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December 2019 - January 2020 Price 50P December 2019 - January 2020 Price 50p FOLLOW THE STAR Well, it’s happening already, and we still have some time to go. That Christmas thing! As soon as the pumpkins have gone, the novelty gifts appear, and I’m trying to think positively about it all. Soon everywhere you go you’ll hear the same music, a glorious mixture of the old (Hark the Herald), the seasonal (Deck the halls) and the popular, with the Pogues and Slade stealing the show, all competing for the top sing-a-long slots, as you queue up at the checkout. And I really, really, really don’t want to get fed up about it, because I think that the Christmas story is one of the best stories ever - when God became a human being and said to each one of us (before Mariah Carey had sung a note), ‘All I want for Christmas is YOU!’ So – come and join us - and “Follow the Star” - as we sing and worship throughout the Mission Community. The times, dates and venues are in the middle pages. And in the meantime, just to whet your appetite, put on your Christmas Jumper, and croon along with me! I’m dreaming of a white Christmas I’m dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know With stockings full of precious things Where treetops glisten and children listen That we bought last summer To hear sleigh bells in the snow Each one a stunner Don’t search in vain for diamond rings! I’m dreaming of a white Christmas There’s not a freezing church in sight I’m dreaming of a white Christmas With all heating working That just keeps going on and on. And plumbers lurking And the love of Jesus To keep us warm through Christmas night. It thrills and frees us Despite the length of each sermon !! I’m dreaming of a white Christmas Where every church is full of song I’m dreaming of a white Christmas And the people love it Blessings to each community. And rise above it And this rhyme is tricky If they cannot sing along. It’s very tricky.. To rhyme and scan like Calverleigh … I’m dreaming of a white Christmas And there’s a love for old and new. Where there’s no complaining No spirits waning And a bum on every pew. Wishing you peace and joy this Christmas I’m dreaming of a white Christmas and throughout 2020 With shepherds starring in a play. And in striped pyjamas Steph Three kings on llamas Bring socks for Jesus in the hay. Please read additional information from Steph on Page 3, 10 & 11 Copy Deadline for February / March 2020 issue Monday 13 January 2020 TODAY December 2019 / January 2020 THE EXE VALLEY CHURCHWARDEN CHILDREN’S MISSION COMMUNITY CONTACT DETAILS GROUPS Calverleigh, Cruwys CALVERLEIGH EXE VALLEY TODDLERS Morchard, Loxbeare, Aubrey Goldsworthy 01884 255248 (For under 5ives) [email protected] Friday mornings during Term-time Jackie Herniman 01884 255814 Oakford, Rackenford, at Calverleigh Village Hall [email protected] Stoodleigh, Templeton, 10 am - 12 noon CRUWYS MORCHARD Washfield and Withleigh Toys, snacks, songs and more !! Diana Vincent 01363 860227 For more information contact [email protected] Sophie Webber on 07792259081 Sarah Cruwys 01884 860287 [email protected] [email protected] You can also find us on Facebook RECTOR LOXBEARE Ron Tidball 01884 881362 EDITORIAL The Rectory, Withleigh, [email protected] Jean Heard 01884 881400 Tiverton, EX16 8JQ [email protected] Tel: 01884 250417 OAKFORD Email : Steph@ Wendy Boynton 01398 351383 exevalleymissioncommunity.org [email protected] Dawn Williams 01398 324035 [email protected] PERSONAL ASSISTANT RACKENFORD Patience Strong Please contact Personal Assistant Stephen Hirst Steven Hirst We are very fortunate this year, that Steph C/O The Rectory Details in first column has waved her magic wand and conjured up three opportunities for us all to take Tel: 01884 250417 STOODLEIGH Holy Communion this Christmastide. Email: office@ Margaret Cuningham 01398 351252 Two are on Christmas Eve and one is exevalleymissioncommunity.org [email protected] Christmas Day morning. You are Peter Broadbent 01398 351374 welcome to attend whichever is most READER [email protected] convenient for you and your familes. It TEMPLETON would be wonderful to hear packed William Withers 01884 253030 Churches singing all the rousing Carols The Paddock, [email protected] and joining together in love. 2 Kensington Court, Reg Coffin 01884 860246 Please check the Middle Pages for full [email protected] details of these and all the other Services Washfield,Tiverton,EX16 9QU for December and January. Tel: 01884 253463 WASHFIELD Jeanne Jones 01884 254306 We would like to wish you a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year. [email protected] [email protected] 2020 already!!! It only seems like MAGAZINE EDITORS WITHLEIGH yesterday