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Regular Village Events: North Monday Mornings, 10.30 – 12 noon, Coffee Club, NP Village Hall Village News Perrott Tuesdays 7.30 pm, Bell ringing, St Michaels 1st Tuesday, 8.00 pm, Acoustic Music, Play, Sing, Listen, Manor Arms N.P. Haselbury Plucknett rd MAY 2019 3 Tuesday, 1.00 pm, Lighthouse Lunches, BCC 3rd Tuesday, 7.30 pm, NP and H Gardening Club, NP Village Hall 1st Wednesday, 7.30 pm, Haselbury WI, BCC 2nd Weds 7.30 pm, Plucknett Players, Enquiries P Brown, 73812. Alternate Thursdays, 2.30 pm Tea and Chat, BCC Haselbury Plucknett IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO ANY OF THE ABOVE EVENTS, GIVE THEM A TRY! YOU CAN BE SURE OF A FRIENDLY WELCOME. May Fair 6TH MAY WESSEX MORRIS MEN NP GREEN 11TH MAY FAIR HP SCHOOL 25TH GARDEN CLUB COFFEE PESTERS NP 11th May 12-4pm MORNING FOR FULL DETAILS SEE INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES £1 Adult Entry Live Music/Dog Show/BBQ Stalls/Games/Bar/Competitions The next edition will be for JUNE 2019 copy for this should be submitted to;- 12:00 Welcome [email protected] 12:15 Country Dancing by 20th MAY 12:45 Games Please send articles/adverts for the Village News as email attachments. Please keep it 13:30 Competition Judging simple. Use Word or jpeg formats. No headed paper. Do not send photographs, as these 14:00 Stage Coach Performance don't work on our printer. Keep to black and white print. Do not send anything containing 14:30 Games colour, such as logos, adverts or copies of posters, as these do not reproduce well, and usually require a lot of amendment and time! Please don’t send PDFs, I can’t transfer them 15:15 Dog Show into the newsletter software. We want your pieces for inclusion to look good and we do our 15:45 Raffle draw best, but please bear in mind the limitations of the available equipment. Please also check dates in your e-mails and/or hard copies are correct. See separate entry for BAKING COMPETITION Please do not wait for the deadline if items are available prior to that date as early receipt can help with production Come and support this local event. Thank you for your co-operation. Village Services May 2019 Bible Christian Centre DATE MISTERTON NORTH HASELBURY Minister: Pastor Andrew Harris – Tel: 01935 864414 Admin: Paula Harris – Tel. 01460 73147 or 01935 864414 St Leonard’s PERROTT St Michael and N St Martin’s All Angels www.biblechristiancentre.org.uk Services for May 2019…. Sunday 5th May 10:30am Café Church & CREA’8 children’s 5 May 9.30 am activities. Easter 3 Holy Communion - - Sundays 12th, 19th & 10am Tea & coffee, 10:30am Celebration & Joint Service Teaching 26th May XSTREAM & BUBBLES (Sunday school groups) during the service. Family Lunch, following the morning service – 12 May 11.00 am 9.30 am 8.00 am Holy Sunday 19th May Easter 4 Holy Communion Holy Communion BCP Other services and Community groups…. BCP Communion 9.30 am Monday – Friday 9:15am – 12:30 Oasis Coffee shop. Family Service Speciality coffees and teas, delicious (Closed Bank Holidays homemade cakes, tray bakes, savoury scones, Monday 6th & 27th toast and toasted teacakes. 19 May 9.30 am - 11.00 am May) Photocopying service available. Easter 5 Holy Communion Holy Communion Mondays (term time 10am Little Wrigglers. Toddler group. Contact Andrew / Paula Harris 01935 864414 only) st 26 May 8.00 am 9.30 am 11.00 am Tuesday 21 May 1pm Lighthouse Lunches. Contact Robin Easter 6 Holy Communion Holy Holy Barnes for tickets 01460 74758 BCP Communion BCP Communion Wednesdays 10:30am Morning devotion with Communion Thursday 2nd, 16th & 7:30pm Bible Study th Thursday - 7.00 pm - 30 May 30 May Holy Communion Thursday 9th & 23rd 2:30pm Tea & Chat. Contact Valerie Champi- Ascension Day on 01460 72055 May Fridays (term time on- 6:30pm SPLAT & JAM youth groups SPLAT (school years R-4) 2 June - 9.30 am - ly) Easter 7 Holy Communion JAM (school years 5-8) Joint Service Saturdays 7:15am Spearhead prayer meeting Saturday 11th May 7pm Cinema night showing ‘God’s Not Dead 3’ (PG) NOTES: Unless marked BCP = Book of Common Prayer (1662), our Holy Commun- ‘Don't worry about anything, but in all your prayers ask God for what ion services use authorised Common Worship orders of service in modern language. Our Family Service is an informal service for All Age Worship. you need, always asking him with a thankful heart. And God's peace, which is far beyond human understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with Christ Jesus.’ (Philippians 4:6-7) For gardeners spring is always a bit of a tense time. You have done A Bit of a Poem the hard work during the winter and, have planted the seeds with a hopeful heart. ON A TIRED HOUSEWIFE But then comes the time of waiting, expectant, but slightly nervous did Here lies a poor woman who was always tired, I plant too early, was the soil warm enough; is there going to be an early She lived in a house where help wasn’t hired: morning frost to kill off those early shoots of growth? Her last words on earth were; ‘Dear friends I am going To where there’s no cooking, or washing, or sewing, I go through the same anxieties each year, wondering, hoping if those seeds For everything there is exact to my wishes, planted are going to germinate and bear fruit later in the year. Sometimes they do For where they don’t eat there’s no washing of dishes, -sometimes they don’t. I’ll be where loud anthems will always be ringing, But having no voice I’ll be quit of the singing,.’ It’s a bit like that in our daily lives. we may nurture seeds of hope or joy in our Don’t mourn for me now, don’t mourn for me never. hearts, maybe seeds to do with a relationship, or with a hope for a job; or with the I am going to do nothing for ever and ever.’ Anon. well being of our children; or hope for a better world; we do what we can in terms of preparation and then sow the seeds as lovingly as we can; but we do so more NOTE ON INTELLECTUALS often than not more in hope than expectation; waiting can be an anxious time particularly where we have so little control over how things will turn out. To the man-in-the-street who, I’m sorry to say Is a keen observer of life, It is in that space between hoping for things to be different and stepping out and The word Intellectual suggests straight away risking putting that into practice, that we can sometimes feel left in the dark, A man who’s untrue to his wife. frightened, unsure. If we let those doubts overcome us, then we give up and concede defeat. W H Auden But it is in the planting and nurturing of these seeds that the Church teaches the spirit of God will strengthen us and guide us. St Paul tells us in one of his letters in the New Testament that the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, Crowning Glory generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Now there is a harvest that would go some way toward making our world a better Mobile hairdresser place to be. And it starts with you and me in our daily lives, today, planting the seeds of forgiveness, patience, generosity, gratitude, as we go about our daily tasks. Complementary Therapy Salon quality hairdressing in your for Body & Mind own home, reasonable rates and Happy Planting. fully insured. Through its holistic approach to stress Jonathan Morris reduction and relaxation, Reiki stimulates Vicar in Haselbury Misterton and North Perrott Please call me to arrange an and strengthens the body’s capacity to self- heal, restoring inner balance and promoting appointment or to discuss your wellbeing The Rev Jonathan Morris 01460 72356 [email protected] needs! Reader: Mrs Hilde Bucknell (76450) [email protected] www.somersetreiki.com CHURCHWARDENS Jessica Andrews 01460 929255 or Sara Morley [email protected] Haselbury: Mr J. Barnes-Yallowley (929535) [email protected] 07740817137 Mr Julian Brooks (279603) [email protected] 07484 636577 North Perrott: Mrs Alison Stevens (76214) [email protected] Mr Martyn Oliver (77455) [email protected] Haselbury Plucknett WI - 24 hour Emergency Service Next meeting: Wednesday 1st May at 7.30 pm - Locks changed, repaired & replaced National WI resolution discussion - New locks fitted & Annual WI Meeting - UPVC door & window service At the Bible Christian Centre, Haselbury - Key cutting on site Members’ competition: spring flowers in a glass Our annual meeting is quite brief and structured. We shall elect a committee for the For a free non-obligation quotation, next twelve months to run the institute smoothly and give a varied programme. Then please contact me today. we shall discuss the two resolutions to be debated at the National Federation of WI conference in June. The first concerns the decline in rural bus services. The second OAP discounts given and no VAT to aims to promote attendance at cervical smear tests. pay. Our April meeting was highly entertaining and very informative, if you get my drift. Our speaker’s drift, actually. Emma Duke passed around pieces of driftwood from Mobile: 07541 697203 the Bristol Channel, inviting us to see figures or animals in the shapes – which we Tel: 01460 75038 did! She told us the history of the different types of wood that get washed down from E-mail: [email protected] Exmoor, and of some of the wood that has broken free from the many wrecked ships in the channel.