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Prayer at the Heart

Immediate needs 2 - 4 weeks Dorothy Vener, suffering with Bronchitis. Bob Simmons. Gill Campbell’s only sister, Audrey, after discharging herself from hospital following a stroke, and who has other health conditions. Julia (Frances’ friend) who has now died. David Fagg, Mark’s dad, died on 2 July, please pray for Chris, Mark and Clive. Tess Canavan’s family. Debbie (Frances Crocker’s daughter) who will be having an operation on 9 July for breast cancer. Ann Harley, having episodes of problems with her heart. Audrey (Porter) who fractured her spine following a fall in the garden. Chris, Ann Shuttle’s son-in-law, with DVT in his thigh. Pat Wade suffering with painful shingles. During July we will be praying for those living in Linnet Avenue, Caroline Close and Nightingale Avenue.

Long term needs - up to 3 months Let us pray for everyone who has had to have a hospital appointment postponed, that they will not be too anxious and that their appointment will be re-arranged as soon as possible. Joan (Jill Freeman’s Mum) suffering with dementia and very lonely in isolation. Ray Clarke. Sheila Pearse. Joan Moss. Isaac Clackett. Dennis Spinner, please pray for him to get strong and stay free from illness. Lise Jennings, for relief from pain.

Prayer Needs

Please contact: Carol Judge 277752; or David and Lynda Kemp 272470

We also have a Prayer Requests page on Facebook, please let us know if you would like your prayer needs to be posted there.

Frances thanks you all for your prayers especially for her friend Julia. Please pray for Frances as she goes through this difficult time.

Welcome to St Alphege, Seasalter 5 July 2020

Readings: Romans 7: 15-25a; Matthew 11: 16-19, then 25 to end

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Stewardship Envelopes

Thank you for those members of our Church Family who have been keeping hold of their Stewardship Envelopes since we went into lockdown. We are pleased to say that we are now able to collect these from you, so, if you are able, please take them to the Christian Centre between 9am - 11am Monday to Friday where there will be a box available for you to deposit your envelopes. If this is a problem for you, please do not worry, but let either Andrew or Ali know and we will arrange for them to be collected from you. Thank you.

The Creed Response With thanks to Georgina

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Good News Please share your good news with us - no matter how seemingly insignificant - and if you have a photo to go with it even better. Maybe your child or grandchild said something amusing, maybe you heard a good joke, maybe you would like, as our Vince has done, to share a memory.

Lucy Ashbey has some good news: she took part in a survey a few weeks’ ago about working from home because of the Lockdown and won a £50 Amazon gift card! Congratulations Lucy! Please encourage our church family to receive emailed copies of these notices - especially now when we cannot meet face to face. To be added to the mailing list, let me know by email. Paula. Email: deaneves@msn.com

RIDE & STRIDE

***THIS IS STILL HAPPENING*** Saturday 12 September 2020

Ride and Stride raises money by cycling or walking for sponsorship around local Kent churches; half returned to St Alphege Seasalter and half to Friends of Kent Churches. It has been decided that this event will still run in 2020 so please put in your diary as family/group/individual to take part.

Volunteers normally welcome visitors to the Old Church/SCC for an hour, or more, slot between 10am-6pm on the day. Obviously, we will need to adhere to any social distancing requirements at the time but, if you would be interested in helping, please let us know (contacts below). We will understand if you decide that it is not feasible nearer the time.

Need more info - email annprice@sky.com or phone Ann Shuttle (use church directory for phone numbers)

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Pride before a Fall - so they say It was steadily raining so I decided that it might be a good time to go and do my weekly shop at Tesco’s. Having a “Blue Badge” I made for the one remaining space adjacent to the shoe repair kiosk and was delighted to see there was no long queue stretching right up past the car wash unit. I grabbed a trolley and went into the store. I quite like the new ar-rangement of going up one lane and down the next, and seem to get my shopping done much quicker but occasionally buying not just things I need but things I might need!! Once at the checkout I unloaded my shopping then reloaded it into bags, paid for it and walked out of the store and back to my car. As I was lifting the bags into the boot of my car, I was surprised to find an item in the trolley that I knew I hadn’t paid for – I had bought it as a treat for myself, a four-bar packet of “Wispa” bars for £1. I went back into the store and to the Customer Service desk and took my place in a short queue. When I handed the aforementioned item to the girl behind the counter and explained what had happened she was just blown away at my honesty and kept saying “That’s so honest and just for a £1”. Walking back to my car in the rain, I knew I had done the right thing. It was then that I noticed the people queueing and social distancing, along the entire length of the covered way and beyond, all waiting to get into the store to do their shopping. Unknowingly I must have jumped the queue, but I never meant to. I just want to say “Sorry” to anyone queuing at Tesco’s at around 1.30p.m. on Saturday 28 June. I’ll leave it to you to work out the moral of that story.

