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Charlton St. Peter, Rushall & Upavon TOGETHER Church & Village News 2019 Useful Numbers Doctors.... Avon Valley Upavon 630221 Durrington 653378 Cross Plains 652221 Salisbury Hospital 01722 336262 NHS Help Line 111 Police 101 Gas 0800 111999 Electricity 0800 0727282 Environmental Agency 0800 807060 Flood Line 0345 9881188 Plainwatch 01980 674700. [email protected] Upavon Link 07501004349 Durrington Link 01980 594857 Schools Rushall C of E Primary 01980 630360 Avon Valley College 01980 652467 Pewsey Vale Secondary School 01672 565000 Upavon Village Store & Post Office 01980 630268 WHO TO CONTACT: Team Rector: Revd. Canon Deborah Larkey (Day off Friday): Tel: 01672 851746 [email protected] The Rectory, Woodborough, Pewsey, SN9 5PH Team Vicars: Revd. Jennifer Totney (on maternity leave); Revd. Mark Windsor (Day off Thursday): Tel: 01672 564265 [email protected], The Vicarage, Wilcot, Pewsey, SN9 5NS. Curate: Revd. Dr. Colin Heber-Percy, Tel: 01264 731386 [email protected] Licensed Lay Minister, Anne Mantle. Rural Dean: Revd. Canon Gerald Osborne, Tel: 01672 563459. PEWSEY TEAM OFFICE: Bouverie Hall, Pewsey 01672 562221 Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 11am to 3pm; Wednesday 12noon to 3pm. EMAIL: [email protected] website: http//www.valeofpewsey.org CHURCHWARDENS Upavon Dr Bill Coker 01980 630803 Rushall Vacancies Charlton St Peter Mrs Rosie Cunningham 630321 Mrs Ali Lacey 630385 LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Mr Bill Bracher 630173 Mrs Caroline Larken 630432 Mrs Anne Prince 630008 UPAVON RUSHALL & CHARLTON LINK Link Line 07501 004349 TOGETHER MAGAZINE ADVERTISING AND REVENUE and items of news or notices for the next issue, contact the Together team, Tel: 01980 630023 or email: [email protected] by the 15th of the month, please. Please contact a member of the clergy to discuss Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals, Confirmation, the Blessing of your home, Service of Prayer and Dedication, Renewal of Wedding Vows. To visit in hospital, and the dying at home or in hospital. The clergy are here to help and serve, with our Lay Pastoral Assistants HOSPITAL VISITS - If you need a visit in hospital, or know someone who has been taken in who would like a visit, please contact a member of the clergy. HOME COMMUNIONS - If you know someone who is unable to get to church and wishes to receive Communion, please contact Bill Bracher on 01980 630173 and he will make arrangements for this to happen. TIMES OF WORSHIP St Mary’s Upavon St Matthew’s Rushall St Peter’s Charlton Level access, hearing loop 6 October 8.00am 9.30am Holy Communion Holy Communion 13 October 9.30am 11.00am 6.00pm Parish Communion Matins Evening Worship 20 October 9.30am 11.00 am Informal Family Worship Holy Communion 27 October 9.30am 11.00am 6.00pm Parish Communion Morning Worship Parish Communion WEEKDAY SERVICES: Holy Communion on Wednesdays at 10.00 am at St John the Baptist, Pewsey Morning Prayer Monday: St Peter, Charlton St Peter 7.45am Tuesday: St John the Baptist Pewsey 8.30am Thursday: no service Friday: St Mary the Virgin Upavon 9.30am THE CLERGY LETTER To you all, I’m writing this letter having just come from the service in Pewsey Fire Station to mark the opening of this year’s Pewsey and District Feaste and Carnival. A wonderful occasion (not least because I got to spend time in an actual Fire Station – a boyhood dream come true!) But I’m also writing this with my summer’s experience of working in West Africa fresh in my mind. A few weeks back in the UK, and it strikes me as temptingly easy to reflect on how different Great Britain is from The Gambia, to note how we seem to have so much, and they comparatively little. Immediately on arrival in the rural community where we were to be living, the British teenagers with whom I was travelling expressed surprise at the enormous role community played in the lives of the Gambians. Over the course of our stay, the young people noted how life in Africa is lived on the streets, in extended families, in one another’s homes; life is lived together: celebrating together, grieving together, partying together: united in a sense of shared identity. Here in the UK, we live – as if I needed to remind you – in a divided country, where people are all too quick to exaggerate what makes us different, what separates us from our neighbours. An Englishman’s home is his castle. By contrast, a Gambian’s home is her community. But it occurred to me at the service on Sunday evening how we shouldn’t always take the easy option and focus on the differences between our ways and theirs. Because what the service revealed was something we often overlook here: that this sense