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Cranhammag April21 Cranham Village Magazine With Cranham Parish and Benefice News and Information April 2021 Inside this Month: Food Bank - page 12 Village Hall News - page 14 Diary of a Lockdown Walker - page 18 Dog Thefts - page 20 Lucky Severn - page 22 Any views and opinions expressed in the Cranham Magazine are attributable only to individual contributors Advertisements in this magazine do not imply recommendation 1 Church & Benefice Rector: Rev’d Janet Turville 01452 245526 [email protected] Associate Priest and Revd. Andrew Leach 07564 448692 Benefice Administrator: Church Wardens: Mr. Keith Ardron 01452 617648 [email protected] Linda de Cossart 07778 215801 [email protected] Organist: Mrs. Beryl Berry 01452 813200 Four Chimneys, Cranham Hon Treasurer: Mrs. Helen Daltry, Broadridge House, 01452 863011 Cranham, Gloucester. GL4 8HF PCC Secretary: Nicki Clapton 07824 812384 Bakers Piece, Cranham [email protected] Benefice Office: Lychgate Rooms, Painswick 01452 814795 [email protected] Cranham Church of England Primary School Headteacher: Rebecca Slater 01452 812660 [email protected] Magazine & General Magazine editors: Sue & Ian Shaw 01452 814839 [email protected] Church articles: Sue & Ian Shaw 01452 814839 [email protected] Magazine layout: Tony Walker 07796 175622 [email protected] Magazine Sue Stick 01452 813407 Distribution: [email protected] Village Hall Nicki Clapton 07824 812384 Bookings: [email protected] Community Police: Police Community Support Officer Tel: 101 PCSO9073 Deb Collicott [email protected] Cotswold Warden: Shelagh Dempsey [email protected] Neighbourhood Simon Jarvis [email protected] 07811 263075 Warden: https://bit.ly/2Z13gxY 2 A Letter from The Clergy Hope at Easter Easter is all about hope and I really want to find some hopeful words to share with you all. As I sat down to prepare to write this, I came across the words of the poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson which was a new poem to me, but which spoke so eloquently of Hope in our present time. Hope depicted as a bird, sings whatever the circumstances and is something to hold on to, something to trust in and something which carries us in difficult situations. The first disciples must have needed hope as they sat waiting between the days of Good Friday and the death of Jesus and the news of his resurrection on Easter Sunday morning. Mary’s words - I have seen the Lord echo down through the ages they brought hope to the disciples - and bring hope to us - we too can see the Lord. And for us this Easter is one of resurrection, one of hope one of new things. While Easter finds us not quite in the joy of freedom of movement and relaxed rules, but still in the midst of gradual relaxations and a slow move back to normality, this is really ok, because it is here in the hardest moments that hope does its best work. Hope is like a small bud trying to break through the soil amidst the gravel and rocks, it can be stamped on, crushed and diminished but shine a light for a moment and it springs up anew. When we lift our eyes and look around, we see the flower unexpectedly in a corner. It is with hope in the resurrection that we will open our church buildings on Easter Sunday for services. What joy we will feel as we gather once again in person. Yes, we will still need to wear masks, to stay two metres apart, not sing, and not chat but still we will be together to proclaim that Jesus is Risen - he is Risen indeed and in doing so we share the hope of a better time ahead. As we emerge slowly from this crisis, we must be people of hope, who dream of a better tomorrow, who cry out for justice and mercy and who know that whatever today feels like, God is with us tomorrow, with forgiveness, joy and peace. Rev. Janet Turville Rector 3 CHURCH NEWS - April 2021 Good news this month! The church is re-opening on Easter Sunday and will be open each Sunday from then on, subject of course to COVID restrictions. The services in Cranham are listed below. Those across the Benefice are shown on the church website and in the Beacon Light. Sunday Services in Cranham - April 2021 4th April 11am Holy Communion Revd Andrew Easter Sunday Readers Julie Berry Acts 10;34-43 Nicki Clapton 1 Cor.15;1-11 11th April 6.30pm Evening Prayer BCP Revd Janet Readers Janet Gazzard Acts4;32-35 Sylvia Ardron John 20;19-en 18th April 11am Morning Worship Phil Stick Readers Jean Garratt Acts 3;12-19 Rob Garratt Luke 24;36b-48 April 25th 6.30pm Evening Worship Linda de Cossart Readers Mark Crowther Acts 4;5-12 Helen Daltry John 10;11-18 Cranham Parish Council website lots of info