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Volume 21: Issue 8 October 2019 Sheepy Benefice Gazette Covering: Orton, Ratcliffe, Sheepy, Shenton, Sibson and Twycross www.sheepybenefice.org or (Sheepy Group of Churches) Church Celebrations in September Joe Graham and Zoe Scoffham were married at St Edith’s, Orton-on-the- Hill on 7 September (left). Also at St Edith’s, Charlie Arthur Wileman came all the way from Australia to be baptised on Sunday 8 September in the family church. Pictured right: parents Paul & Alexis with brother Henry and Charlie. Sheepy Scarecrow Competition Left, winner the Gruffalo; below, two of the other entrants: Rabbit and Spidercrow. Above, a fabulous loaf baked by Sue Wilkins for Ratcliffe’s Harvest Festival– spot the mouse! Distributed free to around 900 households in all six parishes ten times a year October 2019 Sheepy Benefice Gazette Sheepy Benefice Gazette October 2019 Church Services - Sept 2019 View From the Pulpit All service details are also on the Benefice website -www.sheepybenefice.org Love, Loss and Remembering • Respect; There is also a Communion service at 9 am every Thursday at All Saints Sheepy Magna Autumn has tradi�onally been a �me when Chris�ans • Truthfulness; explore the big ques�ons about life and death. • Determina�on; Watching the leaves fall and the nights draw in is an • Hope; opportunity for all ages to think about love and loss and remember in special ways. • Forgiveness; Children ask ques�ons about death for all kinds of • Peace; reasons. It may come from seeing a local war • Kindness;and memorial, or closer to home with the death of a pet. • Love. Or maybe your child has lost a great-grandparent, There are all kinds of saints—teachers, ar�sts, grandparent, a family friend, a teacher, a neighbour, scien�sts, social reformers, writers, and many more. an aunt or uncle. Is there a saint who shares your child’s name? Their For some children, the impact of loss has huge birthday? Think of well-known saints, like St George consequences, especially if it’s the death of a parent for example, and discover together who they were or a sibling. However and whenever those ques�ons and what they did. come, there are good ways to remember those we see no longer, with family at home: On All Souls’ Day (2 November), the church remembers all those we know, who have died. • Light a candle on important days and say a prayer. “Loving God, thank you for_________ and We gather for our Benefice service of All Souls, help us to remember them well. ” This is a simple where we remember those who have died and we prayer to say together. invite all gathered to write their loved ones’ names and light candles for them. • Gather some items that remind you of that person—le�ers they wrote, photos of them, A week later, on Remembrance Sunday, (10 items of clothing—and keep them in a nice box. November), we remember those who died in wars, Children can add things to the box. and we pray for peace. • Take part in chari�es connected to the person The Benefice services for Remembrance Sunday CONTENTS who died. Race for Life is a family-friendly event recall those who fought in the two World Wars of the Notes from the Editor which can honour people who died from cancer, 20th Century, and those in the forces today defending CHURCH NEWS the peace for our na�on. A packed edi�on yet again this month. for example. • Children can help in taking care of a gravesite— If your child is struggling with bereavement, there are Church Services 2 Be sure to check out the forthcoming events throughout resources available: - the villages, and reports on recent ac�vi�es. pulling weeds, choosing flowers or other items to bring at special �mes, washing a memorial stone, - Child Bereavement UK, View from the Pulpit 3 A reminder that, despite the closure of so many local Post Offices and etc. (h�ps://childbereavementuk.org/forfamilies/support/) bank branches, we s�ll have a li�le-known Sub Post Office of our own! View From a Pew 4 As adver�sed on page 18, Mandy Boyt at the top of Sketchley Lane, Here in the Benefice of Sheepy, we begin our Season - Grief Encounter Ratcliffe Culey, is open every Monday and Tuesday from 9am to of Remembering right at the start of autumn with (h�ps://www.griefencounter.org.uk)and Diocesan News 4 5:30pm. She can help you with all normal Post Office business, Harvest Thanks … where we are invited to remember - Winston’s Wish Sheepy CofE School including banking transac�ons (HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds etc.) and pre- all