PARISH MAGAZINE – September 2021 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 Carolyn Browning (01458) 851617 Mrs Rachel Willcox (01458) 224644 Mrs Jennie Cooper (01963) 240236) Mrs Wendy Eitzen (01458) 850011 Lay Minister: Jane Sedgman (01458) 223237 Jan Jones (contact details next issue) Benefice Administrator, Jonathan Beardsworth – Email: wheathillbenefi[email protected] Web Page : wheathill.org Parish Magazine Editor : wheathillbenefi[email protected] The Wheathill Benefice 4-Church Walk September Sunday 12de September Community The %irst social event since lockdown ended will be the 4 – Church Walk, starting Events!! from Barton St David Church at 10:30am on Sunday, 12FG September to which Everyone is warmly welcomed to join in. If you would like to walk the complete Keinton Church circuit taking in the 4 Churches, or a section of the walk, to call in at any of the 18th - 19th Sept churches during the day or just attend the service in Barton at the end of the walk, it Try out Sample new chairs! will be lovely to see you. (See page 3) We suggest you bring a picnic lunch to eat at the halfway stage in Keinton. Keinton Church Route and Starfng Point 19th Sept Setting off from Barton St David Church at 10:30am, the walk will head east to St Benefice Harvest Fesfval Peter’s, Lydford and then up to St Mary Magdalene, Keinton Mandeville, before the Lunch in Village Hall route goes across the ields and a green lane to the Church of All Saints, Kingweston. (See back page booking form) There is then a gentle route downhill back to Barton, where the day’s walking will end with a Praise Service at 15:30pm. Join at any point of the walk Somerton Bee Keepers Anyone wishing to join friends and members of the four parishes on any length of the Show walk will be warmly welcomed and we hope particularly that many families will join Crah & Farmers Market in. If the walk in 2019 is anything to go by, it will be a fun day, full of fellowship and Keinton Village Hall fresh air. For those who complete the circle, the distance is about 8 miles [12km] of easy to moderate going although, if it is or has been wet, the ground could be very 18th Sept. 1 - 5pm muddy in places. (see page 13) Entry Fee – Charity Sponsorship opportunity There is an entry fee of £1, and it is suggested that walkers, particularly any young Big Breakfast Update people taking part, might like to get sponsorship and raise money for their favourite Fundraising Campaign charity, or for the Beneice. It is also Ride and Stride Sunday, so walkers could raise (see page 7) money for Somerset Church's and Chapels. Route Cards Somerset Art Works Route cards will be available on the day and the route will be indicated by arrows at important junctions. There will be people walking who know the way across the Julia Manning ields and along the footpaths. Open Studio Dogs on leads will be welcome with the usual request to observe dog-walking 18th Sept - 3rd Oct etiquette, the countryside code and to respect non-dog lovers! (see page 7) Limited cloakroom facilities will be available in all the churches. Further information is available from any of the churchwardens of the four Bene%ice churches or on the website at https://wheathill.org/ and we look forward to seeing you on the 12FG September. Next issue is the OCTOBER 2021 magazine – submissions up to 09:00 am FRIDAY, 24th September Items to the Editor – VIA EMAIL PLEASE: wheathillbenefi[email protected] Worship Dear friends Early September is a time when things restart following the change of pace that is Date Time Service & Notes Church / Locaon August. Children and young people return to school/go to a new school/go to school for the %irst time. The days grow shorter and cooler and we begin to look 5@A Sept 8:30 am Holy communion Keinton Mandeville forward to the winter, sometimes with uncertainty, sometimes with expectation. Trinity 14 10:30 am Morning Prayer Lydford In mid-September we also can explore our local community and its buildings, with the combination of Heritage events and Ride and Stride. Here we’re using 12@A Sept 8:30 am Holy communion Lydford Sunday 12NO September as an opportunity to hold our 4 churches walk and details Trinity 15 3:30 pm Songs of Praise Barton St David of that event are in the magazine. Come and explore local footpaths, walk with 4 Churches Walk friends, your community group, family or others. The past two years have reintroduced