SHERFIELD Village Hall Matters
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www.Loddonvalleylink.org.uk Editorial Welcome to the September edition of the Loddon Valley Link. There is a lot happening in September. Following the Sherfield Show, and the Last Night of the Proms (with a live relay from the Royal Albert Hall in the second half) in Sherfield-on-Loddon Village Hall, on Sunday 17th September St Leonard's Church is Jane Abrams holding its morning service in the Village Contents Hall. This will be a special service of Minister’s Letter 7 celebration and thanksgiving for the Prayer Page 8 vibrant life of our community. Over the Cover photo competition results 11 whole of that weekend the Village Hall will WI 13 be holding a series of Open Days with a Giving back in Africa - update 18-19 view to discussing future plans for the Borough Councillor 19 Hall. They are looking for your feedback Chineham Tigers FC at SPCC 22 on how you would like to see it develop. Crime 23 Abigail Burkett and her family have now Sherfield Gardening Club 24 arrived in Botswana and she has sent us Sherfield Neighbourhood Plan Update 29 an update ('Giving back in Africa'). The Rev Barker and his cricket 32 John Darker's regular article on the Sherfield Village Green Volunteers 35 Barker family, drawn from contemporary NWR 37 newspapers, features the Rev Barker and Sherfield PC 38 his passion for cricket. John has also Sherfield Village Hall Matters 39 provided news on the Sherfield Chineham Library 41 Neighbourhood Plan - the initial SPCC Events 42 consultation period has now ended, and Bill Lloyd 43 John gives us details of what will happen LVL Grant Awards 43 next. Last Night of the Proms 44 Sherfield Show 46 We were very pleased to receive a record World Sight Day 52 number of entries for our competition for Small Ads 56 photographs to appear on the front cover Useful Tel. Nos 57 of the Loddon Valley Link; there are details of the results in this month's issue. We welcome pictures for the cover throughout the year. Remember though that because of the size and shape of the cover we need high resolution, portrait format pictures - don't forget to turn your camera round! There is as ever plenty going on in Sherfield Park. As well as the regular listing of events at Sherfield Park Community Centre there is a feature on the Chineham Tigers Football Club for children, which includes members from Sherfield Park and in fact trains at the Community Centre. We welcome your contributions to the Link - articles, photographs and events. Please send all submissions to: [email protected]. Distribution: The Loddon Valley Link is hand distributed to over 2,000 houses across the parishes of Sherfield on Loddon, Sherfield Park, Stratfield Saye, Hartley Wespall and Stratfield Turgis. Also available online at www.loddonvalleylink.org.uk. Page 2 Page 3 Services September 2017 Parish Registers Sunday 3rd Sept (Trinity 12) Baptism 8.00am Holy Communion St James Bramley 9.00am sunday@nine St James Bramley Florence Dineen 12 July 2017 Sherfield 10.00am Holy Communion St Leonard’s Sherfield 10.00am Family Service St Mary’s Stratfield Saye Weddings 10.30am Matins St James Bramley 6.30pm Evensong St Mary’s Hartley Wespall Friday 8th Sept Jack Forrest-Charde and Sophie Skelton 12 August 2017 Sherfield 4.15pm Messy Church Sherfield Park Benjamin Biffen and Marta Terebinska 12 August 2017 Sherfield Sunday 10th Sept (Trinity 13) Paul Best and Kerry Wheatley 12 August 2017 Stratfield Saye 8.00am Holy Communion St James Bramley Ryan Tubb and Abigail Fraser 17- August 2017 Sherfield 9.00am sunday@nine St James Bramley 10.00am Morning Worship & Sunday St Leonard’s Sherfield Club 10.30am Holy Communion St James Bramley Sunday 17th Sept (Trinity 14) 8.30am Holy Communion Little London Friday 8th September 9.00am sunday@nine St James Bramley 10.30am Holy Communion St James Bramley 11.00am In Praise of Sherfield - a Sherfield Village Hall service of praise and Theme - New Beginnings thanksgiving Coffee/tea available before the service from 10.00am. No service at St Leonard’s. 6.30pm Evensong St Mary’s Hartley Wespall 4.15pm start - 5.45pm finish. Singing, dancing and a parable Sunday 24th Sept (Trinity 15) 8.00am Holy Communion St James Bramley followed by lots of fun craft and a tasty meal! 10.00am Harvest Festival St Leonard’s Sherfield PLEASE NOTE - IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU BOOK 10.30am Harvest Thanksgiving St James Bramley Sunday 1st Oct (Trinity 16) in order for us to plan catering and avoid wastage 8.00am Holy Communion St James Bramley 9.00am sunday@nine St James Bramley (and please advise of any food allergies). 