CHURCH & VILLAGE A monthly newsletter for the parishes of Chilmark and Fonthill Bishop with Berwick St. Leonard in the Benefice of Nadder Valley (Team Ministry) St. Margaret of Antioch Chilmark All Saints Fonthill Bishop St. Leonards Berwick St. Leonard February 2014 No. 205 BENEFICE OF NADDER VALLEY (TEAM MINISTRY) TEAM CLERGY Rev’d Dr Graham Southgate, (Rector). The Rectory, Shaftesbury Road, Fovant, SP3 5JA 01722 714826 Parish Priest Responsibility for Ansty, Fovant, Sutton Mandeville and Swallowcliffe Email: [email protected]. Rev’d Andrew Staley, The Rectory, Park Road, Tisbury SP3 6LF (Team Vicar) 01747 870312 Parish Priest Responsibility for Tisbury, Hindon w ith Chicklade and Pertwood. Fonthill Bishop w ith Berw ick St Leonard, and Fonthill Gifford. Email: [email protected] Rev’d Jane Tailby, The Vicarage, 11a Tyndale’s Meadow, DintonSP3 5HU (Team Vicar) 01722 717883 Parish Priest Responsibility for Barford, Baverstock, Compton Chamberlayne, Dinton, Chilmark, Teffont Evias, and Teffont Magna. Email: [email protected] LICENSED LAY MINISTERS Miss Judy Anderson, 29 Brook Close, Tisbury SP3 6PW 01747 873142 Mrs Thelma Caughey, Steeple Close, High Street, Hindon SP3 6DJ 01747 820840 PARISH CENTRE Miss Kate Prior, Hinton Hall, Church Street, Tisbury SP3 6NH 01747 871697 (Office open 10.00 am to 12.00 noon) Email: [email protected] TEAM ADMINISTRATOR Mrs Carol Sayes, Cleeve Hill, Vicarage Road, Tisbury SP3 6HZ Email:[email protected] 01747 871805 CHURCHWARDENS Chilmark: St. Margaret of Antioch Fonthill: All Saints with Berwick St. Leonard Mrs Stephanie Lucas 01722 716463 The Hon. Mary Morrison 01747 820231 Mrs Jane Middleton 01722 716231 CHURCH & VILLAGE NEWSLETTER TEAM Editor Mike Scott, Blakeney Cottage, 2 The Reeds, Salisbury Road, Chilmark SP3 5BD 01722 716971 Email:[email protected] or [email protected] Publicatiom cut-off date: 20th of theMonth except December w hen it is the 10th Sub-Editor Mr Tom Weir, 10 Hops Close, Chilmark SP3 5BD 01722 716584 Email: [email protected] Distribution: Mrs Stephanie Lucas (Chilmark) 01722 716463 Jo Denby (Fonthill Bishop) 01747 820117 James Wilson (Berwick St Leonard) 01747 820350 Goods & Services Felicity Trotman, Dow nside, Chicklade, Salisbury SP3 5SU 01747 820503 Directory Email: [email protected] Other monthly publications in the Nadder Team Ministry are Focus and the Hindon with Chicklade and Pertwood Newsletter Contributors w ho w ish copy to appear in either or both of the others should contact Editor Mrs Juliet Bow en - 01747 871840; Co Editor Kate Prior - 01747 871559 email: [email protected]. New s items by 15th month (10th in December).or Dr Tean Mitchell 0n 0845 4581732 or [email protected] for the Hindon w ith Chicklade and Pertw ood Newsletter. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Parish Priest: Fr. Robert Miller, Trellis House, High St, Tisbury SP3 6JR 01747 870228 MASSES: TISBURY, Sacred Heart WARDOUR, All Saints Sunday 9:00 am and 6:30 pm 11:00 am Weekdays as advertised Holy Days as advertised TISBURY METHODIST CHURCH Minister : Revd Helen Caine, 7 Ridge Way, Shaftesbury SP7 9HB 01747 854631 Youth Worker: Dave Symmons, 33 Maple Close, Shaftesbury SP7 8RF 01747 851733 Sunday Services: 10:30 am Fellow ship Afternoon: 2nd Wednesday at Nadder Close, 2:30 pm –3:30 pm Leader: Olivia Young 01747 871266 Somebody said to me recently that life is what happens when you are planning something else! In early December I became aware of what seemed to be a fair amount of discussion of weather forecasts: “Yes, we are going to have a white Christmas. And not just a little snow, but lots of it.” Well that was just before it started raining, and the floods began to rise. Yet things hadn’t stopped, for already the signs of Spring are beginning to show in our villages. The weather has caused so much disruption to our neatly planned lives. Many of you will have been delayed in your journey to work by water flowing across the roads, or felt it best to stay indoors. Some had had to face the distress of flooded homes. Our modern society seems to take it for granted that our lives will run smoothly –yet, in reality, life is rarely that easy, and when something out of the ordinary happens we often struggle to cope. Even joyful events can turn our lives upside down. Three years ago, and just a month before Christmas, my sister gave birth to her second child. Everything went essentially “to plan” (as far as can be expected of such a natural process), but I’m all too aware that it might not have happened the way it did: childbirth remains one of the most dangerous events for mother and baby, as some of you will be painfully aware. I’m sure that from the earliest times people have tried to identify