THE BRIDGE August 2021

Issue No 279 60p The Benefice of Parishes Services for August 2021 Sunday,1 [Trinity 9] Matins (BCP) 11.00am Bradoc Evensong 6.00pm St Bartholomew Family Eucharist 11.00am St Brevita, Morning Prayer 9.30am BCP Holy Communion 9.30am Parish Eucharist 11.00am Sunday, 8[Trinity 10] Boconnoc Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30am Bradoc Feast Eucharist 11.15am St Bartholomew Eucharist 11.00am St Brevita, Lanlivery Eucharist 9.30am St Veep To the Benefice St Winnow Outdoor Church 3.00pm Sunday,15 [Blessed Virgin Mary] Boconnoc Matins 11.00am Bradoc Evensong 6.00pm St Bartholomew Morning Prayer 11.00am St Brevita, Lanlivery Morning Prayer 9.30am St Veep Family Service 11.00am St Winnow Family Eucharist 11.00am Sunday, 22 [Trinity 12] Boconnoc Matins 11.00am Bradoc Eucharist 11.15am St Bartholomew Eucharist 11.00am St Brevita, Lanlivery Eucharist 9.30am St Veep To the Benefice St Winnow To Bradoc St Nectan Evensong (BCP) 6.30pm Sunday,29 [Trinity 13] St Veep United Benefice Service 10.30am Regular Weekday Services Wednesdays - St Brevita - Evening Prayer at 5:15pm Thursdays - St Bartholomew - Celtic Eucharist at 10:00am Third Friday of each month- Church Rooms-Messy Church-4-6 pm Vestry Hour Revd Paul is available in the vestry at St Bartholomew’s Church on Tuesday mornings from 09:30am to 10:30am to discuss any issues that you might have. This is on the assumption that regulations have been eased to allow this. Lanlivery, St Bartholomew's, St Veep, and St Winnow Church are open every day Revd Paul Beynon (Rector) - Tel No: 07896 841802 Revd Sheila Bawden( Associate Priest)-01208 871344

From the Registers-August 2021 Baptisms. We welcome into God's family St Bartholomew Reuben Crago Richards Lanlivery Finley Jon Rundle Weddings. We pray for God's blessing on St Bartholomew Sarah Yeo & Richard Barker Boconnoc Alicia Marshall & Ryan Mc Cartney Boconnoc Olivia Roper & Luke Hendrie RIP We pray for God's love and peace on Eileen Morse - William Crago - Patricia Mary Dunstan Crarey Year's mind for August: Hazel Yvonne Pearce - Bill Doe - Sylvia Mary Campbell - Joan Sanders - Michael Frank Harbord - Tim Reed - Sheila Chapman-Mortimer - Robert Stanley Dack - Marjorie Emma Darby - Doreen Gladys Barrington - Jean Iris Wellington - Jean Margaret Spooner - James Warnes - Gary Shaw St Nectan Evensongs Throughout the summer on the fourth Sunday of each month until the end of September there will be Book of Common Prayer Evensong sung at St Nectan’s Chapel at 6.30pm. This is a quiet and reflective end of day service held in the peaceful countryside at the heart of the benefice. Although the Covid restrictions have been lifted St Nectan’s space is limited so we shall ensure that the door is open for ventilation and personal spacing is respected. If you wish to attend the Rector and I would appreciate an email (preferably) on [email protected] or phone call to 873458 so that seating risk may be thoughtfully managed. Thanks. The next two Evensongs are on Sunday 22nd August and the 26th September ( Harvest). Canon John Halkes Adrian George, St Nectan’s Warden

