DATES FOR YOUR DIARY FEBRUARY Wednesday 4 7.30pm BEAT meeting THE WATERSHED MAGAZINE Thursday 5 7.30pm Coates Gardening Club Saturday 7 7.30pm Quiz Night Rodmarton Village Hall Thursday 12 10am Time Out Bible Discussion Group Monday 16 Mobile police station visiting our villages Tuesday 17 11.55am Mobile library visiting Coates Tuesday 17 7.30pm Frampton Mansell Rural Cinema Thursday 19 2.30pm Good Companions’ meeting Wednesday 25 10.30am Coffee Morning in aid of BEAT at Kemble House, Kemble. MARCH Thursday 5 7.30pm Coates Gardening Club Saturday 7 7pm Cirencester Male Voice Choir and Caldicot Male Voice Choir concert Tuesday 17 11.55am Mobile library visiting Coates Wednesday 18 Mobile police station visiting our villages Thursday 19 2.30pm Good Companions’ meeting St Matthew’s, Coates February 2015 24 1 RECTOR USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS Rev Trevor Kemp 770550 Watershed Editor Bob Merrill 771496 Coates Rectory, Coates GL7 6NR [email protected] Watershed Treasurer Janet Loines 841578 CURATE (Non-stipendiary) Watershed Intercession Group Anne Chilton 770726 Coates Parish Council Bob Allen 771229 Rev David Austin 860692 Coates Parish Council clerk Libby Harrison 07791 943822 [email protected] Coates Gardening Club Margaret Reynolds 771354 READERS Coates Social Club secretary Annabelle Crapper 770266 Richard Marlowe 770401 Coates Tree Warden Geoffrey Moore 770869 [email protected] Coates Village Hall Susan PJ 770596 Barrie Cran 770809 Coates Neighbourhood Watch Liz Allen 07771 553061/771229 Frampton Mansell Village Hall Bookings 760102 or 760300 STRATEGIC YOUTH MINISTER Rodmarton & Tarlton PC C/man Paul Drake 770267 Anton Wynn 07816 315423 Rodmarton & Tarlton PC clerk Susan Hare [email protected] Rodmarton School 841284 COATES Rodmarton Village Hall Norman Hopkins 07514485555 Church Wardens: Dickie Randall 771300 841287 Jasper Biddulph 770230 Tony Berry 770220 Rodmarton Cricket Club Nick Clarke 841421 Flower Team Leader Heather Wheatley 770829 Sapperton with FM PC Chair Sarah Osborn-Smith 760874 Treasurer PCC Janet Trinder 770525 Sapperton/FM council clerk Ruth Pittaway 644201 Sapperton/FM Snow Warden Mark Franklin 760226 SAPPERTON WITH FRAMPTON MANSELL Sapperton Tree Warden Paul Dingley 760788 Sapperton Village Hall Annette Bullock 760468 Church Warden: Jeremy Hoskins 760227 Sapperton School Dawn Thomas 760325 Elizabeth Pick 01453 884791 Royal British Legion John Chilton 770726 Deputy warden St Kenelm’s Mark Hamer 760715 Good Companions Betty Mixture 770569 Rotas Kate Gordon-Lennox 760651 Watershed RDA Bob Merrill 771496 Secretary PCC Natalie Hunt 760421 Watershed Farm Club Liz Collins 770621 Treasurer PCC Peter Mammatt 760852 District Councillors Thames Head Ward John Birch 770360 Avening Ward Jim Parsons 01453 836596 RODMARTON AND TARLTON (Chapel of Ease) County Councillor S D E Parsons 821451 Church Wardens Member of Parliament Geoffrey Clifton-Brown 01452 371630 Rodmarton Mary FitzGerald 238607 Cirencester Hospital 655711 Sophia Kinmont 841222 Police non emergency (24hrs) 101 Tarlton Jasper Biddulph 770230 Lynn Saunders - Village Agent 07776 245 754 Coates Resilience plan agents John Birch 770360/07989946224 Flower Team Leader Sarah Pope 841253 David Lattimore771006/07836511011 Secretary PCC Jane Marlowe 770401 Treasurer PCC Simon Biddulph 841462 2 23 MOBILE LIBRARY VISITS FORTHCOMING SERVICES IN THE BENEFICE The mobile library visits Coates every 4 weeks. The visit for the next 1 February Candlemas months will be on Tuesday 17 February and 17 March between 9.30am Kemble Holy Communion 11.55am and 12.55pm outside the village hall. 9.30am Coates Holy Communion 11am Poole Keynes Family Service 11am Somerford Keynes Morning Prayer MOBILE POLICE STATION 11am Rodmarton Holy Communion The mobile police station will be visiting our villages next month at the 11am Sapperton Family Holy Communion following times: 3pm Kemble Messy Church Mon 16 February Wed 18 March 4 February Midweek Wednesday Frampton Mansell 1 - 1.45pm 1 - 1.45pm 10am Kemble Holy Communion Sapperton 2 - 2.45pm 2 - 2.45pm 8 February 4th Sunday before Lent Coates 3 - 3.45pm 3 - 3.45pm 9.30am Kemble Family Service Kemble 4 - 4.45pm 4 - 4.45pm 9.30am Coates Holy Communion Somerford Keynes 5 - 5.45pm 5 - 5.45pm 9.30am Poole Keynes Holy Communion 11am Tarlton Holy Communion 11am Somerford Keynes Holy Communion 11am Rodmarton Matins ADVERTISING IN THE WATERSHED 11am Frampton Mansell Holy Communion If you wish to advertise in our parish magazine please contact Bob 11 February Midweek Wednesday Merrill at Glebe House, Coates, GL7 6NU. Tel 771496, Mobile 07866 10am Kemble Holy Communion 972389 or by e-mail to the Watershed magazine at 15 February 3rd Sunday before Lent [email protected]. 