October 2011 Parish of the Six Saints Circa Holt October 2011 God Has Made the Earth and All That It Contains for All to Share
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GREAT EASTON Advertising space POST OFFICE AND STORES Contact “Here to serve you” Janet Gillanders Tel: 01536 770309 01858 565933 Email: [email protected] B&B accommodation available: Tues\Thurs contact details as above 9.30-1 Eyebrook Wild Bird Feeds Quality mixes and straights at farm gate prices, PJH mixed on our farm near the Eyebrook Reservoir & Visit our website: ww.eyebrookwildbirdfeeds.co.uk SONS Rectory Farm, right of Church, Great Easton Tel: 01536 770771 Open Friday & Saturday 9am - 5pm Sunday 9am – 12 noon PHILIP J. 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(help and advice without obligation) Oaktree Lodge, PRIVATE CHAPEL OF REST Horninghold Road, Tel: 01572 823976 Stockerston A member of Society of Allied and Independent Funeral directors Tel: 01572 822270 HEFFORDS Solicitors M J A Incorporating Hefford Johnson & Co ARCHITECTS Tel: 01858 410040 49a High Street Fax: 01858 432772 Market Harborough Martyn Jones & Associates Leics. LE16 7AF The Reading Room, 33 Main Street Specialising in all private client matters Medbourne, Leicestershire Home visits for the elderly or infirm. Please contact: LE16 8DT JANICE HEFFORD or SARAH HEFFORD Tel: 01858 565567 The Parish of the Six Saints circa Holt The Reverend Stephen Bishop H.Snow & Son The Rectory, Rectory Lane, Medbourne, LE16 8DZ Great Easton Tel: 01858 565933 Mobile: 07590 829902 Builders and Contractors email [email protected] Established nearly 100 years Stonework-Groundwork-Roofing-Decorating Secretary Ann Baile Treasurer Darryl Brunt Listed Buildings a Speciality The Paddocks, High Street 2 Mulberry Court Tel: 01536 770257 or 07594 935958 Great Easton LE16 8ST Drayton LE16 8SD 01536 770095 01858 565300 BRINGHURST CUM GREAT EASTON & DRAYTON CONSTRUCTION: Wardens BRINGHURST DRAYTON Foot Health Practitioner RENOVATION: Michael Mallock Tim Fletcher Specialist Foot Care Treatment MAINTENANCE: Manor Lodge, Main Street 1 The Green in the comfort of your own home Bringhurst LE16 8RJ Drayton LE16 8RQ Vicarage Cottage Graham Clark Main Street, Loddington 01536 772044 01858 565895 JOSEPH SAC(dip), CFHP (pract) Leicestershire LE7 9XE WARBURTON Carpentry & Building Home Tel: 01572 717302 GREAT EASTON For an appointment call Mobile Tel: 0774 04 2 6889 Tom Theakston Mary Henniker-Major 01536 772118 Services 4 Banbury Lane Linden House Great Easton LE16 8SF Great Easton LE16 8SJ 01536 770929 01536 770320 THE Book-keeping COMPLETE Accounts MEDBOURNE CUM HOLT, STOCKERSTON & BLASTON FUNERAL & VAT returns Wardens MEDBOURNE CUM HOLT MEMORIAL Sage User SERVICE David Tyler Margaret Tuffs 8 Springbank Brookfield House, 41 Main Street Traditional values from an independent family business trusted to serve the local community for over three generations Lynn Bradley Medbourne LE16 8EB Medbourne LE16 8DT ‘THE CHESTNUTS’15 KETTERING ROAD MARKET HARBOROUGH LEICS. LE16 8AN Book Keeping Services 01858 565242 01858 565911 Email: [email protected] www.jstampandsons.co.uk Telephone: 01858 434850 Mobile: 0779 064 5449 STOCKERSTON Telephone: (01858) 462524 Mary Patston Apple Cottage, Medbourne Road Stockerston LE15 9JF 01572 823396 STEPHEN SANDERSON LTD BLASTON UK & EUROPEAN TRANSPORT Wilfred Coon Robin Murray-Philipson Riverside Industrial Estate Market Harborough Hallcroft, Medbourne Road Garden House Leics LE16 7PT Hallaton LE16 8UH Blaston LE16 8DE 01858 555630 01858 555233 Telephone: c01858 410117/466499 Fax: 01858 465121 E-mail: [email protected] Treasurers Bringhurst etc David Gibley 01536 772159 East Norton www.sandersontransport.com Medbourne Rachel Glover 01858 565876 Stockerston Mary Patston 01572 823396 Debi Varley (BHSAI) Blaston Lindsay Blaaberg 01858 01858 555795 Secretaries Bringhurst etc Ann Baile 01536 770095 07904 287742 GARRY HYDE Medbourne etc Jenny Sandars 01858 565245 Stockerston Wendy Bromwich 01572 823110 Liveries Interior and Exterior Blaston Della Stones 01858 555688 Lessons Painting and Decorating Hacks We are always pleased to welcome new residents to our parish Pony Days Glazing so please do make yourself known to one of the above-named. Clinics Riding Holidays TEL: 01858 565215 Supported by Great Easton and Medbourne Parish Councils, Bringhurst & Drayton Parish Meeting, Bed and Breakfast MOB: 07795 096109 the village of Stockerston and other local groups and organisations. Printed by Clipperprint, East Goscote, LE7 3XA Rector’s Letter October 2011 Parish of the Six Saints circa Holt October 2011 God has made the earth and all that it contains for all to share. The creation story in Genesis reminds us that God created a world of 2 October Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 8am Eucharist at Great Easton abundance and generosity. He made man and woman in the divine image 9am 1662 Eucharist at Drayton to be stewards of the world, to cherish and nurture its resources and to 11am Medbourne Family Harvest Festival uphold his intention for the created order. followed by Harvest Lunch Wherever there is injustice, the balance of this created order is upset. God 9 October Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity intended that everyone should share in the goods of creation, so when a 11am Harvest Festival Eucharist at Great Easton minority of people in the world has too much and the vast majority has too followed by Harvest Lunch little, our stewardship of the earth has gone seriously wrong. 