From the Rector’s desk, Billy Graham once famously said ‘Many churches have moulded their programmes around the community-not the word of God’ I sort of understand what Mr Graham was getting at, even though I disagree with his assumption that this is necessarily a bad thing! Recently I’ve been thinking about the place our churches occupy within the affections of our communities, how our communities relate to our buildings, and what exactly it is that the church is there for! Church goers all across the nation are acutely aware that they are unlikely to have to queue to get into their church or worry about getting a seat on Sunday mornings! According to Anglican. Ink, there has been a 2.1% decrease in attendance at Church of services, meaning there can be a little over 850,000 people in church on any given Sunday! But I wonder if the figures tell the whole story of the relationship between the church and community? I think it would be a mistake to assume that just because the majority of people don’t attend a church that they don’t necessarily care about it – either as an institutional presence or iconic building in their local community. There is ample anecdotal evidence to suggest that communities will treasure their local parish church, value its history and aesthetic beauty and charm, and even support it generously when the cracks start to appear! Furthermore, historically communities have become aggrieved and incensed when anything happens to threaten the existence and presence of the parish church in the locale. And yet there remains a chasm between what communities say and practically do for the church, and their registered attendance at corporate worship services! We are fortunate in our benefice to have communities who value and cherish the local church and are active in their support of it when the chips are down. I think it would be a mistake to underestimate just how important our churches are to their communities, as evidenced by the generous support that is given when we need it! Billy Graham implicitly criticised the church for misplacing its priority by caring too much about the community. It was said about one church, ‘they really wrap their arms around people, not just their members, but the entire community. We want to be part of that’ This might be something for all of us to work towards, and the answer to those empty pews! Your Friend Revd Paul Hold Tight! A reflection for August 2021 by Canon John Perhaps the heading should be ‘Hold your Horses’. I had a sad phone call this week (in early July) to tell me that an old ex RAF chum from the sixties had died. Colin had gone back home to South Africa after his service flying had ended. He and his wife, both in their eighties and living in a wealthy sheltered retirement village near Johannesburg, had visited a friend in the village for coffee and the next day they were told that she had tested positive for Covid. Both of my friends got the virus and fell ill; Colin died and Ilva is still suffering. The irony of choosing a secure, gated and protected community to live in only to fall victim to a virus did not escape me. It was a sobering message at the time that our government just announced a lifting of legal precautions as the Covid Delta variant took off. I looked back at my Bridge reflection for August last year and it reminds me that the Covid precautions were being lifted in time for Summer. We all remember what happened in the Autumn and Winter that followed. By Christmas we were back on high alert. During the spike in infections in January over 1,500 people per week died and February was almost as dreadful. I wrote then about the ‘common good’ and how we might love our neighbour as ourselves by accepting the vaccine but continuing to respect the virus Now we enter another summer and another variant with yet another wearying spike in infections. The difference this time is that most of us adults have been vaccinated so we stand a better chance of not dying if we catch the disease. But then I think of Colin and Ilva who thought that they were secure. The virus has made us all think again about risk. Our brilliant health care teams, who are frantically struggling to catch up with the backlog of life inhibiting operations, need to be kept in mind too. One foreign holiday might well close a whole ward. Our demand for liberty=good, against legal restrictions=bad, raises a false choice. A Professor of Behavioural Science wrote last week about how he obeyed the legal requirements of the Highway Code because his personal liberty to drive fast might be at the expense of his neighbour’s liberty to have life. So while the Government has passed responsibility for coping with the ongoing pandemic to each of us, I can’t help but feel that a legally backed ‘Covid Code’ underpinning our behaviour might have been more responsible. Personal responsibility is not the same thing as personal choice remarked the Christian commentator Paul Vallely. I shall continue to wear a mask in shops and supermarkets, on trains and enclosed spaces, including those churches which have no doors or windows open. I’ll give night clubs a miss altogether. My old Mum used to say, ‘don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater’. In the rush to regain ‘freedom’ we might well have done just that. So hold tight! It might turn out that the baying for freedom may not further the common good. I hope I’m wrong.

I wrote about all of us finding a new way to move into the future economy, finding a sustainable future and not falling back on the old mantras of growth and consumerism. Well, a year on there is not much evidence that the government has grasped that nettle. Their ‘green’ initiatives and promises to ‘build back greener’ are still just that - promises. Their policies to tackle Climate change have yet to be fleshed out; the lack of detail and funding is worrying and at the November COP-26 the UK will be seen to be lacking in global leadership: a tired old emperor without any clothes. For now it seems as if keeping EasyJet solvent, getting our holidays in the sun and opening night clubs even takes precedence in parliament. Even though a huge tract of North America and Western Canada has just suffered a catastrophic heat wave. Lytton, a small community in Canada the size of has been razed to the ground. We have the prophets, a lot of us long to see a Godly future, but just like in old Israel few of our leaders are listening

Three Good Reasons Not To Mess With Children

1 A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl said, 'When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah'. The teacher asked, 'What if Jonah went to hell?' The little girl replied, 'Then you ask him'.

