THREE sion. Social distancing rules and relevant hy- VALLEYS giene precautions will be strictly observed. There will be an opportunity to see the animals INFORMATION and some of the crafts that our countrymen SHEET have made over the years as well as the chance to talk about farming and the rural way of life. 13th July 2020 There will be a small charge of £5 per person to cover costs. Batcombe Initials Competition If you are interested, please give them a call on “Batcombe are organising an Initials Quiz in aid of the number below and they will let you know church funds; the questions are free from the dates and times available. [email protected] (Hilary Brocklehurst) and, if you wish to participate, submit your answers Rylands Farm, Boyshill, Holnest DT9 5PS by email or to Scotley Farmhouse with a £2 Tel: 01935 210703 donation to PCC Batcombe (bank details available on request) by Saturday 18th July in order to get the answers and to enter for a prize of £20. This might be a bit of fun for you and your families.” The ALWESTON CAR BOOT SALE planned for August has sadly had to be cancelled. 73rd Chetnole Flower Show (Please note that all of the above events are subject to Saturday 1st August 2020 cancellation/change due to the Corona Virus and if in doubt, it may be advisable to check with the organisers 2pm – 4.30pm, Chetnole Village Hall of the event to see that they are still going ahead) (Due to Covid-19 it will be different. The flower show will go ahead as usual. Instead of the usual fete element, they encourage you to Prayer for the Day bring a picnic fit for VE Day. Almighty and everlasting God, Leigh Candle Auction 2020 by whose Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified: New re-arranged date of 23 July, @ 6.30pm – hear our prayer which we offer for all your Leigh Village Hall. Please come along and bid! faithful people, Wine & Cheese Party – in aid of that in their vocation and ministry St.Michael’s Church, Beer Hackett they may serve you in holiness and truth The above may still go ahead on Friday 7th to the glory of your name; August – please remember the date and look through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, out for various notices regarding the above nearer the time. who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, The Countrymen’s club - Farm visits one God, now and for ever. and cream teas Amen.

From August to October 2020, on select dates, A PRAYER FOR ALL THOSE the Countrymen’s club based at Boyshill, Holnest, will be offering a cream tea and a farm AFFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS walk to local men with a rural background along with their wives and carers. Keep us, good Lord,

You will have 1.5 hours on the farm with a under the shadow of your mercy. maximum of 2 couples on the farm per ses- Sustain and support the anxious, be with those who care for the sick,

and lift up all who are brought low; • Please send items for publication on the website (especially forthcoming/recent that we may find comfort events) to itemsforwebsite@threeval- leysteam.org knowing that nothing can separate us

from your love

in Christ Jesus our Lord. A Close Shave

Raising money for the Sudans Emergency Ap- Compline Worship & other service details for peal and Dorset Historic Churches Trust has this forthcoming week been a hair-raising experience for one of our Monday – Compline - at 6.00pm via Three Valleys Archdeacons. Team Facebook page (Rev.George Moody)

Wednesday @ 6.00pm – a service with Rev. Richard Kirlew using Zoom

Friday @ 6.00pm – an online service with Rev.Tony Gilbert

Archdeacon of Dorset Antony MacRow-Wood de- cided to make his first post-lockdown haircut a A Message from the Clergy Team chance to raise money for 2 good causes. There has been some concern expressed that And to make sure people were willing to give, he the clergy are not seen so much in the offered to have all his locks shaved off. villages during the lockdown. We are aware of this and want to assure you that we are Archdeacon Antony said: still available for telephone consultations or "People in South Sudan and Sudan have been via skype, zoom and all the other electronic hard hit by Covid-19 and lack the medical facilities methods of communication we take for granted. The Diocesan Link helps fund, medical equipment, training and medicines.

Clergy Contact Details "Churches in Dorset have not been able to raise funds for repairs this year but the buildings still re- Team Rector: Tony Gilbert: 01935 873 044 quire maintenance. Dorset Historic Churches Trust [email protected] helps churches with the cost of repairs.

