March 2019 Suggested Contribution

Magazine for

All Saints’ Church and The Parish Church of St Mary & St Peter, Salcombe Regis

Thought of the Month “The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.” Martin Luther

50p March 2019 Suggested contribution

Vicar’s Letter: Rev. David Caporn

Just in case you had missed it, we are about to embark on a countdown and for the avoidance of down I don’t mean the two-year anniversary of invoking Article 50 on 29 March! At the beginning of this month amidst all the flurry of activity around Keswick in Devon, Lent begins during which we reflect and prepare for Easter. In the busyness of life it is all too easy to put our heads down, plough ahead and not take that time to stop and pause – and yet to do so is to stand on hal- lowed ground.

As part of our preparations for Lent we are having a church Lent book (as we did in Advent). We are going to be using Tim Ches- ter’s ‘The Beauty of the Cross’, which throughout Lent will take us on a journey through Isaiah 52 and 53, reflecting on these amazing proph- ecies given 800 years or so before Jesus was born. As we read through these passages it is good to pause and reflect on the resonances that are so clear and powerful and the way in which they point us to Jesus’ own self-understanding, the power of the cross and what he has done for us. Copies of this book will be available in All Saints’ and Salcombe Regis churches at a bargain price – it really is one not to be missed.

3 WELCOME TO ALL SAINTS’, SIDMOUTH

Our Mission: We exist to see lives transformed by Christ. Our Vision is that All Saints’ should be increasingly:  God honouring, Christ following, Spirit-led and Bible-based  Welcoming, open hearted, outward looking and relevant  A people who are humble, gracious, generous and servant hearted.

Our service times are scheduled on page 14 of the magazine. The 8am Holy Communion follows the Book of Common Prayer. The 9.30 Service offers informal contemporary worship during which there’s seekers@saints, separate age related activities in five different groups for those aged 3 to teens. There are crèche facilities for the under 3s. The 11.15 am Service follows Common Worship.

We hope you will always find a warm welcome here, and worship which is both reverent and meaningful.

For disabled people we have level access into the Church by all doors, and a ramp to the hall and toilets (including adapted toilet); we also provide baby changing facilities. There is an efficient loudspeaker system for those who find listening difficult. A hearing loop, covering most of the church and hall, serves those with hearing aids switched to the ‘T’ position. The car park is available free for those attending services and meetings. Permits for parking at other times are available for church members.

All Saints’ Church is part of the Sid Valley Mission Community in the Devon Anglican Diocese.

Contents P1 Cover P11 Electoral Role Article P2 Vicar’s Letter P12 & 13 Services for March P3 Welcome & Contents P13 News Interest P4 Regular Activities @ All Saints’ P14 & 15 Who’s Who P5 Bookshelf P16 General Events P6 Prayer Diary P17 General Events P7 Parish Article P18 –25 Diocese News & Prayers P8 Children & Youth P26-33 Classified Ads P9 National News Piece P33-35 What’s On P10 & 11 Archbishop Article P36 Church Activities

4 REGULAR ACTIVITIES @ ALL SAINTS’

Prayer Groups  Weekly Prayer, Friday 9.00 - 9.30 am in Church  Saturday Prayers 9.00-10.00 am first Saturday of the month  Monthly Prayer and Praise, 10am & 7.30 pm , third Tuesday of each month in Church  Men’s Prayer group, 7am each Friday morning in church. Contact Phil Cranch.  Monthly Prayer for the Nation each fourth Monday at 2pm -Church Lounge. Contact Reg Ball—01395 515458. House Groups There are many groups which meet at various places in the valley on different days and times. Please contact Brenda Richards— 01395 577130 for information. Pastoral Team Anyone who would like to discuss potential visits or prayer needs may contact E. [email protected] Happy Feet babies and toddler group for pre-schoolers and their families Tuesday mornings 10-11.30am (term-time) for play, craft, story time and songs for children and chat, support and home-made refreshments for adults. Contact Jen Taylor— 01395 512899. My Dad and Me. A twice monthly group for fathers and their children 2nd & 4th Saturday of the month 8.30 am. Contact Ben Ray - 07940 364387 Men's Breakfast is held on the 3rd Saturday of the month at 8.15am. All ages welcome for fellowship and friendship in an informal atmosphere. contact Chas Heil— 01395 512583. Sight Impairment Group — held 1st Tuesday at 2.30pm in All Saints’ lounge. Informal fellowship and refreshments. Contact Reg & Dot 01395 515458 Messy Church is a fun packed session for children of all ages, accompanied by a parent, with games, craft, storytelling, songs, short bible talk and sup- per. 3.30pm - 5.pm on the 2nd Thursday of each month. Contact Kirsty Hammond—01395 515405. Café Church - 7.30pm, third Friday of the month at the Mustard Seed. Contact Susi Sparks - 01395 513569 or Sally Wilshaw 01395 512219 See page 16 for full contact details.

