Stephen Writes…

FROM THE EDITOR

I’ve just finished reading Treasures in the Snow by Patricia St John to my children. I wish I had read this book a few years ago. Perhaps I may have been a more patient mother! Patricia explains beautifully within this fictional narrative about a little Swiss family, how our sins can be cast out when we let Jesus in and how good VICAR: The Rev Stephen Bowen things can come out of bad, so if The Vicarage, Felbridge, Stephen’s words on page 4 have got West Sussex RH19 2QT you thinking, then this is definitely a Tel: 01342 321524 book worth reading if you want to Fax: 0870 9156268 understand things in simple terms. [email protected] My first day at school started last

Vicar’s day off: Thursday week! It was very daunting walking through the tall barred gate, feeling the ASSOCIATE MINISTER: gaze of unknown eyes upon me as I Michael Peach fumbled with the latch. (Well there 5 Burns Way, East Grinstead, was probably no-one really watching, West Sussex RH19 1SA because they were all too busy Tel: 01342 312406 working!) It’s funny how we can [email protected] sometimes feel things which are Michael’s day off: Friday completely unreal, when we let fear take hold of us. Perfect love casts out all fear. (1 John 4:18) Sometimes we need to ask Jesus to help us see things Cover photo: as they really are. By the way, the Bales of Straw. excellent behaviour of the children and their enthusiasm for learning was very Taken by Gordon Wilkinson, in encouraging. I’m really looking Cambridgeshire forward to returning to school next week! Lindsey Saunders

NOVEMBER: Articles for this Issue to be handed in by SUNDAY 16TH OCTOBER Please e-mail your articles to [email protected], put them in the editor’s pigeon hole in the church entrance, or post them to Lindsey Saunders at The Bungalow, Saint Hill Farm, Saint Hill Green, East Grinstead, RH19 4NG.

STEPHEN WRITES…

Booting yourself up

DEAR FRIENDS, It is not so easy to do. In fact, when you put it like that, you can see that it Many of the words that are used in the is impossible. world of I.T. are very strange. Nobody had time to stop and think about the But that is exactly how our spiritual terminology they were inventing - they condition is diagnosed by the Bible. had new concepts to express and they ‘Dead in your transgressions and sins’ just went for the best words that came is what it says in Ephesians 2:1. into their heads. And Jesus used similar terminology One might be tempted to imagine that (see Luke 9:60, for example). they were all nerds and geeks anyhow and however long they had taken, they On three occasions in the gospels we probably wouldn’t have come up with are told of amazing miracles when anything better - but that is just unkind Jesus brought dead people back to life. There was a widow’s son from a place prejudice! called Nain, there was the daughter of One of the earliest words they coined a synagogue ruler called Jairus, and was ‘booting up’ a computer. I believe there was his friend Lazarus. it derives from the fact that they found a way to make the computer get itself And that is our hope! That Jesus who going - to lift itself up by its own could do that with physically dead people was showing that that was what bootstraps. he could do with us who are dead That is of course something that is towards God. proverbially impossible to do. And what they managed to get computers to He can bring life to us where we can’t do - to get themselves going, loading bring it to ourselves. up programmes by themselves, Yours sincerely, performing checks and tests on themselves - was truly remarkable. Human beings tend to think that they can boot themselves up spiritually. That having been spiritually dead as far as God was concerned, they can decide to come to life. ‘I’ve had enough of being dead - I’ll resuscitate myself.’

REGULAR EVENTS

Through the week at St. John’s Sundays 8am Holy Communion on 9th & 23rd October 10am Morning Service 6pm Evening Service Tuesdays 1.30pm WI first Tuesday of the month in the Village Hall Wednesdays 2pm Watercolour on Wednesdays in the Church Hall

1st Felbridge ( St John’s) Brownies Thursdays 10.30am WIGS at the Old Pheasantry, Woodcock Hill (home of June Clark) 7pm - 8.30pm JAFFA Plus in the Church hall on 6th October Thursdays 1st Felbridge ( St John’s) Rainbows

1st Felbridge ( St John’s) Guides Saturdays 8am—9am Prayer breakfast on 1st October 8.30—10am Men’s breakfast on 22nd October at 5 Burns Way

