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Clergy letter God shapes and enlivens the world around us On Easter Monday, I travelled up to Durham for a baptism, and on the journey North I found myself paying attention to the changing landscape. Spring had just begun to make its presence known in London, but as the journey progressed the countryside gave way from green to winter brown and grey, and the waterlogged areas of the fields grew in number and extent. By the time I arrived in Durham, less than three hours after leaving Kings Cross, spring was a distant memory: the air was bitingly cold, and the sleet and snow came down all day. It is hard to believe, then, that less than three weeks later I am writing this outside, in the late evening, after several days of summer-like warmth and sunshine. The plants in the garden have leapt into new growth and the bees have emerged from hibernation. It is only a short time, but the world has been renewed – and I feel better for it. Like many of us, my surroundings affect me profoundly: the environment in which we live shapes the way we see the world, and our surroundings affect – for good, or for ill – our physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. Our inner life connects with the world outside. God shapes and enlivens the world around us; we see this, clearly, each spring-time. But God stands ready to shape us, too, if we will let him – to fill us with the new life of the risen Christ and to renew the parched, desert places within us. God does this in our common life together, through the Eucharist, and through prayer. Although prayer (which is simply spending time, intentionally, in God’s presence) might at first glance look more like a time of stillness than transformation, it is the arena in which God works, quietly and beyond the range of our vision, within the human heart. Recognising that prayer should be central to each Christian’s spirituality, we are investigating the viability of a week of accompanied prayer – also known as a Retreat during Daily Life – during Lent 2019. There are more details on page 18 of this edition of Parish Link, but if you think you might be interested in taking part, please do speak to one of the clergy. With best wishes for Eastertide. Alex Barrow 1 Contents of Interest Clergy Letter 1 God shapes and enlivens the world Christian Aid –Week 5 Could you volunteer? Great Mortlake Bake Off 6 - 7 Could you hold one or attend one? Barnes Green Centre 2 nd Mortlake Scout Group 8 Church Road Can you help? Barnes SW13 9HE Holiday at Home 9 st Volunteer helpers & Guests needed 1 May: Christopher Bambery Mortlake Brewery 10 - 11 Art and the Creation of th Have your say by 13 May! Britain 24 hour Defibrillator 11 th 8 May: Thomson House Installed at Waitrose main entrance School Choir Celebrating 475 years – St Mary’s 15 Events in June 15th May: Juliet Ames-Lewis Mortlake Weekend 16 - 17 23rd and 24th June Richmond Almshouses Retreat in Daily Life 18 22nd May: Peter Cowell Lent 2019 A little Elementary PCC & Deanery Synod members 19 Genetics: How inbred are we all 2018 - 2019 Mothers’ Union Lady Day Service 20 th 29 May: Ludmila Stane New members enrolled The Velebrad Centre Barnes Hospital update 21 Money is promised ………………………………………… Vineyard Community Centre 23 5th June: Emma Townsend Serving the community Kew in summer - the Temperate House reopens! What’s on …. th FiSH talks 2 12 June: Isobel Williams Ascension Day at Christ Church 3 The unveiling of Antartica FiSH Open 3 19th June: Jane Short All Saints Concert Series – 19 May 4 ‘Pop goes the Weasel’ MAY & JUNE CALENDAR 12 - 13 Story of London’s City Road Summer Celebration Concert 14 th An evening with Dame Mary Peters 17 26 June: Kings College School Coffee from 10.30am and2 finally… Songs & Stories 22 Talks begin at 11.00am Registers 24 and last approximately 40 mins 2 All Welcome THURSDAY, 10th May, 2018 ASCENSION DAY Christ Church Patronal Festival Parish Festival Eucharist 8.00pm at Christ Church with combined choirs and followed by refreshments Preacher: Revd Jay Colwill Canon Missioner, Diocese of Southwark Includes launch of Thy Kingdom Come prayer initiative FiSH Open Gardens Sunday, 17th June This year our popular Open Gardens event returns to Barnes. As always there will be a variety of wonderful gardens to delight and inspire, delicious teas and also a Pimms tent! Tickets cost £10 and are available from the FiSH office – 8876 3336 or on line from: Fishopengardend2018.eventbrite.co.uk 3 4 Christian Aid Week Sunday 13 May – Saturday 19 May Christian Aid is an organisation that provides practical assistance to tackle poverty and works in partnership with others at national and local level throughout the world. Christian Aid responds to emergencies and also funds long-term development activity, for example training nurses to