songs and use the word love for affection, sex, attraction, desire, or as a term of en-dearment. So that’s why someone called me their lover the other day?

Mostly our use of the word love is fairly accepta-ble shorthand, we know what we are trying to say and most folk understand what we mean. But we need to remember that when, in religion, we talk about the ‘love’ of God we give the word its true value. For the ‘love’ of God is all about the way in which God gave freely of himself. He gave to us of his own very nature, for we read that, ‘God is love’. So for me the word love is about giving, about the giving of ourselves, the opening of our heats to others.

I remember one sunny Sunday morning at St. John’s. I was moving around the circle giving each per-son a communion wafer when I came to a man and his wife who simply crossed their hands and refused to re-ceive. I shall always remember this because the man said, ‘I’m a papist’ and his wife nudged him in the ribs and said, ‘Shut up you’. I thought how sad that they felt they could not give of themselves to us in love that morning, or let us share our love for them.

Love is not about dogmas or creeds, neither is it just an emotion or a feeling, it is the giving of ourselves to others: my heart to your heart. Love may take time and courage and faith and often taking a risk, but It will be a sorry day if we ever forget the true meaning of that precious word.

Rev’d Cliff Berdinner

Moving On

You will probably be familiar with the five little letters

MOiMM: Moving On in Mission and Ministry. They’ve

been around for 10 years or more now, and have been

shaping what we hope to do as the Church in Devon –

although we are not quite there yet.

Hasn’t MOiMM ‘Moved On’ by now? 10 years is an aw-

fully long time to be banging on about moving on.

In some ways things have moved a long way. Well over

half our parishes have moved some way towards being

part of a Mission Community. Lots of those have Mission

Action Plans.

Some have got a Local

Ministry Team – and

in places which have

all three of these

things, the Church is

growing!

But some parishes

still want to party like

its 1999 and aren’t

ready to face up to

the oppor- tunities

that the 21st Centu-

ry has brought us.

The Mission Community Development Team is here for

help and advice, so that one day we really will all be

Moving On. They are here to help with vision, with Mis-

sion Action Plans and with team work – which is not

about a few people helping the Vicar out, but everyone

working together for the kingdom.

Andrew Godsall, Mission Community Development Officer

To contact the team:

Penny Doe [email protected]

Andrew Godsall [email protected] or

Guy Chave-Cox [email protected]

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Justin Story - 11th Instalment

By Helga Watts

Click here to read the story so far

On our way to the exorcist I thought of the time I had been to see one for myself, in the late 70s, For many years, since my youth, I had been suffering, on and off, from severe depression. I reached for every straw and had been to countless healers, both in Austria in my young days and in New Zea-land where we were living at the time. At my mother's advice I agreed to go to an exorcist, a monk in a monastery near Bre-genz. I didn't hold out much hope as I had long lost my faith in God in general and the Christian beliefs in particular. When I was fourteen my family joined a fundamentalist evangelical group; we had bible study every week, but the teaching of a God who would throw most of the humans he had created into an eternal, never-ending fire led to a nervous break-down at seventeen and a three months' stay in the mental hospital in Innsbruck. Eventually I came to the con-clusion God did not exist; I couldn't possibly visualise Love, which He was supposed to be, to take that form. Nev-ertheless I was somewhat in-trigued: maybe the monk could even restore my faith? He told me he could not sense any possession but performed the rite, a kind of archaic lita-ny, the only wording I remem-ber was about 'revoking the dragon'.

Now in 1983 it was a different situation. I was a believer again, due to having studied myths and mythology, learned about hyperbole and the pitfalls of language, translation and interpretation of the bible, and in 1980 I had had an experience which enabled me to believe again: on my 40th birthday the whole room was filled with a Presence, a loving Presence which I could sense came from God. And since my husband's death in 1981 I had been going to church again.

This Devon exorcist listened to Justin's history, about the accident, his being in my care after eleven years in hospi-tal, his anger about his ruined life and the recent entirely different, frightening outbursts. Justin sat quietly, peace-fully, not interrupting.

