The Magazine of the South Wye Churches and South Wye Rural Parishes Nov 2018 Volume 2 Issue 10 Price 50P
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The Magazine of The South Wye Churches and South Wye Rural Parishes Nov 2018 Volume 2 Issue 10 Price 50p HELLO AND WELCOME! I’m a fan of the differences between places and between seasons. The unique qualities which mean that you couldn’t be anywhere else. Often this is a unique smell. Many years ago I worked in Derbyshire and Burton on Trent really smelled of beer - of yeast really. When I get off the bus by my house in Kington, I can tell if it’s a Thursday - the house is next to the Auction yard and Thursday is fat lamb sales. And when I worked here in Hereford back in the early 2000s, at this time of year the whole city smelled like a warm apple tart as tonnes and tonnes of cider apples were brought into the Bulmers plant. Autumn and Harvest are not quite as easily marked today in the City, although if you look carefully - or sniff - the tractors and trailers of apples and potatoes are making their imposing way through the city again, joined by the occasional load of maize silage and the stock lorries heading to the last of the ewe lamb sales. By the time you read this, the season of Harvest Festivals and Suppers, will be over and we will be checking the oil tank and looking forward to the winter. First we will move through a season of memory and remembrance, from All Souls to Remembrance Sunday. The 100th Anniversary of the 1918 Armistice is being commemorated in many ways, including, locally, the traditional Acts of Remembrance at 11 on the 11th, a talk at Hereford Archive and Records Centre on The Poppy as a Symbol of Remembrance at 10.30am – 12.30pm on the 8th and the Field of Remembrance at the Cathedral. Details of times and locations are on the parish and Cathedral pages of this copy of Aspiration and Bishop Alistair’s letter on page 3 focusses on the Armistice. A new form of remembrance has emerged this year in the painted stones with images of poppies, that are being produced by local groups and distributed in order to be found and taken to war memorials for the 11th and a group at St Martin’s has produced 100 poppy stones. Remembering and mourning are important, but without our action today, we run the risk of failing to learn history’s lessons and condemning more young people to fight and fall on our behalf. The Remembrance Sunday service from Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, with the Royal British Legion contains the following act of commitment: Let us commit ourselves to responsible living and faithful service. Will you strive for all that makes for peace? We will Will you seek to heal the wounds of war? We will Will you work for a just future for all humanity? We will As individuals, as churches and communities, holding to these promises offers a chance for real, lasting and fitting remembrance, whatever the season. Anne CONTENTS Welcome 1 Contents 2 Letter from the Bishop of Ludlow 3 South Wye Rural: St Andrew’s Dinedor 4 South Wye Rural: St David’s Little Dewchurch 5&6 South Wye Rural: Peter’s Letter 7&8 South Wye Hereford: St Martin’s Events and Fundraising 9 South Wye, Hereford 10 South Wye Hereford: St Martin’s Ross Road 11 South Wye Hereford: St Martin’s November Diary 12 South Wye Hereford: St Martin’s Roll of Honour 13 South Wye Hereford: News from the Missioners 14 South Wye Hereford: St Peter’s Bullinghope 15 For Our Prayers 16 Acts of Kindness 17&18 Coffee Time 19&20 St Michael’s Hospice 21 Hereford Cathedral Diary Dates 22 Inspiring Churches, Inspiring Schools 23 Church of England News 24 Reader Contributions 25 World Church 26 Local Events 27 Advertising 28-32&35-38 Sunday Services 33 Meet the Team 34 Copy for the December issue of ASPIRATION should be sent to the Team Office by November 14th to [email protected] The magazine will be published on November2 21st Letter from the Bishop of Ludlow Anyone driving around the Counties of Hereford and Shropshire over the last couple of months cannot have failed to see in many different locations the black silhouettes of a lone soldier arrayed in the kit and uniform of the first world war infantry man commonly known as the Tommy. They are there because this year marks the centenary year ending the hostilities of the First World War. The words ‘Lest we forget’ have this stark visual reminder in addition to the more familiar poppy. It is important to remember that the ending of that war was an Armistice. No one knows for sure of how many casualties there were but estimates of around sixteen million are regularly quoted. There were no winners or losers in the sense of the victorious and the vanquished. It was a