December 2017 Services 3"* December First Sunday of Advent Ambassador 9.30 am. Holy Communion Book of Common Prayer 11.00 am. All Age Worship Roughton December 2017 - January 2018 5.00 pm. Carol Service lO* December Second Sunday of Advent 9.30 am. Holy Communion Common Worship Hanworth U.OOam. Moming Prayer with Metton Metton 3.15 pm. Carols & Readings St David's Tuesday 12"' December 7.00 pm. Felbrigg Happening Felbrigg Village Hall Wednesday IS"* December 9.30 am. Moming Prayer Roughton IT" December Third Sunday of Advent 9.30 am Carol Service Sustead 11.00 am. Holy Communion Roughton 3.30 pm. Carol Service Gunton 5.00 pm. Evening Prayer Bessingham Tuesday 19* December 2.00 pm. School Christmas Service Roughton

Sunday 24*" December Christmas Eve For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the 4.00 pm. Christingle/Crib Service Roughton government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called 11.00 pm. Midnight Service Holy Communion Roughton Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Monday 25'" December Christmas Day Prince of Peace 10.30 am. All Age Worship Metton Parish magazine of the Roughton Benefice - comprising Roughton, Bessingham, Felbrigg, Sustead, Metton and Hanworth with Gunton 3r* December

11.00 am. Holy Communion Common Worship Hanworth Rector, Reverend Janet Frymann 01263 768075 zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA 3.15 pm. Sing For Joy St David's Sheringham \AAA/w.roughtonbenefice.uk Churchwardens Roughton Who's Who Helen Mortimer 01263-511132 Rector: Dave Wiltshire 01263-768104 Revd Janet Frymann Prayer Group Co-ordinator January 2018 Helen Mortimer 01263-511132 The Rectory, Church Loke Mothers Union 7*** January Epiphany 1 Roughton. Dorothy Kendall 01263-513038 NRll 8SZ Ambassador Newsletter Contacts 9.30 am. Holy Communion Book of Common Prayer Sustead Telephone number 01263 768075 General Enquires - Ann North- 11.00 am. All Age Worship Roughton Mobile 07766712545 Graves 01263-761508 5.00 pm. Holy Communion Common Worship Bessingham Email [email protected] [email protected] Please contact Janet in the first Editor Barbara Chinnery 14*'' January Epiphany 2 instance for Baptisms, Weddings 07500708677 or Funerals Email [email protected] 9.30 am. Holy Communion Common Worship Hanworth Advertising - Derek lanson 01263- 11.00 am. Moming Prayer Felbrigg & Metton Metton Hon Assistant Minister 712159 3.15 pm. Sing for Joy St David's Nursing Home Sheringham Revd Stephen J G Seamer [email protected] 01263-479616 Roughton Church School 21'* January Epiphany 3 Reader Governors Elizabeth Ranger 01263-761750 The following Church members are 9.30 am. Moming Prayer Book of Common Prayer Sustead Churchwarden Bessingham Governors at the School. 11.00 am. Holy Communion Common Worship Roughton Nina Chapman 01263-577782 Revd Peter Chapman 01263-577782 5.00 pm. Evening Prayer Common Worship Bessingham Churchwardens Felbrigg David Wiltshire 01263-768104 Mary Llewellyn 01263-513072 Clerk to the School Governors 28*** January Epiphany 4 Hilary Kirkland 01263-514380 Donald Mayes 01263-761392 Churchwardens Hanworth with 9.30 am. Moming Prayer Book of Common Prayer Hanworth Robert Brown Trust - Trustees Gunton 11.00 am. 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It was the coalescence of the new Evangelicalism and his encounter with Wednesday 17*^ January 2018 @ We each put our faith into action on the mighty Quaker network in Norfolk that gave the impetus to these 2.30pm at Felbrigg Village Hall. a daily basis as we collect All welcome. developments. Edward suffered from an acute sense of guilt throughout prescriptions for the housebound, his life for the great wealth bestowed on him while the bulk of the give lifts for hospital appointments population bore the burden of huge economic and social changes. Self- Faith in Action and shopping, walk the dog, visit examination led him to question what use he had made of those great This was our Mission Statement for those who are sick, lend a listening gifts. The climax to his political career came in 1833 when he took the 2017. ear and most of all by prayer. Abolition of Slavery Bill through the House of Lords and into law - that How have we as Roughton As we look to the future we see certainly did change the world and made it a better place. It was largely Mothers' Union achieved this? change which as we get