Goring Parish News
SUMMER 2015 Issue number 40 The Parish of St Mary and St Laurence, Goring-by-Sea. Registered Charity 1131418
Website – www.goringbyseacofe.org.uk
‘Be imitators of God … and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us’ Ephesians 5: 1—2
U3A Outreach• David Lloyd Leisure • WI • Mothers’ Union Davison School • Beavers & Rainbows • Phoenix Club Worthing Lions • Sussex Gruffs • Goring 1st School Ronnie Smith’s Big Band • Mumpreneurs • Facebook Scouts & Guides • West Park School • Cubs & Brownies Some of the activities in which our parishioners are involved
Photo courtesy of Rosemary Jones
This edition includes:
2 Goring United Reformed Church 75 years 12 - 13 For your support - Izulu Orphan Projects 3 Father George writes 14 St Mary’s Social Circle 4 From the Diocese: Petertide Ordinations 15 Jazz Evening 5 Diary and Lectionary for August 15 Music Group notes 6 Diary and Lectionary for September 16 Traidcraft and ‘Justice Matters’ 7 International Nepal Fellowship 17 - 18 The Feibusch Mural 8 - 9 The Christian Journey 18 Fr. Simon's July Crossword answers 9 Singing for Fun 19 News from the Social Activities Committee 10 Nature Watch 19 And finally...Bill Tree 11 - 12 The Story of Goring and Highdown 20 Parish Contacts - Note changes 12 Christian Aid
1 Parish Office opening hours
The Parish Office is open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - 10:00am to 12:00 noon. It is staffed by volunteers. If you have anything that needs to be handed in, a phone call in advance may avoid a wasted journey. Money should not be put through the letterbox. If you have money to pay in and are unable to get to the office, it may be handed to the Churchwardens or Treasurer after services on a Sunday. See the back page for Parish contact information. Editorial....
The newly formed Editorial Team of Malcolm Chilton, Roland Silcox, Robert Eden, Janet Annis, Stephen Edwards and Graeme Richardson hope you enjoyed our first issue in July. We are grateful to the many contributors who make our job such a joy. We welcome your comments, suggestions and articles. Photographs are especially welcome. However, if anyone does not wish for his/her, or his/her child’s, photo to appear in GPN or on the Parish website, please contact one of the clergy, churchwardens or a member of the editorial team to have that request formally recognised. Articles may be sent electronically, to [email protected] (preferred); hand-written or typed articles should be sent to the Parish Office. We aim to publish our October edition on or before 27th September. Press date for the October edition is Tuesday September 8th. Articles received after that date will only be included if time and space permit. If you would like to receive the e-mail version of Goring Parish News, please send your e-mail address to [email protected]. For security reasons, please state your connection with the Parish or provide a postal address or phone number. To be sure it arrives in your inbox each month, please add [email protected] to your contacts list. The GPN, including back numbers and supplementary articles, can also be found on the Parish website www.goringbyseacofe.org.uk. Items for the weekly Pew Sheet should be sent to reach the Parish Office by 10:00am on Thursdays. E-mail to: [email protected] Please do not send them to Goring Parish News.
Goring Parish News is published by Goring PCC Parish Office, 12 Compton Avenue, Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, BN12 4UJ
Goring Parish News is printed by West Park School whose support we gratefully acknowledge. Goring United Reformed Church
Celebrate
75 Years
31st July—2nd August
Contact Wilf Rhodes for details at [email protected] or 01903 248263
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Father George writes: Archdeacon Douglas has asked if Fr Simon could be be seconded to St Richard’s, Maybridge for a period of six months. Of course we have said yes. It will be good for Fr Simon and will extend his ministry, giving him the opportunity to work in a new community. He will continue to be at St Mary’s for the first Sunday in the month Family Eucharist which he has worked hard to build up. He will also do one or two other things in St Mary’s to keep the connection with our parish. When the secondment ends he will return to St Mary and St Laurence to continue his ministry.
It is another step in Fr Simon’s ministry. He has learnt and developed his ministry amongst us, and now he is to explore his ministry further in a community for which he will have responsibility. Please pray for him during this time. Both Fr Simon and I need the support of the communities we serve through the prayers of the faithful. Each day priests live their lives being open to the will of God and the opportunities He puts before us to spread the good news of the gospel. The parable of the sower who scatters his seed on the ground is at the heart of what we do. There is a Sufi saying which is helpful:
“Every morning I cast my seed to the wind. It takes no courage to scatter seeds but it takes great courage to go on facing the wind.”