6pm Harvest Evensong at Blaston The Christian celebration of the Harvest should call us to think again. It 16 October Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity St Luke should remind us of our partnership with God to ensure that justice is 9am 1662 Eucharist at Bringhurst upheld and of our responsibility to each other to ensure fair play. Whenever with prayers for healing we are motivated by greed and forget the needs of our neighbour we violate 10.30am Eucharist at Medbourne the image of God. Restoration happens when the earth’s goods are shared 3pm Stockerston Harvest Festival fairly between all God’s people and right relationships are re-established. (Archdeacon to preach) What do I do to ensure a fairer distribution of the world’s resources? 23 October Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity What more could I do? Bible Sunday 8am 1662 Eucharist at Medbourne 9am 1662 Eucharist at Stockerston 10.30am Eucharist at Great Easton Prayer God, our creator and redeemer, 30 October All Saints' Day restore in us your vision of a world made whole, 10.30am United Eucharist at Drayton that we may learn to share the earth’s gifts and become your partners in creation. Weekly Events Prayer Group Monday Medbourne Tiddlywinks Prayer Group will be meeting at 8.00pm as follows: Parent, baby and toddler group Medbourne Village Hall 10am - 12noon 17th October at Swan House, Lyddington 21st November at Brookside Bungalow, Great Easton Line Dancing Great Easton Village Hall 1.30 - 3pm Tuesday Art Club St Andrew’s Great Easton Great Easton Village Hall 10am - 12.30pm Wednesday Eucharist Bell Ringing Practice St Andrew’s Great Easton 7.30 - 9pm Tues, Wed Medbourne Playgroup On most Wednesdays throughout the year & Thurs Medbourne Village Hall 9.15am - 12.15pm there is a Eucharist service in Great Easton at 10.30am. Wednesday Tai Chi 9.30-10.30am Great Easton Village Hall All are welcome so please join us. Thursday Great Easton Mum, Baby and Toddler Group Great Easton Village Hall 10am - 12noon Junior Tennis Club at Medbourne ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH – ROTA OF SIDESPEOPLE May to August 4.30pm Beginners Sundays: 9 th October 11.00 a.m Margaret Stamp & Margaret Gadd 5.15pm Intermediate NO COFFEE – HARVEST LUNCH 6pm More advanced (those who can rally) 23 rd October 10.30 a.m. Maureen Black & Kathy Gibb Classes free to Tennis Club members Mon/Thurs Youth Group 11-18 years If any of these dates are inconvenient, please arrange to swap with someone, or if Meets every Thursday in the Village Hall you have a problem contact Tom Theakston on 01536 770929. Alternating weekly between Medbourne and Great Easton EVERYONE IS WELCOME For further information please contact: Cathy Moran 01536 771175 New email addresses: Parish Magazine Policy Please note that the Rector’s email address At a meeting of the magazine sub-committee on 6 November 2006, the following policy is now [email protected] was agreed for all articles to be printed in the magazine: • Articles should be no longer than one side of A5 paper (one magazine page), Magazine related enquiries should be addressed to allowing space for the artwork. • The deadline for submission of articles is the 5th of the preceding month. [email protected] • Wherever possible articles should be submitted by email to [email protected] OAKLEIGH BEAUTY of Medbourne RJM Plasterers ALL ASPECTS OF Harvest Festivals 2011 Helen Collins PLASTERING “Beauty treatments to relax and rejuvenate” UNDERTAKEN Home: 01858 565458/Mobile: 0791 989 0918 Medbourne Harvest Festival Contract & Private followed by Harvest Lunch 2 October 11am Bespoke Joinery Over 30 years experience Timber windows, doors and For your free estimate from conservatories, Made to order and fitted. your local plasterer call Great Easton Harvest Festival 01536 205005 Contact: Kevin Thompson followed by Harvest Lunch Tel: 01858 565398 Mobile: 07944 529956 07712 335 963 9 October 11am Harvest Evensong at Blaston 9 October 6pm Stockerston Harvest Festival Archdeacon to preach 16 October 3pm Matthews Marjorie and family would like to thank everyone for the support and kindness, together with all the letters and cards of condolence following the sad passing of John .