9.30am Kemble Holy Communion Adverts at a third of a page cost £15 for a single issue or £60 for 5 9.30am Coates Family Service issues. Adverts at half a page cost £23 for a single issue or £90 for 5 9.30am Frampton Mansell Family Service issues. The magazine is published 10 times every year; July/August 11am Poole Keynes Morning Prayer and December/January are joint editions. Cheques should be made 11am Somerford Keynes Family Service payable to Watershed magazine. 11am Rodmarton Holy Communion (BCP) 18 February Ash Wednesday 10am Kemble Holy Communion 22 February 2nd Sunday before Lent CLOSING DATE FOR THE MARCH MAGAZINE - 12 February 8am Tarlton Holy Communion (BCP) Contributions should be sent to Bob Merrill at Glebe House, Coates, 9.30am Kemble Morning Prayer (BCP) GL7 6NU. Tel 771496, mobile 07866 972389 or by e-mail to the 9.30am Coates Holy Communion Watershed magazine at [email protected]. Articles should 9.30am Poole Keynes Holy Communion be in Arial font at 11 point with formatting kept as simple as 11am Somerford Keynes Holy Communion possible. The editor reserves the right to edit any articles. All articles 11am Rodmarton Family Service should be submitted by 12 February at the latest for inclusion in 11am Frampton Mansell Holy Communion the next issue. 6pm Kemble The Source 22 3 REFLECTIONS FROM THE RECTORY I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed the New Year celebrations as well. I don’t know about you but I always struggle to get excited about New Year celebrations probably because my focus and energy is as you would expect on Christmas and the beginning of the story of incarnation. Incarnation is of course about a new hope, a new way of living and about the opportunity for all of us to have a new start in our relationship with God. Whilst that opportunity might be free for any of us it is not necessarily without cost and may for any of us be very costly. Any brief glance at the stories in the bible will reveal for you that being close to God may make you quite unpopular in the world so a choice to follow God is a very meaningful and powerful one. It is remarkable that this faith not only took hold and flourished but has changed the world in which we live and continues to challenge and change the lives of billions of people in our world. With that thought in mind it is interesting that the first saint celebrated after Christmas is St Stephen. A saint is really anyone who trusts in Jesus alive today or not for the faith of the church of course is in a God who being outside of time calls us through the resurrection of Jesus into an eternal story and relationship with him. Most of you will know that Stephen is remembered on 26 December, the day after we celebrate the birth of Jesus. Stephen’s story is in the book of Acts Do you have a mole or rabbit problem? where despite the threats of the Jewish religious leaders he continues With over 30 years experience in traditional mole control I can to testify to the truth of Jesus. A young zealot Pharisee by the name of Saul (later to be St Paul) incites his martyrdom and encourages those effectively, discreetly and humanely remove the culprit(s)! who stone Stephen to death for proclaiming Jesus. There is a double No gas, chemicals or poisons used and completely safe to contrast here in that we go from celebrating the great family story and children and pets. all that comes with the nativity to a man willing to die for the truth of Jesus and his promise. We also have this link to the story of Saul, the NO MOLE - NO FEE great persecutor of the first Christians who becomes of course one of Fully insured and references available its greatest exponents and missionaries. He has to live with the Telephone: 07766 132934 (Days) 01285 770968 (Evenings) knowledge of his previous sins and goes on to be martyred himself in Rome after laying the foundation for the mission of the church to Member of the British Traditional Molecatchers Register expand beyond its Jewish roots to bring the hope and promise of God Member of the Guild of British Molecatchers to all the world. BPCA/RSPH Level 2 Certificate in pest control Faith can and should be life changing, unlike most New Year Call now for a free, no obligation site survey and quote Resolutions it should last a lifetime. www.gbestateservices.com With love and prayers Trevor Kemp 4 21 Firefly Fabrication PRAYERS IN THE BENEFICE Wednesdays at Kemble at 10am (Holy Communion) Manufacturing Tuesdays at Kemble at 8.30am Fridays at Rodmarton at 9.15am Gates Wine Racks Saturdays at Somerford Keynes (first Saturday in the month only) Railings Candelabra TIME OUT BIBLE DISCUSSION Rose Arches Signs & Frames The Time Out Bible discussion group for mothers of school age children in the benefice will meet on Thursday 12 and 26 February at Phil Robbins 10am. For more details and venue, please contact Julie on 770123 or 07973 819347 email [email protected] or [email protected].