Price 90p when sold

CHRISTIAN AID WEEK - BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT! Normally at this time of year Churches all across the country would be gearing up to distribute Christian Aid envelopes and then go house to house collecting during Christian Aid Week The exercise last year raised £8 million, but what about 2020? This year with the Corovirus Lockdown Christian Aid week is just not going to happen, unless that is we all go virtual. If you look at the Christian Aid website https:// www.christianaid.org.uk/about-us/christian-aid-week/ coronavirus-guidance and scroll down and click on Organising your own virtual fundraiser you will find all sorts of idea to help CA in 2020. (By the way there are two more pages after the one we show below).

STEVE JONES LICENSING AND INDUCTION Along with many other important events our new Team Rector’s Licensing and Induction will not take place in a packed Holy Trinity Church. Steve will be Licensed privately by Bishop Jackie on June 17 and then at some time later Inducted into the Mission Community by the Archdeacon of Exeter. Steve and Denise will move into the Rectory as soon as possible and later there will of course be a proper Service of Welcome.

If you would like to see the video of the ‘Bake-off take a look at the website: https://exmouthcoastalchurches.org.uk/podcasts/ and you will find it at the end of 2nd Sunday of Easter – Worship with Rev’d Huw Ryden and family. Followed by the Great Mission Bake Off.

MISSION COMMUNITY INFORMATION CHURCH SERVICES

Holy Trinity, Exmouth St Margaret & St Andrew, Littleham

Sunday Sunday

8.00 am Holy Communion (Prayer Book) 10.00 am Sung Eucharist with Wholeness & Healing (5th) 10.00 am Sung Eucharist Breakfast Praise – (3rd) at Littleham 4.00 pm Sunday@4 (informal family service, Leisure Centre) ( see Link for dates) (Child Friendly) (non Eucharistic) 5.30 pm Open to God (See Link) 6.30pm Choral Evensong (3rd in the Lady Chapel) Bring and Share Tea - 5.30pm contemporary informal worship from 6.00pm with praise songs, Weekdays bible teaching, prayer, film and guest speakers)

Monday 7.30 pm Hard Question Café Weekdays (3rd - check posters Net & Link) Wednesday 11.30 am Eucharist (Prayer Book) Thursday 10.30 am Holy Communion (Prayer Book)

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Lympstone MORNING PRAYER OUR CHURCHES ARE CLOSED is said Sunday Monday to Friday 8.30 am at Holy Trinity 9.00 am at Littleham 8.00 am Lay Led Morning Prayer (all except 3rd)) Said Eucharist – 3rd PRAYERS FOR THE MISSION COMMUNITY 10.00 am Sung Eucharist - Every, except 1st and 3rd are said in Family Holy Communion (Child Friendly) 1st Littleham Chantry Chapel Wednesdays—9.00am Morning Praise – non-Eucharistic 3rd

FOR PASTORALWeekdays CARE PLEASE CONTACTSacred BENEDICT Space—Holy Trinity OR HallHUW Monday 9.30am Quiet Prayer - (Every 2nd & last) every Monday 9.00 am in Term Time

Wednesday 11.00 am Holy Communion (Said)

CLERGY— READERS—STAFF Clergy

Team Rector Day Off The Revd Benedict Cambridge Team Vicar 263681 office 07535480077 “ (Thursday ) The Rev Huw Ryden Assistant Curate 263681 hours 07549284038 “ (Friday ) The Revd Lesley Holman Associate Minister 263681 (working days Tuesday & Wednesday)

Licensed Readers Readers and Clergy who also play an active role in the Mission Community Readers: Ann Hurley, Mrs Elizabeth Burren 264010 Michael Lewis, Pauline Mortimer (PCC rep), Di West Mrs Demelza Henderson 272243 Clergy: Revds. Preb. Margaret Cameron, Maureen Douglas, The Ven. Canon Dr Trevor Jones, Tony Youth and Family Workers Mortimer, Peter Nickols Rawle, Canon John Mrs Brooke Haycock, 263681 (Sat. & Wed - Days off) Philpott, Canon Ian Pusey & Geoffrey Wrayford. all who can be contacted via the Mission Mrs Fionna Upchurch 263681 ( Works Fri, & 1 Sun) Community Office 2

Interim Team Rector’s Topics.... your Homegroup leader but you also have to take the initiative. Phone, write (I’ve had a letter and a card so far in lockdown and this simple contact is wonderfully encouraging), email, video call, “Week Five in the Big Brother WhatsApp, Facebook. In this modern world, if House” (delivered in a North East nothing else, there is no shortage of communication accent, but please don’t ask me if it is options available … you could even try semaphore, Geordie or Sunderland!) homing pigeon or smoke signals!

Normally, I would be sitting in my study, writing We need to keep worshiping. This can be day by this, having seen many of you over the last few day – find some worship music that you like: hymns, weeks and anticipating seeing you again over the psalms or spiritual songs and play those (have a look coming days. at the RSCM’s website https://www.rscm.org.uk/our -resources/hftd/ ); read your Bible, order some Bible What started as a temporary blip, became very real reading notes (ask me for some suggestions or have a and very disturbing when I was unable to celebrate look at https://www.bibleinoneyear.org/ ); if you are Easter in church with all of you. So, there are some able to tackle technology, I can suggest a huge array key questions we need to be asking now that we will of podcasts or websites where you can find really not return to ‘normal’ any time soon. good sermons.