of community and shared life is also richly and vitally visible in Pewsey. Watching people gather for the service, old and young together, listening to the wonderful brass band, hearing about the amazing fundraising achievements of last year’s carnival, seeing children playing and chatting, boys managing impressive wheelies on their bikes along the street, the laughing, the singing, and the praying: how African it all was! We’re not so different after all. And thank God. The lines of Psalm 133, read beautifully by Pam Kimber at the service, rang true for all of us: How wonderful it is, how pleasant, for God's people to live together in harmony! It’s a message on which we would all do well to reflect over the coming weeks and months of political turmoil. But it’s a message that the community of Pewsey – like that of Gunjur in The Gambia – lives out and exemplifies, particularly at carnival time: that we flourish as God’s people together. Yours in Christ, Colin Heber-Percy From the Registers Baptisms Alfie Jack Potter Baptised on 11th July at All Saints, Stanton St. Bernard Penny Rose Winter Baptised on 11th August at St John the Baptist, Pewsey Alice Lonsdale Baptised on 24th August at St Peter, Manningford Abbots Fleur Coco Hampton Baptised on 1st September at St Mary Magdalene, Woodborough Agatha Primrose Curry Baptised on 8th September at Holy Trinity, Oare Gabriel Stamp Baptised on 15th September at St Matthew, Rushall Church Weddings Ray Strawson & Emily Hams Married on 17th August at St Mary Magdalene, Woodborough Mirza Datoo & Karen Green Married on 14th September at St Mary Magdalene, Woodborough Alex Wilby & Polly Ayrton Married on 21st September at St Mary Magdalene, Woodborough Funerals: May they rest in Peace. Michael Hocking Funeral on 11th September at St James Church, North Newnton Darren Rivers Funeral on 13th September followed by a service in St Peter’s Church, Milton Lilbourne Kathleen Clarke Funeral on 23rd September at Holy Trinity Church, Easton Royal COFFEE MORNING IN ST MARY’S CHURCH, UPAVON Everyone is warmly invited to our Coffee morning on Saturday 26th October from 10.00am to 12 noon. Please come along and enjoy a chat with friends and some lovely cake. We look forward to welcoming you New arrival! Jennifer and Chris wish to thank everyone for their good wishes, cards and presents following the birth of their daughter, Rosemary Grace, on Friday 30th August. Rosie looks forward to meeting everyone around the Vale soon! ST MARY’S CHURCH, UPAVON, SUMMER FETE 2019 UPDATES The church held its annual fete on 31 August and, despite a heavy downpour half- way through the event, a lot of fun and socialising was had by all and a healthy £1,998 was raised. Many thanks to all those who attended, helped and donated prizes towards the event. Photographic Competition Many thanks to everyone who entered our competition on August 31st. We had a magnificent display of photographs – the standard just gets higher every year. Well done, all of you! And, of course, huge thanks to our judge. He hadn’t even had a chance to unpack from his holiday before sitting down with the photographs, so that we could get them displayed on time. The competition raised £90 towards the church. Thank you everyone for your hard work and generosity. And thanks to the lovely fete organisers who worked long and hard to make it a thoroughly enjoyable event, even though the weather didn’t co- operate on the day. Joanna Goulson PS To anyone thinking of entering next year’s competition but might be busy when it takes place, you can enter your photographs any time from now on! Raffle Draw Result Here are the winning ticket numbers : Prize Prize 1104 1 £50 Cash 1330 Southern Comfort 2274 2 Champagne 1348 Indigo Antiques £25 gift voucher 1279 3 Cognac 1431 Divine Beauty manicure 133 Afternoon Tea.TEA Rooms Lacock 1566 Gordons pink Gin 181 Sunday meal for 2 The Shears 1582 Adot scarf 630 Sunday meal for 2 The Ivy(Calne) 1665 Katy's wash/cut/blowdry 1000 3 course meal for 2 THE SHIP @ Upavon 1671 Golfing Voucher 1075 75 piece stationery set 1805 GOA Balti £40 meal voucher 1226 Whatley's MOT 2098 Sara Willman My Flower Patch voucher 1294 1000 piece jigsaw We would like to thank all the prize donors, all the volunteer ticket sellers, and all those who bought tickets. Without your help, and support the GRAND RAFFLE would not have been the success it achieved. The GRAND RAFFLE raised £574.00. A huge thank you to everyone. THANK YOU ! Please note the following dates in your diary: 1. A Christmas concert in the church with the Pewsey Belles and the Sarsen Songmen at 7pm for 7.30pm on Saturday, 30 November. 2. The Christmas Fair is to be held in the church from 1.00pm to 3.30pm on Sunday, 8 December.