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One of the Blessings of Retirement Is Being Able to Enjoy Watching the Children Going Past My Garden Daily to Schools Close to My Home Benefice community newsletter for Tytherington, Rockhampton, Cromhall Falfield and Tortworth Volume 13 Issue 8 August 2016 One of the blessings of retirement is being able to enjoy watching the children going past my garden daily to schools close to my home. There is a sense of purpose as the youngsters hurry on with parents in their wake heading off to their various destinations. As I write the end of the academic year is very close – just days now before the holidays begin! This is the time of year when we all look forward to a bit of down time – leisure time! Even if people don’t actually go away, there is a different ‘feel’ in the air when children have time free from school activities. What do you think of when you say the word ‘leisure’? Me, I imagine sunny beaches with the waves lapping at the shore, sunshades, deckchairs, ice-cold drink in hand, and a ‘Jeeves’ who has clearly spent time in the gym coming at regular intervals to refill the glass. Perhaps you imagine a stroll or a ramble somewhere in the countryside, with the birds singing and the rabbits scurrying away as they hear your footsteps approaching, with the dog walking (a la dog training classes) obediently by your side. Why is it then that when we go to a leisure centre we jog in full of energy and enthusiasm, crawling out some time later looking (and prob- ably feeling) as if we have just been put through our paces by an unsympathetic sergeant major – with apologies to any nice sergeant–major reading this! So I ponder this word leisure – and I hasten to my concordance to see where the word leisure comes in the Bible – alas it is not there! Definitions I have come across to do with leisure nearly all refer to “time off” - time – ah, now that is different, because the Bible does have a lot to tell us about time. It gives plain common sense advice about our needs if we are to be fully alive people fulfilling our potential every day – in our working time as well as in our leisure time. It is so important for us all to have a distinction between time that is for us and time that we, of necessity, give to others – to family and to our work situ- ation. For Christians there is also the special time we need to spend with our God. Leisure time is part of God’s plan for us all and we are encouraged to make the most of this valuable commodity and take hold of opportunities it brings. So, do I use my leisure time well or am I in danger of being selfish and lazy? Do I have quality time for other peo- ple to build up my relationships - with family, with friends? Do I ensure that I have the time I need to fulfil who I am, so that I can then give to others? For all of us time is a bal- ancing act, but an important aspect of our lives to ponder. Enjoy some leisure time in the coming weeks! Sue Phillipson-Masters 1 SUNDAY 14TH TRINITY 12 9.30am Cromhall Eucharist Rockhampton No Service 11.00am Falfield Eucharist When there is no service in your parish church, 11.15am Tortworth Morning Prayer please join with one of the other churches. 6.00pm Tytherington Evening Prayer Monthly Midweek Eucharists at SUNDAY 21ST TRINITY 13 Tortworth & Tytherington 9.30am Cromhall Morning Prayer During the vacancy, there will normally be a said Eu- Rockhampton No Service charist on the first Tuesday of the month at 11.00am at Falfield No Service St Leonard’s and on the first Thursday at 9.30am at St 11.15am Tortworth Eucharist James’. 11.00am Tytherington Eucharist & Please double check weekly pewsheet or ring Hilary Baptism Legg 01454 413234 or Val Johnson 01454 417445 SUNDAY 28TH TRINITY 14 Tues 2nd 10.00AM 11.00am Tortworth Said Eucharist UNITED BENEFICE SERVICE th AT Thursday 4 August ST LEONARD’S, TORTWORTH 9.30am Tytherington Said Eucharist ‘SPARKLERS’ FIRST FRIDAY AT ST GEORGE’S CHURCH, FALFIELD SUNDAY 4TH SEPT TRINITY 15 9.30am Cromhall Eucharist & Baptism NO SPARLKLERS IN AUGUST 9.30am Rockhampton Eucharist 11.00amn Falfield Eucharist 11.15am Tortworth Morning Prayer 11.00am Tytherington Joint service with SUNDAY 7TH TRINITY 11 Baptists at St James’ 9.30am Cromhall Morning Prayer 9.30am Rockhampton Eucharist Falfield Join Tortworth 11.15am Tortworth Eucharist 11.00am Tytherington Family service with Baptists at Chapel Please check the pewsheet or benefice website (www.croftt.org.uk) for services as details may be subject to change. Weds 10th 