Children & Youth Work at Ashby & Village Hall Little Fish – Wednesday 19th September at 10:30am The contacts for Little Fish are Jayne (480162) or Laura (480773) 5 Alive Explorers – Friday 21st September, 7-8.15pm for Ages 7-11, £1 entry. Halo – Fridays 14th & 28th September 19.30-21.00 for Yrs 7-11, £1 entry. The Church Newsletter of the Thurton Benefice: For more information contact Emmi (07717744630) , , , Email: [email protected] Thurton, and Yelverton with .

September 2018 – Issue 186 Yare Valley Filling Station

Thurs 20th September – 7:00pm Green Pastures Garden Centre, Mill Road Bergh Apton, NR15 1BQ Rectory Ramblings Info – Alwyn Evans 01508 521996 / 07760 770797 In the July issue of 5 Alive, I wrote about the challenge of being a Parish www.thefillingstation.org.uk/yare -valley Priest who feels called to love and serve the people of five churches and communities in the midst of the pressures and restrictions of the Church of Bible Readings Sunday by Sunday: September 2018 . I recently came across the following in a ‘tongue in cheek’ book Date Old Testament Epistle Gospel entitled ‘Rules for Reverends’. It made me smile…… 02/09/18 Deuteronomy 4:1-2,6-9 James 1.17-27 Mark 7.1-8, Trinity 14 ‘Clergy inhabit a fantastic, pressurised, privileged, frustrating and humbling 14,15, 21-23 09/09/18 Isaiah 35:4-7a James 2.1-10[11-13] Mark 7.24-37 Trinity 15 role, so make sure you:

14-17 16/09/18 Isaiah 50:4-9a James 3.1-12 Mark 8.27-38 Trinity 16  Have a regular day off, and an extra day off now and again

23/09/18 Jeremiah 11:18-20 James 3.13 - 4.3,7-8a Mark 9.30-37 Trinity 17  Take your full complement of holidays 30/09/18 Esther 7.1-6,9,10; James 5.13-20 Mark 9.38-50 Trinity 18 9.20-22  Have a retreat and regular quiet days 07/10/18 Genesis 2:18-24 Hebrews 1.1-4; 2.5-12 Mark 10.2-16 Trinity 19

Joel 2:21-27 1 Timothy 6:6-10 Matthew 6:25-33 Harvest–  Attend a range of courses for Continuing Ministerial Education

Ashby & Bergh Apton only  Go to conferences and teaching days in the wider church

Pastoral Visiting Team  Attend the days your bishop calls you to Holy Communion For Ashby St Mary/Thurton – Jasmine Wood, Tel 480751 at Home  Go faithfully to every Chapter and Deanery Synod For Bergh Apton – position vacant If you know of someone who is housebound and would like  Do some further study to keep your theological faculties sharp For Yelverton/Alpington – Sally Morris, Tel 493407 to receive Holy Communion For Framingham Pigot – Frankie Tranter, Tel 492158 at home, please let one of the  Have a hobby staff know. & Patricia Roberts, Tel 492571  In the one day left to you after all this in a typical year, you can do your pastoral work of weddings, funerals, baptisms and visiting as Thurton Benefice Staff well.’ Rev. Chris Ellis Jill Stevens Sally Morris

(Rector) (Reader) (Visiting Coordinator) It sometimes feels like that, but I would not have it any other way! The Rectory 95 Hubbard Close Cherry House 29 Ashby Road Wheel Rd Your fantastic, pressurised, privileged, frustrated, humble parish priest, Thurton NR14 6AX NR18 0DX Alpington, NR14 7NL Tel: 01508 484174 Tel: 01953 600135 Tel: 01508 493407 Chris (Day off Monday)