many of us to walking and this may be a good way to %ind some new 19@A Sept 8:30 am Holy Communion Barton St David routes, make some new friends and explore the communities in which we live. The following week, September 19NO we come together again for Harvest, in Harvest 11:00 am Benefice Harvest Keinton Mandeville Keinton Church followed by a harvest lunch in Keinton Village Hall, once again all Fesfval followed by lunch in Village Hall are welcome and details are in the magazine. Both events give us the opportunity to appreciate once again where we live 26@A Sept 8:30 am Holy communion Lydford and all that we are given. So, when you go outside maybe look around you and Trinity 17 10:30 am Morning Prayer Barton St David see what is happening. Remember and give thanks for the farmers and those 12:45 pm BapTsm Lydford who work in all weathers to help produce the food as well as the processors, 4:00 pm Faith ’n Fun Keinton Mandeville sellers and providers. Maybe this is also a good time to ask ourselves where our food comes from and how we support our local communities Taking an extreme example, a pizza may have 23,000 food miles in it: 3WX Oct 8:30 am Morning Prayer Keinton Mandeville Trinity 18 10:30 am Holy communion Lydford • Flour to make the base, from North America - 5,400 miles 12:45 pm ? BapTsm Keinton Mandeville • Tomatoes from Italy (the home of pizzas) - 1,000 miles • Tuna %ish from Mauritius - 5,600 miles Churches opening for private prayer • Pineapples grown and harvested in Kenya - 4,500 miles Following the relaxation of Covid restrictions Barton St David, Keinton • Peppers grown in Dutch glasshouses - 400 miles Mandeville and Kingweston Churches are now all open daily. • Mushrooms grown in the United Kingdom but transported from the Lydford church will open at the weekends as before once local conditions allow. growers to your supermarket - 200 miles In Keinton, Kingweston and Lydford it is now possible to give when you visit using the QR codes found on nofceboards or at the door. • Black pepper from India - 5,000 miles If you use the churchyards or car park please do consider making occasional or • Mozzarella cheese, also from Italy - 1,000 miles regular donaons towards their maintenance and their ongoing place in the lives of I hope that you have a good month appreciating and enjoying that which is local our communies. and maybe can join in with the walk or Harvest thanksgiving as a part of that. From the Registers Best wishes We offer our congratulations to: Jane Lucy JAMES and Gus PERSSON who were married at St Peter’s church, Lydford on Keinton Mandeville Church Fosse, on Saturday 5FG June 2021 A small group are considering the future use We extend our condolences to the family and friends of of Keinton Church and ways to make the Mary Adele BAILLIE who passed away at Castle House Nursing Home aged 90 building more accessible and %lexible. years on Tuesday 27FG July 2021. A service was held at Yeovil Crematorium on One possibility is to remove the pews and Monday 16FG August 2021 the %looring on which they sit, which will open up the space, make it all level access Brenda BAKER for whom a memorial service and interment of ashes was held at and allow us to be more creative in some of All Saints Church, Kingweston, on Saturday 21eF August 2021 our uses of the building. Keinton Mandeville Parish Church Openers We currently have sample chairs in the building, please sit on them and let us Should you need to swap, please could you let Emma know as well as the know which one you prefer. We’re using the samples for comfort, there are a person due to hand the key onto you. Meanwhile, if anyone else would like variety of colours and inishes for each chair! to help with the locking and unlocking of the church, please call 223344. For the weekend of 18NO–19NO September there will be more opportunities to September 2021 come and talk to some of us, try out the chairs and catch a glimpse of the Sunday 5 Sept – Sunday 12@A Larry Henessy 224132 proposals as they stand at this early stage. Further details will follow. Sunday 12 Sept – Sunday 19 Belinda & Viv Simson 223470 Sunday 19 Sept – Sunday 26@A Neil Bain 223314 Sunday 26 Sept – Sunday 3 Oct Alan Lines 223441 Sunday 3 Oct – Sunday 10@A Anthea Walton 223500 2 2 Worship Dear friends Early September is a time when things restart following the change of pace that is Date Time Service & Notes Church / Locaon August.