PARISH MAGAZINE – December 2020 WHEATHILL PRIORY GROUP OF PARISHES –“Jesus Lives: Follow Him” Rev. Jane Durham tel: 01458 223417 Mobile: 07421 700 242 email: [email protected] CHURCHWARDENS Keinton Mandeville with Kingweston Lydford on Fosse Barton St David Mr Stephen Jenkins (01458) 224422 Mr Ralph Berry (01963) 240164 Mrs Jan Craig (01458) 850825 Mrs Rachel Willcox (01458) 224644 Mrs Jennie Cooper (01963) 240236) Mrs Wendy Eitzen (01458) 850011 Lay Minister: Jane Sedgman (01458) 223237 Benefice Administrator, Jonathan Beardsworth – Email: wheathillbenefi[email protected] Web Page : wheathill.org Parish Magazine Editor : wheathillbenefi[email protected] Join us for Christmas Services We look forward to welcoming you to services over Christmas week, and have made the following plans. Obviously if Government guidelines prohibit worship then we will rethink and move online and any changes to these plans will be posted on the parish website Wheathill.org or outside our churches. (All December’s Services are listed on Page 2) If you would like to attend any of the services listed below then please follow the booking instructions. This will help both with managing capacity and complying with track and trace requests, enabling people to access the locations quickly and easily. Please do let the person taking bookings know if you book a place and subsequently do not need it. For all services please come with a mask for anyone over the age of 12 (advisory at the crib service, needed at all others) and for the Carol and Crib service please bring chairs and dress appropriately for the outside conditions. The Carol Service is under cover, and hence dry, but unheated and so resembles the outdoors! To Book your place: If possible please go to Wheathill.org and follow the link on the front page to the booking form. Otherwise the following people are taking bookings: 20 December 2:30pm Carol Service at Kingweston Grain Store TA11 6BE (also on YouTube/CD or DVD if requested) Booking Jonathan Beardsworth 01963 240929 wheathillbenefi[email protected] 24 December, Christmas Eve – 4:00pm Crib Service Keinton Mandeville Churchyard (under gazebos) Booking Rachel Wilcox 01458 224644 [email protected] 24 December, Christmas Eve – 8:00pm Holy Communion Lydford (also live-streamed to YouTube) Booking Jennie Cooper 24 December 01963 240236 [email protected] Christmas Eve 11:15pm Holy Communion Keinton Mandeville Booking Stephen Jenkins 07831505170 [email protected] Christmas Day 25 December 08:30am Holy Communion Barton St David Booking Carolyn Browning 01458 851617 [email protected] Christmas Day 25 December 10:30am Christmas Celebration Lydford Booking Jennie Cooper 01963 240236 [email protected] Next issue will be JANUARY 2021 magazine – submissions up to 09:00 am Friday, 11_` December Items to the Editor – VIA EMAIL PLEASE: wheathillbenefi[email protected] December 2020 Services Dear friends (assuming that Government and Church of England guidelines allow public worship I’m writing this mid-November, so before we know what restrictions or guidelines there are going to be after 2ⁿ December when this lockdown ends. Date Time Service & Comments Church / Locaon There is much speculation in the media and elsewhere about what is happening about ‘our Christmas’. Questions asked include: ‘Will we be able to gather with 601 Dec 08:30 am Holy Communion Barton St David families anD frienDs as usual?’ ‘What are the restrictions going to be?’ ‘Will people 12:45 pm Bapesm Lydford follow the restrictions?’ 4:00 pm Chrisengle/Advent Star Keinton Churchyard Without doubt Christmas this year will be different. However, the message at (Please bring chair/picnic the heart of Christmas is the same, it does not change. In fact, living as we are blanket & dress appropriately) with unknown quantities and unexpected twists and turns maybe it resonates even more than at other times. The message at the heart of Christmas is of the 1301 Dec 08:30 am Holy Communion Keinton Mandeville birth of a child, into a nation living under a military regime, with unexpected 10:30 am Morning Prayer Barton St David demands made upon the people and overcrowded towns. 