2 A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, 'I'm drawing God.' The teacher paused and said, 'But no one knows what God looks like. ' Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, 'They will in a minute.'

3 A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to '“Honour' thy Father and thy Mother,” she asked, Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?' One little boy (the oldest of a family) swiftly answered, 'Thou shall not kill.'

LERRYN YOGA CIRCLE We are very delighted that we have been able to meet for the summer term, and our grateful thanks go to Lerryn Memorial Hall committee for making this possible.

We have been working in restricted numbers resulting in the Monday afternoon class having a waiting list, but the Tuesday evening class does have 2 spaces for the next term.

It isn't easy to be planning that far ahead, so I must say this is in the hope that there will be no further restrictions by then.

The following quotation is one we enjoyed sharing during our practice.

Think of your mind as a garden And fill it with thoughts of PEACE Plant in it seeds of happiness And weed out all negative thoughts. Walk in it daily and watch it grow In the beauty of colour and form Take the joy that it brings out into the world And spread it to those around.

Take care and be safe. Rosemary

Cynthia Stuart Smith - A Thanksgiving At St Winnow on the 15th September at 3pm there will be a short service of thanksgiving for the life of our old Lerryn friend before the committal of her ashes in the grave of her late husband Reg, who died in 2009. Cynthia died last year at the height of the Covid pandemic and the full solemnities could not be observed. Cynthia loved life in the community and was involved with The W I, The Produce Association, The Red Store Scrabble Club and she supported most aspects of village life. Her son Nick cordially invites all her friends to join him at St Winnow on the 15th September to pay tribute to her long and fruitful life.

St Bartholomew’s News August 2021

Hopefully we can learn to live with the virus now and get back to normal, if we can remember what that was. Now we just need a good Summer so that everyone can enjoy some lovely weather and socialising with family and friends. I think it is up to us all to respect each other’s wishes as to mask wearing, staying apart etc. and hope that we can, if not forget the past 18 months, put it behind us. We are holding a Pet Service on the first Sunday, so please bring along your lovely pets – in suitable containers and securely held of course, so that we can thank God for all the small, or large creatures in our world. What comfort they gave us during Covid, so let us give thanks for the unconditional love they show us. Being August, there won’t be Messy Church but it should be back again next month. We hope you have seen the notices for the Friday Lunch Club where you can come along for food and a chat, at 12.00 each week, in the Church Rooms. Our Tower Fund Launch was very successful and raised over £1,000, which shows how much we can do when we pull together. There is still a lot to do and a lot of money to find but we can work together to Save Your Spire! Please support us in any way you can, remembering that if you are a tax payer, you are able to gift aid it, which allows us to claim a further 25%. We have a card reader in the Church for those who don’t like to carry cash too. On Monday 16th, the Friends of St Bart’s (FOSB) are holding their AGM in the Church at 6.30.p.m. Everyone is welcome as FOSB would welcome anyone who could spare just a little time or expertise in whatever field, to support this group. Without their help we would not have been able to do such a lot round the church, including building our toilet and kitchen.

We are pleased to hear The Church Hall, (or The Church Rooms for those with longer memories), is now open for business again and John looks forward to welcoming back regular groups, as and when they feel able. He will also be delighted to hear from new groups seeking accommodation as there are still a few slots available in the monthly calendar. With the Church fully open soon, anyone who would like to volunteer for those jobs that are done by a small few would be appreciated. If you would like to help, contact the Churchwardens – Bernice and Brenda. The Bookstall volunteers would love to have more help and, as with everything, the more names on the list means you don’t have to do so many stints manning the stall. We welcome back one and all as everyone returns to worship with us again.

The Friends of St Bartholomew’s Church, Lostwithiel Registered Charity Number 1115047 FOSB now has an account with Amazon Smile. If you have an Amazon account, you can donate 0.5% of the price of your qualifying purchases to The Friends of St Bartholomew’s Church Lostwithiel, all without costing you a penny! Go to https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1115047-0 and enter The Friends of St Bartholomew’s Church Lostwithiel in the box, and click select. Every time you shop on Amazon Smile, FOSB gets a donation at no cost to you. Thank you for supporting FOSB.

