Hambledon Parish Magazine & Village News April 2009 50p SURREY VILLAGE OF THE YEAR 2008 - 2009 www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk PHILLIPS of WORMLEY AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS Petworth Road, Wormley, Godalming, GU8 5TU Tel: 01428 682104 Fax: 01428 685054 Servicing and repairs to all makes of vehicles MOT Testing Air Conditioning Servicing and Repairs Tyres, Exhaust and Batteries fitted Courtesy Cars available Open Monday – Friday 7.30am – 6pm www.phillipsofwormley.com e-mail: [email protected] MULLARD FUNERALS 121 HIGH STREET, GODALMING, GU7 1AQ FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND MONUMENTAL MASONS PRIVATE CHAPEL OF REST – PRE-PAYMENT PLAN All Enquiries without obligation to: D. ALLEN, DIP. F.D. M.B.I.F.D. GODALMING’S ONLY INDEPENDENT FUNERAL DIRECTORS Tel: (01483) 860279/418682 Fax: (01483) 421863 !"#$%&'()*+",-./*0"1"2-)&3*45,-%*67783*+"1&*6* PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HAMBLEDON Rector The Rev’d Jolyon Trickey 01483 421267 Associate Minister The Rev’d Stephanie Couvela 01428 682753 Mervil Bottom Malthouse Lane Hambledon Reader Mr D. Jenkins 01483 416084 6 Quartermile Road Godalming Churchwarden Mr Mike McCann, "Mulysa", 32 Wolseley Road Godalming GU7 3EA 01483 421352. Assistant Church Wardens Mrs Jacqueline Hindley, Busbridge Copse Farm Hydestile GU8 4DH 01483 860219 Mr David Chadwick, Old Farmhouse Clockbarn Farm, Hambledon Road, Hydestile, GU8 4AY 01483 416011 Church Treasurer & Gift Aid Dr Alison Martin Tillies Munstead Heath Road Godalming 01483 893619 Secretary of PCC Mrs Rebecca Webb, Old Barn Cottage, Rock Hill, Hambledon 01428 682972 Children and Young people Youth and Children’s Worker Jessi Mordin 07882 186359 Sunday groups Crèche, Pre-School: Georgina Aylward 01428 682591 School Years 1-6: Liz Jenkins 01483 416084 Sunday Services Full details of these and any other services are set out in the Church Calendar for the month, which is shown on page 5 Home Groups meet regularly on Monday afternoons and Wednesday evenings at various locations. Details from Roger Mathews Tel: 01483 420464 Alpha details and information from David and Liz Jenkins Tel No: 01483 416084 Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals contact Busbridge and Hambledon Church Office Tel No: 01483 421267 (Mon – Fri 9.30 – 12.30pm) Where there is sickness or where a visit would be valued, contact the Church Wardens. The Rector and Associate Minister are normally off duty on Fridays. The nearest Roman Catholic churches are St Teresa of Avila, Chiddingfold (Fr. Stephen Hardaker 01428 643877); St Edmund, Croft Rd, Godalming and St Joseph’s, Milford (Fr. Michael 01483 416880) TO SUBSCRIBE AND HAVE THE MAGAZINE DELIVERED PLEASE CONTACT DEREK MILLER 01428 684362 OR PAT WILLIAMS 01428 682455 !"#$%&'()*+",-./*0"1"2-)&3*45,-%*67783*+"1&*9* Pastoral Letter What’s the biggest crowd you’ve ever been a part of? Perhaps it was in a sports stadium, or a rock festival, or a parade. For me I think it was at a Christian festival called Greenbelt, where one year there were thirty-five thousand of us taking Holy communion together in a big field! It’s exciting being part of a big crowd. On the first Sunday of this month we’ll be remembering Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusa- lem on a donkey just a week before his death and resurrection. Hundreds, maybe thousands of peo- ple were lining the streets, shouting and waving. Imagine the heat, the dust, the chaos, the children running around, the people selling food and drink… Imagine being one of Jesus’ followers – walk- ing in with him, seeing the crowd shouting and waving – a few years earlier they were fishermen, tax collectors, ordinary people. It must have felt like going to the Oscars on the arm of a famous film star! The crowds were there not just for Jesus, but to offer the traditional welcome to pilgrims coming to Jerusalem for the Passover – that great Jewish celebration, remembering God’s goodness in rescuing them from slavery in Egypt. It was traditional to shout verses from the psalms as part of the wel- come –such as “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” Perhaps the crowd was bigger that year when they heard Jesus was coming – the famous prophet from the North that they’d all heard about. Perhaps some of them shouted these words at Jesus because knew they were prophecies about him, or perhaps just because it’s what they always shouted. Maybe some recog- nised who Jesus was, whilst most didn’t. Certainly they can’t have known that less than a week later, their leaders would have persuaded that same crowd to shout for Jesus to be killed. They turned from welcome to hatred very easily. Be- cause they didn’t understand who they were welcoming! They didn’t know that this