How do I worship now? How do I have fellowship? We should also keep Sunday special. And to that How do I grow and deepen my faith and end, we will continue to make video services discipleship? How do I give? How do I serve my available on our website ( ht t ps : / / community? exmouthcoastalchurches.org.uk/ ), we also have a weekly Sunday morning Zoom service where we get As church leaders, we are working to help you together via video to worship together (let me know answer those questions but the one thing that we if you want to join us). But do have a look at what know is that if we ignore our spiritual lives, they will the Church of England nationally is offering and wither on the vine. what the diocese and cathedral are offering. Ian Pusey recommends a Sunday pattern for worship 5 Jesus said, “I am the vine; you are the being: 08:10, BBC R4, ‘Meeting in the Lockdown’; branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you 10:00 live Choral Eucharist from the cathedral (the will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do order of service can be downloaded beforehand); our 6 nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a own Mission Community service which can be 7 branch that is thrown away and withers … If you found on the website from early Sunday morning. remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for And, alongside all these things … pray. Prayer is 8 you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear what will keep you sane in isolation (you can never much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” be isolated from God). Prayer will fill your heart John 15:5-8 NIV and feed your soul. Prayer can be done in silence with no words, it can be liturgical in a Daily Office, If nothing else, this Coronavirus lockdown reminds it can be raging and sobbing, it can be singing and us that there is more to a life in Christ than just going dancing but it is always a deliberate turning to God. to church on a Sunday. Sunday church is vital and Until we meet - May the road rise up to meet you. we will be meeting again, and with great celebration, the moment the Government and Archbishop Justin May the wind be always at your back. give us the go ahead but there is much we can do to May the sun shine warm upon your face; continue this life (the glory of God is a person fully the rains fall soft upon your fields alive – St Irenaeus … sort of). and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand. How do we remain ‘fully alive’ in our current circumstances? Benedict. Hopefully, your pastoral link is in touch, as well as

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Mission Community News BIBLE SOCIETY

Just to let you know officially that we have had to cancel the Bible Society Celebration in Holy Trinity Church in June 2020

Ed . Even though we are two weeks after Easter this Hopefully, when we are able to hold a Committee Spiritual Pilgrimage is still relevant as we have to come meeting we, will be able to plan a delayed celebration. to terms with another three weeks of ‘lockdown’.

Thank you for the Parish’s continued support for the Even though Easter Pilgrim has begun, there is no reason why work of the Bible Society. if you install the app on your smart phone or tablet you should not begin the ‘40 days’ now. You can easily find your way to the first of the daily reflections by tapping on the menu bars at best wishes Jenny the top left of the screen and selecting ‘Browse by date’ and then selecting Easter day.

PRESENTATION TO SUE CARRAHAR Each day provides you with a short Bible reflection, an invitation to pray and a suggestion for responding to the vision Sue Carrahar has of the Lord's Prayer itself. effectively been the sole A message from the Churchwarden at Archbishops of Canterbury and York Littleham Church for the last two years, for We are inviting the whole Church to take 40 days this the last year as elected Easter season to explore this prayer in still deeper ways. churchwarden and for Take time each day to be still, to offer to God the pain the previous year, and suffering around us and within us, to reflect on each standing in to fill the line of the prayer and to pray with others across the absence. During this world the words our risen Lord has taught us. time she has served the church faithfully, with This will be an Easter season like no other as the world seemingly limitless endures the coronavirus pandemic. Each day we will pray enthusiasm, frequently the familiar words: Our Father, give us this day our daily explaining and bread, forgive us, deliver us from evil. We will pray them encouraging, advising with a new and ever deeper understanding and sometimes doing a little necessary cajoling. Download the mobile app from

We had expected that after the APCM in March, the nominated churchwardens would work with Sue during a time of transition until the "THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS" Archdeacon’s visitation when Di West and Martyn Haley would come into office and she could retire. As we all When despair for the world grows in me know, plans have had to change and these events have and I wake in the night at the least sound now been put back at least six months. in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood-drake Littleham church members will recall that in early March rests in his beauty on the water and the we held a collection for Sue and part of that went towards great heron feeds. a Magnolia Stellata for her garden. It seemed such a shame to deny Sue the enjoyment of it, so as the plant I come into the peace of wild things started to come into bloom an informal presentation was who do not tax their lives with forethought made (at a distance) on her front lawn of grief. I come into the presence of still water . And I feel above me the day-blind stars A more formal additional presentation will be made by waiting with their light. For a time Benedict in church at a later date – though when that date I rest in the grace of the world will be remains to be seen. and am free.

Di West and Martyn Haley. by Wendell Berry

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Mission Community News

MUSINGS FROM THE TREASURER…… THE CHURCHYARD IN THE CORONA VIRUS ‘Well, presumably he has nothing to do but sit on his balcony all day. He must be bored stiff…’ Shaun, our Sexton is still working at the Churchyard as normal, doing a I can assure you that this is very far from the truth, especially with all the other wonderful job as ever. We have had hats I wear. Where shall I start? a small number of graveside services etc., and without exception he has Let’s talk about finances first. I do not have complicated software programmes been complimented on his on my aged computer, so it has been a fairly long manual process to work out professionalism. In rare spare how the lock-down will affect our finances if it continues for some months moment he took this photo for us, of more. I chose the end of June as a likely (hopeful) end. the ‘White House’, which having been destroyed by fire last We have seen concert after concert cancelled, which would have earned us September, was just starting to be income for the use of the building. For most concerts, given by Societies rebuilt. which have charitable status, our charge will probably be something over £100 - depending how long the hire is for, as the charge is ‘per session’ - afternoon Hopefully once all returns to normal, and evening, for instance are two sessions. We charge extra for heating. In it will quickly be completed, giving addition, at most of these functions we provide coffee etc., retaining for the Shaun, after all these years, a proper church any surplus. That can bring in another £30 or so, net. Rest Room, and an office where he can sit to chat to those wishing to The Coffee Bar at HT, plus Sunday Coffees at both churches, has been discuss forthcoming funerals. bringing in about £3,500 per year, net of costs, and this has been increasing since we have welcomed our friends from Tower Street Methodist Church, who come each Tuesday. We would have had a ‘Bank Holiday Bonanza’ on Easter Monday which would have contributed to that income stream.

