Newsletter June 2016
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Newsletter June 2016 www.northcornwallclusterofchurches.org.uk or the parishes of St Kew, St Peter (Port Isaac), St Endellion and or the parishes of St Kew, St Minver with St Enodoc (Trebetherick) and St Michael (Porthilly) St Minver with St Enodoc (Trebetherick) F North Cornwall Cluster of Churches St James the Great Church, St Kew Monthly services - June 2016 Date St Kew St Peters St Endellion St Minver St Enodoc St Michael 1 Healing Service 4 9.30 Messy Church, Perecval Insitute 5 9.30 Holy 9.30 Morning 11 Sung 11 Holy 3pm Evensong 6pm Evensong Communion Worship Eucharist Communion 11 9.30 Eucharist 12 9.30 9.30 Holy 11 Sung Eucharist 11 All Age 3pm Evensong 9.15 Holy All Age Worship Communion Worship Communion 12.30 RNLI Service 6pm Evensong on the Platt 19 9.30 Holy 2.30 Messy Church 11 Morning Worship 11 All Age Worship 3pm Evensong 6pm Evensong Communion 6pm Taize 24 9.15 Eucharist 26 9.30 All Age Worship 9.30 Holy 11 Sung Eucharist 11 Holy Communion 3pm 6pm Evensong Communion Holy Communion Weekly Services Morning Prayer 8.45am Wed Fri St Endellion 8am Tuesday Holy Communion (BCP) St Endellion Evening Prayer 5.30pm Mon: St Minver (Quiet Time) 10am WednesdayHoly Communion St Minver Tues: St. Kew Wed: St Michael’s Thurs. St Peter’s Fri: St Endellion BCP Sat: St Enodoc For the parishes of St Kew, St Peter (Port Isaac), St Endellion and St Minver with St Enodoc (Trebetherick) and St Michael (Porthilly) Correct at time of printing. Please check weekly pew sheets for more information www.northcornwallclusterofchurches.org.uk Endelienta events at St Endellion June is a busy month with several concerts and other events taking Our New Cluster Newsletter! place. During half term week until Sunday 5 June there is a photographic It is wonderful to be able to introduce this new Cluster exhibition in St Endellion Hall by the Wadebridge and District Camera Newsletter for the parishes of St Kew, St Peter (Port Isaac), Club, open daily and entrance is free. St Endellion and St Minver with St Enodoc (Trebetherick) and On Saturday 11 June there is an all day Poetry Workshop entitled ‘Landscape & Animals and their relationship with spirituality’. It will be led St Michael (Porthilly). I hope that all the churches and wider by Isabel Galleymore, who is the current Causley poet in residence community will enjoy finding out about what is going on in the at Launceston, and her colleague Luke Thompson. North Cornwall Cluster and indeed that there will be lots of The first concert this month on Friday 3 June, 7.30 pm sees a very interesting contributions from you each month. welcome return of the vibrant early music ensemble, K’antu who were last here in 2014. ‘Come now, a roundel and a fairy song’ is a programme Please send them to: [email protected] marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. These award winning multi-instrumentalists and singers will be exploring the popular music of Shakespeare’s lifetime. They will be joined by author Patrick Gale and local actor Sue Ferguson reading sonnets and extracts from his Welcome and Thanks works between the pieces. It promises to be a rather special evening. A warm welcome to our new Cluster Administrator, The Bristol University Madrigals Ensemble, will be making their annual Gavin Tyler, who began work with us at the tour to Cornwall visiting St Endellion on Friday 17 June , 7.30 pm with a beginning of May and is looking after programme of madrigals and part songs. communications in the Cluster, including this new The following week on Friday 24 June, 7.30pm we have ‘The Songs of Cluster Newsletter and the website as well as most Folk and Legend’. A programme of recitals by American musical scholars of the printed information you are used to. at the end of their a three week course of study here in the UK with the Enormous thanks are due to all those who have Cornish American Song Institute. Songs by Britten, Copeland, Debussy, previously done the various jobs which Gavin has Greig, Vaughan Williams and others that have been inspired by folk tales taken on, including Liz Williams, Gus Guest and Gavin Tyler and heroic legends. Judith Pollinger, who have worked so hard and with such good grace over the years to enable us to Prayer Retreat know what is going on in all the parishes. ‘Prayer’ was the theme of the annual retreat of members of the North Cornwall Cluster of Churches and of other local churches, when they met at Liz Williams is continuing in a new role as Cluster Treworra Barton from 17th to 19th May. The theme was explored in a variety Administrator for Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals, of