THREE Prayer for the Day VALLEYS

INFORMATION God of constant mercy, SHEET who sent your Son to save us: remind us of your goodness, increase your grace within us, 1st September 2020 that our thankfulness may grow,

The Countrymen’s club - Farm visits through Jesus Christ our Lord. and cream teas Amen.

From August to October 2020, on select dates, the Countrymen’s club based at Boyshill, A PRAYER FOR ALL THOSE Holnest, will be offering a cream tea and a farm AFFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS walk to local men with a rural background along with their wives and carers. Keep us, good Lord,

You will have 1.5 hours on the farm with a under the shadow of your mercy. maximum of 2 couples on the farm per ses- Sustain and support the anxious, sion. Social distancing rules and relevant hy- giene precautions will be strictly observed. be with those who care for the sick, There will be an opportunity to see the animals and lift up all who are brought low; and some of the crafts that our countrymen have made over the years as well as the that we may find comfort chance to talk about farming and the rural way knowing that nothing can separate us of life. from your love

There will be a small charge of £5 per person in Christ Jesus our Lord. to cover costs.

If you are interested, please give them a call on Compline Worship & other service details for the number below and they will let you know this forthcoming week the dates and times available. Monday – Compline - at 6.00pm via Three Valleys Rylands Farm, Boyshill, Holnest DT9 5PS Team Facebook page (Rev.George Moody) Tel: 01935 210703 Wednesday @ 6.00pm – a Celtic night prayer

night with Richard Kirlew via Zoom (please contact

Richard for details of joining above meeting) Coffee & Cake! Friday @ 6.00pm – An Evening prayer service with From Tuesday 1st September @ 10.30am Anne Budgell – online Three Valleys Facebook. Leigh Village Church will be resuming their monthly coffee mornings (please try to remem- (Sunday morning 6th September) - online ser- ber to bring a Mug with you). If the weather is vice of worship (Morning Prayer) at 10.00am led fine it will be held in the churchyard. by Rev.Anne Budgell – via Three Valleys Team facebook page. As of Wednesday 2nd September there will be Coffee & Cake at Yetminster Jubilee Hall be- tween 10.00am – 11.30am. Please come A Message from the Clergy Team along and support! The garden may be used There has been some concern expressed that for the above purposes if the weather is fine – the clergy are not seen so much in the “Social distancing rules will be in place”. villages during the lockdown. We are aware

of this and want to assure you that we are still available for telephone consultations or via skype, zoom and all the other electronic methods of communication

Please share the Pew Sheet with others in your benefice who may not be receiving a copy by email from the office – Thank you. John Floyd and Oscar pictured at Kington Magna last year. They visited 10 churches and raised over £200. Clergy Contact Details As churches re-open after months of lockdown, the

Trustees believe it is time to support church build- Team : Tony Gilbert: 01935 873 044 ings, and continue their effort to maintain Dorset’s [email protected] cherished history and heritage.

Team Vicar: George Moody: 01935 873 214 Ride+Stride is an outdoor event for individuals or [email protected] families to be sponsored to walk, cycle or horse ride, between churches. It will carry on within the Team Vicar: Richard Kirlew: 01963 23 570 limits of whatever social distancing requirements [email protected] are in force at that time.

While 50% of the cash raised is allocated for resto- ration grants for churches of all denominations Benefice Office Contact Details across the county, the other 50% is returned to in- dividual churches nominated by the riders or strid- Jubilee Hall, Church Street, Yetminster DT9 6LG ers for their own uses. At a time when church in- Tel. 01935 872600 come has been severely reduced, the Trustees [email protected]/ were keen that Ride+Stride 2020 should not be added to the long list of events cancelled this year. Please send items for this Pew Sheet to: [email protected] Benefice Website: For more information please see your Church www.threevalleysteam.org Notice boards nearer the time or contact: https://www.dhct.org.uk for more information.

