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Regular Village Events: North Perrott Monday Mornings, 10.30 – 12 noon, Coffee and Computer Club, NP Village Hall Village News Tuesdays—7.30pm - Bell ringing, St Michaels Haselbury Plucknett 1st Tuesday, 8.0pm, Acoustic Music, Play, Sing, Listen, Manor Arms N.P. May 2018 3rd Tuesday, 1.00 pm, Lighthouse Lunches, BCC 3rd Tuesday, 7.30 pm, NP and H Gardening Club, NP Village Hall 1st Wednesday, 7.30 pm, Haselbury WI, BCC 2nd Weds 7.30 pm, Plucknett Players, Enquiries P Brown, 73812. Alternate Thursdays, 2.30 pm Tea and Chat, BCC IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO ANY OF THE ABOVE EVENTS, GIVE THEM A TRY! YOU CAN BE SURE OF A FRIENDLY WELCOME. 12TH MAY MAY FAIR HP SCHOOL 18TH MAY TABLETOP SALE FALKLAND SQUARE FOR FULL DETAILS SEE INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES The next edition will be for June 2018 copy for this should be submitted to;- [email protected] by 20th May Please send articles/adverts for the Village News as email attachments. Please keep it simple. Use Word or jpeg formats. No headed paper. Do not send photographs, as these don't work on our printer. Keep to black and white print. Do not send anything containing colour, such as logos, adverts or copies of posters, as these do not reproduce well, and usually require a lot of amendment and time! Please don’t send PDFs, I can’t transfer them into the newsletter software. We want your pieces for inclusion to look good and we do our best, but please bear in mind the limitations of the available equipment. Please also check dates in your e-mails and/or hard copies are correct. Please do not wait for the deadline if items are available prior to that date as early receipt can help with production Thank you for your co-operation. Bible Christian Centre Village Services May 2018 Haselbury Plucknett NOTES: Unless marked BCP = Book of Common Prayer (1662), our Holy Communion services use authorised Common Worship orders of service in modern language. Minister: Pastor Andrew Harris – Tel: 01935 864414 Our Family Service is an informal service for All Age Worship. Admin: Paula Harris – Tel. 01460 73147 or 01935 864414 www.biblechristiancentre.org.uk Services for May 2018…. th DATE MISTERTON NORTH HASELBURY Sunday 6 May 10:30am Café Church & CREA’8 children’s PERROTT St Michael and activities. St Leonard’s St Martin’s All Angels Sunday 13th May 4:30pm Tea Church & CREA’8 Sundays 13th, 20th & 27th 10am Tea & coffee, 10:30am Celebration & Teaching May 6 May 9.30 am - 9.30 am XSTREAM (Sunday school) during the service. Easter 6 Holy Communion Holy Communion Other services and Community groups…. Monday – Friday 9:15am – 12:30 Oasis Coffee shop. Speciality coffees and teas, delicious Thursday 10 May - - 7.00 pm (Closed Bank Holidays: Ascension Day Holy Communion homemade cakes, tray bakes, savoury scones, Monday 7th & 28th May) toast and toasted teacakes. Photocopying and laminating service available. 13 May 11.00 am 9.30am 8.00 am Mondays (term time only) 10am Little Wrigglers. Toddler group. Contact Easter 7 Holy Communion Holy Communion Holy Communion Andrew / Paula Harris 01935 864414 BCP BCP Tuesday 1st May 10:30am Knit, natter & sew. 9.30 am Tuesday 15th May 1pm Lighthouse Lunches. Contact Robin Family Service Barnes for tickets 01460 74758 Wednesdays 10:30am Morning devotion with Communion th th 20 May 9.30 am - 11.00 am Thursday 10 & 24 May 2:30pm Tea & Chat. Contact Valerie Champion Pentecost Holy Communion Holy Communion 01460 72055 Thursday 3rd, 17th & 31st May 7:30pm Bible Study 27 May 8.00 am 9.30 am 11.00 am Trinity Sunday Holy Communion Holy Communion Holy Communion Fridays (term time only) 6:30pm SPLAT & JAM youth groups BCP BCP Sunday School SPLAT (school years R-4) JAM (school years 5-8) Saturdays 7:15am Spearhead prayer meeting 3 June - 9.30 am 9.30 am Saturday 12th May 7pm Cinema night 1st S after Trinity Holy Communion Holy Communion ‘But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.’ P L E A S E N O T E : F R O M M A Y (John 4:14) NEW SERVICE TIMES FOR FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH. TIME OF FAMILY SERVICE IN HASELBURY ON 2ND SUNDAY ALSO CHANGED. A while ago while looking at a painting in a local Church, someone asked me, “well, where did the resurrection happen?” I was left a bit speechless , as beneath the question is the assumption that the Resurrection was an event just like any other a sort of chance encounter that took place at a specific time on a specific date in a particular place. If smart phones had been invented it could have been photographed and posted on the internet. That really is not how the earliest witnesses speak of the Resurrection; in fact such is the variety of testimonies that it is just not possible to say there, that is the resurrection or that was where it took place. All the reports suggest that when we speak of Easter, of the resurrection of Jesus, it is so much more than a singular factual event in the past. The question what happened is far less interesting than what does it mean? And the answer is quite clear in the books of Scripture – Jesus lives and Jesus is lord. The first meaning – Jesus lives- is that Jesus was not simply a figure of the past but one who is experienced as a reality in the present. The second meaning is that he was experienced not just as a presence but as Lord, as one with God. This is different from the quite common experience that many people report of the presence of a deceased loved one. Such an experience might lead people to wonder if their loved one is in some sense still alive, but it would not lead them to conclude their loved one was both Lord and God. The Haselbury Plucknett Community Speedwatch team are Take the empty tomb – so beloved in Easter gardens in all our Churches; we may look recruiting. If you can spare just 2 hours each month, you can with wonder and curiosity about the story of the empty tomb, but if that is as far as we go, help make our village a safer place for everybody. it is nothing more than a strange event, a long time ago. If we approach these things more than literally then a whole new way of looking opens up – to the truth that death could not We know that simply by setting up a watch we will slow the hold Jesus, could not stop what he had begun and that same transforming presence has traffic and that’s our objective. Our presence makes drivers been experienced by people through history who find themselves invited to respond to aware of the speed limit and the majority of them respect it Jesus invitation that he comes to bring life in all its fullness. Resurrection, says Benedictine Anselm Grun, is becoming completely ourselves. when they see us. We’ll be at the May Fair again this year, so if you would like to With every blessing for the month ahead come and have a chat we’d love to meet you and welcome your Jonathan Morris feedback. Associate Vicar in Haselbury Misterton and North Perrott The Rev Jonathan Morris 01460 72356 [email protected] Smile lines Reader: Mrs Hilde Bucknell (76450) [email protected] My wife doesn’t really park a car...she abandons it! CHURCHWARDENS Haselbury: Mr J. Barnes-Yallowley (929535) [email protected] They’ve developed a new car...no clutch, no brakes and no motor. There’s only one snag. North Perrott: Mrs Alison Stevens (76214) [email protected] They can’t drive it out of the factory Tommy Cooper. Haselbury Plucknett WI HOSKYNS MEMORIAL HALL NORTH PERROTT Next meeting: Wednesday 2nd May at 7.30 pm Dates for your Diary th Our Annual Meeting & a debate on this year’s National WI Tea Party and Cake Competition Sat 16 June Resolution At the Bible Christian Centre, Haselbury Jumble Sale Sat 21st July Members’ competition: Spring Flowers. Judging is by donation of coins in aid of Irish Song Night Sat 15th Sept projects of the charity, Associated Countrywomen of the World. Female visitors and would-be members welcome. And come to our stall at the May Fair, where we’ll be selling goodies home-made in Haselbury. Details of above events to follow in next month’s Village News. The Hoskyns Memorial Hall offers excellent facilities and is available The resolution for the NFWI’s AGM in June is that mental health matters as much as physical health. We look forward to some serious discussion of the stigma, funding for hire. and other issues associated with mental illness. For information please contact In April we said, “Cheese”. Derek March spoke at our monthly meeting, taking us Enid Hawes 01460 74296 through the history of cheese, and offering samples of three English classics. That was our warm-up. A week later, generously hosted by Michael and Pam Thomas, we ST MARTIN’S CHURCH NORTH PERROTT - DATES FOR YOUR DIARY thoroughly enjoyed our Cheese and Wine evening, raising funds for our institute and for sponsorship of a floral display in Yeovil to celebrate the Somerset Federation’s centenary. Did we enjoy the evening more because of our knowledge? No, I think the FRIDAY, 18th MAY – TABLETOP SALE from 9am to 12.30pm in the Falk- enjoyment, as always, was down to a good spread and GREAT company.