ways by different speakers and included the history of the monastic cycle, building on all that she has done already for the or hours of prayer, and the music which accompanied it; a childlike approach St Minver parishes. There will be a gradual to prayer; contemplative prayer illustrated by Julian of Norwich, and talking handover of weddings administration as Jane and listening to God in prayer. Speakers were Kerstin Lewis, Andrew Lewis, Pain will continue to see through 2016 wedding Ann Sumra, Judith Pollinger and Elizabeth Elliott. The retreat began on bookings, earning a well-deserved break from this Tuesday morning with the regular early morning service of Holy Communion at the end of the year. We are incredibly grateful for in St Endellion according to the Book of Common Prayer. Morning and all that Jane has done on a voluntary basis, with Liz Williams Evening Prayer and Compline were said each day and Holy Communion was such efficiency, patience and good humour. celebrated on Wednesday and Thursday. About twenty people took part, Reverend Elizabeth with five being resident. Judith Pollinger Accompanied Ministry Development (AMD) in the Cluster Thank you to all those who came to the meeting with Bishop Tim on Monday 11th April, to hear all about AMD and what it might mean for our Cluster of Churches. The aim of AMD is to help us to work together to grow our churches. Please pick up one of the green leaflets in all the Happy Birthday to Mothers’ Union! churches to find out more. This year will see Mothers’ Union mark 140 years of faithful Christian outreach As part of AMD, over the next year, I am asked to attend five to families of all faiths and none. Since 1876, when Mary Sumner first brought “Clergy Colleges” and the first of these will be on 6-9 June, 2016.After together parents in her own parish to build their confidence in bringing up their each of these I will meet with a group of people in the parishes represent- children, we have grown to an organisation of over four million women – and men ing each of the churches, called the Ministry Development Team, which is – in over 80 countries of the world. made up of the following people: Why celebrate 140th, rather than wait for 150th? In the Old Testament of the • David Foster representing St Kew Bible, in the first book of Samuel, there is the story of Samuel marking an • Janet Townsend representing St Peter unlooked for victory against the mighty Philistines by erecting a stone between • Jane Trayhurn representing St Endellion Mizpah and Shen, naming it “Ebenezer” meaning “stone of help” as a permanent • David Elliott representing St Minver reminder of the leading and guidance of God “Thus far has the Lord helped us”. • Marion Stone representing St Enodoc • Gus Guest representing St Michael Over the past 140 years, Mothers’ Union has faced, and will continue to face, many challenges. Family life is under increasing pressure and the call on our In addition, I hope that I will be able to share the AMD process with resources is higher than ever. But we can look at how we are meeting these other leaders in the parishes as well as the wider congregation as the challenges and say, like Samuel, “Thus far has the Lord helped us.” scheme progresses, with the aim being for us to move forward together in “Discovering God’s Kingdom and Growing the Church”, drawing on This year over 500,000 people will benefit from Mothers’ Union’s support for the wide range of gifts and skills in our church communities and listening family life. Many more will know the support of our membership without any tally carefully to God and to all the different views of the people we serve within being taken – because not only our programme work but in their daily lives our and beyond the church congregations. members support families in prayer, in voicing their support for policy changes Please do feel free to speak to me about any of this. Reverend Elizabeth and in their practical support. There has never been a more challenging, or more exciting time to be part of Something old, Mothers’ Union. Our hope is to train more members to help more families; to something new…. encourage greater outreach across those countries and communities where family Come and sing some old and life is under greatest threat. To do this we need your help. Please support Mothers’ Union in bringing positive change to family life through its work worldwide. new favourites –hymns and songs – at St Minver church Once upon a time there would have been a branch in every church in the area. Some in our Songs of Praise on of you will remember this! Now your nearest branch meets at St Endellion Church on Saturday 25th June at 6pm.