So far only one wedding in this parish has been postponed - that is another ‘loss’ of £300. Then of course there is the sale of the cards etc etc.

All this is on top of our loss of income from cash in the collection bags, as well as, at the moment, the money in the weekly envelopes. As I said last month, I am praying fervently that those giving this way will be conscientiously filling them week by week, to bring to church once we return to our churches. ANNUAL PARISH CHURCH MEETING On the ‘plus’ side we are of course saving money on our heating and lighting POSTPONEMENT bills. As a Christian Employer all our ‘staff’ were assured that they would be paid in full for as long as the crisis lasted. But thanks to the Government Our APCM was postponed (it should Scheme, we shall be able to recover 80% of the salaries of those who have have been on Wednesday 25 March been furloughed. A great help. 2020), as directed by Bishop Robert and further to guidance following The bottom line of all the above is that our financial situation will be Bishop Robert exercising powers worse off by around £6,000 more than we predicted. conferred by section 10 of the Churchwardens Measure 2001 and We must give thanks that the figure is ‘only’ that amount. That is mainly due Rule 78 of the Church to the high percentage of folk who give by Direct Debit or Standing Order. On Representation Rules. the subject of Direct Debits, the Parish Giving Scheme have just announced that they are now able to sign up new regular donors, over the phone – no The APCM should now be held forms to be completed! If you would like to know more, do let me know. between early September and 31 October. A cheerful note on which to end.. All PCCs have been advised to draw up contingency plans, lest anything Our new provisional APCM date is untoward should happen to its Officers etc. So I have had a fun time planning Wednesday 21 October @ 7pm Holy for my own demise! A very useful exercise. Trinity Hall. Bob Soutter 5

Mission Community News Corona virus and God

“Where is God The story of Job has long been a background to many when you need discussions about the place of suffering in God’s world. him?” has been Strangely, God allows Satan to have his wicked way with and no doubt will Job taking him within an inch of losing his life. Job hangs be the cry in the onto his faith in God rejecting his friends’ unsatisfactory heart of many explanations for his dire straits. Whilst Job’s faith is an just as it was in Belsen and the floods and fires that inspiring example of faithfulness under great pressure, have devastated many a community in recent days. like Jesus’ reference to the deaths caused by the collapse of the Tower of Siloam (Luke 13:1-5), there is no clear- Christians have come up with various answers to the cut answer to the ever-present ‘Why’ question. If God is question of God’s involvement with Covid-19. With the so big, so great and so mighty that there is nothing he story of the Tower of Babel, the Flood, 10 plagues in cannot do, then ……. ? The popular historian Tom Egypt and the heavy hand of God on his people Holland ends his article on Job by saying that hopes are propelling them into exile in Babylon in mind some have not easily won but that “the labour of searching for them jumped to the word judgement. In America some were can serve as its own reward.” keen to say that God was delivering to humanity a severe warning concerning his ultimate judgement through this Various bishops have sought to provide answers to the virus. One pastor who had said that California’s fires nagging ‘Why’ question. were a sign of God’s displeasure at its immorality was Tom Wright (ex- left with a problem when his own home was devastated Durham) had an article in by floods. Historically, judgement has been a common Time magazine to which explanation for disasters. Albert Camus’ novel The the sub-editor gave the Plague has Father Peneloux saying that the pestilence title “Christianity offers was a sign of God’s displeasure with the faithless people no answers about the of Oran. One has only to say the word holocaust to put a Coronavirus. It’s not big question mark beside the view that all this is simply meant to.” It then being God’s judgement though, of course, there will be many Lent he said that the best things for Christians and others to learn from it including Christian response to the repentance. pandemic was the much- neglected spiritual Another word that some Christians have jumped to is resource of lamentation. Various psalms were focused on protection. God will protect his people because he loves (6, 10, 13,22) and the conclusion drawn that whilst they them. That was the view of a woman questioned as to do not seek to explain the cause of the problem, they do why she was going into a full Russian Orthodox Church give reassurance within it. Similarly, CMS’ Lent Course in Moscow when Red Square was deserted. “It’s a pure was on the theme of lamentation. place, and therefore safe,” she said. And she was a doctor. Similarly, Rodney-Howard Browne, pastor of a mega To lament it said “is an expression of a grief, an active church in Florida, defied the state’s ban on gatherings process of soul trying to wear out its pain, outlive it, over 50 saying, “If a man cannot be safe in church, you persist through it to a safe place of respite and a different are in serious trouble.” perspective on living …. It’s an expression of a sorrow In London Bishop and a path to life beyond that of sorrow.” Revd. Giles Climate Wiseman (not Fraser put it like this: “I have sat in church on my own one of ours!) was quite a bit these last few weeks. I have a large wooden selling holy oil and cross set up in the aisle. I am sitting with a dying man, scarlet thread which keeping him company. And this feels like the proper when applied with place for me to express some sort of solidarity with those faith would offer on ventilators, alone, struggling for breath; those protection against the receiving the news of the death of a mother, father, child; virus. All for the price those being buried by men in protective clothing, no of £91! Many Americans have decided that their mourners there to say goodbye. I call it prayer. Atheists protection will be bought at the cost of purchasing yet call it foolishness. And perhaps it is. But foolishness feels more guns against the day when law and order break like the least of my worries these days.” down in riots and looting. Continued on page 7 6

(‘Corona Virus and God ‘continued from previous page) THE PAST______AFTER CORONA

Let us forget the things that vexed and tried us, Bishop Graham Tomlin (Kensington) examines whether The worrying things that caused our lives to fret; God, Satan or humanity should be held responsible for The hopes, that cherished long, were still denied us, the virus and concludes that none of them quite deserve a Let us forget guilty verdict. Ceasing to believe in God will do nothing to help for “sickness, grief and death will endure no Let us forget the little slights that pained us. matter what we believe.” What Christians should bring to The greater wrongs that rankle sometimes yet; this grim scenario, he says, is the gift of hope – a gift to The pride which some lofty one disdained us, us that is right at the heart of the Easter story. Let us forget.