ways of living that might guarantee a happy or successful life and to understand the mystery of, apparently random, life- changing events –even that great scientist Albert Einstein, unhappy with some random elements of life, was quoted as saying “God does not play dice”. The biblical book Ecclesiastes (written in perhaps the 4th-3rd century B.C.) has a message for us today: life is not about pursuing the rewards promised by the path of conventional wisdom but about living simply and in the present. True wisdom means carpe diem, “seize the day” – don’t miss it, don’t let life slip byunnoticed. Instead, live life to the full –for all of us life is short. As the author says: “Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has long ago approved what you do ... Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might . .” (Ecclesiastes 9.7, 10a) Graham Southgate (01722 714826) 2 3 From our own Churches –Chilmark FEBRUARY Chilmark Clergy Notes Our Family Communion service this month, on Sunday, 16th February, will have the theme of “Living with Jesus”. Do come and join us for this informal communion service. On the preceding Sunday, 9th February, you will see that there isn’t a lay-led Matins service in Chilmark, but that we are having a group service of Sung Evensong at 6.00 p.m. at St. Editha’s, Baverstock. I hope that this will be of particular interest to those who love Evensong, as so may do, but don’t have the opportunity to share in this service regularly. Felicity Pattenden will be leading the Chilmark-Hindon choir who will be performing an anthem and leading the singing of the familiar canticles and responses with the congregation, and there will be singers from Baverstock as well. All are most welcome, from any of the parishes. Do bring a torch, as there is no street lighting in Baverstock, and I suggest car-sharing to help with parking. Evensong is often regarded as a treasure of Anglican worship, so do come and share this very special service. Thinking about the two services I’ve mentioned this month demonstrates the variety of worship in an Anglican parish church, where we seek to meet the needs of people who find they can come close to God in different ways. It’s important that we try to offer these different ways in our monthly service pattern, and that can be quite a challenge at times. As a PCC were are thinking about our worship pattern to add more variety and I will be writing more about that in future months. It just reminds us that we are all different and that God treasures us as unique individuals called into a personal relationship with him. Jane Parish Notices Second Sunday. 9th February No Morning Service at Chilmark. 6.00pm Sung Evensong at Baverstock with the choir. Take a torch. Chilmark Parochial Parish Council (PCC) Annual Giving 2013 The PCC made the following donations in its annual programme of giving for the year: The Children’s Society L 56 (Collection at Christingle) World Vision L 273.60 (Awoke,Ethiopian Boy @L22-80 a month) Friends of Salisbury Cathedral L 10 Sudan General Funds L 350 Sudan Medical Fund L 350 L 350 Philippines Disaster L 350 Chilmark School PCC Fund L 75 _____ PCC Total L 1464.60 4 Chilmark's carol singers: Saturday 20th December It was dry when we set out. Twelve hardy carollers set off into The Street's darkness, clutching their trusty books of music. The wind soon began to get up, however, and slowly the rain began - lightly at first, then annoyingly persistently and then the downpour happened. One kind person had to hang on to her front door as the wind tried to whip it off its hinges. As she held on, she was confronted with a medley of utterly bedraggled and drenched people, trying to raise their voices above wind and rain to render 'In the bleak mid-winter...' By this time the ink was running on the page and the pages were sticking together, so sadly we had to call it a day afteronly an hour. (Special thanks to Cross Farm for providing us with most welcome hot resuscitative beverages en route.) Apologies if we didn't manage it to your door this year. But the good news was the generosity of donations for the Salisbury Trust for the Homeless. A record total of L168.60 (plus L 7.50 Gift Aid) was raised! The chairman has written to thank the people of Chilmark and said that all of the money will be used to help the homeless in the Salisbury area. The Trust provides accommodation and support for 32 single people who are on the streets (often as the result of breakdowns in relationships/families) and helps them develop life skills, regain self-esteem and find employment, education or training opportunities to enable them to return to independent living, so is an excellent cause.