October 2017 TRU- Professional LawnCare ICKLEHAM PARISH A lawn is never JUST a lawn • Fertilisation • Weed and moss control • Aeration • Scarification • Insect control agazine • Disease treatment • Hard surface weed control M Call now for a free LawnCare Analysis 01306 644886 October Mickleham Rectory TruGreen (Epsom) Michael Beecheno 2017 Dear friends The Cottage, Pilgrims Way, Westhumble Starting at just £20 per treatment Mickleham It’s Harvest Festival time again! I have mentioned before that for many of us this is something which passes us by without so much as a glance. We are so used to AService MASTER BRAND Parish having whatever food we want on our table at whatever time of year. So much so Magazine that we easily forget the toil and effort that goes on throughout the world to make A community magazine for good quality food available to us. Food Served All Day – Free Wi-Fi Mickleham and Westhumble, Food in abundance for us – but not for everyone: Walkers – Muddy Boots – Cyclists – Families and dogs All welcome published under the auspices • 795 million people in the world have had their hope stolen by constant hunger of Mickleham PCC, with an Lovely function room available for • One-third of all food produced is never eaten (surely we should hang our heads meetings, family and business events independent editorial panel. in shame when so many are hungry) Near Box Hill and Westhumble Station Please see The magazine is published at • The carbon footprint has contributed to a changing climate with resultant floods, 01306 889932 www.steppingstonesdorking.com the beginning of each month, droughts and unreliable rain leaving many of the world’s poorest people struggling [email protected] website except January and August. to feed themselves and their families for COPY DEADLINE It need not be like this; it should not be like this. FOR THE And at one level there is a simple solution. In parts of Malawi, for example, Tearfund’s partners have been training local communities in a programme called 'Foundation special NOVEMBER 2017 for Farming', a programme which teaches simple techniques to farm dry, barren land MAGAZINE STEAK NIGHT events and make it flourish again. And the results have been amazing for in many cases the EVERY TUESDAY Sunday training has increased the harvest ten-fold. th TWO COURSE MEAL 8 October And it does not cost very much to train people. A gift of £30 will provide three GLASS OF WINE send to: families with such training – training which will enable them to grow enough food and so provide a healthy surplus to build a future on. £19 Sue Tatham St Anthony, Pilgrim’s Way At the end of our Harvest Family Service we will have a retiring collection for this Westhumble programme. In all probability most of you reading this will not be there, but here is a Dorking RH5 6AW challenge: Why not, on 1st October when you are enjoying your Sunday roast, make 01306 882547 a donation to the programme? Gifts can be left at the Rectory (marked “Malawi”) [email protected] and will be added to the church collection. We cannot change the world overnight, but in small ways like this we can play a Contributions in any form Sherlock Funeral Service very modest part in giving a few people hope for the future – hope which at the are welcome, as are good moment they do not have. Sherlock Funeral Service is an quality photographs. There is no charge for advertising Independent family owned business, With best wishes established over 100 years local charity and community events. However, the editors l Private Service Chapel & Rest Rooms reserve the right to shorten, l Home visits arranged if required omit or reformat articles submitted for publication, l Pre-Paid Funeral Plans available depending on space. l Free Parking Malcolm, our Parish Priest, is more than happy to visit people in the parish (with or without church links) to discuss pastoral and/or spiritual Telephone: 01306 882266 matters. He is also happy to offer home communion to those not able Printed by Bishops Printers, to attend church on a regular basis. Just contact him. Trellis House, 190 South Street, Dorking RH4 2ES. Portsmouth Email: [email protected] Funeral Directors & Monumental Masons 1 Malcolm Raby to retire (again) Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf e were very sorry to hear that very well as he did not feel ready to give WMalcolm Raby has decided up his work completely. And it suited us to retire in November. He came to well as he and Sue soon became valued Migrant Workers and Refugees Mickleham in June 2013 as a house- members of our community. Extract from a short talk given on by war and who have moved either 'There are 311 asylum seekers in Kofinou Join us for for-duty priest after retiring from his But this time retirement means Sunday 16th July at a service in