The Watershed Magazine
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RECTOR THE WATERSHED MAGAZINE Rev Trevor Kemp 770550 Coates Rectory, Coates GL7 6NR Email [email protected] CURATE (Non-stipendiary) Rev David Austin 860692 READER Richard Marlowe 770401 Barrie Cran 770809 STRATEGIC YOUTH MINISTER Anton Wynn 07816 315423 COATES Church Wardens: Dickie Randall 771300 Tony Berry 770220 Flower Team Leader Heather Wheatley 770829 SAPPERTON WITH FRAMPTON MANSELL Church Warden: Jeremy Hoskins 760227 Elizabeth Pick 01453 884791 Deputy warden St Kenelm’s Mark Hamer 760715 Rotas Kate Gordon-Lennox 760651 Secretary PCC Natalie Hunt 760421 RODMARTON AND TARLTON (Chapel of Ease) Church Wardens Rodmarton Mary FitzGerald 238607 Sophia Kinmont 841222 St Kenelm’s, Sapperton Tarlton Jasper Biddulph 770230 Flower Team Leader Sarah Pope 841253 Secretary PCC Jane Marlowe 770401 October 2014 1 2 FORTHCOMING SERVICES IN THE BENEFICE REFLECTIONS FROM THE RECTORY 1 October Midweek Wednesday Thanksgiving is an October theme as we celebrate the harvest, the 10am Kemble Holy Communion gift of God in the fruit of the earth and the productivity of human labour th 5 October 16 Sunday of Trinity and skill. This year’s harvest came in early and as far as I could tell 9.30am Kemble Holy Communion without any significant issues caused by the weather and I guess that 9.30am Coates Holy Communion means the land can be prepared and sown with time for crops to 11am Poole Keynes Family Service settle in before the winter cold stops the new growth. 11am Rodmarton Holy Communion Around our house the swallows are already diminished in number so 11am Sapperton Family Holy Communion they must have started their epic migration to southern Africa. They 4.30pm Somerford Keynes Harvest Festival have had a good year judging by the numbers I have seen and the 8 October Midweek Wednesday noise from multiple broods and of course the mess they leave behind. 10am Kemble Holy Communion th It strikes me there is something to learn from that. I waited and looked 12 October 17 Sunday of Trinity hopefully for the first swallows to arrive in spring, I love watching their 9.30am Kemble Family Service acrobatic antics and observing their streamlined elegance when they 11am Kemble Harvest Festival Holy rest and allow us to see their beauty in form and colour. I am not so Communion keen on the mounds of droppings they deposit below their nests on 9.30am Coates Holy Communion our windowsills and roses. 9.30am Poole Keynes Holy Communion Creation is a wonderful thing but it comes with disadvantages, we 11am Tarlton Harvest Festival can’t have just the good bits. Actually I suspect if we could have just 11am Somerford Keynes Holy Communion the good bits (and that would be subjective) I think human nature 11am Rodmarton Harvest Festival would manufacture something to complain about. In fact nature is a 11am Frampton Mansell Holy Communion complex mass of organisms that all fit together to make a glorious and 15 October Midweek Wednesday wonderful story and poorly thought out tinkering however well 10am Kemble Holy Communion intentioned often goes wrong. We were on Sark over the summer and 19 October 18th Sunday of Trinity one of the locals said they used to have lots of ground nesting birds, 9.30am Kemble Holy Communion until someone introduced hedgehogs to help control the slugs. They 4.30pm Coates Harvest Festival may well have been effective at the primary task but unfortunately the 9.30am Frampton Mansell Family Service hedgehogs also had a taste for eggs. Who would have guessed that 11am Poole Keynes Morning Prayer would be the result? 11am Somerford Keynes Family Service 11am Rodmarton Holy Communion The genius of God is that using nature and natural selection creation 22 October Midweek Wednesday normally has a way of balancing its own needs and filling its own 10am Kemble Holy Communion ecological niches unless we decide to play at being like God 26 October Last Sunday after Trinity ourselves and then all too often it goes wrong. 8am Tarlton Holy Communion (BCP) Harvest is a time to give thanks for God’s creative genius and to 9.30am Kemble Morning Prayer rejoice in the wonder of his world and the productivity we can reap to 9.30am Coates Holy Communion sustain us. The universe has millions of unanswered questions but 9.30am Poole Keynes Holy Communion that should not stop us rejoicing in the love of God who gives us so 11am Somerford Keynes Holy Communion much. Please do come and join us for one of our harvest celebrations, 11am Rodmarton Family Service everyone is most welcome. 