January 2019 Issue
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Hambledon Parish Magazine St Peter’s Church & Village News January 2019 60p www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk Hambledon Parish Magazine, January 2019 Page 1 Hambledon Parish Magazine, January 2019, Page 2 PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HAMBLEDON Rector The Rev Simon Taylor 01483 421267 [email protected] Associate Vicar Position advertised Assistant Vicar The Rev David Jenkins 01483 416084 6 Quartermile Road Godalming, GU7 1TG Curate The Rev David Preece 01483 421267 [email protected] Churchwarden Mrs Elizabeth Cooke 01483 208637 Marepond Farm, Markwick Lane Loxhill, Godalming, GU8 4BD Churchwarden Alan Harvey 01483 423264 35 Maplehatch Close Godalming, GU7 1TQ Assistant Churchwarden David Chadwick, Little Beeches 01252 702268 14 Springhill, Elstead Godalming, GU8 6EL Pastoral Assistant Mrs Jacqui Rook 01428 684390 1 Hambledon Park Hambledon, GU8 4ER Church Treasurer & Gift Aid Andrew Dunn 01428 482113 The Cottage, Lane End Hambledon, GU8 4HD Sunday Services Full details of these and any other services are set out in the Church Calendar for the month, which is shown on page 5 The Church has a number of Home Groups which meet regularly during the week at various locations. Details from Hambledon and Busbridge Church Office Tel: 01483 421267 Alpha details and information from: Hambledon and Busbridge Church Office Tel: 01483 421267 Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals contact Hambledon and Busbridge Church Office Tel No: 01483 421267 (Mon – Friday, 9.30am – 12.30pm) Copy deadline for the Where there is sickness or where a visit would be valued, contact the Church Wardens February magazine The Rector is normally off duty on Fridays The deadline is Thursday, 17 January The nearest Roman Catholic churches are St Teresa of Avila, Chiddingfold (Fr Irek Stadler, 01428 643877); Please send your copy to St Edmund, Croft Rd, Godalming and St Joseph’s, Jane Woolley Milford (Fr David Parmiter, 01483 416880) Cobblers, Woodlands Road Hambledon GU8 4HL 01428 684213 TO SUBSCRIBE AND HAVE email: [email protected] THE MAGAZINE DELIVERED, £6 per year PLEASE CONTACT: MARY PARKER Advertisers, please contact Telephone: 01428 682545 Derek Miller, 2 Church Lane, Hambledon, GU8 4DS 01428 684362 email: [email protected] Hambledon Parish Magazine, January 2019 Page 3 Dr Chris’s Call – January Call to prayer in 2019 Dear Friends, Blessings to one and all during this New Year and an encouragement to keep on praying and perhaps with even more vigour during 2019! The bible is teaming with examples of prayer for every season of the soul and for many and varied circumstances of poverty, need or sickness. Jesus spent much time in prayer, often in the early morning and in wild and remote places. There are also prayers in scripture made by prophets, priests and kings, saintly figures and sinners; so we have many examples and can rest assured that the Lord hears and answers prayers. Read on after the Lord’s Prayer, in Luke, the physician’s account, Luke 11.5-13, for reassurance of God’s wonderful love and gracious assurance over hearing and responding to our prayers. Prayer is communicating with the Lord who loves us and who has the capacity to exert His Sovereign power and influence through our prayers. So prayer is a partnership and if we will let Him dwell in us, as mentioned in John 14.20 and John 15.7 the Father God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit will be praying with us from the inside! I love the verse in Romans 8.26 which refers to the Holy Spirit praying through us with ‘inarticulate groans’. So often I do not know what to pray and simply allow the Spirit to groan through me. The energizing power within this prayer partnership is Resurrection Power flowing from the Cross of Christ and His infinite love for each one of us and for the whole created order. This power is loaded with saving and healing grace ready to use at all times and on all occasions. So let’s us e it! Revelation 8.1-5 gives us a peep into the engine room of heavenly prayer activity with the prayers of the saints being mixed with incense in a golden censer and placed on the golden altar before God’s throne. The fire from the altar is then put into the censer and thrown to earth with atomic power! Let us use this mighty power for our nation, for all nations, for each one in need in our sphere of activity and also for those within our church fellowship. So a trumpet call to prayer this year with power and might! James 5.13-20 gives us a prayer prescription pragmatic and practical in its application. Any in trouble pray; anyone happy sing and praise; anyone sick call the elders of the church to pray and anoint. So the church has a medical responsibility in using prayer power and I would encourage us all to use it and flex our prayer muscles to help our NHS. Comforting, nurturing relationships at the pastoral level translates into reduction of anxiety, loneliness and depression. Add to that the power of prayer and a high expectation for the dispensation of the Lord’s saving and healing grace puts us in a very strong position to take our responsibility within the wider work of healing needed in our land. Pray for the doctors, nurses and technicians too! Make prayer as natural an activity as breathing itself and see the Lord’s Kingdom come in people and situations around, as well as being blessed and changed from the inside out. My prayers and blessings in abundance to you all. Dr Chris Dr Chris Jagger, Hambledon and Busbridge Prayer Supporter PS: and there will be a new Alpha course starting on 9 January in Busbridge Old Rectory. Hambledon Parish Magazine, January 2019, Page 4 CHURCH CALENDAR January 2019 Thursday 3rd January 9-9.30 am Morning Prayer ____________________________________________________ 6th January 9.