JUNE 2021 All Saints’ Church Parish Magazine LEEK WOOTTON LINK Leek Wootton | Guy’s Cliffe | Hill Wootton | Chesford | Goodrest | Wedgnock | North & Middle Woodloes LEEK WOOTTON LINK | JUNE 2021 issues regarding isolation or the need EDITORIAL for assistance, please do contact the Welcome to the June issue of The Link. COVID 19 response team, via the Clerk Much has changed, according to the to the Parish Council, and we know that Government roadmap, but life still feels help will be available. ’different’. We’ve been isolated, we’ve In the meantime, enjoy your been vaccinated and many of us have surroundings and the freedoms that we been tested, but life really is still quite do have! Stay safe and well. strange. Helen & Lesley Eldridge Travel is not recommended and we’re all The Editorial Team still 2 metres apart, but if you have any Cover Image: ‘A solitary bee in my bug hotel’ by David Elsy All Saints’ Church WHO’S WHO? Priest in Charge Readers Jim Perryman t : 850610 Audrey Rowberry t : 851498 The Vicarage, 4 Hill Wootton Road 7a The Meadows e : [email protected] Nigel Stallard t : 850548 Church Wardens Reading Room Cottage Jonathan Kingston t : 851181 Church Lane 32 Hill Wootton Road Treasurer to the PCC Nigel Stallard (see right for contact) Iain Wilton t : 07771 664185 4 Croft Road Secretary to the PCC Chris de Wolf e : [email protected] 8 Eliot Close, Warwick Parish Safeguarding Officer Lesley Allen t : 07963 815773 | e : [email protected] Articles for The Link: If there is anything you would like to include, please email [email protected] The deadline for editorial submissions for the JUL/AUG 2021 issue is: FRIDAY, 18 JUNE 2021 Advertisements for The Link or for www.leekwoottonchurch.co.uk: 1 WEEK IN ADVANCE OF THE MAIN SUBMISSION DEADLINE Via email to [email protected] or call Jim Perryman on 01926 850610 Would you like to receive The Link by email? Please email [email protected] and request your email copy Back issues of The Link are available to view online at: https://express.yudu.com/library/82141/LeekWootton-amp-GuysCliffe-s-Library 2 LEEK WOOTTON LINK | JUNE 2021 FROM THE VICARAGE Green for Growing Green is very much the favoured colour at the moment – people (me included) are longing for more countries to be added to the Government’s GREEN list, making travel simpler and quarantine unnecessary. Sadly, most of the countries currently on the list are closed or very restricted to UK travellers anyway, so Portugal seems to be the only realistic option. Currently, however, Portugal is not one of the areas I work in with my other job. It is Switzerland and Greece that are most on my radar (along with France as this is inconveniently in the way of a direct land-based journey to Switzerland!). For me, and the chaplains I work with, all the lights are Amber. This makes life very difficult and extremely expensive for their volunteer work and a number have been forced to withdraw from the team. I’ve experienced many of the difficulties first hand as I am writing this from Switzerland having been unsure, until I actually drove across the France/ Switzerland border, that I would be allowed in, even though I had jumped through countless hoops in advance. Of course, getting here was only the first stage – I still have to get home again; with quarantine and numerous PCR tests awaiting me. And if the pandemic wasn’t bad enough, don’t forget the major impact that Brexit now has on what was once a simple journey to the ‘mainland’! However, now I’m here, the green of the alpine meadows and the majesty of the mountains do offer a sense of hope that all will be well eventually. Green is a wonderful colour – full of hope, full of life – and it provides a perfect background for the wild flowers that carpet the fields – as they do the churchyard in Leek Wootton. I know that many people have been enjoying the beauty of the churchyard over recent times, with walkers passing through after leaving their cars in the Church car park. I hope that many will take advantage of the excellent plans for discovering more about the flora and fauna that are there, by joining our guest experts over the first weekend of June. Our first ‘Church Teas’ since September 2019 will also be part of that weekend. Let’s pray that the weather behaves itself! But June sees the start of Green inside the church building as well as outside. The season of Trinity is the longest part of the Church Year, and it is marked by our altar frontal and other cloths being green – as a sign that, outside the major festivals, our focus is on the ongoing task of growing in our