Then the exorcist made an incongruous suggestion. He said to Justin, “When this urge to kill Hel-ga comes on, kneel down on the floor and visualise Christ is lying on the cross before you. You are the Roman soldier and you are hammering his nails in. Then lean back and ask for forgiveness.”

Before I could object, Justin got up and said, “I'm not listening to this. Let's go.” We took our leave. I mulled this over on our drive home and it became more and more ludicrous the more I thought about it. When Justin is in such a state that he wants to kill me he does not want to kill

Christ, and no therapy should consist of such an action anyway. The only place for it would be in a Passion Play. So

what now? I prayed very earnestly for God to protect us and for sever-al days all went well and I could breathe again, holding my breath, rather.

It was now Easter Saturday and I woke with a very strange feeling, a compulsion I had to go to Dartmeet to meet somebody who would make himself known to me. It was such a strong impulse that I did not stop to reason. I drove terribly fast and ended up with a burst tyre. It was just outside Ashburton, before the bend where the lane leads to the Lavender House Hotel. I simply left the car and we started walking.

Justin must have been in a dazed state too for he did not argue and we made our way all the way to Dartmeet. Under normal circumstances he would have balked and got much too tired. We just plodded on, mile after mile.

Once there I saw an enormous crowd of holidaymakers as it was a gloriously sunny, mild day.

(Continued on page 6)

Justin, last photo before and first photo

after his accident.

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There was even a man directing the parking. I bought Justin a snack and then we sat down on the little green plot near the entrance, close to the clapper bridge, and waited. For whom? I had no idea. Someone would come and start a conversation and it would go from there. Time went by, no-one came. Except a police car, by which time it was mid-afternoon, and a policeman talked to the parking attendant. Justin had gone to the kiosk and I quickly slipped away and walked along the river. I had actually told the parking attendant that the police might come and ask after us, that I had done nothing wrong, just left the car on the road, and that I could not talk to them at this time as I had to wait for someone I could not risk missing. The reason he com-plied must have been that, strangely, I had addressed him as 'Simon...', to which he responded with, “How do you know my name?” I didn't, it just tumbled out, which, of course, reinforced my conviction something positive was indeed going to happen.

I returned to my post and waited. But now I waited more for Justin than the mystery person. Where was Justin? Time went by and he didn't appear and I got more and more worried. Slowly it dawned on me that something strange must have been happening to me. The almost elated feeling of anticipation gave way to a feeling of fear. What was I doing here? Where was Jus-tin? Was I going mad? I had failed Justin, he had been abducted, my whole life was a failure, I had no contact with God. It was all lost. I would probably be picked up and taken to a mental hospital and spend the rest of my life there.

It had gone cool, there was no-one around any more. I got up and started walking home, in the opposite direc-tion of the abandoned car. I felt totally forlorn and the fear had given way to a black, almost numb feeling of resignation. Yes, it was all lost, and there was nothing I could do.

At one point, not far from Coombestone Tor, I rested and turned round, and against the red of the setting sun and the already darkened valley I saw a police car ap-

proaching, blue light on. Another following.

All I could think of was, “You are done for.” The car pulled up, a policeman got out and said, “We've got Jus-tin in the other car. He is all right; he could not find you and walked down to your car which has been taken to a garage. Your handbag with all your details was in it.” He sounded very kind, and all my fear just fell off me, and I suddenly realised that I had had a spell on me. We were safely deposited at home, and there I found a cryptic note: on Justin's Tintin book on outer space I had drawn an arrow, upwards, and scribbled, 'gone there'. I must have done that in a daze before setting off for the puzzling assignation. So the one I was meant to meet – was death!

For obvious reasons there are no photos illustrating the happenings of these few days, so I've chosen a couple from his album. I also want to mention at this point that the dramatic events to follow will have a wonderful res-olution, but maybe better not read about them late at night!

