ALSTONEFIELD : BUTTERTON : ILAM WARSLOW with ELKSTONES : WETTON Benefice Ministry Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vicar – Vacancy
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ YOUR VILLAGE NEWSLETTER Late March & April 2018 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WORSHIP AT ALSTONEFIELD : BUTTERTON : ILAM WARSLOW WITH ELKSTONES : WETTON Benefice Ministry Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vicar – vacancy MARCH & APRIL SERVICES Churchwardens ~ Alstonefield TH TH 18 MARCH - 5TH SUNDAY OF LENT (P) 25 MARCH – PALM SUNDAY (R) Mrs Marion Beloe 10.30am Ilam 11.00am Warslow 01335 310253 Benefice HC Benefice HC 3.30pm Butterton EW ~ Butterton Mrs Barbara Woodward 1ST APRIL - EASTER DAY (W) 8TH APRIL - 2ND SUNDAY OF EASTER (W) 01538 304324 11.00am Alstonefield 11.00am Alstonefield AAW Mrs Lily Hambleton- Benefice HC Bishop of Lichfield Plumb 2.30pm Butterton HC (Ann Green Festival) 01538 304397 TH RD ND TH ~ Ilam 15 APRIL - 3 SUNDAY OF EASTER (W) 22 APRIL - 4 SUNDAY OF EASTER (W) Mr Ian Smith 10.30am Ilam AAW 11.00am Elkstones 01335 350236 Baptism Benefice HC Miss Ellen Clewes 6.30pm Butterton EW 11.00am Wetton MW 01335 350437 29th APRIL – 5th SUNDAY OF EASTER (W) ~ Warslow with Elkstones 10.30am Ilam AAW Mrs Rachel Moorcroft 11.00am Alstonefield AAW (Warslow) 01298 84568 Mrs Judy Prince (Warslow) 01298 84351 Mr Reg Meakin Milldale Chapel – Easter Saturday (Elkstones) 01538 The first service of 2018 at this lovely lile chapel in the valley 304295 will be at 2pm on 31st March. All are welcome to join us for this ~ Wetton wonderful occasion – peaceful but joyful. Miss Clare Day 01538 381773 Visiting Clergy This month we welcome to our Benefice Services the Rt. Revd Dr Please pray regularly for Michael Ipgrave Bishop of Lichfield, Revd. David Watkin, this team and those who Revd. Paul Myers and Revd. Barry Wilson minister with them. Key to Symbols HC = Holy Communion: BCP = Book of Common Prayer: FC = Family Communion: AAW = All Age Worship: MP = Morning Prayer: MW = Morning Worship: EP = Evening Prayer: EW = Evening Worship Please let your Churchwarden know of anyone in special From need of prayer. We will do what we can to help – and with complete confidentiality. The “All Are Invited To Attend Any Event Published In this Church Wardens Magazine and Taking Place In Any of Our Villages”. The days continue to lengthen and, according to Alstonefield the Met Office, it’s officially Spring. However, the weather we experienced earlier in St. Peter’s March may have led us to believe otherwise! That brings Lent Lunch: Come and join us for a simple Lent Lunch, to mind the phrase ‘Seeing is believing’. How can we jointly organised by Wetton & Alstonefield Churches, on 21st March 12-2pm in Wetton Village Hall. believe it’s Spring when our eyes see weather conditions that we associate with the depths of Winter? More on that Church Electoral Roll Revision later… Revision of the Church Electoral roll will take place from th th March and April are busy months in the Benefice, with the 4 to 18 March. If your name is already on the Lent lunches and Mothering Sunday services in March. Electoral Roll you do not need to do anything, however if Then we celebrate Easter Day (1st April) with a benefice you wish your name to be removed then please contact service in the morning at Alstonefield, and in the afternoon the Parish Electoral Roll Officer, Angela Campbell (310504) to inform her. there is a special service at Butterton. Special, not just because it’s Easter Day but because in Butterton they’ll be Application forms will be available in church between ‘ringing the changes’, quite literally! There will be an 4th - 18th March for anyone in the village who wishes to be ‘Opening Peal’ of the newly installed ring of six bells included on the Church Electoral Roll. before the service; and for those of you interested in th Annual Meetings learning to ring, there will be a ‘Taster Session’ on 14 The Annual Parish Meeting to elect Churchwarden(s) and April (more details in the newsletter). th PCC members will take place on Tuesday 10 April at Across the benefice Church Electoral Rolls are being 7.30pm in Alstonefield Village Hall, immediately revised, and the Annual Parish Meetings will be taking followed by the Annual Parochial Church Council Meeting. place to elect Church Wardens and lay members for our These meetings are open to the public and everyone is respective Parochial Church Councils. Community support most welcome to attend. is important and much appreciated by Churchwardens and Nomination forms for the post of Churchwarden and also PCC’s, so please do show your support by attending your for lay membership of the PCC will be available in Church Parish Annual meeting. th from 30 March. Easter is a time of