faith, growing in our fellowship, and growing in our service to the community in the name and love of God. So let’s keep going, keep growing – and keep hoping that the world soon becomes a safer place to move around; with green lights being able to replace the amber and red that are so prevalent just now. Jim Perryman 3 LEEK WOOTTON LINK | JUNE 2021 www.leekwoottonchurch.co.uk ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH CHURCH SERVICES / EVENTS FOR JUNE Saturday, 5 June 9:30pm Bat and Moth evening (to 11:00pm) in the churchyard Pre-booking essential – see page 25 Sunday, 6 June 9:30am Morning Worship ONLINE including MOSAIC group for families 11:00am Holy Communion IN CHURCH 2:00pm Wildflower Walk (to 3:00pm) in the churchyard Pre-booking essential – see page 25 3:00pm Church Teas (to 5:00pm) open to all 3:30pm Minibeast Hunting (to 4:30pm) in the churchyard Pre-booking essential – see page 25 Sunday, 13 June 9:30am Morning Worship ONLINE including MOSAIC group for families 11:00am Holy Communion IN CHURCH Tuesday, 15 June 7:30pm PCC Meeting Sunday, 20 June 9:30am Morning Worship ONLINE including MOSAIC group for families 11:00am Holy Communion IN CHURCH Thursday, 24 June 1:00pm Wedding of Nicholas Williams and Rebecca Cullen Sunday, 27 June 9:30am Morning Worship ONLINE including MOSAIC group for families 11:00am Holy Communion IN CHURCH The following weekday services will not be available on YouTube Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 8:50am ONLINE Morning Worship: Prayer, Bible reading, time to reflect on the reading and a song of worship related to the theme, plus a chance to chat at the end Monday and Wednesday, 5:45pm – 6:00pm ONLINE Compline: A short time of peaceful reflection to end the working day 4 LEEK WOOTTON LINK | JUNE 2021 You can ‘phone in’ to our online services if you don’t feel comfortable joining via Zoom or YouTube on your computer or smartphone. Details for all methods are as follows. TO JOIN US ON ZOOM (All online worship, Sunday and midweek): www.tiny.cc/lwzoom all lower case or use the Zoom Cloud Meeting App Meeting ID 645 991 3128 with Passcode 110720 TO JOIN US ON YOUTUBE: www.tiny.cc/lwyoutube all lower case TO JOIN US ON YOUR TELEPHONE: Dial 0131 460 1196 (standard phone charges apply) When asked, on your phone keypad, key in 6459913128# Then to second question, just enter # And when asked for the Passcode, key in 110720# TO JOIN US IN CHURCH: Come along, but please wear a face covering and abide by all the official regulations as well as the local hygiene requirements TO CATCH UP LATER: Go to www.leekwoottonchurch.co.uk and follow the menu link to ‘Recent Online Service Videos’ DAILY COMMUNITY PRAYER FOCUS: Each weekday, and each weekend, we pray specifically for those who live or work in a different street or area of our parishes. We invite everyone to join in this – perhaps thinking about those you know in a particular place, or just picturing the place in your thoughts – and in a moment of quiet, just ask that peace and blessing may come to the homes and workplaces there. Prayer doesn’t need long words or strange language, just an open heart and a brief stillness of mind. The cycle of prayer for the coming days will be displayed on the front page of the church website. Please make this one of your home pages, or bookmark it, so that you can easily find out who to think about, and when you are being specifically prayed for. You are always invited to submit personal prayer requests to [email protected] where some of the church leaders will pray for your concerns in strict confidence. To enter into conversation about a concern, please contact the vicar or one of the Readers or Churchwardens directly – see contact details inside the front cover. 5 LEEK WOOTTON LINK | JUNE 2021 www.mothersunioncoventry.com LEEK WOOTTON MU Contact : Janet Jackson t : 258264 DEANERY PRAYERS: Tuesday, 15 June On the third Tuesday of each month, we pause to pray for families, our communities and our schools. We also remember a particular area and this month prayers are for Meriden and Packington. SUMMER OF HOPE 2021 MU’s annual Summer of Hope campaign is under way, a time to celebrate 145 years of Mothers’ Union, and we will be raising funds to give hope for a better future to families and communities both locally and globally. This year the funds will be needed more than ever with, in many cases, the impacts of COVID exacerbating pre-existing issues around equality, justice and poverty - from nearby to our brothers and sisters around the world, especially in some of the world’s poorest countries.