The Parish Magazine of Badshot Lea and Hale
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THE PARISH MAGAZINE OF BADSHOT LEA AND HALE Serving the villages of Badshot Lea, Hale, Heath End and Weybourne The churches of St George’s, St John’s and St Mark’s Issue November 2020 241 Prayer A Prayer for November Lord of heaven and earth, as Jesus taught his disciples to be persistent in prayer, give us patience and courage never to lose hope, but always to bring our prayers before you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Acknowledgements: Prayer: CofE; Photo: Red hot pokers above Sandy Bay (LS 10/2020) 2 Contents November Prayer 2 Letter from the Ministry Team 4 The Church and Covid update 5 Jeremy Hunt writes 7 Farnham Festival of Remembrance 9 Badshot Lea War Memorial names 10 Art and Craft Fair 14 Page 7 Watch your Waste! 16 Write to your MP about the environment 21 Foodbank 26 Beacons of Light 27 New PCC and help needed 28 Church Registers , Children’s Society Page 27 and Toddler Service 29 The Church Cat 30 Farewell and a recipe 31 Citizens Advice 32 Project Wenceslas 33 Who’s Who 35 Where are the churches? 36 Page 31 The deadline for the December/January issue of the magazine is Sunday, November 15. For editorial and advertising contact: Front cover: Cllr Pat Evans, Mayor of Stella Wiseman Farnham, and Finn and Megan, year eight pupils from Farnham Heath End [email protected] School, lay wreathes for Remem- 07842 761919 brance at St John’s. 3 From the Ministry Team A season of remembering Alan Crawley considers remembrance in this time of Covid Jesus said: No one has greater love wards in- than this, to lay down one’s life for person one’s friends. events in a way which This year we have seen people who loves and have laid down their lives serving us keeps safe during these times of Covid, not just the living medical staff, but those supplying and it looks food and other essentials. as if we can In early November we remember have a small ceremony out of doors those who have died fighting for but please keep an eye on the web- their country. site. This year we are limited in what we However, it is right and proper that can do to mark Remembrance Sun- everyone’s health should be taken day publicly. We are working to- into consideration when these deci- 4 sions are being made, and we need safe – not ourselves – so please do to care for our fellow citizens and not make decisions that don’t show make the requested sacrifices to that love for the other. keep them, and us, safe. In recognition that remembering the Remembering the dead is important, dead is important, regardless of but so is loving the living. Whilst you whether we can meet in person, we may be willing to risk your own will be offering online services on health, the loving thing to do is not our website, including video of the to risk other people’s health. Most of three war memorials in the parish: the things that the government are Hale, Badshot Lea and Weybourne. asking us to do (for example the wearing of masks) are to keep others Alan The Church and Covid update Following the Government’s announcement at the end of October that Eng- land is going in to a second national lockdown, there will be no services in the church buildings until further notice. The churches will, however, be open for private prayer at different times. Look out for notices. And, of course, there will also be online services every Sunday on our website: badshotleaandhale.org/2020/09/10/join-in-worship-here/ We know what a difficult time it is for everyone at the moment. If you are finding life tough, please don’t bottle it up but get in touch. Or if you have ideas you’d like to share about coping in lockdown, again, get in touch. You can do so via our website or by emailing [email protected],or contacting the clergy, Alan and Lesley Crawley: 01252 820537 or [email protected] or [email protected] 5 6 Jeremy Hunt From your MP Jeremy Hunt, MP, is going to write a short column for the magazine each month. Here he considers Remembrance This year's Remembrance Services up and down the country will be different to previ- ous years due to the pandemic. However, despite fewer numbers in attendance due to social distancing restrictions, we will still remember those who sacrificed their lives for our nation. One of the good things to come out of the pandemic is the increased knowledge and 01428 609416 (the office is currently closed use of technology to enable us to communi- to visitors but please leave a message and cate - with many of us now well versed in someone will return your call at the earliest using Zoom, MS Teams or Skype to name a opportunity). I also keep in touch with a few. These systems this year will allow many twice weekly email about local and national of us to join together to remember the brave issues so let me know if you would like to men and women to whom we owe our liber- receive it. ty. I have been honoured and delighted to do my part, alongside many others, for In the meantime, in this month of Remem- the virtual Farnham Festival of Remem- brance, let us not forget that however tough brance organised by Badshot Lea and Hale. our struggles are today, previous genera- tions had to fight even bigger battles - and Moving forward, I very much hope to be able we are hugely in their debt. to contribute a regular article to the maga- zine. As your local MP, I am here to help and Best wishes provide advice, guidance and champion local causes. If you have any issues that you Jeremy would like to raise with me, please contact me on [email protected] or telephone 7 John Marlor M.Ch.S D.Pod.S ADVERTISE IN THIS ‘JOHN THE FOOTMAN’ MAGAZINE! 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Simon Alexander has organised the There had been plans to repeat this event and reminds us that while we enormously successful festival in St understand that Remembrance is a John’s Church this month but Covid has time to pay tribute to all those who put paid to that. That hasn’t stopped serve and have served to protect and us of course and people have been defend us, that “War comes in many generous with their time and skill and forms and, as such, the public service have been recording themselves sepa- of our Armed Forces comes in many rately so that Alan and Lesley Crawley forms too. This year we have leant on can put it all together. the help of our military again in our Among those who are taking part are time of need here at home to help us Jeremy Hunt, MP; the Mayor of Farn- deliver essential services during the ham; Farnham Brass Band; Olivia Jas- pandemic. Dedicated, agile and re- per; Sara Burnie from the Waverley sponsive as ever, the men and women Singers; Sarah, Howard and Grace Kay; of our Armed Forces have responded Jonathan Jones; Royal British Legion; to our nation’s call.” Princess of Wales Royal Regiment; Sea, Our thanks go to everyone who has Army and Air Cadets; local schools and taken part. Please do watch the Join us local faith leaders. They will present a online for this year’s Farnham Festival moving event comprising music, po- of Remembrance from 6pm on Novem- ems, reflections, prayers, hymns and ber 7 at www. readings which will pay tribute to all badshotleaandhale.org/2020/11/07/ those who have served in times of con- farnham-festival-of-remembrance-2/ 9 Remembrance Behind the names Just about every town and village has its war memorial. These days they can seem just lists of names, some perhaps familiar if families have been in the area for gen- erations, but lists from long ago. It is easy to forget that these were real people, many of them very young, who died, often in horrific circumstances, fighting for their country. Sometimes we know something about the people named. Recently local historian Maurice Hewins sent us a list of the war dead of Badshot Lea with details which do something to flesh out those names. Maurice’s fascinating book Farnham in the Great War has just been published by the Farnham and District Museum Society and a review will appear here next time. (You can buy it directly from Maurice by calling him on 01252 329302).