Cylchgrawn Plwyfi Cydweli A Llandyfaelog Kidwelly & Llandyfaelog Parish Magazine November 2019 WHO’S WHO Priest-in-Charge Revd. Trevor Copeland The Vicarage (Cartref) Castle Court, Craylands Park Cydweli, Carmarthenshire SA17 5EF Tel: 01554 891311 Trevor mob. ~ 07484 251 964 Email: [email protected] ST MARY’S KIDWELLY ST MAELOG’S, LLANDYFAELOG Vicar’s Warden Simon White Vicar’s Warden 4, Maes y Parc 01554 891512 Sarah Walters People’s Warden Nantygoetre Uchaf 01267 267730 Gareth Harries, People’s Warden Caer Wenallt, Vicarage Lane Rheinallt Jones 01554 890975 Ystrad Ferthyr 01269 860385 Secretary Secretary Kath Nicholas, Kath Williams, 66 Morfa Maen 01554 891084 6 Bro Pedr 01267 267391 Treasurer Treasurer Diane Cuff Meinir Solloway, [email protected] Llwyn Celyn, Upland Arms Organist 07870 266 969 Ceris Harries Organists Children's Work Coordinator Lynwen Anderson Dee Copeland Carys Thomas mob. 07837 382 216 Llinos Thomas Friend's of St. Mary's Church Mr. I. Hughes 01554890682 MAGAZINE Parish Room bookings Christine Hughes 01554 890235 Editor &Advertisements email: [email protected] email: [email protected] ST TEILO’S, Web address: MYNYDDYGARREG www.stmaryskidwelly.org.uk Floodlighting Co-ordinator Vicar’s Warden Christine Hughes 01554 890235 Nefin Davies, email: [email protected] Gelliwerdd 01554 890 441 Kidwelly Reporter People’s Warden Kath Nicholas 01554 891084 Jayne Roberts, Mynyddygarreg Reporter 68 Water St., Kidwelly Dorian Reeve 01554 890213 Tel: 01554 891 107 Llandyfaelog Reporter Organist Sarah Walters 01267 267730 Jean Peace Magazine Treasurer Kath Nicholas 01554 891084 STRADEYGWESTY PARC Y PARK HOTEL PARKStradey HOTEL & SPA HHHH THE PERFECT RELAXING GETAWAY Restaurant fine dining - Award winning Parc Spa Celebrations - Afternoon Tea - Weddings - Events - Business Gift vouchers available for that unique gift idea Stradey Park Hotel & Spa, Llanelli, SA15 4HA. T: 01554 758171 e:[email protected] | www.stradeyparkhotel.com Mr Ian M. Smith Pastoral Letter Dear Friends, All the Harvest services went really well. Many thanks to everyone who dressed the churches and made them look so wonderful. Diolch yn fawr, to our organists who make our services possible through your playing for us. Thanks to our guest speakers and we were especially blessed with Revd. Helen’s presence at St Mary’s. The school children also did us proud coming into St Teilo’s and St Mary’s for Harvest services. All the food collected has been delivered to Llanelli Food Bank at Myrtle House. November is another busy month, beginning with the wedding of Carwyn Evans and Zara Williams in St Mary’s Kidwelly on the feast of All Saints. Cerys will be playing our recently refurbished church organ with the new “Gedge Trumpet”, added in memory of David & Hazel Gedge, who did so much to raise awareness of the importance of the organ at St Mary’s Kidwelly and who also raised a lot of money through recitals for the organ to be restored in this way. This is followed quickly by the inauguration of Bro Cydweli LMA on 6th November. The service will begin at 7pm. Reverend William Lambert, Reverend Heidi De Gruchy, Canon Dewi Roberts and I will lead the ministry team, which will also include Readers and Worship Leaders from all the ten churches in the newly established LMA of Bro Cydweli. Bishop Joanna and Archdeacon Dorrien Davies will lead us through the inauguration service. We will not get much time to ponder what it is like to be “Bro Cydweli” because we shall be focussing on Remembrance Sunday and the Armistice services. This change from what we have always been to this new LMA is not easy for any of us, but maybe we should be mindful of how much harder things were for those who lived and died in both world wars and in some of the periods in between and even in the time of scarcity and rationing that remained for a long time after 1945. It could be that the services of Remembrance will help us to put our current situation into perspective and help us to be less anxious about how we move forward as this new church group. Just as in wartime many people of faith turned to prayer for inspiration, we too have that New & Second-Hand Scooters Bought & Sold inc. Part Exchange Morfa House Servicing - Tyres - Batteries 16 Bridge Street Cydweli 60% OFF Carms. SA17 4UU Cym ra e g Cymraeg Free prescription delivery service 01554 890332 / 07772 583288 Tel: (01554) 890279 Deb’s Holistic Health & Foot Care Local community toenail trimming clinics in Kidwelly and Ferryside by appointment only For further details and to book please phone Debra Byers 07968-553634 (est. 2012) resource always available and we have a God who is always