Old Hills Malvern

Headlines th 8 November 2020 Keeping you in touch with your churches across ,

Callow End, and with Newland

SERVICES FOR THE COMING PERIOD

Church Services during lockdown are suspended. A Zoom Service will take place every Sunday at 10.30am and 5.30pm instead. Please note, Zoom services can now be accessed by telephone – check covering email for details. th Remembrance Sunday – 8 November NO Church Services 9.30am Wreath Laying at the War Memorial at Guarlford

10.50am Wreath Laying at the War Memorial at Callow End for the Parish of Powick 10.50am Wreath Laying at the War Memorial at Madresfield

Callow End Church is open for Private Prayer each Sunday during Lockdown from 12noon-1pm

Sunday Evening Worship 8th November Thursday Night Prayers 12th November 5.30pm – Evening Service of Spiritual Communion for the Benefice 8.30pm On Zoom Video Conferencing On Zoom Video Conferencing Please contact us for access codes Please contact us for access codes

A set of weekly intercessions for personal use is available each week on the website.

Remembrance Sunday - 8th November Bible Readings for the Church Based Services There will not be a Remembrance Sunday Church

Service for the benefice at Madresfield - this is cancelled Sunday 8th November at 10.50am as the churches are required to be closed Wisdom 6: 12-16 Wreath laying (with the Royal British Legion Branch as 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-end applicable) will take place at Callow End, Powick and Matthew 25: 1-13 Madresfield for communities. There will not be any parades or associated church services in the villages. You are strongly advised to commemorate and Daily Prayer and Hope on the Phone remember The Fallen at home. Wear your Poppy with

Daily Hope offers music, pride, engage with The Silence. prayers and reflections as well as full worship services from Armistice Day - 11th November the Church of at the end of a telephone line The The Royal British Legion will be laying a wreath at line – which is available 24 Guarlford at 10.50am. hours a day on 0800 804 8044 – has been set up Night Prayer particularly with those unable for the benefice resumes on Thursday 5th November at to join online church services 8.30pm. A Zoom Code is available on the covering email during the period of that supplied you with this news sheet. Alternatively, restrictions in mind. Let me contact Liz Edwards or Rev Gary. know what you think of it.

VICAR’S BLOG!

With our churches closed for public worship from the 5th November for a month, our worship will be via Zoom Video conferencing during the Lockdown. Even though our buildings are closed, our shared ministry and service to our neighbours and one another must continue. Please keep in touch with each other. No one must feel abandoned or lonely during Lockdown.

Churches are only allowed to open if we can broadcast services from them, or for private prayer. Regrettably, none of our churches is rigged up for sound/vision/internet (hence the use of Zoom from the Vicarage). But I am pleased to announce that St James' in Callow End will open for Private Prayer each Sunday during Lockdown between 12noon and 1pm starting this Sunday, 8th November. This is not a church service it is an opportunity for you to drop in and pray.

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have written to all clergy to designate the latest lockdown as a Month of Prayer. There are plenty of resources already on the Parishes' website. According to the

download statistics I receive about the website, hardly anyone has accessed them to date so here is your chance. Each week., there is a set of themed intercessions plus some "tools and techniques" to help you pray. What I have put online can still be used during this "novena” or period of prayer.

These are challenging times, still. Please take care and pray. Rev Gary

Meet your Churchwardens and Deanery Synod Prayers for remembrance and those who are Representatives no longer with us Both parishes have held their Annual Meetings to receive the Annual Report and Accounts. Part of that process is to elect For those who have died Wardens for the coming year. In addition, a new Deanery Synod Almighty and eternal God, from whose love in Christ we cannot be is elected and we field representatives to that too. We said farewell to a few longstanding members and welcomed some parted, new (or not so new....) faces. Regrettably we are still without a either by death or life: Warden at Guarlford - a situation that must be remedied by the hear our prayers and thanksgivings Annual meeting next year. for all whom we remember this day; fulfil in them the purpose of your love;

and bring us all, with them, to your eternal joy; The Churchwardens for the Parish of Powick are: through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Ja net Chill and Mary Ward - supported at Callow End by Frances Betts and Ken Harris For those who have died on active service The Churchwardens for the parish of Guarlford and O God of truth and justice, Madresfield with Newland are: we hold before you those men and women Christopher Bennett and Elizabeth Palmer (Guarlford - vacant, who have died in active service: Don Hill acting as Verger) in Iraq, in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Deanery Synod Representatives are: As we honour their courage and cherish their Kay Shuard (one post remains vacant at Powick and will be memory, covered by volunteer attendance until next year’s Annual Meeting may we put our faith in your future; and elections), Alice Bennett and Peter Hughes (for GMN). for you are the source of life and hope, now and forever. Amen.

SHOE BOX CAMPAIGN is continuing – contact Rev Gary if you have any filled shoe boxes to collect.

Vicar: Revd Gary Crellin – [email protected] 01905 830270 31 The Greenway, Collett’s Green, Powick, Worcs. WR2 4RZ

For more information please see our website: www.oldhillsmalvern.co.uk

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