ISSUE 642 BARNHAM BROOM and MARCH 2020 UPPER YARE GROUP NEWS Our prayers and best wishes go to all those in our group of villages who have health difficulties at this time. A warm welcome to all newcomers to any of our seventeen villages. (Total villages on Page 6!) Our new Lord Bishop Graham Usher of Norwich Mothering Sunday, will be meeting mid-Norfolk parishoners Sunday March 22nd at 11am: at St Nicholas' church, Dereham on March 11th at 7.30pm. All welcome. There are two services, one at Whinburgh church This year's & another at Cranworth church GROUP SERVICES on Sunday at 10am: with the Choir. LENT COURSE ♫ St. Botolph’s church, Barford will run for on March 1st six Wednesdays th What’s inside? Page with a guest speaker from the starting on March 4 National Churches Trust. in Garvestone Chapel by kind permission of our Parish Council 4 March 29th at St. Margaret’s, Methodist friends. It is entitled ’Superstar’ Southburgh Church 3 & 7 Garvestone and and uses themes from Hardingham Permissive St. Mary’s, Cranworth the Jesus Christ 10 Access on April 5th. Superstar stage and film, to invite exploration of Mobile Library Visits 23 Everyone is very welcome aspects of the at all the services. Christian Life. Service Grid 24 (See page 5) THE CLOSING DATES FOR THE APRIL 2020 ISSUE ARE: Adverts by March 4th; News by March 6th. Group News is produced and delivered to your door by volunteers. THANK YOU to all the Group News Deliverers. MINISTRY TEAM Rector: Rev. Dr. Tim Weatherstone, The Rectory, Reymerston NR9 4AG [email protected] 01362 858021 Assistant Priest: The Venerable Arthur Hawes 01362 822441 Assistant Curate: Rev. Dr. Louisa Pittman, The Vicarage, Honingham Road, Barnham Broom, NR9 4DB 01603 759641 Email: [email protected] Reader: Roger Walpole, 1 Woodfarm Cottages, Reymerston, NR9 4QZ 01362 820284 GROUP OFFICERS Group Office: The Rectory, The Street, Reymerston, NR9 4AG [email protected] 01362 858021 Group Treasurer: Adrian Rodford, Church Barn, Southburgh, IP25 7TF 01362 822186 Lay Chairman: Philip Richardson, 16, Vicar Street, Wymondham, NR18 0PL 01953 607564 Website: www.groupof15.org.uk F Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/Groupof15/ Twitter link https://twitter.com/groupof15 GROUP NEWS EDITORIAL TEAM p Rev. Dr. Tim Weatherstone, Rev. 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Cheques should be made payable to Group News. Please See page 3. Any views expressed in Group News are not necessarily those of the publishers or the editorial team. Whilst every effort is made to ensure accuracy, we cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions. Group News accepts advertisements in good faith and we cannot guarantee the goods or services offered by advertisers. GROUP NEWS IS PRINTED BY: Reflex litho ltd, THETFORD, ip24 1HG. 2 The Editorial is written by Rev. Dr Louisa Pitman: Right now, we are in the middle of the season of Lent. Most people associate this season in the Church’s calendar with giving something up. We might try to curb our sweet tooth with a ban on chocolate, for instance, or sign off social media for a little while and put down our phones. This isn’t necessarily a bad practice… Occasionally doing without some luxury can help us remember that it really is a luxury and we shouldn’t take it for granted. We can very quickly forget this if we have easy and unrestricted access to pretty much anything we want any time. But this association with self-denial can make Lent seem like a rather negative season that no one looks forward to very much. These days, society generally forgets about Lent and carries on as usual, looking forward to spring and starting to think about what to plant in the garden. But I think when we set Lent aside as too depressing or too austere, we miss an important opportunity. The original point of this season was a reminder to Christians that we regularly need to step away from all that distracts us, and diverts our attention and refocus on God, the source of our life and our hope. We set aside luxuries, not because they are bad or wrong in themselves, but because they can often be the distractions we need to get away from for awhile in order to do this. And for this season, for these forty days, we have an opportunity not just to get away from distraction but by doing so to turn our attention back to the God who is always ready to welcome us. And when we do that, we can gain so much - a reminder that we’re not alone and a source of hope when life seems at its darkest. Here at the end of winter with the signs of the coming spring starting to appear, Lent is our reminder that there is no better opportunity to turn our attention back to God as we look forward to the promise that comes with Easter. READINGS IN OUR CHURCHES MARCH YEAR A HOME GROUP MEETING st Sunday 15th March Sunday 29th March Sunday 1 March Thursday March 26th at 1st Sunday of Lent 3rd Sunday of Lent 5th Sunday of Lent Lectionary page 94 Lectionary page 101 Lectionary page 117 The Rectory, Reymerston. 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Signature:___________________________________________ Date: _________________________________ 3 PARISH COUNCIL NEWS VILLAGE HALL CONTACTS Dates and agendas are displayed on the website Thinking about booking a village hall and noticeboards in the villages. All our meetings are for your event? Here are the booking clerks: held in the public and there is time at every meeting for Barford & Wramplingham. members to raise any issues they have. Booking Clerk: Fran / Norman Cox Tel: 01603 759667 Whinburgh & Westfield Parish Council.