HARVEST FESTIVAL 2ND OCTOBER 10AM DONATIONS TO WELCARE

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Sunday Services 2nd October 10am Harvest Family Service with Stephen Bowen

6pm Holy Communion with Stephen Bowen 9th October 8am Holy Communion with Stephen Bowen 10am Morning Service with Stephen Bowen 6pm Evening Service with Don Ely 16th October 10am Holy Communion Service with Michael Peach 6pm Raise the Roof with Kevin Defriend 23rd October 8am Holy Communion with Jack Baker 10am Morning Service with Don Ely 6pm Evening Service with Stephen Bowen 30th October 10am Morning Service with Michael Toogood 6pm Evening Service with Jack Baker

Shoe Boxes Hats and mittens will be available in the hall on Family Service in October and for every Sunday in that month. Shoe boxes need to be completed for the November Family Service. Please speak to Daphne Ayerst for further info.

Sunday 9th October is World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. The Hospice has asked if we can remember them in our prayers. Full information can be found on the Hospice website along with information regarding all Fundraising events. HOSPITALITY SUNDAY 6th November Share a meal with a member of the Church family - spend time getting to know each other. If you would like to take part in this event, either as a host or a guest, please e-mail Chris & Lindsey @ [email protected] or speak to them at Church for further details.

IN THE GARDEN

Our biggest disappointment this year was the busy lizzies. I know many of you experienced similar problems so we have decided not to grow them next year. Lots of other plants did very well, AUTUMN is such a lovely season. hardy geranium Rosanne, the The colours are so beautiful but there argyrantheums E.C. Buxton and is still a lot to do and of course the Vancouver also cosmos, calendulars, days are shorter. It seems a race dahlias, cone flowers, rudbekia and a against time to get in the harvest of special mention for erodium. The fruit and vegetables, collect seeds erodium plant was given to me by a and cuttings, deadhead, compost, friend. It is a species of the large endlessly rake leaves, cut the grass geranium family, a perennial, very and get the hedges cut. hardy and it flowered non-stop The coldest summer for eighteen throughout the summer. I’m told that it years hasn’t helped. Our vegetables is easy to propagate them through root were not a great success although we cuttings – unfortunately not a process have had a bumper year for fruit. The in which I seem to succeed. Dahlias greenhouse tomatoes were early to can be lifted when frost blackens the ripen and good croppers but our leaves and stored in a greenhouse or outdoor tomatoes, against a south- shed, together with any pelargoniums facing wall, have been very slow to or begonias, over the winter. Similarly ripen. The large Italian ones were any onions can be lifted and allowed to disappointing but the Piccolo cherry dry off before storing. ones which we grew from seeds of It is a good time to cut back the tomatoes bought at the supermarket lavender, and thyme when flowering did well. Our three year old has finished. Only cut back the flowers blueberries eventually produced and partly into the green. Do not cut about 6lb of fruit. So, be patient - into the wood or you will probably kill don’t expect a crop in the first year as them off. You have probably planted it will take at least a couple of years your spring bulbs by now but it is not to reach their full potential. The too late and in fact is a very good time plums and damsons were great and for planting tulip bulbs. This talk of completely maggot free and this tulips already fills me with eager season we had our first crop of anticipation for the spring! conference pears from a small Maureen Reynolds minaret tree. 5

