Haughley and Wetherden Parish News October 2017
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Haughley and Wetherden Parish News October 2017 2 October 2017 Places of Worship Local Voluntary Clubs & Organisations Parish Churches of Haughley and Wetherden Bellringers Haughley - practice 1st Mon evening in month, Curate: Rev Chris Hood, 01449 677257 Richard Coe 01449-674229 [email protected] Bellringers Wetherden - practice Tues evening at church, Haughley Ch Warden: Dr J Gibson, Reg Willsher Basil Hart 01359-241954 Wetherden Ch Wardens: Ann Cooke & Mike Tuffin Bowls Club - at George V Playing Field Haughley, Wetherden Lay Elder: Mr R Elbourne 01359-245118 Tony Offord 01449-673289 The Baptist Church Wetherden Carpet Bowls – Weds evenings, Wetherden Village Hall, Minister: Hugh Davis 01359 242435 James Rand 01359-240397 Secretary: J W Rushbrook 01359-240118 Choir Haughley - practice Thurs evening, United Reformed Church, Stowmarket Janet Sheldrake 01449 737247 Minister: Revd Chris Wood 01449 678173 English Country Dance Group – Ron Coxall Hall 01449 Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Stowmarket 672658 - Thursday Haughley Village Hall nd Father David Finegan 01449 612946 Friday (except 2 Friday) Wetherden Village Local: Mrs Joy Rowe 01449-673008 Hageneth Morris Men - practice Wed evening Oct to April, Parish & District Councils Dave Evans 01449-673518 Haughley Parish Council H.A.T.S. Haughley Amateur Theatrical Society - Lindsey Phil- Chairman: Alf Hannan, [email protected] pot 01449 675703 / Lynne Mahon 01449 674085 Clerk: [email protected] Haughley in Bloom: Yvonne Hannan, 07531 774438 Wetherden Parish Council Haughley IT Squad: [email protected] Chairman: Sonia Jewers Haughley Hoofers Clog Dancers - practice Sun eve Oct-Apr Clerk: Jen Larner, 01284 705548 at Vill Hall, Gill Brett 01449-673518 [email protected] Haughley Parish Neighbourhood Plan - Alf Hannan 01359 District Cllr: Rachel Eburne 01449-774647 408008 Member of Parliament Haughley Royal British Legion – Branch Secretary Jo Churchill: 0207 2198487 Margaret Buttle 01449 770353 Doctors, Schools, Essential Services Haughley Utd - at George V Playing Field, Lee Forsdyke Haughley Post Office 01449-676789 01449-615579 Health Centre, Stowmarket 01449-776000 Haughley and Wetherden Twinning Association: Health Centre, Woolpit 01359-240298 Chairman, David Ward. 01359 241554. Health Centre, Mendlesham(Chapel Rd) 01449- Email: [email protected] 767722 Haughley Voluntary Service Co-ordinator, Reg Willsher Bacton Manor Farm Surgery 01449-781777 01449 258846 [email protected] Office: 07594 Combs Ford Surgery, Stowmarket 01449-678333 674009 Haughley Crawfords VCP School 01449-673253 1st Wetherden & Haughley Scout Group Stowupland High School 01449-674827 Group Scout Leader, Barbara Cutting Haughley Pre School Playgroup 07880 738781 Beaver Scout Leader, David Smith 01359-242965 Anglian Water 08457-145-145 Cub Scout Leader, Jon Illingworth, 01449 673348, 07879 British Gas 0845-609-1122 661141, [email protected] UK Power Networks 0800 31 63 105 (power cuts) Scout Leader, Gill Grainger 01449-674879 Refuse Collection 0845 606 6067 Explorer Scouts, Adam Lee (leader) 07973 709121 or Police – Safer Neighbourhoods Team 01284-774100 or email Robert Long (assistant leader) 07708 460998 [email protected] or if urgent & you Group Secretary: vacant need immediate assistance dial 999 Wetherden FC - Jonathan Lewis (Manager) 01449-678234 or Wetherden Street lighting 0800 591055 Trudy Hooper (Secretary) 01842-754170 Wetherden History Group - Pat Tuffin 01359 240396. Hall Bookings Wetherden Table Tennis Club - Keith Watts 01359 240779, Haughley Village Hall - Lyn Allum 07837 953266 or email Dennis Smith 01359 241166 [email protected] Wetherden Tennis Club - [email protected], Maxwell Charnley Community Room – 01449 676789 Tamara Hunt 07971 193433 or Sonia Jewers on 07900 Ron Crascall Pavilion - Dale Sanders 07731 536773 272877 email: [email protected] Wetherden Scrabble Club 2nd Tuesday of each month Haughley Scout Hut - Richard Stacy 01449 673311 Maypole Pub Wetherden at 12 noon. 07740 596162 Wetherden Village Hall - Keith Watts 07528 065250 Whist Drive - monthly, Wetherden Village Hall, James Rand or 01359-240397 [email protected] st www.wetherdenvillagehall.com WI Haughley - 1 Wed in month, 7.30pm, in Haughley Village Haughley Football Club - Ian Wilkinson 01449 773399 Hall, Mrs. Marian Adams 01449 674411 or Lee Forsdyke 01449 615579 Haughley & Wetherden Parish News Advertising & Editorial – Marike Hart 01449-613680 or email [email protected] Cover Design – David Ribbans Printing - Digital Copy Centre, 01449 678100 Adverts must be received no later than one calendar month before publication. Please send copy for the next issue to The Editor, 3 Millfields, Haughley, or (preferably) by email as above, by 5 pm Wednesday 18th October 2017 Distribution & Delivery: We aim to delivery your copy to your door by the 1st of the month in all weathers. Occasionally we experience circumstances which delay printing and delivery. If you haven’t received your copy by the 2nd of the month, please contact David Bryant on 01449 774657 or email [email protected] Due to the nature of the Parish News we are unable to publish ‘letters to the Editor’ and whilst we take every care in ensuring that all the information supplied by the deadline is included, we take no responsibility for the content of articles and adverts supplied. 