older none through the support given to him by the Spirit acting through Charles that In April Simone gave us a craft of us particularly like. However, he achieved what he did. Charles Heath was the Rector for 38 years; table at her Quilt Fair at Upper there is one who is constant and 1828-66. He encouraged Edward to hold daily prayers each moming in Sheringham. We raised £161.20 for one who never changes and God Gunton Hall by guiding his words. Edward felt challenged by the Away From It All Holidays. Thank will be with us leading us forward teachings of the many different preachers outside the Anglican you to all who contributed jams, into 2018. May I wish you all this communion. His eamestness became even more acute in his closing years. cakes, plants and craft works, and Love, Joy and Peace for Christmas Sufifield found praying aloud difficult so he sent a draft of his words to to those who willingly gave their and the coming year. zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBADorothy Charles. Heath's main comment was that the name of Jesus should be the time to man the stall on the day. focus of his feelings so that he might find solace and salvation. Charles We gave a donation to help buy lent Edward many books by eminent churchmen and when the latter duvet covers and pillowcases for Craft Workshop visited Cromer for a holiday and they were able to meet them; that the six Syrian refugee families that certainly helped Edward on his spiritual joumey. Many physical changes came to in the Spring. 1^ 3"* and 4* Monday from took place inside Hanworth Church during Charles's ministry though it They are settling well into our 10.0am - 12.30pm at Roughton has to be added that much of the splendid Victorian church fittings and community and have been joined Village Hall. £2.50 including furniture we still enjoy using was organised by the curate Mr Griffiths, no by a further six families this coffee. Some materials provided. doubt also filled with the Holy Spirit. Autumn. Quilting, crochet and much more. Richard In July our speaker, Sue Fletcher Everyone welcome to come along. from Weymouth showed her faith The group will no longer be as she recounted God's help and meeting on the second Monday of presence in her fight against cancer. the month. She goes round the country telling For further information please her story and showing her faith in contact Simone on: 01263 711346 God's love for us all. Thank You ME-YOU-THEM In an overgrown corner of a Norfolk churchyard Words aren't enough to convey my ME - I'm the Ambassador the gratitude for all the help and . . thirty years ago the Verger of Hanworth discovered a tomb half Roughton Benefice magazine and I friendship I've received since hidden below the weeds - its inscription was then still readable. It told would like to thank:- falling and breaking my arm on of a priest appointed to a pair of small parishes in ; Sunday 5* November. YOU - Whoever is reading this. someone in the early-1800s who could hardly expect to change the To Peter and Ceirwen for seeing THEM - the people who have world or in fact have much impact on it, especially when his main focus home and waiting until was to minister to the most needy and destitute amongst his small flock. me safely anything to do vdth the printed zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA'with God, nothing will be impossible'; my daughter arrived. To the word herein and the people who But as Gabriel said; Luke 1,37. neighbours who got medicines out print me, without whom, I wouldn't Charles Heath was no ordinary parson. His father was the headmaster of of containers, opened cans, exist. Eton College and his uncle was the head of Harrow School. Another uncle chopped vegetables, lent me a in Dorset had one of the biggest and most valuable classical libraries in But the real praise and thanks for crockpot, baked cakes, walked Lola that county. It was in Dorset that Charles encountered Edward Lord my well being must go to the and offered hfts to clinics and to do Sufifield of Gunton. At Christmas time the parson was invited to spend it twenty or so people who deliver me shopping. with the Sufifields who had rented a grand house; but then early on to you door; widiout them my Christmas moming, Charles went missing. His hosts were astonished to Such kindness and generosity - existence would be pointless. find that