Team Vicar: George Moody: 01935 873 214 [email protected] A Salisbury Diocese appeal for help during the Coronavirus crisis on behalf of the Team Vicar: Richard Kirlew: 01963 23 570 Sudan [email protected] Our own problems with COVID-19 in this country are significant, but our brothers and Benefice Office Contact Details sisters in South Sudan and Sudan face even greater problems with even less resources. Jubilee Hall, Church Street, Yetminster DT9 6LG Archbishop Ezekiel Kondo of the Episcopal Tel. 01935 872600 Church in Sudan sends us the message that [email protected]/ his people “would rather die of COVID-19 than Please send items for this Pew Sheet to: hunger”. [email protected] Benefice Website: www.threevalleysteam.org Salisbury Diocese has a long association with the churches in the Sudans, and Bishop Nicholas has responded to their urgent need A picnic and hot drink for after the Service - for improved hygiene and basic food items to (None will be served after the service) help starve off the virus by launching the SOAP A garden chair and FOOD Appeal, which will run throughout July. More details, including a poster which Parking will be in the Leigh Village Hall car can be downloaded, can be found at park. https://www.salisbury.anglican.org/mission/the- sudan-link/emergency-appeal. Donations should In the event of rain there will be shelter in the be sent via Justgiving – churchyard for those attending the service https://bit.ly/sudansemergency. under open sided canvas.

Note: - Please remember that this is a Future Church Service Dates: - separate appeal to our normal regular giving to Ezo. We will still be endeavouring to help the 26th July Ezo diocese. Holwell @ 10.00am Chetnole @ 10.00am The Wriggle Valley Mothers’ Union Bradford Abbas @ 10.00am

A coffee morning is planned on October 24th in the 2nd August Methodist Church, Yetminster to enable them to do some much needed fund raising. The above Glanvilles Wootton @ 10.00am charity, like so many others have suffered due to Batcombe @ 10.00am the Covid-19 epidemic. If you have time, do take a Beer Hackett @ 10.00am look at their wonderful range of cards plus other things that can be ordered on-line. I understand that delivery is very prompt and efficient. (There will also be electronic Eucharist service on facebook next Sunday with Rev.Anne Budgell for those who would prefer not to come out yet). And finally, Thank you!

This week saw many of our churches Word for the Day unlocking for worship for the first time in over 100 days. During Covid-19 many of you may already know that Rev.Tony Gilbert has been live- Thank you to everyone who made it possible streaming a ‘Word for the Day’ on the Three for Church Services to take place at Valleys facebook page. (The text used for Yetminster, Folke & Thornford last Sunday. these can be read at your leisure on the Three Valleys Website page and found under the Members of our Church Community had heading ‘Announcements’ – Word for the Day). worked very hard to create a safe and https://www.threevalleysteam.org physically-distanced environment for a new version of worship allowed under the present restrictions for which we are all grateful. ARRANGEMENTS Rural Mission Sunday – 19th July @ 11.00am FOR OPENING

