April 2019 at 7Pm at the Plough, Wangford
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www.solebayteamministry.co.uk FREE Blythburgh Reydon Sotherton South Cove April HEAR 2019 & Southwold Uggeshall SOLE Walberswick Wangford 1 HEARTThe and Bishops’ SOLE GALLERY Lenten Pilgrimage Here at ‘The Racing Stables’ when three of us It was a joy to welcome the University Choir from the were presented with our Czech Republic to Suffolk for a week in May BEMs by Clare, Countess of Euston on Friday, 20th April. Countess of Euston, myself (sandwiched) and Roy Tricker. It was a perfect day! At All’s Hallows by-the-Tower at the end of April, being awarded a FGMS Deanery Evensong at St Michael’s Benacre on 29th April. It was great to have a lovely service in this church recently, and good to see such a great congregation. See article on page 17 #HelloMyNameIs …Judy 2 3 MAGAZINE LETTER Wake up call There are some nights when you think the morning is never going to come. Some infection has you in a feverish grip where dreams take you down a nightmare spiral. You feel enclosed in some prison of the night from which there is no escape. And when the morning comes, it arrives like a kind of miracle. The door to the cell is flung open and light floods in. It feels like resurrection. In the biblical accounts of the resurrection the event takes place in the morning. The stone is rolled from the tomb and light floods in. The wonderful Welsh poet R S Thomas captures this in his Easter poem: He wrote: The grave clothes of winter are still here, but the sepulchre is empty. A messenger from the tomb tells us how a stone has been rolled from the mind . “A stone has been rolled from the mind.” Maybe that’s as close as we get to resurrection. When a worry, or a burden, or a fear is removed from us and suddenly we can see that life is possible once more. I can remember that feeling when – a couple of years back – my surgeon gave me the all clear after a prostate operation. I am constantly amazed at people’s ability to bounce back from adversity and loss. We all carry scars from the past – as did the risen Jesus when he appeared to his disciples – but with the help of friends, family and (very often) a sustaining faith, we start again. I believe that this is a spiritual, as well as a physical and mental, renewal. It’s almost impossible to disentangle one from the other, but somehow that apparently un-budgeable stone can be rolled away. This is Easter. The night can pass. The day can come. We will rise. It’s a kind of miracle. Malcolm 3 WICKER BASKETS Tel. No. 01502 722370 4 4 5 • BooksSOLE BAY TEAM NEWS Easter Sunrise• Brochures Southwold PressEaster Ltd. is rather• late Business this year, Cards so that the sun will have risen some while before PRINTERS 7.00am. Nevertheless,• Community we will gather at that time for our regular Easter Morning Songs of Praise onNewspapers the front at Southwold. This short service has become an event which attracts a• good Compliment crowd not Slips only from Southwold but also from a number of We stock a wide range of Card, Paper &the Envelopes surrounding • villages,Funeral Serviceand so SheetsI hope you will be able to join us. We meet at to sell direct to businesses and the general public. 7.00am at the shelter• Greeting half way Cards between the lighthouse and the pier on the cliff-side We also publish two community newspapersoverlooking The the• seaHeaded for half Stationery an hour or so of Easter hymns, songs, readings and Southwold Gazette and The Aldeburghprayers. Gazette This. leaves• Ink plenty Pads & of Stamps time for those who wish to move on to an 8.00am service in Church• Invoiceselsewhere. Do join us if you can. Hugh Williamson OPEN: 9am-1pm • Labels 2pm-5pm Sole Bay Ladies Fellowship • Menus Monday - The ladies fellowship meets every Wednesday at 2pm in the church room at the Friday • Posters & Leaflets back of St Margaret’s church, Reydon, for an informal bible study, praise and • Restaurant Pads UNIT 3A, GLOBAL COURT, REYDON BUSINEprayer,SS PARK friendship and fellowship, tea and biscuits (sometimes cake too!). • Spiral Binding Tel: 01502 723361 Our next meeting is on Wednesday 24th April, when we will be looking at 'Fruitfulness [email protected] on the Frontline'.