VILLAGE ISSUES

Felbridge and District Our Annual Meeting takes place in Horticulture Society October when the Committee and officers are elected. This will be There was an excellent response to our followed by a few items of Late Summer Show last month. The entertainment. hall was filled with flowers, displays, Daphne Ayerst and gorgeous vegetables plus tables of food and handicrafts. Other Issues Weather expert Ian Currie will be A reminder that when you are working talking to us at our next meeting on the in the garden do make sure that your 20th October at 8.15pm in the Village front door is locked and also that Hall. Anyone who is interested is expensive equipment is not left welcome you don’t have to be an Alan unattended. There has been a case of Titchmarsh to enjoy our evenings! tools and equipment being taken during reconstruction even though Plans are well advanced to celebrate workmen were coming and going. our 60th Anniversary in November – more details of this in next month’s If you are considering adding to your magazine. building do contact Tandridge District Council for planning rules. The It is hoped to establish allotments in Government are making reassessments Felbridge to meet some of the needs of of the planning system so you need to local demand. If you are looking for an be up-to-date. opportunity to ‘Grow Your Own’ or if you have vacant land which could be used for the benefit of the community please contact Rosie Archer on 311184. Felbridge W.I. We were very pleased to welcome a new visitor to our meeting who thoroughly enjoyed the reminiscences of a Scotland Yard Detective. He was a very good speaker who kept us amused with lots of tales of catching criminals. Please note that under Town and We meet at 1:30pm the first Tuesday in Country Act 2007 Class 3 only ONE the month (except for November when ‘For Sale’ sign can be put up on a the date of the meeting is the 8th.) Do property. come along. Ken Harwood

THE WEATHER FORECAST

NO matter how careful we are we Jesus warned us to be careful of can still get caught out by the the weather of sin and to note the weather. seasons of man. When the weather is fine, I love to He said that just as it was in the get out on the open road on one of days of Noah, when such rain fell my motorcycles and just enjoy the from a clear blue sky as to destroy freedom of the country lanes or, the world, so it will be on the day usually, further and further afield when He returns. along the South Coast. People will be going about I admit to being a ‘fair weather their normal lives, making only’ rider and the one thing plans for the future, maybe that I dislike is when I get miles planning and visualizing from home, the heavens open important family events, and down comes the rain. which will never take place. The curious thing is that I There is nothing wrong with watch the weather forecast planning such events and very carefully to ensure a looking to the future but we pleasant ride-out and adjust must never lose sight of the my route as necessary but, most important event which being stubbornly British, I find may come at any time, myself ignoring the information today!! presented! We should be on the edge of our Sometimes, too often if I’m honest, seats preparing ourselves for the I look out of the window and see most important of events; early sunshine and can’t believe that it will be pouring with rain later. Jesus’ return as King of kings. I convince myself, ‘They must have Even so, Maranatha, come Lord got it wrong – again – it looks like Jesus. it’s going to be a lovely day’. Amen.

I set off, get miles from home and John Dabell. down comes the rain!

LADY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP WITH FELBRIDGE GIRL GUIDES. Please contact Ann and Louise Tucker on 01342 317283 or by email [email protected] for more details of how you can help at our weekly meetings.

FELBRIDGE WILDLIFE

St. Luke's Little Summer to hold through the Winter. On Ashdown Forest, October THE first money I earned from pest brings the gruff bark of rutting control was a little pocket money fallow bucks. To watch one as he from killing 'cabbage white' stands, head thrown back, antlers butterflies on Dad's Dig For Victory touching his own shoulders, his allotment. challenge is an awesome call of the wild. As I write, another white species is abundant, the green-veined white To see for the first time a wild which obligingly has green veins on species of British mammal is the underside of its wings that may always exciting but occasionally or may not have a black spot. It flits incongruous. Such was my recent around the grassy meadows and view in Northern Ireland of a couple gardens of the parish and its larvae of Mountain Hares, which usually eat brassicas, wild or cultivated. turn white in the winter snow. This couple of Mountain Hares sat Butterflies are scarcer now and I beside a runway on Belfast City have seen only one painted lady Airport; the most flat, low lying, this season but, what was originally level area in the country. called a 'red Need I say that its other admirable' is name is the Irish Hare. still sipping nectar from our At Poynings a beautifully sedum flowers. camouflaged brown and green angle shades moth, Of birds, we disguised as a piece of bark, have a stock has allowed me to pop it into dove that calls a jar to appreciate how it is 'woo-oop', wonderfully made. 'woo-oop' from our Scots pine and the trees of Whittington College. A Traditionally the mid-October handsome pigeon in purple and weather is mild. St. Luke's Little bottle green, it mixes neither with Summer around the 18th gives us the ubiquitous collared dove (the a spell to enjoy the autumn colours one with the thin black collar) nor again. St. Luke always was a great the fat, vulgar, white collared wood healer. pigeon that calls 'Tak too coos Peter Bateman. Taffy Tak'. Young robins are practising their first song, ready to claim a territory 8

