Studland Parish News August 2018 (Please follow the path and colour me in) St Nicholas Church Studland Note from the editor… It is a pleasure to create this month’s edition sat at my own desk in my own home. I seemed to have missed a lot over the last month but have been so happy to read updates and receive pictures of the events that have been entertaining the village while I have been away. I thank everyone who has been kind enough to keep me in the picture. This month’s Parish News is full of diversity. Diversity within the location in which we reside and how remarkable and unique it is, as well as diversity within the so many things that you can get involved with; events, groups, festivals and an array of interesting activities. This month, I have my mother making her first visit and I look forward to showing her the diversity of this amazing place that I am so very proud to call home. I hope she will be lucky enough to also meet some of the wonderful diverse people within our community too. Speaking of community, you will also find in this month’s edition some communications from our village community. This comes in the form of appreciations and gratitude to others and also calls for assistance and support. Following on from last month’s front page which reflected ‘a time to reach your neighbours’, I am delighted that people find this publication a source of connecting with each other. By drawing upon the diversity and range of views, experiences, skills and attitudes in our neighbourhood we can listen to and meet the changing needs of our village and its users which will benefit Studland for generations to come. I wish you all a wonderful August whatever you do. Sharon Westman, Editor Submissions for the SEPTEMBER To advertise in the Studland Parish News edition need to be with the editor by Please contact the Parish Secretary, Karon Quirey FRIDAY AUGUST 17th 2018 Email: E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 01929 450675 [email protected] Any contributions received after this Telephone: 01929 421117 date cannot be guaranteed. 2 Swanage and Studland Team Ministry Team Rector The Very Revd John Mann The Rectory, 12 Church Hill, Swanage, BH19 1HU Tel. 01929 422916 Email: [email protected] Team Office Tel. 01929 421117 Email: [email protected] St Nicholas Church, Studland Resident Priest Rev’d Tony Higgins The Old School House, School Lane, Studland BH19 3AJ Tel. 01929 450691 Email: [email protected] Church Wardens Barbara Matthews Old Harry, The Glebe, Studland BH19 3AS Tel. 01929 450218 Email: [email protected] Mr Eric Stobart Knapwynd, School Lane, Studland BH19 3AJ Tel: 01929 450222 Email: [email protected] Hon. Treasurer Mr Andrew Goodwin 5 The Green, Heath Green Road, Studland BH19 3BT Tel. 10929 450069 Email: [email protected] Hon. Secretary Mr Iain Westman Westwood Cottage, Heath Green Road, BH19 3BY Tel. 01929 450675 Email: [email protected] 3 The Team Vicar writes… What does greatness look like? It’s the afternoon of Thursday 12th of July as I write this. Last night, after an incredible run, the England team was knocked out of the World Cup by Croatia. I thought I’d feel desolate – actually I just feel proud. The pivotal moment of my childhood was probably 30th of July 1966 – the moment when England won their one and only World Cup title. I was 11 years old and it is etched on my memory. Since then, let’s face it, we’ve had year after year, decade after decade, of under-performance and disappointing results. I used to blame Rupert Murdoch when Sky TV got hold of the national game by pumping billions of pounds into our national game - which meant that the Premier League called the shots and hired the best foreign players, leaving our national players in the lower divisions. But I can’t really blame Murdoch – he only launched Sky TV in 1989 – by that time we’d already had ‘twenty years of hurt’. But the problem was not just England’s lack of ‘finishing’ (a euphemism for ‘they never score enough goals’). Nor was it that our record was so relentlessly poor year after year, tournament after tournament. No, there was something not entirely admirable in the national team. Hard to put your finger on it at the time but I realised what it was when the England team came under new management. Of course, I’m talking about Gareth Southgate. We’ve had a succession of team managers over the last half-century. But very few of them has come close to Southgate in integrity, application, quiet and considered