Children & Youth Work at Ashby & Village Hall Little Fish – Wednesdays 4th & 18th July at 10:30am The contacts for Little Fish are Jayne (480162) or Laura (480773) 5 Alive Explorers – Friday 20th July, 7-8.15pm for Ages 7-11, £1 entry. The Church Newsletter of the Thurton Benefice: Halo – Friday 13th July, at Encounter. , , , For more information contact Emmi (07717744630) Thurton, and Yelverton with . Email: [email protected] July 2018 – Issue 184

Yare Valley Filling Station Rectory Ramblings Next Meeting Thurs 19th July – 7:00pm It is often said that the older we get, the less we like change. Some people Green Pastures Garden Centre, Mill Road Bergh Apton, NR15 1BQ thrive on uncertainty, challenge and adventure, but I suspect most of us Info – Alwyn Evans 01508 521996 / 07760 770797 actually prefer routine, certainty and some sense of what is going to happen, www.thefillingstation.org.uk/yare-valley when and why.

Bible Readings Sunday by Sunday: July 2018 But we live in a world that is ever turning and ever changing. I recently had a

conversation with a retired farmer who was telling me stories about farming Date Old Testament Epistle Gospel in the 1950s. He could easily have been talking about farming in the 1850s 01/07/18 Wisdom of Solomon 2 Corinthians 8.7-15 Mark 5.21-43 Trinity 5 given how much change has occurred. In the 1950s, the majority of workers 1.13-15; 2:23-24 in our parishes would have been employed on the land; now farms produce 08/07/18 Acts 12:1-11 2 Timothy 4:6-8,17-18 Matthew 16: St Peter far greater harvests with just a handful of people and highly technological 13-19 & St Paul machinery and farming methods. We call it progress, but it comes at a cost – 15/07/18 Amos 7:7-15 Ephesians 1.3-14 Mark 6.14-29 Trinity 7 unemployment, lost hedgerows and chemical pollution. It is change, but is it 22/07/18 Song of Solomon 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 John 20:1-2, Mary progress for the environment? 3:1-4 11-18 Magdalene 29/07/18 2 Kings 4:42-44 Ephesians 3.14-21 John 6.1-21 Trinity 9 In this deanery, and in our own Group, change is coming. The 05/08/18 Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15 Ephesians 4.1-16 John 6:24-35 Trinity 10 priest in the Waveney Benefice retired at Easter; the priest in the

Raveningham Group retires in November and John and Wendy Shaw retire in September. Twenty of the thirty seven parishes in the deanery will be Pastoral Visiting Team Holy Communion vacant at the same time. We do not know what the future holds and whether all these clergy will be replaced. The model of the Church in recent years has For Ashby St Mary/Thurton – Jasmine Wood, Tel 480751 at Home been to reduce the number of clergy and increase the size of benefices, For Bergh Apton If you know of someone who is housebound and would like effectively increasing the workload of already overstretched clergy. The For Yelverton/Alpington – Sally Morris, Tel 493407 to receive Holy Communion resultant effect is to undermine the parish model of ministry upon which the For Framingham Pigot – Frankie Tranter, Tel 492158 at home, please let one of the Church of is based where, at least in theory, everyone in a parish staff know. knows who their priest is. The Minster Model – where clergy are based in a & Patricia Roberts, Tel 492571 large urban parish and sent out to surrounding parishes to take services as needed – may be a change to the parish model and financially economical, Thurton Benefice Staff but is it progress? Rev. Chris Ellis Jill Stevens Sally Morris (Rector) (Reader) (Visiting Coordinator) I have always felt called as a priest to love and serve the people in the The Rectory 95 Hubbard Close Cherry House parishes entrusted to me. To know and be known. For me, change cannot be 29 Ashby Road Wheel Rd progress if it increases the balance in the Diocesan Board of Finance’s bank Thurton NR14 6AX NR18 0DX Alpington, NR14 7NL account, but reduces the love and care of God’s people. Tel: 01508 484174 Tel: 01953 600135 Tel: 01508 493407 (Day off Monday) Chris