With the prayerful support of the faithful we are sustained, so the Bishop’s charge to the congregation at a licensing, to pray for and care for their clergy is crucial to their ministry and the ministry of the community they serve. It may be that God will do amazing things through us for which we will give thanks, but what He asks of us, clergy and laity, is to be faithful. That needs ministry underpinned with prayer.
St Teresa of Avila has written something that we all should ponder over:
“The Lord does not look so much at the magnitude of anything we do, as at the love with which we do it.”
Ministry underpinned by prayer, leads to priest and people growing in love, and those two together, prayer and love, will transform our communities. May God bless Fr Simon in his secondment, and may we see in St Mary and St Laurence, and St Richard’s a faithful God working through a faithful people.
God bless,
3 Petertide Ordinations 2015 Bishop welcomes new clergy The Bishop of Chichester, Dr Martin Warner ordained sixteen candidates as deacon to serve in parishes across Sussex at a special service in Chichester Cathedral on Saturday 27 June. Deacons assist priests in parishes, usually for a year, before going on to be ordained as priest. They assist in leading worship, offering pastoral care and gain valuable experience of preaching.
They were supported on the day by family, friends and parishioners from the parishes in which they will serve. “We are praying for each of them and I know that each of the communities in which they will serve will warmly welcome them and their families at the start of their public ministries,” said Bishop Martin.
To read Bishop Martin’s sermon in full or to see further photos of the event visit: http://www.chichester.anglican.org/news/2015/06/29/bishop-welcomes-new-clergy/
Family Communions in August and September:
Sunday 2nd August Sunday 13th September
10:00am in the Molson 10:00am Garden (Note: 2nd Sunday of the month)
Coffee is served in Church (or the Hall) at A Traidcraft Stall is normally open at St Mary’s on the St Mary’s after the main Sunday service. second and third Sundays of each month.
In addition to the services shown: Morning Prayer Parish Breakfast is normally served in the Hall on the is said at St Mary’s Monday (except Bank Holidays) 3rd Sunday of every month from 8:15am to 9:15am. to Thursday each week at 8:30am. Please note: there will be no Parish Breakfast during August
4 Diary for August : August Sun 16th The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity Sat 1st Parish Prayers - St Mary’s 9:00am Holy Communion - St Mary’s 8:00am Sung Eucharist St Mary’s 9:30am Sun 2nd The Ninth Sunday after Trinity St Laurence’s 11:30am Holy Communion - St Mary’s 8:00am Evensong - St Mary’s 6:00pm Family Eucharist - St Mary’s 10:00am in the Molson Garden Wed 19th Celtic Communion - St Mary’s 6:30pm Evensong - St Mary’s 6:00pm Thur 20th Holy Communion - St Mary’s 10:00am Coffee Time - St Mary’s 10:45am until 11:45am Wed 5th Celtic Communion - St Mary’s 6:30pm Sat 22nd Parish Prayers - St Mary’s 9:00am
Thur 6th Holy Communion - St Mary’s 10:00am Sun 23rd The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity Feast of Transfiguration Holy Communion - St Mary’s 8:00am Coffee Time - St Mary’s 10:45am until 1 1:45am Sung Eucharist Sat 8th Parish Prayers - St Mary’s 9:00am St Mary’s 9:30am St Laurence’s 11:30am Sun 9th The Tenth Sunday after Trinity Evensong - St Mary’s 6:00pm St Laurence Patronal Festival Mon 24th St Bartholomew Holy Communion - St Mary’s 8:00am Wed 26th Celtic Communion - St Mary’s 6:30pm Sung Eucharist (joint) - St Laurence’s 10.00am Singing for Fun - St Mary’s Hall 7.30pm Evensong - St Mary’s 6:00pm Thur 27th Holy Communion - St Mary’s 10:00am Mon 10th St Laurence Coffee Time - St Mary’s 10:45am until 11:45am Wed 12th Celtic Communion - St Mary’s 6:30pm Sat 29th Parish Prayers - St Mary’s 9.00am Thur 13th Holy Communion - St Mary’s 10:00am Sun 30th The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity Coffee Time - St Mary’s 10:45am until 11:45am Holy Communion - St Mary’s 8:00am Sat 15th Parish Prayers - St Mary’s 9:00am Sung Eucharist St Mary’s 9:30am St Laurence’s 11:30am Evensong - St Mary’s 6:00pm Lectionary Readings: August Date Sung Eucharist Evensong