mutual agreement to stop fighting and so on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month hostilities ceased. For much of the twentieth century ‘Lest we forget’ had an obvious meaning in that for many the annual Remembrance Day had a personal link as it provided a way in which individuals could share publicly as the nation expressed its grief corporately. Certainly, after the first war the level of grief and family loss was extensive. Hardly a family in the land were untouched by loss. The Second World War was similar. Of course, we must not underestimate the way that grief still affects those who have lost loved ones in more recent conflicts or diminish the sacrifice they made. However, as we enter the second decade of the twenty first century what does ‘Lest we forget’ mean now? George Santayana (1863-1952) wrote “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” War may be unavoidable at times but it is always a failure. The lessons of war are surely to work for peace, justice and reconciliation and do all in our power to prevent it. As human beings we are capable of achieving great heights and sinking to abominable depths. Aggression and conflict remain realities. In our digital and cyber age it comes in many and various guises. It is a matter of history that narrow nationalism did not help the inexorable slide into the conflict a century ago. The right to self- determination should never be conflated with narrow self-interest. The pursuit of trust, truth and cooperation are as important now as ever. ‘Lest we forget’ surely needs to focus here as we look to the future. +Alistair 3 SERVICES on SUNDAYS at St Andrew’s Nov 11th 9:30am REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY Holy Communion with Rev Neil Patterson Nov 25th 9:30am Holy Communion SPECIAL SERVICES ELSEWHERE SUNDAY Nov 4th 11am St David’s Little HARVEST OFFERINGS Dewchurch. Peter’s Farewell Service. Collection at service for St Andrews Everyone welcome. Followed by lunch in £176.52 the Village Hall (by invitation only). Money raised by auction sale of Please contact Joan harvest display items to be sent to [email protected] or 840443 to Ordinand Vincent Kiolo in Tanzania book or offers to help. £110.50 WEDNESDAY Nov 14th 3:30- 6pm at Profit from lunch to be sent to Little Dewchurch Village Hall MESSY TEARfund, a Christian charity working worldwide to alleviate CHURCH for families. poverty and help communities Dates for your diary! become self-sustainable Sunday Dec 16th 6pm Carol service £177.78 followed by seasonal refreshments Thanks everyone for your generosity! Sunday Dec 23rd 9:30am Holy Communion with Bishop Richard REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT MEETING! VACANCY CONSULTATION PROCESS Saturday morning November 24th 9:30-12:30 Little Dewchurch village hall with Rev John Daniels This meeting is for everyone, especially those on the electoral roll of St Andrews and anyone else interested. The matters discussed at this meeting will make a major contribution to producing a Parish Profile and Statement of Needs, an important part of 4 SERVICES in NOVEMBER and early DECEMBER All at 11am St David’s unless stated otherwise SUNDAY Nov 4th SPECIAL FAREWELL CELEBRATORY SERVICE for Rev Peter followed by lunch in the Village Hall (by invitation only). Please contact Joan [email protected] or 840443 to book or offer to help. SUNDAY Nov 11th REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY with Rev Neil Patterson WEDNESDAY Nov 14th 3:30-6pm in Village FLICKS IN THE STICKS Hall MESSY CHURCH Theme: Listening and Friday November 7 for7:30pm learning ‘The Guernsey Literary and SUNDAY Nov 18th Holy Communion (Book of Potato Peel Society’ Common Prayer) Little Dewchurch Village Hall SUNDAY Nov 25th Holy Communion Entrance fee £4.50 SUNDAY Dec 2nd Special Advent service REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT MEETING! VACANCY CONSULTATION PROCESS Saturday morning November 24th 9:30-12:30 Little Dewchurch village hall with Rev John Daniels This meeting is for everyone, especially those on the electoral roll of St David’s, and anyone else interested. The matters discussed at this meeting will make a major contribution to producing a Parish Profile and Statement of Needs, an important part of advertising for Rev Peter’s replacement. 5 LITTLE DEWCHURCH SCHOOL St David’s church was packed on Monday morning 8th October with children and their relatives for the school harvest service. Every class in Our theme for our October session was the school contributed an item and ‘Safe and Sound’ where we focussed spoke and sang well. Children were on the story of the lost sheep being also very generous in bringing gifts of found by the Good Shepherd.