CURRENT ISSUES: SLAVERY

Exploitation in Bedfordshire puts slavery in the news

TV REPORTS of the arrest of four people are held by deception, with men charged with enslaving vulnerable threats of violence, for no pay—just people and keeping them for years at a subsistence food. Stories of girls that travellers’ site in Bedfordshire remind are sold into the sex trade are too us that this kind of exploitation is harrowing to repeat. closer to home than many of us would like to believe. Masud was 12. His parents were tricked into letting him be taken from Luis CdeBaca, who directs the US his home in Bangladesh to a new life in State Department’s Office to Monitor England. He left home with an and Combat Trafficking in Persons, unknown man who travelled with him told an audience at Harvard University to the South West where he was last year that 12 million people exist in abandoned in an Indian restaurant. To slavery worldwide. People trafficking survive he worked in the restaurant, is now the fastest growing illegal trade living in store rooms, sleeping next to and the way that most people are jars of chutney and bags of onions. enslaved. When there was no work he was forced to sleep on the streets. He was unable In addition to the kind of building work to attend school and his life was the Bedfordshire men were forced to completely controlled by the restaurant do, modern-day slaves could be the owners. workers who make our cotton shirts and blouses, pick cocoa for our When he was 28, with the help of the chocolate, and harvest shrimp for our charity STOP THE TRAFFIK (STT) dinners while imprisoned aboard ships he obtained identity documents so he at sea. Enslaved prostitutes—more than could return to Bangladesh and be 1.3 million worldwide—provide the reunited with his family. Masud is one labour force for much of the world’s of more than a million children that are sex trade. trafficked each year.

Mr CdeBaca told the story of Shyima STT, Tearfund and Anti-Slavery Hall, a teenager from a poor family in International are among many charities northern Egypt. She was moved by a fighting slavery and human trafficking. wealthy Egyptian couple to work in If we value our freedom, then we their California home. In exchange for should value that of people forced into up to 20 hours of work a day, Shyima slavery … please sign the petition at was locked in a windowless garage and St. John’s. paid $45, or £29 a month. Many young Gordon Wilkinson

YOUTH GROUP NEWS

Out of This World & The Rock

Out of this World and The Rock are our two new streams of children’s and youth groups on a Sunday morning at 10am. Out of this World is for children aged 3-11. We meet in the Church Hall, and after some activities and our Bible story, we then divide into three smaller groups: Stars (3-6 year olds), Comets (school years 2-4), and Meteors (school years 5 and 6). We aim to make our sessions fun, active and all about Jesus, as we learn together from the Bible. This term we are looking at what Mark’s Gospel teaches us about Jesus and what that means for us. We also have a supervised crèche for children under 3. These groups join the adults in Church towards the end of the service. The Rock is for young people aged 11-14 (school years 7-9). We meet most Sundays for an interactive Bible study where we chat, have fun and learn together from God’s Word. Usually we start in the service (sitting on a specially reserved pew!) and then go to the group during the second hymn. About once a month The Rock join in with main service, and on these weeks a short sermon guide is produced especially for members of The Rock. If you would like any more information or to join any of these groups, please contact Michael Peach on 01342 312 406, [email protected]. On the first Sunday of each month we have a Family Service at 10am, which is a short service for all ages. On the third Sunday we have an interactive Raise the Roof service at 6pm, with a practice at 4:30pm for those who would like to get involved in music, dance and drama.

THE WORSHIP SERVICE Raise the Roof is a fun, action-packed service, presenting Jesus’ message through music, dance and drama. The next service is on: Sunday 16th October Rehearsal 4.15pm Scrummy tea 5.30pm Service 6-6.40pm If you’d like to join in playing an instrument, acting, dancing or singing - young or old, beginner or pro - contact Kris Defriend on 01342 312788 or [email protected].