11am Frampton Mansell Holy Communion With love and prayers 6pm Kemble The Source Trevor Kemp 3 4 APPOINTMENT OF A NEW BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER THANK YOU PEPITA The process of appointment of a new bishop commenced when As many if not all of you will know, Rev Pepita Walker is retiring from Bishop Michael announced his intention to retire in November. The her role as non-stipendiary (unpaid) curate in the Thameshead recent sad news that has led to him stepping back from his ministry Benefice from the end of September. I hope many of you will have has not affected the process which continues as planned. been with us to celebrate that during her last service in this role at The appointment secretaries are due to visit the diocese in late Frampton Mansell on 28 September. September and to prepare for that the diocese is making every effort I have only been here a short while but Pepita has served the church to seek our views. PCCs have discussed this and fed back. There and community, and particularly Sapperton and Frampton Mansell, for will also be an open meeting in the Chapter House of the cathedral on decades as a member of the church and also as an ordained priest. I 22 September at 7pm where we are all invited to attend and give our have discovered how significant her ministry has been to so many views. people and perhaps most significantly to the many hundreds of pupils, There is also to be a prayer chain starting in late September and families and staff at Sapperton School where she has served as running to July, around the time we hope we might be welcoming a governor and chaplain. As the Thameshead Benefice has grown in new bishop. The dates for us to be particularly aware of are the size to serve the villages from Somerford and Poole Keynes to weeks beginning 21 September; 4 January, and 15 February when Sapperton and Frampton Mansell, so Pepita has faithfully taken on everyone across the diocese is asked to pray for the discernment supporting the enlarged ministry and earning the love and respect of process. Then in the week beginning 25 January our benefice is the congregations and villages. asked to pray with particular focus on the discernment process as a Although Pepita will officially retire, she will continue to serve in our link in that chain. parishes and churches on a more occasional basis and we will look forward to continuing to worship and share with her in the future. I am BAPTISMS sure that all of you would like to join me in offering our thanks and Ottilie Blossom Perry Dowle and Dougal Bear Perry Dowle prayers to, and for, Pepita and Paul for all their faithful service here children of Charlie and Simon at St Kenelm's and all the gifts they have graciously shared with us over the years. They have both been a blessing to us through their ministry and we Marina Thompson daughter of Emma and Piers and sister to give thanks to God for them. Wilf at St Luke's Trevor Our love and blessings go to them all. WEDDINGS Bethany Kemp and Kenny Davies married on 19 July at St Matthew’s, Coates TIME OUT BIBLE DISCUSSION Katie Nicola Jennings married on 21 August at St Matthew’s, The Time Out Bible discussion group for mothers of school age Coates children in the benefice will meet on Thursday 9 and 16 October in July. For more details and venue, please contact Julie on 770123 or Charlotte Victoria Perry and Simon Mark Dowle on 6 September email [email protected] or [email protected]. at St Kenelm’s, Sapperton Alfie Hughes and Mike Rowlands on 30 August at St Luke's, Frampton Mansell PRAYERS IN THE BENEFICE We wish them all joy in their lives together. Wednesdays at Kemble at 10am (Holy Communion) Tuesdays at Kemble at 8.30am FUNERALS Fridays at Rodmarton at 9.15am Kathleen Grimshaw formerly of Coates who died on 4 July 2014. Saturdays at Somerford Keynes (first Saturday in the month only) 5 6 RIP NEWS FROM COATES Dorothy Westmacott, who lived in Sandpool Lane, Tarlton, died on 5 August aged 99. Dorothy guarded her privacy and independence, and THE GOOD COMPANIONS was gifted with extraordinary resilience and strength of character. The Good Companions (Over 55s Club) will meet on Thursday 16 Never complaining, she bore ill-health and the loss of both her October in Coates village hall at 2.30pm. Ros and Ron Lane will give daughters Anne and Janet with great fortitude. At the same time she an illustrated talk about Glorious Gloucestershire. This will be followed was immensely warm and kind, and devoted to her family, while by a raffle and refreshments. equally she was wonderfully supported by her grand-children and New members are always welcome, we are an over 55s club with an neighbours. Her presence of such palpable goodness was a blessing annual subscription of £4 and visitors at £2 per person.