2 August G Exod. 16: 2-4,9-15 Ps. 88: 1-10
The Ninth Sunday after Trinity Eph. 4: 1-16 Job ch. 28 John 6: 24-35 Heb. 11: 17-31 9 August G I Kings 19: 4-8 Ps.91: 1-12
The Tenth Sunday after Trinity Eph. 4:25 - 5:2 Job 39: 1 – 40: 4 St Laurence’s Church Patronal John 6: 35, 41-51 Heb. 12: 1-17 Festival 16 August G Prov. 9: 1-6 Ps. 100
The Eleventh Eph. 5: 15-20 Exod. 2:23 – 3:10 Sunday after Trinity John 6: 51-58 Heb. 13: 1-15 23 August G Josh. 24; 1-2a, 14-18 Ps.116: 10-end
The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity Eph. 6: 10-20 Exod. 4:27 - 5:1 John 6: 56-69 Heb. 13: 16-21 30 August G Deut. 4: 1-2,6-9 Ps. 119: 9-16
The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity James 1: 17-end Exod. 12: 21-27
Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Matt. 4: 23 – 5: 20
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September Thur 17th Holy Communion - St Mary’s 10:00am Coffee Time - St Mary’s 10:45am until 11:45am Wed 2nd Celtic Communion - St Mary’s 6:30pm Sat 19th Parish Prayers- St Mary’s 9:00am Singing for Fun - St Symphorian’s 7:30pm
Thur 3rd Holy Communion - St Mary’s 10:00am Sun 20th The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Coffee Time - St Mary’s 10:45am until 11:45am Holy Communion - St Mary’s 8:00am Sat 5th Parish Prayers - St Mary’s 9:00am Sung Eucharist
St Mary’s 9:30am Sun 6th Blessed Virgin Mary Patronal Festival St Laurence’s 11:30am Holy Communion - St Mary’s 8:00am Ecumenical Service - New Life Church 6:00pm Sung Eucharist (joint) - St Mary’s 10:00am Mon 21st St Matthew Evensong - St Mary’s 6:00pm Wed 23rd Celtic Communion - St Mary’s 6:30pm Tue 8th St Mary Thur 24th Holy Communion - St Mary’s 10:00am Wed 9th Celtic Communion - St Mary’s 6:30pm Coffee Time - St Mary’s 10:45am until 11:45am Thur 10th Holy Communion - St Mary’s 10:00am Sat 26th Parish Prayers - St Mary’s 9:00am Coffee Time - St Mary’s 10:45am until 11:45am Harvest Supper 7:00pm Social Circle - St Mary’s Hall 7:30pm Sun 27th The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity Sat 12th Parish Prayers - St Mary’s 9:00am Harvest Festival
Holy Communion - St Mary’s 8:00am Sun 13th The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity Sung Eucharist Holy Communion - St Mary’s 8:00am St Mary’s 9:30am Family Eucharist St Mary’s 10:00am St Laurence’s 11:30am Sung Eucharist St Laurence’s 11:30am Evensong - St Mary’s 6:00pm Evensong - St Mary’s 6:00pm
Mon 14th Holy Cross Wed 16th Celtic Communion - St Mary’s 6:30pm Wed 30th Celtic Communion - St Mary’s 6:30pm Singing for Fun - St Mary’s Hall 7:30pm Singing for Fun - St Mary’s Hall 7:30pm
Lectionary Readings: September
Date Sung Eucharist Evensong
6 September W Isa. 61:10-end Ps. 132 The Blessed Virgin Mary Gal. 4: 4-7 Son of Sol. 2;1-7 St Mary’s Patronal Festival Luke 1: 46-55 Acts 1: 6-14 (Note: Family Eucharist next Sunday) 13 September G Isa. 50: 4-9a Ps. 119: 73-88 The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity James 3: 1-12 Exod. 18: 13-26 Family Eucharist Mark 8: 27-end Matt. 7:1-14
20 September G Jer. 11: 18-20 Ecumenical Evening Service
The Sixteenth James 3: 13-4: 3, 7-8a
Sunday after Trinity Mark 9: 30-37
27 September G Num. 11: 4-6, 10-16, 24-29 Ps. 120
The Seventeenth Sunday after James 5: 13-end Exod. Ch. 24 Trinity Mark 9: 38-end Harvest Festival Matt. 9:1-8
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The mission giving committee, a group which meets once a year under the leadership of Ruth Jepson, is looking for someone to join the committee as a replacement for Allan Plumpton. If you are interested, please could you contact either Ruth Jepson or Alison Evans (Parish secretary) via the office (email: [email protected]).