Our last bishop, Nick Baines (Leeds), reminds us that in Let us forget our Brothers, Sisters faults and failings Jesus God has opted for the messiness of our world. He The yielding of temptations that beset, doesn’t sit above it like a puppeteer in splendid isolation That they perchance, through grief be unavailing for Jesus entered a world of violence, death and cannot forget. destruction. In the light of that our response is “to scream and shout and weep and grieve – to complain and lament When friends were few, the hand clasp distant, strong. and stare into the abyss of loss …. through this we will The fragrance of each life of Holy Living, find that death does not ultimately have the final word.” Let us remember long.

Whatever the theological nuances by which we seek to Whatever things are good and true and gracious, understand the present crisis, the Revd. Dr Chris Wright What e’er of right has triumphed over wrong, writing in the Bible Society’s journal Transmission says What love of God or man has rendered precious. that what is needed is “a culture of humility to replace our Let us remember long. arrogant hubris with a healthy dose of realism about our capacity to subdue the earth when the earth fights back George C Savage - Palm Sunday 2020 with climate chaos and viruses.” Amen to that. Ed. These very moving verses were submitted by our own John Philpott George Savage and we felt they were most helpful. After listening daily to the Corona daily updates and the comments from some of the members of the Press we believe this was a true Christian response.

Thank you George

MISSION COMMUNITY OFFICIALS & CONTACT DETAILS

Mission Community Administrator Karen Hoole, Mission Community Office, Holy Trinity Church, Rolle Road, Exmouth EX8 2AB Tel.263681

Churchwardens

Holy Trinity Mike Goom 741257 Sue Stock Deputies Diana Cosslett 266428 Clive House 708262

Littleham Sue Carrahar 222631 Deputy Janet King 07967885821

Lympstone Jeff Russell 07498 714870 Deputies Jean Young 271788 Demelza Henderson 272243

Office email address: [email protected]: http://exmouthcoastalchurches.org.uk

Facebook page: exmouth coastal churches

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THE BEECH TREE IN THE GROUNDS OF

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

You may have noticed this tree looking very sorry for itself in recent Community Larder years. Shaun (who as well as report : April 2020 - CoronaCrisis! looking after the Churchyard, also looks after the ground at HT) The Coronavirus has changed all our lives; the workings of the Community pointed this out to us. So there Larder are no exception. The Salvation Army hall has been re-arranged to began a saga. We cannot just allow a small team to keep well distanced while sorting food and organising remove it – life is never that simple. deliveries. Don’t forget this is the Church of England, plus the Church is in a Many of our long standing volunteers have had to step back due to age or Conservation Area. A double underlying medical conditions, including close relatives of some younger whammy of red tape to be overcome. members of the team. Meanwhile, publicity has generated no less than 70 new volunteer applications, including many offering to act as delivery drivers. For starters, at a cost of over £400 we have had to have a full report by To maintain safe working distances, Monday and Fridays have been an Arborist - although to be fair this rearranged so that a morning team, without any visitors present, can sort included a report on another larger donations coming in and prepare packages for delivery, with a skeleton team at tree that we also thought could be the usual time to help anyone arriving to collect food. We now push everyone dangerous – but, praise the Lord, it is to receive a delivery, but of course there are always a few who have no firm not. I now have to send the report address, so they have to collect. to the Diocesan Authorities for their permission; EDDC have given The Larder is now providing food to anyone who needs it, on the basis that provisional consent. But in both those who are isolating or "shielding" and would normally buy their own, will cases, before it can be removed, we be generous donors when all this is over!! Demand has obviously increased have to go back to tell them what we dramatically! intend to plant in its place. To cope with the extra demand, we have a session on Wednesdays, sorting Not any old tree of course. I quote: food and preparing deliveries for a team of delivery drivers. If the need grows, “The tree should be a standard or this is a pattern that can be repeated on other days and times to keep abreast of heavy standard tree which will offer the need!! a high amenity value for the area when mature. Tree species such as Donations of cash are coming from everywhere - we had one donor in London, Elm ‘New Horizon’, Deodar Cedar, who lived in Exmouth years ago, knows foodbanks are short and sent a bank Tulip Tree, London Plane, Prunus transfer! ‘Tai-Haku’ or Pin Oak.” EDDC specify that the tree should have a Now that panic buying is over, we are mostly able to convert money donations minimum girth of 8-10cms., and into supplies, and the usual donation boxes in various stores are once again must be planted between November being filled. Of course we miss the many church collection points, but they and March. Hey ho! have become cash donors. We started the crisis with really good reserves - tinned soup, beans, meat and of course cash; and hope they will be replenished Any suggestions about the species of when we are back to normal! We have been supplying about 50 packages a tree will be appreciated! week, mostly delivered, feeding maybe 100 people - but this will surely Bob Soutter increase significantly as the crisis continues.

The generosity of donations and people offering to volunteer is very humbling. Our next task is to have more of our new volunteers so well trained on the job that we can to expand and maybe fill gaps if any of the present team need to "isolate"

THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR NOT ONLY KEEPING THE LARDER GOING, BUT MAKING IT FIT FOR PURPOSE IN A VERY DIFFERENT NEW WORLD!!

We are not measured by the problem, but how we rise to solve it!!! Exmouth Community Larder, 15 April 2020 www.exmouthlarder.co.uk 8

FAMILY MATTERS

GLIMPSES OF EASTER

Left: Benedict and George Leading the Easter Sunday Worship

Right: Brooke rejoicing that Jesus is victorious and He is Risen & Alive

Above: Huw flying somewhere over Exmouth Beach. (Actually he was sat on a magic carpet!)