[Continued next month]

Pray, act, give

The Bishop of Exeter is urging Christians in Dev-on to support those per-secuted in Iraq and Syria through a campaign launched on the Church of England website. The unfolding events are of particular concern for our Diocese as we have a strong link with the bordering diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf which includes St George’s Church in Baghdad. The pray, act, give resources includes prayers, details of how to contribute to Church-based emergency appeals and an advocacy action to help keep this crisis before the eyes of the international community.

Visit www.tinyurl.com/cofe-iraq

Ministry Matters

A day workshop exploring Reader and Ordained Minis-try is taking place on Saturday 1 November from 10am to 3.30pm in St Luke’s Church, Buckfastleigh. To book a place and for more information contact the Vocations Adviser Philip Sourbut on 01392 817296 or email [email protected]

(Continued from page 5)

If you would like to receive regular copies of

the expanded colour edition of this magazine

via email, please send a message to:

[email protected]

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Archdeacon retires

After nearly nine years as Archdeacon of Totnes, the Ven

John Rawlings retired on 30 September.

He joins the Ven David Gunn-Johnson who recently re-

tired as Archdeacon of Barnstaple, however both have

been invited by Bishop Robert to continue as Archdea-

cons Emeritus and so will continue to have a presence

among communities in Devon.

John says, “I want to express my gratitude for the oppor-

tunity of exercising this ministry which I didn’t expect. It

is an honour to share in the lives of the people and cler-

gy as well as the life of the parishes.”

John, who has been married to Janette, a nurse, for 45

years, was a chaplain in the Navy for 16 years and recalls

holding services in his cabin on HMS Fearless when the

ship was engaged in exercises. John says his work as a

Navy chaplain has helped him to relate to everyone he

meets in parish life:

“As the role holds no rank, it makes it possible to relate

as an equal to everyone from the Admiral to the men

working in the engine room,” he says.

“Being an Archdeacon is not something I ever thought I

would do but I’m really glad I did it. It has been a pleas-

ure and enormous privilege. Like any post it has its

things that make you feel this ministry is very worth-

while and sometimes there are things that drag you

down but I have especially enjoyed the pastoral side of

the role and working with churchwardens on re-ordering

projects and with other advice, and helping PCCs to look

at what they are doing and to look optimistically to the

future. I can see a real enthusiasm for the gospel and

people working very hard to show the love of God in

their communities.”

John and Janette are retiring to Honiton where John

plans to commit to some serious practice on his two-

manual and pedal digital organ as well as tending his

new garden.

The Earth is the Lord’s

President Museveni of Uganda described climate change

as an act of aggression by the rich against the poor.

Tough talk. He is articulating a perception that climate

change is a developed world problem for which the de-

veloping world has to pay the price. Most of the green-

house gasses are indeed produced by the West, but also

increasingly by China as it industrializes. And the worst

effects of climate change are being experienced by poor

nations such as Bangladesh, which is being flooded much

more regularly, and Ethiopia, which is being decimated

by the relentless spread of desert. In Devon we remem-

ber the devastation caused by the storms last winter but

that is nothing compared to what some parts of the

world are experiencing.

Climate change not only threatens the planet: it also in-

creases the risk of global conflict. Climate change and

growing competition for scarce resources, we are told,

are together likely to increase the incidence of humani-

tarian crises and undermine international security. The

areas most at risk – the Middle East, South Asia, and the

Sahara belt – are already prone to instability.

But what does all this have to say to us as we gather this

month to hold our harvest festivals?

As Christians we believe that ‘the earth is the Lord’s and

everything that is in it’ (Psalm 24.1). We are to be stew-

ards of the planet, not exploiters. Exploitation steals

from future generations. One practical thing we can

do is to engage with the environmental initiative

of Shrinking the Footprint because in the end it is

as much about Jesus’ call to be peacemakers and

living justly as caring for the environment.

The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins lamented the way hu-

mankind has disfigured the world. ‘All is seared with

trade; bleared, smeared with toil; and wears man’s

smudge and shares man’s smell.’ And yet, he says, there

still ‘lives the dearest freshness deep down things’. The

earth has an amazing capacity to recover from our mis-

takes and failures. This harvest, as we give thanks for

God’s abundant provision, it is vital that we never take

that for granted. Both for the sake of the environment

and for world peace it is important that we act now and

that we act together.