Donald

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Don’t Get Too Excited! You may have heard the exciting news following PM Boris Johnsons' announcement that we will be able to open our buildings for worship from the 4 July onwards with a cap on numbers, and subject to social distancing. We will wait for the Government to publish the detail behind this, and for the advice that will follow from the C of E nationally and from our Bishop then will plan carefully what seems right for our church and wider community in the light of that and taking into account our context and the size of our congregations. Watch this space! https://www.churchofengland.org/…/reopening-church-building…

Car Park Chat Fancy a chat? In these challenging days and after the stresses of lockdown, we're trying to offer the opportunity for a bit of human connection, a chat and a listening ear! Most weekdays from around 9-11 outside the front of Seasalter Christian Centre there will be a socially distanced chair and somebody to chat to. Come say hello if you are passing, or ring ahead to Becky Whittaker in the office 01227 276923 just to check someone's there, then pop down. If it's sunny, bring a hat and sun cream - it's a bit of a sun trap there!

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Responses to Liz’s Poetry

“Oh great, I’ll enjoy that!! She’s definitely got talent!!”

“It's just really good isn't it!”

“Thanks Paula, I never knew we had such a talent in our midst.” “I love the poems – all of them. I have enjoyed reading them and smiled and laughed as I did so. What I like particularly about them is that each verse of each poem “paints” a picture easy to imagine and to my mind that is the art of great poetry.“

Hernhill C of E Primary School is advertising two part-time office positions following the retirement of both of their long-standing receptionist and bursar. If you are looking for a new challenge, then please take a look at the job adverts and consider applying.

We’d love to hear from you. Thank you Sarah Alexander (headteacher)

https://www.kent-teach.com/Recruitment/Vacancy/VacancyDetails.aspx?VacancyId=81212 https://www.kent-teach.com/Recruitment/Vacancy/VacancyDetails.aspx?VacancyId=81214

Order of Service for funerals I helped someone out recently by helping to design an Order of Service and they'd be happy for me to share with you what I produced to get an idea of what I’d be able to do.

Let me know if you would like me to help you in a similar way.

Paula

deaneves@msn.com

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More of Vince’s memoires:

Please Talk Please Share It’s April 1951 in the afternoon and brother Anthony (age three and a half) and I (age five) are playing outside but not necessarily together. I have no memory of it or what he looked like (no photo). We have our tea as we called it, then went to bed as normal. Next morning Anthony is dead and the room is sealed and fumigated, I do remember tape on the door and window. I was probably sent to Grandma’s just 200 yards away. The suspicion is that it was Meningitis. Gill has just reminded me of three things Mum told her. First he was an angelic-looking boy with blonde curly hair (as I did) and was born with a blister on his head. The third is the tear-jerker - in a moment!!! They didn’t have the money to buy a burial plot so our uncle Tony persuaded the family of his cousins to use their plot near the town of Dundalk. My mum and dad are in a place called Haggardstown* and all mum’s Quinn family - it was marked on one of the stones that Anthony is buried in Castletown but it is only by Tony taking me to his resting in the last 20 years that I know exactly where he is. Dad learned how to put French drains in the normally wet end of the garden and grew great cabbages for which he got the massive price of 1 shilling each due to the scarcity that year. Gill has just said Mum told her they bought me brown boots and on the way home on the bus Anthony turned to her and said” MUMMY IF I GO TO HEAVEN CAN I HAVE BOOTS LIKE VINNIE?”. Two days later he was gone.

Vince Campbell

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggardstown