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On 31st July 2019 the Bishop of Salisbury, with the consent of the Mission and Pastoral Committee of the Diocese, terminated the 'Suspension period' created on 15th January 2015 in respect of the benefice of the Upper Wylye Valley Team with effect from 16th August 2019 thus enabling the title of Revd Trudy Hobson, currently 'Priest in Charge', to become 'Team Rector'.
In a celebration of new ministry on the 29th July, all our hopes were realised in the Licensing of Revd Trudy Hobson, our new Priest in Charge, by the Bishop of Salisbury in Heytesbury. A full congregation welcomed the Bishop, the Rural Dean and clergy representatives from near and far, who, together with the choir, and music chosen to fit the occasion, witnessed and celebrated both the solemnity of the occasion, and then her joyful installation. Churchwardens, Lay Worship Leaders and Pastoral Assistants led the Welcome of Parish Councils, Schools and the many aspects of church and community life. We rejoice in Trudy Hobson’s calling, her appointment and her licensing and we look forward to her ministry here. We hope she will find fulfilment and great happiness.
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As I write this in the first few days as patient and generous with them, choosing We see in Jesus Christ the perfect Priest-in-Charge of the Upper Wylye Valley to focus on their good qualities. Genuine example of being open-hearted. Through Team, there are a mix of feelings inside open heartedness is rooted in humility, His humility, He treated all whom He met me, a little bit of nerves, a whole lot of as I recognise my own faults and with compassion, patience, gentleness, optimism and excitement, and everything limitations. Failure to maintain an open generosity and most of all love. He in between. I simply cannot wait to start heart, that is, closing one’s heart to others reached out to those who were cast out meeting and sharing God’s love with all in - is symptomatic of a hardened heart, one from society, those who were declared un - this place. May I take this opportunity to in need of the Spirit’s cleansing and clean or diseased, to those who were say a huge thank you to all who joined me replenishing of life” (T.D. Stegman, judged to be sinners and worthless. And to celebrate my licensing by the Bishop of Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, Christ not only reached out to them, but Salisbury, and especially thank you to all Second Corinthians, p.163) He befriended them, sharing meals and who contributed in any way to help the I truly believe that God has brought spending time with them, letting them whole evening run smoothly. My family me here to love this team of parishes and know that they are valued and loved. This and I were made to feel very welcome. to tell of His love for each and every one month let us all follow Jesus’ example to Thank you. of you, His beloved children. Paul reminds approach all whom we meet with an open- In my personal study of Paul’s me that, as I settle into life in this new heart. Let our hearts be open to allow the second letter to the Corinthians, I hear area of the country, meet new people and love of God to fill us, and to flow out from God speaking clearly through the learn all the local traditions and quirks of us so that all those whom we encounter reflection and application on 6:11-13; this context, I must not only be open may come to see and know Christ. “An open heart. All of us at one time or minded, but also open hearted. another have been encouraged to keep an Over the coming months, I hope we Rev Trudy, Rector open mind about a person, a situation, an have many opportunities to meet, talk and idea. As important as it is to be open- get to know each other, to share our joys THoUGHT For THE MonTH minded, Paul teaches us that it is even and celebrations, and to draw strength more important to be open-hearted, from each other through times of struggle ‘Let us not become weary in doing good, especially when it comes to our dealings and sorrow. I hope that we may come for at the proper time we will reap a with other people. As long as we together to worship God, to share times of harvest if we do not give up.' hold others within our hearts, regarding prayer, to serve each other, our wider Paul's letter to the church in Galatia them with affection, compassion, and communities and any who are in need so Chapter 6 verse 9 magnanimity, we are able to overlook that we may grow together in the love of R H their foibles and shortcomings with mercy God, deepening our relationship with God and even a sense of humour. We can be and one another. LAy WorSHiP LEADErS
New voices are leading church services, and some who led before are showing new confidence. On June 17th Bishop Andrew commissioned eight new Worship Leaders, after a 10-week training course led by Clifford and Jane, accredited by the Diocese. It was a memorable occasion, with some of the service led by the new Worship Leaders. One serves in Bridport, but the other seven are in our own team, and have already led services of Morning or Evening Prayer, Café Church or Sunday Worship. They are a welcome addition, as we offer an increasingly diverse range of worship services. Jane Shaw
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All of my angling efforts in July have been fishery manager said that there were lots The birds were very quiet, the breeding taken up by a two week trip to South Uist of islands which would provide shelter. season was over and we were not to fish for trout. The weather was The loch was remote and steep sided with bombarded on the lochs by Arctic terns Mediterranean and the island and its lochs heather- covered rock margins; unusually and various gulls. The corncrakes had looked beautiful. However, the fishing was there was nowhere where it is possible to almost stopped ‘craking’ and the cuckoos difficult and I learnt what ‘coming short’ fish from the bank. The fishery manager had gone back to Africa. We saw Short really means. Many trout came and looked was right of course and once we had Eared owls and Hen Harriers regularly, but at our flies but turned away at the last launched the boat and pulled away from alas no eagles. moment. This was exciting at first, but the windward end of the loch we found became frustrating. So for 4 days we shelter. We caught more trout in the day struggled and the number of trout caught than I care to mention, up to 12 inches in Robin Mulholland was small. However, I did catch my largest length, 3/4 of a pound. We killed some ever Uist trout which, weighed in the and took them back to eat and they were boatman’s weigh net, came to 2 pounds 14 very good. All told, we caught more trout When contacting advertisers please ounces. On the fifth day, we fished one of than the previous year which I had thought tell them that you read about them the salmon and sea trout lochs and my outstanding. ! in the Parish News ! boat partner caught his largest ever sea trout at 4 pounds and another at 2 pounds. BARTERS PLANT CENTRE On the sixth day, we had a complete blank ANANDA HOLISTICS on a very fertile loch which had an algae * Massage * Reflexology Friendly local Nursery and Plant Centre bloom. This, of course, removes some of * Indian Head Massage * Reiki Fresh plants grown on our Nursery the oxygen from the water and makes the Free advice and plenty of parking trout lethargic. Open Mon - Sat 9.00 - 5.00 The second week began with wild winds and we lost the first two days but Sundays 10.00 - 4.00 this was followed by four days of brilliant (March to June & December) fishing, albeit in pretty high winds. Of Sun closed (Jan, Feb, July to Nov) particular note was our trip by Argo cat to Just off A36 in Chapmanslade, one of the high hill lochs. When I looked Mob: 07824153207 Westbury, Wilts Email: [email protected] out of my bedroom in the morning, Upton Lovell Warminster BA12 0JP Tel: 01373-832694 I thought that there was no way that we www.barters.co.uk would be going into the hills but the CHERRY Blasdale-Holmes
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St Leonard’s church is not one of our ten which we give our heartfelt thanks. orchestrated the food and drink churches that makes up the Upper Wylye We were blessed to have the Bishop respectively, and to all who helped to Valley Team, but it was Sutton Veny’s of Ramsbury, The Right Reverend Dr ensure that this service ran smoothly and parish church until it was replaced by Andrew Rumsey, join us to lead the was enjoyed by everyone. Without such St John the Evangelist in 1868. In recent service, giving a humorous, yet thought wonderful and hardworking volunteers, years, St Leonard’s has been taken under provoking sermon enjoyed by all and much this service and much that we do as parish the wing of the Churches Conservation discussed afterwards over a glass of Pimms churches in our villages would not happen. Trust who ensure its upkeep and we are and very tasty nibbles. After such a wonderful, Holy Spirit very blessed that each year we are able to A huge thank you to Brian Long filled evening we are looking forward to hold a service here through the kind and Annabel Elliott, who made the next years’ service and would love to permission of the Trust and the Diocese of arrangements