+Robert Atwell, Bishop of Exeter

Wise words from our new Bishop, validating the message I have long tried to share: that climate change is real, man-made and a threat to the planet. For full coverage of the worldwide climate mobilisation —and much more—visit: http://350.org/

Also, it’s still not too late to invest in local Renewable Energy projects, including hydroelectric and rooftop solar.

Visit www.tresoc.co.uk or contact me. Julian Hall

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Word for Today

It’s Time to Take Action

‘The righteous are as bold as a lion.’ Proverbs 28:1

John Ruskin said, ‘What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.’ If you’re serious about succeeding at what you believe God called you to do, you must take three steps: 1) Do something! Sir Edmund Burke said, ‘Nobody made a greater mistake, than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.’ Praying, planning and deliberating are all good, but there comes a point when you have to step out in faith and act. And if you’re naturally sedentary or easily discouraged, you’ll have to confront your fear and reluctance and take that first step. Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock said, ‘All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those in-to action.’ God promised to part the waters of the Jordan River so that His people could go through and enter the Promised Land. But the waters parted only after they stepped in (Joshua 3:11-17). The same principle applies to you. In the be-ginning you just need to get moving. Try different things. It’s easier to start doing something right if you’ve already started doing something. It’s easy to steer a car when it’s moving forward, but al-most impossible when it’s standing still. Dennis Bakke, co-founder and former CEO of global ener-gy supplier AES Corporation, said, ‘We try a bunch of stuff… see what works…and call that our strat-egy.’ In other words, if you don’t know exactly what to do, don’t let it keep you from doing something.

UCB's Word for Today is a free publication available in

both our churches and throughout the UK.

Web www.ucb.co.uk

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Dear Totnes team, I would like to thank you all for

the cards and messages of support, and for those

of you who were at the Cathedral last week for the

Ordination service. Also very much for your gen-

erous gift of a book token, which I shall spend

wisely! I have already bought a couple of books

recommended by David Rowe, the Warden at Lee

Abbey, who led our retreat jointly with Prebendary

Peter Rapsey, former DDO of Bath and Wells, now

living in Devon.

It was a wonderful day, the culmination of a long

journey of five years study and formation. I have

learnt so much during my time with the Totnes

team; thank you for letting me learn with you, and

for your patience and good humour throughout. I

will pray for all the Totnes parishes and their peo-

ple as I now move on to the Dart Valley Mission

Community team. Jan has kindly invited me to con-

tinue singing with St. Mary's choir, so I will still be

around.

Thank you!

Marisa

Martin Harvey wishes to pass on special thanks to everyone involved in last weekend’s services at St Mary’s, not least the sidespersons, coordinated by John Hawkins. Martin writes: Many thanks for the extra work that both you in asking the sidespersons to volunteer and the huge amount of time and effort that the sidespersons put into the weekend’s activities, which helped tre-mendously in ensuring that both events went so well. This has been an extraordinary weekend with some people appearing to be living in the church for most of the weekend and everyone’s efforts have been so much appreciated by all. I believe it was a very successful weekend with the wedding being a very happy and wonderful occa-sion and the Archdeacon’s retirement service was I thought quite superb. Would you please pass on my thanks to everyone for their dedication and help. [Sorry I was unable to be there owing to a nasty infec-tion – JH]

SPRING PILGRIMAGE

Fr Brian Tubbs is leading a pilgrimage to Rome

and Assisi from 20 to 27 April 2015, flying from

Bristol. For more information, email father-

[email protected] or phone 01392 200506.

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EVENTS DIARY

St Mary’s:

Sat 4 10:30-12:00 FOSM Coffee Concert Totnes Jazz Workshop Entry £5

c. 15.30 Dartington Trust outside church

Sat 11 10:30-12:00 FOSM Coffee Concert Sam Richards, piano recital & improvisations Entry £5 7:30pm TEMS - Steven Devine et. al.