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 1st Sunday of Epiphany 10.30 am Morning Worship ____________________________________________________ Thursday 10th January 9-9.30 am Morning Prayer ____________________________________________________ 13th January 9.00 am Morning Prayer (BCP) 2nd Sunday of Epiphany 10.30 am Holy Communion (CW) Vision /Resolution Sunday ____________________________________________________ Thursday 17th January 9-9.30 am Morning Prayer ____________________________________________________ Saturday 19th January 8.30am to 10 am Prayer Breakfast A time to meet together for prayer. All are welcome. ____________________________________________________ 20th January No morning services in Hambledon & Busbridge 3rd Sunday of Epiphany 10.30 am Churches Together Service, Godalming United Church All warmly invited. Activities for children are provided. ____________________________________________________ Thursday 24th January 9-9.30 am Morning Prayer ____________________________________________________ 27th January 9.00 am Morning Prayer (BCP) 4th Sunday of Epiphany 10.30 am Morning Worship &Children’s Group ____________________________________________________ Thursday 31st January 9-9.30am Morning Prayer ____________________________________________________ And in February 3rd February 9.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 5th Sunday of Epiphany 10.30 am All Age Worship _____________________________________________________ Services at St. John’s, Busbridge in January 8.00 am Holy Communion (said) (1st, 2nd and 4th Sundays only) 10.00 am Classic Service in Church: Contemporary service in School: 1st Sunday: Morning Worship 1st Sunday Mark Puddephat & All Age Team (Fuse). 2nd Sunday: Morning Worship 2nd Sunday: Morning Worship 4th Sunday: Holy Communion 4th Sunday: Morning Worship – Groups for children of all ages in various locations: turn up and ask! 3rd Sunday: Churches Together Service, NO SERVICES in Busbridge or Hambledon 10.30 am Godalming United Church, All warmly invited, Activities for children provided. 6.30 pm Benefice Evening Worship: 1st Sunday: Holy Communion; 2nd & 4th Sundays: Evening Worship; 3rd Sunday: Unplugged Hambledon Parish Magazine, January 2019 Page 5 Hambledon New Clerk; new budget The final meeting of the calendar year took place on 11 December and focused on the process for replacing the Clerk to the Parish Parish Council Council and laying the groundwork for the budget for 2019/20. ollowing advice from the Surrey and Sussex village maintenance and the election. The new Association of Local Councils (SSALC), the precept was thought to be reasonable, considering the F Parish Council noted that the role of Clerk and matters discussed and in the context of the small rises Responsible Finance Officer is a statutory one with in living costs that have occurred over the last five increasing responsibilities and administrative duties years. and that, as such, the appointee has to be properly Councillor Sinnott reported the figures raised in resourced and recompensed. the summer by the Village Festival and outlined the The Parish Council decided to appoint Mrs Julie grants given to the local organisations in the village. Flenley, who lives locally and was the second-placed Councillors thanked him and the committees for all applicant from the previous recruitment process, as the their hard work and their contributions to the new Clerk. In addition, because of the budget and the community. They also expressed a strong will to up-coming local council elections, SSALC had also continue the Parish Council’s support for the Fete and advised the Parish Council to appoint a Locum to act associated events in the future. as assistant Clerk to cover the transition period. Mrs Councillors then discussed planning matters and Joanna Cadman, the recommended Locum, is an the latest application to vary plans in relation to the experienced Clerk who looks after the business of farm buildings at Hambledon House. Hawksmoor both Compton and Albury Parish Councils. Some of Homes have moved ahead with the construction and you may have seen Joanna in the Surrey Advertiser some concerns have been expressed about a planning recently as she walked 100 miles from Sandwich to system which has enabled the owner and now the Newhaven in five days, raising money for the Royal developer to submit a number of amendments over British Legion.