7 The Christian Journey:
Confirmation
Confirmation group: quiet day on Saturday, 4th of July.
As part of the preparation for Confirmation, Father Simon arranged a visit to the Bishop’s Palace in Chichester for a day of quiet and contemplation. The theme was repentance and absolution and the four of us who attended found it an enlightening and thought provoking experience. The day started with a Eucharist in the Bishop’s private chapel, home to the famous 13th century Chichester Roundel. Following the service we participated in a series of group discussions interspersed with periods of private reading and reflection, an experience that was enhanced greatly by the beautiful surroundings and the glorious weather. Lessons centred on the famous Parable of the Prodigal Son and time was set aside to reflect on the primary themes of this passage. During these times of personal reflection we were able to stroll through the gardens, visit the cathedral and meditate in the Bishop’s chapel. The uniqueness of the surroundings provided the perfect spiritual backdrop and made the whole experience truly unforgettable.
I should like to take the opportunity to thank The Rt Revd Martin Warner for allowing us into his home on this occasion and for those who have never been to the Bishop’s Palace Gardens, I thoroughly recommend a visit. If you are lucky enough to be invited into the private Palace then the fascinating and memorable ceiling of the “Tudor Room” is not to be missed.
Those from St. Mary’s who were being confirmed on the 16th of July are: Becky Pickett, Theresa Richardson, Kate Turner and Sally Hunt. Adam Miles
1st Communion
July also saw nine youngsters admitted to Holy Communion at the Family Service, after following a course led by Fr Simon and helped by Gregg Strutt.
8 Please hold all those admitted to Holy Communion in your prayers: Áine Daly; Freddie Johnson; Freya Took; Evie Sayer; Elliott Holland; Josef Anderson; Jessie Pickett; Brooke Williams and Lexie Collins. Pray for Emma Finlay, who completed the course and is waiting to be admitted to Holy Communion at St Matthew’s, Worthing.
We pray also for those who have been confirmed and pledge our support to them all as they continue on their Christian journey. Malcolm Chilton
Singing for Fun
The Singing for Fun group is led by Jean Gardiner with Malcolm Chilton on piano.
Singing for Fun sessions are enjoyable, uplifting and inspiring. They last for one hour. Valuable tips are given to improve breathing technique and performance. Singers of all levels of ability are welcome. The Group occasionally ‘sings out’ at various venues. The group recently sang a selection of popular songs to members of the Kestro - Worthing Stroke - Club at Goring United Reformed Church Hall, Shaftesbury Avenue.
The group meets at St Mary’s Church Hall on various Wednesdays throughout the year, at 7:20pm for 7:30pm. See below for dates.
Forthcoming Singing Dates
In St Mary’s Church Hall at 7:30pm unless otherwise stated.
26th August 16th September
th 2nd September - Rehearsal at 30 September St. Symphorian’s Church 7th October
5th September - a Saturday wedding 28th October WI meeting at Heene Road at St. Symphorian’s 2:00pm
9 Nature Watch – August/September 2015
One visitor this summer has been this Green Woodpecker – a very colourful fellow even though his beak shows where he has been digging for food!
The birds’ breeding season has drawn to a close. They will soon be much less evident as they skulk in shrubbery to allow their new plumage to grow whilst they are more vulnerable.
I am now looking out for dragonflies as their season has begun. This Common Darter (below, left) appeared from near our pond. Initially I thought it might have emerged from the pond but as it looks a mature female perhaps not; a lovely specimen all the same.
I’m hoping for more visiting dragonflies as the summer progresses. Earlier there was a female Broad Bodied Chaser laying eggs in the pond so hopefully in a few years’ time we shall see the results emerge. However, this Four Spotted Chaser (above, right) spent a short while near the pond before moving on to other pastures.