deal with childhood malaria, and undertakes advocacy to address root causes of poverty. Christian Aid supports people of all faiths and none. Last year Christian Aid Week raised over £11m, more than half of this from house to house collections. Christian Aid does not use paid collectors and over 85% of what Christian Aid raises goes to direct charitable expenditure. It makes a big difference when a collector can be recognised as a neighbour. Our parish raised over £13,500 last year, but this required almost 100 volunteers, please help if you possibly can. There are two main ways to become involved. Door-to-door collections. These raise most of the money. You will be given a named street, and a helpful leaflet with tips about collecting. Envelopes need to be delivered early in the week and collected before its end. Hold a tin for an hour, in pairs, either at Mortlake Station early on the morning of Friday, 18 May, or outside Waitrose and Tesco on Saturday, 19 May. Bright red tabards will ensure that people know what you are collecting for. Our parish is divided into sectors for each church, each with coordinators. The contact details for your church coordinators are published in your pew sheets, or I can put you in touch. Please do volunteer if you possibly can. Thank you. Christian Aid makes a difference. Peter Halford [email protected] – 07770 586 595 Christian Aid believes in life before death 5 ‘The Great Mortlake Bake Off’ returns to St Mary the Virgin on Saturday 12th May 2018, 1-5pm – Zac Goldsmith, MP to congratulate winners Last year’s hugely successful ‘Great Mortlake Bake Off’ is back this Spring by popular demand Locals will enjoy another opportunity to showcase their impressive talent at the event from 1pm-5pm, Saturday 12th May at St Mary the Virgin Church, Mortlake, SW14 8JA. Amateur bakers of all ages are encouraged to buy Eventbrite competition tickets in advance (tickets also available on the door), complete the entry form and bring their bake entries on the day at the venue from 10am until entry deadline 1pm. Those who prefer simply to enjoy the atmosphere and admire the imaginative creations are welcome to purchase a Spectator ticket. For locals who love to bake this is a chance to shine – put the date in your diaries and get practising!! A Spectator or Competition Entry ticket is a reasonable £3.50 per person and this includes a cup of tea/coffee and a piece of cake (£12 family ticket of 4 people) and there are categories for children and adults alike. Any profits will be donated to locally based charities Missing Persons and Mortlake Community Association and there will be a sale of donated cakes after the event. Local schoolchildren are being encouraged to participate and local businesses are demonstrating their community spirit by supporting this event with prizes. The judging team has been increased to ten for the event owing to last year’s success. The Judges are outstanding in their respective fields and long-standing contributors to the community. Each category will be overseen by two judges; these include a winner from 2017, food technology educators from local Secondary Schools (Richmond Park Academy and Christ’s), bespoke independent local caterers, an established food critic (Guardian, Times, Good Food Guide etc) and an MBE - to name just a few. 6 Inspiring demonstrations will take place from 1.30pm from local experts such as Jackson Fiorini, owner and executive chef of much loved Mortlake restaurant, The Tapestry. Judging will take place between 2-3pm and Zac Goldsmith MP will congratulate the winners at 3.30pm after which donated competition bakes will be sold The 5 Baking Categories Competitors drop off their entries at the Church from 10am-1pm, 12th May Categories 1 & 2: Primary and Secondary School age bakers: biscuits, cupcakes or traybakes. 1) 4 - 11 years category: whatever they love to bake. Judges will be looking for great baking, creativity and beautiful presentation. 2) 12 - 18 years category: delicious bakes. Judges are looking for outstanding baking skills and stunning presentation. Categories 3, 4 & 5: 3) Chocolate: a traybake, sponge, cookies, cupcakes – whatever it is, make it chocolatey 4) Sponge: cakes, traybakes or cupcakes - bring complete cakes or 12 cupcakes 5) Showstopper: cakes, cupcakes – aim to wow the judges Advance tickets can be bought at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk or on the door. Further information is on Mortlakebakeoff.co.uk Participants can contact the organiser with any questions at email: [email protected] 7 nd 2 Mortlake Scout Group Founded June 1919 Charity No: 1021519 The Gym, Alder Road, London SW14 8ER Could you reduce our waiting list? We at 2nd Mortlake Scout Group now have 20 young 6 and 7 year olds waiting to access all the fun and adventure Scouting has to offer through Beavers.