Wickham Parish Magazine April 2021 Wickham Parish Magazine April 2021 The Parish Church of St Nicholas Wickham PO17 6HR (The United Benefice of St Nicholas, Wickham and St John the Baptist, Shedfield) www.stnicholaswickham.org.uk The Rector Assistant Curate The Revd Jane Isaac The Rectory, The Revd Dr Ruth Howlett-Shipley Southwick Road, Wickham, PO17 6HR 01329 280 905 01329 835 295 Associate Priest The Revd Juliet Montague The Vicarage, 52, Brooklyn Close, Waltham Chase, SO32 2RZ 01489 895 012 Members of the ministry team can be contacted by email via the parish Office [email protected] Churchwardens; Caretaker Magazine Editorial Team Mr Fred Crosskey Mr Ron Burt Mr John Landaw (Editor) [email protected] 5, Mill Lane, Wickham Mr Den Boylan, Mrs Sabrina 01329 609 161 01329 833 751 Gwynn, Mrs Sheila Campbell, John Mr Gerry Banks Farrow(photogapher), [email protected] Distribution; Mr Robert Goulson 01329 833 037 Church Flowers [email protected] Mrs Jane Buckle 01329 833 299 Parish Administrator/PCC 01329 832 517 Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Secretary Wickham, PO17 5NN Mrs Jane Goulson Advertising; Mrs Sue Pittam [email protected] Mothers' Union (Branch Leader) [email protected] 01329 833 299 Sabrina Gwynn Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Tel: 01329 233637 Wickham, PO17 5NN Email: [email protected] Methodist Church Minister; The Revd Joseph Tembo Honorary PCC Treasurer 01329 833 518 Mrs Di Frost Friends of St Nicholas Church Mr John Landaw [email protected] Roman Catholic Church [email protected] 01329 832 633 Fr Bruce Barnes 01329 830 088 The Laurels, Mayles Lane 02380 273 882 Wickham, PO17 5ND Church Room Bookings Park Place Centre Verger/Sacristan Mrs Jane Goulson Franciscan Sisters Mrs Rosemary Simpson [email protected] Winchester Road, Wickham 01329 512 629 01329 833 299 01329 833 043 Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Chaplain; Fr Andrew McMahon Choir Trainer Wickham, PO17 5NN Sunday Mass 9:00am Mrs Valerie Shuttleworth 01329 833 805 01329 835 233 Parish Magazine; Copy Mr John Landaw Wessex Jamaat Bell Ringers [email protected] Mr Abbas Rahim (Hon. Secretary) Greg Painter 01329 830 088 [email protected] [email protected] 1, Church View, School Rd 07753 813075 2 Wickham Parish Magazine April 2021 Full details of the spring agenda are listed inside..... Editorial st ....More 21 century technology ......Wickham The ever popular, Wickham Fete has been Community Centre invites you to their annual held annually, for many years, on the grounds AGM and get together via Zoom. The of Beverley, Southwick Road. Covid Community Centre has had a difficult year restrictions have prevented this year’s due to restrictions and needs the support and summer gathering and the organisers, after input of local and out of town groups to some deliberation, have pushed it back to achieve its full potential. September 4th. It will mean much flexibility and changes to the normal planning and Wickham U3A has one of the smallest facilities, plants and produce stand details memberships in the region but now offers a p16. twice monthly meeting of talks and lectures on a wide range of topics, yes, you guessed Parishioners will be pleased to learn that St it, via Zoom. John the Baptist, Shedfield and St Nicholas churches have reopened following a long No one could have predicted that a year ago period of lockdown. There will be Sunday the covid pandemic would hit our island with Services and daily, midweek, private prayer such force to virtually overwhelming our NHS, 10 am-4 pm. Social distancing terms apply. cause the death of a large number of the Details inside. population and introduce far ranging controls and restrictions. To all NHS staff and those at Wickham History Society has advanced into home who observed NHS/HMG guidelines st the 21 century and is now producing monthly and managed to limit the spread of the meetings via Zoom, meeting and lectures in infection, we offer our many thanks. the comfort of your own living room. We have DB enjoyed several absorbing lectures, with customary and lively Q&A sessions to follow. PARISH MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS Our printed version is back - and we hope our regular subscribers will want to continue their annual subscription. The cost for the year starting in April, including delivery, will be £5.00. Due to Covid restrictions we have decided to delay collection of this money until it is safe for our volunteers to do so. To be added (or removed) from the distribution list please ring Robert Goulson on 832915 3 Wickham Parish Magazine April 2021 humility and humanity. Easter, Minister’s letter this and every year, makes us – from the Revd aware that our frail and human life is part of an immeasurably Canon David bigger plan, of which we see just a glimpse in the life and death Isaac, Area Dean and new life of Jesus. Easter reminds us that even though it for Bishops sometimes doesn’t feel like it, we are, as the old hymn puts it, Waltham ‘from glory to glory advancing’. deanery Easter is always a time for celebration. This year we may The April editions of parish still be a bit muted (in every magazines often direct their sense) but we may be able to let readers’ attention to new our hair down a bit. And by beginnings. Even in these still lives – it would be good to take forward with us the ways in Easter some of us will have chilly days, the approach of quite a lot of hair to let down! Spring is clearly detectable. In which we think we have become the Rectory garden, fragile stronger in ourselves and as crocuses, daffodil sand communities. What have we hyacinths risk losing their petals learnt, or re-learnt, about the to the late frosts; birds are things that are most important in getting very active; and even our lives? What have we found squirrels are overcoming their we can do without and leave reluctance to get cold to come behind? How do we want to be and feast on seeds put out for different? the birds. This year, for all of us, Another aspect of parish new beginnings will even be magazine letters at this time of more welcome than ever. the year is to remind readers of Few of us could have predicted the approach of Easter. Easter what we experienced in 2020: is always about new beginnings, from surprise and confusion, about being and doing through anxiety and restraint differently, looking to the future, and living with restrictions and not to the past. Easter opens up protocols, to the hope of a to us a whole new way of framework in which to contain looking at human life – of seeing the impact of Covid-19. We’ve that the limited view we have is learnt a lot of things along the not the whole picture. Easter way: about what creates and takes us into the mystery fractures community; about our beyond time and space, beyond reliance on the dedication and this universe, beyond the whole Revd Jane sacrifice of those who care for of creation. And Easter is not our needs; and about ourselves. just about celebrating the Isaac’s update on We are moving robustly and amazing news of the continuing gratefully into the delivery of life of Jesus, because it’s also church life during vaccinations – certainly not the the affirmation that it is his life end of this pandemic, but still a and words which give us the the pandemic* really important step towards clues as to what our life can be. increasing our ability to live a Jesus came to show us what it It’s marvellous to have a printed different life. means to be human and that includes sharing in his new and magazine again after so long – It’s been said that ‘the things risen life. and it’s good as well to be that don’t destroy us, make us reaching a new readership stronger’. When we are able to 2020 and all it involved made us online via the church websites. live differently – putting aside, aware of our fragile existence; There’s a real sense of light at we hope, the restrictions on our we’ve had a wake-up call about the end of the tunnel now, isn’t 4 Wickham Parish Magazine April 2021 there! again working with Mothering Sunday, so good to be back Church opening: I’m delighted such commitment to in Church, covid safe. to be able to let you know that keep the churches given the continuing roll-out of open, Covid-secure the vaccination programme and and as welcoming as the reduction in coronavirus we can make our infection rates locally, St John buildings given the the Baptist, Shedfield and St ongoing restrictions. Nicholas, Wickham have re- opened for private prayer during Holy Week and Easter the week and for services on 2021: Holy Week and Sunday: Easter services are now able to be held in Private prayer: every day church: again, please between 10.00 am–4.00 pm check the church Sunday worship: for the websites, village immediate future I intend to Facebook pages and continue the pre-lockdown noticeboards for up-to- pattern of having a joint date details. Whilst our benefice worship service every ‘usual’ pattern of Holy week at 10.00 am, alternating Week services isn’t between St John the Baptist possible this year, do Church, Shedfield and St please be reassured Nicholas, Wickham. Details are that there will be the available on the church opportunity to share in websites, village Facebook Easter Day communion pages and on the noticeboards services at either, or outside both churches and in both, of our churches.