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Despite his pivotal role Andy is reaching out, in- Explores the causes of the there is much debate in spiring and equipping us mass dissatisfaction that the church over the nature to become engaged with brought us to here, and of his activity in our lives. a system that affects us. offers positive answers.

Extract from ‘Nation in Transit’ - Phil Anderson The vote to leave the EU wasn’t just a vote against the European In- stitutions, it was a vote on no confidence in almost every institution that underpins British Society. Even Democracy itself was regarded with suspicion: conspiracy theories that the referendum would be either rigged or re-run if it didn’t deliver the ‘right’ answer abounded, and in the days running up to the poll there was a serious social media campaign encouraging voters to take a pen with them to the polling station, as the fact that British voters are tra- ditionally provided with a pencil to mark their ballot paper obviously proved that someone planned to rub out your preference and change it to the one that the authorities wanted. This crisis of confidence comes at a worst possible time, because the very insti- tutions which we will be depending on to help us chart a new course for post- Brexit are the same ones people voted against and no longer trust to do their job. And although the crisis is undoubtedly severe, it does give us an opportunity to re-think which ’actors’ we should trust with each aspect of the changes that are needed to deliver our national wellbeing, state vs market, and socialism vs capi- talism, which still dominate our political thinking.

6 Intercessions for the Mission Community for March 2019 Pray for the deepening of Christian faith  For Lent to be a time of personal spiritual growth in all our congregations  For Lent house groups and study groups and for those who lead them  For more people to be drawn to join in studying aspects of the Christian faith with others  For the ecumenical Lenten Lunches and for Ann Worthington and Oliver Ward who will be speaking  For Keswick in Devon week – for David Jackman and James Grier, the main speakers; for all who serve the event in some way; and for those who come to Sidmouth especially for this occasion  For our PCCs and preparation for Annual Parochial Church Meetings  For the Women’s World Day of Prayer on 1st March  For the Easter activities taking place in our schools including Easter services and our planned Easter Trail  For the process for the appointment of new clergy and the planned inter- views on 20 March and 3 April

All Saints’ Church Daily Prayer List for March 2019 1. Brian and Alison Black 17. Gillian Clark 2. Trevor and Ann Blackburn 18. Mollie Clark 3. Jacqui Blackmore 19. David and Barbara Clarke 4. Joyce Blackwell 20. Howard and Christina Coates 5. Jean Boorman 21. Jennie and Malcolm Crabtree 6. Pam Booth 22. Phil and Jenny Cranch 7. Hannah and Will Boyd 23. Barny and Zsa Zsa Croft 8. Graham Bungay 24. Rupert Crofts and Julie Wheeler 9. David Burgoyne 25. Gillian Croney 10. Barbara Butts 26. Ken and Gillian Crooks 11. David and Jill Caporn 27. Christopher and Catherine Cruise 12. Felicity and Roger Carver 28. Peter and Maralyne 13. Peter and Julia Cauchois 29. Avril Dale 14. Deborah Chadwick 30. Tom and Rachel Darlami 15. Clive and Christine Charlton 31. Mary Davies 16. David and Annie Clark

7 Parish Article I am a retired priest from the Diocese of Leicester, and am grateful for the invitation to write this letter for the March Newsletter.

Soon after coming to live in Sidmouth a neighbour told me ‘You will find it a lot warmer here than it is in the Midlands. We never get any snow here’. Famous last words – there was a heavy fall of snow before the end of the year. At the time of writing there is snow in Devon.