for the service, to Judy welcome you to join us. Salisbury. Cooper and Richard Jackman, who Rev Trudy This year saw us hold Evening Prayer on Sunday 4th August, where many from the village and further afield came along to join us as we worshipped God in the an - GRIFFIN’S GARAGE cient ruins of this Church. The weather • Servicing & Repairs • Diagnostics was extremely kind to us, and although • MOT’s (also arranged for trucks) many turned up with umbrellas, there was • Breakdown & Recovery Service no need as the sun shone, warming all who were sat in the remains of the nave. Once • Onsite & Mobile Service again we were joined by our wonderful • Cars • Vans • Plant •Trailers • Machinery local musicians who added to the historic • Collection & Delivery Available atmosphere leading the hymns with a folk band made up of a violin, traditional ac - • Loan Car, Van & 4x4 Available cordion and the rarely seen and heard 01985 840 800 www.griffauto.co.uk wind instrument called the serpent. They Hill Road - Sutton Veny - BA12 7AT really did add to the whole service for Page 4 around the apiarY
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Technology: a word that causes enthusi - list. Another factor for us is that our swathes of crops to rich dark soil and the asm or has the opposite response and fills tramlines are exactly 24 meters wide so crops start to germinate, look out for people with utter fear, the latter not we don’t get overlaps of seed, fertilizer those dead straight lines appearing (we being a good reaction in the world of and spray which makes savings on the hope) ‘down on the farm’. Kit Pottow agriculture. Those who think farmers are costs. yokel locals with a piece of straw hanging Wheat seed is planted on the DID YOU KNOW? from their mouths, wearing a smock and number of seeds per square meter and only just able to string a sentence that will change as the drilling season A local country man's midday meal. together, are living in a disillusioned moves on and the soil becomes cooler and world with a perception that is most wetter which affects the seed rate, so we Agricultural workers, who were working unjust (yes I do have conversations with will start with 225 seeds per square meter too far from home to return for the mid - people who have this outlook). in early October and by December it will day meal, used to take a large roll (similar Our industry is technology-heavy be 400-450 seeds per square meter after to a bagette) baked by Mr. White of Sutton both within livestock and arable. As we the maize has been harvested and the Veny. This roll was cut through the middle now concentrate on crops going back into ground prepared. Sat nav is also control - and a bit scooped out, then this was filled the ground (at the time of writing many ling when the seed is turned on and off. with a lump of butter and piece of cheese, of the crops are still in the ground) the When a ton of wheat seed is £400 it is and put together again. By lunch time, the tractors’ computers will be working crucial not to be wasting it! butter had melted and saturated the roll, overtime. Unfortunately there is still no con - so the whole was edible. Have you ever looked at the fields trolling the weather with technology, and Source in conversation with Maurice around you and observed just how despite there being a number of weather Coward who used to live in no. 44 Corton. straight the lines are in a field of crops? apps to follow they rarely coincide, so Barbara Saunt Satellite navigation (sat nav) will be the looking out of the window, sticking your largest contributor to this. Your car sat nose out the door and making phone calls nav accuracy is within about 3 meters; a to the neighbouring farmers to see what tractor’s accuracy can be within 2cm. In their opinion of what the weather is going a car you are responsible for following the to do, is still the most reliable method of instructions, in a tractor it can be steer - deciding when is a good time to fire up ing itself, as ours do. For us there are a the combine or forager, fit the drill on or number of advantages and from my risk the wind speeds for fertilizer and husband’s perspective, being able to eat spraying even for the most techno savvy your sandwiches and drink your tea while farmer. So, as we move into the autumn driving along is fairly high on the priority months and the fields turn from golden
At the licensing of the new priest in to appear from nowhere, as if he'd flown charge, Trudy Hobson, the bell tower in in, although we know he'd had to climb 44 the church was graced with the presence steep, winding stairs, and he took the big of the Bishop. Apparently it is not the first bell too! His presence was unexpected time the Bishop has graced a bell tower but very welcome. with his presence. In this case, he seemed Page 6 the LaSt meSSY church of the SchooL Year