3 CHURCH SERVICES in the Benefice of Haughley with Wetherden and Stowupland October 2017 Haughley Wetherden Stowupland st 10.30am 1 October 11.00am URC All Age 11.00am Harvest Festival Service Sixteenth Harvest Festival Service Morning Worship Sunday after Trinity and Baptism 4.00pm 1st@4 9.30am 8th October 9.30am Morning Worship 11.00am Parish Communion With Trinity Starz Parish Communion Seventeenth Book of Common Prayer Sunday after Trinity 6.30pm Evensong 11.00am 8.00am 15th October URC Service 11.00am Parish Communion All Age Service Book of Common Prayer 5.00pm Eighteenth “Shoe Box” Sunday Sunday after Trinity The Dwelling Place 9.30am Worship in Celtic Style Morning Prayer 9.30 am 22nd October 9.30am All Age Service 11.00am Parish Communion “Shoe Box” Sunday Parish Communion Nineteenth Book of Common Prayer Sunday after Trinity 6.30pm Parish Communion 11.00am 29th October Benefice Communion at Wetherden Church Last Sunday after 6.30pm 4.00pm Trinity at Haughley Church at Stowupland Church Memorial Service Memorial Service Church Notices: Mere View and Thompson Court The service in October will be on Monday, 9th at 2.30pm: Harvest Festival Songs of Praise followed by Holy Communion Parish Registers Haughley and Wetherden Funerals We send love and sympathy to the family and friends of those whose funerals have been held recently 7 August Kenneth Bowman 15 August Robin Rutherford 21 August Isabel Brand 4 From one of your Retired Priests Isn’t summer great? Summer is freedom, ice cream, gardens, sunshine and fun; and in our villages, it’s the time for Open Gardens, Flower Festivals, and all those other happy community events that take place in the summer months. Here in Wetherden, where I live, we have been thinking over the summer about the kinds of things our village community does, and how it enhances life for everyone. At the beginning of July, we held a special service at St. Mary’s, to which we invited people from local organisations, so that we could celebrate the way we work together in harmony to keep the village and its way of life flourishing. We called it a Community Celebration. Community is a deeply instinctive human need; but one that is sadly not always met in our modern world. In towns and cities, especially, loneliness is rife. Too many people end up living singly in flats and bed-sits, leading an almost hermetic existence without the support of a community around them that keeps an eye on their welfare, and notices if they have not been seen around in a while. So, we who are fortunate enough to live in the midst of a village community, should cherish and value this wonderfully supportive way of life, perhaps more than we sometimes do. Village communities like ours offer a support network second to none. Some of it is organised; much of it is pure, informal, good-hearted neighbourliness; some parts of it exist to lend a hand, others to provide fun and entertainment. And at the heart of the wider community is the Church, with its deep-rooted understanding of how community, people working together in harmony with one another, automatically brings us into relationship with God. Community, with a capital “C” is what God calls us to be. There is a true saying, that nobody can be a Christian by him or herself. Being a Christian, by definition, means being part of a community. Other- wise, how could we obey the command to love our neighbour as ourselves? How could we be the body of Christ? How could we learn the compassion and the generosity and the care that the love of God demands of us, if we only ever thought about our own needs and desires? Obviously, though, community doesn’t just happen by itself. It takes commitment, from people willing to give up their time and make all kinds of sacrifices. But what makes a community-spirited person? Well, it’s someone who understands instinctively that life is better when we do it together. A life spent just for oneself is not the life we are called to by God; and it can never satisfy. The life of the community, however, offers space to grow and mature, out of ourselves and into the bigger and broader life that is the life of the whole family of God. It’s where we learn to care genuinely about the needs of other people, not just for what we can get out of them. And it is where we discover who we truly are, by discovering where we belong in the bigger life, and what part we can play, to make it bigger and better still.