Snow causes many problems, and only the children seem to like it. We admire the giant snowmen they make, and another favourite activity is to make a small snowball into a huge one only simply by rolling and pushing it along the snow-covered ground.

There is a ‘parable’ here. The life of the Christian grows by staying in touch with the faith once delivered to the Saints and by following Christ, the Way. The season of Lent, beginning this month with Ash Wednesday on the 6th, is given to us as an opportunity to grow to become better and more effective Christians.

Lent is not only a time for giving up things we enjoy, it should also be a time when we do something positive about our discipleship. A good place to begin is with the discipline of our time. We scatter our lives in every direction, attempting too many things, doing none of them really well. The shallow river which meanders across wide and flat land will never have enough force to drive a turbine. The way that leads to destruction is broad, and the way that leads to life is narrow. Christian life demands its own narrow banks. There is a freedom that is empty. Our time is to be used and not wasted. Let each day begin and end with prayer, however brief. Let each day somehow have its place of quiet, however short, that noise and bustle may not drive God out of our thoughts. Let each day have its moments with the Bible to feed our souls, even if it is only one verse. Let each week have its meeting with others for worship of the eternal God. Let each life have in it some secret denial of self, expressed in a service undertaken for love of the Lord. Acceptance of discipline for Christ leads to joy in Christ. Obedience to Him is the secret of perfect freedom.

Heard it all before? Yet it is tried and tested and proved.

Just as a small snowball can grow very large provided enough effort is put into pushing it along in the snow, so we can grow as disciples of Jesus Christ provided we put sufficient effort into the discipline for which the weeks of Lent give us opportunity. Brian Matthews PS: In lighter vein: When the Royal Navy was anchored off Alexandria in the darkest days of the Second World War, the Revd ‘Tubby’ Clayton, the indomitable founder-padre of TocH, climbed aboard a battleship wearing civilian clothes to preach the sermon at the Sun- day morning Church Parade. He at once captured the attention of the entire ship’s company. ‘This morning, lads’ he began, ‘I am going to take my text out of my hat’. With that he held up his trilby and read aloud the maker’s name: ‘Hope Brothers’. BM

CHILDREN & YOUTH

February is a funny time of year isn’t it? I don’t know about you, but I have now had enough of winter and dark evenings and want to roll on the summer (although the evenings are getting lighter). But as for things to write about, it’s been a month of normal goings on but mixed with fruitful con- versations as I plan for events in the year.

This morning in assembly we looked at that wonderful story where Martha is busy preparing a meal and Mary stops to listen to Jesus. Martha gets quite irate about this. During the year like most people reading this we all have our Martha moments, maybe we live like Martha. I am really guilty of not being “Mary” enough. But at the moment as I plan for the year I am trying to give more time to pray and to let God speak about what our young people need. It was this time last year where I felt I needed to take our youngsters on a mission abroad. This summer we are going to Moldova… So, I suppose what I am asking you to do is pray, and to support me in praying for our local young people. What do they need? How do we en- courage Christian youngsters and how do we reach others so their lives can be transformed? How can we give them opportunities to transform their lives? We have some great prayer warriors, many I am not even aware of, and I am sorry but I can never thank you enough. Some of you are brilliant with young people and some of you may struggle a bit. One friend told me in passing how he dropped the Noisy Neighbour (Christmas Children’s story) to his neighbour’s children. They loved the story and I wonder what this small act of kindness could lead to. How can we support our young people? We have good relations with the schools and our churches are part of the ethos teams and privileged to lead weekly assem- blies. We will be running an Easter trail at St Peter’s Church. This is a new idea and it will mean that over 300 children will have the opportunity of learn- ing “hands on” about the events of Easter. Continues on page 9

Continued from page 8 When we pray things happen… One evening I had a message asking if we would be interested in collecting for a baby bank. If you have any baby lo- tions, nappies etc. that are unwanted please let me know. What a wonderful way to support young parents. When I plan, I need to think of the needs of these young people and not just do stuff for the sake of it. God keeps pointing us in the right direction, we just need to listen.