FELBRIDGE HOTEL & SPA JUNE EVENTS Big Band and Rat Pack Night on Saturday 26th November Relive the golden age of the big band sounds at The Felbridge Hotel and Spa! Dust off those dancing shoes and come along to our Big Band Night to jive, quickstep, foxtrot and waltz the night away or just sit back and enjoy the jazz, swing and big band classics made famous by the likes of The Rat Pack, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra guaranteed to get you ‘In The Mood’...... Enjoy a glass of Champagne on arrival, 3 course meal, live entertainment and a disco playing popular party music. Tickets to this event are £49 per person. Why not treat yourself and stay over in one of our beautiful bedrooms? From just £86.50 per person to include your ticket, overnight accommodation and full use of the Chakra Spa facilities. Or from £96.50 per person to include breakfast in the Bay Tree Restaurant as well. (These rates are per person and based on 2 people sharing a double room) *Book a table of 10 and receive one ticket free! *Book this event and receive 5% off your ticket price of any other event in 2011 (subject to availability). Offers cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers For bookings and more information please call 01342 337700 or email [email protected]

“Elijah” Mendelssohn Saturday, 29th October at 7.30 pm

Jubilee Community Centre

MISSION MATTERS

Scripture Union

THE Scripture Union is one of the nine charities and mission partners that are supported by St John’s, and Scripture Union information, including examples of the Bible reading notes, will be on the mission notice board at the back of the church during October. The mission statement for the Scripture Union is 'Using the Bible to inspire children, young people and adults to know God'. It aims for: every Christian to be engaging enthusiastically with the Bible and growing in their faith every church to be fully equipped to make disciples of children and young people every community to have a vital Christian witness to children, young people and families. At St John’s the following Scripture Union Bible reading notes are available every quarter: Daily Bread is practical, helping readers apply God’s Word to real life, Encounter with God provides a thoughtful and systematic approach, while Closer to God emphasises a creative and reflective journey through the Bible. I will be taking orders in November for the notes for the first quarter in 2012. (You can, of course, instead visit the SU interactive website WordLive – www.wordlive.org – a daily online Bible experience which you register for with a username and password). I started reading SU notes soon after I first came to St John’s 25 years ago and I have found the habit of regular and structured Bible reading a very important part of my Christian journey. I started as a fully grown adult but Anne had the opportunity as a girl to read the notes written for children and she describes what this meant to her in the next article. Gill Matson

MISSION MATTERS

‘Secret Service’………..

AS a child I had the huge remember it! I determined then that advantage and privilege of growing I would continue to have my 'Quiet up in a missionary family, so from Times', and for many years an early age I was used to a pattern memorised a 'password', which of daily prayer and Bible reading stored up a rich treasury of after breakfast and before bed, as Scripture verses (though I confess well as learning quickly that God I'm not so good at memorising was always ready to hear my now!!). prayers at any time of the day or Since that time it has become part night. of my daily routine, and I still use But it wasn't until the age of nine and value my Scripture Union notes that I discovered for myself the joy – having graduated through various of having my own 'Quiet Times'...... levels as I grew older! I admit it We were on leave in England, and hasn't always been easy - were spending time as a family at a boarding-school meant an early Scripture Union Beach Mission in alarm call and a torch under the Wales. The children were divided bedclothes; working days meant into appropriate age groups, and forfeiting a longed-for lie-in; and each morning we would meet up in often I find my thoughts wandering our group amongst the sand-dunes and feel I have gained little. (did we have 'proper' summers in But I'm so glad I established that those days?!) to read the Scripture habit which has come to mean so Union passage for the day with our much to me over the years, and leader, and discuss its relevance to which now I would miss so much. I our daily lives. would encourage everyone to make Then as now, the sessions were a habit of setting aside time each themed, with 'Secret Service' as our day to read God's Word, to pray topic, and each morning we had to and to listen to him. You may be choose a 'Password' from the surprised at the difference it makes passage – a short phrase which to our daily lives! was particularly meaningful – which Anne Butler we committed to memory. At any time of the day we could challenge (or be challenged by!) other members with “Psst.....Password” - and woe betide us if we couldn't

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Solar Photovoltaic Panels (Solar PV)

AS explained in the June edition we decided to reduce our energy demand by installing Solar PV panels on our roof. We used a local firm and they installed 8 panels on Friday 24th June. A summary of the power generated so far is as follows:

Week ending kWh generated Friday Target/wk Target Sum Actual/wk Actual Sum

01 July 54.0 54.0 60 60

08 July 54.0 108.0 53 113

15 July 50.7 158.7 52 165

22 July 47.4 206.1 36 201

29 July 44.2 250.3 52 253

05 August 40.9 291.2 48 301

12 August 40.1 331.3 44 345

19 August 37.6 368.9 44 389

26 August 35.2 404.1 28 417

2 September 32.7 436.8 39 456

9 September 31.9 468.7 24 480

Note - ‘Target’ is my assumed distribution of the annual expected kWh to allow for variation in the number of daylight/sun hours throughout the year. In eleven weeks the system has generated a tax free income of about £210 and has reduced carbon emissions by about 250 kg. If you are thinking about installing Solar PV then now is the time to do it as there are signs that the start up Feed-in-Tariff (currently 43.3p/kWh) will be 18

reduced for new schemes registered after March 2012. Our registration took three weeks, therefore installation should be completed in say February to be guaranteed the domestic rate of 43.3p/kWh (for systems up to 4 kWp) which is increased annually in April based on the Retail Price Index for 25 years. The PCC is also exploring the possibility of installing Solar PV panels on the church roof. A proposal has been submitted to the Diocesan Advisory Committee for their approval. The scheme is for 40 panels with an installed capacity of around 9 kWp, although the Feed-in-Tariff is reduced to 37.8p/kWh for systems with panel outputs in the range 4 - 10 kWp. Actual outputs achieved are less due to losses including orientation and tilt of the roof, and the inverter used to convert DC from the panels into AC and synchronise it with the grid. J Grainger

St John’s Church Quiz Night

Saturday 19th November 7.30pm-10pm At St John’s Church Hall, Felbridge Ticket Price £7.50 per person, teams of 6 (including Hot Dogs) Tel: Cecilia 01342 718441 Ann M 01342 714645 Drinks available from Licensed Bar Proceeds to St John’s Building Fund

BOOKWORM CORNER

BEYOND THE WINDOW FRAME—Prayers and Poems by Marie Birkenshaw £5, obtainable from A Rocha This is a fantastic book, which can be used either for personal times of prayer or for use during church intercessions. The prayers are conveniently organised into different themes from Confession & Servanthood to Power for God’s People. This is the first book of prayers that I have read in which the writing matches up to the writing of David Adam and Eddie Askew. As a homegroup leader and church prayer leader, I know I will be using this book extensively. The nature poems (located at the back of the book) are particularly moving and thought provoking. I especially like Rediscovering the Rainbow, which challenges our day to day lives. Lindsey Saunders

St John’s Church Christmas Fair

Saturday 26th November 11am to 3pm At St John’s Church Hall, Felbridge Tearcraft, Toiletries, South American handicrafts, Cards, Cakes, Preserves, Table Decorations, Tree Decorations, Needlework crafts, White Elephant and more Refreshments Proceeds to St John’s Building Fund

CHURCH FAMILY NEWS

Corrections On page 22 of the September Parish Magazine it says thanks to Brian and David Miller, but it should have been David Tuck. News and Thanks Ruth Esther Grace Peach was born on Wednesday 24th August at 7:20am, weighing 7lb 2oz. Daniel, Tom and Luke are very pleased with their sister too. Janet Starr would like to thank all those who sponsored her and Brian for the Stride and Ride. Along with seven members of Moat URC we went to Chichester and visited 17 churches, chapels, etc. on Saturday the 10th Sept. Thanks to your pledges we hope to have raised £100, £50 of which will come back to St. John’s. I took photos of the places we visited and the ‘collage’ Brian has made is on the church notice board. Harry Smith has moved. Harry has been a much valued member of St John’s for many years. He has been our oldest at 102. He has gone to live nearer his family in Cheltenham. We will miss his cheerful disposition and uncomplaining nature! His new address is available from the church office on 01342 321524. Many thanks to John Grainger for repainting the car park lines, a back breaking and tedious job! We are still waiting for the diocese to resurface it!

Welcome to Gaby, her address is available from the church office on 01342 321524. Do invite her for coffee or a meal and get to know her quickly as well as making her feel welcome. We are very grateful to the Mercers Company for all their kindness and assistance concerning this provision of accommodation and to Steve Brown from Whittington College for all his invaluable practical help and support too.