SING RESURRECTION AT WESTLANDS BIRTHDAY BOYS AT HOLY TRINITY

Janet Francis in the big hat directing the ‘socialy distanced’ choir in the spring sunshine.

ALL ARE Pete Oldham’s 70th birthday celebrations at HT in WELCOME early March. He is seen with candle on altar steps with Mark Hoole who was 60 this year and Clive Honestly! House who was also 60 earlier in the year. Pete and wife, Barbara, provided cake and wine in the Hall afterwards We don’t need a sign on our church doors – Huw says it all! (He’s not really so fierce.)

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Roots - Community news from around the Diocese

EASTER ON-LINE We hope you enjoyed our Easter services, we certainly enjoyed putting them together! Going forward we would like to encourage you to take part in what- ever worship your home church is offering on a Sunday. Each week we will also be suggesting a church in Devon you might like to ‘visit’ online if your own church does not have a service. There is also a weekly 10am live Exeter Cathedral Eucharist via Facebook and a national Church of England service at 9am.

We are currently planning Diocesan services for the VE Day 75th Anniversary,

CELEBRATING EASTER LIKE NEVER BEFORE

Churches across Devon celebrated Easter this year in new ways in response to the current coronavirus restrictions. The Reverend Sheila Swarbrick, from the parish of Central Exeter, and some of her neighbours took to their doorsteps to sing the Easter hymns, Thine Be The Glory and Jesus Christ is Risen Today. A socially-distant rendition of Jesus It was part of a national Churches Together in England initiative called Sing Christ Is Risen Today as neighbours Resurrection. sing together in Exeter.

GETTING IN TOUCH WITH PATIENTS IN THE R D & E HOSPITAL, EXETER

The Chaplaincy Team are very aware that, with visiting restrictions, it is much harder to get messages of love and prayer through to friends and parishioners in hospital. They are trying to find ways to make this possible across the hospital sites of Exeter, Tiverton, Sidmouth & Exmouth. Please leave a message on 01392 402024 and one of the Chaplaincy team will aim to write this message onto a card and deliver it to the patient. Simply say your name and contact number, the full name of the patient (and the ward they are on, if you know) and any simple message you wish to be written in the card. Alternatively you can contact hospital radio and pass on a message via them which is broadcast.

PRINCE CHARLES BECOMES PATRON

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has accepted an invitation from the Dean and Chapter to become Patron of a new development appeal for Exeter Cathedral.

Due to be formally launched later this year, the appeal aims to raise funds for urgently needed conservation works to the East End of the Cathedral and the adjoining Chapter House.

VOLUNTEERS GIVE FOOD HAMPERS EASTER UPGRADE

Transforming Plymouth Together, who have been supporting St Pancras’ weekly food hamper collection, decided to give everyone who received a hamper a packet of chocolate eggs.

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VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY MAY 8 1945

Sadly along with many other events the Europe wide celebrations of VE Day 1945 has had to be put on hold. However we have a few memories from our readers who recall that special day.

MEMORIES OF VE DAY - Graham Giles.

I was 14 when the war ended and I lived in Greenford (part of Ealing) on the west side of London. It was where I was born and spent all my life there including all the war years. My mother, sister & I survived all the bombing, the blitz, the doodlebugs and the rockets, but my father had died early in 1942. FROM BOB SOUTTER’S MUM’S DIARY.... May 7 Sunday: Much has happened since the last It was with tremendous excitement that we entry in this diary. The great thing is VE day got up early on VE day, we took the tube is to be tomorrow and Mr Churchill will into central London where the crowds were, officially announce the end of the War. We to say the least immense. The crowds have certainly had some exciting times. Last cheered everything & anything that year, immediately after the invasion of went past, including road sweepers & dus France on D-Day the flying bombs started carts,.and there was impromptu singing and and soon got so bad that on a dull day the dancing. siren was on and off all day. The children stayed home from school quite a bit, and The highlight was, of course when all the very often had their breakfast under the Royal family came out on to shelter. the Buckingham Palace balcony together with Winston Chuchill. The cheering, VE DAY singing and dancing went on into the night. Apparently the Royal princesses joined the crowds in the evening but I did not get the By 1945 I was nine years old and in the top chance to dance with them!! class at Topsham Junior School. We knew that something big was happening and JOHN’S WAR WAS NOT OVER during morning class one of the girls was sent out to try to find somebody who had a When news came that wireless switched on. She came back with a Germany had surrendered I delighted smile. was a midshipman in the battleship Duke of York at “The war is over!” she told us. Malta. The Grand Harbour Rosemary Longhurst was full of ships - and The evening of VE Day, with my friend wrecks. Valetta and the Here is one of me, aged 4, Mike, I toured the town. Everybody was dockyard had been heavily running down my out in the street and in high spirits. In bombed. I was running a 45ft motor launch grandfather's garden in Higher Shapter Street somebody had set up with the bowman looking ahead in the celebration. a gramophone at a bedroom window and water for obstructions. There was a great party to people were dancing to the music in the celebrate, slightly muted the following day as we were on road outside. our way to the Pacific for war with Japan. John Davies Jim Beed

