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ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS, WITHYHAM iki98ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS WITHYHAM ALL SAINTS BLACKHAM SEPTEMBER 2016 The Dorset Arms, Withyham The De La Warr family welcome you to The Dorset Arms. 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Covering all types of building work. THE PARISH OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS, WITHYHAM withALL SAINTS, BLACKHAM Incumbent The Rev Canon James Campbell 01892 770069. The Rectory, Withyham, TN7 4BA Churchwarden: Mr Richard Carden 01342822491 Cat Street House, Upper Hartfield, TN7 4DP Churchwarden Mr Antony Cumberland 01892 864347 The Beeches,Stonewall Park Road, Langton Green, Kent, TN3 0HG Sexton&Verger Mr John Collins 01892 662389 9 Whitehill Close, Crowborough TN6 1JG LicensedReader: Mrs Elizabeth Parish 01892 864989 6 Lynwood, Groombridge TN3 9LX Licensed Reader: Mr Donald Yonge 07872529740 Organist: Mrs Sue Stone GRSM ARCM DipEd 01892 770978 Deputy Organist:Peter Ellefsen BSc CEng MIEE 01892 653965 Bell Tower Captain: Rosemary Russell 01892 610659 WITHYHAM & BLACKHAM PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL Hon. Treasurer: Mrs Anne Barker, 01892 661393 Hillside, Lye Green, Crowborough TN6 1UU Asst. Treasurer: Mrs Pauline Cremer 01892 663469 Pembury, Myrtle Road, Crowborough, TN6 1EY Hon. Secretary: Mrs Gilly Halcrow 01892 770607 Backshaws, Cotchford Lane, Upper Hartfield, TN7 4DJ Child Protection Officer:Mr Donald Yonge 07872529740 ALL SAINTS REPRESENTATIVE Mrs Sue Schooling 01892 740397 Other Representatives Withyham Flower Guild: Jill Pardey 01892 661882 Blackham Flowers: Sue Schooling 01892 740397 Withyham Altar Linen Diane Pedder 01892 770240 Withyham Church Caretakers: Diana Muckleston 01892 864410 Diane Pedder 01892 770240 Chichester Cathedral Link Rep: Sheila Jones 01892 864117 Website:www.withyhamchurch.org 1. CHURCH CALENDAR – SEPTEMBER 2016 ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, WITHYHAM Thursday 1st 10.00 a.m. Holy Communion Sunday 4th Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 11.00 a.m. Sung Eucharist 6.30 p.m. Evensong Thursday 8th 10.00 a.m. Holy Communion Sunday 11th Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 11.00 a.m. Family Matins 12.00 Family Barbecue, Rectory Garden 6.30 p.m. Evensong Thursday 15th 10.00 a.m. Holy Communion Sunday 18th Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 11.00 a.m. Matins 6.30 p.m. Evensong Thursday 22nd 10.00 a.m. Holy Communion Sunday 25th Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 11.00 a.m. Family Harvest Festival Service 6.30 p.m. Evensong Monday 26th 7.30 p.m. Harvest Supper in the Kings’ Hall Thursday 29th 10.00 a.m. Holy Communion Sunday 2nd Oct Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity 11.00 a.m. Sung Eucharist 6.30 p.m. Evensong Thursday 6th Oct 10.00 a.m. Holy Communion ALL SAINTS, BLACKHAM No Services in September Parish Registers for August 2016 Funerals On 10th August the funeral took place at Tunbridge Wells Crematorium of Patricia Mary Steadman, formerly of Motts Mill, aged 93. On 11th August the interment of ashes took place at St. Michael’s Church of Charles Justin Ewart Lyte, aged 80. Marriages On 30th July the marriage took place at Michael’s Church of William Patrick Brayshaw and Charlotte Antonia Measday. On 13th August the marriage took place at St. Michael’s Church of Charles Edmund Michael Rose and Nazaneen Ghaffar. 2. “LETTER FROM THE RECTORY” Dear Friends, Many of us are living longer than previous generations. Assuming that we continue to enjoy reasonably good health, will our latter years be ‘Indian Summer’ days or times of despondency, regret and introspection? A key to a fruitful old age is keeping active; some of the regular congregation of St. Michael’s Church, well into their tenth decades, are testimony to that. We shall do well however to better Evelyn Grant. She and her husband were missionaries in India between the wars working amongst five mountain tribes. She was widowed at the age of 50 and she was expected to return to England. However she carried on the work by herself until the age of 70. Her mission board then refused to allow her to stay on – at her age she was a liability – but at her farewell party she revealed that she had higher