Launch of St Bartholomew’s Tower Appeal There was music and dancing in the churchyard of St Bartholomew’s on Saturday 3rd July to launch the appeal to raise funds to carry out repairs urgently needed to the tower and spire of the Parish Church of Lostwithiel.

Over a thousand pounds was raised on the day – thank you!

Those fortunate enough to be in and around the Churchyard were treated to a truly uplifting experience following the months of lockdown; they lingered throughout the afternoon and evening enjoying the live music provided by the Gumbo Flyers, and savouring the delights of the barbeques and drinks from the bar in the ambience of the beautiful churchyard. In the evening, they were treated to a magnificent concert by our Town Band inside the church. This proved to be a truly enjoyable way to springboard the appeal to raise funds for the tower repairs. The parishioners of St Bartholomew’s have already raised sufficient funds to carry out emergency repairs to the spire, and, those of you who lift your eyes upwards to it will be aware of the excellent work which has been carried out by Peninsular Access steeplejacks to reduce the damage being caused by water ingress.

But this is only the start!! A further £85,000 is required to carry out essential repairs to the tower and octagonal lantern spire which support the spire and accommodate the church bells and town clock. We need to raise at least 50% of this from donations if we are to be successful in acquiring grants to support this work. We need the support of the community of Lostwithiel in this task. Watch out for posters advertising further fund raising events and let’s make the work of raising the essential funds a truly pleasurable and uplifting experience. SAVE YOUR SPIRE

Lostwithiel and District Branch news We would like to extend a big thank you to all our supporters. You are all doing something extraordinary during the year of the RNLI’S 197th birthday. By donating, you are helping save a life, so once again a heartfelt THANK YOU. On 11th July 2021, by kind permission of Lin and Rob Briggs, we held an Open Garden event at Fan Cottage on what will most probably turn out to be one of the wettest days of the summer. However, the heavy rain and thunder did not deter our local supporters and holidaymakers from visiting the garden and helping us raise an amazing £450. Lin and Rob’s Garden looked magnificent even in the pouring rain!

Just a reminder that in May 2021, we launched our Mayday Appeal. We set up a JustGiving page and we are delighted to report that to date we have raised an amazing £568. If you would like to donate money to our page, you can either find us by entering “RNLI Lostwithiel and District Branch” in the search facility of the JustGiving website or use our QR code:

LERRYN FILM CLUB Drinks and Nibbles

Thursday 12th August 2021

6.00 - 7.30pm

Lerryn Memorial Hall

COME AND RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP!

NEW MEMBERS VERY WELCOME

CREAM TEAS ARE BACK in Lerryn Memorial Hall on Sunday 29th August 3.00 – 4.30pm

Come and enjoy scones with jam and cream, plus free refills of tea There will also be books to browse and plenty of fresh produce and home-made preserves to buy. All proceeds to LAMA.

"LOCAL CHARITY SALE” Come and support these three local charities: Lerryn Area Minibus Association, Friends of St Veep Church, and Lerryn Memorial Hall A range of quality household goods - e.g. china, glassware, books, paintings, pots, small items of furniture, clothing— is offered for donations to be shared between the three charities. Donations should be cash or cheque. WHERE? 2 The Orchard garage, Lerryn (just off the Couch's Mill Road) WHEN? 3 Saturdays in August, 14th 21st and 28th. TIME? 14th morning 10.30a.m. - 12.30/1.0p.m 21st afternoon 2.45p.m. - 5.0 pm approx. 28th morning 10.30a.m. - 1.0 p.m. For information please phone Anne Fenwick 01208 872804

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THE BRIDGE Staying in Touch

There are three excellent publications spanning the benefice parishes. There is the informative Lostwithiel News which is issued monthly and may be picked up at local shops. The parish of Lanlivery has a glossy bi-monthly magazine called ‘Granite Towers’ (shared with ) and there is The Bridge which acts as a link between all the parishes of the benefice. The Bridge used to be delivered to subscribers (£5 per annum) by a dedicated team but Covid measures put a stop to that; so now it is on a pay and collect basis – collect from Lerryn Stores or from Tabitha Stafford PHONE NO 01208 871366 who arranges Lostwithiel collection. There is also an online version available for the same amount. Please email or post your details to the Church Admin Office ([email protected] and copy in Tabitha ([email protected]) if you wish to subscribe by Bank transfer 30-97-28 account 01701310. Do stipulate whether you want a print or online copy. In this transition period there may be some glitches for us to iron out caused by staff working from home. Do email [email protected] or phone 01208 873458 if your neighbour or friend around Lerryn needs help in getting a copy.