including the minutes of meetings https://cranhampc.org.uk/ 4 Church Flowers 4th April Janet Whitton for Easter 11th April Janet Whitton 18th April Deb Carrington-Stait 25th April Deb Carrington-Stait 2nd May Di Blandford Church cleaning 3rd April Janet Gazzard 10th April Kate Ryan 17th April Linda de Cossart 24th April Gill Firth 1st May Di Blandford Lighting up St. James the Great Cranham Cranham church will be lit for the evenings of the 3rd and 4th April to mark Jesus’ joyful resurrection. Rev Janet Turville All articles or enquiries with regards to the Cranham Magazine should be emailed to: All general articles: [email protected] All church articles: [email protected] Advertising enquiries: [email protected] Distribution enquiries : [email protected] 5 Message from Bishop Robert Telling the Story Stories really matter. We have a deep desire to hear them and to tell them. Love or loathe it, this is one of the key attractions of social media. It is the place where I can share ‘my story’ and be invited into other people’s lives and stories. Our social media has been full of stories these last weeks. Stories of lockdown, and vaccines, children returning to school, and especially, in these last days, of the murder of Sarah Everard and the right to protest it. Sarah’s murder has rightly brought anger that this should happen on our streets, a wave of sympathy and love for her and her family, and then with it, a cry of pain and anguish. Like Rachel, we are weeping in anguish for our children and cannot be comforted (Jeremiah 31). The scale of the affront of this horrific event is such that words are at first hard to find. Whatever is said or written can so easily be superficial, or self-serving, especially if you are a man. Yet the scale of the affront is such that we cannot go speechless. As a husband, a father of daughters, a believer in the dignity and worth of every individual, I too must cry out. My cry must also acknowledge the responsibility I bear, both for how we are, and how we will be. I cannot say simply, “This is not me”, because it is, and it asks me what stories I have told. Have I sufficiently told the stories of human dignity, of responsibility, of the care one must have for the other? Have I played my part in sharing the stories that together will shape a culture in which this tragedy is, as it should be, unthinkable? In these coming weeks, as followers of Jesus Christ, we will tell the story of betrayal and death, and hear again the words Jesus speaks from the cross of abandonment, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” as we see before us the pain of the world and its people. From this we will go on to tell more, of how from darkness and despair, through the action of God, love triumphs over hate, life over death. Continued on page 7 6 Message from Bishop Robert - from page 6 We will tell the story of hope even in the darkness. The scale and audacity of this story is such that here too words are at first hard to find. The story takes time, and we cannot rush it. We must stay in the garden, linger at the foot of the cross and wait. We will be convicted, and that may be almost unbearable, but we will be redeemed, as from the deepest darkness we find the brightest light, and we will tell the story of the world as it was intended to be, the world as it can be. With every blessing, MARAH in Stroud https://marah.org.uk/ https://marah.org.uk/contact-us/ Supporting & giving hope to the homeless and to anyone who is struggling. Since the first lockdown MARAH have provided over 6000 takeaway meals. In order to help them continue this much needed service, if you can please make a donation online at: https://marah.org.uk/donate/ or phone for a donation form. 01453 367006 (please leave a message) Fruit, vegetables & bread (near to the use by date) are supplied by local supermarkets. Stroud Food Bank provide non-perishable items of food & toiletries. https://marah.org.uk/see-what-we-do-at-marah/ 7 Sunday Worship for those at Home 10.30am Zoom Morning Prayer, message Rev’d Janet for a link 9.00am Live worship on the Church of England website https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/church-online 10.15am Gloucester Cathedral Sunday Eucharist https://www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk/worship/services/services-live- stream/ 8.10am Radio 4 Sunday Worship 1.15pm BBC1 Songs of Praise Weekday Worship 9.30am Thursday weekly via Zoom from Sheepscombe Morning Prayer If you would like to join in or would like a copy of the service sheet please email Karen Riding [email protected].
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