There will be a benefice open air service in CHURCHES Leigh church yard to celebrate Rural Mission Sunday. Richard is co-ordinating it Yetminster St Andrew 8am - 12 noon and he writes the following: daily will be open for individual prayer The theme will be ‘Heaven in the Ordinary’. Please bring with you: daily from Monday 15th June A garden flower/wild flower 2020: 8am - 12 Noon. (NB The church will be closed for cleaning after the service on Sunday Thornford, St Mary Magdalene open 12th and will re-open for personal on Sundays & Wednesdays – 10.00- prayer from Thursday 16th July, from 4.00pm beginning Sunday 21st June. 8am to midday daily) Bradford Abbas – 9.00am – 7pm on th From 6 July, please enter and Sundays & Wednesdays leave by the main North Church door. (The Tower works team have Beer Hackett, St Michael’s – 10.00am- requested sole use of the South 4.00pm Sundays & Wednesdays door for approximately three Folke, St.Lawrence’s – Tuesday & Sat- months). urdays 10.00am – 4.00pm (starting 24th On arrival please make sure you use June) the hand sanitiser or gloves pro- Howell, St Lawrence’s – this will be vided. opened by appointment – phone num- Visitors are encouraged to remain bers on Church notice board and porch standing although there will be one gate. pew available for those who need to sit. This pew will alternate and be When we have more details of other cleaned each day. churches opening, we will add them. All doors and pew tops will be cleaned each day, and we would po- Re-opening of Churches litely ask that people try not to touch anything. For the latest Gov.guidelines please refer to the link below: - If you feel more comfortable wearing a mask and your own gloves, please https://www.gov.uk/government/publica- do. There will also be gloves availa- tions/covid-19-guidance-for-the-safe-use-of-places- of-worship-from-4-july/covid-19-guidance-for-the- ble at the entry door. We want to safe-use-of-places-of-worship-from-4-july ensure that everyone who comes to church feels safe and comfortable. The change in the Government's guidance For now please bring your own means that those of our churches, that are able prayer books too. to do so safely, can now open for private prayer. Leigh, St Andrew’s open daily 10am to 4pm

Batcombe, St Mary Magdalene open 24/7

Holnest, Church of the Assumption, open on request Those who have been able to open up for a Chetnole St Peter's will be open few hours each day or at set times during the week have found themselves negotiating the on Wednesdays and Sundays from 10 long list of measures that they need to put in am to 4pm (possibly earlier or later de- place to keep us all safe. pending on the day). For the first month after we are allowed back way to make sure everyone can find a into church we intend to hold simply three ser- vices per Sunday, one service in each of the place to pray. Three Valley groups (Wriggle Valley, Gifle Val- ley and Vale of the White hart). These will ro- tate through the various churches in those ar- Church Warden’s Meeting! eas. We will also continue broadcasting a weekly service via the internet. It seems likely The next meeting will be held on Monday 27th that initially, distancing rules will have to be ob- July @ 10.30am via Zoom served in church and that hymn singing will not be allowed as the deep breathing needed to sing is believed to increase the risk of spread- ing the virus. Details of where the services are Benefice Council Meeting to be held will be published in the weekly elec- tronic pew sheet, on our Facebook page and The next meeting will be held on Wednesday our website nearer the time 5th August – venue tbc/Zoom meeting

The Sherborne Team office are still at their Music in our Churches? old address 3 Abbey Close, Sherborne, Dorset Some good news that we have recently heard, DT9 3LQ is that Organ practice is now permitted provid- Tel. 01935 812459 ing the usual precautions of social distancing are observed. We look forward to a time where worship and music can once again be combined and our choirs are allowed to sing in our churches and cathedrals. The Sherborne Team

The Right Reverend Karen Gorham Bishop of Sherborne

01258 444521 bishop.sherborne@salis- bury.anglican.org On social media:

The Ven Antony MacRow-

Wood Local Prayer Spaces Archdeacon of Dorset

Local Prayer Spaces have been launched 01258 444521 [email protected] as a way to encourage prayer - even if can.org On social media:

you can't open your church. While all our churches will be allowed to open up for The Ven Penny Sayer private prayer, many - especially those Archdeacon of Sherborne

who look after our rural churches - will 01258 444521 find this difficult or impossible to achieve, [email protected] can.org and so our Rural Hope Team, with the

help of Bishop Karen, has developed a The Area Team has recently moved! (Previ- ously at Corfe Mullen (also correspondence address for Bishop Karen

New address: - The Sherborne Office area team Tel. 01258 444521 Sherborne Office, Dairy Barn, Ash Farm Court- yard, Stourpaine DT11 8PW.

Office hours: 8.30am-4pm, Monday to Friday. The office answer machine is on when there is no one is the office available to take your call. Please leave a message and they will contact you as soon as possible. Finally, if there is anything that you would like for me to mention in the Pew Sheet please email the office [email protected] asap. I am hoping to continue working at the office on Monday mornings and Tuesday after- noons for the foreseeable future.

Take care - Jeanette