4:00pm Blue Christmas Lydford We may not have the overcrowded towns, nor are we under a military regime (A quiet and reflecCve but we do live with a level of uncertainly that a year ago we would not have Christmas Service) believed. We are also, I suspect more aware of how many people there are in shops or in close proximity to us. A year ago, who would have thought that we would be asking people to ‘book’ to attend a Christmas Service. Or holding 2001 Dec 08:30 am Holy Communion Lydford services in December in churchyards and a grain store. Or worshipping in masks, without shaking hands and sadly (as things stand) without singing. Kingweston Grainstore But we are, and the message is unchanging, a message that brings comfort 2:30 pm Carol Service TA11 6BE and joy, a message of hope for all people whatever their circumstances or (Please bring chair & dress challenges. This message is that God came to live among us, in the mess of life. appropriately) He came to live a human life as a baby, growing to a boy, young and then older man. He came to live alongside those who welcomed him and those who did not. _` 4:00 pm Crib Service Keinton Mandeville 24 Dec He came because he loved them, he still comes because he loves us. The heart of 8:00 pm Holy Communion Lydford the message is unchanging, our understanding of it changes and develops as time 11:15 pm Holy Communion Keinton Mandeville goes by. One of the carols that we often sing (when we can) says that this message is 25_` Dec 08:30 am Holy Communion Barton St David ‘glaD tidings of comfort anD joy’. Comfort and joy wherever we worship, home or 10:30 am All Age Celebraeon Lydford church. Comfort and joy wherever we spend our Christmas, because Jesus understands something of isolation, or struggle, of sorrow and loss and joy and 2701 Dec 10:30 am Holy Communion Kingweston celebration. (by Extension) This year as we gather to remember Christmas, God coming among us, together we’re doing so in ways that are quite different, our Carol Service takes place in Kingweston Grain Store (TA11 6BE) because it is big enough to 3TU Jan 08:30 am Morning Prayer Barton St David accommodate us. Jesus birth in a stable takes us to a grain store, part of the 10:30 am Holy communion Keinton Mandeville agricultural context in which we live. Before that on 13AB December we have a Services at 10:30am are livestreamed onto Wheathill Bene1ice on YouTube, over ‘Blue Christmas’ service. This is a quiet and re1lective service, maybe for those Christmas we will livestream the 8pm on Christmas Eve. The Carol Service will be who are approaching Christmas with uncertainty, or who want something a little available on the Wheathill Beneice YouTube channel, but also as a CD or DVD for quieter. And before that we have our Christingle and Advent Star Service in those who woulD like it. Keinton Churchyard under gazebos. We’ll be back there for the crib service and Could you please let Jonathan Beardsworth know by 14AB December if you we have an extra service in Lydford to try to accommodate as many people as would like a CD or DVD, along with your name and address so we can send it to possible. you. So wherever and however you celebrate and remember this Christmas may it Church opening for private prayer be for you a time of comfort and joy and may you know the reality of God with us Following permission from the Government and Church of England and local risk as we gather together and apart to remember and to celebrate. assessments, churches in the bene1ice are open for private prayer as follows: With best wishes Barton St David – WednesDay afternoon 2-4pm & SunDay mornings 10-11:30 am Jane Keinton Mandeville – TuesDay & Friday afternoons 2-4pm Kingweston – open 10am - 4pm Daily Lydford – open WednesDays 10:00 am – 3:00pm The Henry Livius Trust The Livius Trust aims to provide items, services or facilities at Keinton Keinton Mandeville Parish Church Openers – 2020 Mandeville Primary School to advance religion in accordance with the St Mary Magdalene Church will be open for limited sessions and church openers doctrines of the Church of England. The Trustees are open to any will be arranged. Should you need to swap, please could you let Emma know as proposals to accord with the Trusts aims. well as the person due to hand the key onto you. Rev. Jane Durham (01458) 223417 As the situation evolves and if more access is possible, a full rota will be Deborah Whiingham (01458) 224057 published in the magazine. Meanwhile, if anyone else would like to help with the locking and unlocking of the church, please call 223344. Belinda Simson (01458) 223470 Neill Thomas (01458)223613 2 2 December 2020 Services Dear friends (assuming that Government and Church of England guidelines allow public worship I’m writing this mid-November, so before we know what restrictions or guidelines there are going to be after 2ⁿ December when this lockdown ends. Date Time Service & Comments Church / Locaon There is much speculation in the media and elsewhere about what is happening about ‘our Christmas’. Questions asked include: ‘Will we be able to gather with 601 Dec 08:30 am Holy Communion Barton St David families anD frienDs as usual?’ ‘What are the restrictions going to be?’ ‘Will people 12:45 pm Bapesm Lydford follow the restrictions?’ 4:00 pm Chrisengle/Advent Star Keinton Churchyard Without doubt Christmas this year will be different.