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Sailor to Priest via Germany, Japan and Suez The Revd John Davies (Team Vicar of Littleham back the the Normandy assault. A MTB simulated a depth charge 1980s) was due to speak at the Men’s Breakfast that was attack, misjudged, was cut in two by a French frigate and an early casualty of the’Lockdown’ he has produced the lost the engines and engineers. We picked up survivors, following series of articles (there will probably be three. took the wreck in tow and got the hawser round our screw This first one takes us up to just before the final end of the in a rising gale. In June Dad landed over the Normandy Second World War. beach aged 60. In August I joined HMS Wren, one of Captain Walker’s ace Uboat killers. We got a contact, My early years were overshadowed by war. Mother attacked with depth charges – it was a wreck. had been a nurse in a casualty evacuation hospital, Dad in the Army. (In the hall we had the hoof of his horse I became a midshipman in killed in France). We were a church going family, Bible January and joined the and prayers round the breakfast table, supporting the battleship Duke of York League of Nations, reconciliation with Germany, refitting at Liverpool after Pacifism – well it didn’t seem to work out; Mussolini sinking the Scharnhorst invaded Abyssinia, Spanish Civil War, Germany annexed off the North Cape. She Austria then Czechoslovakia and Poland. Russia wanted a was named after the King share of the spoils and Finland. We lived across the river when he was Duke. He from Liverpool at the entrance to the Mersey and I saw came to see us off: I was the convoys coming and going. Plans were made for my given his cap to guard sister and I to go to America where Uncle Bob was a with my life. The Queen saw it under my arm and came Methodist minister but a liner was torpedoed and many to chat. evacuees drowned. It was safer to stay in England in the “Phoney War” – until Dunkirk. After a brief work up at Scapa Flow we sailed for the Pacific. Admiral Sir Bruce Frazer joined and we became Dad became a Reader with the Army and went to flagship of the British Pacific Fleet. My station was in the Taunton to run a pastoral and recreational facility manned Bridge Plotting Room which gave the tactical picture to by volunteers from the local churches. In the summer I the Admiral and Captain. We were at Guam, the forward went to a Scout camp in the mountains of North Wales. naval base when the atomic bombs were dropped. One General de Gaulle came to see some young Frenchmen day during the hiatus while terms were agreed we who had escaped in fishing boats. I learned more French steamed through the fleet, nearly two hundred miles, the than I had at school – and spoke to de Gaulle. The Battle largest fleet the world has ever seen, mostly American. of Britain came in September. The Luftwaffe failed to get Admiral Frazer was to sign the surrender on behalf of the air superiority and turned to bombing. We spent many British Empire so we were inundated with diplomatic nights under the stairs. Shortly before Christmas a bomb traffic. I was moved to the cypher office, got impetigo, fell nearby shattering the gas and water mains and blisters all over my face, and had to come out. blowing out our windows. We had an electric cooker, so neighbours cooked their Christmas dinner in our kitchen. Together with the American battleships Missouri and Dad came home, bought a car and we piled all we could Iowa and our destroyer escort (Price Philip was in one) in it or on it and left. In the snow we broke down near we led the way into Japan. I was sent to the Air Defence Bath and finished the journey by taxi. Position above the bridge to give a running commentary to the ship’s company closed up at action stations. We The following Easter, 1941, I became a cadet at anchored next to Missouri so had a good view of her Dartmouth and joined in my school blazer as my uniform forecastle on which the surrender was signed. A few days had been bombed. The battle cruiser HMS Hood was hit later I went ashore in in the magazine and blew up only three survivors out of Yokohama, the port of 1500. Then it was the turn of the German battleship Tokyo. I climbed on one Bismarck – were there any survivors? of the ruined buildings still standing. Many The following year when I was sailing on the river six Japanese families were planes come in over Torbay, flew low down the river, huddled in corners, with dropped their bombs and were on their way home before mother’s old Kodak I a shot was fired. We were evacuated to the Duke of took some pictures. Westminster’s estate near Chester, lived in Nissan huts Atom bombs could not and got chilblains. During vacations in my last year I have done more damage went to sea with the Liverpool Escort Force firstly at than incendiaries and Christmas in a rusty ex-American destroyer, at Easter a high explosive. We sailed for the surrender of Hong Flower class Corvette in a big exercise in preparation for Kong, then to Sydney for leave and replenishment. (Ed. To be continued next month) 12

MY TESTIMONY THE TOUCH OF THE MASTER’S HANDS

(Florence Nightingale, ‘The Lady with the Lamp’ wrote ‘Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer the following words after working tirelessly in the Thought it scarcely worth his while Balaclava Hospitals at Scutari during the Crimean War To waste much time on the old violin, 1854/55 But he held it up with a smile, She established the Schools of “What am I bidden, good folks?” he cried Nurses at St Thomas Hospital “Who’ll start the bidding for me?” “A guinea? A guinea – then two, only two? in London in 1860 (where our Two guineas, and who’ll make it three? present Prime Minister, Boris Three guineas once, three guineas twice, Johnson was treated for Going for three? But no, Corona Virus ). From the room, far back, a grey-haired man Came forward and picked up the bow, Today, Florence’s spirit of Then wiping the dust from the old violin, selflessness is demonstrated And tightening the loose strings, there and at the many other He played a melody, pure and sweet Nightingale Hospitals and all As a carolling angel sings. the other Hospitals and Care homes throughout the country The music ceased, and the auctioneer by the dedication of the many Doctors, Nurses and In a voice that was quiet and low, Carers Said, “What am I bud for the old violin? (Written in her Journal 1900) And he held it up with the bow. “If I could give you the Story of my Life, it would be “A thousand guineas! and who’ll make it two? to show how one woman of ordinary ability has been Two thousand, and who’ll make it three? led by God, in strange and unaccustomed paths to do Three thousand once, three thousand twice, And going, and gone!” cries he. in His name what he has done in her: how God has The people cheered, but some of them cried, done all and I nothing. I have worked very hard, that “We do not quite understand, is all, and I have never refused God anything He has What changed it’s worth?” Swift came the reply, wanted me to do” “The touch of the Master’s hand,” Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)