Thank you, Kirsty :) Poverty report: 26 individuals own the same as the poorest 50% of humanity Wealth has become more concentrated in the past year with just 26 people owning the same as the poorest 50% of the entire human race, indi- cating that fortune really does favour the rich. The figures were published by Oxfam as part of a report on the world's wealth, which says deep divisions in gender equality and poor public services are key factors in the growing gap between rich and poor. According to the report, in the more than 10 years since the 2008 financial crisis, the number of billionaires has doubled. In the last year alone, the wealth of billionaires increased €2.2 billion every single day, with a new person becoming a billionaire every two days. This compares to almost 50% of the world's population who live on less than €4.90 per day. "The way our economies are organised means wealth is increasingly and unfairly concentrated among a privileged few while millions of people are barely subsisting," Matthew Spencer, Oxfam's director of campaigns and policy, said in a statement released with the report. "It doesn’t have to be this way – there is enough wealth in the world to provide everyone with a fair chance in life." https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/inequality-and -poverty “In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” — “To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. Author unknown

We must learn how to forgive — and disagree

We need to learn to forgive. Especially we need to learn to forgive those who have the temerity, even the abusive intransigence, to disagree with us on something where we think we are right. That appears today to be a mortal sin. Disagreement should be a matter of debate, of rational examination of different views, even of passionate and robust argument. But it should not be a cause of hatred, the incitement of violence, and the denigration of the humanity of the other person. Yet, that is where we seem to have got to. Forgiveness is the process by which we recognise guilt, and yet release it. A few years ago, I heard a debate on the radio about whether it was even necessary to consider forgiveness as a virtue. It was argued that we should simply let things pass us by. That the stoic approach—which keeps us at a certain emotional distance from the abuses, sufferings and challenges of the world—is the approach that we should take instead. Forgiveness implies emotion, anger, and even the concept of sin. (Please excuse me mentioning sin, but I am the Archbishop of Canterbury.) Forgiveness accepts that harm has been done and that harm cannot be ignored; for ignoring it opens the door to impunity and injustice. I spend a great deal of my time in places where the absence of forgiveness leads to an ever-more destructive cycle of retribution, hatred and vendetta. Yet I also see, in some of these places, the capacity of those who have suffered more than I can begin to imagine, to forgive. Forgiveness breaks the cycle of violence, and the descent of our natures into that pit of self-justification and contempt for others that in the end makes us regard them as less than human. When that happens, it permits us to take any action, or make any statement, that fulfils the rage within us. Forgiveness sets us free and sets the offender free. It cuts the chains that im- pede the move to reconciliation, and with the cutting of the chains there is the start of a hope of the common good emerging, of new relationships formed, and of a future in which particular angers have become history, not reality. Our novels, our histories and our current experiences are full of the conse- quences of unforgiven wrong. To forgive is not to pretend that nothing has happened: it is the opposite. It accepts the full weight of wrong, looks at it, considers it, weighs it and then dissolves it through grace and love. Obviously, in our culture this has deeply Christian roots. The offer of forgiveness is the central act of the life and death of Jesus Christ. More than that, He called on His followers to love their enemies. Continues on page 11

11 Continued from page 10 Love in that context, and in His time, did not mean warm cuddly feelings about other people, but a settled intention to see the other blessed, and at its best to do so without hope of return. So why do I nominate the power of forgiveness as a particular lesson for 2019? One very contemporary reason attaches to social media. Of its many goods and evils, perhaps the most dangerous is to do harm without a sense of the other. We can hate at a distance, and yet do so intimately and powerfully, destroying the other’s self-image, their confidence that they have value. Because of the intimacy of a tweet or blog post, the hatred cuts into us as woundingly as if the author was present. But because of the distance, we feel no need to seek forgiveness or reconciliation. More generally, a new emphasis on forgiveness would begin to open the way for our country to move forward, indeed for Europe and the world to move forward, without creating more impunity where victims are forgotten, and crimes overlooked. We need the possibility of crime being acknowledged, victims comforted, and human beings freed for a better future. In sum, I would like to see the revival of a sense of needing and of offering forgiveness, in order to liberate those involved in harm, to break cycles of cruel- ty, to re-establish the intimacy of honest difference.