Thank you to Gordon and Brenda for editing the magazine last month. Lindsey would like to thank everyone who donated towards the cost of her college course. What a wonderful thing to belong to such a caring church family!

CHURCH REGISTER

Baptism Frankie Arthur Nicholas Treadaway on 4th September 2011 Funeral Henry James Symes (known as Harry) died aged 81 on 15th August 2011. The funeral was at Surrey and Sussex crematorium on 26th August 2011. Basil Sidney Charles Keen died aged 86 on 13th August 2011. The funeral was held at the Surrey and Sussex crematorium on 2nd September 2011 followed by a service at St John's church. The London Bach choir sang.

An Opportunity for Everyone …..! The Churchyard of St John the Divine is a precious open space for everyone in the Village of Felbridge, and not just for the Church. Now that it is closed for new graves, Tandridge District Council are responsible for its general maintenance, and they have done an excellent job with grass cutting and trimming of hedges. However during the course of the last few years, you may have noticed some edges and shrubs within the churchyard have become increasingly overgrown. The Autumn is a good time to clear out, and I would like to invite all residents of Felbridge and Church members to a Churchyard Clearance. I plan this for Saturday 15th October starting at 9.30am. Refreshments will be available during the morning, and if you have any gardening tools please do bring them along. In the event of inclement weather, the backup date will be Saturday 5th November. I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible! Peter Burton (Churchyard Gaffer) 322084

22 PEST CONTROL SERVICES Wasps, flies, fleas. All types of rodents and vermin 01342 321373

BUTCHER ARTHUR FRY, Lingfield Road, East Grinstead 01342 323225

CHIMNEY SWEEP MILBORROW CHIMNEY SWEEPS, ‘The Flueologists’ All Flues and Appliances Swept and Serviced. Pots, Cowls, Caps, Birdguards, Fireplace Repairs, Stacks Repointed 01342 717900

FUNERAL DIRECTORS R MEDHURST, Vine House, Hartfield Caring family firm; home visits; 24 hour service. 01892 770253 Memorials arranged: Golden Charter pre-paid Funeral Plans 01342 315880

GARAGE & CAR REPAIRS, MOTs & COACHES 01342 325544 Woodcock Hill Service Station, London Road, Felbridge 01342 326213

KOINONIA COUNSELLING Marriage problems, bereavement, depression, eating disorders etc Jackie Lake 01342 718948

TV SALES, SERVICE & INSTALLATIONS Panasonic Specialists. Plasma, LCD, Multiroom Systems, Aerial & Satellite. Scott Brothers, 178 London Road, East Grinstead. 01342 321117

CLARINET LESSONS Classical or Jazz, for pleasure or exam preparation Elaine Short CT ABRSM 01342 327563

GARDEN SERVICES Ron West 01342 712586

USEFUL CONTACTS

Churchwardens: Anne Butler 01342 313640 e-mail: [email protected]

Andy Brown 01342 314267 e-mail: [email protected] Treasurer: Chris Saunders 01342 325662 e-mail: [email protected] PCC Secretary: Sheila Drury 01342 323865 e-mail: [email protected] Magazine Editor: Lindsey Saunders 01342 325662 e-mail: [email protected] Cleaning Rota: Carole Grainger 01342 325482 Ministry of Flowers: Ann Morley 01342 714645 e-mail: [email protected] Church Hall Bookings: Sally Hobbs 01342 410929 e-mail: [email protected] Village Hall Bookings: Lynda Railton 01342 322205

CHILDREN/YOUNG PEOPLE ACTIVITIES Stars (3-6 yrs): Sally Hobbs 01342 410929 e-mail: [email protected]

Meteors (Years 2-4): Diane Francis 01342 714575 e-mail: [email protected] Comets (Year 5-6): Gaby 01342 302182

The Rock (Years 7-9): Michael Peach 01342 312406 e-mail: [email protected]

Parish Safeguarding Officer Chris Ely 01342 311614 e-mail: [email protected]

Rainbows, Brownies & Guides Ann Tucker 01342 317283 e-mail: [email protected]