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Date For the parishes of , St Peter (), Endellion and Minver with Enodoc (Trebetherick) and St Michael (Porthilly) 10am WednesdayHoly Communion 8am Tuesday Holy Communion (BCP) St Endellion Weekly Services St James the Great Church,

St Kew 9.30 All Age Worship Communion Communion 9.30 Holy 9.30 Holy St Kew 9.30

12.30 RNLI Service 2.30 Messy Church All Age Worship All Age 9.30 Morning Communion St Peters on the Platt 9.30 Holy 9.30 Holy Worship www.northcornwallclusterofchurches.org.uk

Monthly services - June 2016 11 Morning Worship 11 Sung Eucharist 11 Sung Eucharist St Endellion 9.15 Eucharist 9.30 Eucharist Communion 6pm Taize Eucharist Communion 11 Sung

Evening Prayer Morning Prayer 11 Holy Communion 9.30 Messy Church, 11 All Age Worship Perecval Insitute St Minver 11 All Age 11 Holy

Fri: St Endellion BCPFri: St Endellion Sat: St Enodoc Tues: St. Kew Wed: St Michael’s Thurs. St Peter’s 5.30pm 8.45am

Holy Communion 3pm Evensong 3pm Evensong 3pm Evensong 6pm Evensong St Enodoc Wed Fri St Endellion Mon: St Minver (Quiet Time) Worship 3pm

North Cluster of Churches Healing Service 6pm Evensong 6pm Evensong 6pm Evensong St Michael Communion 9.15 Holy Newsletter June 2016

For the parishes of St Kew, St Peter (Port Isaac), St Endellion and St Minver with St Enodoc (Trebetherick) and St Michael (Porthilly)

www.northcornwallclusterofchurches.org.uk

Correct at time of printing. Please check weekly pew sheets for more information 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 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. 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. the penultimate Thursday of every month at 7.30pm. Do come and join us! You can be assured of a very warm welcome. If you would like to know more please contact We’ll introduce one or two new Kerstin Lewis on 01840 211161 or send an email to [email protected] songs, and include some for tots to teens. All are Mothers’ Union Next Meeting welcome. Thursday 23rd June 7.30pm at St Endellion Church Hall Requests welcome; Words and Music for a Summer Evening please let Gill have them by the previous Sunday. Bring a poem you would like to read or have read. Followed by meeting Congratulations on the confirmation of Stewart, Hildegard, Grace and Katie on 01208 863048 or ALL WELCOME • Coffee & biscuits • Raffle 24th April with Bishop Chris. e-mail: [email protected]. Can we move on? ST JAMES the Great CHURCH at ST KEW In April of this year the Bishop of came to speak to all those who accepted his invitation to hear about Accompanied Ministry Development. From The Visitor’s Book This is an innovative programme designed to address the issues in the 27 June 2001 – Peter Felchin of Burbank, California, wrote diocese which are new and which require prayer and thought to make “Ancestor married here in 1577.” sure the Church in Cornwall continues to flourish and grow. A visitor from Sutton Coldfield wrote “Glad I’m not in the stocks!! The Bishop emphasised the basic profound message Jesus came to give Listened to the Bells! (The church has a set of stocks inside) us. It was to show us how to live beautiful lives in spite of difficulties and 11 June 2003 – A visitor from North Somerset wrote “GOD SPEED THE disappointments. He gave us guidelines to help us use principles to live PLOUGH.” (The church has an old plough outside) by, hope to encourage us and a faith to sustain us. He said “I am come 7 June 2005 – Beautiful church still as lovely as it was when I came 40 that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” years ago. Susan Grover, Tucson, Arizona. (John 10:10) If we look at nature in all its abundance and beauty, it can also show us and teach us this, if we have eyes to see. I am thinking of how it shows us St James Fete that every living thing from an earthworm to an oak tree has the capacity The Fete will be on the 24th July to grow, adapt and change whenever necessary to survive more easily. which is the nearest Saturday to Change and being able to adapt to changing conditions is essential for St James Feast Day (25th July). life to continue. Start time is 2pm and is at Trescobel, As in nature so in institutions. Institutions, such as the Church (and the former Rectory, which is about marriage too), in order to stay vibrant and flourishing, need to change and 75 yards from the church. adapt.Ways of living change, different ways of doing things means that the different generations experiences are sometimes an anathema to others There will be a car park in the field as cultures, sometimes imperceptibly change. across the road from the house. There will be the usual 20+ stalls, Historically the church of God, as a living, moving and developing entity, plus Punch & Judy. is the one Jesus ordained would be the major vehicle to bring us closer to God. It has had to change its emphasis and design in order to go on being The traditional ducks races will take available and relevant to all those who discover, at whatever age, and place staring 1030am by the bridge maybe tentatively and even subliminally, their need of God. by the church car park. As humans, for whatever reasons we are wired up to resist change. During the week starting Monday It can make us fearful and out of control in ways we do not want to 18th July, we would be happy to recognise. We may project it on to the change itself, seeing it as wrong receive books, bottles, bric a brac, or misguided because of the discomfort experienced. cakes, jumble, plants and produce and clean nearly new. God can be seen, heard and experienced everywhere in his world which he so loves. (John 3:16). The Church does not have the monopoly on Items could be left at the back of Messy Church God. If we refuse to accept the guidance of our leaders, who have been the church during the week before At the Port Isaac Messy Church given the vision they need to follow the Holy Spirit we may find God’s the Fete. in May the children made this Word is heard more clearly and dynamically elsewhere. fantastic St Peter’s installation Sue Barlow for Pentecost