Archbishop Justin Welby’s lesson for 2019

The Church Electoral Roll The Electoral Roll is the church’s register of electors and is the list of those qualified to attend and to vote at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) in the elections for the Parochial Church Council (PCC) and the parish’s representatives on the deanery synod.

Every 6 years the Electoral Roll is renewed, this is happening this year. No names are carried over from the old roll and everyone must apply for inclu- sion on the new roll. Please pick up your application form from the table in the link and return it by 31 March at the latest. If there is not an envelope bearing your name then please take a blank form. If you have any queries, please speak to Heather Salter for Salcombe Regis, on 07540 154 234 or the Church Office for All Saints’ on 01395 577 773.

A little boy was overheard praying: “Lord, if You can’t make me a better boy, don’t worry about it. I’m having a real good time like I am.!”

12 ALL SAINTS’ SERVICES MARCH 2019 3rd March Sunday Before Lent 8:00 am Holy Communion (BCP) Preacher: Rev. David Caporn 9:30 am Morning Service Preacher: Rev. David Caporn 11:15am Morning Service Preacher: Rev. David Caporn Readings: 1 Thessalonians 5: 12—28; Luke 9: 28—36 Title: Christian Community : Walking with others 10th March First Sunday of Lent 9:30 am Morning Service Sarah Mounoury 11:15am Morning Service & Holy Communion Preacher: Rev. Tony Adams Readings: Deuteronomy 26: 1—11; Luke 4: 1—13 17th March Second Sunday of Lent 8:00 am Holy Communion (BCP) Preacher: Rev. David Caporn 9:30 am Morning Service Preacher: Carole Hawkins 11:15am Morning Service Preacher: Rev. Ken Crooks Readings: Genesis 15: 1—18; Luke 13: 31—35 24th March Third Sunday of Lent 9:30 am Morning Service & Holy Communion Preacher: Rev. David Caporn 11:15am Morning Service Preacher: Rev. David Caporn Readings: Isaiah 55: 1—9; Luke 13: 1—9 31st March Fourth Sunday of Lent (Mothering Sunday) 8:00 am Holy Communion (BCP) Preacher: Rev. David Caporn 9:30 am Morning Service Preacher: Kirsty Hammond 11:15am Morning Service Preacher: Clive Charlton Readings: Exodus 2: 1—10; Luke 2: 33—35

A Sunday school teacher had a group of boys and he was talking to them on one occasion about being strong and tough when sad things happened to them. Three little boys started bragging about how tough they were and the teacher wasn’t sure that he had got through to them. One boy said, "I'm so tough that I can wear out a pair of shoes in a week." A second boy said, "I'm so tough, I can wear out a pair of jeans in a day." Whereupon a third boy said, "When my parents take me to see Grandma and Grandpa, I can wear them out in just one hour.”

SALCOME REGIS SERVICES MARCH 2019 3rd March 1st Before Lent 9:15 am Family Communion Preacher: Rev. Tony Adams 11:00 am Matins Preacher: Rev. Tony Adams 10th March Lent 1 8.00 am Holy Communion Preacher: Rev. David Caporn 9.15 am Family Communion Preacher: Rev. David Caporn 17th March Lent 2 9.15 am Family Communion Preacher: Rev. David Lewis 11.00 am Matins Preacher: Elizabeth Harris 24th March Lent 3 8.00 am Holy Communion Preacher: Rev. David Caporn 9.15 am Family Communion Preacher: Rev. Graham Stones 31st March Mothering Sunday 9.15am Family Communion Preacher: Rev. David Caporn

Thoughts from Salcombe Regis Lenten Period—Salcombe Regis Church March 2019 A Prayer & Thought Never mind March Tree with leaves for You're not really mad appropriate messag- Or angry or bad es will be available You're only blowing during this period. The winter away We continue to pray for God’s guid- To get the world ready ance during this difficult period. For April and May

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14 WHO’S WHO VICAR - Rev. David Caporn T: 01395 515963 E: [email protected] YOUTH MINISTER - Kirsty Hammond Tel: 07966 060350 Email: [email protected]

