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Hambledon Parish Magazine St Peter’s Church & Village News September 2017 60p www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk Hambledon Parish Magazine, September 2017 Page 1 Hambledon Parish Magazine, September 2017, Page 2 PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HAMBLEDON Rector The Rev Simon Taylor 01483 421267 [email protected] Associate Vicar The Rev Catherine McBride 01483 421267 Mervil Bottom, Malthouse Lane, Hambledon GU8 4HG [email protected] Assistant Vicar The Rev David Jenkins 01483 416084 6 Quartermile Road Godalming GU7 1TG Curate The Rev David Preece 01483 421267 2 South Hill, Godalming, GU7 1JT [email protected] Churchwarden Mrs Elizabeth Cooke Marepond Farm, Markwick Lane Loxhill, Godalming, GU8 4BD 01483 208637 Churchwarden Alan Harvey 01483 423264 35 Maplehatch Close, Godalming, GU7 1TQ Assistant Churchwarden Mr David Chadwick, Little Beeches, 14 Springhill, Elstead, Godalming, GU8 6EL 01252 702268 Church Treasurer & Gift Aid Dr Alison Martin Tillies, Munstead Heath Road Godalming GU8 4AR 01483 893619 Sunday Services Full details of these and any other services are set out in the Church Calendar for the month, which is shown on page 5 The Church has a number of Home Groups which meet regularly during the week at various locations. Details from Catherine McBride Tel: 01483 421267 Alpha details and information from The Rev Catherine McBride Tel: 01483 421267 Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals contact Hambledon and Busbridge Church Office Tel No: 01483 421267 (Mon – Friday, 9.30am – 12.30pm) Where there is sickness or where a visit would be valued, contact the Church Wardens The Rector is normally off duty on Fridays Copy deadlines for the The Associate Vicar is normally off duty on Fridays September magazine The nearest Roman Catholic churches are St Teresa of Avila, Chiddingfold (Fr Chris Bergin 01428 643877); St Edmund, Croft Rd, Godalming and St Joseph’s, The deadline is Thursday, 14 September Milford (Fr Michael 01483 416880) Please send your copy to John Hindley Whitegates, Gasden Lane TO SUBSCRIBE AND HAVE Witley GU8 5RJ THE MAGAZINE DELIVERED, £6 per year 01428 681423 PLEASE CONTACT: MARY PARKER email: [email protected] Telephone: 01428 682545 Advertisers, please contact Derek Miller, 2 Church Lane, Hambledon, GU8 4DS 01428 684362 email: [email protected] Hambledon Parish Magazine, September 2017 Page 3 Vicar’s Views – September eptember always strikes me as being almost like another new year. We have all the fun and festivities of New Year in January, but then September always seems to be full of new beginnings S too. Lots of activities take a break over the summer and begin again afresh in September. A new academic year starts and children and young people begin new classes, new schools, new colleges or new university. Sometimes all the newness is exciting. Who can forget the excitement of getting a new school uniform and new shoes (God bless the parents who have to fork out for all that!); or the satisfaction of a brand new exercise book or matching pen and propelling pencil (OK, maybe that was just me!). Sometimes the newness means more unsettling changes, like moving away to a new town and making new friends. I remember moving schools after finishing my ‘O Levels’ (yes, it was that long ago!). The school I had been at didn’t have a sixth form and so most of my friends were going on to the local 6th Form College to do their A Levels. However, my parents didn’t much like the idea of my going somewhere where you could wear jeans to ‘school’ and call your tutor ‘Bob’ – or whatever their first name was. So it was decided that I would go to the sixth form of one of the grammar schools about seven miles away. As if that wasn’t bad enough, because I had chosen to do A Level physics and because the girls’ grammar school didn’t have an A Level physics teacher at the time, it was decided that I should go to the boys’ school. They had recently started accepting girls into the sixth form – so there would be four of us …..and 800 boys! The night before I was due to start I was lying awake in bed feeling really nervous and apprehensive about what was in store. What was it going to be like? I didn’t know a single person there. Would I make friends? Would any of them even talk to me? (a bit like going to the Merry Harriers for the first time!). I remember praying and telling God exactly how I was feeling. The next thing I knew was the most tangible sense of peace to wash over me. It’s something I’ve felt numerous times since, but that was the first time I can remember experiencing God’s peace and presence in that way. Some of you will have heard by now that I am leaving Hambledon in the autumn to take up the post of vicar