Diary Events July 2018 Alpington & Yelverton Friends of Thurton Church Thurton Holiday Club rd 3 ST THOMAS Community Café Sunday 8th July Monday 6th - Thursday 9th Aug 14:30-16:30 Yelverton Community Cafe at St Tuesday 3rd July, Charity open garden at Cherry Tree at Ashby & Thurton VH Mary’s church at 14.30 - 16.30 Cottage, 24 The Street, Thurton, For 5 - 11 year olds (on 31/8/2018) th 4 10:30 Little Fish at Ashby & Thurton VH in St Mary's Church. 2 - 5pm. Collecting shoe boxes and kitchen th 5 BA Society trip to Hampton Court Palace Raising money for Cream teas, book and plant stalls. roll tubes for junk modelling. Flower Show BYRUS. Parking at George & Dragon pub We are also looking for a few extra th 8 10:00 Patronal Festival for ST PETER & June's cafe raised £96 for helpers if anyone would like to join the Vidiyal Trust. Thanks ST PAUL at BA Church ******************************** us for a session or two. to our loyal supporters. 14 :00-16:00 BA New Residents Welcome at Bergh Apton Fete (Mornings 10am - 12.15 BA VH ************ Wednesday Fellowship Saturday 14th July or afternoons 2 - 4pm) 14:00-17:00 Charity Open Garden at Cherry 11th July, Annual Picnic 2.00 pm at the Manor Contact Rosalind/Hannah 480440 Tree Cottage, Thurton Meet at 12.00 at the Free Admission - Free Car Park 11th Wednesday Fellowship Picnic. For a lift, meet Village hall if you need a A traditional English Village Fete at 12.00 at VH Bramerton Group Service th lift to the picnic. 13 17:00 Gifts for BA Fete to the Manor No dogs:- please leave them at 29th July at 10am Phone Jo 492657 Lifts from Rockland Church car HALO at Encounter home, not in the car, on what is th or Sally 493407 park from 9.15 -9.45 am. 14 10 :00 BACT Workday. Meet at Church Field hoped will be a hot Summer's day Bring & Share Picnic afterwards 14 :00 Bergh Apton Fete at The Manor Bible Study Group WEDDING at FRAMINGHAM PIGOT th in Thurton on a Monday THURTON BENEFICE SERVICE ROTA 17 14 :00 BA PCC meets at Church morning 10:30-12:30 18th 10:00-12:00 Coffee ‘n’ Catch Up at BA VH Contact Anne Dring on st th th nd th 10:30 Little Fish at Ashby & Thurton VH 1 July 8 July 15 July 22 July 29 July 01508 480544 for details Trinity 5 St Peter & Trinity 7 Mary Trinity 9 18:30 BA Parish Council at BA VH Green St Paul Green Magdalene Green 19:00 BA Hedge Survey. Meet at Church Field (Transferred) White th 19 10:00 BACT. Meet at Church Field Prayer & Bible Study Red Meetings in Alpington 19:00 Yare Valley Filling Station at Green Pastures Worship in Stillness Ashby St 11.00 Join 11.00 11.00 Group th 20 14 :00 Thurton PCC at Church Mondays, 09:30 Mary MP Bergh Apton HC PT Service at Cherry House 19 : 00 - 20 : 15 Explorers at Ashby & Thurton VH Bible Study 22nd MARY MAGDALENE No meetings until Sept Bergh Apton 09.30 10.00 18.00 09.30 Group 11 :15 BACT/BALHG visit to How Hill. HC Patronal Evensong HC(BCP) Service Meet at Church Field Prayer Meeting Festival Hellington th HC 24 12 :30 Tuesday Friends lunch at BA Church At ‘Fieldside’, 14:00 Thurton School end of term service th Bergh Apton Framingham 08.15 Join 08.15 11.00 Group 25 ST JAMES 18:00 every Friday th Pigot HC (BCP) Bergh Apton HC (BCP) HC Service 27 19:30 Friends of St Mary’s AGM at Church Maria Phillips would th Hellington 28 09 :00 Eleven Says Assembly at BA VH warmly welcome those of th Thurton 11.00 Join Join 11.00 Group 29 10 :00 GROUP SERVICE at HELLINGTON faith, or of none, HC Bergh Apton Ashby MP Service 14:00 BACT Plant Identification Walk. Meet at to join her. Hellington Church Field Tel 01508 480656 for more information Yelverton 09.30 Join 09.30 16.00 Group AUGUST 2018 PT Bergh Apton HC All 4 Sunday Service 2nd 10:30 Holy Communion at St Mary’s Yelverton Tuesday Friends Lunch Hellington at Bergh Apton. church 24th July at 12.30 No 1st Thursday of the month Holy Communion at St Mary's, Yelverton, in July