St. within Iraq or outside but not from camp near Larnaca from 15 countries Breakfast full-time post as vicar of the rural retirement. Rather than returning to his Michael’s Church choice. These are not migrants as in including Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, The Running Horses parish of Over and Longstanton in the native Yorkshire, Malcolm and Sue are The Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf Dubai but refugees from war. Those Congo, Cameroon and Lebanon. There Ely Diocese. who have left Iraq have moved primarily are 89 children ranging from a few 9 – 10 a.m. planning to move to Epsom, to be near has churches in Cyprus, Iraq, Bahrain, ‘House for Duty’ is an arrangement their two children and their families. We Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, to Jordan together with maybe 2 million months to 18 years. Ten babies have Please book by the Tuesday before whereby a priest can live in a Parsonage shall miss them both and are hoping we Qatar, Oman and Yemen. Congregations from Syria. The majority want to go back been born in the camp. Conditions are House in exchange for carrying out can entice them back to continue their in the Gulf are predominantly migrants. to their homes and they wait in camps basic but not unreasonable. People live Men’s Breakfasts certain duties in a parish, but without very excellent quiz nights. There are close to 20 million working within their country or next door. Only in portacabins with power and water Third Saturdays receiving a stipend. This suited Malcolm Sue Tatham a minority travel further and some end but the residents are not allowed to st and living in the Gulf primarily from 21 October India, Pakistan and the Philippines and up attempting to enter Europe. work and so there is little to do. Life is Book with: Andy Diamond almost all Christian. In most of the Gulf And some of those refugees are in a very limited with the added burden of [email protected] states the Diocese has permission to small camp in Cyprus. For those trying an uncertain future. Women’s Breakfasts Introducing build churches and is host to many to escape war and hunger this is not an During school months the children Fourth Saturdays protestant congregations. The numbers ideal place. Cyprus may be a member of attend the local Cypriot school returning th are staggering. 25,000 attend services the EU but it is an island 500 miles from for lessons in Arabic run by a Palestinian 28 October Church House, Guildford the EU mainland and a country where Book with: Stephanie Randall at Holy Trinity Dubai each weekend, school teacher also resident in the the bureaucracy grinds slowly and 0773 6933 482 lans are being finalised to bring and breakout space and excellent at the Anglican Centre in Doha maybe camp. While the government takes political asylum has a special meaning. [email protected] together all Guildford Diocese’s facilities. 15,000 and a new church being built reasonable care of the camp residents P off the main island of Abu Dhabi will Asylum is granted for a particular job less immediate necessities such as administrative departments and teams The Bishop of Guildford, Andrew Watson, be even larger. and those on offer to refugees are the reading glasses, shampoo, nappies and under one roof by Christmas 2017. The said: ‘I’m delighted that we’ve finally menial activities with little salary and no toys are slow in arriving if at all. The largest current site, Diocesan House in managed to secure such excellent office Many poorer expatriate workers are possibility of change or improvement. volunteers rely on donations to provide Quarry Street which needs significant accommodation, bringing together in the Gulf without their families and ea So refugees wait for a move to Greece some of these small luxuries. It is all and expensive refurbishment and the different central teams under one housed in labour camps. In Qatar or Italy but that happens slowly if at about showing people care.' @ 3 cannot accommodate everyone is to be roof for the first time. Transforming construction workers building football TFourth Mondays sold and the Education Centre offices on stadiums and in Dubai those who built all. Some view refugees as a threat to This is not a case of extreme hardship Church, Transforming Lives has given European society and others argue their Stag Hill will be leased out. huge impetus for us to work more the Palm live a harsh life with limited and deprivation and no one is being Monday need is not as immediate as those in the New premises, to be called Church effectively together in support of our freedoms but are willing to endure it to killed but nevertheless these are war zones but nevertheless these are House, Guildford have been leased from parishes, schools and chaplaincies – and remit money home.