• Please send items for publication on the website (especially forthcoming/recent Forthcoming Services events) to itemsforwebsite@threeval- leysteam.org Sunday 6th September 2020

The Wriggle Valley Mothers’ Union Leigh @ 10.00am Glanvilles Wootton @ 10.00am A coffee morning is planned on October 24th in the Bradford Abbas @ 10.00am Methodist Church, Yetminster to enable them to do th some much needed fund raising. The above Sunday 13 September 2020 charity, like so many others have suffered due to the Covid-19 epidemic. If you have time, do take a Batcombe @ 10.00am look at their wonderful range of cards plus other Holwell @ 10.00am things that can be ordered on-line. I understand Beer Hackett @ 10.00am that delivery is very prompt and efficient. Leigh - Evensong @ 6pm

th Sunday 20 September 2020

Ride+Stride 2020 is ON! Yetminster @ 10.00am Holnest @ 6.00pm Dorset Historic Churches Trust (DHCT) is de- Thornford @ 10.00am lighted to announce plans to go ahead with (Please note that every Sunday morning on Ride+Stride 2020 on September 12th. facebook the Rev.Anne Budgell will be leading a service of worship for those who would prefer not to come out yet).

Harvest Services – 27th September 2020 @ 10.00am ARRANGEMENTS This year, the above will be held at the follow- FOR OPENING ing Churches Bradford Abbas, Chetnole & Folke. Sadly, there will be no hymn singing al- CHURCHES lowed and social distancing rules will still be in place. 11th October 2020 @ 11.00am @ St Andrew’s St Andrew's Yetminster: Church, Yetminster - (followed by hopefully a soup and cheese lunch in the hall) Open from 8am to midday daily, seven days a week. Please note: There will be no access from the south entrance Annual Meetings/APCM’s Announcement ! around the Tower for the next three Annual meetings must normally be held months, due to scaffolding and the each year by the end of May. Tower works team, so please use the The Bishop has made special provision ex- main north door. tending the time for holding annual meetings of parishioners to choose churchwardens and an- nual parochial church meetings (APCMs) to 31 October 2020. The terms of office of church- Leigh, St Andrew’s open daily 10am to wardens and PCC members have also been 4pm extended. Batcombe, St Mary Magdalene open You can now meet physically in a church or a 24/7 church hall if the guidance for the safe opening of these buildings is followed, and good physi- cal distancing and hygiene measures are em- Holnest, Church of the Assumption, ployed. open on request

Chetnole St Peter's will be open If, exceptionally, that is not possible, another option is for the Bishop to make provision mod- on Wednesdays and Sundays from 10 ifying the procedure for annual meetings so am to 4pm (possibly earlier or later de- that they can be held remotely using video- pending on the day). conferencing software. If you think you will need to meet remotely for Thornford, St Mary Magdalene open your parish annual meetings, you should con- on Sundays & Wednesdays – 10.00- tact your . Diocesan registries 4.00pm beginning Sunday 21st June. have received advice from the Legal Office of the National Church Institutions about remote Bradford Abbas – 9.00am – 7pm on meetings, and will be able to assist in meeting Sundays & Wednesdays particular needs that arise in their dioceses. Beer Hackett, St Michael’s – 10.00am- For more information, contact your Archdea- con. 4.00pm Sundays & Wednesdays Folke, St.Lawrence’s – Tuesday & Sat- urdays 10.00am – 4.00pm (starting 24th New Blog! The Rectory Window. June) The Rev.George Moody is writing a new blog called ‘The Rectory Window’ (therectorywin- Glanvilles Wootton – Open on dow.blogspot.com) This is based on Mark’s Wednesdays & Sundays (10.00- Gospel. It will appear on a more occasional 4.00pm) tbc basis than his previous blog ‘Look up in Lock- down’ which has now finished. Howell, St Lawrence’s – this will be Please be aware that as of last weekend, it is opened by appointment – phone num- now compulsory for members of the congrega- bers on Church notice board and porch tion (adults) to wear a ‘face mask,’ whilst at- tending a service inside the church. gate. Hand sanitising gel and disposable face masks Re-opening of Churches will be available at the entrances to most of our churches. For the latest Gov.guidelines please refer to the link below: - Music in our Churches? https://www.gov.uk/government/publica- Some good news that we have recently heard, tions/covid-19-guidance-for-the-safe-use-of-places- is that Organ practice is now permitted provid- of-worship-from-4-july/covid-19-guidance-for-the- ing the usual precautions of social distancing safe-use-of-places-of-worship-from-4-july are observed. We look forward to a time where worship and music can once again be The change in the Government's guidance combined and our choirs are allowed to sing in our churches and cathedrals. means that those of our churches, that are able to do so safely, can now open for private prayer. The Sherborne Team office are still at their old address 3 Abbey Close, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3LQ Tel. 01935 812459