As is probably widely known LAMA suspended its minibus service at the beginning of lockdown in March 2020 because the majority of our passenger group were classified as vulnerable and were not to be encouraged to go out of their homes. We have continued the Lerryn prescription collection service throughout. It has been a long, winding, bumpy road that the committee have travelled since then! Whereas we used to meet every 2 months, we have met monthly to explore and thrash out the possibilities, requirements and guidance from government and the Community Transport Association. An enormously time consuming process. The outcome is that we have obtained and used a grant to equip the bus for what term 'Covid safe operation', I would prefer to say Covid risk managed operation because it's still a risk. We have: - conducted new Risk Assessments on all areas of our operation, - reviewed all necessary paperwork and tightened our record keeping, - provided Covid operation training to those drivers from our volunteer group of drivers who are prepared to drive, - provided refresher Midas training to 3 of our drivers. Sadly we have not been able to provide any of our regular calendar of fund raising social events and long for the opportunity to do so again. On Tuesday 6th July the bus took passengers to for the first time since March 2020. LAMA is back on the road running trips to Bodmin every Tuesday, one Friday of the month and one Friday of the month. Timetabled trips will be advertised in the Lostwithiel newsletter and on Lerryn.net. and on page 19 of this magazine. Enquiries and bookings can be made with Andy Reid and Sue Giles on 01208 368393. Enquiries about hire of the bus by organisations/groups should be made to Richard Halliday on 01208 871419 LERRYN AREA MINIBUS August 2021 TIMETABLE Trips leave from Lerryn and Lostwithiel and return at the times below. Please phone in advance to book your seat and arrange a pick-up point. 01208 368393

DATE DESTINATION TIME RETURN FARE

Tuesday 3 Lerryn £4.00 adult Bodmin and supermarkets 9.30 – 12.30

Driver: Andy Lostwithiel £2.00 child

9.45 - 12.15 Tuesday 10 Lerryn £4.00 adult Bodmin 9.30 – 12.30 and supermarkets Lostwithiel £2.00 child Driver: Nick 9.45 - 12.15 Tuesday 17 Lerryn £4.00 adult

Bodmin 9.30 – 12.30 Driver: Pat and supermarkets Lostwithiel £2.00 child 9.45 - 12.15 Friday 20 Lerryn £4.00 adult St Austell and supermarkets 9.30 – 1.00 Driver: Andy Lostwithiel £2.00 child 9.45 – 12.45 Tuesday 24 Lerryn £4.00 adult Bodmin and supermarkets 9.30 – 12.30 Driver: Richard Lostwithiel £2.00 child 9.45 - 12.15 Friday 27 Lerryn £6.00 adult

Truro 9.30 – 3.30 Driver: Annie Lostwithiel £3.00 child 9.45 -3.15 Sunday 29 Lerryn Lostwithiel 2.45 for Annual Cream Tea event + plant stall and FREE TRIP book stall Driver: Richard Ends 4.30

Tuesday 31 Lerryn £4.00 adult Bodmin and supermarkets 9.30 – 12.30 Driver: Glenn Lostwithiel £2.00 child 9.45 - 12.15 Lerryn School continues to flourish in the Cornish Sunshine.

Pupil numbers remain stable and we have new pupils already signed up for September.

Our open Facebook page continues to share and reach many families across the world. (Lerryn School and Nursery), whilst our closed Facebook page shares our daily adventures with our families.

We completed our swimming this year with our fully supported and covid safe operation and although we have had to postpone all our trips and fairs due to covid, we managed just under £1800 in fundraising through a very supportive community and Lerryn School Association.

We have maintained our close relationship with our local groups and are busily measuring Sunflowers with the Lerryn produce Society.

Meanwhile- our woods, river and fields have been visited weekly, with crabbing, pond dipping, den building and fire lighting all taking part.

Our Nursery opens Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and continues to flourish with numbers.

We are looking forward to September and embracing our local communities once more. Lerryn School 01208872620