Including Handel, Vivaldi & Bach

Tickets for non-members £12, students & under 18s £5

Thurs 23 19:30-21:00 Classical Guitar concert (Alison Smith)

Tickets £9 on the door.

Sun 19 6.30pm Choral Evensong

St Johns:

Sun 5th 6.30pm Sacred Space

Sat 11th 6.00pm Transition Town Totnes talk Pocket

Neighbourhoods. Worship area

Sat 18th 2.30 – 6 p.m for a 3.30 -5.30 pm.

Messy Church session .

Weds 22nd 7 p.m. Deanery Synod

Friday 31st 6p.m. – 11 p.m. Acoustic Haven concert

01364 550303

Professional, affordable and local

painting, tiling & decorating service.

Internal or external painting & clearance work

undertaken. Fully insured.

Call for a free quote

TOM GREEN 01803 732242 or 07875190302

Table Talk. Every third Thursday of the month at The Sev-

en Stars between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. Meet at the large

table at the back , behind the bar, for coffee etc. Contact

Anne Binns for more information on 01803 840146.

Sunday lunches. If you would like to have a roast lunch at

the Albert Inn, Bridgetown, on the first Sunday of the month

with members of St John’s and St Mary’s, please ring Anne

Binns on 01803 840146 by the previous Thursday.

TUESDAY HOUSE GROUPS

Tuesday Afternoon House Group meets again on 14th

October at 2pm at Greytones – Margaret Beckwith’s

House. Further details Liz Waterson 849345.

The evening group will meet as usual at 3 Sparrow

Road, Totnes, next meeting 7.30pm Tue 14 Oct.

Contact Carolyn Stilwell: 01803 863030

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Team Rector, The Reverend Julian C OuId, 01803 865615, The Reverend Debbie Parsons, Team Vicar. 01803 840113 The Reverend Angela Sumner, Assistant Curate, 01803 853959, Licensed Reader/Child Protection Officer Liz Waterson, 01803 849345, (Childline 0800 1111) The Reverend John Luscombe, 01803 864514, [email protected]

Licensed Reader, Marisa Cockfield 01803 782994, Licensed Reader, Tony Gregg, 01803 813885,

Support Group: This group is open to anyone who is suffering from bereavement or any other kind

of loss. For full details contact Rev'd Debbie Parsons on 01803 840113.

TIMES OF SUNDAY SERVICES

St Mary's Totnes

8.00 am ..

11.15 am ..

6.30 pm Alternate 1st Sunday

6.30 pm 3rd Sunday

St John's, Bridgetown 9.30 am ..

Eucharist

Sung Eucharist

Compline

Sung Evensong

Family Communion

TIMES OF WEEKDAY SERVICES—St Mary's, Totnes

7.45 am Tues, Wed, Thurs Early morning prayers 8.30 am Fri, Sat .. Morning Prayer 10.30 am 2nd & 4th Wed .. Eucharist

Major Saints' Days

9.00 am at St Mary's Eucharist

Churchwardens

Martin Harvey 01803 868336 [email protected]

Julian Hall 01803 867537 [email protected]

Deputy Churchwarden

John Derbyshire 07932 019301 [email protected]

St Mary's Totnes

David Shearer, Verger 01803 862252 [email protected]

Jan Dietz, Director of Music 01803 770515 [email protected]

Jane Mountford, St Mary's Church bookings 01803 862499 [email protected]

Jenny Griffin, Church Hall bookings 01803 865685

St John's, Bridgetown

The Reverend John Luscombe Contact details at top of page

Liz Chandler, Organist 01803 669199

Tony Stilwell, Bookings Sec 01803 863030

The Reverend. Cliff Berdinner 01803 840730 [email protected]

Brian Herrington, Weekly envelope and Gift Aid

recorder

01803 864804 [email protected]

Jane Mountford, weekly newsletter 01803 862499 [email protected]

Julian Hall, monthly magazine 01803 867537 [email protected]

Submissions for the next Newsletter by 20th of the previous month please.