orders to follow! She’d already built a shack to live in. She had a horse that she rode on as she travelled from village to village sharing the Gospel. After five years, she fell off her horse and broke her hip. Her son, by then a world-renowned surgeon, said ‘Surely it’s time to call it a day.” She refused, and continued for another 18 years! Then aged 93, she could no longer ride a horse so some men in the village carried her on a stretcher as she continued to bring the good news of Jesus to the poorest of the poor. That lasted for another two years before she breathed her last. By this stage, all five of the unreached tribes and two others had come to a living Christian faith. Her son Paul, said of his mother, “This is how to grow old. Allow everything else to fall away until those around you see only love.” And as her grandson, Simon Guillebaud, himself a fearless missionary in Burundi, put it, ‘She died, but she never retired; Granny just graduated.’ It was Evelyn Grant’s strong Christian faith kept her going to the end. Can we say with St. Paul, writing to the Christians in Corinth, ‘Therefore we do not lose heart, though outwardly we are wasting away yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day’ (2 Corinthians 4:16)? James Campbell 3. Churchwardens’ Notes – August Time flies and it seems that no sooner than we had written the last notes then the next ones have become due. After a very successful fête at the end of last month, the holiday season is now in full swing. We hope that all of you who have been away have returned suitably refreshed. James , our new rector, and Mary his wife appear to have settled in at the Rectory, and we are happy to say that 'normal service' is being resumed! The family barbeque at the Rectory on 11th September, after an All Age 11.00 a.m. service, is the next date for your diaries, and we hope that as many of you as possible will be able to attend. Richard Carden and Antony Cumberland WITHYHAM PARISH VOLUNTEERS (WPV) For further information contact: Chairman: Steven James – [email protected] Secretary: Gail Clarkson – [email protected] Treasurer: Peter Lawne – [email protected] Withyham & Blackham Church BBQ The annual barbecue will take place on Sunday 11th September in the Rectory Garden, 12 for 12.30pm. The usual burgers, and sausages, salads and puddings, will be on offer plus the popular water slide and other activities. All are welcome – donations on the day. James & Mary Campbell WITHYHAM PARISH COUNCIL (WPC) – SEPTEMBER THERE WAS NO WPC MEETING IN AUGUST PLEASE SEE THE AUGUST MAGAZINE FOR THE LATEST NEWS OF WPC ACTIVITIES. Diana Kelly, Chairman: 01892 864557 4. YOUNG CHURCH 5. THE WITHYHAM VILLAGE HALL COMMITTEE PRESENT; “Now, just you hang on a sec!”….. An Evening of Fun and Word Capers Commencing at 7.30 pm on Friday 30th September 2016 Based on Radio 4’s popular ‘Just A Minute’. With Your Host, Stickerless Parcels. Come in, pick a ticket, join in, or choose the subject. Try and talk, and watch others try and speak on a given subject without hesitation, deviation or repetition for 60 seconds. Refreshments and Bar Sit at a table for a relaxed comedy club feel. Musical Interlude with The Treblemakers. Tickets- on sale behind the bar at The Dorset Arms, Withyham £5 6. FRIENDS OF CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL Forthcoming Events 9th Sept Friends coffee morning Vicars’ Hall Entry £1.50 10.00 a.m. Pay at the door 15th Sept Food for Thought: Jim Bourke Vicars’ Hall Tickets £12.00 Governor of Lewes Prison 12.30 p.m. Cash Bar Advanced notice of our other day trip planned for 2016-07-26 20th October Chartwell House and Gardens For further information, please contact Marianne by email: [email protected] or call her on 07584493988 The full calendar of events is on the notice board at our Churches but of special note is an exhibition 'SHADOWS of the WANDERER' to Monday, 14th November by the internationally famous artist and sculptor, Ana Maria Pacheco. The outstanding, and thought provoking, sculptures present ten over life-size darkly robed figures as they witness the struggle of a young man to carry an older man on his shoulders and they speak strongly of current issues and the plight of refugees. I know it's a long way to our Cathedral but I feel sure the effort of getting there for any reason would be well rewarded.