Updated Guidance

Updated guidance and information around the Those who have been able to open up for a unlocking of our churches and moving to a few hours each day or at set times during the ‘new normal’ – is being issued regularly. You week have found themselves negotiating the can contact [email protected] long list of measures that they need to put in can.org for more information. place to keep us all safe. Re-usable Masks For the first month after we are allowed back into church we intend to hold simply three ser- vices per Sunday, one service in each of the (Cotton washable re-usable masks are now Three Valley groups (Wriggle Valley, Gifle Val- available from Hamish the farm shop and Leigh ley and Vale of the White hart). These will ro- village stores if required). tate through the various churches in those ar- eas. We will also continue broadcasting a weekly service via the internet. It seems likely Face masks and the that initially, distancing rules will have to be ob- served in church and that hymn singing will not Deaf be allowed as the deep breathing needed to 31 Jul, 2020 05:30 PM sing is believed to increase the risk of spread- ing the virus. Details of where the services are Our thanks to our friends at Premier News for to be held will be published in the weekly elec- this article endorsed by our Chaplain to the tronic pew sheet, on our Facebook page and Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the Revd Neil Robin- our website nearer the time son.

The Sherborne Team

The Right Reverend

As masks become compulsory in shops in England, 01258 444521 deaf people are warning that communication will be bishop.sherborne@salis- difficult. bury.anglican.org On social media: Action on Hearing Loss is advising the general pub- lic to make sure they face the person they are speaking to and speak clearly and have also rec- The Ven Antony MacRow- ommend speech-to-text apps, while the group Deaf Wood Connect have produced cards which deaf people can carry round that ask people to remove their mask when they are speaking to them. 01258 444521 [email protected] can.org On social media:

The Ven Penny Sayer New Director and Deputy Diocesan

Secretary appointed 01258 444521 [email protected] 31 Jul, 2020 09:32 PM can.org The are delighted to an-

nounce the appointment of the Revd Canon The Area Team has recently moved! (Previ- Jonathan Triffitt to the post of Director of Mis- ously at Corfe Mullen (also correspondence sion and Ministry/ Deputy Diocesan Secretary. address for Bishop Karen)

The Sherborne Office area team Tel. 01258 444521 Sherborne Office, Dairy Barn, Ash Farm Court- yard, Stourpaine DT11 8PW.

Jonathan, who has been serving as Rector of Office hours: 8.30am-4pm, Monday to Friday. Blandford Forum and Langton Long, will lead a The office answer machine is on when there is no one is team to support and serve resource local churches the office available to take your call. Please leave a in 3 key areas: discipleship, leadership and com- message and they will contact you as soon as possible. munity transformation. This will be across all levels (Benefice, Deanery and our Diocesan Board of Ed- ucation schools), with an approach that is about thinking both locally and with a collective Diocesan mindset. Finally, if there is anything that you would like for me to mention in the Pew Sheet please email the office [email protected] asap. I am hoping to continue working at the office on Monday mornings and Tuesday after- noons for the foreseeable future. Jeanette