10.00am Holy Communion St Leonard’s Sherfield For more information and to book, please contact : 10.00am Family Service St Mary’s Stratfield Saye 10.30am Matins St James Bramley Kerry Lynch: [email protected] 6.30pm Evensong St Mary’s Hartley Wespall or on Facebook: messychurchsol Children are welcome at all our services. Services in italics are particularly geared to children and families.*Please note there is no Sunday Club at St Leonard’s in August. Page 4 Page 5 Minister’s Letter Breach Lane Chapel Sherfield on Loddon Dear Friends released). He told us that he Two stories for you. The first concerns a had hated God, he hated the Geoff Belsham 01256 882534/07519 708416 lady I met in America. We were visiting an world, he hated others and he Transport is available for all events at the chapel amazing ministry set up by a church in hated himself. He painted a Washington DC. It was an extensive pretty dire picture of his life program, in an area of exceptionally high and the crimes he had committed September 2017 Services unemployment, taking people who were because of his utter contempt for dependent on alcohol and drugs off the everything and everyone. Through his street and helping them to build a new contact with the prison chaplain he had been challenged about his need of God, Friday 1st 10.30am Coffee Morning at the Chapel life. This, if they wanted, included giving them somewhere to live and a job. It was and he rejected it point blank. However, rd Sunday 3 10.30am Family Worship led by Steve Smith very successful, full of humility and one night he was at rock bottom and, in desperation, shouted a prayer at God. Friday 8th 10.30am Coffee Morning at the Chapel genuine love and hugely impressive. On my first night there, at supper, I sat with “God, if you are real (if you’re there) Noon NEW Friday Fellowship to increase in Wendy (name changed). As we talked change me!” With that he went to bed. The next day he woke up utterly frequency from October onwards her story unfolded. For most of her adult transformed. Every trace of the hatred th life she had been chemically addicted in Saturday 9 2pm Disabled Christian Fellowship at St Andrew’s one form or another and to fund her and anger had evaporated and had been Methodist Church addictions she had turned to prostitution. replaced with an intense sense of love and warmth. It never left him and he gave th Then, at the age of 53 she came to faith Sunday 10 10.30am Family Worship led by Graham Locke his life to following Jesus and knew God th in Jesus. As she committed her life to Sunday 17 10.30am Family Worship led by Neil Owen including Holy God she was utterly transformed and as his loving Heavenly Father for the first Communion found herself freed from the habits that time in his life. Sunday 24th 10.30am Family Worship led by Rev. Richard Lane had dominated her life. In the joy of her Again, because of his background, the new freedom, however, she had one horror of his past life has been 6pm Contemporary Worship at St Andrew’s huge question. “Dear God”, she prayed, transformed into an amazing gift with Methodist Church “why did I wait till now? I have wasted so which to set others free. Again nothing Friday 29th 10.30am Coffee Morning at the Chapel many years.” She was immediately and had been wasted. clearly impressed with God’s reply; I will tell you my story some time. It is “nothing is ever wasted.” God seemed to nothing like these except in one way. God be saying that he could use everything, took - and is still taking - the broken no matter how bad it seemed. And here places of my life and, because I let him, is Catholic Services she was now helping other women, using them to offer the same freedom and empathising in a way that would St Bede’s and Holy Ghost Churches, Basingstoke. healing to others that he has given to me. impossible had she not been trapped as He can do it for you too. Ask me about it! Parish Office Open they were now, and helping them to be free of their addictions too through faith in Every blessing to you all. Tues to Friday Christ. In offering the very worst of her 9.30 am-1.00 pm Tel.465214. Stephen Ball (Still in recovery at least experience to God, it had transformed it until the end of September but around for Sunday Mass 9.00 am, 11.00 am and 6.30 pm into a beautiful gift to free others. cups of tea, walks, etc.) The second story I heard in The Verne [email protected] Prison, where we were leading a Bible teaching weekend.