Bletchington Village News Keeping You Informed of Events and Organisations in Your Village
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BLETCHINGTON VILLAGE NEWS KEEPING YOU INFORMED OF EVENTS AND ORGANISATIONS IN YOUR VILLAGE ISSUE 230 Oct – Nov 2017 Church News Report from Sports & Social Club Report from Brownies School News Contributions from the Schoolchildren - 1 - B L E T C H I N G T O N Tel: 01869 350359 Kenwood, e-mail: [email protected] Oxford Road. From the Editor It doesn’t seem possible that this is the penultimate issue before the Christmas one! Where does the time go?! The Bletchington Charity has been funding football and cricket training for local children and the cover picture shows the new wicket being blessed. As usual in the lead up to Christmas there are a number of events advertised in this issue, which we hope you will support. The Bletchington Band’s next concert, as mentioned in the last issue, is on 7th October so we hope this reaches you in time! Thank you for contributions to this issue, especially for the nonsense poems from the school children and to Ian for the photographs of the Tour of Britain cyclists as they came through the village. Thank you also for the photographs of the Brownies. Articles for inclusion in the December 2017/January 2018 Issue are welcome at any time but by 27th November 2017 at the latest please. For your convenience it is possible to send your articles, adverts or cover designs directly by e-mail. The Village News e-mail address is [email protected] CHRISTMAS COVER COMPETITION If you would like to win £5 please have a go at designing a cover for the next Issue, ideally with a Christmas theme. The picture needs to fit in the middle of the page (approximately 17.5 x 14.5cms) and should be drawn with a dark lead pencil. So that it will scan. The last date for entries will be 27th November. Please give your picture to Greta, or send it by e-mail. Harvest Praise: The annual Harvest Festival will be held on Sunday, October 15th at 10 a.m. As usual, gifts of produce (not fresh items please) are very welcome and will be given to the Bicester Food Bank for those less fortunate than ourselves. The collection will be given to a charity as our contacts have moved from Lithuania and we have lost our link to the orphanage now. All Souls' Service: The annual service, at which we traditionally remember our friends and family who are no longer with us, will be held on Sunday, November 5th at 11 a.m. All are welcome, especially those who have been bereaved in the last year. Christine and Sue will make individual posies for those in our church registers during the last year, but if you would like to contribute to a floral arrangement in memory of someone (not necessarily from this village) please get in touch with Christine Mercer (Oaklands, Islip Road, Bletchington, Oxon OX5 3DP, tel. 01869 350335) – cheques made payable to PCC Bletchington. The upkeep of the churchyards is very expensive and if you would like to remember your relative by helping to keep the churchyards looking so beautiful, Ian Gedling (01869 350491) would be very pleased to hear from you. Remembrance Service: There will be a service of Remembrance on Sunday, November 12th at 10.45 a.m. Please come along (and bring your children) to remember the men and women who gave their lives for us, especially those from this village. The names of the men on the two plaques in the church will be read and Bletchington Silver Band will again accompany the hymns and sound the Last Post. SAVE THE DATE!! Come and join us for PRE-CHRISTMAS DRINKS At Bletchingdon Village Hall On Saturday 2nd December 2017 6-8pm Tickets £3 including first drink Snacks will be served during the evening Cash Bar Raffle In aid of St Giles Church Bletchingdon Look out for posters! Tickets from Judith Ledger 351542 or Fiona Teddy 350034 - 2 - ST. GILES’ CHURCH NEWS AND SERVICES We are part of the AKEMAN BENEFICE (Bletchington, Kirtlington, Weston-on-the-Green, Chesterton, Middleton Stoney, Wendlebury and Hampton Gay) Rector: The Revd Gareth Miller, The Rectory, Kirtlington, Oxon OX5 3HA (01869 350224) email [email protected] Assistant Rector: Revd. Brian Wood, The Rectory, Alchester Road, Chesterton, Oxon OX 26 1UW (01869 369815) email [email protected] Churchwarden: Judith Ledger Assistant Churchwarden: Fiona Teddy Secretary: Patricia Hampson Treasurer: Ian Gedling Members of the PCC: Greta Bickley. At the United Benefice Service at Wendlebury on September 24th, Kevin Lovell, who recently moved to Wendlebury with his wife, was installed as a Licenced Lay Minister. This means (briefly) that he supports the ministry team and is able to take certain services, but is unpaid. We welcome Kevin into the Akeman Benefice and hope to see him at St. Giles soon. Services in the Akeman Benefice Key: # = BCP * = Baptism @ = Patronal % = Harvest October 2017 FIRST Sunday: 01 Oct Trinity 16 SECOND Sunday: 08 Oct Trinity 17 Bletchingdon 1100 Holy Communion Bletchingdon 0800 Holy Communion# Chesterton 0800 Holy Communion# Kirtlington 0915 Holy Communion Chesterton 1100 Young Families % Chesterton 1100 Holy Communion Kirtlington 1100 Family Service%* Weston o/t Green 1100 Family Service% Middleton Stoney 1100 Family Service% Wendlebury 1600 Taize Hampton Gay 1515 Evensong% Wendlebury 1700 Family Service% THIRD Sunday: 15 Oct Trinity 18 FOURTH Sunday: 22 Oct Trinity 19 Bletchingdon 1000 Family Service Bletchingdon 1000 Benefice Holy Communion 'Harvest Praise with Baptism' Kirtlington 1600 Messy Church Kirtlington 0800 Holy Communion# FIFTH Sunday: 29 Oct Last Trinity / All Saints Middleton Stoney 0915 Holy Communion Chesterton 1100 Chesterton Praise Middleton Stoney 1000 Benefice Service Weston o/t Green 1100 Holy Communion (not HC, a special service for the families of all Kirtlington 1800 Evensong those recently baptised) Weston o/t Green 1800 Holy Communion# Kirtlington 1800 All Souls’ Service Thursday communions at Kirtlington at 0930: 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th Oct November 2017 FIRST Sunday: 05 Nov 4 before Advent / All Souls SECOND Sunday: 12 Nov Remembrance Bletchingdon 1100 Holy Communion Bletchingdon 1045 Remembrance with All Souls Middleton Stoney 0915 Holy Communion + Chesterton 0800 Holy Communion# Remembrance Wendlebury 0915 Holy Communion Chesterton 1045 Remembrance Chesterton 1100 Young Families Kirtlington 1045 Remembrance Middleton Stoney 1100 Morning Worship Weston o/t Green 1045 Remembrance Kirtlington 1600 Family Service* THIRD Sunday: 19 Nov 2 before Advent FOURTH Sunday: 26 Nov Christ the King Bletchingdon 1000 Family Service Kirtlington 0800 Holy Communion# Weston o/t Green 1000 Middleton Stoney 0915 Holy Communion Benefice Holy Communion Chesterton 1100 Chesterton Praise Weston o/t Green 1100 Holy Communion Kirtlington 1800 Evensong# Thursday Communions at Kirtlington at 0930: 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th Nov - 3 - Our services are for any age and everyone is welcome, but children may find that the Family (All Age) Service, usually on the third Sunday, is easier to understand. These family services are great fun – why not come along and see for yourselves! For details of services in the other parishes in the Benefice please see the notices on the Church and Parish Council notice boards. Times of the services are also on the internet on the village website www.bletchingdon- pc.org.uk or the Benefice website www.akemanbenefice.org.uk From the registers: August 29th Marriage of Benjamin Ayrton Wright and Emily Frances Watts August 29th Marriage of Liam Alexander McRae Moore and Katie Marie Slattery We send best wishes to both couples for their future happiness together. Morning Prayer: A group is meeting in the cafe area in the village hall each Tuesday at 8.45am. It is just for 15 minutes, so do come along if you can. Pastoral Care: If you would like to be visited by a member of the Church or a Priest, or if you would like to request a visit on behalf of a friend or neighbour, please contact Brian Wood (address above). School Prayer Group: A prayer group has been established in the village and meets once a month. The idea is that prayers can be posted by children and staff attending the Akeman Benefice schools in a prayer box in the school, which are then collected weekly and prayed for by the group. Letter from The Rector Dear friends We have become a grandfather. And very good it feels too, if a somewhat sobering reminder of advancing years. By the time you read this I hope to have met my first grand-daughter, but thanks to the wonders of modern technology I already have a good idea of what she looks like. When I was growing up I was fortunate to live with my grandmother and near my grandfather (they were separated). He used to take me out every Saturday morning, and it was a hugely enriching experience. We would meet outside the Odeon in Kensington High Street, and then we would have an excursion of some kind, always ending up at Harvey's Restaurant in Marloes Road, where I usually ordered liver and bacon (still a favourite!). As my grand-daughter is currently domiciled in Edinburgh I doubt I will see much of her in her early years, a reflection of the rather dispersed nature of modern families with which many of you will be familiar. But what will be the influences on her? Will she inherit family looks and mannerisms? Will she have a Scottish accent? Far more importantly, what kind of world has she been born into? It's easy, especially given the events of the past year or so, to echo Private Fraser's intimations of doom. Or to borrow the words of Henry Francis Lyte: "change and decay in all around I see." But the facts rather contradict this.