liquids creeping between beakers. Colours people got bigger and bigger, and still the mixed together make it far more fun and eggs sat whole. “Take the lids off!” So we colourful. We stepped into paint and did and everyone walked again, some with walked along together so that we could shoes on, some barefooted. One egg was help each other along the way. slipped on and cracked open, which The sun shone for our opening game of A great deal of fun was had at proved they weren’t hard-boiled! But the football, and apart from the ‘obvious’ ‘Strong foundation Jenga’. On each of the other 23 stayed intact. We may expect stars, the girls and smallest people put up blocks were words characteristic of that something is impossible but we find, a good show. There were 11 goals and the Christians – love, gentleness, kindness, when we trust in God, that things we think score couldn’t have been closer. forgiveness, meeting together, and are impossible, are possible with God. Our We then talked about how we are praying for one another. As we took the togetherness is based on our relationship all together like a body: we are all differ - blocks away from the Jenga tower (and so with God. ent and all have a part to play. None of us removed some of these qualities), it At our time of Celebration we sang can think or say we don’t need anyone became more unstable, until so many had “Bind us together, Lord”, and gave prayers else. ‘The eye cannot say to the hand, “I been removed that it collapsed. We need of thanks for Messy Church before Messy don’t need you!”’ So we put together a the foundations of Christian character to Grace. Our BBQ included chicken, ‘cut-out’ body with different parts build the fellowship. sausages, kebabs, lovely salads and bread. labelled, such as preparing food, saying We were asked what we thought Pud was a birthday cake for Stu, who also prayers, playing games, helping with would happen if we walked on eggs. agreed to become a junior leader, so activities, listening and learning, tidying They’d crack, they’d break. Believe it or really a very good afternoon. up, being friendly, sharing equipment, not, we walked on eggs. Two dozen eggs If you would like to find out about showing kindness. We had ‘Walking sat in boxes and, starting with smaller us, call 850239 or check out https:// Colours’, and watched different coloured people, steps were taken on the eggs. The www.facebook.com/uwvtfamilies/
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Just over a hundred years ago a school middle were The Royal Field Artillery with Britain were fearful of spies. girl, Helen Mary ZwilSchenbart Erskin ammunition, who are stationed at But after all, this was a public parade. witnessed a march by the 26th Division, in Codford. They all had their bands, the Barbara Saunt July 1915. Most of this Division were Wiltshires and Devons having their brass (This gem of information was found at encamped around Sutton Veny and bands and the rest bugle ones." Warminster Museum at The Library) Longbridge Deveril. It took an hour and a half for the She wrote a list of regiments taking parade to pass her viewpoint, which was part in this parade: “The Cameronians, possibly in Bishopstrow. MONARCH MOBIlITY SCOOTER. The Black Watch, Argyle and Sutherland There were at least 11 military and lastly the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Each bands and the whole parade was lead by A Vogue red and silver four wheeled regiment had 'their pipes and drums General Mackenzie-Kennedy riding a white scooter/buggy. and played rippingly'. Followed by The horse. He took the salute by Christ's Under one year old, recently serviced. Cornwalls, The Devons, The Wiltshires, Church, Warminster. Does up to 20 miles distance at normal The Hampshires, and Berkshires, She was very lucky that this written pace, if you go faster then you use more Gloucesters, Royal Engineers and lastly observation did not come into the hands battery! Lights and indicators. The Oxfords and Buckinghams. In the of the police as Helen Mary was itemising Very sturdy and can go across country. the positions of regiments the enemy Contact ABS on 840339. would like to know about, and most of
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CODFORD bearings, new clappers, wheels and stays. Some grave records include The children of the Wylye Valley School additional notes about certain individuals THE BEllS OF CODFORD SAINT PETER came to look and be amazed by the bells, commemorated, not just those, such as as did many parishioners and villagers. William Cunnington, one of the earliest The ring of bells in St Peter’s began with The schoolchildren will be writing projects archaeologists, who are well known, but one bell in 1608. Three others were added on the bells next term. about the lives of ordinary people, like in the 17th century, one in the 18th and Early in September, the bells will Albert Sparey, our last stationmaster and one, the Memorial Bell for the men of return and be rehung in the tower - after Jim Kitley, a former Japanese POW and Codford who gave their lives in WW2, in many have again come to see them, we well-known Heytesbury character. We 1946. The four oldest bells are ‘listed’ by hope, in their pristine glory. Please look would much like to extend and widen the the Church Buildings Council as protected out for announcements as the date number of such notes for which we need ‘ancient artefacts’ and may not be approaches. the help of the families concerned. Any - substantially altered. Anthony Bainbridge one who may have relevant information Like all musical instruments, about their forebears is asked to contact church bells need care and attention, or HEYTESBURY Joe Charlesworth ([email protected] or their performance will deteriorate. Ours telephone 840184). have received none since 1946. The HEYTESBURY GRAVE & BURIAl RECORDS Responsibility for the project was Friends of St Peter’s having agreed to passed back to Joe Charlesworth as underwrite the majority of the cost, and At our PCC meeting on 22nd July, Joe Chairman of the Heytesbury Local History contributions having been gained from Charlesworth presented the Heytesbury Group. The documents need to be kept up several charitable bodies (including the PCC with a large box full of documents, to date and the project will eventually Diocese of Salisbury’s own bell restoration together with a memory stick containing include graves and monuments at Knook fund), the PCC gave their approval to a the same material in electronic form, all and the 9 stones at Tytheringon marking major programme of refurbishment. relating to the project to enable families the interment of ashes. So, down and out the bells came! and, on a restricted and controlled basis, Joe Charlesworth expressed his Starting on 17th June, they were lowered the public, to access details of anyone gratitude to all 16 members of the team from the tower of St Peter’s into the buried at Heytesbury. To date it has taken who helped, either in the recording and baptistery, rolled into the light of day on some 7 years, to transcribe over 7,000 photographing of graves or in transcribing Thursday 20th and taken on a low loader burial records, starting in November 1582, burial records. to the John Taylor and Co bell foundry at into single Excel data base and to record Loughborough. There, they are being the 430 graves (including stones marking PUB QUIZ refurbished, with new headstocks and the interment of ashes) in the churchyard and 21 monuments inside the Church. A pub quiz was held to raise funds for the Each grave or monument has its Parish News at the Red Lion in Heytesbury. own grave record containing details of The usual three teams who support most those individuals commemorated as well causes over the year attended this event, as photos of the grave and of relevant and although small in number the sum of extracts from the burial registers. Outline £121 was raised on the evening. details have been entered into a separate We need to thank Sam and Lorna section of the data base and will, in due for hosting the quiz and Martin our course, be integrated into the main one. fantastic quizmaster. • Residential property • Commercial property Each grave record conforms to a standard • Family • Corporate format extending to at least two sides of • Wills ,trusts & probate • Employment • Personal injury • Dispute resolutio n A4 paper, and each has been inserted into cellophane envelopes enclosed within 7 ring binders, colour coded according
CHIPPENHAM MAlMESBURY SWINDON TROWBRIDGE WARMINSTER to the section of the churchyard in which 01249 444300 01666 922671 01793 522688 01225 755621 01985 217464 the gravestone is located or if it is a monument inside the Church. Other folders contain photocopies of every page J & G Vehicle Repairs L td of every one of several parish or burial registers which, other than the current Stephens Way Warminster Business Park one, are held at the Wiltshire & Swindon Bath Road Warmin ster Tel:01985 216990 History Centre at Chippenham. The data base will be made Service and repairs to all makes of vehicles available via the Church Website so that those seeking information about their Specialists in 4X4 family members and forebears buried at Auto electrics - Air Conditioning Heytesbury can use it to access available MOTs:- information about them and their graves Class 1V (cars and light goods) or monuments. A fee, laid down by the Class V11 (vehicles from 3,000 to 3,500 kg) Church of England (currently £38 an hour Collection and delivery by arrangement of research, payable to the PCC), may be requested for this information. Page 9 ViLLage neWS
