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Contacts in the In this month’s magazine: Contact and Pastoral Care Crediton Benefice Community Page 2 RECTOR Rector’s Notes The Reverend Matthew Tregenza 01363 894038 Page 3 PRIEST AT SANDFORD News from around the Benefice The Reverend Paul Fillery 01363 777372 Page 4 LICENSED READERS Matthew - New Rural Dean Carol Price 01647 24468 Page 6 Sandra Collier 01363 777013 Christmas Tree Festival PARISH OFFICE Page 7 Parish Administrator: Gill Lee Yeoford Church - Help Needed (Tuesday and Friday 9.30am – 12.30pm) Page 12 The Boniface Centre, Church Lane, Crediton, EX17 2AH Reading the Bible 01363 773226 [email protected] Page 14 Website: www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk Sunday Worship CLERK TO THE CHURCH GOVERNORS Page 15 Sandra Thresher 01363 85467 [email protected] Thika Link Report Centre Pages CHURCHWARDENS The Giving Machine / Amazon Smile Crediton: Sheila Ralph, Mike May, Peter Brewer Page 16 Sandford: Linda Bennett-Smith, Chris Tucker Shobrooke: Rosemary Barber, John Lee Life in Lockdown - Part 8 Yeoford: Carol Price (Licensed Reader) Page 20 Posbury: Fiona Mortimer (Chairman), Ruth Vigers (Treasurer) Congratulations to James Mitchell DIRECTOR OF MUSIC (ACTING) Page 23 Richard Stephens 01363 775170 [email protected] Message from the Archbishops BELL TOWER Page 24 Tower Captain: Geoff Sparling 01363 776681 GROW - Lay Learning Courses [email protected] Page 26 BONIFACE CENTRE BOOKINGS Plus regular features: Robin Lavery 01363 772536 [email protected] Choir Notes – Page 22 CREDITON MOTHERS’ UNION Friends of Crediton Church – Page 17 Anne Jerman 01363 772865 From the Archives – Page 28 Mothers’ Union – Page 25 HOLY CROSS FACEBOOK PAGE Prayer Diary – Page 10 James Turner [email protected] Reverberations – Page 14 PARISH MAGAZINE Rhymes and Things – Page 18 Editor and Advertising: Rose Grisman 1 Dokkum Road, Crediton, EX17 3DJ To all contributors to the magazine 07972 028069 [email protected] The deadline for items to be included Distribution: Kathleen Hughes 01363 777371 in the DECEMBER edition If you would like a copy of the magazine delivered each of the magazine is month please contact Gill Lee or Kathleen Hughes SUNDAY 15th NOVEMBER Thank you for your co-operation Annual subscription £9 ********** © ROOTS for Churches Ltd 2002-2013. Material in Prayer Diary Distribution of the magazine will be reproduced with permission www.rootsontheweb.com by delivery and email, and hard copies will be available at All articles and correspondence in this magazine reflect the Evans Newsagents from views of the writers and should not be read otherwise SATURDAY 28th NOVEMBER 1 NOVEMBER SERVICES IN THE BENEFICE Please note that these services may be subject to change, depending on the guidelines in place at the time. CREDITON SANDFORD SHOBROOKE Others YEOFORD 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) 10.00 All Souls 1 Nov 9.30 Holy Communion 10.00 Holy Communion POSBURY All Saints 11.00 Holy Communion 6pm All Souls 11.00 Holy Communion (BCP) 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) 8 Nov 10.15 Remembrance 10.45 Remembrance YEOFORD 10.15 Civic Service Remembrance Service Service 9.30 Holy Communion Sunday 6pm Requiem Eucharist 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30 Holy Communion POSBURY 15 Nov 11.00 Holy Communion 10.00 Holy Communion 11.00 Holy Communion 2 before Advent 6pm Sacred Space (BCP) at St Lawrence Chapel 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30 Holy Communion YEOFORD 22 Nov 10.00 Holy Communion 11.00 Holy Communion Christ the King 11.00 Holy Communion 10.00 Family Service 6pm Said Compline 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30 Holy Communion 29 Nov 10.00 Holy Communion Advent 1 11.00 Holy Communion 6pm Advent Carols Contact and Pastoral Care during the ‘Lockdown’ Gill has been able to return to working in the Parish Office but due to Covid-19 working restrictions, please don’t call at the office but continue to make contact by telephone (01363 773226) or email [email protected]. There is also lots of information and the resources for the Sunday services on the church website: www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk And don’t forget the Holy Cross Crediton Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ CreditonParishChurch/ where you can also view the Sunday service. You don’t need to have a Facebook account to view the posts that have been made. There are Pastoral Care arrangements in place. Do contact the Pastoral Care group by email: [email protected] or phone Matthew (01363 894038) or Stella Stephens (07960 388198) if you, or someone you know, needs some help or would appreciate a phone call. Please use the same contact details to offer help. There are a small number of people where we are helping with shopping in particular and the team are also maintaining telephone contact with the church family. 