And many a man with a life out of tune, HELP IN TIMES OF NEED And battered and scarred with sin, Is auctioned cheap to a thoughtless crowd, If you are depressed. - read Psalm 27 Much like the old violin. If your wallet is empty, - read Psalm 37 A mess of pottage – a glass of wine, If you are not getting on with people, A game – and he travels on. read 1 Corinthians 13 He’s going once – he’s going twice, If you cannot have your own way in everything, He’s going – and almost gone. keep quiet and read James 3 But the Master comes, and the foolish crowd, If you want to find peace for a troubled heart, Can never quite understand read John 14 The worth of a soul, and the change that’s wrought By the touch of the Master’s hand. If you are getting on too well in the world, Myra Brooks Welch read Deuteronomy 6 If you ever miss church on Sunday, read Revelation 5 If you want to find God and know not how, read John 3 YOU JUST HAVE TO SMILE If you are just plainly ‘out of sorts’, try Psalm 23’

APRIL CROSSWORD ANSWERS

ACROSS: 1, Cosmic. 4, Thomas. 8, In his. 9, Delaiah. 10, Falwell. 11, Water. 12, Recovered. 17, Sidon. 19, Radiant. 21, Centaur. 22, Broil. 23, Eleven. 24, Prison.

DOWN: 1, Cliffs. 2, Scholar. 3, Issue. 5, Holy war. 6, Moist. 7, Sphere. 9, Deliverer. 13, Candace. 14, Deacons. 15, Psyche. 16, Stolen. 18, Dance. 20, Debar. 13

An update from Hospiscare On walking a friend’s dog during the Corona virus outbreak. Firstly, we hope that you and your family are keeping safe and well at this worrying time. Hospiscare is very Cookie’s a special friend. She’s five; much part of this local community and we hope you will Like most small terriers she’ll contrive find our website helpful: www.hospiscare.co.uk. You will To tell you (though she cannot talk) That what she loves most is a walk. also find useful information and advice on our Facebook and Instagram pages. The current Covid issues mean That walks are few and far between; These are unprecedented times and our staff and Her owner’s been warned “Don’t go out,” volunteers have all been working incredibly hard to So Cookie’s had to go without. ensure our expert end of life services continue. We are keeping up to date with all the government advice and The church, aware of Cookie’s plight moving as quickly as we can to adjust and ensure we Rang up to ask me if I might Take Cookie for a walk or three - provide our care as safely as possible. Here are a couple That’s if her owner would agree. of essential points we would like to share with you: Her owner gladly did concur; What effect is Covid-19 having on our services? And Cookie – well, a cat would purr, Our specialist in-patient ward and community nursing But canine Cookie bounced and barked services are continuing as priority. Providing safe and When we on our first walk embarked. effective care to vulnerable patients and keeping our staff well so they can continue to care for our patients are our Each day, come rain or frost or shine, main concerns. We have decided to suspend our Day This little furry friend of mine Explores each local open space; Hospice services at all sites as a precautionary measure (She sets me a terrific pace.) for the foreseeable future – these patients will continue to be cared for by the Hospiscare Community Nursing My pers’nal trainer would approve Team. If he could see how fast we move! Other services affected include: So Cookie helps to keep me fit, - Outpatient and nurse-led clinics will be managed But that is only half of it. over the phone or by Skype - Care navigators will be making phone calls rather If she could talk, here’s what she’s say; “Covid 19 be blowed! This day than face-to-face visits Is one the Lord has made – rejoice!” - Film Club, Bereavement Teas, our cafes at Kings She’s shown me that I have a choice: House and Searle House and other gatherings are currently postponed To hide away and fret and frown, - Complementary Therapy outpatient treatments are (“This “Stay at home” lark’s got me down ”) being postponed Or see the joys in daily life, Despite the problems that are rife.

If you wanted to visit the hospice at Searle House? I’ll share these joys as best I can, We are asking only close loved ones visit to reduce the Whilst helping out my fellow man, risk to our patients and staff. All visitors are asked to call So Cookie, thanks for showing me How rich and full life still can be. ahead on 01392 688000. We have asked all non-clinical Helen Coleman volunteers, visitors, contractors and suppliers not to visit Searle House. We are also working to enable staff to work remotely where possible to reduce footfall to our specialist ward.

How can you help? Hospiscare is reliant on raising 85% of its £8m funding needs from a range of fundraising activities, events and gifts in Wills. These are incredibly difficult times with cancellations of events and other activities that will hugely impact on our income. If you are in a position to make a donation, set-up a regular monthly direct debit, or consider us for a gift in your Will, we would be extremely grateful. Just visit www.hospiscare.co.uk/donate or call 01392 688020 to make a difference today.

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part 4 foreign competition, was trailing off for Newton and his increasing spirituality encouraged him to look for a way out.