7.00pm Embrace at St George’s, Falfield NB Please note new personal email address ‘Embrace’ for Jan Leach Second Wednesday each month at St George’s Church, Falfield, at 7.00pm BENEFICE PHONE: 01454 260096 An invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life E-MAIL ADDRESS: [email protected] or email Jan Leach on [email protected] We invite you to create the space where the life Churchwardens: of God in us can be nurtured and brought to frui- Cromhall: Ann Greenhalgh 01454 294200 tion; a time for you to embrace some of the basic Rockhampton: Beth England 01454 260882 or disciplines of the Christian spiritual life Margaret Oliver 01454 417685 Falfield: Headley Pain 01454 269017 Tortworth: Hilary Legg 01454 413234 or Thurs 11th Peter Reeve 01454 260549 12.15pm Food for Thought Tytherington: John Williams 01454 412515 or at Rockhampton VH. Please ring Phil Coward 01454 281444 01454 260364 before 10am if you are coming. 2 During the vacancy, please contact the Visiting Churchwardens (details on page 2) for mat- Visiting is part of the Church’s Minis- ters concerning funerals and email the Bene- try. If you would like a visit from fice Office for enquiries about weddings and someone from the church, please baptisms. call the Benefice Office and we will do our best to arrange it. For all Benefice Business Please ring 01454 260096 If you are going into or in hospital… and leave a message You can help to make sure that the church team or email [email protected] can respond as you would like us to when you are ill. The office will usually be open from 10.00am until It’s important that if you are admitted to hospital, 1:00pm on Fridays when messages and emails you do three things:- will be dealt with. 1. Make sure someone tells one of the minis- If you would like someone to bring Ho- try team that you are going into hospital – ly Communion to your home please ask them to pass on the message as ap- ring 01454 260096 and leave a mes- propriate. sage. We are more than happy to do 2. Make it plain to the hospital staff whether this. (or not!) you would like a visit. This means During the vacancy there will normally that when someone rings up, they won’t be a midweek Eucharist at Tortworth at have to spend time saying ‘hang on, ‘I’ll 11.00am on the first Tuesday of the just ask him/her…’ month but please check the pewsheet. 3. Make it plain what sort of visit you would like: would you prefer a friend from the . Tytherington are holding Eucharist on church or one of the visiting team or would the first Thursday of the month at you particularly like a clergy visit? If you 9.30am but please check the pewsheet. want to be certain of a private, one to one Visit the benefice website at www.croftt.org.uk to chat, don’t be afraid to ask the hospital see the pewsheet or make a prayer request. staff if they will allow your minister to come outside normal visiting hours, so that they Please let the Churchwardens know if you don’t take up precious time and space from wish us to keep someone in our prayers. your family. We are always grateful for donations to keep this publication going as our funding depends on advertising and the generosity of our readers. One of the ways of making regular donations is by standing order. If you would like to make a payment using this method please contact our Treasurer, Mr Geoff Crosthwaite by telephone on 01454 294140 by email at: [email protected] or write to him at The Barn, Townwell, Cromhall, Wotton-Under-Edge, GL12 8AQ. Cheques, payable to Benefice Newsletter, may also be sent to our treasurer, Geoff Cros- thwaite, The Barn, Townwell, Cromhall, W-U-E, GL12 8AQ or the editor. Please remember to make cheques out to ‘Benefice Newsletter’. Tytherington WI Trip GOLF DAY Thursday 8th September A four ball Stableford competition will National Memorial Arboretum be held by kind permission of Thorn- Centre of Remembrance bury Golf Centre on Friday 7th October. Leaving Tytherington 7.45am Team entries are invited for a team of four at Cost: £21.50 £130.00 per team. Hot buffet following the (to include train ride around the arboretum) Golf, and excellent prizes. For further infor- Ring Valerie Niblett on 01454 417982 or mation please ring 01454 417543, thank Pauline Godsell on 01454 415839 you. All profits to St Peter’s, please come for further details along and join us. 3 THORNBURY LIBRARY SUMMER READING CHALLENGE 2016 Come and join The Big Friendly Read this summer - it wouldn’t be the same without you! 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