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The Parishes of Silverstone, Abthorpe, Slapton Whittlebury & Paulerspury Praise Be! The bi-monthly magazine for The Whittlewood Benefice. July/August 2020 Issue 19 Our vision in the Whittlewood parishes is to know God better, love others and reach out with the good news of Jesus The Thank You NHS flag at St Michael’s Church, Silverstone. THE PARISHES OF SILVERSTONE, ABTHORPE, SLAPTON WHITTLEBURY & PAULERSPURY From the Rector 2 I am sorry that this edition of ‘Praise Be!’ is slightly late. This is my fault and no one else. Why has this happened? I was hoping to be able to let you all know about our plans for having church buildings open for worship. However, the guidance from the government and the Church of England were late coming and then there has had to be time of thinking and testing to see how we might be able to offer worship in our church buildings. I have produced a plan and I will give details of this later on, though it might change again and we shall have to see how it progresses. Why is it as it is? We still have to maintain Social Distancing in our buildings; this is for all our sakes. I know that some people think it doesn’t affect them, or that it is too much! However, I believe it is better to be safe than sorry. I have been very fortunate in that I have not had to take funerals because of Covid-19, I don’t know how many people in our parishes have succumbed to this virus, it does seem like we have been very fortunate in this area, at least so far. I don’t think that it would be good if this changed and we started having people infected and dying. We should do our very best to protect one another and any others that may visit our buildings or engage in worship now that it has been permitted. So much keeps changing, the advice, the guidance, the rules and the whole nature of the way we live in society. I am sure that, after I have written this and published this edition of ‘Praise Be!’ that the rules and guidance will be changed yet again. Personally I think that the rules on singing will change soon, or maybe that is my hopefulness as a person who likes singing! 3 An area of our time through lockdown is the communication. I don’t think that this has been good enough, certainly as far as many of our members is concerned, in hearing from me and about what the church in our parishes have been doing. Hopefully there has been much more communication happening than I imagine. For this edition of ‘Praise Be!’ we are going to try to ensure that everyone on the Electoral Role’s across the Benefice receives a copy. It is best as an email edition, as this is in colour, however, the printed version will be sent out as a monochrome edition to those who do not have email facility. The Revd Paul McLeod Rector of The Whittlewood Benefice, Chaplain to The British Racing Drivers Club, Silverstone Circuit and Rural Dean of Towcester. We didn’t stop! 4 What have we been doing during lockdown? Most mornings [until recently, even on the Rector’s day off] Morning Prayer has been livestreamed via the internet out of St Michael’s Vicarage, Silverstone on YouTube and Facebook. This service has been live from 9 a.m. each morning. All people had to do was to follow the link on Facebook, via Paul’s own Facebook page, the Whittlewood Benefice page, the Whittlewood Benefice Facebook group or the Towcester Deanery group. Lots of opportunities to join in Morning Prayer and of course, if people didn’t want to, or couldn’t join in live, the prayers remain as video’s for some time on these sites. Sunday Worship. At first we livestreamed worship from in St Michael’s Church, thanks to a few people for their assistance in getting this set up, not least of all Julian Roberts from Slapton. Then we were barred from church buildings, yes, by the Church of England bishops, but also by our government. And so we had to discover a new way of offering the opportunity of worship. We muddled along with services I put together, recorded and then put onto our YouTube Channel and Facebook. After this we discovered the opportunity of using Zoom along with PowerPoint. This we have been doing since Easter. It has been a different way of worshipping, not everyone is necessarily happy with it, but others are finding the difference and the variety of this worship to be very helpful in this strange time. We have to compromise and look at the way to offer worship generously and hopefully. Since the restrictions brought upon us all I, like you all, have not received the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, and even though the 5 rules changed so that was allowed to receive on my own, I do not believe that this is right until we can begin to celebrate and receive together in community. And so I think that I might join you in great joy and relief when we are able to return to this Sacrament as a Christian Community, which is what the Church is. Zoom has been a very interesting and, in a way, helpful tool through this time. Many people have been brought together to worship. It has also been beneficial to discover its use for meetings. We have had the WPT meeting with Zoom [that is the Whittlewood Benefice PCC meetings together] as well as weekly meetings of the Worship Group and for Bible Study. The Worship Group is a small group who, with me the Rector, have been planning our worship each week, music, prayers, readings and setting the tasks of drawing people in to participate in the worship. This latter aspect has been especially good, for the worship has been shared by many people over these weeks, and by shared I mean that many people have read the scripture in the service or the prayers. The Bible Study is actually more properly a time for reflecting on Holy Scripture together. As Zoom enables anyone with an internet access to participate, we have been joined by my former Churchwarden from Newcastle upon Tyne. I think that it has been helpful to be able to share time of listening to and reflecting upon the Word of God together in this way. Northampton Single Homelessness Forum 6 Dear friends, I have been asked me to provide an update on the hard work that has been taking place in Northampton to help those who were sleeping rough before the Covid Crisis. At the beginning of lockdown the Government funded an ‘everybody in’ policy of housing anyone from the street in hotels. In Northampton two hotels provide accommodation, and around 120 people were housed this way, around 90 at any one time. This pretty much happened overnight and has involved many organisations rapidly adjusting the way they worked to make this happen. The good news is that for many people this has provide an opportunity to make significant changes in their lives, and indeed many have managed to be housed in more stable and permanent accommodation. Final figures are quite fluid but at times 10-20 people have been move on in one week so you can image the amazing work Council, community, voluntary and all sort of housing organisations have been doing to make this work. Food, laundry and many other health etc. services have been provided; people have had their essential identity documentation put in place, access to benefits sorted and many other bureaucratic hurdles tackled. Of course each individual needs to work at their own pace of change and each has their own hurdles and barriers to a more settled way of life. The hotel provision comes to an end at the end of June, but provision has been put in place to use a University hall of Residence for those who need a little more time to make the transition. This should mean another 9 weeks of support I this way, as well as new support work to help those who have moved on become settled in their new accommodation. It looks as though even those who have been on the streets for decades are making wonderful progress. 7 Please keep all the organisations, who are working rapidly and tirelessly to help each person succeed, in your prayers. Revd Sue Faulkner Chair of Northampton Single Homelessness Forum I know that our buildings have been closed, but our part of God’s Church has not. And so we still need to finance the Church, there are still bills, ministry costs continue, Zoom costs money as does the internet and the resources to keep all this going. So yes, this is a plea to everyone to think about how you are going to help the Church to exist today and for tomorrow! Please, if you can, set up a Direct Debit or similar to pay regularly into your churches funds. If you are a tax payer, please consider using Gift Aid! We are, in some of our churches joining the Parish Giving Scheme that helps us keep track of the money coming in. If you can’t use any of the above, but do pay cash to the church when you are there, please remember, we still need your help. Every gift to help God’s Church is valued and valuable, for us, definitely, but also for you as God sees the generous giver and is thankful for them.
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