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Team Clergy Church Wardens Caspar Bush—Team Rector 01209 216958 St. Andrew Redruth Lez Seth 01209 215191 Peter Fellows 07903 807946 Sue Pearce 01209 217596 Jo Mulliner 01209 699979 St. Euny Redruth Graham Adamson 01209 315965 Margaret Johnson 01209 211352 Lay Readers Lucie Rogers 01209 211255 Jim Seth 01209 215191 Web site: www.miningchurch.uk Judith Williams 01209 202477 St. Andrew Pencoys Margaret Du Plessy 01209 481829 Jill Tolputt 01209 214638 Christchurch Lanner Magazine Editor/Treasurer Ross Marshall 01209 215695 Richard & Rosemary Robinson 01209 715198 Mary Anson 01209 211087 [email protected] St. Stephen’s Treleigh PASTORAL TEAM 07724 639854 Anne Youlton 01209 214532 ST EUNY OUTREACH WORKER 07971 574199 Christine Cunningham 01209 218147 (Clare Brown) Enquiries Concerning Church Halls St Andrew’s Crypt Lez Seth 01209 215191 Pencoys Church Hall Christine Walker 01209 215850 Lanner Church Hall Margaret Davis 01209 214470 Treleigh Church Hall David Rowe 01209 218416 Enquiries Concerning Weddings and Baptisms Please email Revd Caspar Bush on [email protected] or telephone 01209 216958 Benefice Office & weekly news sheet Administrator: Donna Bishop Tel office 01209 200739 (Please leave a message) E-mail: [email protected] Benefice website http://www.redruthchurch.org.uk Administrator: Alice Bush Email: [email protected] FIVE ALIVE MAGAZINE Subscriptions £6.00( PER YEAR OR 50P PER COPY): please contact your Churchwardens Articles and advertisements: please contact:- Richard and Rosemary Robinson: [email protected] by FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER Rector’s Notes – OCTOBER 2018 Feast of Prayer ‘Moveable Feasts’: quiet prayer mornings and prayer walks As part of our “Feast of Prayer” menu, in this season of deepening our prayerfulness together, we will be holding monthly ‘Moveable Feasts’. You may well read this in time to catch the first one on Saturday 29th September 9am till 12 noon at St Andrew’s Redruth. The following one will be Saturday 27th Oct at Treleigh Church. Graham our curate writes: “On the last Saturday of each month one of our benefice churches will be open for a morning of quiet prayer and you are invited to drop in for a while – just 20 minutes if that’s all you have. Starting at 9am with Morning Prayer and closing with Midday Prayer at 12 noon, the time will be given over to quiet prayer. This might involve prayer stations and creative ideas to help us pray; sometimes will be in shared stillness, at other times quiet music may provide a backdrop for our prayer. Also, part of this Moveable Feast will take our food metaphor in yet another direction: you are invited to come ‘foraging’! At the same time as the church is open for prayer on the last Saturday, I will take a group on a prayer walk around the area at 10am. Stopping occasionally en route to pray specifically in a place, we will gather prayer requests to carry back to the church. So you could say we will be foraging! Each mini-pilgrimage will take us back to the church in time to pray together, finishing with Midday Prayer.” Disclaimer : As I am new to Redruth I would very much like your input from around the benefice, especially when it comes to choosing routes which pass particular places of local significance to pray at. Do please let me know! Please try to support this event – especially when it’s at your own church, but it would be great if we could all pop in for a short while to each one of these last Saturday mornings. With my prayers, and very best wishes Caspar Bush (Team Rector) ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH, PENCOYS with Four Lanes United Methodist Church: ‘FLAPJACK’ worshipping, praying and working together, as ‘one in Christ’ We invite you to our joint events and services, which are noted in the central Diary and to visit St. Andrew’s Church, open daily from 10 am to 5 pm At the LAMP First Sunday Evening Event in September we commemorated the Centenary of the passing of the Representation of the People Act in 1918 by remembering the actions and subsequent suffering of women as they sought to achieve the right to vote. In the words of Fr. Peter’s very informative notes: “ In their words : ‘If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, it is right for women to fight for their freedom and that of their children.’ ” In 1903 those struggling to achieve the emancipation of women split into two groups: The Suffragists, led by Millicent Fawcett, (whose statue has recently been unveiled in London’s Parliament Square), whose group was committed to achieving the vote by democratic and peaceful means .. and .. The Suffragettes, led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia. Fuelled by frustration, their methods were more direct and grew in violence, resulting in stone-throwing, hunger strikes and arson, including the death, in 1913, of Emily Wilding Davison, arrested nine times and force-fed 49 times, who threw herself under the King’s horse. Eventually after World War I there was a spirit of compromise, and the Act finally gave property-owning women aged over 30 the right to vote. Ten years later women were finally able to vote on the same terms as men. The colours of the Movement, adopted in 1908, were purple (royal blood), white (purity) and green (hope and growth). Wearing these colours showed support for the movement, resulting in successful unity and publicity. Those attending the Event were given ribbons in these colours to wear. A retiring collection was taken to support the work of Binti, Dignity, Period, which seeks to improve the menstrual hygiene of women and girls in poorer areas of the world. Our thanks go to all who came to this event. The Flapjack Family Event on 9th September followed the theme of ‘Creation’ and our love for animals and pets. One Lighthouse member came wearing a wolf’s head, which she had made herself, and we enjoyed the hymn ‘If I were a butterfly’, and the song ‘Old MacDonald had a farm’, when the church resounded to the cacophony of various animal noises and lots of laugh- ter! We also sang an extended version of ‘Mary had a little lamb’ – was the writer of this nursery rhyme trying to teach us something deeper? … as Mary did indeed have a little Lamb (of God …?) Our Village Harvest Festival will be held at the Methodist Church with Lighthouse at 3pm on Sunday 7th October, when donations of toiletries and new clothing will be invited to support St. Petroc’s Society for the homeless, in Truro. This will be followed at 6pm by the next LAMP First Sunday Evening Event, our Bring & Share Harvest Supper Service, also at Four Lanes METHODIST CHURCH (please note change of venue). Everyone is very welcome to join us; the Evening will be led by Margaret (DP) and will support the work of Water Aid. (Please see our separate notice). We continue to pray for the ‘Feast of Prayer’ initiative, that we may discern God’s Will for our team, to Discover the Kingdom and Grow the Church, and for the courage and boldness of his Holy Spirit to spread the Good News to those who are not yet aware of the love of our Heavenly Father and his wonderful promises for ALL his children through the sacrifice and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jill Tolputt ST EUNY NEWS On Tuesday 4th September we were pleased to host the commissioning service of Local Worship Leaders. Three people from St Euny were commissioned; Clare Brown, Jason Hoole-Jackson and Lucie Rogers, alongside other members of the Deanery. The service was led by Archdeacon Audrey and our Rector, Caspar Bush. The St Euny Ukes came along to support some of the hymns. Thanks must be given to the generous people of St Euny who donated cakes, served tea and coffee and turned up to support these new local worship leaders, also to Shelley Porter, Jim Seth and Margaret DuPlessey who took the time to provide the training course. On Sunday 9th September we hosted the service for Mining Sunday as part of the local Pasty and Mining Festival. It was a gloriously sunny morning and the service, led by Rev. Jo Mulliner, began at Wheal Bassett Stamp House, who guided the guests along the Great Flat Lode towards Wheal Euny engine house. Rose petals were poured down the open shaft in an act of remembrance. Music was provided by Michaela Smith and her family. The walk continued towards the lychgate where a poem written by Avril Blight was read aloud and the bell was tolled. Within the church a thought provoking talk was given by Tony Brooks and a reflection by Revd Jo. The service ended with - of course - pasties. Thanks to everyone who made the service such a success. We continue to forge new friendships with new members to the church, both at the traditional Sunday services and on Thursdays. We hope that everyone who comes to St Euny knows that they are very welcome. Lucie Rogers St Andrew's, Redruth: holding the keys and unlocking the door Living opposite the main entrance to St Andrew's has many advantages, and perhaps one or two disadvantages. On the plus side, we can pop across to services and events in a matter of seconds, and can even dash home to baste a Sunday joint between the end of the service and coffee. We see families and friends gathering for baptisms, weddings, and funerals, and while the mood of the assemblies may vary, it's always heartening to see others coming to our church to celebrate a relationship or a life, new or at its earthly end.