HEYTESBURY NORTON BAVANT THOUGHTS FROM SHERRINGTON VIllAGE HAll FUNDS OPEN GARDENS IN NORTON BAVANT I love these days at Summer’s end. This Many small organisations struggle to find in aid of Parish News morning there was the faintest breath of a suitable bank account these days and Autumn on the air. Then the sun came out money initially raised by local residents of The 13th June dawned cloudy and and it was gone, but the hint had been Heytesbury, for a Village Hall, were wet which worried the Parish News there. In the village the purple loosestrife ‘stuck’ in an HSBC account which had been Committee, as it could easily dowse the is in full flower on the island and lining the closed, due to inactivity. The Parish enthusiasm of people planning to visit two bank. Our hollyhocks are coming to the Council took action to claim the funds for stunning gardens in Norton Bavant. As it end, just flowers now at the top of the the village, so that the sum of £4596 did was, the rain stopped just before 6 pm plants though still visited by enthusiastic not disappear and the money could be and the village was bathed in the evening bees. We shall soon have a palisade of used for its original purpose. sun. That set off two jewels in Norton bare stalks as we leave them to seed. Any - It took nearly two years to secure Bavant’s crown: the gardens of Jon Royds one is welcome to take some seeds and I a new bank account, ring-fenced by the and his neighbour opposite, Jill Cowley. hope they grow! Scatter them at random Parish Council and at the recent Parish ‘Small but perfectly formed’ could and trust to luck. My three sunflowers Meeting, members of the public were describe these gardens but the sunshine flourished but could not match the height asked what was the best use of the money helped highlight the contrasting colours of the hollyhocks, however, the bees are to ensure that it was put to good use. there and the plants for sale between the visiting them too. Although there are no definite two added a green dimension, but which A vigilant person pulled up some plans for a new Village Hall at present, it held out the promise of so much more. ragwort in the churchyard, thank you. I was felt that putting the money The Acworth’s ‘mini-pub’ was the icing on know it is host to the cinnabar moth, but somewhere to grow would be ideal and it the cake and gave visitors a chance to we do not want it to get established here. was agreed that the money be transferred pause for sustenance. The churchyard is looking a little ragged to the Raymond Trust and invested in their Without the special support, now that the lovely crop of bedstraw has capital account, which will hopefully give however, of Norton Bavant Village, it faded; there was a show of yellow and it a chance to increase in value in would not have been possible at all. white, visited by bees and butterflies and readiness for any future plans. Without Jon Royds’ planning, organisation this of course is the object of a wild The Raymond Trust was set up in and very hard work over many weeks, and space. 1935 and managed the Raymond Hall in Committee members’ contribution on the Having enjoyed the Flower Festival Heytesbury which, in all respects was the day, it would not have been the success it in Chitterne Church I was saddened to Village Hall. This building was sold in the was. £275 was raised; quite brilliant. read that the door had been forced and 1980s and the proceeds were invested. Thank you, everyone. windows smashed. Hard to understand These are managed by the Trustees who that particular mindset. can at any time apply the whole or part of `Late one evening we caught sight the property of the Charity in or towards of the bustling rear view of a hedgehog, defraying the cost of providing land and the first sighting for a very long time. buildings for use as a village hall. from the regiSterS For a week in August there was a The Parish Council agreed to Pop-up-Shop in the village. Prices were release the balance of the account to the Baptisms not exactly bargain but the little cakes Raymond Trust for them to invest within We welcome into the Christian Church were delicious and I bought a beautiful its Capital Account. Elliott Jack Adrian Keehn bunch of flowers for the church. The For more information contact on 21st July at Sutton Veny shopkeepers Matilda and Poppy wore Heather Parks, Clerk, Heytesbury, Imber & Arthur William Robert Keehn pretty dresses and one wore a fetching Knook Parish Council. 