thought, politeness. Think of some of his predecessors – often in the gossip columns, one struck of the roll of company directors, another (his predecessor) resigned when he was recorded advising supposed Far East investors in how to get around Football Association rules on club ownership! Whenever you listen to Southgate, you just get a feeling that he is a good guy – married for the last 20 years, takes his children camping, answers journalists’ questions with direct and polite answers – and he wears a waistcoat! But what marks him out as our greatest manager since Sir Alf Ramsay (the 1966 manager) is his humility. He knows what he has to do, he knows how to motivate his young team of players. And he is quietly supportive, giving all the credit to them, not singling out individuals but encouraging the whole team. They have all responded – and the country has responded too. So, when we lost yesterday I still felt immensely proud of the England team – not just because we reached the semi-final of the World Cup but because true greatness doesn't actually depend on results, it depends on character. Jesus said, “I am among you as one who serves” (Luke 22.27). Gareth Southgate does not 4 (as far as I know) acknowledge any Christian faith. But he is a man who knows how to serve. Actually, I hope it’s not stretching a point too far to say that there is another parallel between the England manager and the Son of God. The first time that Gareth Southgate really came to the nation’s attention was back in 1996 when he missed a crucial penalty in the semi-final against (inevitably) Germany in Euro ’96 which put England out of the competition. People are not talking about 1996 now – they’re talking about 2018. There’s something really inspiring about someone who comes back from the dead! Revd. Andrew Corke Vicar of All Saints Rectory Ramblings People often say to me, “You must find living in Swanage different to living in Ireland”. To which I answer, “Yes, it is different”, but then settle on what are probably the three most obvious things to me: the weather, the structure and order of the churches and the sheer number of people and cars. As Ireland is also experiencing hot sunny weather at the moment (Maybe it will be raining by the time you read this, but it is still warm and dry as I write) this is not an obvious moment to draw comparison, but generally speaking, where we lived, we experienced mild, often cloudy and damp, summers with occasional stunningly beautiful warm sunny days, with the countryside still lush and green. So, one of the weekly summer tasks in Belfast, or wherever one lived in Northern Ireland, was to cut the grass. Here in Swanage, in mid-July, I realise that I have only cut the rectory grass three times this year. Now, admittedly, even for Swanage, this has been an extended period without rain. It has, however, given me a very easy and obvious subject for assemblies: water, life, wells, taking what comes from our taps for granted, emptying the bath in buckets onto the tender plants in the garden, and reference to those in the world without easy access to clean water. Inside one week it was my assembly for all three primary schools in Swanage. But, I finished each time with speaking of the wells in the Bible as not only places to draw water, but, because of everyone’s common need for that vital resource, it was also the meeting place for individuals and families. Would Isaac and Rebekah have met, but for their mutual need of water? And, what of Jesus and the Samaritan woman? Such an intense and wonderful story would never have unfolded had it not been for the well. John Mann 5 Rota for AUGUST 2018 for St. Nicholas Church Important: Please arrange for someone else to cover you if you are unavailable. DATE SERVICE SIDESMEN READERS Sunday 5th Holy Eric Stobart 8.00am Communion Angela Myerscough Eph. 4.1-16 BCP th Clergy 10 Sunday JM John 6.24-35 after Trinity Holy Joy Fildes 10.00am Communion John Sanders Eph. 4.1-16 JS Clergy John 6.24-35 Sunday 12th Family Janet Watts 11th Sunday Communion David & Sally Eph.4 25—5.2 after Trinity +Baptism Hogsflesh 10.00am AH Clergy John 6.35,41-51 Sunday 19th Holy Lesley Cocks 12th Sunday Communion Robin & June Hilton Eph.5.15-20 after Trinity JM Clergy 10.00am John 6.51-58 Sunday 26th Holy Trish Moore 13th Sunday Communion Jane Hawksworth Eph. 6.10-20 after Trinity PB 10.00am Clergy John. 6.56-29 Sunday 26th Pimm’s & Angela Myerscough 6.30pm Hymns Doris Royal Jonah 2 AH Clergy Rev 1.