Newton as Minister to his crew on the next voyage of 10 ‘Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will months duration was a role satisfying to Newton and led or rather our own will is our separation from God.’ to a desire to be an ordained priest. He was as yet a lone, William Law self taught Christian in need of formal instruction and to experience the joys of fellowship with other Christians. ‘Carpe diem quam minimum credulo postero.’ Reaching the island of St Kitts in the Caribbean from W. (Seize the day, don’t let it go without taking advantage Africa with fewer slaves than usual, he met a Scotsman, of it.) Horace Odes 1:11 Alexander Clunie, the captain of an ordinary merchant ship, whose main interest was his membership of a Law and Horace were opposites, Law was a passionate Dissenter’s chapel in Stepney. They spent evenings believer in God while Horace was an atheist and cynical together as prayer partners and discussed Christianity. about the need to be worldly wise. The ‘Brownlow’ with Clunie taught him how to read the Bible and the way to Newton as 1st mate sailed to Antigua in the West Indies give a personal testimony in company. and then to Charleston in S. Carolina with a cargo of slaves when, as so often happened, over a third of the Back in Liverpool, Manesty, though displeased with slaves did not survive. Many had been violently put down Newton’s profits, gave him another new slave ship which after an insurrection. But this time his captain was Newton named the ‘Bee’ (relating to the sting in cockney pleased with Newton. language?). After eight weeks with Polly in Chatham he prepared for another voyage to W. Africa, where Newton In 1750, with an income hardly sufficient for Newton to succumbed to a fever and was close to death. While at marry, he hesitantly approached Mary Catlett (Polly’s home convalescing, he had a seizure, leaving him for an formal name), now twenty one, to ask for her hand in hour unable to do anything but breathe. His infirmity was marriage for which she was ready as there was love on an answer to prayer for on doctor’s orders Newton was both sides. Newton claimed that the marriage which took invalided out of the slave trade though unemployed for place on 1st February in Rochester was not a Christian nearly 10 months. one as Polly’s faith was only nominal which indicated that Newton’s standards were high. To make ends meet At 29 years of age, he heard the evangelist George he turned to gambling but found that it only led to further Whitefield, (pronounced Witfield) who had been debt. No longer able to stay with Polly, he accepted a condemned by the Bishop of Bristol for his Methodist renewed offer from Manesty to captain another slave ‘enthusiasm’, preaching to a congregation of a thousand. ship, the ‘Argyle’. As the ship sailed to W. Africa Newton Newton was so impressed that he attended more services, had the time to develop his interest in classical literature even though Whitefield’s sermon lasted three hours. while writing to Polly three times a week. Accumulated Newton’s prayers at this time were for settled letters were delivered to passing ships on their journey to employment and his wife’s recovery from illness, which England. was the result of shock from Newton’s seizure. In 1755 he was offered the position of Surveyor of the Tides in Apart from the Quakers of Pennsylvania, who in 1758 Liverpool by Joseph Manesty which he took, with a declared the slave trade incompatible with the Gospels, modest but steady income, but foregoing traditional fees no-one at that time drew people’s attention to the and gratuities. He had the leisure to study for the iniquities of the trade. Even Parliament was complicit in priesthood, while England was again at war with France the slave trade by financing, with an annual grant of and Spain in 1756. Newton admired Whitefield’s £10,000, the building of walls and gun emplacements for preaching to the poor but preferred to be a member of the a slave factory on the Bence Isles off Sierra Leone. Church of England rather than a rebel. He was also Newton, however, became more concerned for the prejudiced against John Wesley until they met when welfare of his slaves. On his return to Liverpool he spent Newton changed his mind and began to support the eight months with Polly while studying the work of Methodists. Christian authors. Unable to find a prayer partner, he was surprised by an offer of partnership in prayer with his Liverpool was the leading port for the slave trade, with wife. His next voyage was as captain of a new slave ship London, Bristol, Exeter and other ports following. the ‘African’, still in the process of construction. Though Newton found Liverpool irreligious it took him Completed by 30th June 1752, the ‘African’ set sail for W. six years to become a minister with a fluency in Greek Africa again. This time Newton also acted as minister to a and Hebrew enabling him to read the Old Testament in crew obliged to attend Sunday service but because they Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek. could not understand the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, he composed the prayers. But the slave trade, through John Hill.

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CHURCH DURING THE CORONA VIRUS TO HELP YOU PRAY IN MAY

It is with deep regret that the Benedict and the PCC's have F 1 S Phillip & S James Saints we know taken the decision to suspend all Church services, following the guidance by the Archbishops of Canterbury Sa 2 S Athanasius Courageous Christians and York. At this time we have no idea when normal services will resume. The coffee bar at Holy Trinity and S 3 Easter 4 Our Mission Community the Community Cafe at Littleham have also closed. There M 4 Those bereaved by Covid 19 are plenty of online faith resources to use during this time. The Church of England have daily prayer and T 5 Intensive care Medics worship pages: https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer- W 6 Those in shielding lockdown and-worship/join-us-service-daily-prayer Th 7 Refuse collectors

We shall be updating our own website with recordings of F 8 Julian of Norwich “All will be well” previous sermons and, all being well, Benedict and Huw Sa 9 Carers in Nursing Homes will record a service of some kind during the coming Sundays and Holy Days, to be live streamed via our Facebook page: S 10 Easter 5 Digital worshipping Community https://www.facebook.com/exmouthcoastalchurches and M 11 Those without digital technology uploaded to our website afterwards: https:// T 12 Politicians exmouthcoastalchurches.org.uk/ either as a video or audio W 13 Those fearing unemployment file. Th 14 S Matthias Faithful followers of Christ Karen will be covering the admin office during normal F 15 Shops in lockdown working hours, to answer emails and telephone calls, and Sa 16 The Community Larder Benedict & Huw will be available for any pastoral care, within the of the Church of England's guidance: https:// www.churchofengland.org/more/media -centre/ S 17 Eater 6 Our solidarity in Christ coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-churches M 18 Rogation Day Arable Farmers

The Link and Lympstone pew sheet will still be T 19 Rogation Day Dairy and Livestock Farmers produced and uploaded to the Worship pages of our W 20 Rogation Day Market Gardeners website on Friday. Th 21 ASCENSION DAY Hope in adversity

F 22 The Fishing industry We shall still produce the NET each month and it will be available on the web site : Sa 23 Tourism in lockdown https://exmouthcoastalchurches.org.uk/ S 24 Easter 7 The fearful We would be grateful for any thoughts you might like to share and especially any pictures of family or friends that M 25 The Ven Bede Bible scholars might be emailed to you. T 26 S Augustine Our Archbishops W 27 Caring Neighbours We shall keep you informed of any updates Th 28 Scientists working for vaccines

If you are reading this edition of the Net on line and F 29 Testing Laboratories want to open any of the websites all you need to do is Sa 30 Josephine Butler Those enslaved to press the ctrl key and click the left button on your mouse. This should open the site S 31 PENTECOST The gifts of the Spirit Deadline for JUNE NET is Friday 15 May It will be published on Sunday 31 May Articles and pictures to Tony Mortimer Email: [email protected]

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