01985 212340 on 21st July at Sutton Veny straw hat! [email protected] May they grow in the Christian Faith Trees were wonderful in the really Funerals hot days, cool, green shade, a benison. Amongst all the violence and gloom on Our sympathy and love to those who mourn the passing of media and in the press, I saw a welcome beam of light. It is an African initiative to Pippa Shorland create a ‘Green Wall’ across the Sub (Mrs Prudence Gentry) Sahara from Senegal to Djibouti in on 22nd July at Semington Ethiopia. It is of drought resistant trees Hilary Gibson and already 54 million acres of land have on 24th July at Sutton Veny been reclaimed. The result so far is com - Hermione Young munities can now cultivate, wildlife is re - on 31st July at Sutton Veny turning, and of course wonderful trees can May they rest in the peace and light of Christ go some way towards countering climate change. Please contact the Ministry Team to make E.G. MARTIN LTD arrangements for Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals, BL WESTBURY (01373) Confirmation preparation or Service of Prayer and Dedication after a Civil Marriage. When contacting advertisers please 822784 /864676 The clergy will officiate at any crematorium service. tell them that you read about them ! in the Parish News ! Page 10 upper WYLYe VaLLeY team
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[email protected] 840081 1st Tytherington 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) 11th Sunday Codford St Mary 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP with hymns) MINISTRY TEAM of Trinity Norton Bavant 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Sutton Veny Village Hall 10.00am Café church, breakfast from 9.30am Team Vicar The Revd Clifford Stride (days off Mon and Friday) Upton Lovell 11.00am Parish Communion [email protected] 850941 Heytesbury 11.00am Parish Communion Ordained Ministers with Permission to Officiate Sherrington 6.00pm Harvest Festival Evensong (BCP) Choir The Revd Diana Hammond 841185 [email protected] The Revd Jane Shaw 850141 8th Boyton 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) [email protected] Patronal Festival The Revd Jayne Buckles 851176 12th Sunday Sutton Veny 9.30am Parish Communion [email protected] The Revd Robin Hungerford 840522 of Trinity Codford St Peter 10.00am Sunday Celebration [email protected] Codford St Mary 11.00am Parish Communion Licensed Lay Minister Knook 11.00am Harvest Festival Choir Katherine Venning LLM 840283 [email protected] Upton Lovell 6.00pm Evensong (BCP) CHURCHWARDENS 15th Heytesbury 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Boyton & Corton Post vacant 851191 13th Sunday Codford St Peter 9.30am Parish Communion Codford St Mary Derek Buckles 851176 Codford St Peter Barbara Tomlinson 850156 of Trinity Norton Bavant Vill Hall 9.30am for10.00am Café Church for Harvest Alasdair McGregor 850073 Sutton Veny 11.00am Harvest Festival Heytesbury Tina Sitwell 840556 Upton Lovell 11.00am Parish Communion Choir Knook Michael Pottow 850776 Codford Village Hall 4.00pm Messy Church Norton Bavant John Acworth 840134 Edward Moore 840420 Knook 6.00pm Pimms & Hymns Sherrington Betty & Nigel Lewis 850496 Sutton Veny Brian Long 840352 22nd Sutton Veny 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Tytherington Caroline Lester-Card 840022 Upton Lovell Gill Boxall 851171 14th Sunday Codford St Peter 9.30am Harvest Festival Andrew Cumming 850834 of Trinity Tytherington 10.00am Sunday Worship Harvest Festival Boyton 11.00am Harvest Festival Choir LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Heytesbury 6.00pm Evensong (BCP) Codford Henry Collins 850193 Carola Puddy 850308 Norton Bavant Didee Acworth 840134 29th Upton Lovell 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Heytesbury: Roger Hammond 841185 15th Sunday Norton Bavant 10.00am TEAM SERVICE – Alison Tebbs 841192 Sutton Veny Judy Cooper 840953 of Trinity Parish Communion Choir Upton Lovell Sue Bray 850702 Codford St Mary 6.00pm Evensong (BCP) BELL RINGERS Nick Claypoole 850724 WEEKDAY SERVICES every week PARISH CHOIR Katherine Venning 840283 PARISH NEWS We welcome you to share in prayers for the Church, the Nation, the World, the Sick, and for others as well as ourselves. Editor Robin Culver 840790 [email protected]
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