more ready to listen than we are to pray. So, let us put our trust in the Lord. Let us turn to Christ and to each other for support, guidance, help and a kind word when things seem a bit strange, or aren’t as they always have been. Let us do what our God expects from us and be people of His word and show His love in the world and to each other. Amen. Your Priest-in-Charge Trevor St. Mary’s News Plant Dewi Boxes Brenda and Alice will be opening the Plant Dewi yellow boxes after the 9.30 am service on Sunday 24th November in the Parish Room. If you need your box to be collected, contact Brenda on 890803. Christmas Angels We will be doing the Christmas angel messages again this year. Please put your name and message on the list at the back of church. Messages are only £3, with proceeds going to much needed church funds. Thank you for your support. St Mary’s Church Floodlighting We thank all our sponsors 02/11/19 In loving memory of my dear wife, Anne, on her 68th birthday. Love always, Martyn.x. 11/11/19 Atgofion penblwydd annwyl, a chofio am y golled yn y frwydir El Alamein 1942.x. 14/11/19 Two lonely years without you, I miss you so much David every day. My love always, Terrie. x. 16/11/19 Birthday memories of a good friend. Greatly missed. Xx. Renault Clio Kia Sportage New Renault Koleos Dacia Stepway Main Points from PCC Meeting, September 25th. There is a continuing budget deficit so unable to make the September Ministry Share payment. Urgent short and long term financial planning is needed. Direct Giving is working well as we have a consistent regular monthly income and this system eases the Treasurer’s workload. It would be good to have more people using this system. The Wardens will be happy to explain how this works. The organ at St.Mary’s is now fully restored. Ceris Harries, church organist, is to attend a six-session course for organists run by the Royal School of Church Music. Need to continue fund raising for both the Parish Room improvements and church in general. Future events will be a concert by Burry Port Band on Saturday, November 9th and by Swansea Excelsior Ladies’ Choir with the children from Ysgol Gwenllian on Monday, December 9th. Faculties need to be applied for to replace heaters in St. Teilo and for electrical work in St. Mary’s. A big thank you to Nevin for work on the donations box which is now ultra secure. With support from the PCC, the Revd. Trevor is to write to the Archdeacon delaying the inauguration of the LMA. The Parish Magazine annual subscription is to be raised to £5 for 2020. Fundraising News Don’t Miss! In St. Mary’s church there will be a concert by Burry Port Band on Saturday, November 9th ~ and by Swansea Excelsior Ladies’ Choir with the children from Ysgol Gwenllian on Monday, December 9th. Flower List for St. Mary's Nov Altar Pulpit Lady Chapel Wedding 1st November 3rd/10th Elin Davies Ceris Harries Margaret Roberts 17th/24th From Flower Fund • Upset digestion • Poo eating • Bad breath • Full anal glands • Itchy skin/ears/feet • Weight problems • Tear staining • Body odour • Persistent moulting • Lack of vitality • Fussy eating • Behaviour problems • Stiness • Tooth tartar For the best advice service in the business, call our in-house nutritionists on freephone: 08000800 083 6696 Developed by Veterinary Surgeon BVMS MRCVS www.burnspet.co.uk Sidespersons 9:30 am 03.11.19 Brian & Liz Lewis 10.11.19 Eileen Bryant & Pearl Rowland Remembrance Sunday 9.45am 17.11.19 Ieuan Hughes & Maureen James 24.11.19 Mandy Jones & Lynne Davies 01.12.19 Christine Hughes, Liz Antoniazzi & John Farr-Davies N.B. We would be very grateful if the nominated Sidespersons on duty for the day would count the collections in the vestry at the end of the service, as this helps our accounting. Thank You. If anyone would like to volunteer as a Reader or Sidesperson please see Church Wardens or Pearl. The Thomas Warne Organ 1762 Work on St Mary’s Organ has now been completed and the organ sounds wonderful. Some of you may have wondered what has been going on and why work needed to be done on the organ? We have been very lucky to have been given the services of Paul Hale, the organist emeritus of Southwell Minster and a highly respected organ consultant, to assess and design the upgrade of the organ. Paul has done this free of charge as a memorial to David and Hazel Gedge. Paul spent many hours, on his visits to Kidwelly, discussing with David what work they would like to do to the organ and, having given recitals on the organ, was well acquainted with its strengths but also its shortcomings, so ‘It’s a devil to start on was well qualified to honour David’s wishes.