in Market Drayton, back up in Shropshire. And I’m sure I will write more about that in next month’s magazine. But, as I contemplate leaving good friends and a wonderful community here and moving somewhere new and having to start the process of getting to know everyone all over again, I’m reminded that, in all the newness and change, God will still be God; he will still be with me; and his peace will still be with me – as it will be with you. There is a beautiful verse in John’s gospel, where Jesus says to his friends: ‘Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. ’ ( John 14.27) The kind of peace which Jesus offers is different to anything that the world can offer us. It doesn’t mean that we won’t experience difficulties or unsettling times. It does mean that when we experience those things they needn’t cause our hearts to be troubled. New situations or circumstances need not unsettle us. Instead, we can know that inner peace and tranquillity of soul, despite outward circumstances. Whatever new beginnings are in store for us, or whatever uncertainty we are facing, my hope and prayer is that we will carry God’s peace and presence within us. Catherine McBride, Associate Vicar, Hambledon and Busbridge Hambledon Parish Magazine, September 2017, Page 4 CHURCH CALENDAR 3rd September 9.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 12th Sunday after Trinity 10.30 am Messy Church ___________________________________________________ 10th September 9.00 am BCP Morning Prayer 13th Sunday after Trinity 10.30 am Holy Communion ____________________________________________________ Saturday 8.30 to 10 am Prayer Breakfast 16th September A time to meet together to pray. All are welcome ____________________________________________________ 17th September 9.00 am BCP Holy Communion 14th Sunday after Trinity 10.30 am Morning Worship ____________________________________________________ 24th September 9.00 am BCP Morning Prayer 15th Sunday after Trinity 10.30 am Morning Worship ____________________________________________________ And in October 1st October 9.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 16th Sunday after Trinity 10.30 am Morning Worship ___________________________________________________ Services at St. John’s, Busbridge 8.00 am Holy Communion (said) 9.00 am Classic service: Holy Communion 2nd and 4th Sundays 10.30 a m Contemporary service: 1st Sunday: All Age 3rd Sunday: Holy Communion Groups for children of all ages in various locations – turn up and ask! 6.30 pm Benefice Evening Worship SAVE THE DATE SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER 18 Yet another chance to test your wits. The Village Hall Management Committee will be holding a further Quiz, with Bill Dann asking the questions. So, start remembering stuff – NOWNOWNOW Further information, including details about ticket sales in the October and November editions of the magazine. Hambledon Parish Magazine, September 2017 Page 5 PARISH & PEOPLE ambledon church has been saddened by the run Hambledon Village Shop, following on from her news that it will be losing its Associate Vicar daughter Laura, and soon became closely associated H as soon as October. Catherine McBride has with the village, despite crossing the border from been with us for five years and, although we all knew Chiddingfold. She so quickly became “one of us” and, that the time would eventually come for a move, it after her retirement, came back and took a turn at nonetheless comes as something of a blow. That, of volunteering. course, is looking at it from our point of view and We watched with sadness her gradual decline naturally we are pleased to learn that Catherine will and grieve that she is no longer with us. To her family now have her own parish. Well done to the folk of we extend the loving sympathy of Hambledon friends. Market Drayton in Shropshire on the appointment of We are sure that there will be more about their new Vicar. (It has not gone unnoticed that the Amanda in the October magazine, following her move is nearer to the home of Welsh rugby!) funeral at St Mary’s Chiddingfold on Wednesday 6 Catherine takes with her our love and good wishes. September at 2pm. Another departure will also leave a hole in the There is much excitement in the Taylor house- life of the village, with Jane Woolley announcing her hold as Maria, Paul and the family prepare to travel to retirement as Parish Clerk after 18 years. What a Italy for the wedding of their son Shaun to Stacey. We wonderful job she has done, some of a conflicting hope it will be a very happy day and send to Shaun and nature that must occasionally have looked for the Stacey every good wish from Hambledon friends and wearing of a tin hat! We are all most grateful for what neighbours for their future happiness.