he had braved the deep snow to bring urgent comforts both how lucky I am to live in this Loke So; to all my deliverers spiritual and material to his poor parishioners. Later he encouraged knowing everyone. «A BIG THANK YOU" A huge thank you to the team at Edward to build a new school and poor house. Charles represented a new Cromer Hospital who gave me Evangelical spirit in the Anglican Church that would restate its relevance great care and attention - Gold Quentin's Quip to a rapidly changing British society, increasingly aware of its moral Stars all round. obligations to all parts of society. Dorset was one of the poorest counties May I wish you all Peace, Love Here it comes again, h's that time in but then so was Norfolk. Lord Suflfield offered Charles the and Joy this Chnstmas and for of year, vacant ecclesiastical living of Gunton with Hanworth. It meant that the coming year. zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBAWhen most of us eat (some drink) Charles no longer had to live separately from his growing family. When Dorothy too much I fear. the old rectory in Gunton Park near the bridge was pulled down in the So, spare a thought for those asleep 1780s, its parish and church-land was amalgamated with that of the in the street adjacent village of Hanworth. A splendid new rectory was built midway Allotment When their problem isn't too much between the two churches in a parish with four parks - even the rectory The Robert Brown Trust is looking to eat had its own mini-park laid out by the famous landscapes Humphrey for someone to take over an But, at night, more Ukely to be Repton. Charles had only 250 parishioners yet he was also provided with allotment in Roughton. frozen feet! a curate! If you think you might be This poverty is worldwide too, not interested please contact Helen on only here. 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Dear Mary, 1 Larvae of this often calied a Rookworm 2 The Captain in TVs "Are you being served" Wowt What a wonderful you sent to us in PTA from your Harvest Festival. This £250 wiH be 3 Religious community surrounds cash register for ihis brilliant to prepare me for my next visit, and I wiH put it into expanding the irri^on system for the Butterfly 12 new fanns that are currently under development in the area of San Silvestre on our island. 4 A protective piece of armour San Silvestre can hardly be called a village. It's a group of 12 fannsteads all dotted around to the 5 EMITTER east of Altagrada - the main tcwn in the region. It boasts a Primary School, but no Church. 6 Aquatic rower Anyway, it is rural Nicaragua, and not zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBAVke rural England at all. But many of the temners are lovely 7 Did Sir Christopher Cockerell invent this one? Christians, and the main one (a man named Lute Mdrquez) is a brilliant and feAhful Christian man. 8 Pica Pica Moth I guess he would be like your other local fanner who took part in your Harvest Festival; strong, 9 Russian Naval Commander faithful and giving thanks to God for all the harvest blessings. 10 Wrapped inside Roman tissue paper 11 The Beadle in Oliver Twist Our Horlteultural System will benefit enonnously from the additton of 12 new farms - or as many of 12 African big cat them as can join our co-operative. Little by little we are devetoping the whole island so that the local 13 Opposite of "Suck" fly fanns can produce the five fruit and vegetables that we, and they, need for their heaWi. Before our Project got under way, all fruit and vegetables came from the mainland. They were often rejects and 14 State whose capital is Denver were tired, and they cost more because everything that tnavels on the ferry has a maric-up. Now. all 15 Peter Sallis' in "Last of the Summer Wine" less final our tocallyproduce d fruit and veg Is fresh, straight off the fields, and cheap. And therefore beautiful. letter 16 A burrowing secret agent Your money, both now and in time past, has helped enonnousiy to bring into reality the viston that 17 This may be a King or Queen the Lort gave me to help these poor people. 1 feel so privileged to be the catalyst for them and to be the redpient of your giving. I guess I am the link in the chain, and that to me is wonderful, i hold 18 This one may take to the air after April your hands and their hands and join you two togettjer. It reminds me