renewal and growth, of hope and Mothering Sunday Service inspiration. It seems pertinent then, at this point in our 11th March 11am St. Peter’s Church current interregnum, that the Bishop of Lichfield will be This is a joint service with St. Margaret’s, Wetton, and presiding at a service on 8th April when the Gospel reading everyone is most welcome to attend. There will be will be John 20: Verses 19-30 – the story of ‘Doubting Mother’s day posies and also refreshments after the Thomas’. Thomas was one of Jesus’ disciples who didn’t service. believe his fellow disciples when they told him that Jesus Ann Green Festival Celebration Service 8th April at had appeared to them (after his death on the cross). He 11am. This service will be led by the Rt. Revd. Dr. needed to see the evidence with his own eyes before he Michael Ipgrave, Bishop of Lichfield, and marks the would believe it. beginning of the Ann Green Festival at Alstonefield. As in earlier – how can we believe it’s really Spring when Everyone is welcome to attend and take the opportunity to we’re confronted with freezing temperatures and lots of meet Bishop Michael. snow that blankets the gardens, fields and hedgerows? Saturday 24th March Spring Cleaning St. Peter’s Yet we know, we believe, that underneath the snow there Church: To coincide with the Parish Spring Clean we are are signs of new life, new growth, even though we can’t also spring-cleaning the church and churchyard from 9am always see the evidence. to noon or so. This will make it beautiful for the visit of the So, is seeing really believing? Or, is it that believing, and Bishop and for the Ann Green Festival. Please do come to having faith, is seeing? Something to ponder… help. Refreshments after in the Village Hall. Happy Easter! Alstonefield Ann Green Festival For Prayer – from the Registers Alstonefield churchyard contains the grave of Ann Green We remember in our prayers the family and friends of who died in 1518 - reputedly one of the oldest legible Mike Atkins of Butterton, who died on 3rd of February aged gravestones in the country. The PCC is using the 500th 87 years. A private cremation took place at Macclesfield anniversary of her death as the nominal occasion to hold a Crematorium followed by a Thanksgiving Service at St. Festival comprising a wide range of heritage learning, Bartholomew’s, Butterton on 23rd of February 2018. conservation, arts and education events. We look forward to the wedding of Jarran Cook and The Festival has three aims: Charlotte Sills at Holy Cross, Ilam on Saturday 14th April 1. To research and preserve the history and heritage 2018 and we pray for their happiness together. of St Peter’s Church and churchyard. We pray for the family of Ashton, grandson of Ashton and 2. To enable more people to visit the church to appreciate its history and heritage and place in the Mollie Miller on the occasion of his christening at Holy community. Cross, Ilam on Sunday 15th April 2018 3. To raise funds for the upkeep of the church and churchyard. 3 There are many activities planned for you to join in: If you are concerned about, or wish to carry out work on a th tree or trees in the Peak District National Park, either at Sunday 8 April All Age Worship 11am St Peter’s your property or otherwise, please note the following Church Alstonefield to start off the Festival with information. The Rt. Revd Dr Michael Ipgrave, Bishop of Lichfield. We will be delighted to welcome people from the entire Immediate and Urgent Problems: If the tree or trees are Benefice for this lovely occasion. The children from both dangerous or require immediate action, please contact Manifold and Ilam primary schools are coming. a local qualified tree surgeon and ask them to liaise th directly with the PDNP on 01629 816200 Weekend of Saturday/Sunday 28/29 April a or [email protected]. Community Art event when local artist Sue Prince will help us paint a map of the church and churchyard Trees on the Road: Trees on the roads are dealt with by illustrating its history and heritage. If you or your relatives the District Councils. SMDC Highways department: 0300 and ancestors have had anything to do with the church in 111 8000 Derbyshire Highways department: 01629 533190 the past or present do please come along. Please bring photographs, documents etc. of weddings, photos of General Enquiries: If you wish to carry out work on a ancestors who may be in the churchyard, pictures of tree or trees, you need to check if they are protected by a events that have taken place in the church. Do come to Tree Preservation Order (TPO) or are within the help, to see what we are doing, and to support the event. Alstonefield conservation area or if they have a planning Saturday 30th June from 11am – 4pm Tudor Fair at Hall restriction attached to them.