On one of those balmy evenings I took my bat detector into the garden just as the light was failing. Two pipistrelle bats flew into the garden and circled catching insects before making their way to the recreation ground nearby. The detector picks up the sound of their echo locating which is on a frequency we wouldn’t hear. It’s good to hear they are still around and presumably roosting in the nearby Ilex trees.
David Burt [email protected]
10 The Story of Goring and Highdown
Part 2 – Goring Pre-History Between 8000 and 4000 BC, before Highdown was occupied as a settlement, people of the Middle Stone Age roamed the area in search of food. Evidence of these ‘Hunter/gatherer’ groups has been found nearby at Angmering and Hammerpot, but the first people to leave evidence of occupation in Goring lived in the New Stone Age. By this time, around 3000 BC, the influence of Neolithic culture from the continent had brought new skills in stone and pottery and simple farming communities became established all over the Sussex Downs.
A beautiful polished axe head from the New Stone Age was discovered near the shops at the west end of the Strand, and others in Ardingly Drive, Thakeham Drive and on Highdown. The stone used to make these axes varies and is not all native to Sussex. While flint tools were fashioned from abundant local stone found on the surface or in the hilltop mines, the axe heads made from dolerite provide evidence that even during this earliest culture, exchange of goods went on over great distances.
New Stone Age axe heads: 18. Small polished dolorite axe head from the lower slopes of Highdown. 19. Polished axe head from Goring
For a long time the local economy was totally dependant upon flint for the manufacture of most tools and weapons. On the other side of the Findon Valley at Cissbury and north at Harrow Hill, dozens of flint mines have been discovered. Flint was not only mined locally but fashioned into scrapers, axe heads and a variety of tools which were used over a wide area. Recently the writer found a serrated flint scraper from this period in a shallow rabbit hole below the north rampart on Highdown, and an unfinished hand-axe on Cissbury. A vivid reconstruction of work in the Harrow
11 Hill flint mines can be seen at the Worthing Museum, along with many of the artefacts mentioned in this and the next chapter.
Bronze Age
From around 2500 BC, with the discovery of metal, more organised societies gradually came into existence. During this Old Bronze Age Highdown Hill became a permanent settlement, and excavations have uncovered several pieces of their simple decorated pottery.
By 900 BC, the hill was occupied by people who lived in circular wattle-and-daub huts and enclosed their encampment with a simple ditch. The holes cut into the chalk to take the upright timbers of two huts have been found under the western rampart, showing that the larger earthworks now visible only came later during the Iron Age. Inside the perimeter of one hut site was a hearth containing a bucket-shaped pot, and a stone handmill for grinding corn.
Janet Annis and Allan Plumpton If you wish to obtain a copy of this out-of-print book, here’s the link to ABEBOOKS to purchase second-hand Extracted from ‘The Story of Goring and copies: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/ Highdown’, by kind permission of Rev Frank isbn/0951272217 Fox-Wilson
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Christian Aid Week
House to House Collection
We were heartened to see that the result of the House to House and other events in the www.izuluorphanprojects.co.za Worthing area raised a total of £15,642 You are all invited to a fundraising which is an 8% increase on last year’s figure Coffee Morning of £14,418. to be held on Saturday 5 September 2015, from 10:30am to 1:00pm at A big thank you to everyone who contrib- 7 Parklands Avenue, Goring by uted to make this possible. Sea, BN12 4NG. There will be cakes, jams, chutneys, second hand books, greetings cards Di & David Burt (01903 248204) and Julie & etc for sale. Russell Marlow (01902 249685) Coffee and Cake £2.50
For more details please contact Janet Annis (01903) 539456 [email protected]
12 Izulu Orphan Projects – James 1:27 – to look after orphans and widows in their distress
Izulu Orphan Projects, IOP, is a non profit organisation which supports orphans and children of HIV positive widows. Kate Bain, and her late husband Chadd, founded this project in 2002. They support orphans living with HIV+ widows or elderly carers in villages near where Chadd grew up, in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Starting with a Christmas party for 80 orphans, they increased their support by delivering food parcels to these orphans every month. Their project has grown over the years as they've had to respond to the worsening orphan crisis in the region, and they now care for approximately 1,750 children plus widows. Their logo includes the verse from James 1:27 – to look after orphans and widows in their distress. The families are categorised according to means.