2 Rector’s Notes winter world. We find it echoed in the psalms: ‘My soul waits of the Lord like a November is the month for remembering. watchman for daybreak’ At the very beginning of the month we have All Saints and All Souls, followed by This year we shall have All Souls services Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day. on Saturday 31st October and Sunday 1st November at Holy Cross and on In the very act of remembering we bring Monday 2nd November at St Lawrence to mind someone or an event... we draw Chapel. These services provide on the memories which we have and we opportunities for us to remember make those memories present to us. As together those who have been important human beings, remembering with our to us. By remembering we keep their minds can also evoke feelings in our memories alive and by bringing them to hearts too. Remembering can be an mind we too can somehow keep their emotional journey and it can be healing presence in our lives. too. Often we light candles as a sign of When we remember we bring to mind remembering and, like the remembrance someone or something; we draw on our of God, we do something too. As we light memories. But, of course, because we’re the candle we say a prayer for that human beings, what we remember with person. The candle light reminds us that our minds evokes feeling in our hearts we too have the opportunity to share the and in our bodies. Our memories may light of hope, that we carry, with others. make us feel warm and comforted – they When you are in a dark place, the warmth may fill us with joy, or they may fill us of a smile or a kind word can mean a lot. with sadness, sorrow and regret – they may make us feel low. It may feel that the light we offer to others is very small and insignificant in Zakar is a Hebrew word from the Old times of much darkness, but each time it Testament meaning to remember, recall, is shared it is not halved but doubled. or call to mind, but when God remembers Together we really can make a difference his people, he also does something for to each other. them such as bringing them out of exile. When God remembers us, he does Remembering is important and it is something for us as well. When Jesus important that we are gentle with took bread and wine – simple ingredients ourselves and give ourselves time and on the Passover table and commanded us space in which to do our remembering. to do this in remembrance of me, I can't Your friend and Rector help but wonder whether there was something of his own hope that he would Matthew Tregenza be remembered and his mission passed on, as well as a desire to give his disciples some way of keeping his memory alive FROM THE CHURCH REGISTERS when he was gone. OF THE BENEFICE 2020 November is a month in which the days Funerals continue to shorten and it is not September 10 Rex Rothwell-Jackson coincidence perhaps that as the days September 25 Violet Seldon shorten, human beings have found October 8 Maurice Wonnacott symbols of light to remind them of the October 9 Jean Fryer hope that lies beneath our cold and bleak 3 News from around the Benefice for us all. And as Anne Tucker commented, ‘nature is the real winner Sandford here.’ with Upton Hellions A presentation took place on Friday 23rd As the Autumn colours appear October in the Churchyard and we are throughout the Parish, we are turning our delighted to have been granted this thoughts to Remembrance Day, along award. with the necessity for a much-reduced Parish Act of Remembrance. We have yet Our second item of good news concerns to finalise our plans as I write this, but it Beacon Church at Newbuildings. The roof is certain that our usual crowded time in of the church and the large windows at the Square will not be taking place this both the east and west end of the year due to COVID restrictions. That said, building are now leaking badly and the we hope to provide opportunity and ingress of water has started to damage suggestions as to how we can remember the building significantly.