those who provide for our daily needs, and those 5 (h�ps://www.winstonswish.org.uk), News ordered foreign currency. less fortunate than ourselves in this country and around our world. are all chari�es, which offer support to bereaved VILLAGE NEWS A new vocal group has been formed, see page 19. children. The church also has ways of remembering those we News and photos of local events should be with your village love who have died. This happens at the start of - SANDS (h�ps://www.sands.org.uk) is for anyone Orton News 7 correspondent (see page 19) by 12 October for the November issue November, at All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. coping with the death of a baby, including siblings. please. Ratcliffe News 9 On All Saints’ Day (1 November), we remember - At A Loss (h�p://www.ataloss.org/find-support/search) I’m happy to consider ar�cles of local interest for publica�on but those Chris�ans who have died, who we don’t know can help you find the right services for bereavement reserve the right, as editor, to publish or not, and to shorten or edit as Sheepy News 11&13 personally. We have services forAll Saints recalling in your area. required. those past, who lived their lives in Chris�an values Your child’s GP may also be able to offer help and Sibson News 15 For the avoidance of doubt, we do not have the resources to vet all much as our church Primary School advocates … the support. adver�sers, so please exercise the usual cau�on. HA Twycross News 17 children are encouraged to live by these eight Ar�cle taken from Chris�an values: www.churchofenglandchristenings.org with permission 2 3 October 2019 Sheepy Benefice Gazette Sheepy Benefice Gazette October 2019 View From a Sheepy Pew Sheepy CofE School News The Exodus Boards Maybe the men�on of the EU is a distrac�on at this The New Kids on the Block! Residential trip to Bawdsey Manor �me. I could have said the Fire Risk Assessment I We came back to school on Thursday 29 August and in Our Year 5 and 6 spent a fantastic week away, at the We recently rehung the Exodus Boards in Sheepy have just completed for Sheepy’s Quinquennial came 16 new smiling Reception children. We welcome start of term, at the seaside! We went with some Church. We took them down to preserve them Inspec�on—it was 19 pages long. Alfie, Harry, Joel, George, Thomas, Jamie, Darcie, staff and the upper junior class from Witherley before our re-ordering started in March 2018. Sophie, Alfie, Everley, Jessica, Hope, Callie, Tommy, school. It was a long way and we were very excited to My point is: the value of what is said is not measured Freddie and Niamh to our Portland flock. (Photo back see the sea as we made our way along the road to our The Exodus Boards display the ten Commandments by how many words are used. cover) destination. that first appear in Exodus Chapter 20 and, try as I might, I could not find which transla�on was used for A�er 3,500 years should we add to the ten We have been busy getting to know each other and our We enjoyed a coastal walk and a paddle in the sea— the words on our boards. commandments? Could we bring them up to date? new school these last few weeks. On our second day at ooh, it was chilly though! Other highlights, quite That would grab the headlines, par�cularly if all school we went on a walk around the village with our literally, were the Our church history book suggests they were Chris�ans could agree. Year 6 buddies to look at the scarecrows. We had a giant swing, the originally either side of the East Window but I have vote and the most popular scarecrow in Portland was trapeze, the climbing also failed to find confirma�on of that. No. The commandments we already have can Spiderman (even after he had fallen off his roof!) wall and also abseiling. include very up-to-date concerns: the killing of The children really I have a reference book that suggests the exodus of species, the stealing of habitat or livelihood, the The had to dig deep and the Jews from Egypt took place in April, 1491 BC over children disregard for our neighbours. There is no need to find their heads for 3,500 years ago. have heights, but everyone add to the list, or to change it. enjoyed did really well, going Do you remember the sa�rical comparison: All we have to do is to obey the ten commandments. using all as far as they could. “The Lord's Prayer contains 66 words, the ten areas, Not to read them literally but to read their meaning especially Raft building was Commandments have 179 words, the Ge�ysburg and then live within that framework.