HON. ASSISTANT CLERGY READERS Rev. Tony Adams 512495 Mr John Dunster 578332 Rev. Kenneth Crooks 489254 Reader PTO Carole Hawkins 515674 Rev. Canon Dennis Gurney 515362 Reader Emeritus Mrs Joyce Blackwell 515436 Rev. David Lewis 516762

OFFICE / VESTRY PHONE 577773 PCC SECRETARY CHURCH ADMINISTRATOR Sue Ginman 01395 568798 Beth Bissett & Phil Cranch 577773 [email protected] Email: [email protected] PCC TREASURER & Gift Aid

CHURCH WARDENS Richard Beattie 514441

Felicity Carver 514860 GIVING Tony MacGregor 515027 Freewill Offering

DEANERY SYNOD Geraldine Gee 579604 June Glennie 578722 ELECTORAL ROLL SECRETARY Alistair Bates 577948 Brenda Richards 01395 577130 Phil Cranch 515677 PASTORAL CARE CO-ORDINATORS HEALTH AND SAFETY OFFICER & Vacant BUILDING MAINTENANCE E. [email protected] John Belton 01404813431

SAFEGUARDING TEAM House Groups Safeguarding Co-ordinator Brenda Richards 577130 Tony Wiltshire 516612 Assistant Safeguarding Co-ordinator/Adult Hall Bookingss Advocate Biddy Miller 513697 Mary Parkes 576833 Children’s & Young People’s Advocate Tracey Tipton 07927 393800 Parish Verifier Jane Lee 743788 PCC Safeguarding Representative Sarah Mounoury 519805

SID VALLEY TEAM ALL SAINTS' CHURCH PCC

TEAM RECTOR - Sidmouth Parish Church Rev. David Caporn - Vicar Vacant Felicity Carver - Churchwarden

All Saints & Salcombe Regis Tony MacGregor - Churchwarden Rev. David Caporn 515963 Richard Beattie -Treasurer Kirsty Hammond 07966 060350 Sue Ginman - Secretary Peter Fung - Minutes Secretary St. Francis, Woolbrook and June Glennie - Deanery Synod Rep Sidbury & Sidford Alastair Bates – Deanery Synod Rep Vacant Phil Cranch - Deanery Synod Rep

Clergy & Staff Rest Days John Hammond Rev. David Caporn - Thursday Geoff Purkiss Sarah Mounoury - Safeguarding Rep Magazine Editors Hannah Vicarage Sidmouth Parish Church Kirsty Hammond - Youth Minister

David Wade 01404 813191 John Dunster - Reader [email protected] If you have an issue you wish to raise for

St Francis, Woolbrook the PCC's consideration, please write to (Grapevine news letter) Sue Ginman - PCC Sec. Jackie Herbert The minutes of PCC meetings are pub- E-mail: [email protected] lished on the website and in a folder in the Sidbury & Sidford church lounge. Janice Salway 514862 The PCC normally meets at 7.30pm on the E-mail: [email protected] 2nd Tuesday of the month. All Saints’ & The Parish Church of St. Find out more information from our Mary & St. Peter Salcombe Regis monthly magazine and at Lena Welch 514585 www.allsaintssidmouth.org.uk E-mail: [email protected]

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16 Keswick in Devon 4th – 8th March 2019

'GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON - OK, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT?' with David Jackman and James Grier The Holy Spirit can frequently become the 'forgotten' member of the Trinity. Very often it is ‘God the Father, God the Son – OK, but what about the Spirit’. So, come to Keswick in Devon 2019, enjoy a relaxing week in beautiful Sidmouth and listen to uplifting biblical teaching on the Holy Spirit from two highly respected lovers of God's Word. The programme gets underway on Monday evening with an introductory talk by David Jackman. if you would like to know more please contact me, Carole Hawkins tel: 01395 515674 email: [email protected]

FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT 2019 is Monday February 25th – Sunday March 10th The Banana Growers from the Windward Islands will be in Devon for all of Fairtrade Fortnight Sidmouth Library will have a display for the whole of Fairtrade fortnight. Friday March 1st Banana Grower visits Sidmouth The morning will be spent at at Sidmouth College with Year 7 pupils. Friday March 1st Afternoon there will be an Open meeting at St Teresa’s Hall - with a presentation aboutFairtrade and Bananas with Fairtrade Refreshments and Sale of Traidcraft crafts, food, as well as a display by Waitrose of their range of Fairtrade goods. Sidmouth Library Saturday March 2nd 10:30 storytelling and activities in children’s library Coffee morning 10:30 -12 noon Sunday March 3rd Everyone is welcome to the Community Fairtrade and Local Breakfast at the Methodist Hall from 9:30 – 12: 15 with Traidcraft craft and food stalls Fairtrade Refreshments after 10am Service at the Parish church – 3rd and 10th March Fairtrade Refreshments at St Teresa’s Hall after morning mass Everyone is welcome to the Community Fairtrade and Local Afternoon Teas wth Fairtrade stalls at St Francis 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Wendy Spratling – Traidcraft Trader, Sidmouth Methodist Church and Sidmouth Fair Trade Town Group Co-ordinator

17 Monthly Saturday Morning Prayer Sessions

We hold 9am and 10am prayer sessions on the first Saturday of each month. It is a great habit to be in and we can testify to how wonderfully God answers prayer!

From March onwards, we are taking the 10am prayer session out into the Valley - it will be wonderful if you would join us!

We are writing to key community services, like the Lifeboat Station, the schools, the Doctor's Surgery, the Hospital, Sidmouth Hospiscare, the Mustard Seed etc, to say how much we appreciate what they do, and offering to pray for God's blessing on them, their staff, service-users and building. With their permission, we will go to their premises at 10am on a Saturday morning (one building per month), surround it and pray for God's blessing and protection over them. By doing this we are taking the name of Jesus out on to the street and creating positive links between us the church and the people of the town.

Satan will not want this to happen, so the 9am session will include prayers for protection over the group who go out at 10am.

On Saturday 2nd March, we will meet at 10am up on Salcombe Hill where we have a great view of the town. We will pray over our town and valley and for Keswick in Devon which starts on the 4th. Making prayer more cre- ative will hopefully attract more people to come and I pray that we will become excited about seeing our prayers answered. Please diarise the first Saturday of each month and commit to supporting this new initiative.

Dear God... A little boy's prayer: "Dear God, please take care of my daddy and my mummy and my sister and my brother and my doggy and me. Oh, and please take care of yourself, God. If anything happens to You, we're gonna be in a big mess."

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WHAT’S ON

34 Rose Lawn Dates March 2019 Sunday 10th March- 4.30pm Informal Friends of Sidholme Music Room Service led by: Phil Cranch Followed by tea See website for full programme. All th concerts free with retiring collection Tuesday 12 March - 11am Holy unless shown otherwise Communion led by: Rev. David Lewis Sunday 3rd March 3.30-4.30pm Sunday 24th March- 4.30pm Informal THE EXETER SINGERS Service led by: Phil Cranch Musical Director: Tony Yates

followed by tea Sunday 10th March 3.30-4:30pm Do come along to join in and enjoy THE ST. DAVID’S SINGERS fellowship with residents. Musical Director: Mark Perry

th SALCOMBE REGIS COFFEE MATES Sunday 17 March 3.30-4.30pm AN AFTERNOON WITH JAMES PELLOW meet at John Griswold at the piano. Tickets £10 SALCOMBE REGIS SCOUT CENTRE from Paragon Bookshop on the T. 01395514516 or st 1 TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH Sidholme Reception T. 01395515104 ND COMMENCING 2 OCTOBER 2018 Sunday 7th April 3.30-4.30pm th UNTIL 7 MAY 2019 BOLD AS BRASS 10 am to 12 noon The Sidmouth Town Band Ensemble Come and join us, meet new friends, Musical Director: Fiona Harvey

enjoy a coffee/tea, company, Sunday 14th April 3.30-4.30pm conversation and optional activities HARK THE ECHOING<<<<<< PURCELL & BRITTEN

Musical Director: Ruth Hopkins More information online at https://www.hugofox.com/community/ friends-of-sidholme-music-room-12917/ about-us

‘Living with, or beside, Dementia’ On Wednesday 13 March 7.30pm Ottery St Mary church Deanery Synod will be meeting. Open for anyone to attend. Do feel free to come along and bring any interested people.

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