that it was the Millennium. Brenda Tucker 01884 252431 [email protected] Jenny and Geoff Keepers Cottage, Paul Iliff 01884 253473 Lower Washfield, [email protected] BROWN ENVELOPES are enclosed Tiverton, EX16 9PF Tel: 01884 254402 [email protected] ADVERTISEMENTS As above - using email address [email protected] Advertisements are accepted and included in good faith - but the Exe Valley Mission Community accepts no responsibility for the performance or non-performance of the Advertisers 2 TODAY December 2019 / January 2020 FROM Steph … … Create space for prayer in You are invited to attend ADVENT at The Rectory, Withleigh A MARRIAGE PREPARATION DAY Preparation – Examen – Lectio Divina - Reflection Still A day of preparation for your Friday 22 November 2019 at 12.00 noon or Wednesday 27 November 2019 at 7.00pm married life together, at Still waiting Cruwys Morchard Village Hall Friday 29 November 2019 at 12.00 noon on Saturday 1 January 2020 or Wednesday 4 December 2019 at 7.00pm Still waiting here 10.30am - 2.30pm Friday 6 December 2019 at 12.00 noon or Wednesday 11 December 2019 at 7.00pm Tea, Coffee, Lunch provided - please inform us of Still waiting here and now any special dietary requirements Friday 13 December 2019 at 12.00 noon or 18 December 2019 at 7.00pm RSVP:- [email protected] Everyone welcome It would be helpful to let the Office know if you are hoping to come - on 01884 250417 Andy Humm ~ Robert Gordon ~ Steph Gordon-Jeffs or [email protected] Prayer Breakfasts The times they are a-changing! Come and meet to pray From February 2020, our Morning over a Croissant and Coffee Service pattern is changing. 25 January 2020 at 9am in The Rectory, Withleigh All Services throughout the Mission Everyone is welcome ! Community will take place at either 9.00am or 10.45am. This is to allow Steph enough time to get from one Service to another, Sing Praise! for organists to play at more than one Service, NO “SING PRAISE” and for everyone to have in December 2019 an earlier lunch! or January 2020 SOUTH MOLTON 01769 573941 TIVERTON 01884 243430 24 HOUR BREAKDOWN SERVICE THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH WEST 07736271866 FITTING ON-SITE FARM OR AGRICULTURAL ROADSIDE & COMMERCIAL TYRES AVAILABLE . 3 TODAY December 2019 / January 2020 The singing at Stoodleigh’s Carol Service In particular it is the use of the Sukkah FROM THE ARCHIVES had been boosted by choirs from and an emphasis on ‘getting back to Rackenford, Washfield and Withleigh. nature’ whilst reflecting on the ‘TODAY’ 50 years ago ephemeral nature of life. The sukkah December, 1969 / January, 1970 It looked as though Templeton had now particularly epitomises this, and is a reached the point where a screen could temporary structure built outside the ecember’s editorial spoke of the be erected to separate the draughty belfry house, often of the thinnest plywood but DNativity Scene that is familiar to us, from the main body of the Church. A with a roof of plant material. Those all clean and sweet-smelling, a far cry boom of children in the community had celebrating the festival eat and from the reality of the situation – cobwebs, resulted in appropriate changes to sometimes sleep in these bivouacs that insects, dirt, squalor, and smelling of the Services and Sunday School. would not withstand a gale, leak and animals and all that goes with them; the have sometimes been burnt down by a last place in which you would wish to give Washfield’s very successful ‘First Annual well meaning granny who drags in an birth. And, amongst all the clamour of the Pantomime’ took place over three nights unsuitable electric fire. season, a plea, “Oh hush your noise, ye during December. The Carol Singers men of strife, and hear the angels sing”. braved terrible weather on 20 December, I have witnessed genuine attempts by collecting for Blind Housewives. The adults during this period to impress on January’s put forward the suggestion that children’s party took place on 3 January. children the importance of nature. The airport runways should be circular(!), message (especially in towns) in the since life is rather like going round in Withleigh’s Sale in Tiverton Market had dark and cold with the smell of gently circles, with the cycle of seasons, days raised £30 for Church Funds. The Choir rotting vegetation is stark, and helped by and phases of the moon, all akin to the and Sunday School Party took place on the contrast of the inaccessible but book of Ecclesiastes. But, in going round 20 December, and the Withleigh inescapably warm home nearby. and round, we shouldn’t remain in the Orchestra gave its first public same plane, but our lives should be ever performance at the Carol Service.
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