Diary Events September 2018 Wednesday THE CHURCHES TRUST Events at St Mary's Church BIKE RIDE, WALK & DRIVE Yelverton in September 2nd 11.00 3 Parish HC at Thurton Fellowship 12th September 8th September 2018, 9am – 5pm 4th 14.30-16.30 Community Cafe at St Mary’s Community Café 14:00-16:00 Raise money for your own Church and Yelverton in Alpington & Yelverton for The Norfolk Churches Trust. Tuesday 4th 14:30 - 16:30 Sponsorship Forms are available in *********** 8th WEDDING at Framingham Pigot Village Hall each church Display of paintings depicting St SPONSORED BIKE RIDE. Group ride from 'A Bishop, a Quaker & a roll of wire netting' For more information go to Mary's Church by Ted Cullum and Thurton at 10.00. All Welcome www.norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk/sponsored- Speaker : Barbara Miller pupils of Alpington School. 9th 10.00 BENEFICE SERVICE at Framingham bike-ride: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th There is a group ride (at a friendly pace) Pigot For more information: 11.00 - 17.00. 12th 14.00-15.30 Wednesday Fellowship in Jo Threadgold on 492657 starting at Thurton church at 10am or you can join in along the way. *********** Alpington VH or Pat Barter on 493570 Harvest Festival Service All welcome - whichever church 19.30. BA Society talk “ Opus Alpacas” in BA VH you are riding for.

14th HOLY CROSS DAY Bible Study Group Contact Rosalind on 01508 480440 in Thurton on a Monday 14.00 Thurton PCC in the Church for more details. morning 10:30-12:30 Please note that St Andrew's, 19.30-21.00 HALO at Ashby & Thurton VH Sunday 23rd 16.00 Contact Anne Dring on Framingham Pigot, will not be open followed by Harvest Tea. 15th 10.00 BACT Workday. Meet at Church Field 01508 480544 for details for this event. 11.00 -17.00 Paintings, by schoolchildren, of St Prayer & Bible Study Mary’s Yelverton in the church Meetings in Alpington THURTON BENEFICE SERVICE ROTA 16th 11.00-17.00 Paintings in St Mary’s church

nd th th rd th 19th 10.30 Little Fish at Ashby & Thurton VH Worship in Stillness 2 Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 23 Sept. 30 Sept. Trinity 14 Trinity 15 Trinity 16 Trinity 17 Trinity 18 10.00-12.00 Coffee ‘n Catch Up at BA VH Mondays, 09:30 Green Green Green Green Green at Cherry House 14.00 Berghapton PCC. Meet at Church 19.00 BA Parish Council meet at VH Bible Study Ashby St 11.00 Join 11.00 11.00 10.00 restarts Mary MP Framingham HC PT Group 20th 10.00 BACT Workday. Meet at Church Field Friday 20th Sept, 7.30 Pigot Service 19.00 for 19.30 Yare Valley Filling Station at at Cherry House. Green Pastures Bergh Apton Join Join 09.30 09.30 10.00 Thurton Framingham PT HC (BCP) Group 21st ST MATTHEW Prayer Meeting Pigot Service 19.00-20.15. Explorers at Ashby & Thurton VH Surlingham At ‘Fieldside’, 23rd 18.00 YELVERTON HARVEST FESTIVAL Framingham Join 10.00 08.15 11.00 10.00 Bergh Apton Pigot Thurton Benefice HC HC (BCP) HC Group SERVICE + Harvest Tea 18:00 every Friday Service 25th 12.30 Tuesday Friends lunch at BA Church Surlingham Maria Phillips would 26th 19.30 BACT AGM at VH . Speaker Andy Brazil Thurton 11.00 Join 11.00 11.00 10.00 warmly welcome those of 3 Parish Framingham Village Hall MP Group 28th 19.30-21.00 HALO at Ashby & Thurton VH faith, or of none, HC Pigot Service Service 29th ST MICHAEL and ALL ANGELS Surlingham to join her. 09.00 11 Says Assembly at BA VH Yelverton 09.30 Join 09.30 16.00 10.00 Tel 01508 480656 PT Framingham HC All 4 Harvest Group 30th 10.00 GROUP SERVICE at SURLINGHAM for more information Pigot Service Surlingham Tuesday Friends Lunch OCTOBER 2018 at Bergh Apton church This month there is no 1st Thursday Holy Communion at St Mary's, Yelverton . 4th 10.30 HC at St Mary’s Yelverton 25th September at 12.30