was the King, the Messiah, the one they’d all been waiting for. Even those who did know, like the disciples, were horrified by what happened a week later when Jesus was arrested and killed. No-one there understood what Jesus had come to do – even though he’d told his followers plainly that he was going to Jerusalem to die. They didn’t know what it would mean to call him King. The disciples didn’t know what it would mean to be recognised as his friends and followers. But we do! We have a huge advantage over the first disciples – we know how the story ends. We know about Jesus’ death, and also about him rising again. We know the whole story, so we can welcome the whole Jesus. We know the joy and excitement of Palm Sunday, but we also know how quickly the crowd will turn against him, that even his friends and followers will get scared and run away. We know he’ll be arrested, and tried, and die a terrible death. We know he’ll be buried and his friends will be lost and bewildered. But we also know that he’ll rise again and live forever – and that we can too! We know what it means to call him King, and what it might cost us to follow him, to be known as his friends. So we can welcome him – not by shouting out things we don’t really understand, but recognising the cost of welcoming him as well as the excitement and glory. We can be with Jesus through the events of Holy Week, leading up to Good Friday and Easter, and reflect on everything that happened to him – not just the happy, jolly, exciting bits but the hard, frightening, painful bits !"#$%&'()*+",-./*0"1"2-)&3*45,-%*67783*+"1&*:* too. Perhaps we can follow the story day by day in our Bibles, reading from one of the Gospel ac- counts, or watching a film version of the life of Jesus. We can welcome Jesus into our lives this Holy week – again or for the first time – the whole Jesus, the real Jesus – the things that scare us and the things that delight us. Let’s walk beside him as he rides into Jerusalem, and stay with him all week, through the garden of Gethsemene, to his trial and torture, to the foot of the cross, to the tomb, and at last to the glorious Easter morning of resurrection. Stephanie Couvela, Associate Minister, Busbridge and Hambledon <!=><!*<4?@AB4>* 45,-%*6778* 5th 8.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) Palm Sunday 11.00 am All Age Worship with Distribution of Palms ____________________________________________________ 9th 8.00 pm Holy Communion Maundy Thursday at St. John’s, Busbridge ____________________________________________________ 10th 11.00 am Good Friday Meditation or Good Friday 10.45 am Churches Together Walk of Witness (meet at the Wharf, Woolsack Way, Godalming) ____________________________________________________ 11th Saturday 4.00 pm Easter Garden Service Easter Eve followed by Easter Egg Hunt ____________________________________________________ 12th 6.45 am Sunrise Service at Minster Field, Godalming Easter Day 9.30 am Holy Communion (CW) 11.00 am Easter Celebration for all ages ____________________________________________________ 19th 9.30 am Holy Communion (BCP) 2nd Sunday of Easter 11.00 am Morning Worship ____________________________________________________ 26th 9.30 am Morning Prayer (BCP) 3rd Sunday of Easter 11.00 am Holy Communion (CW) Saturday 18 th April 9.00 am to 10.00 am - Church Rooms A time to meet together for prayer: all are welcome Services at St. John’s, Busbridge – every Sunday 8.00 am Holy Communion (2nd Sunday in the month BCP) 10.00 am “Classic” service in Church; “Contemporary” service in Busbridge Junior School; Groups for children of all ages in various locations – turn up and ask! 6.30pm Evening Worship !"#$%&'()*+",-./*0"1"2-)&3*45,-%*67783*+"1&*;* PARISH & PEOPLE move is afoot in the parishes of Busbridge this milestone. We are delighted to learn that he is and Hambledon in July now that Jolyon has now out of hospital and back with Rae and Helen in announced his departure as Rector after 14 their ‘New Road’ home. A years. He has been offered and has accepted the post At the end of March came the news of the death of of Rector of Holy Trinity with Trendlewood in Nail- Sarah Todd. Sarah and Peter Todd lived for many sea, a sizeable parish in a small town just south of years in Hambledon and Sarah was much in evidence Bristol. Hambledon sends all good wishes to Jolyon, with her culinary skills at various functions through- Frances, Joshua and Abigail in what will be a great out the village. She was also an invaluable Village upheaval for them all. Shop volunteer. After Peter's death Sarah moved to Congratulations to Joan Elliott of Maple Bungalow Sherborne to live nearer to her family and we are on the arrival of her second great-great-great grand- saddened to think that her life in Sherborne, that she child.