Food parcels are provided for 200 families and, when funds permit, houses are rebuilt for these vulnerable children to ensure they have a safe, comfortable and hygienic home to grow up in. As IOP see education as a way out of poverty they also ensure that the children registered with them go to school, providing school uniform and paying school fees. Other projects include training local people to carry out testing for HIV, diabetes, TB etc., giving support for planting vegetable gardens and training in craftwork to encourage self-sufficiency. The elderly and disabled are also helped with donated wheelchairs, walking frames, etc.
Situated in the rural lands near where I used to live, the family who run this small charity are well known to me and my husband, Colin, and we visit the project approximately every two years. For more information please contact us on 01903 539456/07788 600794, visit the website, www.izuluorphanprojects.co.za or the Facebook page.
Please support our Coffee Morning on Saturday 5 September, advertised elsewhere in this edition
Janet Annis
13 St Mary’s Social Circle News . . .
Saturday 20th June Strawberry Tea in St Mary’s Hall in aid of Kamelia Kids
Over 70 people enjoyed a Strawberry Tea which included sandwiches, a scone with cream and jam, cake, unlimited tea and, of course, strawberries.
There was a raffle, bottle tombola and a book stall. Over £550 was raised for Kamelia Kids and the Social Circle Committee would like to thank everyone who supported the event.
Thursday 11th June Cider Making Talk Thursday 25th June Guided Walking Tour of Worthing Deborah Booth gave a short history of cider making and explained the processes The tour was led by Kevin Newman of ‘All involved. Then people were invited to taste Inclusive History’ whose aim is to engage the wonderful cider and mead products. people of all ages in heritage and history.
More information at We were told how Worthing developed www.homegrownhunnys.co.uk . over centuries and we received many interesting snippets of information, such as the day Hitler Youth visited the town, the reception of Sir Oswald Mosley, the effects of bombing raids in World War II
September Meetings
10th September is a members’ evening. Further details will be in the pew sheet nearer the time.
Thursday 24th September: Shuffle Board and a fish and chip supper. It starts at 7:30pm and why the crew of a Lancaster bomber and is open to all. Cost and further details have their names commemorated on a nearer the time. special plaque on Worthing pier. A tour of New members are always welcome. The cost the twittens took us past the stables of the is £8 a year plus £1 per meeting (including lifeboat horses, the site of an ancient well refreshments). Ladies who are not members and some interesting ‘hidden’ houses. can come to any meeting for £1.50 . Men Information on available tours can be may attend open meetings for £1.50. found at [email protected] Jenny Lochen - tel: 01903 249154 14 Jazz Evening and Picnic
A very relaxing Jazz Evening and Picnic was held on Saturday 27 June in the Molson Garden. It was warm, sunny and a very happy occasion. The Arthur Catt Jazz Quintet were brilliant; they played some well known tunes whilst we all enjoyed our picnics washed down by Pimms and wine from the bar. (Our thanks to Paul Chatfield)
Photos courtesy of Gary Congdon
This event provided much pleasure and also raised over £600 for church funds. It is hoped that it will be repeated annually! A huge thank you to everyone who helped, especially Jenny Lochen.
Liz Hill
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Music Group Notes
Our parish is blessed with many talented musicians, ensuring that a wide spectrum of styles is available for worship and weddings. In recent months the works of Sting, the Carpenters and the Lighthouse Family have featured alongside those of modern worship leaders like Stuart Townend, Geraldine Latty, Keith Getty and Paul Oakley, as well as more traditional composers, including Johann Pachelbel. We are always willing to share our music and chat about it with members of the congregation and we welcome suggestions. If we can find the music we’ll try it!
We are always keen to recruit new members, so if you have a passion for music, do come and talk to us.
Malcolm Chilton 07986818966
15 Traidcraft and “Justice Matters”
Traidcraft has been operating now for 35 years. It started with a vision of trading with producers to raise them out of poverty. In the early days, coffee, tea and chocolate were the staple items for sale and pretty grim they were, too. But we bought them because we believed it was the right thing to do and we were doing something positive for the producers. Now, the range of ethical goods is enormous and you only have to browse through the Traidcraft catalogues to realise this. Not only has the range grown, but the quality has improved vastly – and so has the taste! The early vision of Traidcraft remains the same, but as with many things the ideology grows and embraces other changes. One of these is the way that Traidcraft campaigns on behalf of those who are unable to campaign for themselves and some of you will have seen the “Justice Matters” cards that have been in church for a few months.