• AWedding short 6 Stationeryweek course with DVD and books to read. www.southwoldpress.co.ukAll ladies are welcome• & much and more if you ... would like any more information contact me. Suzzie Godfrey 07539513753 Lent There is still time to enjoy the excellent Lent Lunches at Southwold Arts Centre provided byALL local COPY churches FOR on Fridays April 5th and 12th from 12 noon till 2 pm, all are veryHE welcome.ART AND SOLE th There are alsoM twoAG LentAZINE, Lectures at the URC Hall on Sundays at 6pm. On 7 April the Rev Sister Sharon Connell, Chaplain and Spiritual Care Co-ordinator at St NicholasPLE Hospice,ASE BuryUSE StEMA EdmundsIL will be speaking about Care for the Dying and Bereaved. TheA followingDDRESS Sunday,: 14th April, the subject will be The Last Enemy [email protected] Will Be Destroyed Is Death and the speaker is The Rt Revd Dr Mike Harrison, Bishop of Dunwich. The Good Friday service will start at St Edmund’s Church at 10am, followed by a Walk of Witness through the High Street which will end at South Green. There will be a short service and everybody is welcome to join us. Copy Deadline is 10th of the month to:- [email protected] 12 5 13 SOLE BAY TEAM NEWS (continued) CHRISTIAN AID WEEK 2019 Christian Aid Week this year runs from Sunday 12th May until Saturday 18th May. There will not be a house-to-house collection this year in Reydon, but there will be envelopes available to take from the Church and return to either the Vicarage or the Church. We will be able to deliver and collect envelopes for anyone who cannot come to Church. Please telephone either Rev. Alan Perry on 453624 or John and Janet Reaney on 726125 if you require this help. In addition, there will be a special Christian Aid Service and collection at St. Margaret’s Church led by Rev. Alan Perry on Sunday 12th May at 9.30am. All will be most welcome. News and views from around the Community . REYDON SCARECROW TRAIL 2019 ‘Name That Song’ This year’s Scarecrow Trail will be over the weekend of 14th & 15th September. Once again, all money raised will go to the Reydon Christmas Lights Committee. The theme for 2019 is ‘Name that Song’, so plenty of scope for imaginative creations! Entry forms will be available soon from Boyden Stores, Barbrooks or by emailing reydon. [email protected]. If you’ve enjoyed walking round the village to see all the Scarecrows in previous years, but have not yet quite got round to creating one yourself, then let 2019 be the year you branch out and have a go. The Trail will run on both days from 11am, until 6pm on Saturday and until 5pm on Sunday. For more information, please contact Brenda Doy on 723927 or email reydon. [email protected] Reydon Women’s Institute Come and join our meeting on April 3rd and hear our speaker Mr C Farmington speak about the Norfolk Blood Bikes. Our speaker on 1st May is Mr G Doy who is the Lifeboats Operations Manager. We meet in Reydon Village Hall at 2.30 pm. Visitors and new members are welcome. Contact Sue Pretty 01502 724361 6 PARISH NEWS HOLY TRINI T Y BLY th BURG H CHUR C H LANE , IP19 9PL Early Evensong Choral evensong on 7th April will begin at 4pm to allow people also to attend the Lent Lecture in Southwold at 6pm. Not Evensong What would usually be Choral Evensong on 5th May will be a sung Holy Communion with the Blythburgh Singers and an ensemble from Norwich Baroque, based on Schubert’s Mass No 2 in G major, presided by the Revd Malcolm Doney. Annual Church Meeting The new Electoral Roll will come into effect in time for our Annual Parochial Church Meeting, which will take place on Thursday 11th April, 7pm in Blythburgh Village Hall. Lent Podcasts The recently published book by Malcolm Doney and Martin Wroe, Lifelines: Notes on life & love, faith & doubt, is now the basis of a series of FREE daily podcasts for Lent. To find details of the book and download the podcasts, go to: www.lifelines-books.com Easter Easter services in Blythburgh are detailed elsewhere, but one Blythburgh special is the popular family-based building of the Easter garden and egg hunt which will take place at 5pm on Good Friday. Coffee Break Join the gathered throng at our monthly Café and Mini-market on Friday 26th April 10.30am, til noon. Bristol Chamber Choir On Saturday 27th April at 6pm, there is a recital by this acclaimed choir, directed by Gordon Pullen (formerly Co-Director of the Blythburgh Singers), featuring Yalda Davis on cello, with pieces by Wilbye, Kirbye, Bennet, Britten, Pearsall and Bach. Admission is free, but a retiring collection will support Holy Trinity, Blythburgh. Malcolm Doney News and views from around the Community . Southwold Women’s Institute On 18th April Southwold Women’s Institute will be having their meeting at the Methodist Hall at 7pm. We will be welcoming Robert Tilney from The Antiques Roadshow. All visitors and new members are very welcome.