This campaign is challenging the British Government to look at the way British companies recompense foreign workers who have been severely injured or killed, remembering the devastating fire in Bangladesh killing over 1000 factory workers making clothing for the British market.
On Thursday 2nd July, the Campaign was presented to Parliament and in the evening there was a quiet, reflective service at St Margaret's, Westminster, to which, as the Fair-Trader for the Parish, I was invited to attend. Keith and I took the opportunity to show our support and attended. We were surprised at how few people there were, but bearing in mind how hot it had been perhaps it was to be expected. We heard stories of some of the victims of exploitation by British firms – the poisoning of land from the by-products of mining; the families left to fend for themselves when the breadwinner is killed through his/her work because no provision is made for his/her dependants. The legal systems of other countries are not as skilled as ours, but through the intervention of British lawyers, companies are being brought to justice to recompense those who have been harmed by their actions. There is still a lot of work to be done in this field, but there is hope for the future.
The speaker was Martin Charlesworth, the Executive Director of Jubilee+, a long-term supporter of Traidcraft. At the end of the Service there was a call to action to support Traidcraft by: serving coffee and tea supplied through them selling Traidcraft wares encouraging others to buy from the stall.
We are very grateful to our regular customers who buy a myriad of items – coffee, tea, cookies (ginger is a firm favourite), honey, washing liquid, rubber gloves, socks, cards, to name a few.
Do look at the stall next time it is open (2nd and 3rd Sundays in St Mary's Church) – there may just be something that you need. Please take a catalogue and you will be surprised at the contents. Also look on their website and look at the new products (and their sale items) that I can order for you (orders take approximately 5 days to arrive). Remember that buying through the Stall on a Sunday morning, you are not only helping small producers trade out of poverty and enable them to better the lives of their families and communities, but the PCC also receives 10% of the monies raised. Janice Lelliott 16
The Hans Feibusch Mural …
Alison Evans and I have been working on a project to take some photos of the Hans Feibusch mural, get some greetings cards made and a publicity leaflet written. A few years ago I wrote an essay for my Northbrook College art course about Feibusch and I have loads of photos and information already because of that. This is a little resumé of part of my essay.
Hans Feibusch (1898 – 1998) was a German Jewish emigré artist who settled in Britain in the 1930’s because of the Nazi persecution: his early work was in Hitler’s infamous “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) exhibition, and much was later destroyed.
After the war he became known to Bishop George Bell of Chichester who believed that for too long there had been an estrangement between the arts and the church, and also saw culture to be the key to the re-establishment of civilised values after the war.
Too much church art was (and still is) traditional, banal and tasteless to the point of kitsch, and Bishop Bell wanted modern artists to portray the images of faith in a new modern style. He also did not subscribe to the idea that church art had to be made by worthy artists with Christian beliefs.
Hans Feibusch offered his services to the Church as thanks for his welcome in England, and his work appeared in many churches (as well as secular buildings). He was a man of faith who recognised the need for church art to educate and inspire with its imagery and symbolism.
When the mural in St Mary’s Church in Goring was proposed there was considerable opposition to it, because it was thought not respectful and traditional enough, and simply because it was very ‘modern’. However after much discussion a decision was made to proceed and the mural was completed in 1954. Now it has also acquired the status of age, which makes it more beautiful, and especially because the 1950’s are far back enough in time to be fashionable again.
The Goring mural is reputed to be his best; the figures are particularly elegant and graceful. It is a representation of the Light of Christ in Heaven. It is very spare, with simple shapes and plain colours. There are also sketches for it in the choir vestry. I am told that the design actually includes the crucifix above the pulpit, as all things proceed from Christ.
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17 It reminds me of medieval wall paintings which were there to educate and inspire; the Christ figure looks down and watches over the people below, and is a symbol of continuity.
Rosemary Jones
Fr Simon’s Crossword Answers – from July 2015 edition Across: Down: 4. Lemon 1. Zorro 5. Emmanuel 2. December 6. Origami 3. Duke 9. Zechariah 7. Matthias 11. Julian 8. Curate 16. Sea 10. Hippophobia 17. Blackdown 12. Anglican 18. Ichthys 13. Richard 19. Eucharist 14. Francis 21. Tiberias 15. Justin 23. Walsingham 20. Ruth 25. Vulture 22. Pentecost 27. Wales 24. Medway 28. Bluetooth 26. Peter 29. Lewes 30. Esther 18 News from the Social Activities Committee
The Social Activities Committee met recently to plan the programme of events for the remainder of 2015. Although we do raise valuable funds for the church with our events, one of our main purposes is to bring the church community together in a social setting. For any of these events to be successful we need your support.
As part of our Patronal Festival celebrations, the next planned event is a Fun Day on Saturday, 5th September at 4:00pm. It will involve games and competitions for all ages! Bring along your picnic. For further details, please see the SAC noticeboard in the porch.
On September 26th at 7:00pm, we will be enjoying our annual Harvest Supper. This is a chance to enjoy good company and good food. Always popular, be sure to buy your tickets early.
By popular request, our October get together will be a Curry Night. So please put Saturday, 31st October in your diary.
Carolathon 2015 and Christmas Market
Saturday, 5th December and Sunday, 6th December 2015
The main fund-raising event of the year is on Saturday, 5th December. This will involve a Christmas Market in the Church Hall and the (nearly) continuous singing of Carols/Christmas Songs in the church. Local choirs have been invited to participate.
The weekend will finish on Sunday afternoon with a concert in church.
All funds raised by this event will be shared between the church and the local Family Welfare Support Group.
If you can spare any time to be a Friend of the Social Activities Committee, helping at specific events, you would be welcomed with open arms! We are a pleasant bunch of people. The Committee Members are Pat Cross, Penelope Corp, Liz Hill, Jenny Lochen, Sylvia Jarrett, Sarah Stovell and Barbara Webber.
And finally …
An engaged couple, well into their eighties, were out shopping one day and decided to call in at the local chemist. The future groom asked the assistant, “Do you stock ear wax remover?” “Yes,” came the reply. “How about denture cream, eye drops and Deep Heat?” “Oh yes, we do stock all those.” “Do you keep vitamin pills, smelling salts and corn plasters?” “Indeed we do,” came the reply. “I am sure you stock aspirin, paracetamol and ibuprofen?” “Naturally,” the assistant said. After a short discussion with his bride to be he said, “We should like to use your shop for our wedding gift list.”!!! Bill Tree
19 Parish Contacts Vicar The Revd. George Butler 01903 242525 Curate The Revd. Simon Horton 01903 529130 Reader Mr Keith Lelliott 01903 504384 Churchwardens Mr Ian Hill 01903 610021 Mrs Barbara Webber 01903 240613
The Vicarage and Parish Office 01903 242525 12 Compton Avenue, Goring-by-Sea Worthing BN12 4UJ e-mail: [email protected]
St Mary’s Hall lettings Mr Philip Webber 01903 246583 St Mary’s Bellringers Mr Graham Hills 01903 266980
St Laurence’s Church, (Sea Place, BN12 4BY) Local Wardens Mr Geoffrey Oliver 01903 240540 Mrs Ruth Jepson 01903 507469 St Laurence’s Hall lettings Mr Geoffrey Oliver 01903 240540
Other Church Officers: Safe-guarding representative (Child protection, etc) Mrs Kathy Bawcutt 01903 501666 PCC Treasurer Mr Keith Lelliott 01903 504384 Parish Giving Officer Mr John Stovell 01903 535289 Parish Secretary & PCC Secretary Miss Alison Evans 01903 503905
Church Music : St Mary's Organist Mr Richard Elwood 01903 242127 Choirmaster Mr Alex Bristow 01903 505554 Choir contact Mrs Rosemary Jones 01903 241061 Music Group leader Mr Malcolm Chilton 01903 506573 St Laurence's Music Group leader Mr Russell Marlow 01903 249685
Communications Group e-mail: [email protected] Chairman Mr Allan Plumpton Editorial Mr Roland Silcox 01903 243970 Mr Malcolm Chilton 01903 506573 Mrs Penelope Corp 01903 209448 Website Mr Stephen Edwards 01903 709340
Unless otherwise acknowledged, photographs and images included in this publication have been taken either by staff and parishioners of Goring parish, are downloaded from the ‘Clipart’ gallery provided by courtesy of Microsoft Corporation or obtained from Wikipedia. Goring PCC, as publisher of this magazine, acknowledges and wishes to express its thanks to them.
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